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Was just thinking about this recently as I started following a few people.

We are increasingly living in a world of fiction. Previously it was mainly fed through television. You'd grow up on television series, and as a young man/woman you'd try to be cool like them, dress like them, talk like them. You build your world view around "influential" portrayals.

Nowadays, we haven't freed ourself from media controlled television at all. It's actually worse, because now advertising is blurring the lines even more between real people and fiction. We eat and breathe fiction, then we live our own life trying to resemble it.

Nothing is new there. But what's new for me is I started to recognize that fiction in and of itself is probably as detrimental to our society as fear is. It's well known that fear drives self centered way of life and when we are in survival mode, we just don't make good choices and we lack compassion.

Lately I'm thinking that fiction, on a collective scale, is just as bad as fear. It keeps us unconscious. Just like fear it dissociates us from what we are, and from one another. It's really detrimental to us as individuals, and as a society. Unlike fear, it isn't immediately felt in the stomach.. so there is no sense of urgency.. And yet it is there... one just looks at the world to see the massive disconnect in our life on a day to day basis. I guess fear and fiction are best friends. Fear drives us to dissociate, and fiction provides the perfect happy place to dissociate.

John Berger, Ways of Seeing

"But where is this other way of life?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jTUebm73IY
"My feeling is that I could try all day (speaking very frankly on WeChat) to get Chinese friends to at least understand my concerns and I'd just get blown off 20 different ways."

I'm not sure I'd get much further talking with my friends in the UK about the Investigatory Powers Bill.
> - octal: Nobody uses goddam octal and it's a trap for people used to leading zeroes in decimal.

0b..., 0x..., 0o... the latter is still a bit subtle (0Oo), but far more distinct and far less likely to happen by accident.

> - switch: actual operation is kind of bananas, see Duff's device. Should be block-based.

the goto-table semantics of switch are kinda useful in many instances, OTOH a compiler should be smart enough today to achieve the same degree of rather simple optimization.
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> Where are you from?

UK. As sibling commenters say, never seen a recipe asking for a stick, though it often comes with 50g divisions printed on the wrapping.
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This isn't entirely true: near the surface of a neutron star, there's a coexistence of neutrons, protons, and electrons in a type of thermal equilibrium.

(I'm embarrassed to say that I don't remember offhand how to estimate the ratios involved, but I do remember my PhD candidacy exam committee looking pretty happy with me for deriving it on the fly during my oral. A few days later, one of them commented to a group of us who'd just finished the exam, "Congratulations: at this moment, you know more physics than you ever have or ever will again". I guess he was right!)
A few months ago Apple made it a requirement for all new iOS apps and app updates to support IPv6 only networking.

If the app backend is not also available from a network where IPv4 is completely blocked, the app is rejected.

At the same time, AWS does not let new accounts to create EC2 instances outside of VPC, and only provided IPv6 support in the non-VPC classic stack (only available to old AWS accounts that signed up years ago).

So for the last few months, AWS has been unusable as a backend for iOS apps unless you have an old classic AWS account.
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Doesn't seem to stand for anything (at least it's not defined in the project charter).

If I had to guess at it:

Open Meta-Runtime

But I could see how that might be misinterpreted compared to their goals. Not all cap names are acronyms?

https://projects.eclipse.org/proposals/omr
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It struck me during the "Modern C" discussion a day or two ago that C would be very well-served by a good package and build system with dependency management (akin to npm, cargo, cpanm, gem, etc.). While there are some pathological cases (npm, with it's insanely long dependency graphs...I once installed a small package that pulled in 53,000 files in dependencies), the value of a massive standard library that everybody is using, contributing to, and testing, is just incredibly valuable. There's a gazillion lines of C code out there, but finding/using/distributing it can be tricky. If it's not part of the standard OS distribution, in particular.

Make, while I quite liked it in its day, has some real limitations. cmake, while better on some fronts, doesn't actually solve the right set of problems (or, it solves the set of problems as they were perceived ~15 years ago).

I wish there were a strict subset of C (compliant with standards, but that prohibits the trickiest bits during build), with a good package/build system, a huge/modern library of high level functionality. I always enjoyed poking at C, but I just can't spend enough time coding in C to ever be really good at it. I can go years between working on C code, so I forget all the gotchas by the time I look at it again. It's not forgiving of casual users the way Ruby, Perl, Python, Go, and even (some) Java can be.

Then again, I guess Go is kinda that language for some classes of problem (not the very lowest level systems stuff, but I rarely do any of that kind of coding, anyway; I haven't touched a kernel module in a decade).
Yep. See the Airbus espionage debacle.
The author does not claim it isn't open source, the author claims it doesn't comply with the four freedoms.

> and will need to recompile the source code to create your own binaries.

I believe the author specifically calls out this document themselves, and emphasises the phrase above, as being the problematic portion. And while canonical does also say "For further information, please contact us (as set out below)", they have not clarified this concern despite being contacted and asked.
> (#ad #sp #liveauthentic)

In some literary critique sense, it does not so much seem hollow as it seems like authentic expression of our time. The fact that people authentically believe in success in social media does not invalidate their dreams.
There are two sides to this.

One is where we believe, based on your words (or some random person on the Internet who claims to be an employee), Uber employees are restricted from accessing customer data...you know, like LOVINT in the NSA. [1]

The second is where we believe, based on your words (and associated caveats), that Uber does not have a firehose feeding all this information to some other entity that has a much larger capacity for "machine learning", has far lesser actual oversight than what you claim to be in place in Uber, and uses that data for many things we don't know the impact of. This point might sound like I'm talking only about the NSA and trust in the U.S. government, but keep in mind that Uber operates in many countries, and all of their governments have an interest in gaining such data and using it for their own purposes.

Post Snowden, neither of these sides look harmless. I'm talking about the world society as a whole, not just about what one person may consider ("nothing to hide") or what negative experiences that some people may never go through in life.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/08/24...
Probably a part of the hash of the first Git commit of his new project.
It stands for Open Managed Runtime.
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Weak arguments.

Integer division is misleading. It uses the mathematical division operator for something that doesn't behave in that way. Having a separate 'integer division' operator (e.g. //) is much clearer.

Nobody could say that the pre/post increment aren't confusing. They feature heavily in 'trick question' C++ tests (along with undefined behaviour, type promotion and so on).
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Regarding integer division, the Wikipedia article about modulo operation has nice graphics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo_operation
Maybe we can generalize this a bit, since you can definitely be stressed/anxious but not feel busy (e.g. when you have a big presentation coming up, and you're more worried about your performance than your preparation).

I would guess that knowing you have work to do, rather than actually doing the work, is what makes us feel busy. If I have 30 things to do today, I feel busy the moment I wake up, even if my morning routine is no different than usual. If I procrastinate for 2 hours and then spend 6 hours doing 20 of those things--pushing the last 10 to tomorrow--I still feel like I've had a crazy day even though I've done less than the amount of work in a typical work day. Then I spend all evening feel restless because I really should have finished up those last 10 things, so then my whole evening feels like work.

I don't think this is entirely an illusion. Thinking about work takes mental energy; often, it takes more energy than actually doing the work. This isn't just because of stress; it's because planning (even if that planning is ultimately pointless) is an active mode of thinking.

Perhaps the solution to feeling busy all the time is to refuse to think about work you haven't started yet (unless that work is specifically a thinking task, e.g. most coding). Easier said than done, of course. Personally, I know that constantly thinking about work to be done is what keeps me from forgetting about important things I need to do. My solution to the issue was to refuse to think about doing the work, instead only reminding myself that I had to do it. This "solution" actually caused me anxiety, because thinking through work made me feel like I had it under control. Not thinking through it made me feel like I was letting it slip away, which was actually a good thing, because entirely by accident it solved my procrastination problems. It turns out that "thinking through work" was enabling my procrastination by making me feel like I was being responsible when I was making no tangible progress. The anxiety of not thinking forced me to actually do the work, and for two weeks I was basically a workaholic while I caught up on all of the things I'd been procrastinating on. But, after those two weeks were over, something magical happened: I felt less anxiety than ever before, I felt like I had tons of free time, and I had far fewer things to keep track of. I didn't feel busy, but I also had no desire to become busy, because I knew I was still doing as much work as ever, if not more. The difference was entirely based on my thoughts outside of the time spent working.
According to the permissions request dialogue, "...We [want to collect your data even after you're dropped off] to improve pickups, drop-offs, customer service and to enhance safety..."

I don't buy any of it. Here's why:

IMPROVE DROP-OFFS:
The most improved drop-off that Uber can deliver is the one I, the passenger, gives them, either verbally to the driver, via GPS by them noting the point where I was dropped off, or via GPS by me entering my destination location. Normally, I ask to be dropped off where it's most convenient for me, and the most convenient for me is the best drop-off experience possible. Even if after being dropped off, I go to a final destination for which Uber reckons a better drop-off point than the one I chose exists, it's not for Uber to say, based on where I am going, what my best drop off point is. That's for me, the customer, to say. Since when does a cab tell you where to drop you off? Unless I don't know where I am going, in which case Uber already knows what the best drop off point is, and has no need to further improve it.

IMPROVE PICKUPS.
Presumably, the pickup will be improved based on historical location data, which tells them, this guy actually goes/lives/drinks/et here, something we know coz we tracked him last time he used Uber. Again, when I board a cab, I go to the point of most convenience for me. I'd probably have a cab come right to my bedroom door inside my house if it were possible, but since it's not, I choose the next best possible point, which is normally the same place they dropped me off at if they're the ones who brought me here. Same argument applies: unless I'm a stranger, my choice of pickup point is the best pickup point experience possible, and needs no further improvement. If based on where I'm coming from, Uber reckon there's a better pickup point, it's not for them to say. They're a cab. A cab comes get you where you want it to come get you, the location of your bedroom door and other laws and issues permitting.

CUSTOMER SERVICE:
This sounds tenuous. Nothing that I can think of that can be termed as good customer service from a cab company would be improved by tracking my movement after the cab has dropped me off. Some good customer service issues have nothing to do with my location, and the two that do are the ones I've discussed above.

ENHANCE SAFETY.
Again, tenuous without more explanation. How does knowing where I go after you drop me off enhance safety either for myself or the driver?

I've seen a comment from some who says they work at Uber saying that this helps to figure out where the pick up spots for each address are, that a large building may have multiple points where people get picked up or dropped off. Which sounds reasonable, until you realize that the point that I got dropped off is the best one for me, which is why I chose it, and you, Uber, already know that because you've just dropped me off. Tracking me AFTER dropping me off doesn't make your knowledge of my best drop off more accurate, it makes it less accurate since I'm moving further and further away from the best drop off point as you continue to track me.
That is deliciously evil.
On the other hand when I was in Japan I found that all their takes on 'western' baking was ridiculously sweet. As in it tasted like they'd used twice the sugar they where supposed to.
The squeezable upside down ketchup bottles have already solved this to my satisfaction.
I need someone to solve the other great issue our times, how to preserve the fizz in a 2 litre bottle of coke after you consume part of it.
That would require all MP's to be vetted :-)
For what is worth, we had two unrelated production bugs because of wrongly indented return statements in python code. Luckily we only use python for non-critical glue code so it was more of an annoyance than anything, but still...

For what is worth, for C-like languages, I do not have to indent my code, my editor of choice does it for me according to brace placement.
You should check out the 'Ultimate Bill Hicks' DVD available. Amazon have got it at reduced price at the moment and it is excellent. I laughed and laughed.
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I've just been laid off from a lead/full-stack dev role at a startup; I've got 3+ years experience and worked in a mix of industries and company sizes.

I've got experience in many fields, and I love to learn and try the latest tools. I've got experience of both front- and back-end development, I've worked on ops and databases, I've dabbled in Android Wear, and I've led a team of software apprentices.

Now I'm looking for another chance to work full-stack with cutting edge technology, whatever the language. I'd be really interested to work with Node or Ruby as a back-end language, but I enjoy learning new languages in general and I'm open to others! I love working on code that solves real user problems, and I have a huge focus on good UX throughout the product.
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Ask HN: How does Paul Graham write and maintain his essays?
Does he write a new essay every time and edit the HTML and push it to server?
Or he has a web application in place, where he pushes an essay from different sources?

Also
I am planning to create my own blog site(list of articles, based on tags, search etc). How should I approach it? I want to have my own blog site like that of Paul graham.

Also suggest the difference between static site generator vs building our own blogging engine for our site?
I've checked Clarifai, Google, and Microsoft cognitive services with this photo https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3232/2492569957_1e5ebdec11_b_... (mariachis in a boat in Xoximilco lake) - this should be hard to classify, of course.

This are the results: NONE of them identified people as mariachis ;-)

Microsoft:
Captions: "a group of people on a boat"
Tags: outdoor, sky, tree, boat

Clarifai (TAGS):
people, vehicle, water, festival
watercraft, transportation system, tourist, travel
tourism, city, adult, group
boat, recreation, man, outdoors
competition, canal, sfw
transportation, travel

Google (tags):
Boat 79%
Vehicle 77%
Boating 67%
Waterway 58%
Raft 53%

My only conclusion is that both Google, Clarifai, and Microsoft are doing a great job.
You should take a look at what you need and choose the best provider.
For those who aren't aware, David Nutt used to be head of the UK Government's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs until he pointed out that ecstacy was less dangerous than horse riding.
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In my rural neighborhood (somewhere in the Netherlands) we created a cooperative that will create and manage a fiber network for 5.600 households, spread in a 345,8 km/2 area. The large Telcos are ignoring us, so we have to do it ourselves.

In this area everybody has at least ADSL but speeds range from 2Mbit to 20Mbit. There are also a couple hundred households on Cable (max. 150/20).

With Fiber everybody will get a 100/100 connection for about 50 euros / month. Other packages are available, up tot 500/500.

Even though the people with 20Mbit and up don't complain about their connection a large part of them signed up for Fiber anyway.

Why?

Because we told them that if we fail to build this network, the people with ~2Mbit connections are screwed. Out of solidarity 65% of all households signed up, 2 years before they would be able to get it, resulting in a valid business model for the cooperative.
I'm not sure how it's a positive feature at all, why should they be treated differently from the rest of us.
Moonstone already exists.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonstone_(gemstone)
Influencer marketing will boom with the launch of social commerce.
But startups need to be careful about advertising regulation. If someone has paid for a promotion, then it will have to be tagged as such, like Sponsored Ad.
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That's been solve too, just not designed into the bottle; there are plugs that let you pump pressure back in the bottle.
I've had similar thoughts on the subject. Once the hype around consumer VR became palpable, I was amazed at how quickly it segmented and fragmented. Should be interesting to watch the market mature though..
Wow. So they're offering a reputation check for URLs at 3 cents a pop. That seems rather steep, compared to the free SafeBrowsing API. Anything I'm missing?
It won't change the fact which devices eventually will get the update.
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That is an excellent question.

The NSA developments in recent years have shown that while privacy protections do exist that limit access to collected data (e.g. FISA warrants), they're still collecting everything on everyone regardless. The intercepted data then rots in a huge database for years at a minimum—in practice probably indefinitely.

In what was one of the the most brilliant legal/public relations plays in recent history, NSA decided to play a shell game with the definitions of the terms "collection" and "targeting", redefining them (when convenient) as the accessing of data—by humans—that's already been intercepted and stored.
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What's your point re Uber vs AirBNB?
Well, by using Terraform you're opening up the door to using other Lambda offerings as they pop up from other venders (and become supported by Terraform, of course.) CloudFormation is nice, and in your case it makes perfect sense given you're offering a Lambda specific service, but in the grand scheme of things I don't believe it's the best solution "all round."

What you're offering is awesome, for the record. I think it's a good idea, I think it's powerful, I think it's fast. It's a good idea and you should keep working on it.

However, it's a single, small Terraform file worth of work from my perspective.
I suggest you read The Python Paradox (http://paulgraham.com/pypar.html), if you haven't already. It's not that your projects are simple, stupid, don't require skills (I believe it's actually quite the opposite), it's that your current skillset/projects aren't that exciting/sought after in the SV.
I feel like your post is a is a rhetorical bait-and-switch: Only the first two points seem to be related to the article, the rest are from elsewhere and chosen ahead of time to guide the user towards a particular conclusion.
Such a weird article. It's written as if he already had a large following and got on to monetize it. But it looks like a fresh account and in the end, he failed to gain any real momentum. Which goes to show that establishing genuine rapport still matters. Why would you even go from posting cat pictures to vaguely fashion/glamor content? Bloomberg should do what these scouts do - find a person that already has traction and pay them to journal their monetization process.
> maybe drop the $

triggered
> I once spent an evening talking a friend down from a really nasty spell of paranoid dissociation after she ate the recommended dose of a legally purchased pot cookie in Washington.
> I suspect quality control at my friend's bakery was shit and she got way too much of something or other

The quality control may not have been to blame. I've smoked cannabis for many years, and know many people that do. I used to think as many do that these stories of mental breakdowns/freakouts were just anti-drug propaganda. Then one day a friend brought his coworker (whom I had never met) to visit. We smoked one joint between the three of us, it was not particularly strong. But the guy just went nuts. Talking nonsense that was obviously part of some paranoid thoughts he was having. Me and my friend spent the rest of the evening calming him down and by the end he had mostly returned to normal.

It's clear to me this guy had some underlying psychological issues that were triggered by cannabis. But it only took a very small amount to trigger that episode.

As my friend told me, he just stopped showing up for work after that and after a couple of months was let go. I don't know where he is today but I hope he recovered and realised that cannabis is something that he really should not touch again.

But again, this is one person out of dozens of people I've smoked with over the years. It's uncommon, but can be quite serious for those afflicted.
> but it looks like any treatment
> based on this will still be
> quite some way off

I came away with the opposite impression. Wouldn't you just need a targetted antibiotic?
> Even if it might seem a bit cheesy to go after the low hanging fruit, employee happiness goes a long way to building a thriving, mutually beneficial relationship between an employee and a company.

This. While general funding (IT is a very well funded sector) also matters, most of this is cultural. As an anecdote, I interned in a place (not IT related) where we had to use our personal laptops and even pay for drinking water and toilet paper..