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We had virtually no airline security in the 1970s and there were hijack attempts every couple of months..including innocent people dying and a plane that was eventually blown up with no passengers on board.

I sure as hell wouldn't fly if this was going on now.

The real problem is that we aren't allowed to profile.

Because we can't focus on a specific subset of travelers that are suspicious (based on data or behavior), everyone is treated as a threat and we get long lines as a result.

We can learn a lot from Israel:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-wagner/what-israeli-air...

They probably have more terrorist threats than anyone else in the world and have prevented nearly all attacks without the long lines. Mostly through a combination of profiling and hiring specially trained agents instead of $10/hour rent-a-cops to handle security. There's a reason why European Airports are targeted for attack, even though Israel is the main target.

At some point we need to make a choice: political correctness or safety.
If you didn't have irrational fear, the TSA would not have its current powers. If you didn't have so much stupidity, the TSA might manage more than a 5% success rate. Yes, there are other elements like hate which also come into play here, but there certainly is no element of rational thought that goes into these types of laws. Yes, people have their biases and individual quirks, but it's certainly possibly to come up with and implement a system that doesn't simply pander to people's fears and plays on their stupidity. There's just no interest in such a system from either the people who are in control or the scared masses who are afraid of terrorism or other scaremongering tactics practiced by the former set of people.
Coursera/Stanford Online's compilers course covers all this.

https://class.coursera.org/compilers/
Plus Intel owns the IP to all the pieces and is happy to provide documentation for them.

Xilinx have Mali GPUs on their latest ARM+FPGA hybrids but that isn't much use to me if I can't find out how to program it.
By "not FIB lithography" I meant he isn't using the FIB machine to make shadow masks for photolithography; he's directly using them on the semiconductor, like Alacron. I'm not sure of the brand of his machine.

You'd think FIB milling (and deposition and implantation) should be able to do considerably better than the 28 nanometers you can do with photolithography these days (after investing a billion dollars in your fab, anyway). The de Broglie wavelength of a heavy ion isn't that big.

The eASIC link you give implies, without saying, that eASIC ASICs aren't "cell-based ASICs", but that's what "structured ASICs" are, and WP at least confirms that the Nextreme ASICs described in that link in particular are cell-based.

It's not totally clear to me that eASIC is in fact using FIBs for their prototypes; is that based on you talking to people at the company?

I agree that the per-unit cost for FIB is enormous. I hadn't thought about the possibility of using many beams at once to reduce that cost.
Want to make a long bet? I bet you Twilio doesn't turn into that gorilla. AWS is a far cry different than Twilio.
Fair answer.

And another one a bit more provocative :D

You alleged above that your parent commenter would think differently if the driver was a friend of theirs.

If the passenger/client was a friend of yours and you knew the driver had priors, would you advise them against getting into the car or not?
Not many people have turned one element into another. That alone is pretty cool.
OK thanks, it was more to get an idea of "how much stock do the employees own vs. VCs and execs" but it looks like we don't have enough data to compute that
A problem with rare things is it's hard to get good sense of what to do about them.

We know the "no O2" method is very rarely needed, simply from observed statistics.

We know that O2 masks come down more regularly than that. Such stories are not hard to find. Here's a list: http://www.avherald.com/h?search_term=Cabin+pressure&opt=256... . Looks like a few dozen per year.

If there were a switch like you suggest, what is the probability that it will engage by accident, and prevent the masks from otherwise deploying as they should?
If it weren't for type erasure we wouldn't have the abundance of dynamic languages on the JVM. Developing dynamic languages on runtimes that have reified generics is a PIA.
It's not merely "catering to ignorance." You can sit these people down and tell them the numbers. It won't matter. They'll no longer be ignorant, but they'll still be scared.
I agree that would be faster, but we rely a lot on Postgres's database constraints and we've previously had code problems go undiagnosed when the test schema didn't match production. Six in one, half a dozen in the other, I guess.
This would kill an unknown amount of your passengers, likely the elderly and very young. The typical terrorist, if we even have enough data on them to say such a thing, is an adult male in good physical form. They have the strength and endurance to provide a threat at they very least, not something a sizable percentage of the other passenger may have. The passengers that do survive such a sudden exposure to hypoxia would be at a very increased risk of long term health and mental issues. This is very dependent on the time in hypoxia.

Your father thinks that blacking-out is similar to the movies, in that there are fast acting tranqs and other things that will 'knock out' a person and then they wake up with a headache. Anesthesiologists take at a minimum about 12 years of training before they touch a patient, even for 'low risk' dental procedures. Trying to black out a plane full of highly agitated people until the pilots can land or 'do something' about terrorists in the act is a total fantasy and may cause more deaths from false alarms and faulty wiring than the terrorists would have caused.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choking_game
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_hypoxia
Agreed, then the consumer could choose between SafetyFirst airline and SitDownShutupAndHoldon airline.
Thank you!

It will be hard to implement since the "smallest tracking unit" is activity - a website or a window. I also can't see how to implement it without making everything too complex (the app's UX is too complex already in my opinion).

You can try to use a different browser since domains are bound to browsers. Like using productive Twitter in Safari and distracting Twitter in Opera.
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>but that it does raise what I feel are valid questions..

I totally agree, and the Bars that regulate lawyers agree. Not just valid, but serious enough issues for the Bars to create Rules to try to guide lawyers when confronted with these exact scenarios. Notwithstanding the Rules and severe punishments, they can still be broken, and as you suggest violations can be intentional and unintentional only clouding these ethical issues.

Just don't under estimate how archaic the Bars Rules are in practice. For example, the power of Admonishment wherein lawyers are dragged in front of groups of their peers to be publicly ridiculed, a record of the event is made and distributed among the community. Even if not disbarred, punishment is not only humiliating but can potentially ruin a career anyhow.

>Bollea and Thiel's interests may also be perfectly aligned.

I haven't confirmed, but I think the gist is that separate and apart from the firm's representation of Bollea, the firm represents Thiel in various unrelated legal matters. If true, coincidentally we know that at minimum Bollea and Thiel don't have adverse interests[1]. Moreover, before a firm represents a client (Bollea) they must perform a conflict check against all existing clients, which coincidentally would have included the payer, Thiel.

Funny enough I don't think such a conflict check is required of someone who pays the lawyer for another (Thiel if he wasn't a client of the firm) and such a rule would seem to make sense. Though it would be burdensome in the instance of crowdsourcing lawsuits which will probably begin to become more of a thing. It would also be a strange analysis in the criminal justice context where the tax payer is paying the judge, the prosecutor and the defense (in the instance of public defender cases), or even insurance cases where opposing parties are both insured by the same company (e.g. my insurance company is representing me and paying for my litigation, and they are also representing and paying the opposing litigation...a conflict).

[1] FL Rule: https://www.floridabar.org/divexe/rrtfb.nsf/FV/2E30A65D3638C...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11771697
Sure, they were common but the media wasn't as prevalent. For example, I know of none of those before 2000s. But post-2000 I know of every single hijack and plane crashed because the internet and media shoved it on my face because it's always on every website. I bet that if there is a hijacking tomorrow, it will in HN front page (even though it's a tech website). That's how much these things multiply. Whereas, a bus crash or some other bombing will never make it to HN web page.
Except what do you mean by 'intelligence clearance'?
The reason we have to screen everyone is because of the egalitarian jealousies of the masses.
There's a lot of virtue signalling going on here and it definitely detracts from the important topics that you point out.
>> I disagree with the given metaphor of TDD as scientifically falsifiable. TDD >> posits the answers first, and builds a theory around it. As new answers/unit >> tests are put into place, the theory/program becomes more complicated.

The software development process starts with the definition of the problem and its desired answer. The code is a finite state box that claims that it meets the expectation of receiving the problem and return the answer while the purpose of testing is to verify this claim.

>> To address that point more directly, "testing" is much more than TDD. I >> believe after-the-fact tests are more akin to tests for falsifiability than >> TDD is.

I agree. Still, these after-the-fact tests belong in the infinite universe of tests that they were not identified originaly and can now become part of the testing suite. What distincts a good from a bad tester, is his ability to minimize the need for these "after-the-fact tests".
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>> "We believe the startup ecosystem should be open for all."

If so, then why're two of the three available dates filtered by the demographic profile of the founders?
I agree that your interlocutor is being ridiculous.

But the analogy doesn't hold because your interlocutor doesn't have any reason to disagree with your statement; they're just being a troll.

In any case, someone might rationally object to any such analogies because they disagree that there is an equivalence between names and pronouns.
A "hot" market is not a "bubble" and a cool down is not a "crash."

Then instead of a bubble, how about a "Foam?" It occurred to me about a year ago that an "ecosystem" where you had a lot of startup companies serving the needs of other startup companies would be the perfect place for one to pump-up the size and perceived potential of the "ecosystem" in a way which attracts yet more money and increases the perception of further value creation in a positive feedback loop. However, since no one company, no single investment instrument is involved, there is no single perpetrator to blame.

It's exploiting the same social proof dynamics, but in a highly distributed fashion. It's technically and legally not a Ponzi scheme, even though it's powered by the same mechanisms.

So this should probably be the next frontier in the startup world -- preventing or at least mitigating this form of corruption. Or is it just to be adopted as the "startup business cycle" -- justified by the minority of companies that come out of such foam-swells that actually create value?
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You're right! I imagine Karger and Schell wrote their backdoor in PL/I too — it seems like it would just be a lot easier that way.
Indeed, that worked! So, it's good to know i had the right idea (moving the data out of the block), but i didn't think to store it above the request body.

I was trying to be clever, and use explicitly say that `s` should live for the lifetime of the parent function. Any idea if that is possible in this case?

edit: Sidenote, i appreciate that you hang in Rust Beginners, i didn't mean to imply that people weren't being helpful. Just that, it can be difficult to find a solution at times.

On the plus side, i managed to help (i hope haha) a guy in #rust-beginners today, so hopefully i've paid it forward a bit. Appreciate your help!
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You've mentioned Bitrix24 in 2 of your 3 posts on HN, either you're a fan and passionately advocate this product...

...Or you're not disclosing a interest in the company.
Actually there is a difference between gluing pieces of code and making it work and writing algorithms that solve hard computer science problems.
There have always been competitors in this space. There used to be bunch of companies, and there are still several, that offered various levels of telephony integration, especially in the SMS/MMS space. I kind of view Twilio as the Stripe of the telephony world. Twilio came along and made a developer-friendly API around a bundle of services, where before you may have to use one service for one thing and another for something else. Or one provider may only reach some carriers and not others. Twilio kept it basic, not really building anything on top of their API, just selling the API itself. Other companies tried to compete against their own clients. For example, many SMS/MMS providers would offer an API, but then compete against their clients by also selling campaign management platforms or mobile marketing services.
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I get that, generally speaking, the owner of a house should have the right to set their rental prices. But what is the risk associated with a property you own suddenly coming under rent control? Sure, there is the opportunity cost if the market rent goes up. But do costs correlate with the market rental value? I would assume (and I could be wrong), that when you buy a property you look at the current market rental value to decide if the property could be profitable. Are there landlords who buy properties that will rent at loss because they are speculating that they'll be able to raise the rents by 20%/year (to pull a number out of the air)? Does the cost of maintaining a property rise faster than what the rent-control laws allow you to charge for rent?

And yes, I get that the possibility of rental control can scare of developers. But I'm wondering what the effect is on current owners. I've never been a landlord so there is probably something I'm missing.
> ...this is solved by the named branches in Mercurial...
I'm not super-familiar with Mercurial (and only somewhat-familiar with git), but couldn't you get the same effect as named branches by just not deleting fully merged branches in git?

> ... how can you tell which one of the parents is the previous commit in the master ...

You can use --first-parent [1] to disambiguate that. In a nutshell, the master branch in your example would be the first parent, letting you disambiguate (and there's support for this in a lot of other git tools!)

[1]: https://git-blame.blogspot.ca/2012/03/fun-with-first-parent....
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I disagree with your probability equation. The question I should ask is "does being a violent criminal make it more likely that an Uber driver will attack a passenger?" I'd bet good money that the answer is yes. Being alone in someone else's car, potentially late at night and far from home, puts you at an extreme disadvantage -- it's a very dangerous situation that you would ordinarily stay far away from, unless you had a good reason to believe that you would be safe.

I am not in general a fan of security theater, but I think that doing thorough background checks of for-hire drivers for relevant offenses such as moving violations, alcohol- or drug-related arrests and violent crimes is just smart.
Let's play the devil's advocate for a second.

FY13 FY14 FY15
Sales and marketing: 21,931	33,322	49,308

Just turn it off and now you have a $11M profit. NetSuite and SuccessFactors did it in 2008 and they're both profitable, or at least were in NetSuite's case (NetSuite has recently pushed hard on S&M, hence a decline in profit in the last few years, probably because the market is dictating to do so and money is cheap).

EDIT: Grammar.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Steve Blank has been saying this since 2011 when the economist hosted a debate between Blank and Ben Horowitz. All respect to Steve Blank though for his other work.

The Economist seems to have broken the link to the content on their site, but below is a video the Economist posted on Youtube and the articles posted on the personal blogs of Blank and Horowitz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfX9VLsUWwc
http://www.bhorowitz.com/debating_the_tech_bubble_with_steve...
https://steveblank.com/2011/06/15/the-next-bubble-dont-get-f...
http://a16z.com/2011/06/17/debating-the-tech-bubble-with-ste...
https://steveblank.com/2011/06/17/are-you-you-the-fool-at-th...
https://steveblank.com/2011/06/22/the-internet-might-kill-us...
Companies must go public if they have a certain number of shareholders. I think the number is 500 or more, but don't quote me on that.
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I have used Rescuetime for years and for the most part, am very satisfied with the service. It would be helpful if you added a simple comparison between Rescuetime and your service.
Tying profiling to political correctness means you want racial profiling or similar, which would have such a huge false negative and false positive rate as to be worse than useless. Besides, I'm sure the TSA already de facto does it, because sentiments like yours are so common.

If you want to profile, ignore political correctness and do it based on something other than race, religion, or national origin.
I agree it'd be a nice option for them to provide, but I don't believe making it the default for every customer is a laudable goal.

If vacuums are hanging/causing locks and these truly are just test tables, it might be beneficial to use temporary tables instead as the autovacuum daemon ignores them. Additionally, unlogged tables that reside on a memory disk can be insanely fast - might cut some additional time down depending on your data.
I don't think Manning should spend 30 years in jail, but she wasn't convicted for whistleblowing.

She was acquitted for leaking the few files related to war crimes; she was convicted of leaking 750000 unrelated documents.
Yea, that's another thing about rust. At times, things like what Hyper's Body method is doing can be quite puzzling. And while Rust's attempt to help is noble, it can end up even more confusing. At times it is awesome, but it can be a lot of visual noise for beginners.

Fwiw, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11780196 has the answer to my example problem. I'm also inquiring about using lifetimes to solve the problem.
I don't see how anyone could read that and come away thinking that ZFS-on-Linux isn't kosher. Given as simple as it is to compile zfs.ko in the Ubuntu live environment, I'd bet money that's Canonical's backup plan should a literal interpretation of the kernel's license become a legal reality.

And here's to hoping that ZFS becomes so widespread that Oracle themselves end up redistributing it in their version of Linux, like they did with DTrace.
Sorry, it's not working in a sandboxed environment that is a must for the Mac App Store.
> Does being an Uber driver make a violent criminal more likely to commit a violent crime?

That's completely the wrong way to think about this. The real question is, should people who have been convicted of violent crimes be given jobs that puts them in a position of power over other people? Make no mistake, that's exactly what being an Uber driver is. Drivers are in a private 1-on-1 situation with customers where the driver has all of the power. The customer is literally putting their life into the driver's hands.
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Why do people have problems with taxes? I don't. Never have. When taxes build schools and infrastructure and provide policing and social support it's a good thing. When taxes are misused (military industrial complex perhaps) that's an issue with the system of government, not taxes.

I do have an issue with the wealthiest people sheltering their money from taxation. This is the 1%. These people (at least the 0.01%) might just move for tax reasons.

The 2-5% top earners actually do seem to pay a lot of taxes (at least in the US and Canada).

I don't know exactly what the top 5% earn, but some cursory research suggests around $250k annually in North America. As someone who has been near there, yes, I paid a lot in taxes. But I also had spare money to defer some of those taxes.

My experience in Canada has been different than my experience in the US. In Canada, over about 120k in salary you start paying a bit more than you would in the US. About 43% or so on everything over 90k. (Please don't rip my numbers, I'm not a tax accountant and just want to make a point).

So we have a lot of people who appear to be doing pretty well, and join the rest of the middle in basically supporting the government programs for everyone else in the country to enjoy.

But these people are getting more than a 3rd of their income taken in taxes. At 200k per year for a family (look, I'm not asking you to feel sorry for them) that's a big hit.

But if you have $10m in assets in the bank, no mortgage, and are bring in 600k per year you might actually be getting taxed close to the person in the first example. But you are left with A LOT MORE money after taxes. And this is the issue for me.
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I think there's a legitimate question over whether a single conviction should stay with you for life. I don't think there's much question that this person has no business driving people around alone in his car.
> your one friend who got drunk and in a bar fight and charged with assault when he was 20

...doesn't have a felony record, even if he was convicted, because simple assault is a misdemeanor charge. The cases really aren't parallel.

(The rest of this comment seemed general enough to promote to top level: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11780434)
Didn't the Russians try that (mass anesthetic) a few years back when they were trying to clear some terrorists out of a theater? IIRC, it worked, but it did kill a lot of innocent people as well...oh yeah, here we go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis#...
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