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No, I'm assuming the current model of Wikipedia, which is inbetween. In the current Wikipedia model it is not okay for some other pages to not meet standards, even if it's all localized in one subject. That concerns Wikipedia as a whole, and not just that zone. That necessarily means that those from outside of that area of expertise will be involved.
Interesting... I thought that was the worst bit, at least in terms of substance. The government had raised the point that Apple [claims to?] own the software on the iPhone, and that they had to take the ill effects of that ownership along with the beneficial. I'm not so sure about that legal argument, but Orenstein decided to ignore it completely and offer humor instead. It was a blemish on an otherwise-excellent analysis, although I can't help but feel that he's put rather a lot of his personal views into this order.
I think what corysama is getting at is that the "mantle of edgy script kiddies" Anonymous is very different from the "human flesh search engine" Anonymous.
Agreed. We setup our bank account to require two signers to approve any wires, and they gave us a Key Fob for two factor authentication for wires.

As the company scales, we may add other people like a CFO to the bank account, but we will always require two people to authorize wire transfers.
This shallowness is my biggest pet peeve about science fiction. It irks me especially in novels, because in that format the author has room to flesh things out.

I find older science fiction especially to seem to be made from cardboard cutouts. I couldn't make it through the first book of Asimov's Foundation series for that reason. A masterpiece in the estimation of many, but unbearably simplistic and shallow to me. A story stretching across a galaxy and hundreds of years, and nothing seems to be happening in that galaxy except the minor events driving the main characters forward.
There's also the original manga _Ghost in the Shell_ by Masamune Shirow (first published back in 1991), and it's two sequels _Vol 2. Man-Machine Interface_ and _Vol 1.5. Human-Error Processor_, published in 2001 and 2003 (years later in the US). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_%28manga%29

Like a lot of GitS media, they're unique and don't mesh perfectly with the others, but if you like SAC, you'll probably like them. A lot of scenes are echoed between the various OAVs and the manga, especially the first.
The world's most affordable laptop that doesn't suck is the Thinkpad you buy on eBay for $95 and install Debian + xorg + openbox on.
The artists used, I believe Photoshop, to create their textures, and Illustrator for cleanup.

In Maya, textures were dropped onto planes, rigged, animated and exported via fbx (the pipeline was very similar to how we would have done it with Spine, with Spine exporting to JSON + Unity Runtime, while we imported the fbx directly into Unity).
Don't buy cables or chargers off Amazon or eBay at all, regardless of price. Unless they are shipped and sold by Amazon - not a third party seller. There is more fakes on those two sites than the real deal.
The main tax benefit of options is that you don't have to pay taxes until you exercise them (convert them into real stock). So even if you get the options at a discount then you don't have to pay until you want to convert them / cash them in (i.e. cost to exercise is $15 and the value per share when they are granted is $20).
Would need more drivers. I suspect personnel are the largest cost.
Pretty cool stuff David. We deal with audio as well. it is basically an audio streaming web API for developers.
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If they're getting multiple non-wisdom teeth pulled before age 30, methamphetamines are likely a big part of their lifestyle.
Maybe Marissa Mayer should have shown such a gesture of confidence too to the core Yahoo business;)
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... and they've shut down. How predictable.
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin is an excellent "near future" sci-fi that focuses on humanity's context and individual humans identifying with humanity. A good translation is available by Ken Liu.
SOA is not the antonym of 'monolithic'. The author is tilting at a straw man of his own devising.
Then, could you explain what Pxtl meant by “a Klein bottle is a 4d moebius strip”?
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"because inevitably an earthquake is going to make a self driving car crash where nobody could have prevented it"

Maybe not. On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 8.9 earthquake hit Japan.
The first seismometer to detect it (out of 92 in the system) was on Kinkazan Island, just off the eastern coast of Japan. Each seismometer has some compute power and is constantly computing a hazard level based on the waveforms of earth movements. The Kinkazan unit did what it was supposed to, and sent an emergency shutdown signal to the Shinkansen high speed rail system. Not through the signaling system; the circuit breakers at power substations were immediately tripped and power to the trains cut. The trains treat a power cut as an emergency stop situation and apply the brakes hard. All trains stopped safely.

[1] http://www.railway-technology.com/features/feature122751/
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Let DEBUG be a compile time constant, and the optimizer will remove the check.

What do you feel is gained with "const int DEBUG" over "#define DEBUG"? While most compilers will do what you say most of the time, I haven't encountered a significant downside to the macro approach.

I also like that I can have a makefile where "make debug" adds "-DDEBUG" to the compiler command line and appends "_debug" to the executable name. With the const approach, is there an easy way to automatically generate both debug and production executables?
Ask HN: What are best practices for implementing app analytics?
I'm building two apps currently. The first is iOS and we're being very precise about what we track with Google Analytics so we can determine precise ratios/rates of change etc. We're a team of three. For the second product (iOS, Android, Windows), we're slapping tracking on EVERYTHING, with a few specific metrics in mind and figuring the rest out later. That team is 25 including a GA implementation specialist. I see arguments for both methods but which is the better practice?
Then simply hike the difficulty way up afterwards.
That is nice, but why not Hypothesis?
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interesting read. i started using go for small api integrations, server-based networking work - i like the language - i have to admit it is ugly though
If your users set failglob in their shells, they will have to type the less convenient "make '?'" or "make \?".

And regardless of whether they do or don't, if they are in a directory with a single character file name, they will have to escape it too...
Ken MacLeod has some really good work in this vein. I haven't read the Engines of Light trilogy (which wouldn't pass your near-future filter, anyway), but the Fall Revolution series, and most of his stand-alone novels, do some really interesting things in just the neighborhood it sounds like you might enjoy. (Learning the World, while not near-future, is one of my favorite SF novels, full stop, and absolutely my favorite "first contact" story ever penned.)

His contemporaries (geographically, as well as thematically) Richard K. Morgan and Adam Roberts are probably also worth checking out.
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Cool! I've mostly switched to neovim these days (Even wrote a blog post about it: http://patrickmarchand.com/posts/neovim-tuto.html)

Thanks for the good work.
My first session:

I have to admit that the idea is rather clever. A writing app that forces you to continue writing without pause, and terminates your session if you don't complete. That's a pretty strong incentive, if you ask me.

One of the problems I often encounter with writing is encountering writer's block. I have a general idea of what I want to say, but I'm worried that the way in which I present it will not be ideal, or that the text will be confusing to the reader. These concerns hold me back from writing as much or as quickly as possible.

One thing I've noticed with this app is that it doesn't force you to keep writing as much as possible, as such, but rather that you keep working. Editing counts as activity, and thus going back to revise what you have written is a valid way of keeping the app alive. And although the penalty for pausing too long is that it destroys everything you have written, you can still select all and copy to the clipboard, so you have the text around so it can be pasted into another app.

I think this app is a fantastic idea. It's a great way to put on the pressure necessary to get work done, avoiding the distractions of meandering off to look up references, getting lost reading other material. It really forces you to think hard and actively penalises you for not doing so.

I've now completed the five minutes. I'm pretty impressed with that because normally I wouldn't be able to get this much written without an enormous amount of motivation. Usually I lack the focus necessary to be this productive. Thankyou!
I feel the same problems with scaffolding / boilerplate, but I'm not sure I want to bring in Ruby / Cucumber to run my acceptance testing. These are just as easily written in Go too.

Liking all the rest :ok_hand:.
Dentists have a code of ethics just as any other doctor. Any legitimate dentist would have cared for the patient since it was an emergency situation. Most, again legitimate, dentists would have worked with the patient to write it off or do the work pro bono. They're humans like the rest of us and many of them care for their patients deeply. There are those that ruin the reputation for the upstanding, but that doesn't represent dentists as a whole. I think you're conflating two exclusive ideas here. Keep in mind dentistry is one of the few areas of practice in the United States that will provide estimates up front, prior to treatment. Dentists are one of the easier areas of health care to "shop" comparatively.
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I've been cycling as a primary mode of travel for about 10 years now in LA and in the Mountain View area. So pretty broad depth of experience from bat shit insane metro traffic to the bucolic in comparison suburban commuting.

Car drivers are orders of magnitude more of a threat to my safety than buses. Buses are far more predictable and tend to change their vector of travel more gradually when they do change. Also, the drivers tend to be much more alert and aware of their surroundings.

Also, in general and particularly during commuter traffic, they really aren't that much slower aside from the stops.

I've also never, ever had a bus driver intentionally try to harm me in a bus (like trying to 'muscle' me off the road). This has happened on multiple occasions with car drivers.

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I'd also like to mention I love the google cars. They're just so predictable and courteous. And in general, they just follow the rules.

For example, at a stop sign that a human driver reaches first. They have the right of way, but they want to be polite so they'll try to wave a cyclist on...then start to go...then stop and wave....then start to go. There's nothing more dangerous to a cyclist then a driver not following the rules and behaving erratically.

Google car? Stops. Waits. Goes. No fuss. I have seen the older models get "stuck" and wait longer than normal. Though usually this is when other drivers refuse to go before the google car.
Psycho-Pass is a lot like the GITS anime, with a side of Minority Report. Not quite identity stuff, but still classic sci-fi concepts in a near future setting in the form of a police procedural.

It spends much more of its time on multi-episode story arcs, and does them better than GITS does, but doesn't do as well at one-off episodes. For reference, I thought the one-off episodes were the stronger part of GITS; if you disagree you'll enjoy Psycho-Pass even more than I did.
What's your plan to avoid the issues of not enough users making the extension pretty much worthless? There have been numerous attempts of this exact thing before.

There are so many unique urls that finding another user who have commented on that specific one will be more or less impossible.
There is also Counterparty: https://counterparty.io/
Dig holes or build forts on public property? Sleep outside overnight? Plant your own flower/herb/vegetable garden? Build bike jumps? Shoot arrows? Generally you're not even supposed to climb the trees, much less build in them.

And bicycles are great kid transportation...
I would LOVE a citation to read on that study you mention (or anything matching the description if no one knows the exact study)

Enough so I might actually pay for access to a journal in order to get it.
I find anything cyberpunk very good "near-future" literature. Currently reading "Ready Player One" (Ernest Cline) and watching Caprica which are both about AIs and VR. Seeing much VR (ex: HoloLens) on HN frontpage lately adds to the fun of it. If it's your kind of stuff, you can try this list from GoodReads https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/487.Best_of_Cyberpunk
It sounds like this happened too close to the intersection for parking to be legal. If I see a car stopped on the right side of the road at an intersection signalling a r right turn, I don't assume it's parking, I assume that it's stopped for a pedestrian in the crosswalk.
Mh, that seems like it would move the problem to now be a conflict between bike and bus passengers
Well either run the swf file in the git repo or compile it yourself (Youll need the openfl library)

Fair warning, it's pretty rubish, being my first experience building a game and having used no actual game focused frameworks like haxelflixel.
@harj - How do you feel about granting cash bonuses to employees at pre-determined intervals to cover the tax cost of exercising their options? It seems like that would solve a lot of these issues, but also give the employee the flexibility to keep a small amount of cash if they'd prefer that over the risk of owning stock.

An example: I join a $5,000,000 Series A startup with a 1% equity grant that vests evenly over four years. At the end of each year, I get a $5000 bonus for the purpose of paying taxes on exercised options. It's a bit more than the tax cost for the first year, and likely a bit less in the later years, but after 4 years I've been given $20,000 which should be enough to cover most of the tax burden. If I leave at the end, I still have a 90 day window to exercise them and the money in the bank to do so. I could just keep the cash, exercise them at the end, or exercise them for a cheaper cost each year.

That doesn't seem too unreasonable for post Series-A startups cost wise. An extra 5k a year is nothing compared to the cost of a developer overall.
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You are turning this discussion into a political debate for what reason?
It's interesting that almost all the comments are related to housing costs. If Silicon Valley dies as the premier tech hub it will be because there wasn't enough done to develop housing for a growing population. That would be such a shame.
I have super-glued lead fishing weights into the base of my desk VoIP phone (a Yealink sip-t28p) to give it more heft on the desk and stop it from sliding around when bumped.
Gee, I can't imagine the event to which you might be referring here.
Because they're not true facts! They're bullshit advertisements, exploiting Wikipedia's cachet and, more importantly, their super high position on Google SERPs. These are people abusing one of the most important resources on the entire Internet for fucking spam.
And yet Nimlang had to fight for over a year to get a page that could survive the deletionistas.
blackhaz didn't say it, but is probably thinking there are hundreds of cars per bus. My mental image was a bus with 10-20 people, vs. 500 cars (in that 20 minutes)
that doesn't seem logical to me. I can format ntfs and hfs partitions (and many others) on linux.
For $150 I would rather buy a NUC sized thing with VESA mount and put a small, fast M.2 SSD in it. Also it will likely have a proper 1000baseT NIC in it which is far preferable to any form of 802.11n/ac.
This was published in May of 2015; I'm not sure if that makes a difference.
Where I live the election booths open before retail trading hours begin, from memory, a full two hours before the bulk of retailers open. And voting takes like ~15 minutes at the worst of times, so even these have the opportunity to vote on the day.
It's not usually an issue, though it does require having norms that both pedestrians and bicyclists follow. In Denmark, at least, there are two kinds of bus stops. At ones like this one, which have an island between the bike lane and road, passengers cross the bike lane whenever there's a break in bike traffic, and wait on the island for the bus. Then actual bus loading/unloading is directly to the island and doesn't cross the bike lane. In other cases, where there isn't a waiting island, passengers wait on the sidewalk and do have to cross the bike lane to board/unboard. In those cases, there's a zebra stripe painted on the bike lane in the area where passengers are supposed to cross, and bicyclists must stop before the stripe whenever a bus is present with open doors. So in those cases a bus stopping does interrupt bicycle traffic, though not by the bus actually entering the bike lane. That looks like this: https://www.google.com/maps/@55.6754034,12.5457476,3a,75y,16...
Beat me to it. The SAC series is heady, intriguing, creative, imaginative, political and amazingly well written. I know anime has some connotations, but really if you like Philip K Dick style sci fi intrigue, it's a worthy watch.
I've struggled for a long time with the deletionism/completionism divide. I was initially strongly completionist for the reasons many others have said: this could be the repository of all human knowledge, no matter how trivial, and why would we give up that dream? To save on hard disk space?

But my viewpoint these days is that Wikipedia's size has the same kind of problems that code size does. More code isn't bad in itself. After all, if that code doesn't interact with your code, you can just ignore it. Something like a zillion-line OO project with tightly defined interfaces gives you that property.

However, there is an inevitable maintenance burden that comes with the size of your project. If you want to change code conventions, or update some library that is used throughout the codebase, or even just try to keep the project to a certain standard, those actions are all difficult in proportion to the number of lines of code.

In Wikipedia's case, they don't even have access to the same kinds of push-around-huge-mountains-of-code tools that developers can use to manage this problem. They have tools, sure, but a fundamental part of Wikipedia's model is that it is unstructured (or at best semi-structured) data, just one big text field, and so any automated transforms are necessarily limited.

So Wikipedia makes up for its fuzzy data model by just throwing people at the problem. For it to be the sum of all human knowledge means it needs proportionally many editors to maintain that knowledge. If there ever could be enough editors to do that, and if there could be a structure that would allow them to organise themselves, I'm not sure Wikipedia is it.

The problem is that Wikipedia can't regulate the number of volunteer editors in the project. If the encyclopedia gets too big for the editors to manage, large chunks of it will just atrophy and there'll be nothing they can do about it. Worse still, editors will leave because they are unable to handle the burden which only makes the problem worse.

So I'm not sure that completionism is actually feasible, at least not with the structure as it is now. I still dream of that repository of all knowledge, no matter how trivial, but I just don't know how we get there.
I was born with Hepatitis C. The whole situation is frustrating to me. For me in the US, insurance won't cover the drug unless I am in a category that is considered to be in great need of it (liver damage, etc.). So at this point I have to wait until my liver starts being damaged or the price comes down.

I understand the need for rationing given the pricing, but it's still difficult for me knowing that a cure exists but there's no way for me to obtain it. Perhaps I should consider medical tourism...

EDIT: After reading the prior authorization guidelines more, looks like I would be approved if I took up intravenous drug abuse or sex with high-risk males! Looks like I have other options :)
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That storm drain is way too close to the intersection to be a legal parking area according to the rules of the cities I'm familiar with. It's close enough that I would typically assume a stopped car signalling a right turn is waiting for pedestrians to clear out of the crosswalks. I wouldn't expect a car in the AV's place to swerve left, but I would definitely be looking at it as active traffic, not a parked car.
There's always an exception to the rule.
It's interesting to observe the highly varying amount that other cars will allow for merging. Merging onto the freeway during a busy day (maybe 35MPH traffic), I tried to merge and the car I was planning on going in front of moved up until their bumper was about a meter from the vehicle in front of them and leaned on their horn. "I technically have the right of way in this situation and by God, I won't yield it to you!"

This was a situation where there were about 40 cars merging onto the freeway and they mostly just do a fairly standard zipper merge.
Its nice to see the other side, but you are still messing with my bottom line, and it really pisses me off that politicians knowingly flood the market and make my degree not as useful as I thought it was going to be when I pursued it. No its not a crime you were born some where else I have plenty of colleagues who are amazing people of the sort but it is a crime that the people who are suppose to represent me are throwing me under the bus when we supposedly elected these people.

So when the time comes and they throw you under the bus maybe you will understand why people are not happy about politicians who are blatantly influenced by those with deep pockets.
I'm much less elegant:

Shit. I've wasted enough time today, but YOLO. I have no idea what the purpose of this thing is like seriously? Why do I need this, I hope the author/screator is trying to get onto techcrunch in order to earn a whole lotta $$$ from YC< Senoqua and Andressen Hortolowolloiz? if thats a thing

Arf! I don't know why there is a wquaetion mark after hororloworitzs. I think its suopposed troo be andresson horowitzz but screw it, sounds like another rich guys name.

I have so manyu fucking grammatical and spelling wrrors that this shit aint worth it anynmore. I'm done, like seriously. I should be working on my blog but na..

ol I'm done with over thrree minuites to spair
there, happy noe? I can only type at a pittiful 41 wpm which is super slow, but then again there was an optiob for a whole fucing hour

and now i'm looking at my grammarly extention and I apparantly have 36 fucing errors in this thing. No its 20. Damn, I'm dumn.See, I cant even spell dumb.

I guess I should reside(???) and go back to looking at this AAron fellow. He seems really interesting. It's sad how he got screwed over badly despite him contributing a lot ex
If the company is more valuable a year later, with good prospects, then the size of the low price of the original grant (which will now vest monthly via standard terms) provide an incentive for staying. So could an additional performance grant, or salary increase.