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I definitely hate solution number 2.

One major problem I find with OOP is that it is often requiring refactoring. Every time you shove something into an object you actually take away from it.

One thing that greatly inspires me from Haskell is that it does have design patterns, but they are based on category theory. Math is the ultimate tool. I don't think we can accidentally "create" something as richly descriptive for describing the benefits and problems for using a certain pattern.
Uhhh.. I think I just found what twitter needs to do to make more revenue. Find a way to charge journalists searching for easy sources to make their deadline.
> "so far we haven't seen nearly as much of an effect on early-stage fundraising as the level of press coverage would seem to indicate"

This is pretty interesting to me. I wonder if the press is just blowing things out of proportion, or if there's some Big Money™ behind this so that investors can convince companies to agree to worse terms.
A (relatively easy) primer on elliptic curve cryptography (2013)
Yes, it's pretty cool. I know a lot of people are skeptical about IBM and open source, but there really is a lot of cool stuff happening. I hope people give it a chance, or at least take it out for a test drive.
Incredibly impressive. Greetings and high fives from the intertubes.
Contributor will replace ads from AdSense (ads you see on independent publisher sites), not AdWords (ads on Google result pages). They're separate networks.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11160866.
Sort of. An example mentioned in the paper is etoys.com, presumably the first major online toy retailer.

According to this theory, etoys.com would have only captured some small % of the online market for online toys before they went under. So, yes, it's true that the "producer" here didn't capture much of the value of that market. But it's equally true that other entrepreneurs (most notable among them Amazon) captured a huge chunk of that market because etoys.com's "technological advance" simply wasn't all that technically difficult (or advanced) and wasn't different from what plenty of other entrepreneurs were doing in other online markets.

So the outcome seems entirely logical and fair. Sure, etoys.com launched the first toy site but didn't capture much of the "value" of selling toys online. But etoys.com wasn't very good and it got beat out by similar but better sites. Would you rather strengthen our (already fundamentally overbearing) IP laws so that no one else could compete in selling toys online? That's the only way I can imagine to ensure that etoys.com could take much more of the profits and not get out-margined by Amazon and the like.
I think the article makes lots of good arguments for why being de-polarizing is a desirable thing, so I'm not going to attempt to make better ones.

But I think your comment is a really good example in and of itself. You've done the binary thinking thing that the article discussed in detail! I've never met anyone who has no problem with abortion, or anyone who has no problem with torture, but I've met people who think the trade-offs justify limited use of one or the other, which I agree or disagree with to varying degrees. It seems likely to me that you're either not talking to people that think these things, and instead building straw-men to knock down, or you're not really hearing the people you're talking to. (Or, I'll admit, it's possible you know a lot more extreme people than I do.)
Prior to deregulation, American Airlines used to lug around a grand piano in their first class lounges on 747s.
CROs are really expensive, but it's surprising what is and what isn't. An NMR goes for ~$160 (but usually because you have unremovable features like GLP, which you may or may not care about depending on the step). So for some of these things I'm just "calling over a friend who is a professor at X university" and getting a bit of spectrometer time and a grad student.

OTOH, I'm getting xenograft for just about $30k, which I think is about right.

> not everyone in IT realizes that the two fields are qualitatively different in many ways and I think the differences are worth pointing out since they're often overlooked around here...

Totally agree.
There is little net effect. Its discussed in detail above, but the brand pays very little when you search for "nike" and click on the top ad that is "nike.com" Google knows you were going there anyway, and their metrics support it, so cpc is low for Nike but would be insanely high for Adidas.
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Also https://blog.docker.com/2016/02/docker-datacenter-caas/ (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11158909).
I don't have any on hand, but I'm pretty there's been surveys showing teenagers in the US admit it's easier to get cannabis than alcohol. I know that was 100% true when I was in high school. All it took was a phone call to 1 of 10 possible sources who would then deliver it to your doorstep. Getting alcohol meant trying to find someone with an older friend or sibling willing to go out of their way, or driving to the sketchy part of the town next door and hoping that one liquor store would sell to you.
> Would it be fair to say that since I am from America that I should get upset at anyone who wears a hijab for their own religious purposes?

No. Nor, even if by "American" you mean "person other than a Muslim who believes that woman should where the hijab", but the former is neither equivalent to nor does it imply the latter -- there are Americans who were the hijab for their own religious reasons -- is that really parallel to the issue at hand.

Now, if you were such a person -- and a woman -- and someone asked you to wear a hijab to accommodate their religion's prohibition for women being uncovered in the presence of non-related men, then that would be more parallel to (though arguably somewhat more extreme than) the situation at issue.
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Hmmm...interesting point but Google already has an awful lot of music infrastructure in the form of Google Music and YouTube does it not? Would it really make sense for them to purchase Spotify too?
This seems like the same advice YC has been giving for years minus the fact that the market seems to restricting based on the unicorn mess happening which is ultimately probably a good thing in the long term to avoid a bubble and a later collapse. Maybe I've missed the difference between this and the message they had been saying for years now. Though this does seem very solid and something not just YC companies should aim to do. Picking good investors is much more valuable than having a lot of money. Bad investors will give you a lot of money to spend on whatever they tell you spend it on, sometimes good sometimes bad, whereas good investors will give you a little less money and give you the freedom as the founder who may know best to spend it on what you think is best in the long run with some guidance.
You can use any REDIS service on the cloud. An example: https://redislabs.com/. If you are on Heroku there are multiple REDIS plugins.
I think in some of these cases the man wanted the woman to move from her original seat.

In other cases, there was an unwanted delay to travel.

In all cases, one must weigh the perceived harm (delay to 200+ passengers, versus harm to one passenger) against each other. Although to the man, the perceived harm to the man is high, to others, the perceived harm to the man is low. So any alarm over the situation can just be a matter of differing perceptions.

Then there's the question of were the people in the article even upset, or is that just your assumption? I'm not sure all of them were. They certainly thought the situation was remarkable, and they did remark on it, on twitter. That doesn't mean that every one of them was upset. But for those that were, see the reasons above.
>If everybody that just don't like telemarketing (count me in) just politely stop the caller and don't buy the service everything you just said would happen, without burning the poor minimum wage employee that's in the middle of the hate.

Except apparently enough people buy their junk/scams/whatever that it makes it viable to continue to run a telemarketing business. But just because a small percentage of people are into it doesn't mean it's right for them to harass everyone.

So from my perspective, as someone who's not into being telemarketed and who doesn't have the power to make their behavior punishable by law, I may disincentivize their behavior while entertaining myself.
We also hire people that never contributed to open source but that are great people and are open to our values https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/#values
It's my birthday today. This is the gift I would like: The gift of not having to expend energy over the issue of gifts and social reactions to them. Thank you.
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"The point is to get to 'truths' everyone agrees upon."

That is actually a psychological textbook trick - you are more productive in persuasion when you first manage to make your targets agreeing with you. From there you build upon whatever is on your agenda. The important part when doing so in the article's context is to make yourself look impartial, which in itself has an effect of preventing further group tensions.
> They've forced a "public" debate

Didn't Tim Cook force it this time?
There's a lot of interest in manufacturing and logistics (warehouses and trucking). I think that's because these industries are under served for technology in general, and IoT is great fit for their a bunch of their use-cases.
> It's important to articulate why the company will eventually be in a strategically valuable position (i.e. a monopoly).

I find it interesting, and disconcerting, that articulating a defensible competitive advantage is no longer sufficient advice. Now it's, "can you be a monopoly? no? go home". I realize this is a good way to maximize value for investors, but is this a healthy way to grow new companies and build a better society?
> Criminals will be able to do all business and communication with 100% privacy from spying.

No.

Do you know how the police normally operate? There is a victim who comes to the police and says "these people committed a crime" and the police go investigate. They get a warrant based on the victim's testimony/evidence. They plant a bug in the suspect's home/office/car. They send undercover officers to infiltrate the organization. They interview witnesses and find other victims.

All of which can be done regardless of whether they can read your iPhone, which people didn't even have 15 years ago. And a video bug can capture you entering your PIN into your iPhone before they arrest you and confiscate it, so there is also that.
This article was posted yesterday, heres my predictions:

Extremely interested and slightly wary as to how this will affect ppc. My informed predictions:

- CPC increases across the board

- CTR increases across the board

- AdWords loses smaller ad buyers who simply can't compete for a top 3 spot

- More stringent requirements about ad content

- Awareness ads (not directly leading to a purchase or conversion) will be unable to compete on cpc

- Longtail keywords become more important, overall number of keywords brands are targeting will increase

Ultimately I think this helps big brands who can afford top spots. They can afford higher cpcs, and better keyword bid strategies. Google's revenue will increase, but the number of ad purchasers will decrease. Ad quality (if there is such a thing) will become "better" by aligning more with users search intentions (Read: ads looking more and more like organic results).

I work at a digital agency, so these are only 90% bullshit predictions.
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Well, we're getting photons and probably cosmic rays from Sagittarius A, so not that unlikely. :-)

You're right about small mass but macroscopic objects though, since Sag A's rotation is very sub-extremal, its mass is sufficiently high (higher mass means less curvature just outside the horizon), and its accretion structures and jets are sufficiently dim that there is essentially no chance for a rocky object to get any sort of gravity assist, much less to relativistic speeds.

Much smaller black holes are likely sources of "dangerous" gravity assists, but they also usually have accretion structures whose ICS-boosted radiation would probably disintegrate candidate objects.

On the other hand, even a fairly small chunk of rock boosted to near the speed of light would pretty much end Earth. (Time to dig up https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/ :) )
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The JIT Startup: Why we waited 2 years to build a change email form
Python 3 – Function Overloading with singledispatch
Comments like this (from the author in response to another comment): "Also, where is this hunger problem? I keep reading the poor have an obesity problem. Which is it?" makes it very hard for me to sympathize with anything he has to say.
Police already have the authority to draw blood for alcohol-impaired driving. If you refuse, your driver's license is automatically suspended and the refusal can be used against you in court.
I suspected that might be the case, which is why I asked. That's unfortunate, but with further information it looks like the search result ads displayed is highly dependent on whether they think your search was commercial in nature, so I guess I'll see how much it affects me in practice.
Buying brand loyalty, perhaps?
A lesser known effect is that it can also lower your blood pressure. People do faint or suddenly loose balance from time to time
As you say I'm sure Valve saw the warning signs around Windows 8 and the possibility of Microsoft limiting 3rd party stores in some way.

I believe SteamOS probably gave them some bargaining power as a Dell AlienWare gaming machine was the only one Microsoft gave in to letting boot to something other than the Start Screen, it booted to Steam.

This was during the period where PC/Laptop vendors were crying out to be allowed to boot to anything that helped users work out WTF was going on with their new PC :)

Valve are getting developers on board slowly with Steam OS, the new Street Fighter being a pretty big release that has a SteamOS port at launch. They seem happy to play it slow at the moment, as always ;)
On the gripping hand: not owning a bunch of physical things is not the same as minimalism.
REDIS doesnt use http protocol by default, but looks like maybe this could work. http://webd.is/
Hey, I think there's a chance I misunderstood your original comment to which I replied and started what, to me, has turned into a tangentially related discussion. I wasn't actually trying to provide a legally sound and properly defensible definition of what constitutes calling the San Bernardino event a terrorist attack versus other mass shootings. I was merely offering that it is the narrative chosen for discussing the event, as well as advancing a political agenda, regardless of whether its defining merits actually differentiate it enough from other mass shootings to cross the line into terrorism territory—which I think long ago crossed into the nebulous and ill-defined. Personally, I reject this narrative, and see this event as either YAMS[1], or all mass shootings as YATA[2].

That said, I think there's allegedly more to why the Va Tech shooter wasn't called a terrorist in the national narrative and reporting on the event. That excerpt of his statement sounds like the ravings of a lunatic to me. Of course, I think the same of any type of statements that champion murderous religiously motivated intent. I don't read that and get the sense of any desire to effect political change, influence policy, intimidate, etc. There is a certain practical and theoretical argument that can be made arguing all public actions taken by human agents are inherently political. But some actions are more political than others. I don't think that shooter's statements really had the effect of intimidating or coercing the public. I don't think they even registered in the public consciousness.

Anyway, my original point was that this San Bernardino shooting has been thrust into the national consciousness as part of the terrorism narrative because it's a politically convenient message, and because, as you wondered, the ethnic and religious identity of the perpetrators fits that narrative so perfectly. I mean, it was instantaneous. Had the shooters been radical, white Christians, I don't think that would have happened. There would have been news reporting that asked the question, "Is this a terrorist attack?", and then give a no. Holding the Judeo-Christian god as one's source of obligation doesn't yet fit that category.

[1]: yet another mass shooting

[2]: yet another terrorist attack
a second one text to preinstalled one? What would be the use?
That just seems like an excessively uncharitable way to interpret his comment, I'm sure he's well aware of that.

And he's not even factually incorrect. You do not have to pay for drinks in first class, whether you're paying for your ticket or not.

Also noteworthy that on some airlines you can easily consume $1k+ worth of alcohol on a first class flight.
How long would duckduckgo have to grow at its current rate to become an actual blip on Google's radar?

https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html
Where did I say you aren't free to refuse? I just said he's not asking you to adhere to his faith. That's an uncharitable and unreasonable description of somebody making a simple request for a favor. Trying to demonize people who live differently from us with alarmist exaggerations like "He's asking me to adhere to his faith" is toxic to conversation.

I've swapped seats with people tons of times. Never for this reason, but maybe they wanted to sit next to their friend or whatever, and it didn't negatively affect me. It's much more common than having to change your shirt in public. But if you don't want to, that's OK too. My point is just that this guy wasn't exactly starting a new Crusade.
I have seen a couple variants, but none of them have stuck around for long since they ended up being CnC for botnets/malware/etc.

I think it would be safe to assume there are also collision problems in unauthenticated ones as well...
Me too, but there's a huge gap between the often simplified CPUs they teach you on at Uni' and programming for the querks in x86, or any of the buses/peripherals/interfaces.

I didn't learn much more than assembly 101. I doubt I could emulate much real hardware. Certainly not a PC of all things... A gameboy looks more accessible...
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> It seems fairly reasonable that, on air planes non-the-less, that you will encounter many cultures that seem strange to you. Why would that aggravate you?

Isn't that what's going on? If a person can't sit next to another person because of their goofy religious beliefs, then it's their own responsibility. It's unreasonable to throw a tantrum and insist everybody else move around.

They should expect that on an airplane they may encounter other people that may seem strange to them or make them uncomfortable.
One of the local Habitat for Humanity Re-Stores here in Des Moines has a tool library that you can use for $200/year (or less depending on income). I just recently moved into a rental home and am virtually tool-less, so I'm considering it for the upcoming summer.
Still works for me.
Wow, advocating higher education on HN. Feeling bold today?
> perhaps rightly so

I see no 'rightly' in this, at all. The end-game is an abject panopticon that makes the Stasi look like amateurs.

(Regardless of what Google, etc. may collect, corporations do not have guns or the ability to put you in jail. Not yet, anyway).
It's definitely had a big effect at late stages. Early stages may not have been mis-priced, or it just may take longer to filter down. We don't know yet.
I like getting birthday presents that are doing something. Usually my wife takes me on a vacation, or to see a show I really like, etc. It's much better than some object IMO.
Thanks. What if you don't want to manage anything. Is there an interest or a market for "Hashtable as a service" ?
My father hated fridge magnets and resisted for years. Then he remarried, and it started happening, slowly. One year, he bought a very nice refrigerator for xmas. It's completely non-magnetic. I couldn't help but ask, and yes.. it was intentional.
And the cryptosystem might be backdoored by the way you choose the constants. (they are way too many constants to choose from)
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Love to help out and get more kits for schools. Think youngsters should definitely be playing with hardware.
Sounds a bit like the game Civilization!
While I agree they do get lost quickly, there is an "ask" link in the header. I check there every so often, but maybe I am in the minority.
I'm in the "no" camp, personally, but we _did_ inherit a lot of things from OCaml. The initial compiler was written in it, a lot of the syntax and features are inspired by it, and it just _feels_ more ML than Haskell.

Rust may not be a functional language, but it draws heavy inspiration from them.
Yeah, you're missing the point a little. If you want to generate and standardize a random curve (like, in this paper, the "random" version of Curve25519, which doesn't rely on specific magic parameters carefully chosen for speed), you have a big problem: even though your CSPRNG might be perfectly fine, nobody is going to believe that you actually used it, because you can't prove that you did.

Hence: lotteries.
Put yourself in the caller shoes. Would you rather listen a "No thank you" or an automated prank answer?

When we just say no to them we hurt the very foundation of the telemarketing company. When you prank answer them you definitely do it, but you also hurt the guy that's after a (humble) paycheck while doing it.

But I guess the next argument is "they can always just quit" right? Yeah, let's all get together and make a profession miserable because they can always just quit...
From that link: http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/bul...

He says it's BS, but it's kind of his word against theirs. Presumably, if the FBI says one thing and then asks for another, Apple could get the court to put a stop to it.

Like others have mentioned, Apple already have a way to get into any phone, and so far have kept it safe.
http://www.streetbank.com

We were discussing just this at a Cleanweb event last night.
Well, everyone knows, OMG colors are the 'in' thing now ...
Do you worry that Microsoft might threaten you for the Windows 98 image? I don't think they make a cent from it anymore, but big companies and common sense aren't common bedmates.
I love this article, but would love to see some Marketing advice for YC companies....
The real challenge is that you can't easily predict what phenomena will be caused by what rules, and you can't easily derrive what rules will cause whatever phenomena you are interested in.
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I think it is good in scenarios where the problems are sufficiently difficult.
Learning about CPU internals was a huge part of your first year in CS? Where did you go to school?

At my school and every other school I'm remotely familiar with, the knowledge needed to emulate a CPU would be covered in upper division computer engineering courses, and not covered by CS undergrads at all, certainly not in their first year.
"that entity didn't think of every imaginable and unimaginable way one could circumvent a law"

That is factually untrue of the loopholes exploited. Many of these loopholes were put in place explicitly to benefit the cronyists. Others have been in place for some time, but the lawmakers and the IRS don't want to fix them. Government has the power. They write the laws. They even make the rules regarding legal lobbying.

Blaming the corporations that legally lobby and follow the tax laws is like blaming a child who acts like a brat because his parents are crappy parents. You blame the rule makers and those in power a great deal more than you blame those who are just following the rules.