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God I'm happy Yahoo is dying, that was disgusting to read.
They already are heavily investing in robots to counteract this.
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china is operating on a longer timescale than commercial real estate developers.

on the flip side, there's a housing shortage (symptom: insanely high prices) in many US cities. i don't think that's any more or less strange, it's just an artifact of the system that's in place.

in vancouver there's a housing shortage (insanely high prices), combined with a housing glut (in the form of empty units). that's weird too.
Me too... I suggest to change the title, as it seems misleading.
Google could hold the money for X days (30? 60?) and ensure they respond to complaints within that time so if a new app appears and people complain it can be taken down and the money not sent on. That would prevent the ToS breaking developers from profiting.
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And Google is not going to release that footage, at least not anytime soon.
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are these still time limited? Because I'd rather have the desktop with feature limits than time limits. Having to reinstall the VM because of a 30-day limit is just a waste of time.
But why can't Google tell it's the same damn app that they've banned?
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I'm pretty sure nobody is advocating for warez or exact copy apps, but you need to be careful drawing that line.

Just because to you it's "just another bejeweled clone" doesn't make it so. A layperson would probably think that HN is "just another reddit", and that's not any more valid.

Luckily (or unluckily depending on which side you are on) we already have laws that define this for us. Trademark, copyright, and patents. For better or for worse, that's legally what we have to work with.
And it's still hard to argue with the fact that out of several million miles driven, this is the first serious accident that was caused by the autonomous car (and the failure scenario looks to have been appreciably complex). You won't find a human with that clean of a record.
appropriate username :-)
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I don't remember anything prior to the mid-70's but I have a distinct impression that cities everywhere in the western world were much dirtier and crime-ridden in the past (things began to improve around the 1980s, or Rudy Giuliani time).
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For an extremely simplified example, you have 1 billion people in China, so you need to build 1 billion housing units.

Well, only if you want to have empty units, as there's (almost?) always more than one person per housing unit. How many? Well, that depends on the wealth of the household, on how many children they plan to have, on how many generation will be living with them.

And where should those houses be located? That depends on the (future!) employment opportunities, on the surrounding environment, on personal preferences, etc.

And what kind of zoning should there be applicable? US-style sprawling suburbs? High-density skyscrapers? Smaller towns? How dependent is that on other factors?

What building materials should be used? Is it better to build something cheap for now, betting on improving economic conditions for later rebuilding? Or is a medium-term solution better?

If a layman like me can think of a few dozen variables in 10 minutes, how many are actually there? How can one make a plan that accounts for the particulars of each of the billion?
You keep trying to argue on the basis that you need to teach me something. That isn't a data point. If you could back up anything you're saying, you'd bring data to the table instead of constantly using argument from intimidation attempts. Notice that despite disagreeing with you, I don't need to use that kind of language toward you.

China will still have hundreds of millions of farmers doing nothing but subsistence farming 20-30 years from now, unless the state finds something else for those people to do. The demographic curve is not so sharp that it will eliminate hundreds of millions of those farmers from the labor force in just a few decades.

You didn't explain what happens to 400-500 million farmers if you dramatically increase farming efficiency. I can answer it however: you get a surplus of available working age labor to the tune of hundreds of millions of people.

Losing one million working age persons per year, does not matter at all, if you have hundreds of millions doing nothing waiting on the sidelines. They could lose five million per year and it would not matter at all. For the next several decades they will have a surplus of hundreds of millions of people that have nothing to do. It means your proclaimed theory about there being a problem with China losing a million per year, does not matter, they aren't lacking for working age persons at all, now or decades from now.

They have 400 million working age farmers too many. If they lose an average of 5 million total working age persons per year for decades, that means in 20 years they'll still have hundreds of millions of surplus working age persons too many.
I don't care about the label, I care for a fair comparison of the question, "Would Universities be better off with a simple mix of index funds or using their current approach?" To answer that question, you'd like to figure out what the performance would have been if universities used that simpler approach, and that might include saving a lot of money on the university employees who select managers or make investment decisions at the university. I hope it didn't seem like I thought you should subtract out the costs of random university employees.

(Rereading my words, I can certainly understand that interpretation. Sorry.)
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> you might be happier with a commercial vendor

Might be a viable option.

I just don't know a commercial vendor, that also gives more transparency.

I knew, that there are also fixes from the Debian team, that add to the core functionality. But still my problem is the transparency. It is just very difficult in such a case, to find out the relevant changes, if you lack the time to observe all security changes in the distribution.

When such a thing pops up, like today, it is very tedious work for people like me, to find all the strings involved. So many packages, that can potentially involved, so many applications (eg. WebServer, SSH-Server, ...) and everywhere could be a hole. Here, I would appreciate, some more focused information, about the particular distribution.

I am using Debian because of its good reputation -- but of course if you could point out a commercial distribution with more transparency, it would be worthwhile!
I'll call him out, right now.

Even though I previously criticized[1] talia jane's original missive (not for being ideologically incorrect, or otherwise "out of bounds"; but for being depressingly defeatist and self-negating) -- this was definitely a moment that called for restraint and magnanimity on the CEO's part. But as it went down, his instinctive response (to smash the lowly, disenchanted employee) was incredibly petty-minded and vindictive. And for Yelp's own interests, also depressingly counter-productive and self-defeating.

And on top of that, the assertion that he was somehow out of the loop as to her firing (or that it "wasn't his call") simply lacks credibility. Even if, technically speaking, the decision was left to someone in middle management -- it's the CEO who sets the culture and tone for the environment in which these decisions are made. And when faced with embarrassing public missteps of this sort, strong, principled CEOs always step forward and take responsibility for decisions executed by subordinates acting on their behalf -- rather than point fingers downward and say, "sorry, that wasn't my call."

Being as he certainly must have been aware of the decision, at the time it was being made, and could have easily given his input to it, or chosen to override it, had he wished to.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11154553
London is a real city, an Alpha++ City even [0].

San Francisco, and Silicon Valley, have millions of inhabitants but they are not a proper city. They are a collection of a sizable provincial city (SF) and many "suburb" cities.

This, in my mind, makes the most difference.

By the way, the homelessness issue is mostly in SF and East Bay. If you go down the peninsula, you don't see it much.

Oh, last but not least: the weather in the Bay Area is generally nicer.

[0]: http://www.spottedbylocals.com/blog/alpha-beta-and-gamma-cit...
Daily slaloms around situationally unaware/uncaring moving bodies in street crossings, subway egress zones, ...

Remember kids, this flower of your youth is precious precious precious. Do not waste it glued to a screen.
Yes, it was an autonomous vehicle (with a "test driver" in the car)…there are more details on http://www.engadget.com/2016/02/29/google-self-driving-car-a...

What I find interesting is this comment: Our test driver, who had been watching the bus in the mirror, also expected the bus to slow or stop.
This is where we're at too. We've long been evangelizing Mailchimp and Mandrill in our product, and as a result have sent plenty of customers their way. In fact, our product almost relies on them as a pair.

Now, because of the ToS, we have to remove it from our product and port our users somewhere else...and fast.

We also have to port our own servers to another service, and fast.

I remember the day we finally had enough subscribers to actually start paying Mailchimp money, and now all I can think about is how much disdain I have for them. Unless they reverse course on this issue, we will be shouting "down with Mailchimp" from the rooftops to all of our customers.
Complaining Rewires Your Brain for Negativity
Doing something about it would require more than token governmental policy benefiting the poorest of society and an admission that the current insufficiently controlled system will always destroy some lives. Both ideas are deeply contrary to the current American narrative.

Instead you will get a vocal minority of people saying the homeless choose to live that way or that they are made homeless by rent control or public housing or excess regulation. Since this matches most American's world view, it is accepted without evidence.

It is a society that will always strive to raise housing prices not lower them, more willing to give handouts to defaulting mortgage holders than to give housing to the homeless, and more willing to jail the homeless than to house them. And so the situation worsens as it has for 30 years.

The best SF can do is put endless bandaids on a small part of a national problem.
He'd have access to people. He might know some of the people who's heads would need to look the other way for this to happen.
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I really enjoyed the second film when I first saw it. The scene with Batou invading the ship with augmented-reality map support was amazing.

I watched it recently though, and it just didn't really hold up. I'm not quite sure what it was. Maybe the ideas just weren't as innovative anymore? I think the first film stands up a lot better.
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That's a somewhat misleading headline.

From the article:

Agence France-Presse quoted a Waze official as saying the device setting to warn about areas “dangerous or prohibited for Israelis to drive through” was off.

“In this case, the setting was disabled. In addition, the driver deviated from the suggested route and, as a result, entered the prohibited area,” the official told the news agency.
I feel like SparkPost should get a mention here: https://www.sparkpost.com

edit (more details): The free tier allows up to 100,000 emails
> The thing about JIT languages is that there's no such thing as overall speed of a particular operation; you can only sample current speed on current implementations.

How in the world is that specific to JIT? Have you never heard of a Sufficiently Smart Compiler?
Mashed potato is still mashed potato, even if it was piped out of a tube. It's difficult to imagine how piped mash will result in a substantial increase in the enjoyment of my food. I would think that the food may even need to compromised in texture, and perhaps flavor, in order to accommodate the piping mechanism.
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Its longevity is due to a couple factors I think:

(1) It's stable. No "let's rewrite everything every two years!" It's a bit ugly but once you learn it you know it.

(2) It targets a reasonably stable set of platforms.

(3) It's not over-ambitious. It doesn't try to be its own rendering engine or implement pseudo-style-sheets (I'm looking at you Qt) or do other crazy things. It just wraps a minimum common denominator of desktop UI functionality sufficient to ship a good working application that's not too ugly and is usable.

As such it's great for long lived C++ code bases that need UI functionality across platforms.
Maybe because her post was whiny more than constructive criticism. Also this guy's post is I am richer than Yelp's CEO and quite self righteous. That being said at least he brings up more numbers.

This stood out: "Half of my staff is under 30"

I look forward to a medium post "Why isn't anyone calling out nxVenture Capital's CEO for age discrimination!"
The risk of not having ammunition is factored in to the price in this example. For the same reason, I may pay 2x for marketing collateral I need for a trade show from a local supplier instead of purchasing online because the risk of not having it for the show is reduced. The price of goods in a free market is never necessarily the same in all contexts where transactions take place.
I didn't need any more reason to think that high end dining is silly, but now I have it.
Imagine it like you're looking through a keyhole at a computer monitor.

It's setup so that you can only see the very last letter in what you think is a really long sentence someone has typed into a text editor.

With your bluetooth keyboard you move to the beginning of the line and repeatedly hit the spacebar, taking note each time what the new letter is that you can see through the keyhole.
I just got a notification that new builds for CentOS 6 and 7 were being pushed out to the mirrors now..
There is a recent v8-users mailing list thread on this exact topic. Here's one possible explanation on perf differences between `let` and `var`: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/v8-users/hsUrt4I2D98/ELsfO1e...