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> Yes you most certainly do glibly brush off feedback

That's not feedback. That's repeating tired arguments ad nauseam to drive people mad.

> Here are some specific question for you to either answer (which I would sincerely appreciate) or brush off again

I'm not playing your little game, Don. I'm glad you have this much spare time, but I'm sorry to see that you make the worst possible use of it.

GIMP is GNU Image Manipulation Program. It's an acronym. That is all.

Do something useful with your time. Play with your kids. Make love to your wife. Read a good book. And when you have actual feedback about things that are important, like usability or features, do come back.
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The only website in the world whose commenters make those on YouTube seem erudite and well-informed.
> Is humility necessary for one to be a great leader? Steve Jobs and General George Patton spring to mind.

As does (starting tomorrow) the new leader of the free world.
I suspect one of the best ways to travel around the solar system is to find an asteroid with a very eccentric orbit. Land on the asteroid, and while it won't save energy, the asteroid will offer a radiation shield and raw materials to use on the journey. The asteroid can be slowly transformed into a "cruise ship" for the journey and subsequent ones.
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> Many economies in the South destabilize themselves due to bad leadership and the elite trying to enrich themselves at the expense of the system and the people.

It's a gross falsehood to claim that US interventions in Latin America have not contributed significantly to the rise of military dictatorships (many of which were installed or supported by the US at one point) and cartels (funded by our drug war). But good thing we were there to overthrow the dictator General Noriega (whom we had previously installed).

Recommended reading: http://www.globalresearch.ca/a-timeline-of-cia-atrocities/53...
Thanks for the detailed response.
Has it not dropped off in number on Twitch?
> They've pretty much nailed the UX in their app ...

Ehhhh....I disagree because I have a less than stellar UX every time I use it. However, my situation is more or less an edge case. I rely on Uber to take me from the train station to work every morning. The train station is right by FLL. It's even called the Fort Lauderdale AIRPORT Station at Dania Beach. I have to call the drivers and tell them I'm at the train station and not the airport every time, and sometimes, they'll cancel or just go to the airport anyway. The GPS will place me at the airport sometimes too for extra fun. I've reported this several times to Uber, and it's still not fixed. It's also important to note a self driving car would make my situation worse (no one to contact when/if the app gets it wrong).

I would switch to Lyft, but after having a driver flat out refuse a fare, and leave me stranded in Miami, I'm not so keen on that idea.
“Leadership is intangible, hard to measure, and difficult to describe. It's quality would seem to stem from many factors. But certainly they must include a measure of inherent ability to control and direct, self-confidence based on expert knowledge, initiative, loyalty, pride and sense of responsibility. Inherent ability cannot be instilled, but that which is latent or dormant can be developed. Other ingredients can be acquired. They are not easily learned. But leaders can be and are made.” General C. B. Cates,
19th Commandant of the Marine Corps

Ingrained to my brain from my Marine Corps days is the acronym JJDIDTIEBUCKLE as the list of leadership traits, and it has served me well since, although in the civilian world I have had to lower my expectations of others around me in having even a fraction of such traits.

Relevant reading for those curious about how the Corps approaches leadership: http://www.tecom.marines.mil/Portals/120/Docs/Student%20Mate...
> they'll open up the biggest transport market ever created

And others will see the opportunity and jump in to compete on a market Uber spent all it's money to create. And there will be very little Uber can do to stop them.

Perhaps, Uber may be able to be a few percent more efficient if they have more cars around and more data to use for predictions. The question is can uber be materially cheaper with it's data in the long term?
either way this drives up cost because it raises the amount a driver must make a month. obviously we dont have concrete numbers but if people are switching to uber only they probably would want to save a lot every month versus owning a car.
Just because Linus Torvalds is a successful programmer doesn't mean he is at all correct about issues of programming. The vast majority of any of the opinions I've seen him express on programming fly in the face of good engineering practice under some guise of "real, macho programmers don't need tools".

I'm not afraid to admit: I need tools. I need lots and lots of tools to do my job. The more the computer can be used to make my job easier, the better. There is no virtue in hard work for hard work's sake.
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There are subsides, and there is a difference between "losing money most of the time" and "losing money on average".
> if you are passing >80% of the cars on the road, you are a reckless driver.

Or you are driving at the speed limit on a 2x2 highway used as a trucking corridor. (For example: most of I-5.)
Also lost 20 minutes on this article.

https://betterexplained.com/articles/a-gentle-introduction-t...

A note on rigor (for the math geeks)
I can feel the math pedants firing up their keyboards. Just a few words on “rigor”.

Did you know we don’t learn calculus the way Newton and Leibniz discovered it? They used intuitive ideas of “fluxions” and “infinitesimals” which were replaced with limits because “Sure, it works in practice. But does it work in theory?”.

We’ve created complex mechanical constructs to “rigorously” prove calculus, but have lost our intuition in the process.

We’re looking at the sweetness of sugar from the level of brain-chemistry, instead of recognizing it as Nature’s way of saying “This has lots of energy. Eat it.”
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Is there a youtube video of it in action?
> Airlines lost those regulations under Reagan

Actually it was under Carter -- he pushed for it, spurred by Alfred Kahn whom he appointed to the CAB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_Deregulation_Act

Carter was also the one who chose Volker to head the fed and squeeze inflation (to kill stagflation). This cost Carter the election because it also squeezed the economy...but ignited a recovery that Reagan got credit for.
They need a new organization built from the ashes of the old.
I believe it's an entirely separate network, not DHT based like IPFS though, but they've done a lot of cool work on the client side of things to allow user accounts and stuff.
Confounding factors. For example, crashes can be more likely after sunset or during inclement weather so seasonality can play a role. Or maybe the drivers who had Tesla longer got used to it.
If only ProtonMail could import old mail, I would be giving them money.
This is very interesting! I think I might get some braille stickers for my keyboard - it seems like it would not only provide me with some physical feedback I can distinguish keys by instead of glancing down once in a while, but also result in my actually learning braille.
Agreed that the government should reward hard work, but I'm always uncomfortable with the discussion around what is hard work.

Some poor people I know, they work harder than most of us desk monkeys, because they're doing back-breaking labor day after day. Holding down two, three jobs, shuffling around town on the bus to work 60, 80 hours a week for very little money.

This is not even an uncommon story. People working damn hard for not a lot of money.

Is that the hard work we want the government to reward? If not that, then what?

It's just too open-ended, and too easy to overlook a lot of people who work really hard, without really talking about it more.
The arguments in this open as to why we shouldn't like Chelsea Manning was that she misunderstood social cues, didn't respond well eating a whole meal within 2 minutes and 45 seconds, and complained she couldn't do it about a few of the idiotic exercises you are asked to do.

Yeah no shit... military training is ridiculous. I think a lot of us have enough sense to not ever join.
I love Realm and you should definitely charge for it! :)
an underfunded, underachieving public school, overwhelmed and inexperienced teachers, a below average guidance counselor, no role models who have gone to college, parents who do not know anything about applying for scholarships or financial aid, a diet of fast food, and few examples of other people in similar roles who became millionaires

That sounds like my life except for the inner city part. Substitute "redneck-ville" though, and it's the same basic principle. And I will say that I think the idea that these things mean you need massive amounts of luck to become "successful" (depending on exactly how you define successful) is bullshit. I never had any particular amount of luck that I can identify, relative to my peers who were born in similar circumstances, and while I'm not a millionaire (but I'm still working on it), I've been what most people would call reasonably successful. In my experience, what it takes is mainly insane work ethic, an indomitable attitude, dogged determination, and relentless pursuit of your goals.
> data supplied by Tesla
For anyone else who gets confused by this empty-seeming page: it's a slideshow. The right arrow key moves through slides.
Airlines lost those regulations under Reagan

Under Carter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_Deregulation_Act
I liked the article but I feel the CAP theorem is again misquoted; it often leads to misunderstanding. From the article -
"but they would still confront the reality of the CAP theorem: your system can be consistent, available, or partition-tolerant, and you can only pick two"

The CAP theorem states that in the event of a network-partition you have to choose one of C or A. More intuitively, any delay between nodes can be modeled as a temporary network partition and in that event you have but two choices either wait to return the latest data at a peer node (C) or return the last available data at a peer node (A).

Edit: Switched C and A
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AWS makes almost no money compared to their core business, it's around 10%, maybe a little bit more. The profit from AWS, however, is something like 50% of Amazon's total profit. That said, it's not hard to occupy a huge percentage of profits from Amazon since they purposefully run almost every other facet of the business at razor thin margins.
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Where else could it possibly come from? Tesla is the only one collecting this data.
That's interesting. That view, of the essential unfairness of the system, had the opposite effect on me: it motivated me lots. Just not to buy into the American dream stuff.

It motivated me to understand my own values, and learn more about the system, and figure out what I wanted to do to try and change the system for the people who'd never luck out and get a desk job, the people in coffee shops, cleaning hotel rooms, and the like.

Guess we can take different things from the same thing.
> When a new unproven technology comes out does it seem correct to automatically assume that it is as safe as the current standard? Would you not expect some proof?

In the absence of any data or given priors whatsoever, we should give the three possibilities (less safe, as safe, more safe) equal weight. This means that there is a 33% chance it's less safe, which is too large to ignore. That's why we want more proof when we deploy new tech, introduce a new drug, etc.

But note that specifically in the context of TACC as it stands today, we are not in that situation. There has been plenty of data accumulated already, which constitutes the proof you are looking for (i.e., the data we do have doesn't show a decrease in safety.) That's why today it is reasonable to assume that TACC is not less safe than no TACC.
Personally I don't like when people hide a pointer behind a typedef. If you want to use a typedef, typedef the function and then declare a pointer to that:

typedef int func(void);

func *func_ptr;

Avoids the mess of the function pointer syntax, but still makes the fact that it is a pointer clear.
Ah, of course you are right. I forgot about hidden services not passing through an exit node.
Amazon's position in the market is so weird that Matt Levine calls it a charity for the American consumer sponsored by the stock market. But it's at least clear how Amazon could generate money long-term; if it wasn't, nobody would invest in it.
I assume, from that sentence, "expanding access" means "teaching more students" and thus accepting a larger class/more applicants.
Ask HN: What can I/we do to get good self driving car regulations where we live?
My understanding is that it will be city/state by state. Is there someone I should be writing letters to?
Hey thanks a lot. Can you please let me explain little further about "Server side rendering" and "Pure SPA" can you tell me which would be optimum as in order to learn and apply.
And a bit extra knowledge about this process.
I was just reading about it today. Awesome!
This equation can not be a real university exam question.

Edit: I have seen the other post in this thread. My apologies, this seems to be the university math level in the states. God help us!
Said "squim", FYI.

But now we're just reaching for absurdities. I live near Tooele, UT (too-il-uh), and my uncle lives in Hurricane, UT (her-i-ken).
I recommend reading the entire thing. The article is not trying to pitch the audience against Manning, just that the currently popular image of Manning is incomplete.
I would rather the government do more to actually balance the system, than just throw a bone to too-poor homeowners.

I would rather every middle class worker simply have a much higher paycheck, so that the mortgage interest deduction could be eliminated without anyone feeling a thing.
Putting the science back in data science
If you get a chance to experience an "exit", where a number of people suddenly have much more wealth than others around them who are essentially doing the same things but joined the company at a different time, you will get to see all the different ways that people internalize that event (both positively and negatively).

Luck is very much a part of success and a big part of the way that Vikings talked of sailing with successful leaders ('they have a lot of luck'). And most importantly luck has no bearing character. But internalizing that can be hard when someone you despise gets rich, or someone you really care about fails to get the rewards that others in the same place have.
The time lapse sure puts an emphasis on the zigzagging/wobbling. It looks like the car is frequently "bouncing" left and right between where the side lanes end.

Apparently this wobbling is a common issue during lane keeping for autonomous cars, and according to one review, something Teslas are relatively good at (over BMW / Mercedes / Infiniti implementations).

[1] http://www.caranddriver.com/features/semi-autonomous-cars-co...
Where is he on this thread?
Software Is Made by Humans
I suspect the average Tesla driver is more irresponsible than the average driver, simply because they're rich and are used to getting their way.

If you study rich drivers I have no doubt that you would find that they cut people off more, overtake in more dangerous situations, use their indicators less, drive over the speed limit more, proceed through amber signals later, run red lights more often, and generally show less regard for the rules than other drivers.

This behaviour will also correlate to other areas of life where richer people simply care less for the rules. They're more likely to use social contacts or money (e.g.: "lawyer up") to get themselves out of any trouble they find themselves in.

Teslas are not cheap cars. Given that money is (social evidence of) power, the people buying Teslas (and other expensive cars in general) are likely to expect other drivers to respect their status as powerful people.
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Two possible ways Uber may expand the market, based on what I've seen in Chicago:

* Uber seems to do a much better job of serving non-wealthy & minority neighborhoods. I can't find an online source, but distinctly remember a local NPR report that claimed over 2MM Uber rides originated or concluded in an underserved neighborhood, vs. about 200,000 taxi rides.

* Anecdotally, Uber's superior experience is changing behavior. Despite having a thriving taxi industry, hailing a taxi is very unpredictable. If it's cold, raining, a busy night, too early, too late, or rush hour, you may be waiting a long time even in a well-served neighborhood. Uber practically guarantees a ride, meaning that I and my friends are far more likely to venture out. Overall demand for transport seems to have increased.

* Similarly, the reliability of ride sharing services permits many people to avoid car ownership all together. Zip + Uber/Lyft is a very compelling and affordable alternative to car payments, fuel, rented parking and insurance.
> I can't play video games "for fun". I want to be good and that costs time. Video games have the downside of giving players easy rewards. I think it does something bad to your brain. Not necessarily altering it forever, but at least turning one into a little dopamine junkie.

I'm not sure this adds up. I think I get a dopamine fix when I play simple, relaxing games or games with the difficulty set too low, but not when playing to win. Getting better at StarCraft, for example, requires you practice the same openings over and over while focusing on things that aren't particularly fun. You discover just how lazy the human mind is and then feel bad about it :)
So instead of trying to recreate the “good old days”, I made the decision to liberally use modern parts to simplify the design process...

Then uses a thru-hole Z80.

If that's not a perfect illustration of nostalgia, I don't know what is. Remembering the good parts without all of the fuss of the not so good. Very nice project. I'd probably buy that as a hobby kit.
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> Just because Linus Torvalds is a successful programmer doesn't mean he is at all correct about issues of programming. The vast majority of any of the opinions I've seen him express on programming fly in the face of good engineering practice under some guise of "real, macho programmers don't need tools".

Is he wrong in this instance or our you going to ignore his point because he's not always right?

> I'm not afraid to admit: I need tools. I need lots and lots of tools to do my job. The more the computer can be used to make my job easier, the better. There is no virtue in hard work for hard work's sake.

So, as a C programmer I use lot's and lot's of tools. But that doesn't change the point that many view typedefs as bad practice[1].

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3781932/is-typedefing-a-p...
It always seems to involve mastering gravity yet gravity is so incredibly weak compared to magnetism. Plus "alien spacecraft" aka UFOs always seem to output a huge amount of light so maybe gravity and light are linked in the process or mechanism for whatever makes the thing operate.

I like the article how it mentions getting the science believable or at least not terrible wrong. But what I dislike as much as that is whenever the science parts are dismissed. Usually a scientist in a movie or TV show tries to explain something the lead character rolls their eyes as if it were boring everyone laughs.

How can we encourage kids that science is interesting if it's treated as a bore or a joke and ridiculed? I know it's meant as a writing method to make the lead person seem dumb compared to the smart scientist but it sends a bad message that science is boring.
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I have a blog article that covers a bit more details: http://rusanu.com/2013/08/01/understanding-how-sql-server-ex...
> The Micro plug design is rated for at least 10,000 connect-disconnect cycles, which is more than the Mini plug design.

from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#MINI

Anecdotally (and probably relatedly), my mini-usb plugs always wiggled in the socket, while micro-usb does not. They also seemed to require less force to unplug, and so popped out accidentally more often.
There's a lot of replies to you here but I'm going to touch on the big one.

Node.js's biggest concurrency perk is non-blocking I/O thanks to a cooperative scheduler. When I/O is about to happen, the scheduler relinquishes control.

Elixir has non-blocking everything. Each process is prescheduled making it impossible for a runaway method to completely takeover the process.

The a comparative example server with millions of small requests in each language. An infinite loop in node would disrupt every other request to the server. In Elixir, the other requests would go on as if nothing happened.

The tradeoff to prescheduling is that you'll never hit a top end benchmark with Elixir vs other fast languages, but you'll get a very consistent response time. Makes it ideal for real time work, which is what most servers really are.

There's many more that other folks are describing here. Natural clustering ability due to lack of shared memory, immutability, message passing, etc. Really cheap processes (goroutine = 2k, elixir process = 0.5k) that makes it so cheap that the model is to create two. One as a supervisor and the other as the actual process. If anything crashes the process, the supervisor instantly restarts it.

The combination of the supervisor tree and prescheduling make it possible to run entire applications within the runtime that other parts of the system depend on. Imagine running a database INSIDE of your Node application. Pair that with the natural clustering ability and you get the ideal platform for a self-contained distributed system. Just keep tacking on servers as you grow.

You'll hear the term "OTP" a lot and that's essentially a set of patterns on top of the foundation that I just described that provides best-practices and models for utilizing the stack in different scenarios.
My ping in Overwatch is 1ms, with 40ms latency to the server from my computer at home. Your bandwidth will determine what your FPS will be, of course!
I don't think it suggests it as much as it can be inferred from looking at both sets of data.
> There has been plenty of data accumulated already. That's why today it is reasonable to assume that TACC is not less safe.

Haha, well we could have totally sidestepped this whole thing then! Can you show me the data?
What does 'leadership through politics' mean?
Uber does not have an autonomous driving deal with ford.
Amazing read. Such thoughtful
Writing.
Ask HN: Blocking behavior of user's browser extension, is it ethical?
*Names changed to protect privacy

I work for a company, Chicken-Wings, that sale's only chicken wings. Another competing company, All-Foods, sale's all food items and they have a browser extension to let you check prices of food items you find on the internet. The Chicken-Wings company dislikes this and wants to block the behavior of company All-Foods extension, because they feel like it's a shady practice. Is it ethical to change the behavior of a user installed browser extension from a 3rd party source?
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Yep:

% python --version
Python 3.5.2

% pip install numpy
Collecting numpy
Using cached numpy-1.12.0-cp35-cp35m-macosx_10_6_intel.macosx_10_9_intel.macosx_10_9_x86_64.macosx_10_10_intel.macosx_10_10_x86_64.whl
Installing collected packages: numpy
Successfully installed numpy-1.12.0
Impressive recall.