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In the 4 minute / 40 people scenario, you're only talking about 10 people every minute. 10 pods stationed at that stop solves it.

Now, everyone doesn't wait 3-4 minutes. They just get on the next available pod. Remember, people coming into a typical station don't come 40 at a time. They come in clumps of 1-4.

All of which transforms a batch system (subway/light rail), to a continuous system.

There is an assumption that stations are off the main rail. Which, given the size of a typical pod, is feasible. It is certainly much smaller than your typical light rail system

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btw. wrt to speed.

There's nothing stopping you pre-ordering a destination at a machine (or smartphone) before you get to a pod. Swipe your credit card, see your name on the pod you should go to. Walk in. Sit. And go.

And in the case of your daily commute, even easier. Have it pre-set. Jump in to a pod, face-recognition (or nfc/ble) and if it's your 'typical' time, you're off. No pressing/no swipes. Just go.

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NIMBy's are always going to be an issue and off-grade (eg. above/below ground) is typically going to be required.

Self-driving cars.. are definitely -the- alternative. But only if there's actually enough road. Eg. it's not going to go any faster during rush hour. It just means you're not going to be driving.
Urbit confuses me to frightening levels. Psychedelic substances levels. Kudos to them.
The random three-letter variable names are only used in the kernel, and they're meant to only be used in code that's small/simple enough that they're warranted. In my opinion, we use too many of them, and I've been converting many of them to longer, more descriptive names. The rule that "punctuation is syntax, text is content" is useful, and it becomes very natural with a bit of practice.

Hoon is very much not designed to be apparently usable, it is designed to be actually usable. Personally, I find it to be one of the most usable languages I've ever used.
Just state your requirements in a reasonable way. You'll quickly filter out non-OSS friendly companies, which given your post here looks like you would not want to work for anyway.

The less work for less compensation is a harder nut to crack. From a companies standpoint it is hard enough to find people and if the people they do find are good, but only want to work 1/2 time then the company must find 2x as many.
This is something that has consistently frustrated me for years. I used to worry that I wasn't keeping up with the newest and most hip languages and frameworks.

When I saw other "trend" focused developers taking longer to launch apps and products, if they ever launched at all, I realized it was my ability to actually get something out the door that mattered, not only to myself but to my clients.

Part of me still likes learning new things, and I do occasionally experiment with new frameworks and languages, but having strong core competency in a few old languages has served me really well.
We have ATSC for unencrypted digital broadcasts. It's still possible to build a MythTV PVR system, but the software is getting flaky and fewer and fewer ATSC receivers work in Linux.
The top universities producing VC-backed entrepreneurs
Sorry, whenever we push updates we have a brief period of inavailability. Should be working now.
Book Review: “The Water Knife”
https://github.com/facebook/xctool
How does open access to the code base imply that side projects are work performed for an employer?
With the power you'd need for such a system, three beams would almost certainly mean three times the dead birds.
It's too bad, really, because someone should do a serious general-purpose overlay network project, and it's clear that Urbit isn't it.
I think this is more a question of planting trees with roots that don't go too deep.

But, even if not - rebuilding them every 15 years might be cheaper than sound engineering for this problem space. After all, they don't have to handle 40 ton trucks or 50 cars at a time.
BlackBerry confirms 'Priv' Android phone will launch this year
it is fair because the paper injection works by either pwning a subdomain or be the MTM, hence it involves already being on the other side of the airtight hatchway
Since that was written by the law firm representing IBM it's probably the most charitable interpretation you're going to get and I'm still disgusted by it.
There is a very clear cost for many new projects: infinite... for the simple reason that some key libraries still do not do Python 3 at all. Let's be clear. Cassandra is the best large ingest nosql database out there. Python 2 only on CQLSH. Bloomberg. The default terminal used by the 300 000 most important financial people on earth. API Python 2 only. Theano. 3.x via 2to3 only. Anaconda, 2 still the default download with 3 an afterthought (in other words, even for new downloads, 2 still the majority!). This is more than about stuff not being ported yet. It's about people preferring 2.x.

This idea that Python 3 is cost free needs to be expunged. For large classes of users, Python 3 is not possible even if they want to (which they don't). Stop this erroneous propaganda. Unicode is nice if you're a web guy, and if you're a web guy, why are you using Python already? Unicode is completely irrelevant for everybody else and is most definitely not a core reason to move to Python 3. You're living in cloud cuckoo land on your 3.x magic mushroom trip.

Earth to web jockeys. Python's hardcore is numerical computing, and that hardcore is not on Python 3, and is not moving anytime soon, and certainly not for the dubious benefit of unicode. Moreover the web stack is much less important to Python than is numerical and scientific computing, for the simple reason that while the former has multiple better competitors in the form of golang, JS et al, the latter does not.

[sidebar: since when does ascii not cater for accents?? I am bilingual french / english and I have never had a problem typing french accents in ascii? You're creating misleading propaganda again. Once again, EatHeart, I quote you: "I suspect you don't really know what you are talking about...", or worse, you have an agenda to mislead.]
> This just redefines the web

I'm not redefining anything, I'm correcting a (very common) misconception. This is how Tim Berners-Lee defines the Web, and how it's described by the W3C.

I know this is not how you are used to thinking about the web, but that is how it is defined by its creator and its governing standards body.

> all excel documents because they can be linked to on a web page

If you put an Excel document on a website, is it not on the Web?

> Which means the web is really all digitized information and can never be harmed because it's just a Deep Link away.

You're putting words in my mouth – I didn't say that.

> That's fine, but not a particularly useful definition

It is; this definition isn't nearly as all-encompassing as you appear to assume. It excludes many types of native application, and it also excludes lots of things that are commonly referred to as web content. For instance, content that you can find by clicking through an SPA but is not otherwise addressable shouldn't really be thought of as on the web, even if you can find a way to make it appear in a browser. If it's not addressable, it's not on the web.

> it completely misses the worries of the GP around "the free and open nature of the web".

I'm not missing them, I'm clarifying the context. This really isn't about whether it's on the web or not and arguments going down that path are missing the point.
I think they would quickly find out why there are the nuances carved out in the legal code. Writing laws for millions of people, let alone 300+ million, is insanely complex.
Love how loyalty only works one way.
Also, if a company does threaten and/or actually sue a former employee (or worse, make statements like "If we're wrong, we'll win" [1]), they're going to permanently be on a lot of potential employees' shit list.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/smule-ceo-shred-video-lawsuit...
newLISP is not a derivative of Common Lisp or Scheme or any other Lisp. It's a different language in a similar style.

I wish the Common Lisp camp wasn't so insistent on equating "Lisp" to "Common Lisp." It's annoying having to tiptoe around them by saying "Lisp-like language."
The GIL issue has been solved without breaking backwards compat: http://pyparallel.org/

It just need further dev work and acceptance into py3
Just by way of giving a different experience, I've had that clause stricken from 100% of employment contracts I've ever signed.
Thanks for the response. I should have clarified I am looking in the opposite direction – I'm offering up the ad space. But I imagine the middleman may be the same. Just wasn't sure who was out there.
Downvoting me for making a comment about Bitcoin, just goes to show how close minded some people are on Hacker News.
Kind of, since Elixir runs on the Erlang VM and it uses much of Erlang's libraries (e.g. OTP) I'd argue that you can look at Erlang's track record for Elixir's.
hey that's great! didn't know there was such a process. will list all my stuff. thanks!
I really don't see why not. My home security system has a code similar, disables the alarm but sends a signal to send police now without calling.

I could even see it with touch sensors, that being teaching it that the middle finger wipes the puppy.

With regards to the court decision, I am not sure it will stand in this context. The phones belong to the employer and not the employees. So how as an employer do you retain some access over your provided phones? I can see both sides here. To be honest as a company I don't think its worth the legal ramifications to have power over the content of the phone as it just opens a can of worms

Where I work we are required to pass code our phones if we access the corporate internet or exchange servers but we are not required to divulge our phone contents, passcode, nor place software on the phone giving the company any such ability.
FWIW he explicitly claims he never did this (while admitting to other extreme behavior towards his employees): https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/598065854736044032

Frankly, I'm inclined to believe him given that he has five children of his own.
Yeah, no question that investor pressure to submit all of this inappropriate work is a big problem in and of itself.

It is, as you say, a good program, and I've had fairly reasonable experiences with it when the company in question was

1) well prepared and good about documentation the work. This is the part where a lot of people trip, because you want to document not just how time is spent but on how what it is spent on relates to the larger R&D goals

and

2) Doing work that truly does look SR&ED worthy. This is where third parties seem to specialize in dressing up mundane stuff as ground-breaking science, and why auditors seem to increasingly key in on companies using their services.
I can't for the life of me find it, but there was a paper a few years ago about evading App Store policies by purposely introducing vulnerabilities in your app. The idea being that e.g. you have a buffer overflow and the app makes a specific network request that exploits it, resulting in code execution free from Apple's policies. So that ONT post is a bit short-sighted in thinking bugs that don't result in privilege escalation aren't "security holes."
Three things happened at about the same time. IE got better (it had been behind Netscape), Netscape went into the never-ending re-write, and Microsoft tied the OS to IE.
I might be nitpicking, but I disagree with Raymond Chen here.

Regarding his example, IMO, the process of saving a file has a platonic security abstraction, it is a very limited computation engine. When one is able to escape this abstraction, it is a security concern.

The distinction between a security bug and non security bug is very subtle.

An example how this violation may happen in real life. Assume a filesystem that may contain long filenames, an attacker may control it and cause remote execution. Another scenario may be a site that tells you to see an easter egg in notepad by fire up notepad and save a file named <payload>, which will do some trick and will also run arbitrary code on your machine.
Am I reading this right, there are interns and engineers running PHP in a debugger on production data? How else would he be able to memorialize his own account and trigger the email?
Does this not work for anyone else?

It say connected and then nothing changes. I don't see anywhere to click to get the stream or whatever this is supposed to be.
To pass the paywall:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
And trying to abuse your market position when you don't have a dominant position is also okay. Probably an ineffective, and therefore bad, strategy, but legally okay.
http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/escript.html

The above is for erlang. It brings up the same VM so I imagine, if it doesn't exist, it would work as well for elixir if someone were to set it up. Perhaps we need an elixir shell project like scsh.
> I'd say you need to be able to consume it on a browser to be part of the web.

Once upon a time, JPEG images didn't open inline in a web browser. When you linked to a JPEG document, it would open in another application. They were resources that you could link to on websites, but browsers couldn't render them directly.

Were those JPEGs on websites not really on the Web? Did the first browser to implement an inline JPEG renderer suddenly add all JPEGs with URIs onto the Web?

Browsers don't define what's on the Web. What's on the Web is defined by links.
> How long ago was your experience?

It was back in the first .com wave, so 1999 - 2002.

> Was gcc an option at that time? Or did management require you to use the vendor compiler?

Customers did. Our software needed to integrate with their existing toolchains.

At least for our customers gcc was not a serious compiler, given the license and being that funny open source thingy.
> No one's marketing "a pretty insecure voting system."

This one is. There's no information about threat models, there's no explanation about what "identity protected by RSA" means, there's no claim about what kind of security it has.

It may actually be secure, but when I read that site, all I get out is that it's not.
7% remaining capacity after 2 years seems insane to me. I replaced my 2012 MacBook Pro battery this year as it passed 1000 cycles (I'm bad at plugging in and end up charge cycling daily) and even that battery was still above 70% capacity...
Doesn't look like you can in Chrome, at least without a custom extension. They control it based on hostname:

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/3123708
Adobe makes more than Flash. They have a number of user tracking, profiling, and A/B testing systems, plus an email delivery and segmentation system. Some or all of those things started as Omniture. Google also has Google Tag Manager, which is a third-party JS for injecting more third-party JS. When half your site's content is loaded by Adobe into "mbox"es, triggered by JS loaded by Google Tag Manager, it's a nightmare for real developers and end users alike even with everything working.
F.T.C. Is Said to Investigate Antitrust Claims Against Google Over Android
Apparent usability isn't the same as actual usability. Pretty much everyone who learns Hoon is surprised by how easy it was, which may be a good thing or a bad thing depending.

There are about a hundred runes (digraphs) in Hoon, but you mostly see only 10 or 15. Also, they're organized by internal structure (all | runes do the same kind of thing), and most runes are macros which resolve to about 20 built-in forms. It's a couple of orders of magnitude easier than learning Chinese, which again may be a good thing or a bad thing.

Variable names designed to be memorable rather than meaningful are pretty normal in both math and functional programming. Math uses Greek letters for the same purpose, for instance. Also, as we note explicitly, this is a style that's optimal for simple code - in any language, you'd probably write add(a, b), not add(left_argument, right_argument).

Actually, Perl originally won because it was easy to get things done. It's had problems since, but for different reasons...
He would no longer have an incentive to provide incorrect results for medical research.
I assume that that's intended as a reference to a simple method of disproving the contention that only practice time matters.

(It certainly supports the idea that practice time on the specific task matters -- which is noncontroversial -- but it doesn't support the idea that practice time alone determines performance.)
I do computing daily i.e. I use the internet like anyone else, and I use Emacs for feeds, mail, writing, programming little tools in elisp etc. Now after having read this, I cannot see how it be supposed to improve my daily computing routine. I think that it is indeed revolutionary this Urbit thing, in that it is as opaque and unpractically idealistic as any other revolution.
Works in Chrome.
Why would a PRT station be any more likely to be built near your home?
If we can't get humans to use crosswalks, how can we expect animals to use these?
How We're Buying Online Businesses [audio]
Note that "package-the-world-and-freeze" distributions (Debian, RHEL, whoever else) have an entire infrastructure in place to creating their own line of packages from an "upstream's" basic-tarball releases.

When Debian determines to, e.g., support Linux 3.6 for the next five years, it's not suddenly Linus's responsibility to backport kernel patches to Linux 3.6. Likewise, it's not your responsibility to maintain a stable branch of your software so that Debian can do less work packaging it.

The other kind of model, of Ubuntu PPAs and such, where they're expected to track the developer's releases, frequently incentivize the developer to get those packages created as part of their own build infrastructure. But there's still no expectation that they will. The culture of the "distribution" is set up to allow developers to just develop, and distributors to be the ones to think about distribution.
> For video, please install Flash or try Safari.

Thanks, but no thanks.
On the other hand, using the battery also wears it down. So it's better to stay plugged in all day at 100% and pull off the mains rather than to run off the battery and then recharge it.
The devil is in the details and it's worth reading the following text closely:

Any provision in an employment agreement which provides that an employee shall assign, or offer to assign, any of his or her rights in an invention to his or her employer shall not apply to an invention that the employee developed entirely on his or her own time without using the employer's equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information except for those inventions that either:

(1) Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer's business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the employer; or

(2) Result from any work performed by the employee for the employer.

2870 provides a lot of protection to employees who are very careful but a lot of employees are not careful enough to meet the criteria above.
Perhaps. I just read it again, and I still can't put together the meaning, even trying to read less-than-literally. It reads just like a comment from SubredditSimulator.
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I was talking about credit, not banking accounts. According to this:

https://www.bostonfed.org/education/ledger/ledger04/sprsum/c...

> The use of consumer credit had become a fixture of everyday life. In 2000, more than 70 percent of U.S. households had at least one gener- al-purpose credit card — MasterCard, Visa, Optima, or Discover. Thirty years earlier, in 1970, the number was only 16 percent.

Your point is well taken about bank accounts though. What you say about history moving fast and slow is very interesting. In this case it seems to have moved very fast. Did you feel you had any trouble getting a bank account as a women in your generation? My wife set up most of our accounts so I can only assume it's not a problem. That is indeed a very large change for one generation.

The university enrollment data is very interesting. The data you linked to only goes to 1998 but still shows a 15% increase in enrollment.

Even more interesting how the gender ratio has changed:

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_306.10.a...

1976: 53% male, 47% female = 6% difference

2012: 43% male, 57% female = 14% difference

Women dominate higher education now much more than med did in 1976.
Very interesting. I'm going to be in "next gig mode" next year and am a Vet. Was thinking about what kind of company to start. Would you be available for a short chat? My email in my profile.
Anyway to watch from the beginning?
Hi there! I fell in love with newLISP a few years ago, mostly for its clean documentation, the fact that everything seemed to make sense, and the fact that it was small and fast.

I found the newLISP web framework Dragonfly and adopted it to build a prototype website for my previous company. I used Solr for the document storage engine, and used newlisp's excellent native XML conversion to convert an ugly XML feed into a newLISP list and then into individual Solr documents. Then I used Dragonfly to write a front-end searching application that was launched to a select group of our customers. newLISP made it really easy to prototype rapidly and deliver new features quickly.

Dragonfly stopped being updated, so I decided I wanted to make my own web framework. That became newLISP on Rockets (www.newlisponrockets.com) and I released the source on GitHub.

Although I haven't updated the newLISP on Rockets website much lately, it's mostly because I'm too busy using Rockets in my current job. I built a searching application for all our documentation, and now I'm busy building business intelligence stuff.

It's nothing too fancy, and I don't consider myself a great programmer at all. But I love the fact that newLISP allowed me to make all these things quickly and with few lines of code, and it's easy for me to maintain them afterwards. That's the true value that newLISP has for me.
It'd be interesting to hear a more detailed description of what you'd classify as "different for the sake of being different."

There's certainly plenty of code in this world that's the same for the sake of being the same. It's not terribly interesting to use CGA graphics for the sake of being different. On the other hand, I do wonder whether my children will grow up learning 1970s programming for the sake of being the same.
I don't disagree :)
Agreed that it's not as pleasant as having a car to yourself (I ride the NYC buses and subways everyday), but I think we could solve a lot of the people issues with proper policing rather than outright isolation.