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It's apples and oranges. Email, phone, IRC/Slack/Lync/Hipchat/Discord. They all have their own purposes. I don't think many companies are trying to replace email; just provide an alternative for times when email would be unnecessary and bulky.

I like to think of email as the "ledger" or repository, while your IRC alternative is your working branch.
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I was hoping for more.

Sometimes, when you're learning a new tool, you know you need to ask something but you don't know exactly what it is you want to ask.

That's what I was hoping for.
Bugs, yes.

Blatant disregard of user-specified OS-level permissions and inability to access your own files when there are more than fifteen in a folder, no.
people who click on the top ads spend more

Probably because they are less web savvy and less aware of the options they have.
Do they also work towards world peace?

And think about the children!
How exactly am I stagnating by not lending plausibility (and thus some tacit acceptance) to a demonstrably self-limiting belief absent absolutely iron-clad evidence in its favor? I'm not a research psychologist who makes a living or derives self-worth studying expertise.

Remember, I'm not completely discounting talent and fostering unrealistic expectations. In fact, I explicitly stated I believe talent is necessary to succeed at the highest level (i.e. medaling at the olympics). I just think even if you are un-talented, if you do everything right you can still be in the ~97-99th percentile in terms of ability (depending on the activity) which is objectively still pretty awesome.
> The existence of such programs contradicts Mr Evans statement.

Yes, but only if you insist on a very strict interpretation of "correctness" as some Platonic ideal that doesn't exist. If that's what the author meant, then you're right that it is unattainable.

> Ethereum's creators had an informal spec of the "code _IS_ the contract"

I don't know if the word spec as it is used in formal methods is the right one here, just as I don't know if saying "they created the empty test suite" makes sense. That is a decision to treat the code as the contract, basically a decision to declare any sequence of bits as correct by definition. However, a specification as understood in formal verification is an expression of what you want the code to do. Obviously, the authors of said contract felt it failed to meet what they had in mind in writing this particular program, hence it did not conform to their imagined spec. And this is the whole point of techniques like testing or formal verification: making sure that the program does what you want it to do as much as possible.
> the responsibility that really matters is the responsibility not to cause harm to others. Anyone choosing a pedal cycle instead of a car has already acquitted themselves of a whole load of that responsibility, by choosing a vehicle far less capable of causing harm.

How about the person pedaling a bike in a town without a bike lane, at night, with a kid in a trailer in the back with a barely visible flag sticking up. He could have been the best bike rider in the world, yet I have no doubt he was doing a very unsafe thing.

Let's take the kid out of the equation. I don't quite follow the logic "well they are doing a less safe thing, so they should be able to do it and get the right of way because of it". Even taking the idea that they are an adult and if they want do put themselves in harm's way and should be allowed to, is silly, because it is rarely just one person isolated from everything. If they get into an accident it is not just them, but their family who will be impacted, emergency services, doctors' time.
I don't really feel that you being a millennial or using vim is relevant.

I have no idea how you would go about getting github to implement whatever functionality is desired and even so would come with the following disadvantages

-- Requiring a chrome extension limiting people to using chrome + a singular website vs any email client under the sun

-- wouldn't work offline

-- Presumably it would be more challenging for sight impaired individuals to use a js heavy website vs their email. They stated they had existing contributors who were so impaired.

-- Since people still presumably do a lot of discussion via email it would mean using at minimum github AND email some of which would refer back and forth to other discussions.

-- Relying on github would require tying free software infrastructure to a single non free software tool. Recalling bitkeeper this didn't go well last time.

-- Hosted github costs additional money.

-- The primary and perhaps only benefit would be making it easier for people to come in off the street and drop patches with minimal effort but this would actually cost effort to manage and the kind of individual who can't or likely wont figure out how to use existing infrastructure may not be an optimal contributor in any case.

Basically your solution involves not only effort to create tools that don't exist, the cooperation of a third party, but the end result would almost certainly be objectively worse in a number of ways.

I feel like you didn't really address any of the things the actual expert on the matter said and just hand waved his entire argument away.
If you're going to build tunnels for vehicles, you might as well put tracks in.
Sorry for taking so long to answer.

Experience building and supporting them. This is really just a definition based on my own experience and environments.
Because if they don't their competitors will.
Surely there's a way to bring technological deflation to tunneling.

Tunnels are complex beasts. Existing utilities need to be located snd rerouted. You need drainage. You may need soil stabilization. You need ventilation - yes if the tunnel was restricted to electrical vehicles there won't be ICE emissions but you do have to guard against settling of harmful gases, not to mention fire. You need emergency egress. And tunnel sizing isn't just determined by passenger vehicles, you need to allow for maintenance vehicles (like paving machines) and emergency vehicles.
Cars wouldn't be so much of a problem if there were fewer of them. A mostly-pedestrianized street with a car going down it at low speed every 5 minutes isn't much of an issue. There was a time in many major US cities where cars coexisted with pedestrians and other vehicles, because there were simply fewer cars. But there seems to be a certain tipping point where you get enough cars, and they push everything else off of the roads (either de facto or de jure), and what you have left is an automobile-dominated wasteland.

The straightforward solution in places like Manhattan with limited entrances and exits is simply to limit the number of cars at the bridges and tunnels and toll the hell out of them. If it cost $150 or $200 to drive into Manhattan (rough guess at the market-clearing price for "car permits" if you wanted to return to a pre-1960s level), I suspect there wouldn't be nearly as many cars on the road, and you wouldn't have very many pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities.

The political will to do this, of course, is the problem.
Not that they have to do it as part of their day-to-day, but that they can communicate well enough to do so if needed. It's a given that the development skills are there in my mind, but to go beyond "junior", I believe someone has to have a strong enough understanding of things that they can both communicate well and be able to recommend solutions rather than just implement them.

Just my personal opinion. Based on environment, this may or may not be a good gauge.
If you don't have testers your users become testers. Microsoft is learning this fact the hard way.
in my area it seems that bikers have completely lost their minds.

it's not uncommon for them to run red lights, cut across multiple lanes without checking for cars behind them, and all sorts of other batty bullshit.

the point that i believe is often lost in these debates is that bikers and drivers _cannot_ share the same road. you can paint as many pretty lines as you want, but as long as bikes and cars have to share the same pavement, there will be no resolution
> If a driver behaves dangerously near a cyclist, the cyclist dies. [...] If a cyclist misbehaves near a driver, the driver is very far from harm.

But the cyclist is not. Why is it ok for the cyclist to behave unsafe, end up in in the hospital, crippled for life, or dead?
No. From what I understand, Google downplays porn searching and that's the only area left for Bing to shine.
> So what?

Uninvested trade surplus increasing the value of homes outside the surplus country, making it unaffordable for people who live there.

Perhaps ask these to yourself, amongst owning your shows.

- Do you own a home?

- Do you earn little to no interest at your bank?
Before I get all the hate I have to say of course cyclists should obey the laws. As a cyclist I can tell you it doesn't matter either way to many certifiably deranged motorists.

Caveat aside, I'm constantly amazed that this argument gets brought up over and over again.

Traffic laws exist to ensure public safety. So let's cut the bike/car bullshit about the laws being equal for both.

Let's take a simple offense like running a stop sign at 15 km/hr and suppose that a pedestrian gets hit. What's the difference between a car doing this and a bicycle? Both the bike and the car are going 4 m/s. But there's a huge difference between getting hit by a car that's 1500 kg plus passengers versus an 80 kg person plus a 9 kg bike. Simple thought experiment, you've just been hit by something. What outcome would be more favorable? Would you rather have a Honda Civic on your spleen or some asshat bike courier named Jack? Two tonnes versus nine kilograms?

The crime may be the same, but the outcome is far different. I've seen a van run a red light and the cyclist traveling orthogonally ride right into the side of it going 45 km/hour. Not pretty.
People get paid for work they do that generates profit for the people paying them to do the work. Science, by its very nature, benefits society as a whole as opposed to the people who pay for the science. Patents are designed to correct this somewhat, but often aren't really enforceable. Most companies also don't have the lifetime to benefit from long-term moon-shot projects. When companies do promote science, they usually have a monopoly (for example Bell Labs).

Also, the supply-side of the equation is very important. There are plenty of people willing to be graduate students and post-docs for low pay, so they won't get paid much even if the work they do is important. This is made worse by the huge number of foreign workers who are willing to work for peanuts as postdocs and graduate students, see:
https://psmag.com/the-real-science-gap-f00edae57ba1#.pbo4crt....
It increases the clickable area that will result in a visit to your site, it blocks others from taking up any of that critical real estate (via ads or organic rank), and like others have said, it's probably relatively cheap for the brand owner to bid on their own brand.

I think increasing the clickable area is pretty important, especially with mobile users.

And customers, since they know it's an ad, might be nice and click on the organic link instead. :-)
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A group of economists at Ebay ran a series of experiments to measure the value or promoted links when the brand already own the top organic link http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/stadelis/Tadelis.pdf

They find no measurable short term benefit to purchasing the "Ebay" keyword on sales.
Anyone else work with NLP but unlikely to try this tool simply because it's in Java?

Do any Python NLP engineers integrate Java tools in their setup, e.g. via Jython? How does that work for you?
Speed limits are decided under the assumption that people will exceed them under normal driving conditions.

In other words, speed limits are usually intentionally too slow. It would be insane to follow them in many situations.
Because hurting yourself is far less egregious than hurting others?
Hey, this is the guy whose dissertation talk I went to several months ago, which is on the same topic!
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It depends. There are some sites that simply provide a direct link to a file on Google's CDN. That still wouldn't get rid of most of the charges against YouTube-MP3 though, such as circumvention and the like.
There's an old saying... Some people have 10 years of experience, others have one year repeated 10 times.

If you're running a race, it doesn't matter how much effort you put in if you're going in the wrong direction. In many cases the ones with "talent" are the ones that chose a direction at random that just happened to be roughly correct.

The root of the issue is that most people don't approach learning and skill development in anything even remotely close to a methodical, focused manner. They "just do it" and hope that the magical improvement fairy will sprinkle skill-dust on them while they sleep. Maybe they read a book or some articles from time to time, and occasionally think to apply the things they read, but that is about it. Do you think that these same people would take that approach if someone put a gun to their family and said "master XYZ or they die" ?
When I lived in Palo Alto, every single day I saw delivery vehicles parked in the middle of a lane in a 2-lane street. The police never seemed to do anything about it. I think we should encourage a culture of vigilante traffic enforcement. If someone leaves a car parked in the middle of the road because they were too lazy to park elsewhere nearby, they deserve to get their vehicle dinged up a little bit. Hopefully that might actually dissuade them from parking in the middle of the road.
That is an interesting point. Someone probably figured it out they could buy what looks like an armored verhicle. Setup an LLC with some security sounding name. Then probably park it around the city whenever they want. Not sure if it would be worth the trouble with all the cost in fuel, but who knows.

Heard about someone before buying a Crown Vic and getting a taxi package (or whatever the search comes with) and driving that around. They weren't impersonating an officer, but cars would regularly slow down around or get out of his way when he was behind them.
I think you're trying to have your cake and eat it too. Wouldn't a global directory of email addresses be the antithesis of privacy?

The greatest difference between email and all of today's proprietary alternatives is that your email identity doesn't need to be vetted by any central authority. Of course this makes spam harder to deal with, but it's part of the cost of decentralization and one that we must learn to deal with. Fortunately, most of the email services I use are pretty good at filtering spam, as well as making sure that my emails don't get marked as spam by other email services.
"Speed limits are decided under the assumption that people will exceed them under normal driving conditions."

If true, this seems silly. So I'd love to know if you have specific information about the decision process, or whether this is just an assertion/feeling.
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I follow them all the time. You are certainly capable of doing so, but you choose to endanger everyone else
> your CC does the conversion automatically

At a markup. This was 1% for Visa and MasterCard back in ~2006 when I looked into it.
Some suicide bombers are children, coerced or fooled into it. "Go stand there in the crowd. Your parents will be proud. If you dont, something very unfortunate might happen to your little sibling."
Wtf? Is this a US phenomenon?

In Australia people do stick to limits, more or less. At least, speeders are judged by other drivers fairly harshly.
And the contention here is that it's inappropriate (unless you mean to suggest that diseases are sentient or otherwise capable of intention to foment terror) and overplayed, and it ultimately corrodes the meaning of and devalues the word.
I agree, I cannot find weakness in your arguments. I wish I could upvote you more than once. :)

"Illusion" strikes me as having a negative connotation, though. Could we say "Agency is the result of computation in our neurons" instead? We run simulations in our sleep to solve for problems we encountered the previous day. We're simulating things all the time with our computers.

We're not mindless automata, I'm sure. Although 'mind' could just be explained by the small set of random possibilities you refer to. But, I suspect that because I can ponder about what you've written and not segfault and die means I'm not mindless.
I'd rather not be hit by either of them, period. Cars should not be running stop signs or lights, but neither should bicyclists, period. Full stop. Also, having a bike run the stop sign and fly into an intersection out of nowhere can easily cause cars to swerve, causing accidents, or even strike the bicyclist.

It's not difficult to drive, ride, or walk safely. Just do it and stop whining.
It works well in Denmark and Netherlands and several other European countries. Even London is slowly learning. Maybe Americans are just exceptionally stubborn.
I don't think it does? Figure 4 is an example of a manually written summary in the dataset.

There are some examples of how the sentence compression works, but no complete automatic summaries that I can see.
Yeah, in the US, it's pretty much acceptable to go 5 or 10 mph over the limit on any non-residential road. Cops generally don't ticket unless you are going 10+ mph over.
I am going to cancel my premium membership. It was due for renewal, but I am not going to do it. Don't like the direction this is all heading.
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> It doesn't matter what people think they're motivated by. This is a capitalist economy. If you don't care about money, then you don't care about the reality you live in, and, sadly, that's true for a lot of day-dreamy scientists. How money flows is important, and people being exploited is a form of malfunction of such an economy that should always be mitigated.

This isn't really true - there are things other than money that are important, like happiness. A graduate student in the sciences gets paid enough to live on, and enjoys a good amount of job security. The work is for a good cause, and despite all the complaining most graduate students. You are pretty unlikely to get fired as a graduate student. A postdoc is a much worse job, I don't think anyone should take a postdoc unless they really don't have any other options (or are from a third-world country). With that said, when I started my PhD I didn't care about low pay, but later on this was no longer true, and having just finished a PhD if I could go back in time I would not do it again.
Are the children going to feel a lot better if father is dead because he decided to cross the red light or or someone else did instead. They might, but they still won't have a father. So I'll go for less egregious, but I am not sure about the "far" part.

Is ambulance ride going to cost less because the person did it to the themselves or it was someone else' fault? I don't think it will.

Would you say that people shouldn't wear seatbelts, after all, they are just hurting themselves mostly? How is this different?
I've been using SpiderOak for over 6 years now, and three things haven't changed:

Their UI is crappy and laggy, and doesn't look like it belongs in any platform.

It takes forever to sync files between devices.

It sometimes gets confused when I rapidly switch between branches in a git repository, touching thousands of small files each time.

But I love the ability to pick and choose exactly which files and folders to backup and sync. SpiderOak adapts to my workflow, instead of demanding that I put my files in specific folders. If inefficiency is a necessary cost of combining this kind of flexibility with full client-side encryption, I can live with that.
Patent attorneys tend to have a pro-patent bias, and these attitudes seem to have rubbed off on Federal Circuit judges. Most obviously, a significant minority of Federal Circuit judges have been patent lawyers themselves, whereas judges on other courts almost never come from a patent law background. But beyond that, the heavy load of patent cases on the court's docket means that the judges of the Federal Circuit are constantly interacting with patent lawyers. In addition to hearing their arguments in the courtroom, they read the same patent law publications as the lawyers, hire young patent lawyers to clerk for them, and are invited to speak at events organized by the patent bar. [0]

[0] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/how-a-rogue-appea...
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Segregation can happen also by using kerbs. That can't happens with the road layout inthe picture. The cars should park on the other side, but the costs go way up: narrow the road and segregate cyclists from pedestrians. The bike road should be on the same level as the road, not of the sidewalk.

Btw, there are almost no bicycles in Venice, Italy. Roads too narrow, sometimes only one or two slim people wide, and too many pedestrians, almost all of them tourists.

Edit: and the zillion of bridges with steps. Venice is hostile to any kind of wheels.
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There is a compromise, the Idaho stop[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_stop
Movie hangs around HN.. perhaps he could comment on this (or is adviced to not comment)?

I searched for this URL on algolia and are about 10 posts of these over the past months, but none have gained many upvotes.
Yes, but they don't get to break them selectively based solely on who would come to greater harm, like the parent commenter suggested. There are common rules of the road that apply to everyone.

For example, it's not okay for a car to rear end a truck or for a pedestrian to jaywalk.
As an American, I have certainly internalized a safe +10% mph heuristic when it comes to speed limits.
HN isn't about the latest news, because the comments are always about how the idea is terrible or useless and technically inept.

Even when there's a million users, or crazy growth that doesn't change apparently. There's a saying somewhere now that if HN hates it its a good sign. This is probably a test of it. Snapchat & Twitter in the hall of fame.
"Here is how debt parking works. Suppose the debtor (in this case The Donald) is going to get his debt cancelled for (say) 1c in the dollar. When he gets the debt wiped out the debtor (ie The Donald) will have to report assessable income equal to the debt wiped out (in this case 99 percent of $916 million).

The alternative though is for the debtor to set up a dummy party. The dummy party might be his wife or children or some company or trust set up by them or more likely some completely opaque offshore trust."
I think that's a pretty awful argument. Obviously different traffic violations in different vehicles carry different safety risks. But I would say that there are broad classes of traffic violations that are deserving of roughly equal social stigma, and I think running a stop sign in a populated area is one of them. A bicycle is absolutely capable of seriously injuring or killing a pedestrian, or causing a larger accident among other vehicles and automobiles. Yes, all else being equal, a car will do more damage than a bike, but it's not enough of a difference for me to react with noticeably different levels of disdain. Surely you don't tie your level of disdain linearly to the mass of the vehicle. Is an SUV running a stop sign twice as bad as a compact car running a stop sign?
I think the idea being referred to is the 85th percentile speed. Here's a news article that talks about it: http://articles.latimes.com/2005/mar/09/autos/hy-wheels9
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