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I too had a cop play chicken with me in his SUV while I was peacefully standing on the sidewalk. I'm not surprised to find out it's happened to someone else. There were actually at least a dozen people there. Anyone else would have been charged with attempted murder. For the cop, it was just another day at the office.

Radley Balko is one brave writer, that's for sure. But even he's just going to write about the atrocities here after the fact. Maybe what I should have written is not that no one cares, but that very few people do, and they cannot change anything. Even Balko does not realize the full extent of the problem of living in a police state like this, probably because he doesn't recognize it as a police state. And while his assessments of what exactly is wrong with our police in "Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces", for example, are spot on, his solutions are lame. He understands the hate that communities in the US have for police, yet suggests that more foot patrols will help. We are way, way beyond that. Without strict liability laws and restrictions on police, there is no fixing this. While cops can get away with murder, there will be no fixing this. If having justice, which includes not murdering innocent people, is not enough of an issue for Americans to change this system of horrific, Holocaust-scale imprisonment, it really does seem like almost nobody cares.
> In fact many analysts say that if you strip out the valuable asian assets, the value implied by the market for Yahoo's US business is about zero or even negative.

If the value implied by the stock price is zero or negative, then even buying the company and selling off the office furniture nets you a tidy profit.

More realistically, it's very likely that if a company has negative value -- ie, that someone would pay you to take it off their hands -- then it is severely undervalued.
Hi Joe. I just saw this post here on HN. I'm the sole author of ontolo.

Your comment about the ontolo domain and assuming it was a PR piece, is that because you know of ontolo as a marketing tool, or because it wasn't a more generalized site like Medium?

Also, if you know of any other crawlers, etc, that are faster than ontolo (in the public domain, or public claims), let me know. There aren't a lot of folks I know who are working on this sort of thing and not also working at search engines. It'd be neat to meet some other folks who are interested in the problem.
Make better products than everyone else, have better supply-chain management than everyone else, and have higher profit margins than everyone else even dreams of.

It's a plan that has been working out fairly well.
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Actually now that I read both definitions, neither is quite right. Perhaps a better metaphor would be dissolvable stitches – you need them when your wound is open, but once it heals the stitches vanish.

If anyone can help me out with a less gross version of the same metaphor I'd be grateful!
So, it won't require a Google account? I guess it will, so we're back to the same point.
Buildkite is using GraphQL:

https://graphql.buildkite.com/explorer

https://github.com/buildkite/graphql-explorer
I'd agree, overall it's a mixed bag. The new-ish Bakery Square complex (which is home to Google) is pretty hideous.

Pittsburgh more-or-less has the same type of architecture as large parts of New York, specifically huge (previously) empty warehouse spaces. I'd really like to see more old warehouses kept and retro-fitted, rather than replaced with Bakery Square-esque architecture.
And comments say it was five years old back then, and was even posted previously on that site. Welcome to Reddit!
> I just hope people are not in a hurry to displace what makes it cool

They probably are, but only because everyone has a different perspective on what things like "culture" and "cool" mean. I personally think tearing down the East Liberty high rise projects was largely positive - but many people disagree.
Thanks for the heads up. This is a key marked for use on the client side in web browsers, so I didn't consider it necessary to remove: https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/6158862?hl=en#creati...
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This goes back farther than 2005!

At one point at the height of the bubble, Intel was involved in mobile devices.

I worked for a company that developed secure, efficient wireless communication middleware for that space. Our client hardware was mainly Pocket PC and Windows CE at that time.

We partnered with Intel to port our stack to the Linux device they were developing (codenamed "PAWS"). This was around 2000-2001, if I recall.

Thing were going very well, when practically overnight, Intel decided to pull out of this market entirely. They shut down the project and that was that.

It didn't bode very well for that little company; we gambled on this Intel partnership and put a lot of resource into that project in hopes that there would be revenue, of course. Oops!
I think you may be referring to this guy. He did an AMA on reddit [1]. He also posts updates on his instagram[2].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4iqo3g/im_the_guy_wal...

[2] https://www.instagram.com/bendoeslife/
No, "the horror!" is that truly competent technical people no longer enter fields like teaching.

You would have to be insane to do an extra Master's in order to earn $40k as a 'junior' CS or Math teacher when you can earn $150k in industry in SF straight out of undergrad.

Some 50% of Ontario elementary teachers cannot do Grade 5 fractions. My CS teacher in high school was trained in history and geography and was literally concurrently learning the same course one lesson ahead of us.

It's a disaster and it will never be fixed as long as the unions insist on paying STEM teachers the same as English teachers.
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Most of the time simple objects/collections work... separating data from utility is often cleaner and easier to reason about.

That said, when you need encapsulation and instance isolation classes provide a nice sugar around prototyping. They tend to work very well for components that have visual interactions/events that are tethered to instance/scope state. I tend to prefer the React+Redux model myself, but there are times when you need more than render-only components, and in those cases the class syntax means cleaner source code imho. These cases are also very limited imho, and about the only place I use class syntax.
Ok, but then the supportive housing and eviction prevention money divides to ~$22k/person.
I can't imagine he has any other plan. I'm a Detroiter.
Too bad Yahoo isn't really a tech company: http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html
Check out the docs. It is chock full of them.

https://github.com/nlp-compromise/nlp_compromise/blob/master...
> Anyone using ZFS in a serious capacity would have both dedicated ARC and ZIL.

I contend that most people using ZFS in a serious capacity do not have a dedicated ZIL.
I'm a bit curious if the "any illegal drug" column includes LSD or hallucinogens. Part of me thinks most people have the common sense not to drive while on such a substance, part of me thinks there would be no way to gather data
> Correct.

Why would you think that when I've said exactly the opposite? Who is being hostile and evasive here?

> What is "it"?

Also already mentioned above (file formats, instruction sets, calling conventions).

> Because you incorrectly believe you can't.

I wish that was true.

> Then do that, like I told you repeatedly.

If you show me how to generate portable C or C++ that's human readable from Haskell, I'd be happy to.

You keep claiming Haskell solves my problems, except every time we look closely at your recommendations, they are full of holes.

And I'm hostile and evasive.
Oil has been an explicit primary strategic concern since the start of the 20th century, if not before. It was a fundamental objective of both world wars, and many other conflicts. It strikes me as quite possible that the relative successes of capitalist and communist blocs had far more to do with resource and oil than ideology.

See Daniel Yergin's The Prize, or Robert Newman's "A Brief History of Oil".

https://www.worldcat.org/title/prize-the-epic-quest-for-oil-...

https://youtu.be/GIpm_8v80hw
I wonder what the implications for Linux of the removal of "Portability" from the Swift 3 evolution/Readme.md [1] are?

[1] https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/commit/06b69a6e51a7...
I don't think that's true. Even badly performing companies like Yahoo! aren't only priced as a sum of their physical assets, but also intangible ones, e.g. the skills of their employees, their market position etc.
> The Margins on cell phone chips are terrible.
> QCT made 2.5 bil on 17bil in revenue.

And in many ways ARM is to blame for that, if you have a lot of chip suppliers you get downward price pressure. But the more interesting question is this, what is the marginal cost of that extra margin? Intel is going to run its fabs, its going to buy silicon ingots, its going to test and package chips anyway, so the marginal R&D cost is the additional architecture (not the chip layout) and a channel for moving those chips (which is easy since they is only a half dozen or so people who actually make the phones.

Gasse's point, as I understood it, was that Intel couldn't see past it's self imposed margin requirements on chips to see that this business could be additive to its revenue, margin, and keep it in the game when the world switched their primary IT gadget from the laptop to the phone.
Want to say I'd also like if you put up some source for this.
Of course - most of what I wrote is an opinion shared by many people, I don't want to claim originality here :).

A related anecdote - at my previous job, I was at an annual sales conference event, where Mr. Christensen was an invited speaker. Both before and after his speech, the management kept bragging about "how unique we are", "how fat our margins are", and "how none of our low-cost competitors could match our offering", despite real mid-to-long term danger to their core business, completely ignoring the innovators dilemma, or hoping that it's not applicable to them. It was almost painful to watch. My prediction is that my old company will get disrupted and ceased to play such an important role in just 5-7 years.
Why there is no upvote button in this post?
It's also possible that it INCREASED the amount of homelessness in SF.
It's studies like this that have caused people in my city to support legally driving while high. I've seen so many people that somehow think there is no effect on driving skills.

I'm all for legalization, but I will not support the potential of endangering other people.
As a native Philadelphian who now lives closer to Boston, my perspective - Philly has rampant corruption and I'd be nervous about investing in the city (compared to NYC or Boston). The local talent market is much better suited for healthcare than tech. And what talent there is can easily go to DC or NYC, where there are larger job markets.

At least for me, 10+ years ago when I moved back to Philly after going to college in VA, I lasted less than a year before going to DC where the better opportunities were. My perception is that it is still true today.

My family is still all in South Philly and the close in suburbs so I haven't completely lost touch. I'd totally move back for the right opportunity.
Better link: https://www.microsoft.com/net or http://dot.net
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The fact that you're tired of people complaining about Google discontinuing products tells me that Google may have a problem convincing people to adopt new services. If the majority of people don't believe Google is really invested in products until it's successful, it's going to be an uphill battle for Google when it comes to launching new services.

Google's strategy to discontinue services comes with natural consequences. One of those consequences is it burns bridges with certain types of early adopters and creates distrust when those early adopters complain in popular forums like Hacker News.

UPDATE: It may be in Google's best interest to start publically committing to a service's life span and support to preemptively address the leftover feelings of abandonment from other discontinued services.
You've lost me. There's definitely an airport in Pittsburgh. It obviously doesn't feature quite as many direct flights as a place like NYC, but on the pro side the airport is a complete breeze to travel through.
You think there's never been a women without cleavage being stalked?

You think it's women's fault when they get 'Hey MILF,wanna meet after work?' comments?
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I agree that question doesn't have a good answer yet, and is why I am not participating in this experiment.
But in Tech, every new product is a different raw material

More like you've gone up 1 level in the tech tree, and tech level n-1 items are the crafting components of level n. (I'm writing a game with a procedurally generated tech tree like this.)
Never called them trash, never looked down on them. But this person is clearly a criminal; we don't know their mental status. Not all people with mental conditions turn to crime, nor do all homeless people. Crime is crime however.

I would prefer to give aid to the poor women accosted and assaulted by this criminal, than give aid to the criminal. Life is full of choices.
You may be confusing Bain & Company (the consulting firm, a competitor to McKinsey) and Bain Capital. Bain Capital was started by some former Bain consultants, and is obviously similarly named, but is a totally independent organization.
Or, maybe, it's the suitor's ability to recognize rejection.
Yes, some people are able to use ETW effectively; there just isn't much motivation to share knowlege in this (commercial/Windows) space.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11418334
That was back in the day before he even bought IBM shares
There's certainly a hipster bubble in Pittsburgh around Oakland, Shadyside, -W-e-s-t- East Liberty, Southside, and Squirrel Hill which are the neighborhoods around CMU and U Pitt. The rest of Pittsburgh and the suburban region is pretty rough, though. Personally, I loved North Hills, Mt. Lebanon, and Dormont. But the start-up quality is only present in the neighborhoods abutting CMU and U Pitt. As a non-white, we were sometimes bothered by the extreme whiteness and slight red-necky feel of non-East End neighborhoods.

Edit: as pointed out by comments below, East Liberty.
Cool features, but they don't transpile very well (the output is much larger than the input), and require a non-trivial runtime component. Unless you're aware of the tradeoffs and have determined that the cost to your users is genuinely worth the nicer coding experience, I'd argue that it qualifies as a footgun.

Having said that, I'm very interested in seeing where https://github.com/marten-de-vries/kneden goes.
Maybe it was an indexer that for whatever reason runs the full PDF handling code?
If nothing else, I think reminding people that what they're "looking to do" (whatever that is) most likely is something they can do in whichever language they choose, and to somehow shoehorn themselves into a language or a set of languages, not because they have a concrete need to, but because they think they might need to... (Once they start... If they ever get going on it...) is foolish and really does not contribute to execution.

Sometimes it's better to get going in the most productive language you can find for the problem space and make a slow/inefficient implementation with few lines of code, minimizing the risk of bugs, (call it "MVP" or whatever) if only to find out whatever it is you're trying to do. Most languages without suffocating boilerplate will do just fine for this, regardless of their performance.
If you discount cash, it's actually around 6
>and it makes sense to invest all the available resources into it - better from ROIC perspective

Also, not every tech company can compete in other realms of tech. How could intel really break into mobile? A non-ARM chip means lots of testing and cross compiling for .1% marketshare that no one will do. Or worse, battery and performance draining hacks to get ARM compiled binaries to run on x86. There's an ASUS (?) phone series that does this. Its terrible and panned by cell phone reviewers.

I think this is a lot more deterministic than we care to admit. I don't care how much "leadership" and "grit" and "listening to your customers" intel could have done better, its clear that they couldn't break the ARM mobile monopoly because no one can. Becoming a 3rd or 4th tier ARM producer amongst many would have probably gone to shit as well.

Its easy to arm-chair quarterback companies but the reality is that there isn't a lot of 'win-win' paths in business. Sometimes you just can't enter a new market or beat the new hot startup regardless of what you do.

Lastly, no one questions mass hirings that don't seem sustainable, but we all freak out when mass layoffs are announced. Its incredible how we think jobs only make sense as permanent fixtures, when in reality they're subjected to the same market forces everything else is. If anything, intel's biggest screw up was hiring too many people too quickly.
If anyone is interested in understanding NLP, starting with little knowledge, I found that the NLTK book was quite helpful: http://www.nltk.org/book/
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> EBITDA itself is not the problem, but rather the calculation companies themselves use to derive it.

Heh, I find it a bit difficult to consider it a useful measure, when (as you point out) you have to immediately clarify how it's calculated. It's like me saying "I'm a world champion sprinter" and then mumbling "as measured by positions in races between my desk and the downstairs loo". There are contexts for specialist use, but overall I'd avoid it.

The article was referring to more general business use - PR & investment - I guess another situation where profitability comes up is candidates discussing whether an organisation they might join is profitable. I would argue that if someone uses EBITDA then it indicates that you should be asking lot more hard questions. Not that it's even the worse, as the article points out - my broader point is that every era comes up with new pet terms and ways of manipulating them for PR.
Agree completely. With that said, with many pieces of data, there are still limitations on their usage - public or not. A company can't use your public photo as their brand image without your involvement, for example (... or so i hope, hah).

I do agree that there are uncontrollable outcomes that need to be understood - your viral example is a great one. But the viral outcome is inherently uncontrollable and fully decentralized. A study done by a select group of person(s) is controllable.

Thoughts?
I expect civilized people to behave in civilized manners, but police are not civilized in this country--they have too much power and no consequences. Absolute power corrupts absolutely and what's more absolute than being able to murder pretty much anyone you want and get away with it? That's not a person, that's a fucking tyrant with a badge and expecting someone like that to behave in a civilized matter is what leads one to be beaten up or murdered and your relatives wondering why the cop got a nice, paid vacation for murdering their son. I'm just speaking from purely a pragmatic, survivalist point of view. If what you say works for you, that's great. But after having almost been murdered by an officer for peacefully having a conversation on a sidewalk, I can no longer believe these creatures are even fucking human anymore. And a lot of America thinks this way because a lot of people are oppressed and targeted by police here.
realistic & efficient, good thought
Sure, but important difference is that 10-100 people startup that raised $300m behaves way differently than an internal department of a major tech firm that has decided to invest into a side project: authority to make decisions, willingness to take on risk, speed of innovation - everything is very different between the two.
C++ exceptions have a runtime overhead, because they have to set up a handler (insert a record into a linked list) upon entering the try block and remove it when leaving the try block. Now of course checking return values introduces a lot of branches, so go figure out which one of them is worse...

still it is very advisable to have likely pragmas around if conditions that check return values.

The big problem with exceptions is that it introduces a lot of implicit code paths, and lots of possibilities for resource leaks (if raw pointers are involved).
creepyness is 100% based on the attractiveness of the person being "creepy"
Ruby really needs to put performance on the roadmap as a serious project. The work done on Python, on Perl, on JavaScript especially shows that there's huge gains that can be made if you prioritize it.

Sadly the core Ruby team has been incredibly indifferent and at times outright hostile to projects like JRuby and Rubinius that have tried valiantly to push Ruby forward.

I'd rather not see people use JavaScript, Swift, or C# because Ruby wasn't fast enough for their particular problem.
Also, the way OkCupid works, you can answer questions either privately or publicly. Even when you answer a question publicly, it is still only visible to other users who have answered the same question. Privately answered questions are never visible, but are used in calculating the "percent match" between two users. So I would presume that they started their scraping bot with fake answers to every single question.

This is of course a kind of "privacy by obscurity," and it is not at all secure. For example, if you want you can probably figure out people's answers to all questions, even the private ones, by having a separate bot for every question. Then the percent match between the bot and a user reveals the user's answer to that one question. (Possibly OkCupid introduces some noise in the matching algorithm to make this harder, but it can almost certainly be circumvented.)
ease of use is not something I'd say of TS... especially when mixing in JS.. there's what 2-3 options for how to handle your type mapping to JS libraries? I tried to use TS to create a simple ng2 app, as I wanted to understand the configuration, I looked at multiple boilerplate examples and it was all a mess imho.

Even then, I don't blame TS for most of it... but the typedef tooling really should be in the box, and have a standard construct for usage. In the end, for my example above, I used babel with some flow plugins, and it worked well enough.
Where else can you find an outlet to spend over a $billion at once where the underlying assets are more valuable than the security that represents them? Kind of a unique and Buffet-like opportunity.
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My definition is related to yours, but is closer to the articles. FTA:

> It is our belief that creepiness is anxiety aroused by the ambiguity of whether there is something to fear or not

You mentioned:

> you're too focused on something you want, my ass and cleavage for instance

You can be focused on ass and cleavage, but not be creepy: eg, if you're honest and open that that's what you're looking for, and not trying to hide or be something you're not.

Creepiness occurs where that ambiguity exists: there's a discrepancy between someones evident intent and actions.

- If someone's trying to get you away from your friends, with a 'cool thing you need to see', but they clearly want to make out, it's creepy.

- If they say 'I think we should go somewhere and make out' it's less so.

A lot of creepiness comes from shy men who are afraid of rejection, other comes from shy men that understand, eg, that isolation makes people more likely to make out, but try and use subterfuge to make that happen.
No, you see it?