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> And yet we miss that this very same, simple system of pricing could solve our congestion problem.

This article is really bad. The above line is one of the worst.

People don't clog-up the freeways because they are having a good time. Nobody wants to be on them. I drive the 405 with some frequency. It's hell. I don't want to be on it. But I have to. Just like everyone else on it.

We have to be on the damn roads because of where work takes us. I have clients and contracts that require me to traverse this pathway. Others are employed by companies in the Downtown LA to Santa Monica corridor. They don't have a choice. They have to be on that hellish road. People can't just quit and move to greener pastures, at least not at scale.

Elon Musk and his quest for tunneling are now used as examples of the frustration. Well, SpaceX didn't need to be in Hawthorne. The company has, what, 7,000 employees? That general area (anything around the 405) is hell for traffic. SpaceX could have been out towards Ontario, in Mojave or farther north or south somewhere. There are no inherently magical reasons for building a company with 7,000 employees in Hawthorne other than perhaps the availability of large buildings and amicable zoning and regulatory frameworks.

Not picking on SpaceX, simply using it as an example. The problem with Los Angeles is this mass of businesses concentrated in that corridor. It attracts tens of thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of people driving in from within a 50 mile radius in every direction. This is the problem.

Tolls are not going to fix this. They would only punish folks who would have no choice but to pay-up and continue to go to work.

And carpool? Carpool is a joke. Carpool lanes only serve to waste 20 to 25% of the road's capacity. The vast majority of users are those who are not carpooling at all. For example, when we load-up the family in the car to go somewhere. In other words, no appreciable number of cars are removed from the road. Why don't people carpool? Because people are sprawled all over the place and it is utterly inconvenient. If you can find just one person who lives near you who can carpool you still lose freedom. What if you need to leave work early or go late because your kids are sick? I can't even think of one person I know who carpools.

My opinion is that LA would benefit greatly from providing tax incentives and the appropriate zoning and infrastructure support to decentralize the centers of employment. Give companies 10 years without taxes (NY state style) to either move or start-up on the outskirts of Los Angeles proper in every direction. Change traffic patterns this way and traffic will improve.

The rest will come with time. Autonomous vehicles will change the nature of traffic in potentially significant ways.

Until then it's going to suck more with each passing year until it starts to get better.
It happens on OS X. Kernel freezes as well.
It's like 80% of the first page real estate on MSNBC right now:

https://i.imgur.com/KDLbXOx.png
Has the population of the greater London area increased? That could be a conflating factor.
Houston has flex tolling on it's main lanes. On our biggest freeway with 10+ lanes in each direction two are dedicated to tolling with a price that ranges from $1 to $8 each way.

During peak hours the $8 toll makes almost no difference. The lanes remain just as jammed and on average you only save 5-10 minutes (less than 10% of the drive time) over the total length of the tollway.

Obviously this isn't exactly scientific reporting but the toll road authority in Houston is big business to the tune of 700 million/year in toll fees. They won't facilitate access to data if it results in a negative impression.
The correct part is a work does not have to be registered to have copyright protection. You are also correct that works created by the U.S. federal government do not have copyright protection, they're in the public domain. However, and I think the post you're responding implies this, copyright protected work may be licensed by the federal government without losing its copyright and I think in at least some circumstances works can by created by contract for the federal government and retain copyright protection.

I don't think I've followed the larger point, I don't see how copyright is relevant to the production or dissemination of malware.
I usually try to sear the outside of the meat before I throw it into a slow cooker. I use cheap, tougher meats that wouldn't really be desirable cooked any other way.
Ask HN: Should I have a Copyright Certificate?
We're a US based company and our Chinese customer has asked for a copyright certificate for software we are licensing to them. Is this something I should have? I've gotten along without it for decades. I know that the source code should have a copyright statement in it, which it does. But this is the first time I've been asked for a certificate.

Any guidance would be appreciated.
This reminds me: I should give an updated version of that talk for 2017...
Interesting way to find out the version of the hypervisor kernel. If the gtod call returns faster than the direct syscall for it, then you know the kernel version is prior to that of the patch fixing the issue in xen.

I expect there are many such patches that you could use to narrow down the version range of the host kernel. Once you've that information, you may be in a better position to exploit it, knowing which bugs are and are not patched.
Before using neural networks, Google used to translate "백조 한 마리" (one swan) into "100000000000001 swans", because the Korean word for "swan" can be also interpreted as "one hundred trillion". So, "one swan" = "one" + "one hundred trillion" = 100000000000001. And then stick "swans" onto it for good measure.

Translation is hard.
But why is this the case? Largely because land use (powerful local zoning + low holding costs for land) incentivizes sprawl over infill.

Consider cities that do better for transit by building upward. This is usually a case of a more sane zoning system, like in Tokyo[0], or ownership residing in the municipality, like Hong Kong.[1]

[0] http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html
[1] http://www.hkclic.org/en/topics/saleAndPurchaseOfProperty/ba...
Hypothetical or real? If real, link to source please.
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via the Chrome dev console worked wonders. Mostly just a reaction to reading about the TED talk though.
I figured this comment carried enough satire to not need explanation. He was using an offensive tone to carry over the implicated apathy that city planning has on the impoverished.
Library vs. microservice
Good enough if your company has a small but experienced IT department with a few designers, a bunch of front-end guys on SublimeText and a handful of .NET guys.
The disrupters in the venture capital industry are ripe for disruption
H-1B employees can only work for those companies that sponsor them. This significantly cuts down on their ability to participate in a free and even employment marketplace. In addition, if an employee looses his current position - they have 90 days to get a new sponsored position or they must leave the country.

As you can see, this puts significant unfair power advantage in the hands of the employer.
Unless they are really good rocket scientists...
> Obviously this isn't exactly scientific reporting

It doesn't need to be. Link to the local paper. There's a lot of misinformation being used today. It's not new, but we have the resources to verify things now. We need due diligence, not pontification.
24hr service would be very expensive, but it seems that they should run the transit services until a little after the majority of bars and clubs close. It was nice here in Boston when they ran the T until a little past 2AM; they've since pulled that back to 12:30 or so. It can be kind of a pain, but Uber/Lyft are well established here.
Austin has UTexas as well, which is a major driver of it being a hub.
I don't think it is because no one has tried it as much as the fact that the workloads need the cpu architecture / are not easily parallizable (as far as I understand). Comp bio in genetics is largely sequence alignment & search, which is still largely CPU / memory bound; but I don't understand programming enough to speculate if development in algorithms will allow GPUs to be used because the problem itself is not parallelizable. I think of it as the difference between a super computer & a cluster..

(More than a decade ago, I struggled to / barely succeeded in building a Beowulf cluster; I am just amazed at how far both the hardware & the software tools have come..)

In other areas of comp bio though, GPUs I think are finding use. Protein folding, molecular dynamics. Also, with STORM & such: super resolution microscopy? I think increasingly, gpus will become important.

Also, whole cell simulations?
It's important to remember that most scientific disputes can't be resolved by two uninformed people talking on the Internet. If you can get people to share links to well-written scientific articles, you're doing well, but these disputes can only really be answered by actual scientific discussion between actual experts who take the time to dig into methodology (etc), and maybe not even then; the replication crisis is a thing.

With enough study, maybe you can become an expert. Mostly we don't. Reading a few articles and playing "instant expert" is just a bad habit.

Remembering your ignorance is good; try not to forget that you knew nothing about the hot topic of the day before it became news and you suddenly became interested. Unless you have personal experience to share, we're really just sharing links here.
Standard tooling can be a big deal for some use cases. Having your data compressed with zlib means that you can stream it without decompressing to a client that can handle zlib streams.

The biggest candidate for that is serving static assets to browsers which can natively decompress a zlib compressed response by checking the response Content-Encoding.

Until browsers catch up, you'd have to either serve uncompressed traffic to the end user or recompress it for transport (which kind of kills the whole point right?).
just downloaded it - I really like the sms + story game style of the interface. Great job!
I'm still unsure of the rate at which this could be a solution to leverage checked C++ library types, and whether in the precise case of the Cloudfare issue this would be applicable. However I still think that in most case if you must handle out-of-bound conditions from a checked language outputting to an unchecked one, you just emit your checking code yourself...

Also the C++ standard is 1500 pages long. I prefer to avoid knowing that as a backend language when I can...
I moved to LA about a year ago from DC, where the traffic is notoriously bad as well, and I have to say that LA traffic is leaps and bounds worse. I've never seen gridlock like this where you literally DO NOT MOVE. In DC, you'll move maybe a couple inches here and there, maybe average 2-5 MPH in a gridlock. Here, you sit completely still. When you're up to turn left, there's not even room to turn in because everyone jammed the cross section because they've been behind that same like for 30 minutes. I basically just use delivery services for any thing between 4-7pm
Confidant: Your secret keeper
Ugh can't view from the uk
I refered to "being not surprised that encryption is broken". There was nothing relevant to encr in the document. The title is wrong.
> 8 DDR4 channels per socket is twice the memory bandwidth of 2011, and still more than LGA-36712312whateverthenumberwas

This one will be interesting. The current Ryzen (like most of the Intel desktop range) has two channels, but everyone has been benchmarking it against the i7-6900K because they both have eight cores. The i7-6900K is the workstation LGA 2011 with four channels. If the workstation Ryzen will have eight channels...
Good question. I can see two interpretation (but IANAL so am probably very wrong here):

1) BSD license covers copyright, and that patent file covers patent grants. Totally separate things. If you sue Facebook, you retain the BSD license and they can't sue you back for copyright infringement, but they can then come after you asserting you infringed their compression patents and demand royalties.

2) Because PATENTS file says "Additional Grant of Patent Rights Version 2" it could mean an extension of the BSD license. That is the termination would trigger the revocation of copyright license as well not just patent protection.
This sounds like the HOV lane is not priced appropriately during rush hour traffic. Up the price and it should get better.
Brexit bill: Theresa May suffers second defeat
AIUI, part of the system is unsupervised, i.e. is trying to learn "representations" for data independent of any translation task with a right/wrong answer. Unsupervised learning is a hot topic in machine learning.
Untrained Uber and Lyft drivers are all but required to violate the law and endanger others, in pursuit of "customer service." Pull over RIGHT HERE. Flip a U-turn RIGHT HERE. Customer must not walk FIVE FEET. Customer can open door RIGHT HERE. Ad nausuem.

I bike commute in San Francisco and on a typical day I dodge literally dozens of illegally double-parked ride share cars occupying marked bike lanes. I have been nearly doored multiple times, nearly run into parked cars multiple times, been forced into traffic innumerable times, etc.

This is not the 'fault' (sic) of individual drivers. It's the business model, and I hold Uber and Lyft accountable.

EDIT: taxi drivers do this 2% as often; I've bike commuted in the city 20 years and it is apples and oranges
Awesome resource. Thanks for sharing your work!
We deleted the URLs you put in there to people's personal LinkedIn pages. That's way over the line. Please don't do that here.
Saved you a click: the country is Sudan. (Maybe a title like "Sudan: Africa's most misunderstood country" would be better)
No, it will be the Glomar defense or nothing at all.
So, change jobs and buy/sell your house?

Switching costs are high, even as rentors. (Moving Costs, Deposits)
They do have open source projects, but their mission is not to necessarily be an open source company. They want to equalize the footing in AI for everyone, and this might require some degree of secrecy so that commercial AI companies do not get an edge. At least, that is my perception, feel free to correct me.
Neural Machine Translation and Sequence-To-sequence Models: A Tutorial
Given the strong commitment to renewable energy and the resulting increasingly unstable (noisy) grid, there will probably be a strong market in Europe and particularly Germany. There are strong graphite[1], spodumene[2], and cobalt[3] resources in Finland, Norway and Sweden- this seems like a really great idea. Batteries are energy intensive and labor-light to make so local renewable power will go pretty far in keeping costs competitive. China has to ship their lithium from central America and their cobalt from central Africa- volume and cheap labor/power are their only current advantages.

[1] http://investingnews.com/company-profiles/graphite-producer-...

[2] http://sciencenordic.com/finland-new-lithium-powerhouse

[3] https://www.adn.com/arctic/article/lapland-host-finlands-big...
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Everything is unclear until you become used to it, though. I mean, used to it, as in, you can read it without stepping yourself through the steps manually. And to a novice programmer, pretty much everything they come up against represents this.

Turning five lines into one line with a reduce function sounds like a normal thing to do for experienced programmers, but to a beginner, they'll think you're a genius for pointing it out to them. So it's not surprising when they try to apply their genius and come up with something clever, too.
They don't even need to say no taxes in certain areas. All that has to be done is allow other uses in residential areas. An area that previously just had loads of houses could then have a commercial building. Businesses would do it because it is much cheaper than building in zoned commercial or leasing in a skyscraper. Just alter zoning laws and it would be much better.
If facts don't actually persuade us, then why is test-taking on fact-based trivia so prevalent in schools? (seriously can I get all that wasted time and energy back somehow)

I'd argue that there is only 1 useful fact that persuades us to open our minds and learn and that's realizing that we know nothing. This is the 1 truth Socrates held onto and helped him to learn so much. He'd never assume he knew something well enough and instead assumed there was always more to learn and used socratic method questioning to show contradictions in his own knowledge and world view. I think that is really the only way to persuade someone, by asking really good questions that cause them to question their own world views and biases.
That's the old EHP concept.

http://wccftech.com/amd-exascale-heterogeneous-processor-ehp...

I'd like to have that in the old project quantum package:
http://wccftech.com/amd-project-quantum-not-dead-zen-cpu-veg...

That would be a TFLOPS level supercomputer on your desk.
> the reality that there are tons and tons and tons of crappy candidates out there.

Maybe we need to start asking why that's the state of the industry right now. How did it come to this where quantity is so high and quality is so low? And how can these candidates better themselves?
Out of curiosity, and if you don't mind sharing, why/when did you get out of it?
> and the pressure is needed to prevent the exhaust gases from blowing out the front of the engine

Out of curiosity: has that ever happened and how does such an event look like?
Scuttling isn't just for the sake of classified technology (which usually has been separately rigged to be easily destroyed without destroying its carrier.)

The more important role of scuttling—at least during wartime—is to prevent the ship you just abandoned getting hauled into the enemy's shipyard as a "prize" and restored to service with its guns pointed back toward you.

This is also more toward what is meant by Naval captains "going down with the ship" during battle: they stick around to act as a guard (and proximity fuse) for the scuttling charges, so that whoever just disabled the vessel can't just hop on-board and drive her home. (And, just maybe, catch a large enemy marine contingent in a grand old explosion if they try.)
My shallow understanding of big servers and IBM Z series amounted to "lots of dedicated IO processors". Seems like "mainstream" caught up with big blue.
To 'fix' the problem, the problem shouldn't be created in the first place. Require less cars and make people not need to go places all the time for a daily routine.

Adding stuff isn't a scalable solution. After you hit building height economics limits, you'll still have to fan out, and at the same time, having more people stuffed together in a smaller area makes for more people-problems, like foot traffic, air, water, sewage, trash, power, networking. At the same time you'll have more people needing things to do, like entertainment and work, which they will then all need to do around the same place, making everything worse.

Universal mass transit, and multiple smaller clusters instead of mega cities is scalable. But that's not what people seem to want, and thus problems get created and here we are.
I find it very interesting that you feel the taxi's are safer. My experience, like several of the other posters here, is that Uber is a much more comfortable and safer experience than a Taxi (in the US).

With an Uber driver you have immediate feedback as to how the experience was, and it helps other users get better rides. With a Taxi, you have to go through a lot more steps to report a driver's behavior and hope that maybe it gets taken into account eventually.

I wonder if it has something to do with the perception that Taxis are bad here in the US, that just opens up Uber to be 'better' even if there is no real difference.
> By the way I got one of those in my in­ter­view day at Google, and an­oth­er at Ama­zon, and I blew them both.

Interesting to hear this, can't have done that badly as he got jobs at both of those companies!
English is my second language but i used to think security bypass means breaking the protection. Especially considering the title focuses on the messengers.
Instant Pots are AWESOME for meal prep especially for those who are bulking/cutting weight. In under one hour on a Sunday night, I prepared enough chicken, brown rice, and veggies to eat for lunch every day for a week (I don't eat breakfast and generally eat salad for dinner). The food tasted decent, but the amount of time spent on preparation can't be beat.
You usually get a tiny bit better compression with .xz, but it's much slower. So in scenarios where compression speed is mostly irrelevant and you only care about size, take .xz. Otherwise zstd is usually the best choice.
I like the idea of seeking out good arguments in favour of other people's ideas, but I dislike the way it contradicts the principle that one has a responsibility to state good arguments for one's own position. Stating poor arguments for an idea should be grounds for not accepting that idea, which is why I thought what you said wasn't compatible with what I said. One reason I thought the bad heuristic was so bad is it didn't even reach the stage of assessing arguments properly, on actual merits, thus leaving the door wide open to myside bias, and to all the other biases too.

You know, it might be just my experience. Sometimes, it is like a game people play, where they present an incoherent argument for an idea they believe in, and then say "well, there could be a better argument, why don't you look for it?". That's something your comment reminded me of, even if it went in the direction of agreeing with consensus.
Sounds interesting. Have you ever tried Kotlin? I've mostly worked with Ruby and C#/.NET, and Kotlin, based on JVM, feels like an interesting fusion plus a few extra tricks. It's still mostly static, like Java, but adds a ton of stuff around blocks/lambdas and non-nullable reference types.
They need to change zoning to allow office space, restaurants, etc in some areas where there is just houses.
Your completely right. If housing was much cheaper, everyone would be able to move closer to their jobs and traffic would decrease significantly. Compare 5 mile commute vs 50 mile commute -> almost 10 times less aggregate traffic.

Significantly improved housing situation => Less Traffic
I was springing off remyp's Star Trek reference: http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12050/why-four-ligh...
>not relying on others

Avoiding AWS based solutions to "not rely on others" is like using a kerosene lamp in the center of Manhattan. You may be more self sufficient, but.... why?
Fun fact: most zones in LA County require developers to build parking on a per-bedroom basis, so they tend to build ~2.5 stalls per unit, and most of the time that ends up being subterranean. That'll add ~$100k in development costs per unit right off the bat. They can sell the stalls individually (I believe) but because of the economics of the market it just doesn't make sense to build anything but luxury. That one rule is a significant cause of both sprawl and car addiction here, as well as more negative trends in housing availability.

Edit: If people are interested, here's the list of zoning requirements for Residential Zones in Los Angeles County.

http://planning.lacounty.gov/luz/summary/category/residentia...
Is it viable for those of us with only a handful of GB free in our C: drives? 2015 and previous would only put a few bits in the "install location", and still pollute the C: drive with up to 20 GB of stuff of hardcoded paths.
I'm pretty sure that you'd need a pretty catastrophic failure of the engine for that to happen, and the event might start to strongly resemble an explosion.