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I'd definitely have an easier time overall with C#, no questions asked. I actually tried it briefly, but after a week of not being able to get a development environment communicating with Solidworks, I decided it was unjustified for making an MVP.

It's actually been a whole lot longer than 7 months since I worked on it. The whole thing was basically one monolithic commit I did after writing the snapshotting utility while doing release documentation for a product I was managing. Since then (and even while I was working on it) I've thought of a lot of much better approaches to this than I was taking with the macro. The macro was just a very early proof of concept. I'm also not totally sold on the yaml choice, I can see a lot of reasons to go with an open binary format -- but I think part of the success of JSON has been predicated on its choice of universally-parseable text. The ultimate goal would be to create a new CAD program marketed towards the sub-$100 software market. I'd couple that with a version control system specifically tailored (even if just in UI) to a hardware workflow, and then get recurring revenue from a github-like service. Really neat project and I'm confident I could execute on it successfully.

Except I've actually put this project on hold while I work on something more important to me - creating, implementing, and financially sustaining an open, encrypted, distributable social networking protocol (https://www.ethyr.net/blog/muse-101.html). Fixing solid modeling is an awesome and potentially very lucrative endeavor, but it's much less timing sensitive (and much less personally meaningful) than my current project is.
Airspace belongs to everybody, not just big businesses.
The best possible tax scheme for poor people would be a wealth tax. Make it a flat wealth tax, and I'm with you: 10% (or whatever) of what you possess, into the community coffers every year. Don't muck around with income, it's too easy to game.
You shouldn't tax corporations as it is simply an indirect tax on individuals. A good way to hide a persons total tax rate by making part of it be included in the goods they purchase.
Lets face it, if they haven't found a way to avoid that one.
Out of curiosity how often do you tweak the time decay of a given post? Also do some posts have different time decays based on the content (eg. Who's Hiring? vs YC job post vs standard post)?
The building restriction is ridiculous. I don't know enough about the players and their motivations, but could it be that landlords don't want to lose that 4200$ median rent? Has this been put up to referendum?
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Hardly.

People are getting their facebook flagged for pen names, stage names, derby names, drag names, and other professional names. As well as names that are too common or not common enough, nicknames, and names that contain nouns, adjectives, or adverbs without regards to what shows up on their birth certificate. Not to mention Native American names or other "ethnic" or non-Anglo Saxon names or anything that looks "unusual" (such as, say, Picabo Street or Dick Trickle)

Look, if you have established yourself professionally as The Edge being forced to use facebook as David Howell Evans obviously isn't desirable to you especially if you want to use facebook to promote your works or other professional activities.

And who in the fuck cares if someone is using a feminine sounding name that appears to be masculine. Nobody (and I mean nobody) should be the gender police, seriously. I have a female friend who is named "Robert" anyways.
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Yes, the second bit is true, for me - I am much happier as a consulting CTO than I ever would have been as a maths professor (abandonment of the latter career is what I meant by "leaving mathematics"). I guess I have to thank Berkeley for helping me to discover this fact relatively quickly.

I did not mean to lump maths and Berkeley together - I happened to leave both at the same time, but that doesn't mean I had to, or indeed that this was necessarily best for me, or would be best for others.
I love it when an honest question gets downvoted on here.
I think there are some ethical issues with this, but the idea is brilliant.
Yup. I really just wish someone was politically savvy enough to bring the tech workers and working class together into a political coalition against the rentiers.
Tech bubble: This is 'money in your mattress' time
300 yrs of world population growth, 1800-2100
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See, that right there is the problem with Americans. There is NO NEED for some new kind of rail car. Ordinary bi-level passenger trains with 6 cars carry ~2500 people and can run on 2.5-minute headways (1000 people per minute).
We are getting one here in Naperville, IL. They put out a pretty decent video showing how it will work and what it will look like when they are all done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSWjDbWnRzQ

http://www.naperville.il.us/route59expansion.aspx
But corporation tax is charged on profit, not income.
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The book itself is available in the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/fivehundredseven00browiala
I see no reason to throw Oprah into this discussion. If she said that then quote, else cut the rubbish. If anything Oprah was the one that was sued by the meat industry for speaking about Mad Cow disease.
Wow, the v8 optimizer can sometimes be a pretty blunt instrument. Shouldn't it look at the size of the inlined function after it compiles it to some intermediate state that erases things like comments and names?
Gulf country national?
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We have some development computers and a couple servers(all linux) and are trying to set up some sort of backup of all the machines that runs automatically. I also want it to be able to scale gracefully should we start adding machines quickly. Is there any good solutions or methods that we could implement quickly?
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I picked up a copy of Martin Gardner's collected recreational maths series he compiled from the Scientific American articles. Brilliant!

This is a book that will see much love and use in my family for the next few decades.
I think the charges were dropped by the girls a long time ago, it's just justice paperwork now if I remember.
Your statement is suspiciously worded, because all forms of motorized transport, public or private, are deeply subsidized around here. Shouldn't the first subsidy to be reduced be the one lavished upon private cars?
>I can say that it's extremely useful for remembering lists of things, but I haven't had a lot of success in using it to retain or organize abstract information.

I think the fact that these techniques have died out is some evidence that they are not actually very useful.
The better example would have been UKIP 12.7% of the total votes, and 0.2%(1) of the total MPs, compared to SNP 4.7% of the total votes and 8.6%(56) of the total MPs.

It's just a shame that the Lib Dems wasted the chance for a more proportional voting system on a referendum for an unliked semi-proportional system (AV) that would have favoured them.
It was what protesters had claimed. There's a vocal NIMBY demographic in the bay area that blame tech workers for the current property bubble, even though most of the tech workers can't afford property either.

I don't think anyone took it seriously though. Most viewed the shuttles as doing what this study confirms.
The EWD by Dijkstra now actually mentions Engelbart by name: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd03xx/EWD387.PDF.
>My fix? Sell the car

Did you know you could simply delete EGR? And that removing this contraption would result in smoother engine and ~3% better fuel consumption?

Its as simple as unscrewing this piece of crap and mounting a blocking plate (plus sensor bypass in some cases). You can even buy easy install delete kits.
I cannot agree more.
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Elon lives there, so maybe he's hosting some emissaries from ... elsewhere ... who have special needs in this department.
There are lots of ways data is shared.

For the vast majority, it's demographics and interest based stuff. LinkedIn for example will keep lots of 1st party data to itself for it's own ad business but will share generic data like: female, 30s, IT engineer, new york, etc. This is how much of the ad targeting works. Trying to target a single person/identity just isn't easy, scalable or worth it so big overlapping buckets are used.

On the other side, specific identity data is also shared, called PII (personally identifying information), in a hashed format with other data networks. This is often used in retargeting by profile, an example being if a company wants to target all of it's current customers, it'll upload it's CRM database full of emails and data providers will match this up to cookies or other identifiers and let that company target these users with ads online. It's anonymized in that the advertising company doesnt know your identity, just that you're in this bucket of "XYZ email address list".

The way providers get to know your identity is major sites that share your profile data when you login, because they definitely know that it's you. LinkedIn will set a cookie when you login and then they'll have an API or data dump to other providers that can request your info or if you fit a bucket (in a hashed format).

Data is usually on a CPM (cost per 1000 impressions) basis although ranges widely from $1-$100 depending on quality and depth of targeting.
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I think there's also the US rule that passenger trains sharing the track with freight trains need withstand collisions. That's why they are heavy and less efficient than lighter european trains.
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Definitely hard to believe 15 years later. Especially with the possibility (however distant) of the benefits that personal genome sequencing will give to patients: ability to live a lifestyle that can lessen the likelihood of chronic diseases and drugs that are more effective and have less side effects since they are more or less tailored to a patient's DNA. Plus, the patient will take the drug for a shorter duration and at the minimum effective dose based on their needs.
BBC redirecting to spam? Seems a little unlikely? Perhaps something else on your phone doing nasty stuff, maybe?
Agreed. He's describing an organization where the leaders are not actually interested in doing a good job. An organization that's not a true meritocracy. An organization where actually playing the game is more important than doing a good job.

Heartbreaking as it is, that describes most large organizations, and most small ones too. If you work at a place where the leadership supports you and truly wants you to do a good job, where the best people get promoted regardless of whether they're "playing the game" then you have found a rare place indeed!

I think that our education system was trying to teach me this all along, and I failed to learn it until I was in my 40s.
Wondering how the 3d touch changes the cross platform development!?

What happens when a developer has 2 different actions for a long press and pressured (3d touch) press!?

I have trouble understanding the usability pov for the 3d touch! Do we really need it?
My favorite books by Gardner, and these are great introductions to his lighthearted approach to math, are the pair Aha! Insight [1] and Aha! Gotcha. These are probably the least rigorous works he made, but extremely fun and still tackle interesting subjects (in other words, great for kids). If you want something longer form or less approachable, he was a very prolific author so any of his other dozens of books are great too.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Aha-Insight-Martin-Gardner/dp/07167101...
As the recent news indicates, they have additional inputs to their models.
https://experiment.com/projects/gun-control-research-project
If there was YC best comment ever award, I would nominate this.
I wonder what the response would have been had it turned out Facebook were going to pay their employees less, because they'd be making more profit that way ;)
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The "my body" argument is the central thrust of Roe v Wade and it is the very reason that abortion is no longer illegal. So that argument is absolutely worthy of consideration here.

Indeed, the stronger point is "Don't arrest me because I might commit some other crime." If we applied drug law logic to things like politics, we'd be arresting anyone who became a politician because they might be corrupting our society worse than any drug.

And I don't get your seatbelt argument. If I don't wear my seatbelt, I'm not harming anyone else - even if I get in an accident and get hurt or die due to my lack of wearing a seatbelt. Seatbelt laws are as unconstitutional as are the drug laws IMO. (Although, after reading about seatbelt law constitutionality, I see two decent arguments - 1) the driver can become a deadly projectile in an accident and 2) the driver is more likely to retain control of the vehicle with a seatbelt on. Those are good arguments, but I still don't think they're common enough occurrences that they should limit my personal freedom.)
While their battery swapping system is very nice, it would be cool if they added a charger and sold it to other markets around the world without battery swapping. A nice electric scooter would be popular in many regions as a car alternative.
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It's difficult to foster a sense of civic responsibility in foreign nationals who are merely parking their money here.
What about the majority of companies that don't pay dividends? I agree that tax codes are complex and the international theater makes them hard to enforce, but most of the proposed replacements for corporate income tax are typically half-baked.
Where are you moving to?
A major problem is that there's no political unit of the correct size: San Francisco is too small and California is too big.
Oh please, you absolutely understood what he really meant and are arguing over the wrong usage of words rather than the point he was making.

I believe such argument have a place and time, but at least dissociate them from the original point ...
My main worry about enlightened despotism is "what happens when the despot kicks the bucket?". No guarantee their successor will be as enlightened as them.

If you solve the succession problem, enlightened despotism starts sounding very good.
The other repliers added more info, sorry.

You are correct about share options, on which your gain is only the price difference for which you pay CGT (or not). But the liquid tech companies (Google, FB, Twitter) give out direct stock which is taxed on their Fair Market Value at the time of vesting. RSUs are taxed the same way both in UK and US.
Nope. There's no preflight for X-Frame-Options, as it was designed as a click jacking prevention.
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One possibility might be to charge capital gains whenever shares are traded. Then require shares to only be traded at exchanges with an agreement to report trades (or anonymously collect capital gains and send them your way, for privacy).
Another (probably worse) alternative might be not to tax them. The US will, and in exchange you get to tax UK shareholders of US companies.
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Since not everyone is familiar with customary metric system, I guess I'll leave this comment to save some time searching or doing math.

1300 US gallons ≈ 4931 liters
A few years back, Atlanta faced a serious drought (the two lakes it lives on nearly dried up). Some mansion was discovered to be running a seriously large decorative fountain - without recirculating the water (yes, it came in, got tossed in the air, then flushed down the drain) and wasting water on par with the above article; once published, the public outcry was deafening and recirculation pipes soon added.
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Where do these prices come from anyway?

According to Google the average salary of a police man in England is £30,000 and they work about 40 hours per week. So it should cost £126,000 station one person for 24/7. Now I understand that real costs will be higher for various reasons, but 100x?
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This canard keeps popping up with such regularity that one start to wonder what kind of interest group is spinning this. The space around Chernobyl is still a dead zone. The only reason why animal life doesn't die out there is the permanent inflow of healthy animals from outside contaminated area.
Remember all the outcry when Lance Armstrong was spending $2,400 a month to water his Austin digs?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/16/us/16lance.html?_r=0
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Such a state does not exist inside V8. Things happen as they are parsed. Since V8 has no idea what a piece of JS will do until it gets all the context, it has to use a silly thing like character count to perform inlining. It could create an intermediate state, but that would require a code overhaul that would likely slow down the entire thing anyway.

If I had to suggest a change, I would use the 600-char count as a starting point for one-time functions, and then count the number of calls to a function, counting how many instructions it produces (basically tossing an incrementing variable into the compilation state, and storing it per Function object).

But then again, I've never played with the inside of V8, only the outside. I consider myself lucky to be in that position, because V8 is pretty dang sweet.
It's kind of a an unsolvable problem, right? Even if we lived under a perfectly-controlled-by-benevolent-dictator economy with no capitalism or markets, that doesn't mean scarcity wouldn't exist. Every scientist would have that voice at the back of their head saying "remember, this lab you're in could be used by those fine cancer research guys across the hall...". This voice being the voice of scarcity, which is inevitably present whether the scientists are privately funded or publicly funded or whatever.
If you're wondering why comments are a factor at all, and aren't just discarded by the lexer, remember that comments in JS are preserved and available to things like `Function.prototype.toString()`. I've seen this used to do evil multiline string support a few times. Slap the multiline string or template into a comment inside a function and then have another function that toStrings it and strips the boilerplate.

This sounds like a horrifying hack but it's also pretty similar to how Angular's shorthand DI works.
In the UK under FPTP atleast, I can imagine there is also an effect or reverse gerrymandering or similar.

When it comes round to elections, generally the result of the majority of seats is already known, so they're classified by parties into stronghold (ours), stronghold (theirs), marginal.

When your located within a Labour stronghold, your unlikely to see as much pro-Conservative media, as they are better off spending their time campaigning in marginals and defending their reputations in existing strongholds.

Surely, this effect simply compounds strongholds, making them even harder to change hands overtime, without a significant event to cause the public opinion to shift significantly (e.g. the Scottish independence referendum).

The only way to fix such a problem, would be to randomise the boundaries each election, but this would cause various extra complexities.
Oh! Good point!
wow never thought of that before. Is that an original quote? I like that.
Because American billionaires would never waste water, right?
Cataclysmic outcome: linkedin is embedded on a porn site/page and starts feeding the names and professional profiles of visitors to the owner. These people are then contacted and blackmailed based on socio-economic status (e.g. targeting rich married individuals).

This linkedin feature has always been a pure money grabbing ploy with no merit other than the premium revenues generated from exploiting the emotional vulnerability of people and #growthinghacking needs of recruiters.
The large number of people from all walks of life who already own land in the bay area aren't afraid. They think this is great.
The fact that Cobol is still alive and kicking illustrates that once in place, large systems are hard to replace. Costs and budgets matter too.

EDIT: why did this get downvoted - am I factually incorrect or you simply disagree and want an echo-chamber?
A lot of engineers have passed through Google. The interesting thing about the Bay Area at least as this sort of porous sponge works both ways, people come from competitors, people go too competitors, they all carry a point of view and their own view on solving the problems at hand.

I am fortunate that I spent a few years in the platforms group and got a good look at how Google did what they did, and with that perspective have watched ideas in data center design emerge and flow. As the article points out Google does publish interesting bits of data, which lead to certain conclusions. And many of the same things that drove Google to do what it did, become the more likely answer when you own the entire data center (or better yet build it from scratch). I sat through a presentation of the big Ebay data center project in Utah and noted how they were coming up with the same answers to some of the same problems.

Because of that I doubt any one person is largely responsible there. There seems to have been a lot of cross pollination.
Does it help if you think of it as an alloy of metal and air?

When you make steel all you are doing is forming various crystal structures, and grains. Martensite, Ferrite Austenite, Cementite, etc. They are all the "same" material (iron and oxygen and carbon), yet if you figure out a new way of arranging their shapes "just so" you can say you invented a new type of steel.

This is the same way - they figured out a new way of arranging the atoms, so it's a more or less a new material.

(I do see your point of course, and this is more macroscopic than grains in steel, but I think it's not unreasonable to call it a new material.)
> Oh please, you absolutely understood what he really meant and are arguing over the wrong usage of words rather than the point he was making.

First, I'm not entirely sure this person is a he. In the absence of an indicator of which gender a person is, I typically don't assume.

"Oh please, you absolutely understood" is not a justifiable statement here. What knowledge do you possess of what I do or do not understand?

And I'm not being pedantic here: I actually though that 'polack was trying to weasel in the suggestion that Assange is guilty without proving beyond a shadow of a doubt (which no Internet commentor really should be able to, barring a huge evidence mis-handling by the Swedish investigators).