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Isn't this basically exactly how social security works? The longer you live the more profit you receive? It's why social security has been repeatedly called sexist. Women tend to live longer, thus draw more social security, yet men tend to contribute more in social security taxes during their working years than women. A double loss prospect for men and a double win for women.
Girls being compelled to do so by external expectations of their gender is against the ideals of feminism.

Girls choosing to do so because that's how they prefer to see themselves and the image they like to project is not, or at least, the idea that it is would likely be controversial among self-described feminists.
Editorial independence; Does this mean that we will be able to comment on the YC job postings that flurry through?
This sounds like a problem with Lasership -- not Amazon...
I would say look at

http://www.amazon.com/The-Power-Full-Engagement-Performance/...
It's laughable to think about this now. But nature doesn't care about liberal/conservative or democrat/republication. The effects of climate change are already happening (California drought). As the effects become more obvious and clear, and the younger generation replaces the old, the political climate can change quickly. EV is simply not a general solution. People keep their cars for a long time and there's no way that infrastructure can change fast enough (for example, all the urban areas with apartments and no personal garages).

Nature won't wait for us to upgrade and change our infrastructure to be EV friendly. So what if there's a way to keep the current system but reduce CO2 at the same time? Fracking was once laughed at as not economically viable. Then it suddenly was. Technologies to make oil is now laughed at. Will it still be when oil is at $200 or $300?
I understand editorial independence to mean that we make decisions based on what's best for HN and its community, not YC's immediate business interests.

I qualified that with "immediate" because an independent HN focused on intellectual curiosity is what's best for YC's business. That's the global optimum. It would be foolish to trade it away for any local one (e.g. handling a particular YC-related story differently). What makes HN valuable to YC is optimizing its value to the community. Everyone at YC knows that.

The main benefit of today's announcement is if it helps us make that clearer to others. Understandably, people sometimes take it for granted that since HN is owned by an investment business, it must directly serve that business. Those concerns won't go away, but it will be nice to be able to point to the org structure and say that's why it's set up that way.
And by implication you're saying this would not affect non western or non capitalist countries? So, in Cuba, Mongolia, Russia, Japan, Bolivia these things don't express themselves? Corruption, seniority, traditionalism....

I think degree matters a while lot. Yes, you can find all ills in most places, the question, is, is paralyzing, does it force or encourage people to leave or search for better places?
I have a 3rd party wireless charger and I've never really had problems with alignment. As long as it's vaguely lined up with the pad it works fine. I can do it without looking from in bed.
From my experience and the experience of others ( https://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~keo/publications/nsdi15-final... ) current big data solutions are more often CPU bound not IO. I think that we will be seeing more and more of big data architecture moving to C++. For example: http://www.scylladb.com/
Bad Forbes UI makes it hard to see that it's 9 pages long.
JavaScript promises, which are basically a way to respond to asynchronous functions.
> The NSA doesn't need cooperation

But of course it does. Security is not a black and white issue, but rather a matter of cost. And the fact is US companies are much easier and more cost effective to crack because they can be (legally) coerced and nobody has unlimited resources, not even the NSA.

> Disband the NSA and some other agency, some other country, will do the same thing

This is one of those logical fallacies that keeps popping up. So we should bend over and take it like a man, because if it's not the NSA, then it will be somebody else. Even if you're right, bad actors in society should get punished, otherwise they'll never learn. And indeed, it doesn't seem fair to punish US companies, many of whom really want to be good and faithful for their customers, but I've seen many signals that the american public approves and finances this behavior, which includes the above comment and the US government never apologized (to us, foreigners), therefore avoiding US services and products can become a matter of necessity.

> The cat's not going back in the bag because you avoid the US.

Yeah, but you see, I'm not an US citizen so I don't even get to vote on your laws and your government has made it clear that when it comes to foreigners then everything is allowed. And we do have intelligence agencies and they are cooperating even with the NSA and so on and so forth, but here there is no behemoth like the NSA is. And as an EU citizen at least I would have ways to fight it.

> developing and adopting security systems and practices that make doing what the NSA is doing actually difficult

Only a software developer would end up thinking that all political and social issues can be solved with technology. The world doesn't work that way. You want cryptography? It will eventually get outlawed and there is already precedent in the US.

https://xkcd.com/538/
I think it'd be interesting to see what would happen if you allowed comments on those, but it's kind of a minor thing.
They have, but there's a big list of caveats that go with that. Google's cars are very clearly extremely safe on dry highways in good visibility when humans are ready to take over if there is construction on the highway and so on and so forth. That's where they've got hundreds of thousands of miles.

The cars may well be substantially better than that right now, but they don't have a million miles of experience in more challenging conditions.
This guy has been killing IR images since 2005 http://ethankillian.com/#illusions
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Yodel (formerly the Home Delivery Network) used this model in the UK for years and were infamously bad. This may well be why they changed their name.
> "It affects only a few comments which are unlikely to be particularly valuable anyway."

More importantly, it affects the occasional person who makes mostly good comments but got hellbanned 3 years ago for something that probably could have been handled with a simple downvote and a "please don't do this, here's what the guidelines say" instead.

I regularly see high-quality comments, sometimes the highest quality in an entire discussion, that are marked dead because the account is banned.
I understand your point, but there's a glaring error in what you said. People need to get paid less than the value they produce, otherwise their employer would just be a passive participant gaining no advantage from their employment.
GitHub issues aren't threaded, which means that there's a whole nest of @mentions to identify the specific person to whom you're referring.
The commenters are great, so they provide a discussion that makes sense, but is a wall of comments one after the other. It is possibly the most primitive way to interact, compared to something like Reddit comments with collassable threads, votes, and so forth.
"Edward Snowden ‏@Snowden 3h3 hours ago:

Meanwhile, a thousand people at Fort Meade just opened Twitter."

It surely sounds like him. And Chuck Norris can confirm. Hi Ed.
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This request [1] has been hanging out in their issues since early May 2014 and has garnered 24 thumbs up and 73 +1's.

The most recent comment from a Waffle.io teammember, "We likely won't be headed into the realm of GitLab or BitBucket in the very near future, but those are the two places we would be headed next after continuing to improve our support for GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise."

[1] https://github.com/waffleio/waffle.io/issues/926

[2] https://github.com/waffleio/waffle.io/issues/926#issuecommen...
But it's not identical to throwing an exception, that's the thing. The signature immediately makes it explicit you must deal with the possibility of failure; it's encoded in the type. You cannot "forget" to handle it the way you can forget to catch an exception. The closest to this are checked exceptions, which turned out to be a bad idea and most languages I'm aware of don't have them (and the consensus in the case of Java is that they were a mistake).
It's not a tease. At today's event, they specifically said the Nexus 5 gets 30% better battery life with Marshmallow, mostly due to the "deep sleep" when you leave the screen off for a long time.
I also wonder if we're going to see an increase in traffic due to zero-occupant traffic. Supposing that the car of the future can drive itself home when I'm at work and pick me up at the end of day, will that mean that there's going to be a lot of cars on the road just transporting themselves and nothing else? This might be particularly common in cases where a single car is shared by multiple people.
No, a tontine is structured differently. In a tontine there's a fixed pot of assets allocated to a fixed population of beneficiaries. In social security, neither of those is fixed.
Isn't the limiting factor the physical volume and weight of the batteries, not necessarily the price?
Isn't this headline a little clickbaity?
The OnTrac experience is already so bad that I can't imagine it really becoming that much worse.
Sometimes I wonder if his public/private financing model lends itself to a politician's style of promises.
Something that Arstechnica does that I really like is that it shows you the up/down count on an individual comment. It allows you to see the struggle and you can make a decision based on that to help it out.
Nice! Didn't think they would be able to get a hold of one so fast.

Can someone confirm the rear shooters on the 5X and 6P are the same hardware? The specs are identical.
Calling the Greek economy "capitalist" is really marginal. It's nothing like the European economies, but very similar to badly reformed ex-communist economies (think Russia, not Poland).
Social security is more like car insurance, this is more like Russian roulette.
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Modern WiFi and Bluetooth hardware is meant to have coexistence support so that the two don't trample all over each other.
https://support.unlocator.com/customer/portal/articles/12848...
Just as in math there is an applied and theoretical aspect, there is in CS as well. There are plenty of great opportunities to us calculus in stat, econ, physics and so on, but calculus can be a great introduction to proof writing itself.

In the same vein algorithmic complexity can be a fantastic first gentle introduction to theory and it's best when tied into writing algorithms in a data structures class. The same can be said about regexps for example - practical v theoretical aspects - or logic as applied with prolog (or even make) say.

The interesting thing (as seen in a comment below about arrays and constant big-O) is that often intuition goes against the the rigorous understanding - so it's best to have both. I suspect the same holds for language as well. For example etymology of word roots as well as actual writing using the words.
Yep, that's correct. HDFS+Parquet is more accurate but doesn't fit quite as well on slides and short descriptions.

The idea is to get the analytic scan performance of Parquet while still allowing for in-place updates and row-by-row access like HBase.

HDFS (with Parquet or other formats) will still be better for unstructured or fully immutable datasets. HBase will still be better when your top priority is ingest rate, random access, and semi-structured data. Kudu should be good when you've got tabular data as described above.
"Chromecast Audio" is a bad name for the product. It brings ambiguous search results... say for instance you have a problem with your Chromecast audio output
It's a bit startling to read an acknowledgement that up/down voting conflates disagreement with lack of value, and that this effect is undesirable. Debate over this point continues to bubble up every once in a while on HN, with some commenters pointing to pg's casual statement from some time ago that he was okay with a downvote meaning "I disagree."

Is it important to the design of HN that the community engage with (i.e., not shun into oblivion) worthy points of view with which it disagrees?

If that is valuable to the design of HN, may we simply accept that voting registers agreement and let another mechanism such as the flagging system be the place to register a comment's value? Perhaps we can display the measure of agreement in a more subtle way than is presently the case and refrain from pushing those comments completely out of the conversation.
Just a minor clarification but USB-C is not necessarily USB 3.0. It's solely a form-factor as such a USB 2.0 type-C can be a perfectly normal thing to find.
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The separate CPU is much faster, because it has an entire die for itself and because it is a high-volume off-the-shelf chip. An embedded CPU/FPGA will suffer much more when it executes the serial part of the application on the embedded CPU. So if you remember Amdahls law...

> What are the applications for this hybrid?

Highly parallel applications with tight loops. These loops can be offloaded to the FPGA while the rest of the system can run as before. This approach allows you to use languages like FORTRAN/C/C++ without resorting to Verilog/VHDL, so it's much easier to adopt.
Double win for women, because they get paid less for the same work throughout their life??
Quite, and think how for some people their criminal record already serves this purpose. There was a nauseating story on my local news last night about a 12 or 13 year old autistic kid who was placed under arrest by police officers who contract with the school district for the hideous crime of scraping his initials on the sidewalk concrete of his middle school campus with a handy stone: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Thousands-of-Bay-Ar...

(sorry about the autoplay video, but there's a full text transcript at the link)

The notion that a moment of juvenile whimsy is now a permanent part of a person's digital footprint and could turn up in background checks for the remainder of their life is hideously Orwellian; we are busily crafting the sociopolitical infrastructure of a totalitarian state at the same time as we have 'serious' candidates for the highest national political office expressing unbounded enthusiasm for running such an entity.
Honest question: how do you teach a corrupt society to start paying taxes?

As a Greek citizen I can tell you that the general sentiment here is that the state has to show that they respect taxpayers' money. Which among other things means that the government will genuinely try to fight corruption (this hasn’t happened so far), red tape will be significantly reduced, corrupted public servants will go to jail and their properties will be confiscated etc. There is a huge mistrust between citizens and public sector and this up to a point motivates people to not pay what they should.

Of course from a certain perspective this can be perceived as a poor excuse to justify tax avoidance but as always the truth lies in the middle. In Greece there is no sentiment for common good, each one is on his own and that reflects in the way we perceive our obligations to the country. We’ll pay up to the point that we’ll have no problem with the law. If tax laws are not too strict, which was the case up to a few years ago, then people will look the other way.

Fortunately, the memorandum is forcing the government to take certain steps in solving many of those issues. Of course it will take time, but the path has been paved.
My biggest gripe with hearing about fully autonomous cars is northern climates and their inability to handle bad weather.
In bigger cities, if you compare this to cars looking for parking spaces, I think you'll actually see a net decrease in traffic.
phragg says $TSLA will be >$500 per share when autonomous hits.
The US does not worry about Europe because for all their strut and bellow concrete action is nonexistent.
How is what you describe sexist? From your perspective, what would be a non-sexist way of paying out social security?
It doesn't make much sense to say that Intel can't build something better than a GPU, right? It's like saying the reason nvidia doesn't build CPUs is because they can't build a better CPU than Intel. It distracts the conversation.

So the question really is, what is the long term strategy and why? It appears to me that Intel has validated some of this "custom hardware" FPGA strategy and that their view is it will be "better together."

I agree that Intel is erecting roadblocks, but I doubt it is because they "can't build a GPU," rather more likely because "they can erect roadblocks." In fact, they are obligated, by their shareholders, to erect those roadblocks (or to play dirty if you want).
> because they get paid less for the same work

That's not true, women earn less than men overall because they choose to do different jobs.
Or because the warehouse they're driving to hasn't made space for its cargo yet?
I'm surprised he said this publicly.

Why rush out to buy a Tesla today when you can get a far better Tesla in 2 or 3 years?
Interestingly my problems with it are exactly three things that aren't addressed in the new models:

1. The wireless charging, while seemingly a small thing, was to me a huge improvement in my experience of using the phone. The fact that I can sit down at my desk, plop the phone down, and it'll just work, and when I get up to leave I can just pull it off my desk. Removing the USB cable interaction made the phone a much more invisible and organic part of my day. Might not be important to others, but I would very much miss it.

2. Lack of removable storage. Small deal but it was a nice quality of life feature.

3. Battery that's hard to replace. My phone upgrade cycle is very long, usually longer than the lifetime of the battery. I'm feeling it in my Nexus 5 right now.

But the main thing that might prompt me to upgrade is just software performance creep. The latest software updates have really turned my phone into a slideshow, and that's getting really frustrating.

But the spec improvements are certainly both appreciated and necessary.
Or maybe something like the Bombardier Primove http://primove.bombardier.com/ inductive charging system could be viable for private cars on motorways? Apparently Bombardier has started to pitch it as something suitable for cars: http://primove.bombardier.com/media/news/news-detail-page/ar... . I can only imagine there would be some nasty transmission losses at various stages, though.
More than a little. We changed it to a representative sentence from the article. If anyone suggests a better (i.e. more accurate and neutral) title, we can change it again.
Thanks. If you were curious about the applicability of this to legal topics you might like to read up on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_law
You fund your own personal social security account.
Minimum speed limit? As far as I'm aware, in the US you are supposed to go the posted speed. You could get a ticket for going slower if you are impeding traffic trying to safely go the posted speed. Are there roads in the US that specifically allow a range of speeds (beyond the variation seen because human drivers don't follow the law)?
> There is a certain pleasing physicality to function notion, in the sense that empty parens make a circle into which you put things. () -> (1). Look, I put a 1 in there!

This gets dropped as you go further in math, though. Take the function that reflects across the x,y plane, f(x,y,z) = (x,y,-z). Interpreting the notation your way, you'd want to write f((x,y,z)) = (x,y,-z), but that isn't done.
I would love a fully autonomous car, however I would want to see multiple layers of security in place to prevent hacking. The last thing I want is to end up dead because a hacker thought it would be funny to steer my car into a ditch.
> But the new urban factory jobs were completely different. “These were often debilitating, strenuous occupations,” Sutch says. “People couldn't work in their old age.”

Isn't the problem with post-industrial societies that many office workers are capable of working for much longer? While life expectancy is definitely going up, it's growing unequally, with the highest wage-earners (and thus most likely to have office jobs) gaining life expectancy the fastest: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2012/11/21/wh...
> what would be a non-sexist way of paying out social security?

Increase the payroll deductions for women seeing as how they live longer, same way my car insurance costs more than if I were a woman.
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Straight from the horse's mouth:

"1000 kilometers... hmm. Well, it depends under what circumstances for a thousand kilometers. As it is, the record right now for model s is 800 kilometers (496 miles). That's the furthest that anyone has driven a model s. ... Now, in order to do that, they did drive at a relatively slow speed, so, you know, we're talking, I think they drive at 40 or 50 kilometers an hour (25-30mph) or something like that. But I think, my guess, we could probably break a thousand kilometers within a year or two. ... 5 to 10% a year"

It seems, to me, slow driving ("circumstances") is what he had in mind.
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> Separately, if this is an important feature, why not use an extension that offers it? Is there a reason it needs to be built in?

Because I only think about it on average once every few days when I encounter an uninteresting large comment tree in an otherwise interesting thread, which I handle by scrolling for a few seconds.

It's very much a "nice to have" rather than a dealbreaker, but for those of us accustomed to the feature as implemented on, e.g., reddit or slashdot, it's a puzzling omission.
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This is already done, effectively. Freight trains often move pretty slowly because it's efficient, even though obviously the technology exists to make trains go really fast. According to this (if I understand what it's talking about correctly), the average speed of a freight train in the US is barely over 20MPH:

http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/pub...

I don't know what, if anything, this implies for autonomous truck speeds, but it's something.
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