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Well, some of us have those experiences, but we don't go around pretending the whole universe has revealed great secrets to us because our brain chemistry went awry for 45 seconds.
Uber has hired drivers in my country who it turns out are medically unfit to hold a driver's license, while running ads claiming they do exhaustive background checks.

That is not "the media". Your employer is totally unethical.
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Last time Facebook did this, HN users think it's not censorship

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13019654
Have personnel changes happened at the highest levels of the organization since 2014? The abuse discussed in the links came down from the top ranks of Uber.

When did you join Uber? If it was not prior to 2014, what makes you an expert on how the company had mature and, if prior to 2014, why were you not shocked and angry when these events occurred in 2014?
That company culture must look really different from in there than it does from out here.
The cynic in me sees this as a way to appease many of the dictatorships in the developing world FB operates in as a defacto telecom by offering free-wifi through Internet.org type shenanigans for only FB apps.

These regimes would love FB to offer ways to shut down a live feed being passed around of a political disaster being broadcasted by local journalists using FB live, like all those Periscope riot broadcasts in the US. FB can then avoid the responsibility and bad PR of disabling it and just let their bot kill it instead.
I cringe at your response. There's so much wrong in it.
>>Use a slight budget deficit as an excuse to immediately cut back on services and infrastructure investments

A 'slight' deficit that's led to trillions in debt over a very short period of time.

>>government is worthless and never can provide anything of value

It is mostly worthless and hardly provides value(the worst part about this is is that a lot of times, I don't even have the option to opt out of these value-free services and pick something else that works)

>>Sometimes I think I don't pay enough taxes

Only a commie would say this.
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> I would much rather deal those "myths" than with the class of myths surrounding i++ being faster/lower than ++i or any of the non-sense around divisions.

This is one area I dislike in C and C++ culture, there is this tendency to micro-optimize code like that, without even profiling it, or it causing an actual impact on the application being built.

So one ends up with endless bike shedding discussions about how to write code, instead of writing it.
AFAIK it is not known how big it could be. However, if you accept the current atomic models, there are serious issues preventing atoms with number higher than 135 (or thereabout), things like the electrons needing to move faster than light to stay around the atom.

I think I had read something about a model accepting over 200 elements, but I don't remember the details and could not find the draft it in my library.

Update: there is a decent explanation with some reference in the periodic table wikipedia entry: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table#Element_with_...
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I’m not an AWS user, so the “Virtual Private Cloud” caveat confuses me. If I just click an EC2 instance, will that be in a “Virtual Private Cloud” or not? Also, are these IPv6 addresses publically reachable or not?
My guess is that those with less than 12 months are normally given nothing and everyone who normally receives nothing like new people, interns and cafe workers only got $100. It probably seemed like a good idea at the time but giving someone who would have received a fat bonus and has put in 6 months $100 is kind of insulting. If true they should use the same calculation they use for other developers, divide the total by 12 and then multiply it by the number of months the employee has been there.
"Norwegian black metal gets all the attention because of the church burnings, suicides, and murders, but musically there were much better scenes, IMO. The two that I like are Greek and Czech black metal, each of which had their own distinct sound."

I would argue that Norwegian scene gets attention because it was among earliest (or even the earliest?). I'm sure that if you asked your favorite older bands from Greek or Czech they would cite Norwegian BM as their inspiration.
Personally I'm not a fan of Norwegian BM as well and prefer French (Peste Noire, Amesoeurs, Pensées Nocturnes, Mütiilation, few LLN projects) and Polish scenes (Medico Peste, Batushka, Behemoth). Also, talking about BM, I cannot not to mention favorite band from my home country - Nahash.

P.S. honestly, I'd never imagine a discussion about black metal here, on HN. Nice.
Infinite IP addresses aren't the same as infinite routable IP addresses. EC2 VPCs use private subnets, and instances created in VPCs don't have routable IP addresses unless you add them. It would be reasonable for AWS to allow infinite VPC subnet addresses to be attached to an instance, but only one or two public addresses.
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Thing is, its not just happening in the 'fashion model' world. The focus seems to be coming down to 'regular' people. Artists, street musicians, developers, moms and dads, single parents, cat lovers, bike enthusiasts, amateur chefs... you name it.

If you have a sizeable following, you have the option to sell your soul to one or many companies who will then organise your social media flow for you, suggesting what to post, when to post, and what to hashtag. All for a fee or discounts on their products.

At least when you see a racing driver's suit plastered with sponsor logos, you know they've paid him/her or the team for the privilege of doing so. Nowadays it is not so obvious, but rather the inference is that it is all natural and common and 'real'.
Copy-pasting from an answer on reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/5eu9pc/whats_new_in_ph...):

Because the alternative conflicts in case we ever introduce generics. Consider <?php new Foo<Bar?> ?>. This could either be a generic instantiation, or it could be the same as <?php ((new Foo) < Bar) ?> ?> (which is how it is currently interpreted -- this is valid PHP code!)

Of course, you could specify how this is to be interpreted and implement the necessary parser hacks to make it happen, but it's best to avoid the issue altogether by using ? as a prefix.

I assume that this is also the reason why Hack does the same.
Some people do have things to hide: they are having affairs, visiting prostitutes, going to Planned Parenthood to have an abortion, going to a cancer center to get treatment,...
Uber 2014 and Uber 2016 are different companies

What are you basing this on and point me to supporting evidence of this, failing that I need something more convincing than increased headcount as a motivator to give Uber my trust as a consumer again.
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It's not so much Google employees would tell you they agree with Google's goals and direction, but that they have an incredible cognitive dissonance about what direction that is.

Most Google engineers will tell you that Google is trying to make the world a better place, rather than the reality that Google is trying to make incredibly large amounts of money at the expense of anything that gets in their way.
> just excited about something they're creating

Well put. That's the kind we want to encourage, and if someone goes beyond that and overdoes it, it's not hard to take care of.
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Why let the other rats watch/smell ? That's just cruel, and the stress might actually skew your testing data, screwing over your experiments.
> Is there some way to search comments for regex?

Not publicly that I know of. Might make a good API project.
Memory management is an implementation detail, doesn't have anything to do with being an interpreter or virtual machine.
"There's no room for Nazis in metal."

What does ones political political alignment has to do with music?
as a fun exercise... I am going to find out how many employees Uber has. From there, who knows. Lol.

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Most undocumented immigrants are people who overstay an original visa. The reasons for people being in places are rarely simple.
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Don't worry about it brother. You're watching something go down you're not part of. Your response is funny but it's not part of your HN pay grade.
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Well, you made my evening by actually getting that particular point and finding it interesting. That is so rare! And it's such an interesting phenomenon.

I stumbled on this because the moderation job involves reading tons of comments I wouldn't otherwise see, and the various descriptions of HN they contain are quite incompatible. But they all fit the pattern described above.
> For more than a decade Kripa Varanasi and his colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have been creating and studying slippery surfaces for use in industrial equipment such as steam turbines and desalination plants.

It is.
This response to idlewords is chillingly Trumpian and certainly goes against the common HN culture. Let's replay the last three comments:

> When people say Trump wants to deport all illegal immigrants they are misconstruing his words and are contributing to this problematicly combative atmosphere

> Trump quote explicitly saying he wants to deport all 11M undocumented immigrants

> 0 response to idlewords, instead a series of half baked policy ideas to keep immigrants out. No edit to the original post saying that it was wrong and in fact completely contradicted by the next post. Nothing.

HN prides itself on discussions and while many a silly idea has been aired here I really expect basic factchecking to be respected. That this remains the top thread on this post after being summarily debunked is disappointing.
The bigger issue is not just censorship but the potential governments access to communications of non-Chinese commercial actors. While it's common to do business on WeChat I don't know if anyone outside of China would feel confident that this isn't a security risk.
You can find a thing you don't like in any language.

Saying PHP is destined for the "language graveyard" is just spreading FUD around a language that made miraculous improvements in a last couple of years. Both in terms of speed and language features.

Modern PHP is a joy to work with.
>> you just can't disguise a service making profit as carpooling

What does it matter what they call it? Carpooling/ridesharing ...

Aren't you still using a platform someone else built? Is it then your submission that said entity should not be compensated?
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Well, don't think about it like that -- not every part of it was a fraud. There were a lot of good people working there, including yourself, with the best of intentions. I even think the people at the top had good intentions until they were led astray by greed or fear or whatever it is that make good people do bad things. Anyway, you're gonna come out of this a little bit wisher and better able to avoid these sorts of situations like this in the future. Also, you've got a good to years of experience -- that's going to look great no matter what.
I am not skeptical of type systems in general and TBH I've never worked on a large piece of software written in an untyped language (I often program in Clojure, but so far never a large system -- and yeah, I am skeptical about Clojure too even though I love it). But you're mistaken if you think I'm looking for quantitative studies; that's far too high a bar. I am looking for well-researched anecdotes, and there are plenty of them for type systems in general.

I am, however, very skeptical of the interpretation some people, especially in typed FP, give to types and the reasons they believe types provide a benefit. For example, the relationship between useful type systems and software correctness is not direct. I am currently using a formal verification tool that is completely logic based (and it has an interactive theorem prover, a model checker, and is backed by decades of careful mathematical analysis of its soundness) which is completely untyped, and yet it is as powerful as Coq for proving correctness of algorithms. If direct, formal, proofs of correctness is what you're after, types might not be the best solution. Types, however, have other clear benefits that are not related to formal correctness, or, at least, not correctness of global program properties.
Stop pretending people can't decide for themselves how much privacy they want and from whom
> The home of a peculiarly minded 21! year old web developer

This developer was dropped into a larger project. He caught up with Angular 2 and TypeScript. He wrote an elaborate post. But maybe he had not been exposed to a larger set of diverse use cases and software patterns in practice yet.

There are some learning hurdles to Angular 2 but imho. they are lower than what was there with Angular 1. Documentation could be better of course. Moving from 1 to 2 requires a bit of unlearning, it is essentially a new framework.
The addition of the nullable type is really what is going to make the type annotation useful, most of the time you were obliged to drop them because at the very beginning the attribute value was null and so your getters were unable to provide a type annotation, as if your framework was using the newly created objects to let's say generate a html form, you were screwed.
I think it will permits for a much better static analysis "a la hack", that will catch all the 'you haven't test for null'.
You should really consider Lviv, Ukraine. It's cheap yet safe, beautiful and with a lot of IT companies (many meetups and coworking spaces as a result).
It's also close to mountains which make a perfect weekend trip.
And it's cold enough to let you work but not crazy cold like Baltics.
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I think you underestimate people. If you're an admin doing user support for such a system and someone says they need more storage because of blah blah blah then you offer ways to alter the workflow so they don't need 500G of tiff files. It might even speed up their workflow since it's not streaming 500G off disk.

No need to get into bit depth and int float str and double (though all of the biomedial researchers I've worked with knew these very well). Just: 'you can convert to png and back again without losing data. Just like zipping a file and unzipping it again. Let me show you how...'
As an alternative to ear plugs, perhaps also consider noise _replacement_ instead (eg. vs. noise _elimination).

I use an app that plays various rain sounds. I have it linked to speakers via Bluetooth (and I have a 3.5mm headphone-jack-type extension audio cable that I've run to my bedside table as an option, if I'm feeling picky about the sound quality of my rain ).

It's very relaxing, and blocks most outdoor sounds. I live in NZ, and the houses here are usually pretty thin-walled and consequently offer almost no sound deadening. This mostly-fixes/avoids that.

Perhaps you don't like rain, and so different sounds might be appropriate... I don't like anything else really apart from maybe low volume white noise, but that's me... but yeah, regardless of which sounds you pick, the general approach is worth trying!
FB's automation is frankly useless.

A couple of groups I'm on were spammed by people posting kiddie porn (AI failure #1) and the automated responses to complaints utterly failed to reassure anyone that Facebook cared (AI failure #2).

I've also seen people complain about violent racist extremist groups and get an automated "We've reviewed this and it's fine" email - which makes Facebook look complicit, or at least indifferent.

If you're going to use AI to make these decisions, you absolutely need to make it clear that you're using AI, it may get things wrong, and there's an escalation path.

Of course that needs more human reviewers, but if you're running a social network it's reasonable to expect that as an operating cost.
Asking the Basic Income questions
I know how to use it in the sense that everyone knows how, the basic usage is drag-and-drop. I just have no interest in spending a large chunk of my day dragging-and-dropping if it can be avoided (through automation, templating, shortcuts etc).

When you prepare slides several times a year you can get by with the usual method, when it's weekly I would rather spend a couple of hours upfront learning the software inside out. I thought this would be apparent to HN users from the OP.
As a fan of FORTH that was a great series of comments!

I'd suggest a little more work could turn it into a blog post which could be submitted here for more comment and audience.

(I recently wrote a FORTH interpreter in Perl, and had lots of fun with it.)
I am not looking for anecdotes that it is possible to write large programs in a pure functional style. I know it is possible. But, given the high cost of the approach (training, new libraries, maybe a new language and even a new platform) I am looking for anecdotes that the approach provides benefits that significantly outweigh its cost. I have not found any.

BTW, "extremely large projects" are anything above, say 20MLOC. What projects of that size have been written in pure functional style? What large projects (>5MLOC) have?
> but I can't think of a better system :(

I can. You just are not allowed to take your ball and go home.
the shell version is much more concise:
You're not doing yourself any favors here. People say they don't trust your company because of past behavior of the company itself and history of even ethical companies being bought or changing priorities, and you just keep pushing me further and further toward Lyft or my bike.
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That's all well and good, but I'm turning off Uber's access to my GPS entirely.
Sure. If you're a techie that doesn't have a work provided phone with restrictions from doing so.
yes especially if you take in account that the active support for php5.6 will end in less than a month, and secury patches in 2 years (which is not that long in a career time), it will be more and more feasible to have your work "zen garden" full php7 if you want.
HN is a good place to share your blog if you want it DDoSed.
Dutch is also significantly worse than English.
That's exactly my point. If company is ethical today, it doesn't mean it will be tomorrow, for whatever reasons.
>Objective implies neutrality, but the facts aren't neutral.

No, I don't think this is true. "Truth" may not be neutral, depending on who your favorite philosopher is, but facts are neutral.

Yes, journalists need to adapt to a reality where information isn't scarce, but throwing away all semblance of objectivity is exactly the wrong way to do it. That doesn't mean they just report what people say (which is more laziness than any attempt at objectivity). It means they dig into political scandals for both parties in an evenhanded manner. If as a consumer of news I can't trust them to report the facts, they are entirely unfit for purpose.