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I like this idea as much as I like some of the others I've heard over the years. I was a daily NJ Transit commuter for almost 8 years but am now down to twice a week. Upgrades to Penn Station are as needed as are upgrades to the rest of our nations infrastructure. But to me, therein lies the problem. Infrastructure. Something our country seems hellbent on destroying through neglect. I would love to see one of these big "fix Penn Station" projects be made into a reality and actually have the intended affect, but the cynical part of me (which seems to grow a bit every birthday) simply can't be brought to believe I'll see it happen anytime in the next couple decades.

To me Penn Station as it exists today is a prime example of how we've come to treat our vital infrastructure.

On an average morning it takes 5+ minutes to get off the platform because it's normal for two, or three, rush hour trains to be unloaded onto a single platform back-to-back which results in thousands of people trying to squeeze up four or five small staircases.

Looking around the platform the concrete is cracked, some of it creaks when you walk over it, there are huge chunks of concrete missing everywhere. Lights are constantly out, even when they're on its perpetually dark, everything is covered in a layer of filth.

The rest is the same. Cracked walls and ceilings. Filth, trash, stink, and overcrowding everywhere. Perpetually bad lighting. One good delay for any of the transit systems that converge under Penn and it becomes impossible to move as thousands of people stand around hoping for their train to arrive.

On the NJ Transit side track numbers aren't posted ahead of time. If you're lucky you might get ~10 minutes notice but during rush hour it's normal for tracks to be posted minutes before departure. So you get train fulls of people rushing back and forth to make it to the few stairs or escalators (which are usually going up even when trains down on the platform are boarding) to get to their train on time.

And despite all this Penn Station is vitally important to the area. NJ and NYC's economies benefit immeasurably from it. Even as far as Philadelphia, DC, and Boston. Yet, there it rots and crumbles. For decades. And the best we can do so far is hope for some more fancy computer renderings of something that maybe could make things better. And while we wait delays become more frequent, trains and stations get more crowded, things continue to fall apart, and the costs continue to rise.
1-5% of the world's population consists of Sociopaths and others with mental disorders which mean they just don't care about whether such activities are right or wrong. Another 25% or so are minors, who also don't understand why this may be bad.

How do you address those populations on a way which hasn't been attempted (and failed) before?
> a CEO will want to continue to live at his current standard of living, or even better

Al Capone and the robber barons had the same goals.
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"Sola dosis facit venenum". Watch out for unnatural concentrations of stuff. Corn syrup for example concentrates the sugar from corn into a ridiculously unnatural level. A butcher cutting off a bit of meat does not.
Shareholders do decide. You seem to be implying that shareholders are being cheated, however, if they are actually unhappy they can a. sell (or not invest in the first place if they don't like the representation they'll receive), or b. vote in a new board, or c. sue.

You are struggling hard to make a victim where everyone involved is happy.
because none of them can and none of them have a financial interest to do so.

Default free providers such at NTT, GTT, Zayo/AboveNet, Level3/Global Crossing, ATT, CenturyLink/Qwest, Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone/Cable & Wireless, and others commonly (but incorrectly) known as Tier 1/"backbone" providers peer with other networks in a settlement free (no money is exchanged, or, on an accounting basis, everything zeros out) fashion because they are "peers" in the strictest sense: same size, same reach, same markets (mostly...)

there is no danger for them in passing bits
Not possible yet, but I'm looking forward to it some day :)
In the meantime, I'm still saving for retirement...
You should get a new Mazda. I have one, and changing the oil doesn't get much simpler, though I do need to use tire ramps to get under the car, though I don't think that's too unusual for a car. The bottom is covered in a big plastic cover for aerodynamics, and there's a small access panel that's easily removed for access to the drain plug and filter (which are right next to each other). Take out the plug (you need a big allen socket, not too exotic), drain the oil, and then just reach up and turn the filter to get it off (the filter is mounted with the opening upwards, so it won't spill oil all over when you take it off). Put the new one back, replace the bolt (with a fresh crush washer), replace the access panel, then put 0W-20 in the port that's right on top of the engine. I'm pretty sure the owner's manual just has a section telling you which grades of oil are suitable for which season.

From everything I've seen, if you want a car that you can work on yourself, Japanese is the way to go, and German is the absolute worst. Japanese cars seem to be designed for serviceability much more than other makes. German cars seem to be designed to be as hard to work on as possible without special tools, and American cars seem to be in the middle somewhere, and instead of being intentionally hard to work on, they just didn't think about it too much.
Anonymous users, handles, they are much harder to cultivate a solid reputation around.
I'm still getting to know Git, and I appreciate articles like this as they touch on approaches to Git that have benefits in the real world, but I can't help but feel that version control tools should be simpler.

Does anyone have any experience with version control tools that have worked out simpler to use than Git? I've heard good things about Darcs before (aside from its performance issues, which projects like Pijul are designed to address), are there any other tools that are worth investigating?
Well there's no harm in doing that, sure. The issue is that in order to compensate for the loss of that intake, people will resort to upping their intake of other things.

As an example, "light yogurt" is low on fat. To make up for the loss of flavor, they add sugar.
Can we apply that reasoning to certain drugs or alcohol?
The only reason I can think of that would not be exactly what I expect from HN is because it got flagged and hidden before too many of the usual kind of commentators showed up. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12115921)
Water water water ;)
That's why a stable government that protects life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is necessary. The opportunity flows from that.
>(which is conservative if you include benefits, etc.)

I've never been able to figure out how my employer says I cost them $280 per hour.
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Unduly burdensome. collecting that data would be too much work.
In Rust, an `&Thing` (reference to thing), `Option<&Thing>` (optional reference to thing), `Box<Thing>` (thing on the heap), and `Option<Box<Thing>>` (optional thing on the heap) all have the same in-memory representation of a single pointer, but prohibit accidentally dereferencing a null pointer, and make non-nullable pointers the default.
You might find the following interesting.

In Carl De Marcken's Inside Orbitz email [1] he has the following item:

> 10. ... We disassemble most every Lisp function looking for inefficiencies and have had both CMUCL and Franz enhanced to compile our code better.

In 2001 there was a series of three panel discussions on dynamic languages [2] that are an absolute goldmine: about six hours worth of listening, with various luminaries discussing deep ideas and fielding questions from the audience. Knuth is cited several times on different topics. This is also where I learned about the idea of stepping through every line of code you can get to (Scott McKay brought this up in the panel on runtime [3]. You ought to be able to find the other two panels (compilation and language design) from that one. Anyway, they discuss a lot of idea behind performance, for example

a) code that is locally bad but globally good

b) optimizing for locality and predictability of memory access (David Moon, in the Compilation panel, I think)

c) speculation that performance improvement could be gained via having an efficient interpreter residing in cache, over optimized compiled code (Scott McKay again, in the panel on runtime - incidentally I think this idea is proven in Kdb+ - at least, I understand that is their secret to performance, or one of them)

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/carl.html

[2] http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/dynlangs/wizards-panels.html

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LG-RtcSYUQ

Edit: cleaned up formatting
Edit 2: and more clean up
I feel like code ownership is a good thing in general. It makes you care a lot more about the product you're eventually shipping. It was a big deal at Amazon when I was there, and I'm assuming it still is. Sometimes I was not happy fixing things at 2am when I was on call or cleaning up a bunch of code that had been neglected for a while, but the feeling of ownership definitely motivated me to care about the issues and fix what was wrong.

A lot of the problems in the article have more to do with your ability to work with others and how bad your ego is. If you can't work well as a team and mentor more junior engineers it's going to be a struggle to advance your career
> Richard Guy teaching calculus in Delhi

I couldn't find any other Delhi connection on Google...
Complaints against police fell by 98% after they were given body cameras
Have you ever played Settlers of Catan? Every turn start with a roll of dice. One could say - the game is all about luck. Yet it's how you position yourself to gain best results from random blows of fortune, that make a difference.

Life is just like that. Sure there are extreme cases of luck and misfortune (IPO billionairs and people who die in a car accident). But for most people the dice is rolled so many times, every day, every hour, in so many areas, that at some point it's about strategy and your past choices, and not about dice anymore.
The harm is that you may end up replacing those foods with ones that may actually be to linked heart disease. You still have to eat a certain number of calories, so replacing red meat/fried food/saturated fat with say, bread or rice (which are low-fat) might actually increase your risk.
this is what microsoft used to do with their releases. get it out of the door then start working on service packs.
funny how history repeats itself.
It's an investment. Crowd funding projects can fail. I know it doesn't feel that way, but that's the reality.

I've bought several CDs, comics and games off of various crowd funding sites (Kickstarter, Indigogo, et al) and I've been lucky to not have a failed project yet (although some have been over a year delayed).

Try to think of it as, "That's a nice thing to have. I'll help to see if I can make it possible," and realize it might not happen, or might happen late.

I usually forget about it and get surprised by a nice shiny book in the mail and am like, "Oh yea, I funded this!"
I wish people would stop trying to boil down diet into platitudes. The truth is much more complex.

Specifically, research has demonstrated that some saturated fatty acids are particularly egregious, while others are innocuous, or even healthy. For instance, a lot of research has shown palmitic acid to have negative health consequences, while stearic acid is neutral and shorter chain saturated fatty acids like lauric acid may actually be beneficial. Additionally, there are conditions on these observations; for instance, palmitic acid is only bad under some circumstances - e.g. when consumed as part of a diet low in certain monounsaturated and omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids. Finally, these findings are almost certainly population specific to some degree, so if you have a different genetic background from the study population, it might not apply to you at all.

The only true way to figure out how to properly eat is to track metrics of health that are meaningful, log what you eat, and adjust your diet based on changes in those metrics. It can also be helpful to look at what people who are very healthy/fit eat; the diets of people in "blue zones" and natural bodybuilders are good case studies.
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You prefer to believe studies funded by the sugar industry?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-ind...
We still call images "two-dimensional" when they're colored. There is a difference between continuous dimensions like space and time, and discrete dimensions like color channels in an image, or like instrument "tracks" of a song. The latter can have correlations, but they'll be sparse associations, rather than structural formulaic ones.
> There are definitely people who profile their applications ... the entire system, though? Is there a utility I can use to log every instruction performed in one second for an operating system running on bare metal?

Kinda. oprofile and later perf use the hardware's performance counters. So, it's sampled and therefore it's not "every instruction performed" but the scope is indeed the entire system. If your hardware doesn't support it, then the kernel has a sampling feature on a timer. It's IMO representative and probably the sanest way to accept the challenge.

But Knuth questions make me wonder: how could we possibly reason about correctness from the samples? We'd be better off following the trail of breadcrumbs back to the source unless he means something terribly specific beyond "correct or erroneous".

> Can it be done with an emulator like QEMU?

Yes, that's probably an alternative if sampled isn't sufficient.
I think this is sound advice. I've been pretty much following this rule. Basically nothing is off limits as long as it isn't processed, home made apple pies and good spaghetti. Of course in moderation :)

Edit: Would like to clarify this means you have to make the apple pie too from scratch.
Show HN: AlexaRank.io (free alternative to Alexa's $120 tracker)
Commands and ports are something I have carried over to typescript and it has been really beneficial. I really like the idea of treating the interface with javascript as just another service.
The iGive button [1], it automatically donates $ to the charity of my choosing when I shop online.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/igive-button/igcjd...
I like the idea of making a trace through a complex app (such as a browser) and the kernel and listing off all the open source developers whose code it passes through. Just how many people contributed to my 1s of Youtube cat video watching pleasure?
>This can give a CEO an incentive to make extremely risky decisions

That's the intended effect. You missed the point. Read woopwoop's comment again.
Except for rampant diabetes and obesity which absolutely are linked to excessive carb intake?
A blog post of a couple of paragraphs does not give any information about the rigor, correctness, or value of the contents of a book.
People should think about how ridiculous that sounds. After all, "if bugs eat it you should eat it too" right?
Or you know, 'luck' is just what couldn't be mathematically described in the model, attributing it to randomness.
I'd like to see this applied to Windows 7 and find out why it has become mysteriously slow, even on fast computers, after Windows 10 came out.
That's not to mention simple app caching techniques for computed values.
I never claimed that the ratios are the same. I even pointed out in my op that they will be different for different groups.

I'm claiming it doesn't matter - if you put yourself out there, you're opening yourself up to be attacked. And the only way to avoid that is to be anonymous, and let your opinions and arguments stand on their own merits.

Anything else has been historically shown to fail. Blizzard's real name policy? Failed to stop the trolls. Community Guidelines? Trolls don't care. A sternly worded letter? Just lets the trolls revel in their success.
By the way, since DNSSEC is always good for laughs, check which cloud platforms support DNSSEC currently (spoiler: none).
Actually hedge fund managers tend have a large portion of their net worth invested in the fund also.
I see your point, and I think we share a point of view.

But when using lookup tables, I consider the computation of the lookup table a part of the algorithm - after all, a lookup table is essentially an optimization: You extract a sub-computation and store it, paying with space for better time complexity.
We're talking around each other. What is your definition of formal verification?
The Yahoo blog[1] post is far more interesting than this techcrunch "article". Suggest changing URL to the Yahoo Blog please.

[1] https://yahooeng.tumblr.com/post/151148689421/open-sourcing-...
Analyzing the Origin of Twitter's #TrumpWon Tag
I have seen small companies build better product targeting than Fb/Google/etc do with their ads.

Yes you have less data, but your users are probably more similar to each other and less scattered all over the place.

While I feel this is true for recommendation engines, it might not be true for other AI applications.
I have, thanks for asking. I must admit that I have a very real priority on (soft) real time. Flink appears attractive but I also have a slight bias to non JVM which is where Concord appears interesting. I also just love Concord's "hot" DAG capability. Agreed (I think) though that I must include Spark micro-batching as a potential candidate. Any experience you have on this...I welcome links/tips. As you can probably tell I am at the very initial exploratory stage on stack choice.
I would suggest, that the link should go to Yahoo's blog post

https://yahooeng.tumblr.com/post/151148689421/open-sourcing-...

which contains some technical details. (And furthermore, I guess the HN crowd has enough Internet experience to come up with stupid jokes of their own design.)
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Who are you to tell a company how to manage itself and how much they can pay their employees? If the board feel a CEO generates that much value for their company they should definitely pay him/her what they are worth.
Assuming you can even measure this. How do you arbitrarily assign value produced by a dev vs produced by marketing vs produced by company synergies (could the dev really create 1 million in value without all those other people?).

I've long felt that the best devs should be building tools for other devs. The lower in the product pipeline the better, because that's where they can affect the most people, but it seems impossible to measure when you're talking about hard numbers.

E.g. in a large enough organization, if a good dev can make all your other devs even 1% more efficient, the value they just created will blow that $1 million figure out of the water. That dev producing "$1 million dollars in value" for your product owes much of that value to the devs that are creating tools for them to use, among other things.
The way I look at it, executive stock options aren't to reward behavior, they're to ensure loyalty. It's normal for any human being to feel more empathy for hard-working employees that they work with every day than shareholders who are more distant and who contribute in a passive way.

Stock options give CEOs a large financial incentive to place the interests of stockholders above those of employees whenever those come into conflict (for instance, in decided whether to use profits to increase compensation or increase dividends).

Anyways, that's my theory of why large executive stock bonuses might be a good for shareholders despite unintended consequences like decreased risk taking.
Sebastian Thrun and Udacity: Building an Open Source Self-Driving Car
So can it be reversed to become the ultimate porn-finding neural network?
correct link for 0) http://bikeshed.fm/
So within your own country, you can take a production company to court if they fail to deliver on their contract. In the US, something of this price might even get the FTC involved. They production company could go bankrupt, and then you're still in the hole and your customers are in the hole, but at least there is some legal recourse that's reasonably accessible. You may also be able to get money to refund people depending on their current debts and the bankrupts process.

So if you outsource to China, what types of recourse or legal options are there. It sounds like they have a rep in China. What, if anything, can they do?
I am for one disappointed its no longer a native app and that its been reduced to a "web" app :(
My first thought was from years ago, when I was pitching open source forensic services to London police (did not get far, bad Salesman that I am)

Cataloging, categorising pornography seized is a nasty job and one that cops across the planet might do better with good common OSS tools.

Hopefully this will help
I read that he complained bitterly the whole time and proclaimed that the bet had cost Mathematics immeasurably. I wonder how true that is.
To follow up, the organization she works for, The Planetary Society, does fantastic work to promote greater funding for space research and missions.
My experience has been so so. It crashes often, particularly on windows. And it grinds to a halt f you have a long sql (1000 lines +)
Unfortunately, collectivism is in vogue at the moment.
Having looked at the data a lot of different ways, I'm fairly certain that the health of the French is a result of low stress levels and strong social connections. Your mental state plays a huge role in your health, to the point that someone who takes slightly better care of their body because they worry about their health will end up less healthy than someone who is carefree and relaxed.
Comments like this are NOT appreciated on Hacker News, especially if you haven't taken the time to read the article.
Perhaps possible to slice the music wave data into frames, perform FFT to get a spectrogram and use that as tiles?
>Including the Hotel Pennsylvania

I guess parts of the facade and entrance on Seventh Avenue are somewhat distinctive. (The same architectural firm designed the hotel and Penn Station.)

I gather there's a renovation planned--which is sorely needed based on what I've seen. There was a long-running plan to just tear it down but supposedly it's going to be updated instead.
My first thought as well. Integrating with this some web crawlers that test images as it goes so it keeps going down the path of maximum NSFW websites.

Though at the same time I fear the type of pornography it may come across.
He was a teacher at IIT Delhi teaching metro-logy and mathematics and also wrote a book while there.
Very excited for this course and to play around with a real self driving car.
I think this is bad news. I really like that pdf's in firefox is just another webpage. This means that all my plugins and other HTML-shenanigans can be used on pdf's.

This also appears to be a step away from Mozillas strategy of web-technologies everywhere.
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I didn't mean to imply monitor. I meant to say keep a history and mediate. AKA, if you have a message board and someone says something offensive you can get rid of that user. Monitor to me implies mitigating users based on ML, history/mediate requires human intervention.

I don't think this is a good idea personally but it is an idea, only you can decide to lock down your content like that.

No I don't stand by it. It's an option, they asked for options. This is a bad one, but it depends on how serious they are about protecting their authors.
Stupid Design Patent of the Month: Rectangles on a Screen
The same thing happened to me at Ueno station in Tokyo. Wandered around until I found an English speaker who could direct me where to go.