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My father was the divorced, alcoholic, greasy flat-rate mechanic, not the suit wearing lawyer[1]. He certainly wasn't paying for any college; I payed for it... finally ... years after my high school peers had already graduated.

However, I've always been told because I'm white it was easier because, well, I'm white and certainly some doors were opened for me that never would have been otherwise.

My original comment is defining this mentality. Sure it was harsh, but it wasn't to be racist, it was to express ... frustration? There needs to be a better way of describing how some people are privileged and others are not. I mean, in some ways, sure, I was privileged. My father had steady work so we ate and had shelter. Does it mean that anything I've accomplished should stink because I'm white male? But, we can't even talk about how that's not fair because slavery gets brought up. Because the oppression of African Americans gets brought up. Because women don't make as much as men gets brought up. Etc. Anything unfair to white males will never be truly unfair. Any rags to middle class story of a white male will always be tainted with, "well, of course, he's white ain't he"?

[1] He was good to me. I miss him dearly.
> I don't have too much doubts about the government's motives, but rather its competency

From what I've seen its a rocky grey area on both sides. In some aspects the government is competent which is a double edged sword depending on what they are trying to accomplish. If they run IT like they run their post, expect total disaster.
If there's no driver in the equation (no monthly salary to pay), I guess the the incentive will shift towards having more, smaller trucks.
That's a totally different issue. Gypsies lead totally different lifestyles that rub people the wrong way, and I'd be careful to dismiss their negative perception by the rest of the UK population as "racism".

Most people couldn't care less what their race is, but it sure is an easy card to play.
> In my view, for a language that bills itself as safe, there should not exist such things as undefined behaviors. As far as I am concerned, then, based on the advertising of Rust, this is false advertising.

The key thing from the reference [0]:

> "Type checking provides the guarantee that these issues are never caused by safe code."

It's subtle, but I think the situation is that "some segfaults are caused by undefined behaviour, and some undefined behaviour causes segfaults". Neither fully contains the other. One thing I was trying to get across is that a segmentation fault has a very specific meaning, and that meaning is not "bad thing was done with pointers".

[0]: http://doc.rust-lang.org/reference.html#behavior-considered-...
A cursory search reveals that he was charged of "culpable homicide not amounting to murder" on the grounds that he was "suffering from an abnormality of mind ... which substantially impaired his mental responsibility for the commission of the offence", and his appeal against the 20 year sentence failed.

http://www.singaporelaw.sg/sglaw/laws-of-singapore/case-law/...

So yes, Singapore doesn't impose the same mandatory life or death sentences on the mentally ill, but I'm not sure that helps your argument...
It removed "placeholders" and added a selective Sync feature but its not the same. Placeholders experience felt more intuitive. Files that were only available online were marked so you know. I guess the problem started cause a lot of users would not be able to access files when offline and started complaining to their support service. Too bad though I loved that feature.
This is solid economic theory. This will be taught to future generations. This is one of the paradigm shifts that globalization brings.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx_GOM4Jcjo

Reminds me of this.
You are so desperate to justify your thinking (not to me, mind you, to yourself) that you grasp for every straw possible, forgetting what the question was about along the way.

This particular question was about how you formed your opinion about Google using GA data to build advertising profiles. My opinion is formed based on my expertise in mining many terabytes of data and my experience in sourcing this data. Based on that experience I can say that GA data is not of interest to google because it is unreliable and they have better data already. Even if it was, they would have to stop themselves because it is just too damn risky (bankruptcy level risk) to use it.

So my opinion stems from my experience in this very business. And your opinion stems from where exactly? This is what I'm trying to show you. You have 0 idea what you are talking about but insist that you are right. Even further, you outright accuse google of lying when they say GA data is not used unless the webmaster explicitly opts in to share it. Why do they have that control in first place then?

Oh and btw, that quote about relevant search results and ads... you might want to check where it comes from before basing arguments off it. You know, if you want to have a coherent argument and not some tin foil conspiracy theory grasping desperately for whatever it can catch. Checking facts is a good thing, don't you agree?

Anyway, you will either admit it to yourself tomorrow, or you won't. I don't particularly care. I just wanted to see how far you will go in your justification attempt. Remember that just because you are allowed to have an opinion does not mean you must have one.
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Hmm, I haven't thought about it this way.

But I don't think so. While jOOQ does enable a lot of "advanced" language features (like row level type safety across languages, and streaming of such tuples in Java 8 Streams), I still think that it mainly addresses the "masses" - at least those "masses" that profit from a slightly more sophisticated SQL integration than just boring CRUD.

The examples exposed in the linked article certainly aren't every day examples for the masses.

But I personally absolutely agree with you. There are technologies that do enable orders of magnitude in development efficiency. For instance, I'd love to work with Clojure and Datomic. I have a huge respect for Rich Hickey. But I don't think that everyone should, or ever will, use these technologies. In the end, when you have to do recruiting, from your local market, and you need 100 developers, choose Clojure and you'll be screwed.
Well, the feature isn't released yet. I'm sure aspects of it will change based on test user feedback.
I don’t “disagree with his choices.” I find it frustrating that our culture made him feel ashamed of liking his favourite colour. I find it frustrating that he is made to believe something as arbitrary as a wavelength of light is “for girls.”

A child should never feel ashamed of liking something as simple as a colour. That is ridiculous.

> Maybe he's comfortable with his gender and gender roles? Maybe that will help him get a wife someday and you grandchildren. It's not for everyone but maybe it will be for him.

Are you serious? He can get a wife or whatever he wants when he knows what that is. It is amusing to think that traditional "gender roles" would help in any way with that.
Because London is like a country.
You think that one morning drivers will wake up and will be laid off? You think that will happen in a year? In 10?

This is not grounded in reality.
One tweak I'd change: DON'T talk about what you're going to do, but only talk about what you've done. https://sivers.org/zipit
I see what you mean, but let's not criticize them for at least trying.

These companies are behemoths that take a long time to move and adapt. At least they're trying, and hopefully the selection will improve over time. Nobody is perfect on their first try.
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The tradeoff isn't worth it for me.

I wouldn't feel _morally_ safe knowing the state is using such draconian measures to make me feel physically safe—even less so to ensure that my property is safe.

If somebody vandalized my car and got some kind of caning or other torture based sentence I'd pray the court for leniency.

He damaged a replaceable physical object and the state proposes to injure and traumatize him?

I couldn't live in a place that protects my property and buys my physical safety at that cost.
No but all the rest is - allowed into a store without being suspected of being a thief. Allowed to apply to that college at all. Allowed to attend a church with influential people who could help. It certainly could have been worse, right? Could have been in that situation, and been black.
Both. There are two scenarios where I'm staying up until 4am.

1. My three bosses were harassing me all day about deadlines. At home I can't sleep because of the stress: "I'm not going to sleep until I fix this bug because we have a deadline." => useless and unproductive. Net negative productivity.

2. Quiet day at the office. Just had a decent meal with friends. Get home to a quiet house at 9pm. Flip the computer on not even planning to work. "Hmmm... wait a sec this is interesting. I wonder if I could... What time is it? Is that the sunrise?" => likely did something in one night that would take weeks/months in an office setting.
Oh this is cool! I should have checked more pointers. On my machine, the single pointer was always null, and I read up on stack being initialized to zero. I didn't realize the things-before-main could mess up the stack so much.
When I look at a feed with the 'All / Newest' setting, it is showing me stuff that is over 3 years old. Maybe just the view you are using?
This does not appear to be in the spirit of the "Show HN" guidelines [https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html] because there is nothing for users to try out or play with. It appears to be a blog post from last month.
If you're going to talk about what is and isn't a first world country, please define the term. There isn't some consensus the world has reached on what it means.
You can also "start a family" while working for an existing company. People so it all the time on nights and weekends.
See what I did there?

Starting a company isn't the most important thing in the world, especially when you aren't doing anything innovation and when you are just doing it because. Believe it or not, just cause you call your startup "Uber of X" doesn't mean it's innovative and doesn't mean you need to spend time building it.
Your statement would have been true for every election other than the last. In the last election the opposition parties fielded candidates in all but one of the constituencies. The 70% popular vote in what is the most hotly contested election in recent history after the dismal 60% the ruling party got in the previous election is widely seen as an affirmation of the party's mandate.
If I were younger and not married, I could totally see taking a job as a trucker and guiding it on and off the highway, and doing coding or whatever in the meantime. It'd be a chance to go different places and have some adventure, while continuing to do another job that I love.

It's not unlike many college kids taking a job as a security guard and "watching monitors" while doing their homework, etc. (Another thing that I considered, but never actually did.)

Of course, there's a lot more training for truck driving, but I don't see that as a major barrier, given the benefits of extra pay and travel.
Currently, to collaborate on Office-type files, we collaborate on Google drive/docs and then move it to Dropbox. This seems so silly.
Is there a better, more integrated solution?

Wish Dropbox had better Office integration. Currently, it just keeps making copies of a file if two people edit it.
No, people will just slack because they can buy bread. We already saw this in the soviet block.

The human brain works on incentives. Remove the incentive the human is in free fall.
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My point is that all of these are "simple" problems. Oh the truck will identify a plastic bag. Oh the truck will have a cargo manifest and drive accordingly.

But these are all new technologies. Our visual recognition libraries are nowhere near ideal. I said this elsewhere but I will say it here too - our best of the best software can't tell a zebra and a sofa in a zebra print apart. I'm pretty sure that all that LIDAR is seeing is a spherical object on the road, it has no idea what it is.

The same with the cargo manifest - it sounds simple, but no one has a system like this. It would need to be made and implemented, and it takes time and effort - I'm not saying that it's impossible, far from it, but it's one more obstacle to overcome to make this possible.
Somewhat related: how reliable are SSHfs and other fuse filesystems on macs and on Linux these days?

- On the Mac I'm worried about using fuse in general. Stability, reliability, Mac OS X being a hostile environment as its not "blessed" by Apple.

- On Linux I'm more worried about the general nature of SSH as the basis for a filesystem. Which also applies to the running it on a Mac.

The reason I ask is because theoretically you could spin up a t2 micro with a 1tb EBS volume and forget the whole Dropbox thing, mount it wherever you please, whatever.

Obviously there are drawbacks, it's not local (fast), it doesn't have all the collaboration features of Dropbox, etc. but for relatively cold storage (colder than I need on a local ssd) that I want to access somewhat frequently, SSHfs seems like it could be fine.

I'm not sure how easy it would be to corrupt, etc and I'm not sure about the two things I mention above. Hoping someone here knows.
We kind of agree, but from a different angle. I see a product in its entirety: Technology + Community. The latter should extend beyond the technology-affine end user. As you mentioned, Oracle was always better at that.

I wasn't alive back then, I only know from listening to the stories. But I'd say that most Oracle customers are rather happy being Oracle customers, while only a select "elite" regrets what happened back then.
That is pretty much how Hola works. Except that most Hola users don't even know that they contribute their bandwidth.
I can only assume they didn't plan to expand this quickly and would have lost a lot of money by adding "in case we are in this market by then" clauses to the contracts. But yes, it certainly leaves a strange impression.
So don't call it a problem if you don't know it is a problem.
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'Declare JavaScript Anti-National': Sanskrit in IIT Plan Mocked, Criticised
Looks like that spelling took over around 1980

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Sichuan%2CSzec...
The point is that he was saying that groups of white people had the same as people of color, and that's not true. They had it bad, but it's not remotely comparable.
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The computing world is quickly heading towards two different style targets: (1) ones that have a single memory domain inside a smartphone or tablet that infrequently execute CPU-bound or memory-bound tasks and (2) ones that have a NUMA architecture inside a server that often execute CPU-bound/memory-bound tasks.
White privilege is reduced sentencing for white people, as compared to people of colour and things like that.

My personal opinion is not that you should bring yourself down and suffer for people of colour, but just know that you have benefited from these little effects throughout your entire life. As Warren Buffet said, these "snowball" into a pretty comfortable life.

I was a 17 year old non-white guy, minding my own business, and I was detained for matching a description. Who? Why? Nope, just matching a description. I was in the system now. Every time I have to deal with the system, I fight to make sure there are no traces. And every few years, I have to do so. Meanwhile, my white friends who work in the financial industry transport drugs across state lines and never have any issues, even if they are pulled over. I know, because I travelled with them once and I was the only one who was questioned for any length of time.

What the actual fuck?

I mean, it was a nice trip, but seriously? I don't even know where to buy drugs.

This is what life is like for someone who isn't white. Over and over, day in and day out. It honestly gets really tiring.

I'm not complaining, it just makes my success that much sweeter.
The article is talking about automation once the truck is on the highway.

"We still need to create on- and off-ramps so human drivers can bring trucks to the freeways where highway autopilot can take over."
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I don't think the customer of a remote contractor should care much what costs the contractor has. It's the contractor's job to deliver enough value so that they can charge enough to cover their cost of living and make a profit.
Some white people a long time ago had slaves, therefore all white people including those that immigrated just recently are unfairly privileged. Yawn. It's such a nonsensical argument that I'm surprised anyone can even use it in a non sarcastic way.
> you know what? We're doing it wrong.

How about you just call it "privilege" and leave it at that? This skin color labelling is pointless in the context of real privilege.

A "woman of color" who grew up with servants in her birth country, went to private schools, top colleges, etc has a better chance at the C-suite than a Eastern European "white guy" who grew up poor and went to state schools etc.
seeing this upvoted gives me back a bit of hope in HN crowd
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> Accused of being involved in a Marxist conspiracy to establish a communist state, many detainees were tortured and then coerced into implicating themselves and their friends on public television.

Wow! Stalinist tactics against Marxism.
Putting the quality of the article aside that others have alluded to, I think it's relevant to share what I've done to combat my 'laziness'.

I actually started daily vlogging and I'm going through the motion of creating a startup in that vlog, sharing all the successes and failures. So bit by bit I get to create something, move that needle and have the YouTube channel to be accountable to. Only been doing it for a month and a half, but it's given me more energy, I'm learning a lot and helping me reach out to other people to move things forward.

While not for everyone, I think it's important to experiment with techniques and try to find something that keeps you going.
For those on Mac, Slate will do the same thing: https://github.com/jigish/slate
$600? that seems like a lot for a flying selfie cam. teenager girls don't have that much money to spend.
Speaking as someone who served in the U.S. military - this is not how a prisoner should be treated.
I hear you. I remember the days of the internet, before the mass invasion... gopher, usenet, free domain names, telnet BBSes and MUDs, etc.

The old days were better.
I have been trying to learn more about the history of the Israeli/Palestine conflict and so I have a question maybe someone can answer. If Israel constantly tells the world that they are doing everything in their power to be an open democratic sanctuary where everyone is welcome, why are Palestinians governed under military rule?
This is more of a opinion written by a anonymous someone, i see the issue. Kudos on the honesty, until next time ;)
> Assuming I got an easy ride simply because I'm white is a pretty racist statement and I find myself surprised that no one is calling out the author on it.

I wouldn't say you got an easy ride, just that your ride was easier than some others had it?

It might be a cultural thing, but I know that some of my neighbours wouldn't consider me white. Probably because I didn't have the time to shave and I really like my keffiyeh arround my neck and suddenly I might get these looks of "What does this stinking arab do on my street?"

Based on this, I think I agree with the notion that it is my responsibility to change the industry and its bias towards more inclusion. And I don't mean in "we need more quotas" sense, more in "when you see BS, call on it".

I think this is why he mentions "I am making 135 KCHF per year. That was my current salary. How about you? And you? The more we speak out, the less inequality there will be."
Based on this, I think I can empathise.
We pretended that institutional racism wasn't sown into the fabric of our society for decades and did nothing about it. The net effect is that nothing changed for minorities, because we've proven that we won't change our behavior without incentives.

> And that prejudice will amplify if you continue treating people of color differently.

Do you have a source for this? Such policy has real concrete effects with statistics you can point to. You can see the real positive effect it has on certain groups of people.

The only effect on white people I've seen documented is that racists have another bullet point on their long list of talking points to stir up their voter base. It doesn't bother normal people.

As a potential candidate, if you're going home and blaming affirmative action for the reason you didn't get hired, it says a lot about the way you think. Mainly, that you blame other people for your problems, specifically minorities, which is an odd conclusion to come to.
That's partly an effect of being on HN.

In non tech circles - the vast majority of the world - people are pretty famous for measuring risks by perception and not statistics.

The idea of a robotic truck taking away jobs while also being a risk to life? America would take up mass transit before it buys into that system.

Man I can see the headlines and political/ emotional arguments now. Godless SV tech priests rob Americans of the last few jobs they have. 1% and automation, no job left behind.!

It's useful to remember that People refused seat belts until the argument was irrefutable. Hell doctors didn't wash hands regularly until it was drilled into their heads that they were infecting patients.

And when it come to automated personal care - I bet that People will utterly, vociferously, oppose the loss of their agency in controlling their means of movement.

People have romanticized the man and the horse, the man and the bike, the car - but it's because it's a matter of controlling that power.

Selling that to the American public and the world at large is a multi generational effort.
That is a good idea. I use OneDrive because a terabyte is so inexpensive (and C. Rice is not on Microsoft's board of directors), but Dropbox is technologically impressive and I should give them another evaluation.
It's possible that many of those could be discarded without being read. As an example, I'm subscribed to the Best Of Metafilter RSS feed, but if I'm on vacation for a week and come back to over a hundred posts, I just mark 'em all as read.
Netflix: http://www.polygon.com/2015/9/24/9394383/gear-vr-netflix-han...

YouTube: http://lifehacker.com/you-can-now-watch-any-youtube-video-in...

Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/labs/huluvr
Does anyone actually care about Linux binaries? A lot of linux programs tend to be shipped as source.