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I’m certainly not “covering for them”. The bombing of the hospital is a violation of international law, and whoever made the call to bomb it should be court-martialed and held accountable. On the other hand I don’t think it is reasonable to presume that the hospital was targeted deliberately by someone in the US military without further knowledge of what happened. US military leaders aren’t all sadistic cartoon villains sitting around twirling their mustachios and cackling about civilian deaths.

If it is true that some of our “allies” on the ground in Afghanistan directed the US military to bomb that location, as was reported somewhere I read, then that is no excuse for such a colossal fuckup – especially considering that the MSF had previously told all sides the hospital’s coordinates – and whoever in the US military took that information at face value should take proper responsibility, and whoever directed them should also be dealt with.

If instead it was, as themgt speculates, a deliberate choice by someone in the American military to target the building with full knowledge that it is a hospital, then that person should be tried for war crimes.
When I was a kid you could hardly get any legal software in Poland too, and whatever there was available legally, was priced beyond reach of a simple low-to-middle-class family. Quite honestly, I owe my entire career to software piracy. Now that I work and earn money I buy everything I need legally if it's available, but I still support policies and technologies that give cheap or free access to tools, knowledge and culture to youth. Fortunately the current situation in IT is much better now, thanks to the Internet and companies realizing they can get more paying customers later if they give personal-use licenses for free.
My take is do what other women are doing. Form your own support group and organizations. Self interested groups are better equipped to understand the issues, priorities, etc. which affect a given community.

While big cos. might have programs to address women's issues, that's not stopping women from forming more effective support groups and organizations.

Let's look at an effective lobbying group, the NRA, how are they so effective? They are tenacious and they organize nd support each other --so while they do appeal to greater society and parties, that by itself isn't what's driven their success. It's the forming of community and having one focused issue.

Also as with other groups, tap names in other industries, entertainment, sports, politics, etc. those who are interested in advancing your issues. Tap companies with black founders or ones directly serving the community.
Just wanted to thank everyone who contributed - don't know where to put this comment for everyone to see. :)

Posted before going to sleep, and didn't expect that many comments at all. What a way to start the day. Still reading.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10394830 and marked it off-topic.
> $120k for 7% in a company!? Is that really a favorable term to startups? There's no way I would ever, EVER sell 7% of my company for a such a small sum. Who would sell out their passion for such a pittance?

YC is typically funding a company in their seed round. At this stage the company doesn't have a real valuation and could honestly be worth zero. Valuing a company at $1.7 million at this stage seems pretty good to me.

Now companies coming into YC much later when they already have a specific valuation? May or may not be worth it, it depends on where the company is.
Arc1, arc2 and arc3 are available at https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/commits/official
Nice link. How have the last four years gone for you?
> If the rank is lower on Fandango and higher on Rotten Tomatoes, it's usually a bit too artsy and pretentious for me (I go watch a movie to be entertained, not to stoke my ego).

Crass anti-intellectualism.

I like the Sundance Festival, Movies from all over the world and wouldn't got see 2012 on screen but I don't go pissing online on fans of Transformers.

Your definition of `artsy and pretentious' is just `things I don't like'.
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Unfortunately, Waze has at least two incentives not to provide socially optimal paths. First, individuals would have an incentive to find individually-optimal paths by using a different app that provides them. Second, it seems likely that more people turn Waze on when traffic is bad, so social suboptimality might actually be good for Waze.

On the other hand, with socially optimal traffic patterns there would be induced demand and more drivers would come on the roads and potentially use Waze.

It's actually difficult to know what would make Waze better off, providing socially optimal routes or individually optimal routes.

Waze might also behave like many companies and ask for subsidies from local governments for turning on the social optimization, and the local governments are ill-equiped to know how much to pay.
Sorry, but I have better things to do with my time than to waste it on employers who like to grill candidates on their knowledge of obscure algorithm & data structures and their ability to code under pressure with someone breathing down their neck at all times, when these skills have absolutely nothing to do with the jobs they're hiring for.

I also consider having the traditional interview process a huge red flag, since it's a good indicator that once hired, you may have to work with the kinds of employees that this kind of interview process tends to self-select for (i.e. extrovert bro-grammers who are experts at gaming the interview process but who won't necessarily know how to build a compelling, maintainable product).
It's very interesting that this reproduces some defects of human cognition, such as overweighting rare events, without explicitly putting them in. Because although they seem like defects compared to Bayes rule, they may actually be more adaptive.
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To put the original paradox another way, though: if you run a road out of town far enough, somebody will build an airport at the end. The airport is indeed an "external source of new traffic", but it was built because the traffic system had enough unused capacity to absorb the projected load.
This topic was very much discussed on campus during my grad school days (10 years ago now). I'm quite sure that Dr. Gary Flandro discussed it with many people at great length. But then, that's one thing he's always done -- figure out how to get to new and exciting places in the solar system. He was very much in favor of using the Moon as a base for expansion into the rest of the solar system for exactly this reason. Once you set up a beach-head there with facilities for extracting materials and manufacturing goods, it's much easier to launch onward into the rest of the solar system. This, I recall, was a major theme of the Quick-Goethert lecture that Dr. Flandro gave in 2005. It was a great pleasure to attend that lecture.

So yes, just from that one example, I'll grant you that people discuss this sort of approach all the time. Dr. Flandro certainly wasn't the first, even then.
Supposedly a > $100mm deal. Both companies are already headquartered in N.C., and Ansible has a ton of momentum in the RHEL and OpenStack arenas, so it would make sense to pull the project into the fold.

One thing I wonder is how much the project's priorities would shift away from (if at all) anything non-RHEL-centric.
I usually only check ratings & reviews after watching a movie, just to see what other people think about it.

Seeing how easy it is to game such online ranking systems and how tastes can differ, not only on a personal level but also on the current mood, I simply don't trust the scores without having been able to make up my own opinion.

The same goes for any other aggregate "review" site, e.g. restaurant reviews. Those are even worse for restaurant owners, since a bad review can stick around, even if you used its mentioned points to improve your service.

At least movies don't usually change over time (Star Wars being one of the few exceptions), but it's still annoying to get caught up in a hype only to be bitterly disappointed, or the other way around, finally watching a movie after hearing so many bad things about it and then thoroughly enjoying it, making you wish you had seen it on the large screen instead.

...and not to forget paid social marketing, especially when it's not being disclosed.
> misgendering women

You're being dishonest by assuming the answer to the question.
I don't believe that using 'he' "misgenders" women at all, because it doesn't.
Thanks for the comprehensive reply! I'll look through those links tomorrow and may drop you a line. This is a political issue I care deeply about so I'd like to stay in touch.
Yes, and of course there is a middle ground between "my way/highway" and endless discussion.

Debate for an hour (even two?), ask everyone their opinion, and then make a decision. Revisit in a month or three.
Having 100% of something vs having 93% of something with access to a great network, a demo day for best investors, great mentors, resources for HW startups, Azure grants for SW startups (worth $500k) etc etc.

Some time ago, PG published an email exchange between himself and Fred Wilson, where PG was really pushing USV to invest in AirBnB, what a service for both sides. How much would you pay for it?

IMO 7% for 120k is quite cheap, especially if you're in early stage.
If we were to name your operator "aif" instead (since there is no "when" in Python), and compare if and aif:

## if
val = func()
if val: # standard form
code(val) # of if

## aif
aif(func, code) # not obvious that it does the same thing
# and limits you to using a function defined
# elsewhere, or Python's crippled one-line lambda.

Whereas in Lisp, you'd do:

;; regular when
(let (val (func))
(when val ; standard form
(func val))) ; of when

;; awhen
(awhen (func) ; standard form of
(func it) ; when, with added bound value
; possibly other
; code goes here
)

Do you see how the two forms of Python look very different, and the two forms of Lisp look the same?

If you don't like magic, you could invent an awhen that took an extra parameter that designates the name to bind the result to, e.g. (awhen val test).

So.

Yes - you can achieve the same thing, as in any programming language that is Turing complete.

No - you cannot get the same syntax. And syntax affects readability and familiarity.
Taken to the extreme, if you made such a dense network of roads that it was effectively just one giant paved surface, then I think it's obvious that it'd be inefficient since everyone is barging through trying to go in their own straight line and getting in each other's way. In that case, adding barriers and one-way lanes would intuitively speed up people's journeys. So perhaps Braess's paradox is only unintuitive for simple cases that are very close to our existing road networks.
Wonder what caused such a high valuation. They definitely didnt seem to have enough revenues to justify it.
Paul Graham wrote a seminal Common Lisp book specially for this. On Lisp www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html
Could you link his posts? I'm curious, since I heard that they have some kind of contract with the school down the road from me which on the far side of Maplewood from where they are located
7.0 on IMDB and 69% on CSFD (the Czech IMDB equivalent). They both have a big number of viewers rating and a 100 point scale, I find them pretty accurate, which always baffles me given how subjective the questions "Do you like the movie" is. Although blockbusters might be overrated (like the Martian), I can always see why that is the case and the error isn't similar to "95% vs god awful".
How is java being used in today’s web apps?
A good tech lead _knows_ when to step in to make the hard decision without lots of discussion, but he also _knows_ when to take the soft road to facilitate a fruitful discussion and to arrive on a consensus.

Otherwise, if the only tool you have is a hammer, everything will look like a nail.
As someone who relies on online movie ratings (not Fandango), how do you choose movies then?
Note: Rotten Tomatoes is a property of Warner Bros, whose box office revenue was signficantly affected by the ratings last summer.
You're a total manipulator.

First, you don't provide a definition of morality. You could say: "I have a dog named 'Morality', so it's possible that the source of morality is something other than divine commands". What is your view of morality?

Second, you don't provide an argument for how it's possible that human life can have intrinsic value(independent of cultural of personal preferences).

BTW, I'm a non-theist and a moral nihilist.
imho this sounds like the comment in HN about when dropbox first launched
> It could have been fixed 15 years ago. And when it appeared it broke a ton of librairies developped during those years, like CSS grids and stuffs like jQueryUI which still has some incompatibilites.

And a hundred different problems with C could have been fixed any number of times, and that doesn't make it a bad tool.

> Getting there? After 15+ years?

I'm sorry, would you prefer it took 30? Is it not better that progress happens than not? The CSSWG is a glacial apparatus that create some of the worst bureaucratic bullshit I've ever seen, but CSS itself isn't a bad tool. Thanks to browser makers adding proprietary extensions they all agree on then shoving it down the throat of the WG helps a lot.

The pace of progress still doesn't mean it's a bad tool, or worse than what we had.

> Just try something basic : animate an element along a sinusoidal path in CSS. Look at the code you get .
> Then try the same in JS.

Still doesn't prove CSS is somehow the worst thing ever and kill puppies.

Yes, programming for the web is hard. Programming is pretty much always hard, no matter how easy we make it because humans suck at long term planning. CSS is still leaps and bounds better than what we had, and makes a lot of things incredibly easy.
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There is more to humanity than base impulse.
I remember reading a piece by WIRED that discussed this phenomenon in Southern California: http://www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt-traffic-induced-demand/ ("Building Bigger Roads Actually Makes Traffic Worse")
0. Is Laarc an arc variant you're working on? I don't see it on the github page.

1. You might be interested in how my arc-inspired language did indent-sensitivity and infix: http://akkartik.name/post/wart. For example, here's bresenham's line-drawing algorithm in wart: https://gist.github.com/akkartik/4320819. There are more code samples at http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Wart.

2. Do you have a username on arclanguage.org? Perhaps we've met!
I just want to SEE something. And they have nothing.
Anyone who wants to try this might consider playing or watching a video of the Cities: Skylines game. It's said to be a pretty good "traffic planner" simulation.
Are there any examples of this happening when a new internet link is added?
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That's why he said "too artsy and pretentious for me" instead of "too artsy and pretentious in absolute terms and those who disagree can suck it". Chill, nobody is insulting your taste in movies.
> It means what it means. Do you want me to define each word?

The most meaning that can be extracted is about your worldview.

The fact is, there are indecisive weenies, and there are over-confident blowhards, but most people fall somewhere in between. When you complain about the culture in general, especially in a get-off-my-lawn manner, it sort of pushes you into the far end of the spectrum where you start to lose credibility with your employees because they realize over time the confidence is not commensurate with the knowledge and expertise.
Stanford is really an investment fund that runs a school on the side for the tax break. This started in 1991, when Stanford spun off their endowment management as the Stanford Management Company.[1] SMC's headquarters was on Sand Hill Road, across from all the VCs. This ended up putting Stanford into venture capital in a big way.

This was new. Before that, universities tended to put their endowments into passive investments - real estate, stocks, and bonds. Investing in startups worked out very well for Stanford. Stanford had pre-IPO stock in Cisco, Yahoo, Google... They have money in various VC funds. Buying into YCombinator is consistent with that investing approach.

As SMC became more powerful, executives from SMC started moving into positions in the university itself. SMC moved its HQ onto the main campus. Not clear where this will end; we'll have to see who replaces Henessey as president.

[1] http://www.smc.stanford.edu/
Oh thank you thank you thank you.

Turgid nonsense. I couldn't watch past the first half hour. If I'd paid to see that at the movies I'd have been properly angry.
pg is that you? :)
Agreed with this comment. We have the technology where creating an organization should be fairly trivial. From Facebook to LinkedIn to MeetUp to Twitter, there are endless places where one could find other similar-minded folks. Gaining exposure might not be easy, but it shouldn't be difficult enough to make it impossible. There is endless information and postmortems for similar organizations that should help figure out the best way to approach these issues.

I can't remember exactly if it was the GNOME Women Outreach program that was shut down recently, but I remember there being a lengthy author about the president of the organization's decision to step down and close the program (because no one else would step up to the chair, among other problems). The post went into some detail about where it succeeded and where it failed. Stuff like that could be very helpful if a new self-interest group decides to form.
Actually when I started looking into a solution before creating my mine, Datomic was the one I settled on.
But it's licensing kin'of put me of. I'm more into FOSS solutions.

But I agree, Datomic shall make the list... I'll update it.

I'll checkout neversleep, is it stable for Dev spikes.
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Ahh, thanks for the explanation. Probably takes getting used to. The converting website you linked was a big help. Now that I'm actually reading the content there is some great discussion of the topics.
Imagine you took a time machine from 1900 to 2015 and could only read you statement. Fantastic! =D
That game has really taught me how poorly most drivers algorithms probably are. A lot of that is probably a lack of visibility about the actual conditions ahead of the drivers.

I wonder how that would change if the actual cost (in time to that driver) of each potential route were known; even if that is in current time costs? (IE how would they operate if they had real time traffic enabled GPS?)

Also, their refusal to bypass turning sims is inane.
You kind of imply that building a new road is useless if travel time stays the same. But increased traffic bandwidth IS improvement, even if individual drivers don't feel it.

Also same thing applies to this paradox. Even if individual travel time is reduced for some, I doubt that overall traffic throughput is reduced. At worst case scenario it should stay the same.
Yeah lumen's ffi is fantastic. It's really simple and clear compared to like CFFI or so. Seeing that ported to/implemented on CL would be really cool.
Maybe take off fridays, and make Sunday a formal work day.
Ask HN: Toxic cofounder, considering leaving the country. Thoughs/legal advice?
Hi,

We're a DE C-corp and cofounder relationship is toxic without any sign of possible improvement. I am the product and programming side, toxic cofounder is biz dev and I don't need him to build awesome product (already vetted in market). I want to leave and start my own/take the idea elsewhere abroad if necessary.

Has anyone else been in this situation? What are the legal ramifications? Thanks
Hostile and Saw film franchises are direct outcomes of insex

Absurd. I'm sure it was an influence, but let's not forget that the century kicked off with videos of things like Al Qaeda terrorists sawing off Daniel Pearl's head and horrific ethnic cleansing abuses in the Balkans. To think that these would not have been on Eli Roth's radar and ascribe it all to a porn site strains credulity.

legally-dangerous aspects (plots/scripts)

Do please explain your theory of what makes these legally dangerous. I am sure you have more legal knowledge than I, a law school dropout, but I'm interested enough censorship and first amendment issues that this claims seems highly questionable.

Also, it's wrong unless it's based on some very recent news. I may as well admit I'm somewhat into SM myself and so I'm familiar with Kink.com's output, though I don't consume much porn. Last time I looked they were still doing things with plots, albeit the very rudimentary plots that amount to little more than verbal foreplay to set up the scene for the sexual activity. Now, I have no professional or personal relationship with them (although I have loose acquaintances with several people who have worked or performed for the firm) and don't find their offerings very erotic, but I fail to see why you would think it falls outside the bounds of first amendment protection, unless you are of the opinion that no sane person could consent to engage in sadomasochistic practices.
The same arguments are made when "pre-release" copies appear online. The last thing the studios want is informed consumers.

I say "pre-release" because more often than not the film has been released in one market but not another, for instance to set-top boxes in asia while it is still in theaters in north america.

The games industry follows the same pattern. Reviewers with early access, actual early access, are routinely barred from saying anything publicly until the game is released. Publishers don't want knowledge of potentially game-breaking bugs getting out prior to purchase.
Come on guys, I know we don't generally appreciate humor here, but this is pretty fucking funny.
The entire problem is that people look at the effect (Full roadways) and fail to see the related causes (the rent is too ed high (because we aren't building enough valid working and living (not just homes) spaces in the city)).
Ansible creator, founder and CTO Michael DeHaan previously worked at Red Hat where he helped build Cobbler.
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I think 8 means that if you need to find someone to blame, you're it. (Whereas 9 means that the praise goes to your team, not you.)
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