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I admit this is confusing to me, but the premise of this makes no sense to me. It seems that the sale should still require some vote on the part of the identified shareholders on whether or not to sell.

Isn't this basically saying that a ridiculously wealthy individual like Zuckerberg could force a family to sell their inherited lands to him at whatever price he wants to pay, as long as no one offers a higher price? Without meaning to be glib, how is this even constitutional? What does it matter how many owners there are? Don't they collectively have a say? If the family voted "no," it seems that vote should be respected.
It is very common on HN to put a disclaimer like this on posts. I do not think this has anything to do with Matt working for the government.
> I continue programming 14 hours a day in the sitting style.

But aerobic exercise might make you a better programmer:

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/how-exercise-boosts-intell...
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He's referring to the "select" keyword, which is built into Go. You can't use it with anything other than the built-in channel type.
That's a bold claim. Which ones use false information?
You state this as simple fact, but is it so? Delivering enterprise software is very hard. Matt suggests that USDS was necessary to rescue healthcare.gov, for example. The labor pool of skilled coders is smaller vs. demand than for many other professions. If the top 500 coders declined to participate in a project that savagely violates human rights - and encouraged this as a norm in our communities - isn't it plausible that doing so could either prevent, derail, or meaningfully weaken such a project?

I concede that we cannot prevent some software from being created. But there is a great qualitative difference between any software and effective software. And if there isn't, and our creativity/labor doesn't matter in creating such a difference, then what is all this talk on HN about?

besides...

"The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him."
How do questions of race and ethnicity come up in an interview? It's illegal to ask that and they can be sued so usually they're very careful to not touch the subject.
I ran a Wordpress shop several years ago and tried to use the subsidiary route with advice from JETRO too. While the lady was very friendly and helpful, I kept getting a 'you don't make enough money, this is a waste of time' vibe from her.

If you're large enough and raking in enough money, they'd probably be more helpful.
That's not a lifetime problem. The object is still appropriately alive if referenced. The lifetime in the GC and free sense simply means that while an object reference exists it should be valid. See http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/Lieberary/GC/Realtime/Realt... for example.

GC doesn't guarantee you won't have resource leaks (of which memory is one). It guarantees that when you no longer reference an object it will be freed and that while you have a reference its valid. That's the lifetime problem. The Rust docs call it the same thing for that matter...
> You could argue some of the land parcels in question are owned by growing numbers of family members with each new generation, and that therefore it's likely some (even most) owners wouldn't utilize the land.

Interestingly, there's a similar "dilution of ownership" in FOSS projects. Unless the project is operating under one of the nonprofits that foster/require copyright assignment for contribution, the IP of a FOSS project under a license like the GPL is effectively "owned" in part by every individual contributor. But each claim to the copyright of the work as a whole is very, very diluted.

If this petition went through, and the relevant case law were set, one could perhaps claim to be able to freely violate the GPL by creating a derivative commercial work, under the argument that because so many people each own so little of the project, nobody really owns it enough to be able to sue over it. (After all, nobody owns enough to be able to do other things requiring majority-ownership, like relicensing the project!)
I just took the question at face value. It's pretty silly to try to read too much into it, in my opinion.
If Zuck truly is planning to run for office as some speculation has supposed, this does not look good for that.

This reeks terribly, I was unaware this was even legal, but this is almost literally depriving someone of their property because you have the money.
The trendline matters. Focusing on a specific year is meaningless, which is what this visualization is trying to show. It's not trying to argue against mercury but against the annual headlines that there is a hottest year.
My experience with trying to really play wii sports was that doing so made the game much harder than smaller waggle-motions (which may as well have been button presses) and quickly led to RSI (mostly elbow). And that's with kind of knowing how to play the various sports IRL, and knowing the right ways to move—I'd guess it's even worse otherwise.
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Anyone talking about fake news without talking about operation mockingbird hasn't done their homework.
With a huge high-frequency userbase. Also, there are identity, trust, ready-to-go pay and enough information and offerings from sellers.

For a user, easy to use is how many barriers s/he has to deal with. Many of the barriers are not only reduced by better technologies and products.

Don't get me wrong. I personally expect better-tech-leads-the-way.
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I'm struggling to make sense of this....Zuckerberg purchased 700 acres of land, but other families are still using that land (or have the right to)? How can you purchase land that others legally own?
As the asker, I will say I'm opposed to the registry, and I disagree a bit with your notion on strategy. I see what you're saying. But I think it's important to establish a norm in our communities now (perhaps like http://neveragain.tech/), rather than being silent and hoping that we will have "sleepers" in the right positions that can stop it later on.
I know Rust is complected somewhat, that's why I specified that it's simple to write correct programs in Rust. So in that perspective, it's very simple at tackling such a complex problem. You'll find doing so is even more complected in C.

I'd agree that to me that's just inherent complexity. Let me explain.

Imagine the safest language ever, literally, by design, it prevents all bugs, except for functional ones.

Now implementing anything to the extent that there's 0% bugs is inherently complex. It might be so complex that possibly no program ever written even achieves this, in any language.

That hypothetical language would not be able to make that complexity disappear, because it's part of the problem space, and not the specific design of the language.

In most languages, we avoid this complexity by ignoring it. We allow buggy software. We generally say, as long as the bugs that exist either don't occur in practice, or don't impact users that much, it's good enough.

But, let's go back to Rich's talk. Why was he talking about Simple vs Complex? Because complex code leads to bugs. If your language's complexity leads to bug free software, the argument would change. In this case, just work harder to understand the complexity and get it done. You're then guaranteed safety.

Rust is by no means this language, but it's the closest we have currently in that space. Because of that goal, it's tackling quite a lot of complexity. Maybe some of it is accidental, and Rust2 could improve on that.

Having said this, sometimes it's fine to allow bugs, if it allows productivity. Use Clojure in those cases :p
Information is a linear ordering of shifting states. The most information dense substrate I can think of would be irregularities in a (perfect) crystal lattice, plus a convention regarding what path your scanner takes through that lattice.

The problem is that future thinkers need to know it exists, and where to start. Both problems can be solved with a larger, more obvious medium. And in fact, you could have several mediums at different scales between big, billboard sized stuff and the ultimate substrate, and each level describes what you need to do to access the next level down. The billboard(100m) points out the library (1m) describes how to read the microfiche (1mm) describes how to build the TEM (1nm) which you use to read everything else.

Of course, that might very well be far too much information. Certainly most of it will be useless to most observers - just like it is today. Well, we could do worse than just storing Wikipedia, Project Gutenburg, and YouTube. But I digress.
> Why isn't that enough?

According to the article, the owners of the parcels have the right to traverse the land he already bought. From the sound of the article, this is making a mountain out of a molehill.

He wants his privacy and, thanks to bizarre land ownership practices in Hawaii, these parcels are fractionally owned by hundreds of individuals making it impossible to make a traditional offer. This legal process, far from being abusive, is the standard process when dealing with these sorts of parcels since it clarifies who actually owns the properties. It sounds like once the list of owners is established by the court, he'll make a traditional offer rather than forcing an auction.
Oh yeah - I'd forgotten about that. Maybe copy/paste that url instead of clicking it... ;-)
Go more or less allows you to do the same, but I've heard there are some pain points.

In any case, Rust would probably require some rearchitecturing anyway.
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> Zuckerberg owns 700 acres of Kauai[2]. Why isn't that enough?

"Enough" is not a word in some people's vocabulary.
>>Now the Facebook CEO is trying to enhance the seclusion of his property by filing several lawsuits aimed at forcing these families to sell their land at a public court auction to the highest bidder.

Wait, I thought only the government could force the sale of a piece of land, via Eminent Domain? How can a judge rule that a private party must sell their property to another private party?
I don't doubt your friends perception but as a white male if someone said "a person like you" to me in reference to an offer I would think they were referencing my education or work experience, not my gender or race. That may be privilege talking, I honestly don't know. Maybe I'm just naive.
$3 billion for Oculus, which is 'just' a headset, and $100 million for 700 acres of land, it seems strangely backwards! But forcing people from their lands sounds pure evil.
USDS and 18F serve in pretty different roles. USDS often comes in when there's a crisis or a high presidential priority, because the organization sits in the office of the President. 18F is located in the General Services Administration and is especially strong when looking at the medium- to long-term goals of an organization. I'd also say that 18F thinks more about culture change than many parts of the USDS.

They also have different funding mechanisms that lead to different operating models. USDS funding comes out of a budget called ITOR and we can represent a source of "free" engineers for an agency. 18F operates on a cost-recoverable model where an agency is paying for help or services.

There are other, smaller differences too. For example, it's typically easier to work remotely for 18F than for USDS.

From a distance, the organizations both look like "tech in government," but I think they operate better separately. I have enormous respect for the folks in 18F, and the two orgs have collaborated on things like the US Web Design Standards: https://standards.usa.gov/
No, it's a reasonable question about personal intent and I hope Matt answers it.
Surely his lawyers informed him of the situation when he bought it.

In Hawaii (or the US in general) can people own beaches below the high tide mark? Surely it's impossible to have 100% seclusion anyway as people can land by boat when the tide is low and enjoy at their leisure?
The revolution alludes to the fact that one app is taking over everything from social networking, mobile payments, food, ticket sales, ride-hailing, financial products, bill payments, and much more.
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Great to see there are actual adults ready to take a pay cut and serve the country in spite of maybe not getting the president they like. Far too many people have fallen victim to feigned outrage and pearl clutching, and excluded themselves from the conversation completely. That's not how you effect change, folks. _This_ is how you do it. You go out there and put in the hard work.
He owns land that surrounds these land parcels.
All states can have different laws so it is hard to comment as a non-Hawaiian. That said, my wife helped settle the estate of her great uncle who held title to property with his deceased ex-wife. One option was a quiet title hearing where you try to contact everyone who might have an interest in the property, and then inform them of a court hearing. In Washington state if they show up and can prove they should have part owner ship, then the court creates a title which includes them as owner. If nobody shows up the court can update the title to make the person who is currently possessing the land the exclusive owner.

My understanding of what the article said, was that if these Hawaiians showed up and had proof of their ancestral ownership (probably ancestry records of some sort), then they would be added to the title and at that time Zuckerberg could negotiate with them for the sale of their ownership interest to him. Could be a big payday for some Hawaiians as you have a lot of leverage.

But if they don't know about the trial and/or don't show up, then they forfeit their interest.
Very interesting - I didn't know that.
The news story also reaks of a cliche smear-job though. I have a hard time Zuckerberg sits on moneybags in his house cursing the filthy peasants. Seems like it's more just a weird land practice (many people own the land he thought he bought) and he wants some privacy.
And Oracle would be near bottom in such list. Oracle hire Indians because its cheaper not because of some altruism. At least until Indian Govt makes it artifically expensive.
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I am an obese (BMI of 39) 40-year old man who do not do any exercise. I probably take the least number of sick days in my team and are able to be as productive as others.

Unfortunately there are many who assume otherwise.
Maybe they'll organize using Facebook. An "irritate Mark Zuckerberg" group.
Use JSR305 with Findbugs or SpotBugs to solve the problem at compile time. Using Optional in Java does have a problem with extra object overhead, so if you want to avoid that, you should use another language like Kotlin or Scala.
There won't be any big bubbles anytime soon. Only small bubbles. If silicon valley falls apart tomorrow for example, it would be considered a small bubble since it would be very contained (only VC money). In 2000 the entire world was injecting money in Silicon Valley. It was a complete different setup...

So talking about the next big bubble in 2017 does not make sense.
Original title: "Scientists Say There’s More Proof Eating Hot Peppers Could Prolong Life"

Morbidity != Mortality.
I'm confused too, but reading this:

>Close to a dozen small parcels within Zuckerberg’s Kauai estate are owned by kamaaina families who have rights to traverse the billionaire’s otherwise private domain.

...that suggests to me there are essentially landlocked parcels owned by the natives, perhaps? And if they are land locked, well, the people have to cut through his property to access their land, I suppose.
These reports have an empiricist slant to them and there's usually no attempt to explain the result. No doubt there's truth to be found here, but note that mere act of sitting cannot be bad for health, otherwise seated meditation would be bad for health too (which it isn't).

I conjecture it is the combination of sitting and hard focus on work or video games which is relevant. The brain withdraws attention from the body (which, being supported, isn't required much beyond breathing and digestion). The result seems to be bad things like inflammation, poor lymph circulation, etc, though I think this isn't understood. I remember it was said that, a few decades back in the UK, bus drivers (seated) had more heart attacks than bus conductors (standing).
It seems that all the results about 2016 are from yesterday. Can you provide examples of this is the hottest year not in January, the month the data is presented?
People who know that I commute at good weather by bike and at bad weather walking (2*70 minutes a day) say I am crazy. People who see my code (I am writing PL/SQL for my living) say that my solutions are crazy simple and efficient. They don't know that all my good ideas came after 45-60 minutes of walking and because of this I always have a pen and paper in my pocket.
Your argument is weird. How would mark zuckerburg use 700 acres of property? Who decides what effective use of property is? This is an absurd act of bullying people who may have otherwise had no desire or intention to sell their property, legal loophole or not.
He's learning from the best legally elected politicians these days.
How do we even judge moves like this?

On the one hand this is one in a continued series of "I don't care how it looks" real estate moves by Zuck.

EG like his plan last year to build fake houses on 4 zone residential lots around his Palo Alto residence and turn the block into his private compound http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/09/15/palo-alto-mark-zuckerb...

And I get it, can you imagine being internationally famous for being a YOUNG billionaire?

Life would be very strange.

I can see it seeming "fair" that you could use some of that wealth to claw back what you can't have anywhere - privacy - when on the other hand you're trying to be "macro good" as one of the world's largest philanthropists? (1 / 2)

So what do we do put a green checkmark in the "Good guy" column and a red checkmark in the "asshole" column?

Sort of like any of us except his checkmarks are super sized?

(1) http://mashable.com/2014/01/02/zuckerberg-charitable-donatio...

(2) http://www.pcworld.com/article/3010838/software-social/zucke...
2017 is the year you learned it's actually a spheroid.
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davey, get up, do a pushup.

I know you probably can't do one, I've been there. Do a sissy pushup on your knees, until you can do more.

if you're stuck on a problem, the brain rush will feel good afterwards.
Where is his appropriate extensively liked facebook post on that subject?
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At least Larry Ellison had the good taste to work with the local population of the Hawaiian Island he bought to provide jobs for them and such.
I could absolutely be atypical; prior to using Go and Rust as my main tools, I primarily wrote Scala, and I'm sure the functional and type-driven approaches have left deep grooves. But that would still be a way of approaching working with Rust, wouldn't it?

None of that is to make a value judgement, just an observation; but I would still argue that the language can be used in a highly productive manner. Nonetheless, it's perfectly reasonable to argue it's not worth adapting to it, especially if Go is already solving your problems and keeping you productive. I switched because Go's design doesn't seem to fit me very well, and I continually tripped on issues that I don't encounter in Rust. (So yes, perhaps I'm quite odd.)

I do understand the want for a Rust-lite; the thought has crossed my mind more than once. So far, Swift seems closest in many ways and may get close once the Linux/cross-platform story starts looking good.
I completely agree with your point -- you can't compare the power of compile-time checking to Java's Optionals, for the most part.

However I tend to think that what's important about Optionals is the spreading of the notion of thinking critically about failure modes around improper input/output. "Defensive" coding is often considered a mid-range skill (at least I think), and IMO it's because a lot of junior programmers just assume if some method get ObjectThing a, it's going to be there, and not null. I think merely seeing Optional<ObjectThing> a encourages movement in the right direction as far as program correctness, a road that will almost surely tour through concepts and languages that take that kind of correctness more (ex. Swift, Haskell).

Also, Optionals are a light introduction to functors which is nice.

For more concrete actionable stuff please see other comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13433335), there are tools that can do this at compile time for java
I assume, they are gonna sue those Chinese restaurants too?
I don't recall ever seeing workplace fashion and sweatpants mentioned in the same sentence.
You and ajdlinux are right, thanks!
Netherlands is very prosperous but you can get any drug you can imagine here; one has nothing to do with the other
No, it seems to bulky and thus its hard to use for long periods of time. Just ask VR devs. I do believe that AR have more potential, especially magic leap.
Dude is worth $53B. There's nothing they can do.
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HTTP/2 doesn't require a separate connection per resource if they are served from a few domains.

Also, do you really have a problem where an asset falls out of cache from one page view to the next? If so, the server wouldn't be returning a 304 in that case.
> Why isn't that enough?

Who is to judge how much is and is not enough? Do you want an international tribunal allocating a "fair and equitable" amount of square meterage of various quality levels of real estate to individuals?
We have pattern matching, traits, generics, etc. in Scala (and OCaml?) already. The syntax isn't the same, but draws from the same lineage. If you took away the memory management, I think Rust would be just another ML descendent and I don't know what the motivating feature for the language would be.

I could be off base. I haven't programmed in Rust. I've just skimmed through the documentation and little code projects written in it every once and a while.
It's a well known fact that fuckerburg is a cylon and needs the 700 acres to build a fleet to go looking for kobol. The sooner he jumps out of the solar system the better for humanity. So my appeal to everyone is to please just give him what he needs.
Zuckerberg purchased the land from all serious parties, and now his lawyers are doing their due diligence to track down anyone who might own even a "1/3,276" share, and are hardly treating anyone unfairly.

Put down your pitchforks, no one is being driven off their land.
It doesn't match his public persona, no. Regardless, if it is a hit job, Zuckerberg has more than enough resources and respect to defend himself.
So do the non rich media parts of the page load in 1.1 seconds?
You're saying that Asians are more meritorious of positions at large tech companies than people of other ethnicities. That's an extraordinary claim.

By the way, if Asians comprise about 30% of the workforce in the Valley, I wouldn't say they're over-represented. They're probably under-represented, in fact.
Ah, sorry if I generalised your argument, ya in the case of tech engineers I'd have to agree with your statement. If you're a decent engineer, you wont find the kind of financial prospect you do in the big tech cities in the US anywhere else, not even close.