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I drink Soylent 2.0 everyday. Definitely doesn't taste like glue. I has a very mild, but quite pleasant, vanilla-y taste. It kind of tastes like liquid cheerios.

It tastes good enough that I have cravings for it. But it's not so strong a flavor that I get sick of it.
Sometimes, especially in smaller teams, devs also have to act in a business analyst role as well as coding - I've got to know how to talk to business as well as other developers and managers.
Robots hold promise, but are not one-size-fits-all
> then you'd have a Settings app that has thousands of options

However, some people would actually like that, me for instance. On Firefox, about:config is a great feature: if you know what you're doing, you can tweak any setting that's tweakable.

> prefer the device to do its best to guess at the correct setting

This is actually the worst of both worlds. From a UX perspective, I can understand having multiple behaviors with a setting, and I can also understand having a single behavior with no setting. However, I can't agree with having multiple behaviors that change opaquely at the whim of the machine (like in this case), which is just frustrating.

At the very least, Apple should have surfaced a setting to developers to control this and made it opt-in.
The main thing that surprised me in this article was learning that the Saturn had eight processors. Was that an outlier for consoles at the time?
Is it be useful? Or there are some alternatives to import JSON as a module as easy as this one does?
Paying 150k for a fashion shoot? Might happen. But not for the photographer, and not for a few minutes of time.

It's art, as in "art market". With all the crazy dynamics behind that.
Nope, nothing.
It's a 45 minute film if all you're interested in is the knowledge it brings. It's a two hour film if you allow yourself to take in the beauty Herzog captures.
Also gambling between two people - though one party loses the exact amount the other person gains, the time spent to place the bet and to watch the result costs time. One could argue they both gained utility in terms of enjoyment, but in terms of wealth and GDP the transaction is negative-sum.
In the Fed Ex settlement she won $223m for 2,600 class members. Even if she gets a 1/3 cut that's, $60,000 on average per class member for mis-classification over a seven-year period.
Reminds me of Microsoft's contractor lawsuit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permatemp#Vizcaino_v._Microsof...

http://www.reuters.com/article/businesspropicks-us-findlaw-d...
So, making her money on the backs of the little guy, then?

It's how class-action lawsuits usually work. I wonder if they do for her lawsuits as well.
... It was a statement of fact.

I know how a plane flies without being a pilot.

Obvious troll is obvious.
Ah! I know about Lessons of Darkness and wanted to watch it. But couldn't find it on Netflix. I'd have to rent Amazon/Google Play or sign up for Netflix DVD service. But I put on my list of things to watch.

Never heard of The White Diamond, so thanks for suggestion, I'll add it to my list as well!
You are watching a classic 21st century robbery in action, where lawyers are robbing corporations and employees under some pretense of magical justice.

Counting the downvotes on comments, HN has sharply taken a socialist turn and lawyers are the new superheroes saving people from Evil startups. In other news Bernie Sanders hates Uber despite using it nearly 100% of time.[1]

[1] http://thehill.com/policy/technology/250480-bernie-sanders-s...
Well, yes, that's the whole point of this article. My point is that I don't believe there is enough evidence for the judge to make this ruling.
See also: automated bathroom fixtures. What if I want to fill up a glass, rinse something off, or get more than one hand towel? Why have the designs of these not significantly improved in 10+ years?
We still have debt forgiveness. It's called chapter 11 and bankruptcy. We still a wave of these every few years or so. The Asian financial crisis, dot com bust, GFC, and the latest wave of commodity producers going bust, are all prime examples of mass forgiveness of debts.
> How are drivers being subjugated and what law is being violated.

Drivers are being paid as independent contractors. Under the current Uber model, they are not independent contractors as defined by labor law (nor the IRS). Ergo, Uber is in violation of both labor law and tax regulations; if they are found to have violated IRS employee classification rules, they'll be liable for back taxes, penalties, and officers of the company can be held personally liable.

> What evidence is there that they are actually employees besides the fact that lawyers and union activists want them to be?

You must be blinded by some sort of belief that Uber is the victim here; my apologies. Employee vs independent contractor classifications can sometimes be difficult, but the gist of it is:

If you tell someone how to do the work, and you set the price, they're an employee; if you give someone the work, they set their prices, and they have control over how the work is performed, they're a contractor.

Guess which model Uber uses?
Ssh ports are brute forceable, passwords have a much much larger search space.
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I think it relates to the idea that "Object Oriented" meant message passing (methods) between entities (objects). Not the meaning that was derived over time as programming languages borrowed select ideas from Smalltalk and then considered themselves OO because of feature similarity.

These days it's hard to argue for correcting the features that people label as OO. It's part of history at this point. It is still interesting to note that there was a slightly different intention when Alan Kay coined the term though. Perhaps we need a new label. Kay-OO or something.
It is, unfortunately...
> You are watching a classic 21st century robbery in action, where lawyers are robbing corporations and employees under some pretense of magical justice.

You misspelled "labor regulations" at the end of you sentence. Labor rights > corporate rights.
One thing I never see addressed in these Uber stories is how, precisely, the drivers got classified as employees.

The only test I'm aware of refers to things like set hours, dictated methods of working, company equipment, payment, and so on[1].

Just by that those tests alone, I don't see how an Uber driver is realistically anything other than a contractor.

So either a judge screwed up somewhere, or I'm really missing something. Would anyone have some more information on the particulars?

[1]: https://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Emplo...
How is a game for $25 frontpage of HN? Please don't bullshit us and get rid of this spam.

Game looks boring too.
> exactly at the point where they would otherwise be invested in economic growth

That's why a tiny percentage of people hold the vast majority of wealth... Because they "reinvest"?

Are you seriously arguing government shouldn't exist and shouldn't tax?
clickable > https://github.com/frnhr/django-normalized-filefield
I assume that doesn't include back taxes and fines due to the IRS.
Given the overwhelmingly unfavorable business climate, why wouldn't this theoretical enterprising 26 year old just leave for SV? Immigrants have played a big role in the Valley for decades, but there haven't been many from Japan. Perhaps that drive is just destroyed/suppressed by the culture.
As we discussed on IRC, "data race freedom" is equivalent to guaranteeing memory safety, and so, in a kind-of pedantic way, data race freedom is the core guarantee. That said, the original comment would've been better phrased as "one of Rust's core guarantees".

Furthermore, I still think the best phrasing of the rules is for that guarantee: if a rule is removed one can usually construct fairly simple programs that have data races/memory unsafety. Of course, it is definitely true that the arbitrary rules have other benefits, but if there was a simpler scheme that gave the core memory safety without the other things, I think Rust would've adopted it.
I was hesitant about Port of Call for some reason. What did you think about it?
Is it really though? Or do you just think it's "turned off" while you're watching?
A good thing liteIDE is free and opensource then, the one guy maintaining it is waiting for your invaluable contribution.
User-generated content is a fantastic business for the companies that win each category (e.g. music).
This restaurant killed tipping and now it's bringing it back
Sure there is. Sign up with a different email account. I hear they're free these days...
I heard about the lead thing which was also on HN, and the conclusion in the comments were very skeptical that it was more than is in traditional food, or enough to hurt humans: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10066432
I will provide a detailed and backed up comment - but may I ask how old you are?
Without much research on my part as to accuracy, Google said Uber has 167,000 employees. So in a $200M payout she gets her $60,000,000 and Uber employees average $838.
You really would limit your definition of successful languages to only those three?
Rumour has it that while the Saturn was superior on paper, it was really because rumours of the PSX caused SEGA to double up on processors, meaning more performance but harder to tool up for more parallel based development.

Funnily enough we see Sony repeat the same mistake in the PS3, doubling down on a chip architecture aimed at parallelism (cell), while most developers expressed frustration adapting.

Didn't really hurt Sony in the big picture though as much as it hurt SEGA. By the time SEGA got so much right in the Dreamcast era, they were already swimming upstream thanks to the ground they lost with the Saturn.
Or Koch Industries..
> That a cabal of government officials would deliberately start a war under false pretenses, costing trillions of dollars and thousands of their own countrymen's lives... for what? Profit?

....yyyes? precisely that?

Or are you being super sarcastic? Or something?
You are comparing money without factoring inflation or overall GDP... So basically you are just spreading FUD.

Is there evidence that private sector is more efficient?

Lots of companies blow money on lots of stupid shit... I guess that doesn't fit your narrative though.
Staying Productive
Also, I would say, even if you think coding is fun or enjoy it, ask yourself if that's what you want to be remembered for, or if you had a year to live would you be happy with having blown it all away on software. I'd bet the answer is likely no. It makes me sad when people in the community pass away and it seems that everyone is just talking about their work, there's so much more to a person (and life) than that.
Apple gets map data for users in China from contractors who have been approved to run GIS businesses, e.g. AutoNavi Software Co., Ltd. BTW, they do not seem to provide world maps so you can only browse and search locations in China when you are in China.
...as so much media seems to do now.

Standing in contrast, if you are looking for that, is a wonderful two-part episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation called "The Chain of Command."
Grailog 1.0: Graph-Logic Visualization of Ontologies and Rules [pdf]
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USPS now supports a feature called "street addressing".

Keep in mind that street addressing doesn't work at all USPS locations, although it does work at most of them. You have to fill out a form with USPS or any mail addressed to that location will be returned as undeliverable.
Bailing out GM and Chrysler seems to have been a win. Bailing out Goldman Sachs, not so much. The US had a lot of zombie investment banks in 2008, and only a few were allowed to fail.
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Visa restrictions or the preference to continue living in Japan.
Deep belief image recognition on Raspberry Pi
I also recommend Herzog on Herzog [1]. Part of a series of books where filmmakers discuss their own works with a loose interview structure. Very readable and accessible. For a supposedly difficult ateur, he comes across as approachable and pragmatic.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Herzog-Paul-Cronin/dp/0571207081/
For files:

import json
with open("foo.json") as f:
foo = json.load(f)

For strings:

import json
bar = '{"foo": "bar"}'
foo = json.loads(bar)
There are rules about what makes a worker an employee vs a contractor, and they mostly center around control - if the company controls how the work is done, you are an employee. In Uber's case, while there are a lot of things that point to the worker being a contractor (Uber has no control over their hours, workers provide their own equipment, workers can work for competing companies), some things look more like an employee relationship (Uber sets prices being a big one). See http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-and-lyft-employee-lawsui...
The downfall of Prolog's syntax is its weird rules surrounding whitespace and indentation. A few braces and a little more Algol or Lisp wouldn't have killed you, you know.

Of course, Python followed the same strange ideas, so I guess they're well-ingrained now.
Since when is this the pizza delivery model? Granted it's been more than 20 years, but when I delivered pizza I got a hourly wage (which was higher than minimum), commission (called "mileage") on each delivery to compensate for use of my car, plus any tips.

Mileage was paid in cash at the end of each shift, and of course tips were cash. Wages were paid every two weeks.
> (Mr. Virding is one of the co-inventors of Erlang.)

And we know that this username is being used by the real person because... ?
All of these are simulations. We cannot simulate current economics in a way that would approximate reality.
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Ask HN: Are jobs for C++ developer shrinking?
Are jobs for C++ developer shrinking?
> jack9, isn't it a privilege to be able to interact with folks such as Robert Virding (one of the co-developers of the Erlang language)?

Or, at least, people who take on such names on pseudonymous message boards.
If European providers are ok, have a look at https://www.hetzner.de/ot/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver or https://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server/dedicated-server-... the former having no ddos protection, so not suitable for anything internet-facing, really. OVH has different offerings for different CPU ranges, and also in Canada I believe: https://kimsufi.ca are the cheapest, https://soyoustart.com a bit more powerful and from https://ovh.com even more.

I've used them all without issues, but service can be really slow / even a hassle to deal with.
Here is a token retort to add some milquetoast flak to your argument and provide a seemingly plausible, if contrived, degree contrarian spirit to whatever argument may or may not be currently transpiring in public view.
They must have changed that at some point, since I do exactly this and have no issues. I set up my FB account 6 or 7 years ago though.
If this had oculus or some other VR support I would be in 100%. I love an N body physics sim, especially one with nice graphics, so I would pay dearly to be able to experience it at full scale. It's a lifelong dream.
Interesting, I had figured they had used something along the lines of http://electron.atom.io/
Whether there are zero or thousands of 26yos taking this option, they are irrelevant to the situation in Japan, because they aren't there anymore.
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You could also argue that the money being taken by the state is being used for programs like public education and infrastructure instead of being stashed offshore by multinationals where nobody can use it.
Yeah, and? I'm not sure what you were trying to get at but I never said anything to the contrary to this and I mentioned I've done lots of JavaScript dev so this isn't anything new.
A hobby is something you do for fun, that usually doesn't earn an income or doesn't earn much of an income.

A lot of free and open source projects started out as someone's hobby and grew over time.
I mean, I also think television writers are misogynist and so over-sexed they can't depict normal relationships between men and women on TV. But somehow I manage to watch HIMYM or Friends without raging.
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because it's his account. Look at his posting history, if you like. Or ask him on twitter, where, like here, he's @rvirding.
> don't eat too much of anything,

I've always said, "moderation in all things, including moderation".
You are wrong. They are independent contractors. They are not employees as defined by current labor laws.

I think it is you that are blinded by your beliefs. They are not told how to do the work. Each driver chooses when they want to work and how long they work. They are free to work with whomever else they want, including other ride sharing companies at the same time.

Uber is a marketplace that brings drivers and riders together. It's not an employer because drivers have complete freedom.
I don't doubt the cognitive boost or the safety of nicotine outside of cigarette smoking... But I was definitely hoping for a more quantitative analysis of the benefits.

Also a lot of this is anecdotal. I know many people (myself included) who are addicted to nicorette gum. They wean themselves off smoking and onto gum. Nicotine is still addictive.

I'm still looking for the "natural Adderall". Maybe socially accepted is the better term. Amphetamines are hard (read: impossible) to beat... Especially if you spent a long time taking them in high doses daily.

Anyway I really hope we get more research in this space. Coffee only does so much.
> Why are you referring to being a manger as a privilege?

I wrote that the powers that come from being a manager is a privilege. Are you arguing that it is not? Or are you arguing that managers don't have such powers?
You'd really get us going if you told us this about Al-J or RT.
I don't agree. Matter of fact, I recommended it here in an answer to the reproducible build meme that pops up. See my conversation with jeffreyrogers here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10182282
TIL, diaeresis is not umlaut.
Odd to think that a simple undershirt (that costs $2000) could get you a couple months in prison in British Columbia, Canada:

http://www.bclaws.ca/EPLibraries/bclaws_new/document/ID/free...
> How many people do you know that have become addicted to nicotine gum or patches?

Sweet Mother of Uncontrolled Confounding Factors.

OK, let's do this. We're a weird and diverse crowd. Does anyone here other than the article's author have experience with taking nicotine-containing smoking cessation aids purely for their own sake, without previously having been a tobacco user?
tl;dr: It's appalling that I was treated as any man would in a similar situation. Where are all the 'good men' in the world who'll protect women from such base treatment.

Take any guy, good looking, bad looking, genius intelligence, or idiot. Watch them join a conversation yet make no measurable effort to draw interest from others or offer something of value.

How will he be treated? Like like he's invisible. A treatment that isn't just limited to conversation, it extends to life as a whole. Men who have nothing interesting to say or do with their lives effectively don't exist to the rest of the world. That's why we posture and aggressively assert ourselves. To do otherwise is to accept a lifetime of irrelevance.

Women have and always will be the 'privileged class' when it comes to human interaction; for the simple fact that most men are singularly incapable of turning off their biological drives.

When was the last time you saw a whole group of women fall all over themselves to be inclusive of men (excl celebrities) in any and everything?

If you want to be treated with equal consideration that men do, you have to do as we do. Take responsibility and make yourself relevant. Existing and occupying space is simply not enough.

Do you know what type of women don't get dismissed or treated as somebody's 'plus one'? The ones who fucking introduce themselves and signal to others that they're more than just an ornament. A la, don't act like an accessory if you don't want to be treated like an accessory.

I kinda wish Ronda Rousey wouldn't have lost that last fight because she was on to something really awesome with her 'anti do nothing bitches' campaign.

*apologies for the language, I just feel really frustrated that so many women would rather blame men for all of the problems in the world rather than focusing that energy on self-reflection and finding ways to correct the problem
You could have at least used "startups" instead of "corporations" if you wanted to appeal to emotion. Socialist or capitalist, who would cry over a "corporation"?
I believe you are largely correct as to the aims. It is not so much a corporate welfare program as a social welfare program, with the money sluicing though corporate coffers rather than an extensive bureaucracy, with the added benefit of supporting the illusion that all is as it has ever been in Japan Inc.

But there are issues I think you would be foolish to ignore. First, the government largesse has to come from somewhere, taxing or borrowing. Taxing in the long term will become difficult, as the misallocation of capital contributes to shrinking that sector of the economy that can pay taxes. Borrowing kicks the can down the road, but with Japan's demographics a smaller less productive workforce will be saddled with that debt.
My business partner does this, says it helps his memory and concentration.
Learn Coin: An Educational Implementation of Cryptocurrencies [pdf]
It's like I always say: the system has been exposed to good people before. It knows what to do with them.
To be a prolific programmer requires time, effort and dedication. You can still be a prolific programmer if you are married and performing your family duties but the level of time and effort to do it would be less. It would require you to work smarter and have a solid-foundation that is built and have learned the fundamentals, before you are trying to dedicate your time to being prolific while slicing your time between work, family, personal, etc.

It is best for the single and young because it requires you to immerse yourself to learning, to solve problems and face difficult failures, it requires routine, and dedicated energy to learn, requires energy to go to the workshops/meet-ups/groups and be updated when new learning opportunity arrives. It requires spontaneity to still be interested in other things in order for you to refresh your energy.
It's not cheap. A box of gum is $40-60.
Which drug addicts are going to prison for 30 years? Pray tell.
> 'Actor model' but it ended up being very misunderstood when implemented in C++, Java, etc,

Yap here it is right from the horse's mouth, so to speak:

https://computinged.wordpress.com/2010/09/11/moti-asks-objec... (see comments history)

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If you are doing “simulated data structure programming” rather than object oriented programming. One of my original motivations for trying to invent OOP was to eliminate imperative assignment (at least as a global unprotected action). “Real OOP” is much more about “requests”, and the more the requests invoke goals the object knows how to accomplish, the better. “Abstract Data Types” is not OOP!

...

Many of Carl Hewitt’s Actors ideas which got sparked by the original Smalltalk were more in the spirit of OOP than the subsequent Smalltalks. Significant parts of Erlang are more like a real OOP language the the current Smalltalk, and certainly the C based languages that have been painted with “OOP paint”."

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There you have it folks, Erlang is more OO than C++/Java and C#. It is kind of a funny tidbit, good for sharing during meetups over beers.

One interesting response to that I heard from a developer was "Well, it doesn't matter what Kay thinks anymore. C++/Java/C# got so popular and that is OO now officially".