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At what point can you say that has been achieved? A concrete goal to me would require a way of knowing it's been completed.

> For a research organization I'd question if you'd want something more specific?

Definitely. The goal at the moment sounds more like one of a funder, although again I'd hope for something more solid (achieve human level performance on problems X, y z for example).
Trust me I got it. I was trying to be funny. Failed.
As someone who wrote for Denton, I'm shocked to learn how much $ Gawker was making. He paid writers as little as $5 a post.
I think that is meant to be left to local requirements. Municipality could jack it up to 20% AFAIK.
A 2% chance today, right? Increasing the supply of affordable housing should improve those odds.

What's at stake here is how much affordable housing the city for negotiate for with developers. Critics argue this state bill undercuts the city's negotiating position.
A libertarian using the power of government to crush free speech is pretty hypocritical if not unethical.
I just imagine the scenario of Gawker being the outlet that leaked the "Fappening" and seeing everyone currently defending Gawker turn an about face. In reality, what they did to Hulk Hogan was more or less, the same, possibly worse than what several women in the Fappening went through.
I think Hacker News users can expect to be held to a higher standard than this comment, which adds no information, calls a lot of names ("these people are just narcissists who want revenge"—you can't possibly know that), and lacks decency (someone's sexual orientation is fair game because they're rich? no, it's not). If you have an argument to make, you're welcome to make it neutrally and respectfully. But you're not welcome to spew rage here, popular though it is.

The above is not a defense of Thiel, Palantir, or narcissists, whoever those are.
My issue is that by selectively choosing what he does and does not finance, he is influencing things in his personal favour.

I would far prefer the bllionaires in our society financing a big pool of money that then indescriminately funds the 'little guy' against the big corporation, so that the bias of money is removed from our legal system. Instead, this current process of being able to selectively target lawsuits means that the rich can indeed influence things in a biased fashion via their money.

I'm all for Thiel to have it out with Gawker, but should that not be on his own valid legal claims? By funding this lawsuit in particular, he's negatively impacting other suits by omission.

Basically, if money can't be kept out of the legal system then the money shouldn't be able to selectively enter it either, because either result produces a bias of the optimal situation where two equally strong legal teams debate a case in front of an impartial judge on its merits.
Similar experience at a state school. I ended up dropping Calculus that semester and transferring to NYU, where Calculus was taught by an American nuclear physicist. Got an A+. He was a great professor.

I don't remember any cheating but I wasn't really looking for it.
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I don't know, should they? What if they had a billionaire secretly funding them ;-)
Not Singapore or Hong Kong of course, but those are special cases.
> Incidentally, I've been doing dynamic code loading on Android 5.0, with its AOT.

How does that work? Or is their AOT really a JIT that works all at once, rather than collecting a profile first?

> I hadn't heard that about Rust.

Basically, in Rust (as in C++) you can pick either static dispatch abstractions, which are "zero cost", and dynamic dispatch abstractions, that are more costly. On the JVM you get dynamic dispatch as the abstraction, and the JIT figures out whether static dispatch can suffice per callsite, and compiles the dynamic abstraction to static-dispatch machine code.
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All it's measuring is for a voltage spike. The ones we had had a real input pin and a test input pin. You hook up an O'scope to the output, supply a one-shot signal to the test pin, and check to make sure the output did what it was supposed to in the allotted time.
Worthy quote from that article:

"While import substitution policies might create jobs in the short run, as domestic producers replace foreign producers, economics theory shows that in the long run output and growth will be lower than it would otherwise have been. This is because import substitution denies the country the benefits to be gained from specialisation and foreign imports. The law of comparative advantage shows how countries will gain from trade. Moreover, protectionism leads to dynamic inefficiency: Domestic producers have no incentive from foreign competitors to reduce costs or improve products. Import substitution can impede growth through poor allocation of resources, and its effect on exchange rates harms exports."
Technically increasing the housing supply would make rent cheaper. But realistically it won't because it's not possible to build enough housing to increase the supply enough to tip the scales in demand versus supply.

They start building more and those houses are going to be just as expensive as the existing housing.
Probably because Theil wants Gawker dead after they were the outlet that outed him as homosexual. I wouldn't necessarily blame him. Just tying the publication up in court and legal fees could sink it.
"His bill would make it so multi-family buildings are automatically approved by right as long as they comply with local zoning, and have 5-20% affordable units--the percentage depending on location and subsidy offered."

The problem here is that this leaving height limits in place and could create a rush to impose even more stringent zoning restrictions.

What would be necessary would be legislation that pre-empts both local zoning and other mechanism for a relatively small area to allow the construction of a few high rises without the destruction of existing housing stock.

The ideal of Nimbys seems to be no development and the ideal of developers seems to be building a limited number of ultra-high-priced units in the super desirable places like the Mission. The sane approach would be to allow a series of high rises in Potrero Hill and along the Bay.

This approach sounds like it would simply push-through development according to the developer ideal, which would serve the Nimbys right but also destroy whatever remains of the character of the mission.
> Having emergency braking turn off in the event of a manual brake tap is definitely a failure on Tesla's part.

Yes, but the failure mode is not so easy to see prior to use. It's due to how humans react to the new feature itself, not because it's a bad feature, or a misunderstanding about how users 'normally' react. User's may incorrectly anticipate a behavior (such as in this case), or they may expect the feature to fail so unnecessarily take control (cause of some airline disasters).

This is a general problem of computer human interaction. I'd say it falls under the discipline of UX design. Knowing that breaking is an automatic reaction should be a clue that it will make it a poor mechanism to understand user intent. You then know that you should be looking at other mechanisms to more accurately capture user intent.

- Perhaps the auto-breaking feature should have better defaults such err towards enabling rather than err towards disabling.

- Perhaps the control for toggling auto-breaking should not also be the breaking mechanism itself.

- Perhaps context is now relevant, and user input should be interpreted differently when auto-breaking is on and there is an immanent collision.

I think it's important to pay special attention when making any interface change to a well established user behavior, and acknowledge that new behavior leads to unstable and unreliable input. In these cases put extra effort into finding the path of least cognitive burden when the accuracy of user input is the most critical (i.e. immanent collision) even at the expense of adding cognitive burden elsewhere.

Cognitive burden is a critical consideration in all system design from airplanes to cell phones, but tragically is often overlooked.
I work at NIST and took a tour of this machine a few months ago. A few bonus facts:

- The spatial distribution of the local gravity field is a significant part of the uncertainty of these measurements. The weights extend into the basement of the lab, and the gravity in the basement is less than that above the surface. They produce gravity maps by dropping things in a vacuum to get a handle on it.

- The drift in the dead weight standard was mostly caused by the individual masses welding themselves together under the immense pressure of the weight stack. The interface has been designed to reduce this effect.

- The same group is also working to count the number of atoms in the kilogram, so that the mass of the dead weight stack will not be 500,000 times the mass of a piece of platinum in Paris, but will be 500,000 times the mass of 6.XX E23 silicon atoms.
Thank you for this post. I am now very encouraged to contact my state legislators. I might even muster up the courage to call my federal representatives!
I'd probably pay up to $500 but really it's all up to you.

I registered firstnamelastname.com a few years ago which was fortunite as there a few of my name about. Someone later registered my local county domain and used to putting heavy religious stuff on it so I regret not buying that one too now as occasionally people confuse .com and the country domain.
Why do you think you can assess whether they've "got the chops" in an interview better than a university can assess competency in four years?
I think you are confused about ZFS clones. You never stop a production application for a clone because the clone is made from a snapshot. It also is copy on write, so you have no massive data copy. If your application, is not crash consistent, you do need to get it to pause, flush a consistent state and do the snapshot, but the snapshot takes less than a second to do, so such a thing is probably fine.

Also, if you need to stop the database for a consistent snapshot, then your database is not ACID compliant.
> why the dead weight?

I assume it's because masses are more stable and easier to calibrate than the gauge on a hydraulic press.
That sounds like a bad experience with that study group. I found I wasn't really successful as an undergrad until I started to do problem sets with other students. It also really helped to explain problems to others - you don't really understand something until you can explain it to someone else.
Right. Something the parent article completely fails to mention. This is NIST's force standard for large forces, the place you send load cells to be calibrated.[1] If they have to use the whole million pound stack, the fee is $16,489.

[1] http://www.nist.gov/calibrations/force.cfm
> You're getting pretty defensive.

You are the one fetishizing Google. I know MS and Google are both slimy. Google just has a better PR machine.

> and the only defense

I am not defending MS.

> What's your estimate of people who have tried two or more search or mapping engines and have intentionally settled on the Microsoft product?

Most normal people don't know what a search engine and just go with the default.

http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/06/google-a-web-browser-is-not...

http://techcrunch.com/2009/06/17/yeah-what-is-a-browser-anyw...
UTIs can cause symptoms exactly like Alzheimer's, so I'm sure that sparked the idea. My grandmother actually developed Alzheimer's, I can't help but feel it might have been set on by a long standing UTI that the Dr never caught or treated (her Doctor was an old quack from everything I know.) Then again, her sister also has it, so it could also just be genetic. I do hope they figure it out, it's too late for my grandmother, but it's a big drain on everyone and when my grandmother does "break through" briefly, she is basically begging to die. Wouldn't wish it on anyone.
Well, as a fat man, I've been in interviews where the discussion was turned towards the "great" group activities like rock climbing, etc. With topics ever more invasive about "health" and the like. And me walking around with a cane at the time.

On the flip side, I wouldn't breach the subject of religion or politics in an interview, if the topic is breached, I'm not shy about expressing opinions.

Mileage may vary, void where prohibited, quantities limited, some restrictions may apply. Batteries not included.
That's the key question. The article I cited details many limitations on local governments that would seem to limit their ability to demand affordable housing.[1]

Bottom line, this bill is massively supported by developers, so take that as a gauge of how much power it gives municipalities.

[1] http://48hills.org/2016/05/22/a-terrible-housing-bill-looms-...
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It depends why you are supporting the third-party lawsuit (which I agree is hard to prove one way or the other in court) and whether or not you do so openly versus secretly. In the case of the EFF and ACLU, their goal is not to swamp government agencies with lawsuits to the point they close down, or to hurt them economically, their goal is usually either: a) to help someone redress a wrong where they actually care about the wrong or b) to set legal precedent towards a particular policy they support.

I would say there is absolutely no problem if Thiel is funding the lawsuit because he considers Gawker publishing Hogan's tape to be unethical and wants to help Hogan redress that wrong. Although I would perhaps have wanted that disclosed as part of the trial. On the other hand, if Thiel would have funded any lawsuit against Gawker that had a chance, regardless of the other party or the particulars of the case, with the objective of forcing Gawker to shutdown or in order to punish them, then it can be a problem. As another comment pointed out, the hard thing here is that you cannot always tell one from the other. Perhaps strong funding sources disclosure requirements represent a reasonable improvement?
I have the impression that regrettably many docker users expect things to be the other way around: that the actual default docker behaviour resides behind a --ridiculously-insecure, not that you need to specify --i-actually-want-my-container-to-try-to-contain to get that expected behaviour.

Hopefully more people are becoming aware of the actual default behaviour.
Good riddance. Imgur was good for a long time. Then they started hijacking controls, pushing their app down your throat, competing with Reddit itself. Their UX went to hell.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10902906
Sounds more like the guy was mildly autistic. Saying that out loud just opens you up to public ridicule and scorn.
No, it will be because a plutocrat decided to fund a lawsuit unrelated to his reason for disliking them (and apparently influenced the process of that lawsuit with the aim of destroying Gawker to the detriment of Bollea), and abused the inherent bias of our courts towards parties with disproportionate resources.

Bollea may well have had a valid case against Gawker, but we'll never know. The idea that a case with a side funded by a vengeful billionaire could be fairly decided in our court system is absurd.
Hmmmm highway conditions vs 25Mph, the top speed of Google's self driving cars. The Tesla Autopilot is a lot more impressive as it goes a lot faster than 25Mph.
sounds like a case of a change set that was carried out in a non-atomic way when it should have been done atomic
My first day in SF after coming from London for a tech job I accidentally walked into a protest. I asked one of the protestors who they were protesting and he told me it was foreign tech people. So for fun I pretended to be a banker. Apparently bankers are ok.
Wait what? You have it the other way around. Rail will still be dramatically more efficient and cheaper than electric autonomous cars. And inter-city subways will still be more efficient and cheaper than electric autonomous cars. They have higher density, use less space (as opposed to huge roads/highways everywhere), and pollute less.
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I get RSI flare ups every so often. Just over a week ago most recently and read that stressful work just makes it worse.

Now I'm to be in the position that I was able to drop the stressful work. It's helped a lot.
stopped reading when I hit this gem:

"The nature of profit is that you take more than you give,"

um, no, actually the nature of profit is that you generate more value than the worth of the inputs. Some (but not all) of that extra value is your reward for doing this. So in fact, the nature of profit is that you make more than you get.

I don't mind anti-capitalist diatribes every now and again, but getting the basics right is a must.
Grade inflation is a problem for many state American universities, at least. Havard also is a private university where grade inflation has been highlighted as a real problem. See:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2013/12/...

I haven't heard of any universities recently where the problem is instead grade deflation, any links to share?
>"Taking Adderall to study doesn't make you less competent at the subject in question"

What happens when you stop taking it?

We frown upon doping in school for the same reason we frown upon it in sports. It creates an environment where people are forced to deal with the side effects to compete, or receive a lower grade.

Employers will expect that you continue your performance outside of school. If you stop doping after school, your employer will notice the new correlation between GPA and performance - hurting those with legitimate work ethic and skill. If you don't stop doping, you will start to experience some serious health issues.

(Even if employers don't think that GPA matters, so long as any significant number hire based on it the zero-sum fault will persist.)
Because 500 tons of dead weight is going to stay 500 tons.

A hydraulic press would need to be calibrated.
As a USA native I can confirm that it is even simpler here. You can just say, "Sup?"
No.

The university administrators tell the faculty that cheating is a really big deal, that they take very seriously. They will not tolerate it, and will severely punish any student they catch cheating.

Of course, it is essential that the university treats students fairly when they are under such terrible suspicion. Therefore, any complaint of cheating should be made on the approved 15 page form, handwritten in quadruplicate, and submitted for the Vice-Chancellor to consider in her copious free time.
> Goebbels and Stalin is a bit too hyperbolic

Parent was quoting Noam Chomsky
In Smalltalk implementations like Pharo, Squeak etc changes are captured in a changes file. If the image crashes before being saved, it is possible to cherry pick and replay unsaved changes from the changes file.
>If you're not part of a fraterntiy/sorority that archives coursework/tests of previous students or part of an international student in-group then you can easily fall through the cracks from this grade deflation effect.

+1 I saw this going on at my highly ranked university. After many B's, my self-esteem got a boost senior year when I finally took a newly required course with a new professor where there were no old tests to study and got an A.
How is it unsustainable? I have a room for rent, that's more than a lot of people.
Too little too late. Middle class is gone.
Sounds like you want to live in the past. Unfortunately this is not how life works. The more you try to keep something from happening that is inevitable the less effective your attempts will become until you lose.

NYC experienced this yesterday. SF is experiencing this today. Many cities will be experiencing this tomorrow. As population density grows this same scenario will repeat everywhere over the next century. There is no escaping it.
reddit should have done this a long time ago, they just didn't because image hosting is expensive in every dimension, and why bother if someone else is willing to do the heavy lifting for you?

Oh right, because they can just become a social network site themselves and eat your traffic. imgur has replaced reddit for a large number of users, and they realize they're losing a ton of traffic to people clicking their way to imgur and then staying there.
You could evaluate using WebSharper which is opensource and company backed project with good trackrecord at using F# on server and client with same semantics.

http://www.websharper.com/

Fable has made few choices on the semantics which make it not totally identical to F# on the server, although this shouldn't impact most of the code severely; but the mindset of Fable is different than websharper.

For F# on the server, Mono might not be lightest (if you compare to python or ruby which are already there by default) but is still the most suitable option right now until the OSS dotnet core eco system stabilizes and supports major libraries.

F# is definitely a fine functional programming language, able to blend with a tinge of OO where it makes sense while still being functional first. Relatively easy to pick-up if you have exposure to haskell or ocaml or sibblings.
You do have some power over what gets built. It's called the zoning process, which allows us to decide ahead of time which types of things we will allow or not, so that people can plan and proceed accordingly. It's why we have laws that people can read, rather than just bringing everything before a jury to decide after it happens whether or not it was illegal.

Deciding what housing can be built should not be like a game of Scattergories, where we all just argue about whether or not something is okay after the fact.

Because the way it stands, only projects with high rate of return will be built--ie luxury housing. A 10% rate of return on investment might be okay for a project that takes one year, but if it drags on to 4 years, that's barely beating inflation. Time is money, and our process makes our housing more expensive.
> It depends why you are supporting the third-party lawsuit

Right, so the real problem here is simply that people don't like him. The motive is something that exists only in his head--people can, and will, invent motives consistent with whatever their opinion of a person is.

Insofar as there's an argument that lawsuit funding should be open, well, I submit that perhaps the laws on that should be changed if this is truly at issue.
Are you genuinely advocating the limitless disclosure of nude images of people, with no legal recourse to prevent that?

Am I grossly misunderstanding this case?
Ah yes, missed that earlier. Added now.
Dude, my dude, Thiel just paid for part of Hogan's legal fees.

That money's not gonna conjure up evidence from the luminiferous aether.
The fact is that the valley is not the only place with high real estate prices . Hosing prices are high in places like Hong Kong or New York or for that matter even Mumbai in India. And those places have much more apartments than the valley has ! High real estate price in the valley is not an exception it is just a reflection of what happens when people from all over migrate to one place for a livelihood.
It's two extremes of the same problem. Perl code generally doesn't abstract enough, while Java code often abstracts too much. I recently was tasked with porting a legacy perl system to Java. The main pl file of the legacy code was only about ~6k lines, but it also only contained 6 subroutines in the entire thing. The final Java product probably had more actual code glueing everything together and abstracting it, but the meaty parts were much cleaner, simpler, and easier to understand. I was able to show newcomers the new system and within a few minutes they could figure out at least what the major moving parts do, while they would immediately run away form the perl code due to the sheer scariness of it.
Preventing many 0day or canned exploits isn't exactly suboptimal. It just requires better or more educated sysadmins.