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> Unlike other languages that also advertise malleability (Common Lisp, Smalltalk, etc.), Racket is malleable in principled ways, so you can define abstractions without figuratively stomping on abstractions defined by other people (which you might also be interested in using).

Just like the Common Lisp Object System Meta-object protocol, readtables, symbol packages, ...
If you move into a bigger house, your hallways will not fill up with more traffic. Currently humans are required at least 1 per car. Thus the housing and employment of those humans is more of a limiting factor on road demand, or perhaps car ownership or desire to drive somewhere, more so than availability of roads.
I think light rail is fantastic - in London we have the DLR which is fully automated (there is an assistant onboard who can override), and it's a thoroughly pleasant experience. We fondly call it the smallest rollercoaster :)
FedEx uses USPS for their smartpost packages. There's really no way to entirely avoid USPS.
We're mostly a MS shop, so we tend to use MS SQL Express instances on our dev machines. For the bulk of what we need to do day-to-day, this is exactly the same as if we were dealing with a full SQL server instance, a SQL cluster, or an Azure SQL database instance.

One of the few times I will use a cloud database instance in development is to doublecheck performance of database queries, as the cloud instances will have considerably more latency than you'd ever see running a local database on a beefy workstation.
"Sacrifice implies you lose something with nothing gained."

Not true. That is just pure loss. According to its definition¹, "sacrifice" means either "to surrender or give up, or permit injury or disadvantage to, for the sake of something else" or "to dispose of (goods, property, etc.) regardless of profit". Parents working hard in order to provide for their kids may involve something from both of the meanings.

"you aren't sacrificing by working more hours to afford that big house and nice car you have"

It depends on how you look at it, and working more hours for a nice house and car can be both a transaction and a sacrifice. If you consider the leisure time you have to give up (assuming that you don't particularly enjoy your work) then it's a sacrifice. If you consider the time and energy involved in the paid work then it's just a transaction.

¹ http://www.dictionary.com/browse/sacrifice
Have to agree.

Both Rust and Go (big in China) are worth looking at. Unless you're doing games programming C++ is neither C/ASM (which is popular for hardware) nor Java/C# (popular for business software) or PHP/RoR/Java (popular for web back ends).

Plus when you learn C++ you don't have to learn one language, it is more like learning four or five as they completely re-invented the language every time a standard ships. This might sound good, except a lot of these constructs are a pain in the butt to intermingle.
This isn't the fairest comparison, because the richest Americans are richer than the richest Canadians. If the Canadian income distribution is tighter, then it's easier for a Canadian to reach the top 20% simply because the gap between bottom 20 and top 20 is smaller.

I think a fairer comparison would be to specify the "yardsticks" on both sides: what % of people in either country below X income manage to achieve an income above Y?
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I bet all Elon Musk admirers will start hating him because he is getting along with Trump.
Many people will have watched this movie, taken it as an action thriller set in a world that while hinted at wasn't expected to be real. It's quite an eye opener in hindsight that this is indeed real... Bourne Identity, another one that seems too far fetched to have any truth to it... given what's come to light in the last 5 years, truth and fantasy/fiction in this arena has become blurred enough to be scary.
I see this as a way he can easily skirt current road regulations. He can build these roads more suitable for self driving cars which would be a win for him.
Induced demand often happens, but certainly not always. It just depends on latent demand and network effects.

More importantly, the appearance of induced demand is not a general argument against building roads! People get value out of getting to places. If we build road B intending to relieve congestion on road A, but road A stays just as congested, we nevertheless have enabled people to get places with road B that they would not otherwise have been able to reach. That increases utility.

All of this applies to mass transit as well. The BART is currently at capacity during rush hour; if a parallel transit line was built, this would probably fill up with people without reducing congestion on BART, but it would still be creating value!
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The Unlicense seems to be unapproved by OSI as well. I'm getting the impression the OSI for some reason doesn't want to approve any license without restrictions.

One option is of course to "hack" the osi approval by, e.g., saying "this is licensed under CC0, alternatively it's licensed under MIT". (MIT is just an example and can be replaced with any other OSI-approved license).
But it seems a bit stupid that there isn't an easy solution for this.
Same! You actually get to meet people and have conversations with people like a normal human being instead of a filter-bubbled Internet habitué. And it's much easier to be in the world when you don't spend all your time
looking at it through panes of glass.
That is a good point, but those experiences can be had in other, much cheaper cities around the world. Why pick exactly the most expensive ones. The experiences can be had in most big cities I have been, the goods + services are getting there but i'm not personally not too driven by that but can see others might be. For all these things I can see your point, just not why pick the most expensive ones?

And I guess it also has to do with the phase in your life; I value freedom above goods & services handy. The satisfying experiences I have in cities all over, also cheap as chips cities in Asia and cities & villages in Asia & Europe. For people making so much money it seems that freedom is within reach if only compromise on the place of living is made. But you make a good points; I made/make decisions based on those points as well at some times; just now I value freedom more than other things.
Wonderful technique! Its essentially 'mentoring the crowd' by constructive participation and modeling good social behavior.

I have used a technique learned early on when I was a young jerk. Instead of arguing with folks in a group, I would sit one-on-one and discuss an issue (e.g. how are we going to structure the new project). I would start with a savvy experienced team member (ok John McGinty was his name) and get a consensus between us.

Then I'd go to the next team member, and say "John thinks we should do this:" and say what we had come up with. Not "I think" which is confrontational; "John thinks ...". Now they've got to put their thoughts up against his, which most folks can do without getting emotionally invested.

Anyway, iterate until the team was on the same page. End result: I get my way. Or I get convinced there's a better way. Either way, I win and the team wins.
> The AI vehicles are quite stupid. I've had them suddenly brake in front of me, or merge into the trailer from behind.

I'm sure the issue here is that it is "more common than the real world", but you could replace "AI vehicles" with "other drivers" and that would be a valid real-world complaint.
Traditionally big corporations, or anybody with legacy systems, are very conservative with technology choices...
That's a fair point.

Average earnings of Canada's 1% - $358,238 USD - http://globalnews.ca/news/3079173/heres-how-much-canadas-top...

Average earnings of US's 1% - $1,153,298 USD - http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/08/see_the_average_...

Couldn't find averages for the poorest but Canada's bottom 20% is 0-13,223 USD - http://www.moneysense.ca/save/financial-planning/the-all-can...

America's bottom 20% 0-18,500 USD (US Census Bureau, 2006; income statistics for the year 2005)

Looking at raw numbers skips over a lot of things such as healthcare and education. You're probably better off being poor in Canada and rich in the US.
From the point of view of the ISO, my understanding is that they consider it to only have a single standard, with newer versions completely subsuming the existing one. I would actually argue that if C++ has a standards problem, it's that major revisions (1998, 2011, 2017, etc) are not treated as being distinct standards.
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Notch is a ("retro") gaming nerd, he would definitely be a good candidate for sharing this.
I guess StalwartGentlemen was taken ... I'm not sure why the name of the company is bothering you so much, there are no "bro culture" signals anywhere.
What industry? What languages? If you dont mind me asking
A common privatization tactic is to defund public services so they're indeed incompetent. Then point at their incompetence as reason for privatization.
His company makes the quickest, safest family car ever made. His rocket company has greatly reduced the cost of getting into space. Now he wants to revolutionize tunneling. Maybe it's good that you separate the man from the great achievements of the engineers that actually design and build the great things.

It's not the CEO's job to be an engineer. Seems like Elon is doing his CEO job fabulously.
Those of us in the tech industry had a good idea of what was possible or even plausible given unlimited budgets and will power. We wrote it off that even though it was plausible, it wasn't probable because we'd like to think the best of our democratically elected governments that espouse freedom, freedom of speech and human rights at every turn.

Even we, who knew what was possible chose not to entertain the probability of it actually happening. Who was naive?

It's becoming harder and harder to write off conspiracy theories as nonsense, especially with the amount of hard evidence to the contrary.
David, thank you for the work on Delphi! I think my post was seen as bashing Delphi. It was not the intent; the fact that Delphi has a thriving user community willing to defend it is a proof to its usefulness.

To each his own. I work in a cross platform world with a roughly equal mix of Linux and Windows and my personal preferences are with the standard Unix toolset.
Trust is earned, Linus is right.
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Two different meanings of "distribution." Think "probability distribution," not "transfer."

A metaphor is when you literally talk about one thing, but are actually referring to something else. I'm not doing that here. When I talk about time, I'm actually talking about time. I'm comparing it to money, not using it as a metaphor for money.

As for what they have to do with each other, it's simple:

The usual way to allocate scarce goods is to use supply and demand to set an equilibrium price, and then let people spend money in order to obtain it. Another way to allocate scarce goods is to require people to spend time in order to obtain it.

People tend to consider the first way to be unfair, especially for goods with high emotional value, and whose cost to produce is not connected to the price. People tend to consider the second way to be more fair, because time is more equally distributed among humans.

The first paragraph is fact. The second paragraph is observation and speculation. No metaphors in sight.
Do you happen to have any examples of where induced demand has not happened? My understanding is that it is pretty much guaranteed, especially in larger cities. I think New York's bridges and tunnels are the canonical examples of this. I say pretty much because I assume there must be cases where it didn't happen, but I am unaware of them.
One more thing: you also have the odd combination of "product design" + "sounding-mostly-like-BACKEND tech experience", but people would expect "product design" + "frontend" with nicely sounding keywords Angular 2 or React or Polymer etc. I guess...

I don't have a solution for this because I have a similar problematic set of skills (product design + backend + entrepreneur-ish + desire to jump more towards machine learning...). I'm curios how you end up solving the issue of selling this combination of skills, so please let me know how it goes ;)
You've managed to let cynicism overcome the actual good his companies do. We now have good electric cars, we now can launch stuff to space at a fraction of the price.

Assume that you're right and he's not that nice a person: still because of him we're now somewhere we would not be otherwise. I think what he brings to the table far outweight any thing like "doesn't like unions" or "is an opportunistic campaign donor".
Yeah, idea to have fixtures is good. We recently migrated from django 1.4 to 1.10 and this time we are tracking all migrations in repo, so atleast the part of maintaining the schema is not a pain anymore. Thanks for mentioning nanobox, will explore.
Launch HN: FloydHub (YC W17) – Heroku for Deep Learning
Hi HN! I’m Sai, one of the cofounders at FloydHub (https://www.floydhub.com). We're building FloydHub to be a “Heroku for deep learning”. We are in the current batch (W17) at YC. But I still like to think of FloydHub as being an HN incubated startup.

10 months ago, I was working at Microsoft and doing a lot of deep learning (DL) there. While the DL community is terrific, I was often frustrated by how difficult it was to get started and build upon others’ work. For example, running any popular Github project often started with an exercise in dependency hell. As I untangled these for myself, I wrote up some notes on setting up popular DL frameworks, which unexpectedly started trending on HN after someone posted it there (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11697571). That's when I realized that engineering was a huge bottleneck in deep learning and a problem worth solving after all.

I’ve since quit my job and have been working fulltime for the last 9 months on building FloydHub to make deep learning easier. Our goal is to let the data scientists focus on the science, while we handle the engineering grunt work (provisioning and scaling infra, running reproducible experiments, enabling sharing and collaboration, supporting DL frameworks with zero setup, shipping trained models to production easily, etc.) Lots of interesting challenges - happy to talk about them!

We have a lot of work ahead, but we’re excited to share with you what we have so far! Looking forward to your feedback.
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Within the twitter chain was mention of an ebay listing suspiciously similar to the parcel contents being seen. Parent is likely referring to this.
Yes! Wayyy too clickbaity without the niche adjective.
Of course. I don't think she really spoke at all until age 4, and it was only with very, very intense behavioural therapy over the course of years that she made any progress at all. To give a sense of scale, my mother quit her job, got a master's degree in the field, and dedicated herself to it full-time (as in - her whole life; not just her whole professional life).

I don't recall a particular "aha" moment, but then, I'm only two years older than her, so I might simply not have been paying attention.

Part of the issue was that this was in the late 80's, and diagnoses were much, much less common then.

If you're curious, the book I referenced, which includes a chapter written by my mother, is at https://www.amazon.com/Triumphs-Early-Autism-Treatment-Cipan... .

You can find my email address if my profile if you'd like to contact me that way. Also, your English was good; you've no need to apologize.
This is an increasing problem in advertising everywhere. If we keep using attractive skinny people in our product shots, photo shoots and marketing communication, we will push a growing disconnect between that and actual, real people.
When people can't identify (which is the initial goal of using people in your communication) with the messaging, they won't think it's for them.
On one hand, I understand why byuu wants to reimburse him. If I was in that situation I probably would as well.

However, I don't understand why the shipper didn't insure the package for a full amount. If you are sending something wortk 10k, insure it for 10k. It's simple as that. If it made shipment expensive, then I'm sure the community would have sent him some money to cover the cost(or byuu himself would).
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I hope we reach that understanding soon; it appears the earlier the intervention the more positive the outcome.
This is a social political problem especially with 'exceptionalism'. People adapt to the environment they are in, that's one thing human beings are good at.

In the US there is intense pressure right from school to colleges to work to be 'exceptional', and to be recognized and celebrated for it.

There is nothing necessarily wrong, excellence is worth pursuing and to have individuals believe they can achieve it. But there is a huge difference between motivation by passion and interest and motivation by social recognition and celebration.

There are pitfalls and side effects in a society from a toxic focus on 'winners' and 'losers', constant judgement, politics and one upmanship, the ability of people to work together without the need for self congratulation and diminishing the collective. It takes a village and all.

Excellence always comes through, you don't need to do anything special, individuals who are brilliant will always shine in a self evident way without labels or self congratulation via their work, throughout history and now and in the future.

But you can't progress alone, progress comes from a generational interlinked collective, and there is huge risk of diminishing the collective and brushing every other factor under the carpet by an extreme focus on individuals.
I would consider using Chromium internal libraries as a boost equivalent.

Theres a lot of good stuff in there..

Just get: src/base, src/ipc, src/net (and something else you are interested in) and you are good to go
The Broad licenses the technology. So, perhaps it's slowed down because people have to pay money to use it, but on the other hand, the technology is available, and the inventors derive some revenue from it.
Ive heard through the grave vine that approaching Amazon via customer service and asking for the primary shipper to handle all phases of the process will stop your packages from getting handed to local services.
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Pretty sure he stated that being a large reason why they're doing that.
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Meh. He probably could have had a pedestrian bridge approved and installed by now for the same cost as the exploratory hole.

Or even built over a weekend, then deal with the consequences and approval process after. You can get a way with a lot when it comes to personal safety.
It was an international parcel, IIRC shipped from Germany via DHL.
Oh! Oh jeez. Looks like the confused one is me!

He doesn't know me from Adam's off ox, but I bet there's someone here of whom that's not true. I'll concentrate on people with whom I'm already acquainted, and hope someone comes along who can put a word in Notch's ear and hope to be heard.
I agree with this very strongly. It's similar to what happened with blogging. Early on, blogging was people who knew how to do something very well writing about their knowledge and experience. Then it became profitable and the filler appeared, which is mostly people who have no actual useful knowledge talking about what other people are doing, or about nothing at all. The transition from "engineers who write blogs" to "bloggers".

The same thing has happened with "thought leadership". There was, and still is really, a group of people who do the work and have useful insight. They became high profile, and presumably made money on it, and now the filler has appeared. Self-professed thought leaders who are endless sources of bombastic buzz words and constant self-marketing.

It's a natural pattern, I guess. Something becomes profitable and profit-seekers without much actual value show up. I think the thing for those who can do is to just ignore it and continue creating things of value. Maybe also guide junior engineers on the path of being actually effective and ignoring the crud.
Damn straight- Berkeley's IP office is absolutely impossible to deal with. They value their property infinitely high.
San Jose, not San Francisco. That's quite a change.
He used DHL - it's entirely possible that he had no idea that DHL uses USPS for the final delivery once the parcel reaches US.
is that true? how much effectiveness are you gaining with the thinner atmosphere?
Why does anyone think allowing ISPs to collect and operate on customer information with impunity is a good idea for the general public, who often have no alternatives?
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I believe Linus claims to be an engineer, or maybe a manager nowadays. shrug Glad he has done well anyways.
With respect, I believe your comment may underestimate the long history and overall ethnic and cultural diversity of China.
"The Apache Flink project is a relative newcomer to the stream-processing space. Competing Open-Source platforms include Apache Spark, Apache Storm, and Twitter Heron."

Can someone explain why Apache are creating projects that compete with each other? Why not focus on one?
I'm one of those people that probably overuses Raleway. It's a really nice font, but it doesn't fit everywhere and when it doesn't fit it really stands out. I'd agree that there are probably a few fonts that would work better.
I generally find Elon Musk to be an offputting individual, but I struggle to disagree with most of his ideas. In dense urban areas, skyrocketing property costs and the erosion of eminent domain have made mass transit expansion unsustainable in terms of time and money. Tunneling under it all has the potential to sidestep so many costs.

To do so, of course, he'll need to reduce the costs of tunnel boring by an order of magnitude. As the economist quoted in the article noted, though, the construction industry has been famously stagnant for decades. Commoditizing boring machines would bring down costs substantially. Speeding them up would also reduce costs. And if he gets costs down by a factor of two or more, he could be the preferred vendor for a truly massive market worldwide.

It might be his least crazy idea, honestly.
I think I saw mention of €1000 being the maximum DHL would cover? Regardless, it's in the past; there's a lesson to be drawn for the future, but that's no help at all in the present.
I'm guessing it might be bigger as a result.
Do you reflect on those tasks later even once completed?
You typically want to use the native integer size for something like this, for the code to be more portable. The native integer size should really be int, but it's not defined as such in the standard. My preference at the moment:

off_t for file offsets

ptrdiff_t for memory offsets (vs. size_t for unsigned)

int for return flags

A problem with this is that printf does not have sizes to match these.
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