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Just checking: You know that a bunch of people took Nazi propaganda, changed the word "Jew" to "migrant", and posted it to the Daily Mail comment section, and that those comments were upvoted by DM readers?

https://medium.com/@bestofthemail/i-was-upvoted-for-posting-...

And, scarily, the Nazi propaganda was mild in contrast to other comments openly calling for the murder of migrants?

Look at the upvotes on these comments:
https://twitter.com/DMReporter/status/650656856529092608

DM engages in the worst kind of click-bait. They are the scum of the earth.

Posting links to the Daily Mail on HN is like flinging excrement at your readers.
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@hugh4 thats a fair point and that does happen. It means the people involved are still working their way through things.

It's been my experience, that if I am practicing correctly, the louder the ego, the more intense the meditation. Meditation isn't about seeking out bliss; it's about letting go the things you cling to and seeking out the things you have aversion to. To allow things to arise and pass on their own. Sometimes the ego will get louder and more resistant as things near towards the breakthrough. (And this isn't a one-time event; I've lost count on the number of things that have come up during my practice).

Shame and embarrassment are often one of the first aversions that will come up when it comes time to work with the ego. These are things that you wished you could have said to the other person. These are things that you try to hide from other people, including yourself.

Smugness, the "I know something you don't", is also related to shame and embarrassment. This is the social cue and attitude that triggers the shame and insecurity reflex in other people, the shame of not being in the "in" on things. Now, granted, there are people who just go along and do their thing, and other people will still react to them as if they are smug. But I have met meditators who got into that "smug" phase -- hell, I've been through that phase before too. If you have good friends along this journey, they will help you through that smugness phase, and other difficulties along the way.

Lastly, working with the ego isn't really about defeating it or annihilating it. At it's core, it's the spiritualization of the ego. It's an incredible journey, and the specifics of that journey will be uniquely yours alone.
> What is the main reason to recycle?

It saves resources. But it's also economically efficient, which is the main reason societies do it.

Landfills are completely dysfunctional in every way. Worst case, burn it and make use of the energy. The ashes are then much easier to take care of than what's seeping out of landfills.

> Refraining from a single plane trip reduces more emissions than a lifetime of bottle recycling.

Even if that was the goal, nobody ever said "Shall I take a plane trip today? No, I think I will recycle plastic bottles instead!". It's completely orthogonal.

I like the parable about how saving a handful of coins is insignificant to buying a new car. In practice you pick up the dropped the coins from your couch, independent if you plan to buy that car or not.

It works both ways. To frame the problem the way as in the article, no one pours spare coins out the window because you just decided not to buy a new car next week.
Might be. Most other OOP languages back then (mid-90's) used static by default.
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Twitter and Square are both individually much more successful than any company the author founded. Plus there's no actual argument in the post so IMHO this doesn't deserve to be on the frontpage.
`Promise a -> (a -> Promise b) -> Promise b` is missing some parenthesis.
There is scope for optimism as the Germans are much more efficient on soft costs. Several studies have looked at why the gulf exists between U.S and German costs so people are focused on narrowing the gap. I think it'll happen, maybe from late 2016 when the industry gets super competitive for business as demand drops due to the Itc expiry.
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Programmers are the prime example for a job that can be done remotely, and yet there are tons of articles about the problems it causes. The problem of staying in contact with your workplace hardly can be solved with virtual reality.
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Not really. They were free to fork Java for desktops, but not for embedded devices. Jave ME was a major revenue stream for Sun and when that dried up Oracle decided to shake down Google.

So, what do you think the SSO of 37 Java API's are worth?
Haven't you ever done improv-cooking?
I've studied transportation network design in university. Here are some knowns:

1. You can, literally, not build enough highways for the demand. As you rack up lanes buildings get further away from each other. This means more drivers and more driving. Attempts to elevate or bury highways are only cost effective in very specific circumstances.

2. Peak flow (cars per minute) is at around 80km/hr, although sometimes increasing flow further is only a temporary salve, as exit points (the city downtown streets) block.

3. People are likely to respond to incentives. For example, dynamic pricing on the 407, higher rates during rush hour have pushed out enough traffic to maintain a high flow, even during rush hour. (Though some argue that this has resulted in more spillover to the 401, the closest competing route. I've yet to see a competent paper proving this either way.)

Consider that Uber already has ride sharing code in test markets. With algorithms that work together to minimize driving friction, and with surge pricing to deal with supply and demand at peak rush hour here is what I envision:

1. Way more capacity to get close to the city.

2. Much more expensive to get into the city, as capacity increases to the perimeter. With surge pricing, only the very rich will be able to afford a car alone. The poor will either get to the downtown core with a denser option (like a self driving bus) or they will get into the city at an earlier time, even if it means waiting around for work to start. Also, I see "surge insurance" being popular with the poor, since a 10x commute on a single bad day (due to weather or a unexpected road closure).

So where does this leave us? In the short term the core get's more expensive. The closure of a few parking lots is not going to make up for the built in surge pricing of self driving cars. When the price goes up, some companies move to the edge of the core. Leading prices to go up there as well.

The people that really get hosed are the people in the zone just outside of that. Suburban homes no longer command a large premium, since what would have been an unthinkable distance previous years (say, 175kms from core) is now completely reasonable. A software developer can sit alone in a self driving car that drives 150 km/h for an hour, get some work done, then pick up some co-passangers for the last 25kms to offset the cost. Get in work by 10:30am leave by 4:00pm, get some work done on the way home. Maybe watch a show. By 5:30 he's on his hobby farm.

Now all of this is in a relative context. If the Canadian housing market is too bubbly, and across the board it goes down then I'm just arguing it will go down more in the suburbs than elsewhere.
I guess it all depends on how much more capacity self-driving cars produce AND the increase in demand for self-driving cars.

I'm more in the camp of the GP. I think a big reason why people live close to work, take public transit and go without a car are all the things the GP described. Take those away and suddenly using your self-driving car to commute doesn't sound so bad. That equals a HUGE increase in car demand.
I agree it's not a given. It's not unlike building new roads which sometimes can increase traffic. You can get people who haven't been able or willing to commute so far join the commuters. If self-driving cars are shared they might be driving more miles and be more likely to break down and block traffic.

There is a possibility to optimize transport better using self driving cars but we may not actually take advantage of it. Even things like sharing self driving cars may not work in areas with larger sprawl because the probability of two people looking for the "same" ride within a certain time window and geographical area is small. In the city it's more likely but there are already solutions such as bicycles and public transport that work fairly well in dense areas.

It is very difficult to predict the impact. Perhaps impossible.
> Sun wanted a piece of the pie and there was no way Google was ever going to let that happen

Or Google could have complied with the open-source license, as they did with Linux. But there was no way Google was ever going to let that happen.

> Android is the reason Java is the #1 programming language

Android hardly accounts for a few percentage points.
The anxiety of death isn't just about the death of the body. It is rooted deeper into the anxiety about change.

This is change happening at the microscopic scale all the way to the macroscopic scale: the death of a thought, the death of an emotion, the death of an idea, the death of an ideal, the death of a pet, the death of a person, the death of a group, the death of a startup, the death of a community, the death of a nation, the death of a civilization, the death of a star, the death of a galaxy, the death of the universe.

Real change does not happen without the death of the old.

Change is inherent. Changes happen with or without you. Resisting change makes from some incredible drama, but it doesn't have to be a struggle.

You could find longevity treatments so that your body does not die, but I think people will ultimately find the whole thing fruitless even if it works.
It's always a lot easier to talk about human loss when it happens to somebody else and in the abstract.
Plus there's no actual argument in the post

At the very minimum he points out that preparing for an IPO (Square) and doing a turnaround (Twitter) are extremely demanding.
I've put together a simple moving average analysis that lets me analyse my nutrition/bodyweight history in two things I find useful:

1. measuring how consistent I've been with my calories/macros (blue line), compared to the targets I've set (white line),

2. extract my averaged bodyweight values so that I don't get hung up on singular ups and downs.

I'd love to pick your brains and hear suggestions on what other types of data analysis might be useful here.
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That's just not true. Java is 100% open-source with 0 additional restrictions (extra restrictions are strictly prohibited by the GPL). All restrictions on mobile use apply when you choose to not use the open-source license.
You're covering the available efficiencies in the use of existing road network capacity, and assuming that demand is static.

In fact, I think that if car ownership is cheaper, journeys can be made by anybody, and the experience is less stressful, many more people will travel by car.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if autonomous cars produce even worse congestion than today.
Scenario: Long-term, everyone switches to using robo-taxis and doesn't own a car. The robo-taxis can communicate and co-ordinate.

You're looking at an ~85% drop in the number of cars required (today only ~15% of cars are on the road at peak times). The cars are used heavily in the day, but still need to park somewhere at night. Either way, 85% less parking required. This can probably be fulfilled without street parking. Easier to have centralized charging without street parking.

With intelligent driving, you can probably get away with single-lane streets (each way), with either an expanded turning lane at the corners, or preferably round-abouts.

This leads to a lot more real estate available in cities. Something like 20% more, due to single streets and less parking. That's a big increase in quantity supplied, leading to a big price drop.
I think what's going to change is parking lots. There will be less demand for parked cars. Also, eventually entire streets will have less parked cars, leading to nice-looking streets like there were before the 20th century. I consider all the cars akin to "garbage" since they are not being used.

What will really change real estate patterns is increased support for telecommuting, both with tools and cultural acceptance.
As I'm sure you know, the relation between article quality and site quality is complicated.

HN's approach is to focus on the quality of the article, because that's what maximizes interestingness for the reader. We penalize sites that mostly produce bad articles, but we override that penalty for the occasional good one, which this is. I'm happy to change the URL if there's a better one but I don't think it makes sense for HN readers not to see Brennan's remarkable piece.
This is how the arms race begins. Soon the manufacturers will know how much the equipment weighs, and if the car's total weight is within tolerance for that plus a test driver, the mechanisms activate.

Or whatever - the point isn't the methods, it's the pattern of one-upsmanship.
Until self-_fueling_ cars are a thing, all of your points, which are predicated on "never stop moving" are moot.
> We don't know that. All we know is that the drug made them become obsessed with something irrational.

Please provide a link to said study where the words you use above are quoted from.

Otherwise you making just as much assumptions as pantalaimon
Your implicit argument that it's really not up to consumers to decide whether to bypass emission requirements is fine. That it's "rednecks" who would do this is not.
I live in outer London and commute into the centre most days by bus then train then tube. Most people around where I live do the same. I could drive, but it costs too much to park and the time is wasted time, whereas I can read on public transport. If I had a self-driving car, the downside of driving would be removed, so I'd be much more tempted to drive. I guess many others would too, but London wouldn't cope. The upshot of this is that London's congestion charge zone would inevitably be expanded and the charge to drive into London increased still further to keep congestion manageable.

I suspect that most cities that have good public transport would suffer similarly as commuters are tempted back onto the roads. The inevitable response would be London-style congestion charging becoming widespread, because few large European-style cities would cope with any significant fraction of the population switching from public transport to self-driving cars. In the end, due to such charging, I suspect we'd end up back in a similar status quo once the dust had settled, with most people still taking public transport.

On the other had, my kids would probably love to be able to get around the suburbs without me needing to taxi them.
Introduce the concept of verified and unverified number of followers. If you're willing to lose "verified number of followers" status, allow someone to pay and fill out any number they want in the followers field. If they want a verification of the number of followers (so that marketing companies feel comfortable paying celebs to sell products) have them pay a fee. Its a win both ways.
By making automotive transport easier and more convenient, the obvious consequence is a general increase in automotive traffic.

In city centers the worst externality of cars is the space they hog. Self-driving electric cars won't fix that; instead they are likely to increase the utilization of that space: unlike with humans where congested traffic suggests the drivers to look for alternative options such as mass transit, an empty car doesn't mind waiting in traffic by itself.

Suburbia is likely to expand further because if you can work a few hours in your car that means you can afford to live further away in a cheaper location. And school kids can get to school in a car by themselves, so the total number of automotive miles is likely to go up.
Remote work can only function if the teams have both the communications tooling to support it and the team and organisational culture aspects to keep it up. I find most fail at the latter, because they don't know how to be sufficient enough in communication with the tools they have. Talking to face the face has much more communication bandwidth than anything else out there.
No, but electricity is 40 cents per kWh.
@kmill on [1] Shame is a curious blend of aversion and ignorance. The dynamic of shame is such that it will actively hide things from you. This "hiding" results in an apparent invisibility (ignorance, that which you ignore).

It's possible to strip out the reaction of shame from confusion. At which point, it will feel like a mental block where things just don't have much clarity and things are not connecting, but you're no longer treating it as something to hide from others.
I guess in case of a web application it wouldn't be so much BEAM itself as the libraries. It hard to know if e.g. the crypto library is secure and used correctly. The same goes for serialization and other things that normally leads to problems further up the stack.

"Would you care to expand this statement?"

It seem proven enough if you have dedicated highly skilled developers. Not necessarily if you're a smaller startup that have to do a lot of other things and are relying on the ecosystem. With one of the more well know stacks you have a long history of not only security fixes, but knowledge about how to do things.

It kind of boils down to if I would implement say a payment system with the stack could I feel confident we wouldn't get compromised? Currently I have a lot higher confidence in e.g. Python + Django + Nginx than Elixir + Phoenix + Cowboy.

That said, I'm still playing around with it.
Most people use socket strips with switches for their TV, yes. At 40ct per kWh, no one can afford to let that shit run 24/7.
Interesting, didn't know that. I imagine this is a complicated thing to study because the symptoms can't be seen by others.

In my case a hearing test ruled out any hearing loss.
Yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10324571
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$ time /usr/local/src/rust-1.3.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/rustc/bin/rustc meteor.rs -o meteor.rust-2.rust_run

real	0m2.042s
user	0m1.940s
sys	0m0.096s
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It's just a prototype but Telsa made an automatic refueling snake-thing that is super cool!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut3sELMOyTM
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> The point was that landfills and incinerators work pretty well and that there's no rational justification to eliminate them.

Incinerators have well known carcinogenic effects.

Landfills can easily pollute the nearby fields and water aquifers. And in most of Europe and Japan there is no more space for them.
I think that's about right. To your "on the other hand" though, I'm inclined to think that where density is already high, robo-driving doesn't change the equation of car + $10-20/hr driver all that much. (Especially given that some of those costs--cleaning, etc.--have to be shifted to a non-driver.) Therefore, I expect easier driving = more driving (which is more or less basic economics.)
You can conclude that in the greater scale of things, you may not have much impact and still enjoy life.

Because being aware that your actions in the greater scale of things mean less, make it easier for you to appreciate the moment and what you can do for those who will be around when you are.
I grew up in an older, mixed suburb; a common complaint I've heard from young people who grew up in other circumstances is they grew up in huge multi-square mile monolithic subdivisions with nothing to do within walking distance as a kid. One interesting social effect of self driving cars would be "mom" (it always seems to be mom stuck with the job) no longer has to taxi drive their kid everywhere... Essentially every little kids has private limo service.

So if the closest public library is 5 miles down the interstate, a kid living there can get a similar life experience to my burb where the library was about 10 minute bike ride away. Wanna go to the park, fine. Wanna go to the library, fine. If kids still hang out at the mall, they can go there too. Friends house is 7 miles away? The self driving car won't care.

And a second-level social effect is the self driving car may eliminate helicopter parent attitudes toward kids being unsupervised... Well, maybe.

Another social effect people have not discussed is employers love sick employees to show up to work, cough on everyone to demonstrate their devotion to the cause, not to mention primate dominance (I can make you work when you're near dead, not vice versa). Often when I call in sick its not because I can't sit quietly and appear to be busy, similar to sitting on my couch, its because I literally can't safely drive when I'm this sick or medicated or sleepless or vomiting or whatever. Self driving cars mean workplaces are going to be even more like a sweatshop from centuries past at least WRT illness. The lower classes packed cheek to jowl sneezing and coughing on each other while moaning in pain... There are people who get off on other people suffering like that and they're going to really like self driving cars.
This might seem minor compared to the other real estate trends that self driving cars will bring about, but it's interesting to think about what might happen to all the land in urban and suburban American that is currently on-street parking. Hopefully we'll see some creative uses for it, such as gardens, bike lanes, or outdoor seating for cafes, instead of just letting it lie underutilized. Maybe on some streets we'll get something similar to the woonerfs [1] in the Netherlands, with streets being shared by cyclists, pedestrians, and slow moving self driving cars.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woonerf
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Or: if you don't go to war to protect your community you will be shunned forever by that community; so the rational decision is "war"
I think the most important part in removing code is understanding why it was there in the first place.
True, but there shouldn't be an arms race to begin with - one of the parties has men with guns, the other has not. VW should be sued to the ground for fucking with society like that. They should be turned into an example of what happens when you try to pull off highly damaging criminal stunts like that.
And also it would require more people in on the conspiracy.
That suspicion would be wrong. Spaceflight isn't something that you can wing, even if you are completely callous as to human life. Missions over long distances with very low margin for error imply an attention to detail that doesn't have an analog in early aviation. Even more, each human you kill in spaceflight is the loss of a highly-trained, highly-skilled engineering / pilot. They aren't just goofs along for a rocket trip.

Similar story in modern aviation. Some things are just too expensive to get wrong. Some things are too specific to get wrong. Spaceflight is both.
When you say "1) Potential Outcome 1: Both are boys 2) Potential Outcome 2: One boy and one girl 3) Potential outcome 3: Both are girls" you are right that those are three potential outcomes, but they are not equiprobable outcomes. One boy and one girl is twice as probable each of the others.
When nothing we do matters, all that matters is what we do.
I suspect that shopping centers will tax their member stores to pay for a self-driving bus that can pick people up in the neighborhood. They'll have to be at least close to wheelchair accessible so people can take carts on them rather than carrying their heavy groceries and home goods.