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> Maybe instead, European nations should look into instituting domestic policies that encourage the population to maintain a healthy replacement rate.

So, 18 months maternity/paternity leave, 180€ per month per child you have, plus tax breaks, plus better credit rating, plus 12 more sick days a year, plus subsidized kindergarten and daycare (with guaranteed daycare place from age 3 on), cheap whole-day school for children, and after-school care for them, is not enough?

What else are we supposed to do? Seriously? We have all this, and still birth rates below 1.2 children in Germany. Seriously.
The irony here is that you come across as a "B Player" CEO wanting to fire a "B Player" designer. Just sit him/her down, tell him/her it's not working out and leave it at that. You seem to be romanticizing this by framing it as a conversation when your desired outcome is to let the person go. Just let them go. If you're worried about the friendship, don't hire your friends.
I agree there's a context switch. But the original article makes one as well. It goes from the conclusion that a ride sharing app can't become a unicorn to suggesting a public policy that raises the costs of parking.

So the context of public policy is in the article and I suspect that the conclusion to raise parking prices "in Palo Alto" intends to make all four of its audiences - capital investors, parking consultants, municipal managers, and believers in the new urbanism - happy.
Sure. I was simply replying to your point about getting in a stranger's car.
So irrational.
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The public debt can be traded away with the high foreign exchange reserves or inflated away if it becomes a problem. There's no need to worry too much about it now as all the creditors seem eager to roll it over at low rates forever.

Drastic measures are not on the horizon.
Thank you for an informed and passionate point of view.

I'm proud of the work I and others have done to make Internet ubiquitous to fight ignorance.
Some 50% of Russians have favorable opinions about Stalin. Such statistics are not in of themselves worrying, unless you have reason to believe they can't compartmentalize.
0.1% really?

I live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 25% of households here have no car, and we don't have the world's best transit system.

Per http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/01/21/vital-signs-more-h... it's over 9% of households that don't have a car- and of course the average size of a household is above 1, so your fake statistic is two orders of magnitude off from reality.

You're welcome to be hyperbolic, but especially among engineers making up probabilities that have no bearing on reality feels more like intellectual dishonesty than hyperbole.

I think a lot of the HN demographic is completely out of touch with the fact that a lot of people simply can't afford a car.
> Undoubtedly, but important questions about the ethics of war aren't usually based upon the body count.

Actually, one of the most important principles of the laws of war (International humanitarian law) is that of proportionality, and body count is a major determinant of proportionality [1,2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportionality_(law)

2. http://www.crimesofwar.org/a-z-guide/proportionality-princip...
Actually on that page there are few massacres before the current civil war.

The biggest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Hama_massacre
happened during a fight between government forces and islamists which had taken over a city and started an uprising, so I wouldn't really call them civilians; civilians with guns maybe.

I don't know much about the history of Syria, just saying the link you posted doesn't really show the picture you want.
Increasingly we're seeing 'encryption' discussed in mainstream media as a tool that can only be used for nefarious ends. Kind of like how they talked about "cookies" in the late 90s and early 00s.

It's unfortunate that there's no way [without a lot of money] to launch a campaign that highlights the fact that most sensitive online transactions rely on encryption - banking, purchasing, etc - to protect you from The Bad People who want to steal your critical financial information.

That would also highlight that it's not just about keeping secrets from the government - in fact, that's the smallest fraction of it.
How is that misleading? A commute typically has one source and one destination. Some folks in Redwood City are going to Belmont. Some folks in Belmont are going to Palo Alto. It seems to me his model scales just fine. Unless you're proposing that the driver drop her passenger at a different location than she is traveling to. But this increases the commute time by a fair bit, which makes ride sharing less attractive. In particular, you start losing any time you gained by being able to use a high-occupancy vehicle lane.

If everyone spontaneously agreed to ride-share, the traffic on the roadways would go down, commute times would go down, vehicle miles would go down, all kinds of great things would happen. But this proposal suffers from a game theory issue.
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In 6 months, they almost tripled the number:

"China now hosts 109 of the high-performance computing systems on a widely watched list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers that was released Monday. The country had just 37 machines on the list only six months ago."
That's also in neurodivergence afaik, unless we're talking about trans folk, they're their own category.
> In fact, it is made even emotionally stronger now that it is religious. Is there an alternative?

ISIS does not rely on free choice, it relies on brainwashing kids since from the get-go. That's really not the same.
I think the author is using "ride sharing" more in the sense of car pooling for commuting rather than as a substitute for taxi cab and similar services where the rider hires the driver.
I hope you don't mind my taking this post as an open invitation for anyone to reply to, but I thought I should reply as well.

1. I love talking to people with different beliefs. If we have a respectful debate based on our best evidence I assume we will both learn something.

2. Facts are facts. However, I think all people build world views around those facts which interpret those facts in ways that are consistent with their non-scientific beliefs. The scientific method is just a important to me as an agnostic in terms of whether a medical procedure is safe.

3. See answer 2. Many Christians have no trouble with evolution. It was discovered by an Anglican after all. It's true that Darwin lost his faith over the discovery, but after a few years, many Christians just incorporated it into their faith.

4. It is very hard to prove historical facts, but there is good evidence for many arguments (like the resurrection for example; or that the King James Bible was developed by a committee). I think for many Christians, good historical scholarship is fundamental to the sorts of things that they now believe. This works both ways; however. For example, after the Divinci Code came out I was able to quickly discard the sorts of claims it made because the evidence was so bad. Similarly, Richard Dawkins should not give up his day job to become a biblical scholar since he doesn't seem to have the knack for it.

Cheers
And, don't call your proofs "mathematical" if you're happy citing numbers with no citation two orders of magnitude off from reality.
Indeed. There is something very familiar about the tone and content of these posts from haskeldownvot5. There was another individual that achieved a degree of infamy within the Haskell community for posting similar screeds to various forums. The claims that the Haskell community can't accept criticism, the accusations of the same 'lying' about performance, the referring to 'lazy evaluation' as though it were a carcinogen, the aspersions cast against the education of various individuals, both specific and non-specific...yes, all very familiar.

I think there's some interesting psychology at work here. haskeldownvot5 is clearly inviting downvotes by his/her choice of username as well as the contents of his/her posts, but I think haskeldownvot5 has managed to convince himself/herself that there is some cabal within the Haskell community that is responsible for the downvotes. There must be a name for the phenomenon where an individual brings things upon themselves and then uses the criticism/persecution they receive as evidence to the fact that they were right all along.
This appears to be the Chewbacca defense

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_defense
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The numbers in this article are misleading as they're drawn from ridiculously underestimated assumptions. 25 - 33% is a more accurate number.

Pooled ridesharing is cheaper and better than owning a car in many cases (including mine), and the benefits will only increase with the network effect. (Imagine if 50% of the cars on the road are Ubers, and the average ETA to pickup is 30 seconds).

The positive externalities are more than just parking:

+ Less traffic congestion, shorter commutes for everyone

+ Less pollution and emissions, less lung cancer

+ More experienced drivers, less traffic accidents

+ And of course, less parking space.
Yeah, remember 2003, when encryption wasn't mainstream. They did a much better job back then.

You make it sound like there was a point when broad surveillance helped against terrorism, but it never did.
I have not seen them use that argument. If they used that it would be better than what they normally do; which is imply they don't understand what's going on. But even this argument is subject to the same problems; it implies they don't really know why we'd want/need encryption because it assumes that a government could create a back door only they could use.
Freedom of Religion means I can practice whatever religion I want without the Government telling me I can't. It does not, in any way, force religion upon anyone.
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These terrorist groups are becoming a recurring thing though, a failed one is replaced by another. They are aided by technology that allows inflicting powerful hits and of course by money from their patrons. The question is if there is something more than just extremism here, what is the failure of the western secularity to become attractive and engulf immigrants and whether this is phenomenon can spring up on its own or its dependent on someone funding it.

Hitting them with bombs can only achieve so much and should be just one step in many to understand this phenomenon. I do think that this attack in particular has seen so universal condemnation, (largely because France is not regarded as a major invading force like the US or NATO are), that it's actually going to hurt ISIS reputation, probably fatally. OTOH destroying them doesn't seem to be the end of the story...
In fact, from where I live in Redwood City, it's more like 4 miles by bicycle.

It's not really a typical commute, but I think the point is more than fair -- if the author picked 2 far-flung locations, the probability of a match is typically going to be even lower.

That said, yes, there are common commute routes -- for example, more distance suburbs, which will have a number of commuters going to the same urban core(s).

But statistically speaking, the longer the journey, the less likely the commute match, given a general tendency to live closer to work rather than, say, 5 states away. Even in the US!
"We are taking a data-driven, product-driven approach to doing good in the world."

If anything - if research is to be trusted - all they've done is make a billion people slightly unhappier by manipulating the way people socialize.

If Facebook has done good; show me the data.

So far the data seems to indicate that internet.org is comparable to releasing swarms of burrowing parasites upon the poorest of the world.
ISIS and the NSDAP are not even close to being similar geopolitical entities.
Inflation of public debt is just destroying Savings and Private investment, which is the opposite of what you want for a growing Economy.
> with a little being gay,I am not gay , but sometime things go wrong

At first I thought this was a hilarious line to come out of the closet. Had to read again. :)
And what an education it is!

https://freedomhouse.org/report/special-reports/saudi-arabia...
I agree. The flip side of that is that real programs are written by real humans, who have inherent limitations, that have to be reflected in the programming language somehow. ;)

Haskell certainly leans more toward the "cater to the limitations of humans" end rather than the "cater to the limitations of the machine" end, which is already filled by a whole host of languages like C++, Ada, Rust, D and others.
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TL;DR: "I want my ads and stolen video contents in every last dug hole in the world, so you can like a starving child directly!" /s
What about expensive tax payer funded scientists.
radical minority hijacked the terminology and twisted it into something different

A huge part of the problem is that they're not hijacking anything. The jihadists are reading the plain text of the Koran and the Hadiths and following them literally. Moderate Muslims typically have very little scriptural text to stand upon when decrying ISIS and its treatment of infidels. ISIS can be more easily argued to be following the "most pure" form of Islam.
Just as scary, these numbers are small fractions on the US arms procurement budget.

DoD spent about $115B in 2013 and budgeted $100B in 2014 for procurement (PDF source: http://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudge...)

That's a lot of weapons.
> So, its fair to say that french youth in general is disillusioned.

The French economy is moribund, growth is nil, youth unemployment rates are over 25%, and lots of them are sitting around unemployed or in dead-end jobs - while their parents hold much cushier jobs with some of the world's best labor protections (or most-notorious, depending on your perspective). It's not shocking.
It makes me sad that all I can do is just praying for Paris.
"There is only one proper response to this and that is to make damn sure that I laugh religious people out of the room whenever possible."
That approach has proven to not work. Didn't you realize that the "religious people" would do the same to you? Their reality is different from yours.
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There are only so many young people willing to sacrifice everything for fanatic dreams of afterlife fulfillment as payment for promises of improving the here-now. Most youth, in other words, aren't that stupid.

Startups seem to be pretty good at convincing a never-ending stream of youth to surrender 500% productivity now in exchange for (usually lies about) riches in the future.

"Yeah, it's linkedfacebox, you know, a super cool startup and everybody there just works through the night because we're all so dedicated to the cause. Gotta keep crushing it so the founders can get a few billion dollars richer otherwise they won't let me cash out my 0.0001% for $3 million."

humans have limited psychological reactions to things. The "believe in a cause" bucket uses the same manipulation tools no matter if you're a startup, a cult, a thousand year old religion, or a radicalized intentional hate group with a persecution complex. You set up an enemy ("the others" / "the adversary", "disruption"), you rally your troops to beat the enemy at all costs (sacrifice yourself/your time/your health for the greater good and you will be rewarded), then perpetuate cycles of wins/losses to reinforce belief and dedication to externalized, and personally abdicated, leadership.
You might want to stop the processing of an expensive task on the server
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That is the keyword. Practice. You cannot practice that parts of the religion that contradict with a country's laws. But that don't infringe on your freedom of religion since no one is punishing you for your religious beliefs.
> I support freedom of speech - absolute and unrestricted. I don't support freedom of religion

That, at first reading does not appear to be internally consistent. At some level freedom of religion is freedom of speech. Unless you want to lobotomize people who are religious so they no longer speak their mind on the subject but you can't have the one without the other.
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Probably sources that have a political bone to pick with no evidence should be banned.

Should the NYT report that a UFO passed over because some official told them so? No.

When you receive an anonymous tip, its your job as a journalist to try and confirm it, not report it directly.

Additionally, when a paper reports something with no evidence and screws up, they usually publish a retraction, not change the article and direct you to a new copy.
Wow, that's a complete cop out. Can you come up with any definition of "terrorist" where significant numbers of the one billion Chinese are commiting terrorist atrocities abroad, for example?
Huh. I was very surprised to learn that there are 809 road vehicles per 1000 people in the US. I expected it to be in excess of 1000. Of course, this includes all kinds of commercial vehicles but also includes those who are not of driving age.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_...
'Ridesharing apps' is a commute option.

I use Uber + public transport for commuting and getting around everywhere. I don't have a car, and I know many people in the same boat.
> If you care about code maintainability and carefully plan your CSS, you should definitely reconsider using Bootstrap in your project.

All the points resonate with me and my experience (actually, they're all quite well put), but this one is the biggest. Bootstrap isn't quite brilliant in terms of CSS architecture (which is a tricky subject per se, due to many factors such as the global nature of CSS). And the biggest issue is that CSS architecture is very much snowball-like: a bad decision will imply future bad decisions or practices. The example given in the article is quite demonstrative: an excessively-specific selector which, to be overridden, would need a even more specific one.

In my opinion - and I've had the bad luck to join two big projects which used Bootstrap from the beginning - if your project is to be maintained or has at least a medium-ish size, forget Bootstrap. It doesn't give you that much. A normalization solution, typography, buttons and a grid system, just roll your own, with your own presets and much less bloat. It's not a big effort at all, you can look at what Bootstrap and others have done (to borrow what you like), and your team will have a firm understanding of their code.
Because, with anonymous sources you can sway public opinion, saying pretty much anything you want without the possibility of being held accountable for it.
> Do you feel judgemental or upset when people exist that are very wrong according to your morality?

No. Something I stil haven't found a way to explain is that I can disagree with someone or even think that someone's very personal decision is not a good one without feeling ill will towards them.

One of the fundamental teachings of christianity that many non-christians (and some christians even) are not aware of is that a person does not need to be good to be a believer. A person who is convicted by god to believe in him IS good. So if every person on earth suddenly agreed with me and other christians on moral issues it would be a hollow victory without those people also understanding Gods love for them.

So I do not focus my efforts on moralizing the world or turning it into a theocracy. I focus my efforts on being an example of Gods love to those around me. I cannot fathom that someone who is truly gripped by their faith would wish death upon anyone. To me, whatever those people say, they need to be converted as much as anyone else.
The timing of the beam racing down the screen is used by the more modern guns which were used by the SNES, PlayStation, or the Dreamcast.

So, it's really not much of a "myth". Most light guns worked that way. The zapper is an outlier.
> some conservative Christians talking about how all gays need to be put to death

I live in the deep south and have never heard such viewpoints from a Christian.
I read that unsubstantiated assertion in the print edition (I know, dinosaur. I like a morning paper) and called it out to my family. I'm saddened and amused at how the press is led around by the nose.
Personally I think cruelty or compassion don't have place in this kind of calculation. We are calculation about faith of maybe million's of million's people.What is best for all of us ? What is best for humanity ? fucking around in middle east and randomly bombing some dude's which may or may not thinking about attacking west or end this non sense and let middle east to fight for himself.
I wonder if your gun's sensor was picking up a reflection in your room. Maybe there was a bright lamp in just the right spot behind you. You can even see an example of this in the gif -- look at the white spot in the top right corner of the TV.
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Some reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abenomics#Implementation

They've been attempting to stimulate the economy already. As you mention, viability of pensions is very important in Japan. Much of their savings and investments are in Japanese bonds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Underground

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oktoberfest_terror_attack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republican_Army

All these are fairly recent examples of non-Muslim radicals attempting to effect social change by the same means Muslim radicals use to try and effect such change in Western countries. That they have not succeeded in building a near-nation state out of that terrorism is largely due to the higher stability of “Western” countries compared to the middle east, though, depending on whom you ask, they were quite successful in Ukraine.
Centrally mandating the use of a tool is not a management problem.

When you need to try and account for where your time is going, there are two ways - have everyone use a slightly crappy tool that they loathe (mostly for its purpose), or have some sort of process in place that is less efficient with everyone's time.

> We must ensure JIRA usage is identical across teams, in order to ensure velocity parity

In real talk:

> We want to standardize our time accounting across teams to ensure everyone is moving as fast as possible.

How diabolical.

The bemoaning of having to do basic project communication is a symptom of a novice professional.
hey dang, glad to see you havent done yourself in yet
I think SQL is a far leakier language than Haskell in terms of the correlation between code and performance, but it seems to have achieved a measure of success even in situations where performance is critical.
It really makes us angry, but we should also know there are good Muslims who hope for the world of peace.
Very misleading title IMHO... A couple excerpts:

> I have no beef with JIRA per se, but its the one we come across the most.
> Here’s what a colleague said, just this morning about JIRA:
>> We must ensure JIRA usage is identical across teams, in order to ensure velocity parity

> So, clearly this is no fault of JIRA — I (as I’m sure you) have seen it used many a time successfully, but all to often, it is used (and abused) as a top down management tool, mandated from the centre.

Uh... then don't work for company with shitty management... This has absolutely nothing to do with JIRA. You could find and replace 's/JIRA/Rally/' and while the article would still be wrong it would make as much sense. There is nothing inherently wrong with JIRA itself. If you have shit management then you have shit management and no tool is going to help/hurt that really...