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Rust is an interesting language, although I haven't really had the time to really sit down and play with it (just switched jobs to become a mobile developer while knowing no Swift/Obj-C and not much Java, so I've got my hands full for at least a few weeks).

I've been watching Rust on that Benchmarks Game site for a while — it's been interesting to see it go from worse than Java a year or so ago to competitive with C++. It was slightly beating C++ for a couple days, although just recently C++ took its biggest lead in a while[0]; I think they upgraded the GCC version they were using.

Anyway, I'm very curious whether it ultimately turns out that, as advertised, Rust's performance characteristics really are as good or better than C++'s[1].

[0] http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/which-programs-...

[1] The "Benchmarks Game" site very fairly specifies the algorithm that must be used for each benchmark — many of them say data must be operated on sequentially, so IMO Rust is getting a bit of an unfair advantage if the compiler is able to be particularly aggressive at autovectorizing it.

OTOH that is a nice real-world speedup, and anything else that's implemented with LLVM or GCC also has access to that optimization, so YMMV.
You can read the source code for the major open source browsers (Chromium, Firefox). I'm not sure if you mean the implementation of cookies or the application of them.
I guess, if your benchmark for a satisfying life is to maximize discounted future cashflow.
That's if they switch the entire site to https. They could just switch the update check to https and have no problems with ads (although it would be admittedly less secure).
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liquidsoap is audio only right?

Most streaming servers are bloated and slow. If nginx can do for video streaming what they've done for web servers it would be great.
You can't disagree with a premise you haven't demonstrated you even understand and your continued incessant pedantry leads me to believe you can't understand, so as I said, we're done; leave it at that.
Which of the specific roles are REMOTE?
Yesterday I mentioned vodka to my wife in Facebook Messenger and a few minutes later she saw a vodka advertisement on her timeline. Obviously Messenger will never include end to end encryption.
Thanks for the article, I'll give it a read later today.

I'll try to add some clarity to what I said (because passive voice isn't the only way to muddy the linguistic waters).

A passive voice doesn't make the sentence bad and often the passive voice does constitute perfectly fine English. When saying, "I was exhuasted" I may have no idea what drained me of my energy, in which case a passive is totally appropriate. However, it does lack clarity for the very reason you suggest "${SUBJECT} exhausted me" changes the meaning--"I was exhausted" doesn't specify who or what is responsible for the action of the verb. By not mentioning what exhausted you, the sentence looses a small amount of specificity.

"I am covered in green paint" is also passive because what covered you in paint? Something or someone is doing the paint covering, but by using the passive voice you can obscure the subject.

While we are recommending articles, Orwell has some enjoyable things to say about the use of the passive language in politics.

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm

Writing in such a way so that you can be understood isn't sufficient. You should always write in such a way so that you cannot be misunderstood, and using the active voice with its higher specificity goes along way towards that. However, exceptions will abound. As one of my professors used to say, "Language is the result habits--all of them bad".
Know those little emails that Facebook sends you throughout the day? I've turned most of mine off, but I still like to know when people mention me, or get a page update.

Well, I figured out today that when Facebook has these, it doesn't necessarily send them to you right away. Instead it waits until it looks like you've bailed off the site to do something else. Then you get an email notification -- drawing you back into Facebook.

Yep. Pretty tired of it. Thousands of really smart people using the latest in tech to try to play me like a musical instrument.
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The “Epidemic” that duped the Nazis
It restores the tabs, but it doesn't change directories.
How can that be "the" issue? That's fundamentally how business equity -- the entire stock market -- works. Certain decisions are put up to a vote of shareholders, one-share-one-vote, and the result binds all shareholders.

It's no more unusual than "forcing" naysayer shareholders to accept the dilution that comes with e.g. a secondary offering.

(Certainly, there are reasons to dispute the prudence of the decision, but that would be orthogonal to your argument, which seems to be about the mere fact of overruling minority dissenters.)
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Too many ad buyers don't have https support, so the number of bidders for the ad space is lower, meaning a lower price per ad.
It seems divorced from reality to me, though I claim no real special expertise. They seem to have no more ability to be a monopoly than any other logistics or transportation powerhouse. The market cap of UPS is ~$90bn, and FedEx ~$40bn. And those companies have a lot of real actual assets* and (arguably) much stronger network effects than a local taxi replacement company.

It's not that it's so implausible it couldn't happen, it just seems to insert some very serious risk for a large swath of the equity holders, and makes me wonder why the company is so keen to assume that risk.

[* UPS has over $40bn worth of stuff like airplanes, trucks, land, and buildings on their books.]
With the disclosure that my girlfriend had a car, I did pretty well in Santa Monica without one for years (pre Uber). There were enough bus lines that went through there that it wasn't a big problem. However anytime you needed to get somewhere that required a transfer it really extended the trip.
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So where's the line? I'm reading your argument as we shouldn't even try to prevent or even address injustice in other countries as they presumably have some method of justifying it.
"I'm not racist, but..."
"BI could prevent urbanization, and make small businesses blossom in smaller countryside towns."

I agree that urbanization has its downsides. However, lets remember that they aren't making land anymore:) As someone who grew up on a farm, I remember looking at suburbs as they sprawled out, taking over farmland. I was thinking, what are those people going to eat? Also, my observation is that there are more small business downtown, whereas walmart has dominated rural areas. Totally anecdotal, I know.

"And outside of a city you would have better opportunities to grow some food on your own"

I imagine this must be a dream to those who grew up in cities, having a secluded house with a nice garden. I know i am living the dream with dozens of restaurants/bars/shops within walking distance! But if we take an acre of farmland, and replace it with a house, lawn, and .1 acre of garden, what happens to the food supply? Apartment buildings and urbanization have their pros.
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Saudi Arabia? A country that is itself seeking a cash infusion?!

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9dd8cbfe-2755-11e6-8ba3-cdd781d02d...
Nice to see real life tutorials on Haskell.
Often enough that I don't want to have to rely on a separate script or service to generate the passwords for me and save the profiles and then copy the result into KeePass entries.
How can you seriously think that? Do you think that crucifying someone for taking part in pro-democratic protests is not universally bad? Why not let our government do it? If they label it as good, who are we to judge ...
I can't comment on all of your points, because I don't have any evidence for or against them, but regarding your first point I found this Reddit AMA containing responses from at least a couple of the Urbit devs:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4bxf6f/im_curtis_yarv...

They don't seem that antagonistic here. Do you have any evidence that supports your point?
It seems like the update hangs. I manually force quit "iTerm" in Activity Monitor, relaunched it and now it works without a hitch.
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He also claims that some ethnic groups are genetically predisposed to being good slaves. Please think critically about this, instead of just saying "well, he says he's not racist!"
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according e.g. to the stories linked below and many previous reports, Uber actively aims to reduce the number of cars on the road, and its efforts, especially Uber Pool will reduce the oil consumption and, as a result, oil prices...
And now they get the largest investment yet from a party that is NOT interested in falling oil prices... What am I missing here?
https://newsroom.uber.com/us-new-york/taking-1-million-cars-...
http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/may/31/...
Indeed not, but enquiring into what the in-the-wild de-facto beliefs about behaviour are might help in deciding what the de-jure rules should be changed to, or what a compiler implementation ought to do if it cares about what it does on the vast mass of code out there that does commit undefined behaviour, wittingly or otherwise...
You seem to think being disruptive means it has to be always super successful and always ethical. Being disruptive has nothing to do with how successful they are. There are tons of disruptive approaches that failed. Also being disruptive has nothing to do with whether they're ethical or not. Maybe you have your own little definition, but that's not the definition the rest of the world uses.
Why privacy is more than crypto
Looking at dtrace, fishwork, zfs and Solaris (imo was the best OS technologically speaking) it's interesting to see how strong and innovative its engineering team was while the business was just going down. How did that happen? How can the engineering team be that productive and functional while the business vision was so lacking?
Heh yeah I wrote about this a while back -

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/27/facebooks-categorial-impera...

But you add human intelligence to this kind of thing and it starts getting creepily accurate much of the time if you're looking to promote certain behaviors, expose others, or what have you.
Negative value is a subjective judgement.

Updates themselves are signed packages. While it's not ideal, careful users do gain value in an open, free, and mature solution.

Full disclosure: I sell a plugin for KeePass 2.
Eventually the browser will merge with messenger as a two-way internet portal.

Currently, browser is outgoing, and messenger is incoming but if an app can integrate both. Well, that's your online homescreen...
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I was going to speculate that they will charge for access, but Googling to get the Supercharger name right lead here:

http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/06/no-free-superchargers-fo...

Announced today, they will charge for access.
Sorry if I was not clear. I meant that it sounds to me that this is their plan. I didn't say they will succeed.
Inertia. I've been using KeePass for years and I'm still on v1 because at the time the v1 database format was more well supported across all the "keepass" compatible apps on iOS, OS X, Android, etc.

What I have works for me very well although I will admit that the v2 database format is supported well enough these days that I could migrate.
Tesla Model 3 owners will have to pay for supercharger access
Yes, but Costa Rica, Thailand, and New Zealand are not barren, desolate places where these retirees need to live "off the grid". They're civilized, populated places; retirees move there because the cost of living is much lower: they can afford a nice home and some servants which they can't afford on the Social Security pension here.

With a UBI scheme, this can't be allowed. People on Social Security can do this because they've earned that check by paying into the system over their working years (and in reality, expats like that have more money than just a measly SS check; it's not that cheap to live in those places, especially NZ; these are middle-class and up people with IRAs). UBI is not like this: it's unearned, but it's a dividend paid to citizens in the society for being part of that society, and taking advantage of the fruits of that society (like automated production). It's also an investment: it's meant to allow citizens to be free of severe financial worry, so they can take more risks (like starting a new business), or take more time off for good mental health. Part of the bargain, however, is that they have to actually stay in the society. That UBI check they get needs to be spent in the country, where it can be circulated back into the economy, for it all to work. If they just move to Costa Rica and spend all their UBI money there, that isn't helping the American economy.
1. Where? I don't see any of that on the sources you linked [AMA on Reddit]

2. Where [breitbart article linked doesn't really get into it beyond other people saying it]?

3. I do think Hoon is a bit too complex

4. If the company dies the project doesn't die. Curtis has been working on this for years from what I've read
If you look at the Uber blogs and public statements, the company is far more ambitious than simply being the ride sharer with the largest market share.

The company's vision is to make transportation as seamless and reliable as running water. They have other projects going on right now, such as delivery truck automation and self-driving cars. I would consider them to be competing not only with Lyft but also with Hertz, Budget, and Enterprise.
> The only thing that can ''take out'' Uber is widespread adoption of autonomous vehicles

That's ridiculous. It's not even a little hard to imagine that they could be overtaken by a similar competitor such as Lyft given a plausible sequence of events. In fact it's basically a certainty that they would be if they ever abandoned competing based on price. Which defeats a hell of a lot of the point of paying to acquire a monopoly in the first place.
> much of HN is very eager to see all billion dollar valuations deflate

where do you get this from? HN is news for the people building startups and I would imagine they like high valuations :)
What I find particularly interesting is Uber now has someone on their board who thinks women should not be allowed to drive? It will be interesting to watch this play out and take note of their policy and public statements. I can see many sources of conflict in such a decision.
because you aren't a qualified investor and the SEC mandates certain obligations that the company must comply with to have you as an owner.
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Rumor has it they're working on an on-demand servant beating service called Uber Beats.
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Wow, you're right, hadn't thought of that. When you account for the (large) risk of Uber not reaching that stage, that should put them at $20 billion optimistically.

In fairness, though, neither FedEx nor UPS count as a near-monopoly either, but the probability of a real one is correspondingly less probable anyway.
Its nice to see this sort of explanation. I just wish this had come out earlier, like when Arch was in the process of switching over to Systemd.

>Lack of confiurability. It was impossible to change the behaviour of initscripts in a way that would survive system updates.

I wonder how often updates (dist-upgrades or package updates?) actually break initscripts. Further, would it make a system no longer boot fully (e.g. to the GUI login prompt)?
No, in the USA our executions are cruelty-free.
Because people don't actually want to share a cab with a stranger, and wait while that stranger is dropped off.

At least, that's my bet.
It seems smart for a sovereign wealth fund to try to diversify its holdings. Exxon and Chevron also invest in renewables, despite the fact that renewables potentially cannibalize oil sales.
Couldn't this be solved by signing the update file?

But the excuse of the dev is bogus in any case. In is trivial to have that single file transferred via HTTPS. His ad revenue excuse makes me thing something fishy is going on here.
Hello! I'm one of the Urbit devs.

1. Has this ever actually happened? I'd be quite disturbed by that. We're more than happy to have people learning about Urbit, although we're not particularly active on social media.

2. Curtis is certainly controversial. None of us share his views, but we do enjoy working together. I'd like to think we live in a world where people who don't agree can still collaborate professionally.

3. Learning Hoon is much easier than it looks. In my experience it's absolutely designed for usability — although it doesn't appear that way at first. We're actively working to better explain how Hoon works and teach people the language. It would be totally against our interests to do otherwise. I do think our new docs do a much better job: http://urbit.org/docs

4. There is a company behind Urbit, but it's not technically possible for us to control the project in the long term. Urbit is definitely not behind any kind of 'firewall' — it's designed to be owned by the community.

I'd encourage you to check out the posts on our beliefs and principles [0], address space [1] and company [2].

0 - http://urbit.org/posts/principles/
1 - http://urbit.org/posts/address-space/
2 - http://urbit.org/posts/company/
The insight by Curtis Yarvin is that modern computation is massively, massively wasteful. That there is a simple way to do computing we do today.
I've seen this idea but can't understand it. By owning or leasing a fleet of driverless cars Uber only increases its operating costs
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This might be best saved for r/showerthoughts but it just dawned on me that Facebook boosted posts are like Adwords but without any transparency. You pay for your boosted posts to show up but people who see the post don't recognize this on the surface (advertisement not identified). Google could just as easily charge for a "SERP booster". Why do we allow this from Facebook?
Or we could open medical credentialing to foreign talent. But that would mean that our trade policy would have disadvantage elites rather simply leaving the working class open to global competition while protecting doctors, lawyers, and content conglomerates.
Very curious what they will do with this. Demandware is horrible to develop for.
60 billion as compared to Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, AT&T, Google. I mean basically we're talking about a high end phone app and supporting company infrastructure around that. 60 Billion for Uber. I'm just not seeing it.
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yup, everything here was disclosed previously
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Many years ago I reported two bugs in KeePass, one related to the tray icon, and the other related to some bad rendering in the GUI.

Both were closed, with reasons like "this is a bug in .NET", "this is a bug in Windows". Maybe they were, but somehow other applications didn't expose them. The bugs were annoying, and if it were my software I would have fixed them somehow, even if they were not my fault.

Long story short, the author gave me a bad impression, the kind of "know it all, know it best" attitude. So his refusal to fix this MITM problem doesn't surprise me one bit.
Your point that the US is complicit and that our hands are not clean is well taken. There is a moral topology, this isn't black and white.
It's threads like these where you start to wonder just how many marketing teams are arguing with each other in the comments. I take the FUD with a grain of salt: there is a lot of financial incentive to create FUD, where there is financial incentive and little to no regulations a market will naturally arise. It's going to get worse as the bubble pops and companies become more and more desperate.