skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's impossible to prove that this is impossible, because you can always claim that I wasn't targeted for some reason. I have however tested it myself several times and never found any difference when looking at the same site cookieless and cookied—at the exact same time.

That being said, a lot of people have done testing of this and found no evidence of repeated cookies specifically leading to higher prices. Here are some of the links I've found:

* http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/columnist/seaney/2013/0...

* http://blog.getinvisiblehand.com/2011/04/08/ryanair-manipula...

* http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/08/ask-lh-will-deleting-co...

I'm not disputing that price discrimination happens. Just that by far the biggest determinant of it is time, as airlines constantly publish and unpublish different fare buckets.

In fact, what I suspect is happening when people see lower fares is just caching. All OTAs heavily cache prices in search results and then only fetch the updated price once you drill into results. I could easily imagine a scenario where the prices has actually gone up, but users in incognito (who haven't drilled down yet) see the old, outdated price.

The notion of specific price discrimination on specific users by cookies doesn't make sense though. For one thing, I don't see how it could possibly work technically. Information on airline prices flows in direction—airlines are constantly telling aggregators the latest prices/fare buckets, which the aggregators then display to users. Aggregators don't make a request to the airline for pricing every time you search, so how would they even know to update your price based on previous activity?
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I find that pointlessly pedantic. By the same measure, languages that don't offer bignums don't offer integers. Even Lisps need to implement closures in one way or another, and you may be surprised to see how they actually do it.
Just to clarify my comment in case it comes off overly negative:

I don't think go is a bad language as such. I just think representing it as an alternative to C, a systems language, is misleading.
I also don't get it. I've literally never seen a job ad in my area a single time that needs lisp or lisp-based languages, and the only time I ever see it mentioned is by insanely devoted people who love spending dozens of hours learning a bizarre language that nobody else uses.

It reminds me of Esperanto a bit, it might have some nice ideas but it will never take off. I've yet to hear a succinct, practical argument as ot why I should take the dozens of hours to learn lisp or any of its derivatives as someone working as a non-academic.
It's mostly been 10MB apps, with games going larger and normal apps being significantly smaller.
Common Lisp has static types.
Yeah man in my class 90% of the kids got 5s.
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The chart literally is about deciding whether OpenGL is a proper alternative. Maybe you could add some substance to your statement?
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Non-paywalled: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3591000/How-CIA-got-...
I had a look at a Metal tutorial [1], which does the same initialization as the Vulkan tutorial. Indeed, it has similar concept, but is also simpler (partly because it is written in Swift, not C++).

I wonder if anyone has written a wrapper, which would be at the same level as Metal, but run on top of Metal and Vulkan. That would be something I'd like to use!

I still think Vulkan is great. Now, we need to start building libraries on top of it. The nice thing about very low-level APIs is that it is possible to write higher-level APIs on top of them. The opposite isn't really possible.

[1] https://www.raywenderlich.com/77488/ios-8-metal-tutorial-swi...
just took a look at stockfighter.io, it does a decent job of trying to mimic the stockmarket but there are some thing which would require a little bit of tweaking. if the basic goal is to practice stock trading 'paper trading or demo accounts' will be the best, plus they allow you to program the real terminal robot to check your stratergies. there are several out there if someone want to look, but in my opinion XM trading has the best one yet.
I am pretty sure India would be building its own devices, OSes , search engines, social networks etc if the govt gets more protectionist. There is no reason this can't happen overnight.

It has an endless supply of cheap labor and high end talent.

It (protectionism) has worked well for them in the auto, pharma, telecom sectors where the local companies are market leaders despite serious competition from the west.
I don't see any C++ there, besides a file extension (I might be wrong)
Ah, so C++ pointers, even with "smart pointers" is still complicated and massively error prone.

I thought that's sort of what they were meant to fix. Apologies, haven't coded in C++ for several years (when auto_ptr still roamed the Earth). But it doesn't inspire confidence reading things like this that we've made much progress...
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> Ruby is not a systems language

Ruby can be used for everything go is used for. It will just be slower.
Thing is, land is expensive in cities, because everyone must live there. If you're free to move to anywhere you want without losing your income, suddenly the city landlords are competing with vast amounts of very cheap land.

(Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of the Land monopoly, but I don't think it's a real threat to UBI)
A bit of a sidenote but I completely disagree with your dismissal of purely electric cars.

I drive a 2016 Kia Soul EV and the car is just plain awesome. It drives way better than any ICE car I've driven and is just a complete joy to drive daily. The only point I agree with is that the range is still a bit lacking at the moment (I get about 100 miles of highway traffic out of it, 120 miles in city traffic.)

Then again, where I live (The Netherlands) the density of the public charging network is already pretty good, so I can usually charge it with a public charger whenever I park somewhere. And there's a network of fast-chargers along our highways [0].

I've also test-driven a VW E-Golf and BMW i3 and both are solid cars (though imho the Soul is a better car for a better price.)

My hope for subsidies like this (even if they also apply to plug-in hybrids) is that they help make the public charging network in Germany and surrounding countries (like mine) better.

[0]: https://fastned.nl/en
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That's less of an assembly issue and more of a compiler/calling convention issue.
Assembly allows you to pass parameters on the stack or in registers.
Calling conventions simply define a protocol for doing this consistently.
> It doesn't matter really, Go is a popular, productive, useful language.

Yes it does, definitions matter or you end up with marketing buzzword like "serverless". Was calling Go "a system language" a marketing ploy? that's the question.
Oh, the niceties of C Windows programming

I wonder how anyone got anything done in that time. Really

And the wrong (but very common) type of Hungarian Notation - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html

Edit: I don't get the downvotes
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> but can't find a single MUST HAVE piece of code that makes me say "I have to learn this".

Because Common Lisp isn't a better language anymore.

When Lisp was big in the early 80's, assembly, COBOL, FORTRAN, C and some Pascal pretty much ruled the day. Compared to any of those, Lisp is deeply magical.

So, the real question is why did such a magical language lose to the upstarts that all appeared in the late 80's and early 90's: Perl, Python, Tcl, Lua, etc.

Answer: files, strings, and hash tables. All of those languages make mangling text pathetically easy. Perl is obviously the poster-child for one-liners, but all of those make that task pretty darn easy.

Lisp makes those tasks really annoying.

Just take a look at the Common Lisp Cookbook for strings:
http://cl-cookbook.sourceforge.net/strings.html

Why should any beginner willingly subject themselves to that kind of verbosity?
Everything you can think of, including infiltration of forums like hacker news, they are doing. Joining the security services will be the definition of freedom in the future.
> I suspect we will see more of this craft production of nice things at costs a large multiple of the cheapest mass-produced items.

That’s pretty much the business model of several european countries even – high tech, and nice things manifactured.
They have a Google in terms of making money, they don't have a Google in terms of usefulness. The search engines in China are unusable; my Chinese colleagues are far less efficient than we are because of it. When i'm sitting next to them with my SSH lynx to Google, I find answers fast which they cannot. Baidu is just only bought links (inherently bad quality) and Bing is, well, just a really bad search engine. That's not only me though; my wife and I are learning Chinese and we use songs, tv shows and movies a lot for that; when we ask 'can we use X' to the teacher (who is in Hangzhou) she always answers 'I searched but cannot find it' while the first hits on Google are it it including a video on Youtube (not in China) or Tudou (in China). Not because it's banned but because the search doesn't work.

Besides that you are right; especially things they do better; they have Facebook but the messenger (Wechat) is really were it is at; I use Wechat now instead of Messenger and it is superior even when you are not in China. Mainly because it just always 'works' and it's always fast unlike Messenger. Didi is better than Uber in many ways especially for the Chinese; for foreigners it's fine but Uber is more convenient for us as support is in English and most drivers for Uber speak a bit (enough) of English in China while the Didi ones speak no English at all usually.
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For deploys I use PubStorm (www.pubstorm.com). Super easy and straightforward deploys for static sites.
This will only happen if we keep up with the current insanity that is corporate capitalism. There must be other ways. We could freeze prices for instance.

If we don't find a solution, inequality will rise until we get a violent revolution, or a police state to keep the poor in check. I think neither of these outcomes is much better than the "communism" we got in the USSR.
I blame Google, their search is so outdated, it's barely functional, why can I not visualise results, sort sites by 'uniqueness', search a domain (sport, education, music), search by feeding it things I like, it's just an ad sales engine, any improvement that would get users to unique and interesting stuff is time they don't spend googling and seeing more ads, ripe for disruption!
Life is easy when there's an unambiguous single owner. Shared pointers are really for the harder situation where ownership is distributed. I prefer to use arenas if possible, when objects live in a complicated graph.
I spent far more time reading about this than a sane person ought to. I was all raring to make procedural arguments about obtaining warrants, and another crazy tangent about Katz.

But really, It's easy. Put the audio online. Make it all public. Obviously, there should be some time constraint, can't expose an ongoing investigation. Maybe a year after charges are filed? Perhaps a year after trial, to avoid messing with jury pools.

I think this is a pretty great general policy. Police record whatever they want. If the police overstep and record stuff that turns out was private, the people are free to sue. Seems like a nice self balancing amount of surveillance.

Secretly stepping on peoples privacy rights is pretty much consequence free. Publicly stepping on peoples privacy makes the line very bright, and easy to avoid crossing. It also plays neatly into the "honest man has nothing to fear" trope.
Agree on the copy operator, not only for spores, have wanted it more than one time in other languages too.

Not sure how the this binding should work though. If calling a method you need to a) dispatch on the runtime type and b) provide the instance to the method when called.
Or maybe you just need to feed it into a voice to text engine, and then grep through the output for interesting bits. I'm quite sure that the NSA capabilities in this regard are quite beyond what is publicly available.
Very true. Now you mention it, I wonder why, given the awesome power of extensibility, this hasn't been improved? Shouldn't it be trivial to write a DSL that makes string handling almost, if not as good as, Perl et al?
Basically the internet is selecting for the people who are the opposite of you. Their voices, ideas and influence is being amplified. Unfortunate.
Personally I'd rather not know the rest of the story than give the Daily Mail any advert impressions.

http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2016/05/15/Bombshell-CIA-sp... is the only other link I could find, don't know if DM has more info but given it's sourcing The Times I wouldn't be surprised if DM is too.
Not really an "admission", he was guilty of the crime for which he was charged.
> It does not support different sized drives in a raidz

% mkfile -v 64m /var/tmp/d0
/var/tmp/d0 67108864 bytes
% mkfile -v 96m /var/tmp/d1
/var/tmp/d1 100663296 bytes
% mkfile -v 128m /var/tmp/d2
/var/tmp/d2 134217728 bytes
% sudo zpool create -f pool0 raidz /var/tmp/d0 /var/tmp/d1 /var/tmp/d2
Password:
% zpool status
pool: pool0
state: ONLINE
scan: none requested
config:

NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
pool0 ONLINE 0 0 0
raidz1-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
/var/tmp/d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
/var/tmp/d1 ONLINE 0 0 0
/var/tmp/d2 ONLINE 0 0 0

errors: No known data errors
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Transfers are instant in the UK now, and have been for a few years.
And Racket. And Shen.
I think you miss the point, the OP was mentioning the property that in most languages, closures whose outer variables they are bringing into scope stay in scope (even if the outer function ends). In C++ they expire (is what I got from his comment, anyway).
He allocates memory with new/delete and passes arguments with references among other things.
Build a legacy. TheMuse (YC W12) is hiring
One trick is to choose a scapegoat food that you don't care too much about, preferably something novel (e.g. strong liquorice might work). This has been shown to reduce the risk of aversion to normal food. [1]

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/3677112/
If there's money to be made, Oracle will make defending ZFS their business, regardless of the source of the implementation. Look at what's happening over Java with the Oracle vs. Google court cases:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/05/round-2-of-oracle...
Wow, that's pretty abhorrent of Digiday. It's a true dark pattern.

You have no mail there. Certainly not one message. They're blatantly lying to users in an attempt to get emails.
I imagine you exhausted, lost deep in the Kalahari.

With a roar of frustrating you hurl your desk globe into a ravine. Should've brought a map.
Unused RAM is wasted RAM.

Gmail has an internal behavior that adapts its memory usage on available memory. It may fail in some specific situation (short and wide memory leak), but as a whole the idea is to use RAM as much as possible to make gmail faster.

And yes, gmail lacks of a "low memory consumption" button for those situation where automatic memory usage detection fails.

There is video of google explaining this voluntary behavior but I can't find it unfortunately.
Well, I feel like an old man telling kids to get off my lawn, but this syntax looks ridiculous. :/
Not sub-25k but the Kia Soul EV looks to be around 29.000€ and is a way better car imho than the i3 and e-golf. The 4k subsidy brings it just under the 25k mark.

Disclaimer: I've test-driven all three and now 'own' a 2016 Kia Soul EV.
> Clojure is running enterprise tools around the world.

That's a really weak argument. Java is used orders of magnitude more in enterprise, and you don't see anyone proclaiming that as the pinnacle of language design.
Are you not romanticizing it and projecting your own beliefs? There are other lots of smaller places but having good institutions which don't get to have a good Startup ecosystem, or even a single startup, unless somebody chooses to.

I would proffer this happened because the founder Rohith Bhat settled down there (probably his home town) after having stints in Japan and lot of experience developing for Apple. And he got the advantage of hiring cheap from the Manipal University, with a mix of 3 year bond which throwaway43 has explained, to keep people from running away to lucrative places like Bangalore very near by.

This company also reminds me of Zoho for some reason. Which has a back office in Chennai, started by a Bay area veteran Sridhar Vembu. I guess, thats a better run Startup in terms of HR at least, in comparison.
The CIA is the reason for most of the unstable regions and it's hard to understand how after messing with other places and making it worse for everybody but weapons manufacturers, they're still doing the same thing over and over. Previously it was the fight against Communism, now Islam, I wonder what it will be in 2020. Middle-east, Asia, South America, all are right to be very angry with the CIA, but turn it into a "Burn America" rethoric, which doesn't help their argument. CIA's policy is probably controlled by someone else, and that's where changes need to be made because I like to think they don't come up with the stuff on their own.
Not true. I have seen family members going through health issues make very strong, supporting friendships on private facebook groups dedicated to health stuff.
> "What's the markdown for that?"

/s
> Gonna try this for my friends, family and some of my servers.

What are these use-cases all about? Not really getting the point of this right now.. curious since all my friends, family and servers are connected to the Internet already just fine, as I suspect were yours.
Oh my God! This can't be true can it? I dont want to wake up tomorrow and learn that the Iraq war adventure was not based on wrong CIA intelligence, but a manufactured one, and 100% of the US political establishment knew it (in addition to basically the rest of the world).
In the example, why is it necessary to import stdlib? Is it different from the Scala standard library?
> Of course in my organisation I could create a binary package and use that, but that's more work and then the new Debian package doesn't help me anyway.

Yes, and that is called system engineering. It is the job of a system engineering department (3rd level support) to deliver such components and stable operating system builds to the 2nd level support (operations, system administrators / database administrators).
In both cases of Javascript and Objective-C, programmers didn't deliberately choose "dynamic" as an explicit engineering design.

Even though the Apple System9/OSX platform has been around a long time, the Apple ecosystem got really popular with the iPhone & iOS in 2007. From 2007 to 2014, the official SDK for that was Objective-C. Obj-C is dynamic, and as a consequence, people happened to program in a dynamic language. ("When in Rome do as the Romans...")

Same situation for web browsers. The only "sdk" for adding interactivity and actions to web pages was Javascript -- which happened to be "dynamic".

In other words, "dynamic" was something programmers had to live with rather than something they chose for architectural superiority.

In both cases (Swift, TypeScript), the desire for static typing became apparent.
I have been using C9 for years now and I found it to be the best of the lot. Its a shame, I cannot afford the premium subscription for now but would love to pay them for their gratitude and awesome product.
I'm pretty sure you don't have to be super rich to own a model S or model X. I usually consider super rich to be owning a private jet kind of money. You can lease a model s for example for the monthly cost of a decent cloud server like an m4.10xlarge - sure it's expensive server, but we are not talking super rich expensive right?
Farm subsidies is not only about business, it's about national security: you subside food industry so that when you suddenly find yourself in the big war with trade routes cut, your population doesn't starve.

I'm not saying that these subsidies are necessary; I'm just saying that they should be analyzed with a different framework.
Paywalled. Next.
I'll get hammered for this, and I don't like FBI secretly recording anyone, but in this particuliar case; I'm kinda glad they were at least interested in stopping this alleged crime.

The crime? Supposedly, guys were buying up foreclosed properties. Yea, they were just doing what every get rich in realeste book/seminar suggests. They were buying up forclosed houses/apartments by the thousands. They were paying off competitors to Not bid on certain properties. They were rigging the system. They were in violation of The Sherman Anti-trust Act.
Again, I think it's wrong, but have no sympathy for shinagigans concerning public auctions, and rich guys breaking laws.

(These forclosed properties usually only get a blurb in back of some newspaper. If I had money, I would be bidding on them. I went to one years ago in my county, and I was suprised how few people were there.)
Oracle has nothing whatsoever to do with OpenZFS. As in zero, nada, zilch. And because of CDDL, Oracle cannot take back the source code from illumos (which contains OpenZFS code) without open sourcing the code to Solaris again:

https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=2732
Here's another source:
http://m.democracynow.org/stories/14271
> ...the world’s most dangerous communist...

How fads change. Had it happened today, they would have called him a terrorist.

Sadly, it's not really news that the U.S. only pay lip service to Democracy. After all, the dictator of our choice can guarantee our economic and military interests much better than any democratic regime.
I thank Oppenheimer Atomic bomb every day for this. Also the violence in those 3rd world factories and resource operations - and the self destructive violence of religion harasses a little more then two thirds of humanity.
Surprisingly, resource binding is the key to performance both on CPU and GPU. The method of binding resources to some "slots" (registers/handles/etc) while being easy to understand is not present in modern hardware. There used to be actual registers for textures/samplers/buffers (well, I don't recall if there had been any hardware with buffers, but there had been just float4 regs to get non-texture data into the shaders) but not any more.

Emulating these in software is expensive as you are essentially running a multi-process application, where every process gets parameters from the global state. You can either run it sequentially (very slow) or make a copy of the state for each process (generally slow, but there are tricks like fragmenting the state and only copying the changed fragments).

I suspect the reason the DX12/Vulkan games are not showing much improvement in performance is that they share most of the code with the legacy DX11/OpenGL and keep emulating the global state for the new API.
Well yes, I suppose you're right. I think I'm just a bit jaded seeing every positive story about China filled with comments like "they'll fail because they're not doing it like us". There are plenty of ways they're different and most of them probably seem bad. Maybe most of them really are bad, but somehow they're still doing pretty well. It must be a complicated combination of factors. I don't think it's fair to predict failure just because some things are worse. They do have much stronger protectionism provided by the government, which is surely a massive advantage over American companies. They also have a cheaper yet well educated workforce.
> pre-00s when 6 day work weeks/12 hour days were expected from everyone

Was that really the case in US and Europe? Honestly curious.