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> Seriously? Those are the only thoughts that an article like that (it's finely written, just read it) can evoke on you?

It's interesting yes. It's sad that some people died. It's inspiring that life continues, that people get on with their lives and don't let themselves get bogged down because some people have stupid ideas. All of that is great.

The article even teaches me some practical things about how terrorist attacks work. How to thwart them, how to carry them out. What happens after.

Fundamentally though, London has a 0.24% death rate per year. With 8.6 million residents that's 56 dead people per day.

I'm sure those 4 people that died were very important to their families and loved ones. And the other 50-ish that died on the same day I'm sure were just as important to their loved ones.

And what am i to do with this information? How does it affect my life? I went to work today, I'll go tomorrow. I'll kiss my girlfriend goodnight and play with my parrot. I'll waste some time online. Maybe write or make a video.

I'm just as likely to die in a terrorist attack tomorrow as I was yesterday. It is overall not something worth worrying about.

Even the people I know who live in London have all said "Meh, this affects nothing. I got shit to do"

My point is that following the news is kind of toxic. Every day they find ten things you should be upset about. Why? To what end? What's the point? When one crisis blows over, they'll find the next one.
Other than the configuration form, does this have uses cases that are different from a bash script(s) with tmux commands.
Just found slides of the integer stuff, too, for anyone without the book.

http://www.sis.pitt.edu/jjoshi/courses/IS2620/Spring07/Lectu...
you should just write compilers. I wish processors would remove some features to save power such as OoO and defer it to compiler instruction scheduler.
Exactly, so what we need to do is use a formalized language with strict rules to keep out any ambiguity. And then we fully specify what software we want and... this process is called 'programming'.
Or in the name of some other person who has no idea the account exists. In the UK you basically need a utility bill and a photocopy of a passport to open an account which is not that hard to fake.
So, like, a "poll tax?"
industrial scale espresso: what about those automatic espresso machines you can sometimes find in office buildings? they pull single, double, or triple espresso shots from a touch screen interface. Can do lattes etc. too, but assuming you wouldn't need that part.
What's the definition of basic algebra that makes that fact obvious? I took 3 semesters of algebra in college (Linear Algebra, Abstract Algebra I and II), and don't see anything obvious about it. But then, neither does Terry Tao:

> "the powers φ, φ2, φ3, … of the golden ratio lie unexpectedly close to integers...
Using omnibus (with backups), it's as simple as an 'aptitude upgrade' for us
I don't think it's about 'stop selling to extremists', but rather about 'having my image associated to extremist-contents'.
Many reasons.. but it ultimately comes to one thing, Cops do not give hoot to bike theft, so the rist-reward in bike theft is favorable.
Yeah I find it very hard to be precise with the trackpoint, it's probably possible but most of the time generally seemed to move too slow and then hard to zero in on the target.

Touchpads make it super easy to deal with acceleration better I found.
I would think answer is NO, but (why not) is there a way to synchronize painting of the picture with the vertical synchronization of the screen in modern browsers, to prevent flickering?
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They used to have these on the Georgia Tech campus. The company was called viaCycle[1]; IIRC they have now shut down.

I borrowed one of the bikes once. Because all the tracking infrastructure and battery for the electronics were all on the bike (at least I think that's how the tech worked) the bike was quite heavy. At least I think that is the reason it was heavy. Not very fun to ride at all. I'll also confess I wasn't in great shape at the time. I liked the concept though and I really wanted it to work out for them.

I'm a bit skeptical of bike share programs unless they're in high-density areas. The already-existing Bay Area Bikeshare is really expensive unless you're making <60-minute trips between 2 docking stations. I haven't tried any of the bikes but they look much heavier than the average $300 hybrid bike. Being out all the time can't be good for keeping them in top condition.

[1] http://www.viacycle.com/howitworks/
[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/smart-bike-sharing-startup-is...
You're right about the page overflow. Sorry.

Regarding inlining, using GCC 6.2 with "-O3 -march=native" on macOS I first had to remove "111111" and "222222" as constants, otherwise GCC precomputed both loops.

When I used __attribute__((noinline)) on mycmp, half of the difference went away. When I forced mycmp to check the alignment, mycmp became slower by almost a full second.

That was on a 2011 Mac Mini. Using a newer box with a Haswell chip (Xeon E3-1230 v3) and GCC 5.4.0 performance is about the same when preventing inlining and adding the alignment check, rather being slower. In both cases the assembly confirms that neither mycmp nor memcmp were inlined.
I'm more optimistic. What you may or may not know is that bcachefs is a tweak on bcache, which has already been mainlined and is pretty stable (I've personally been running bcache for a couple years on my home linux machine).

The point is a lot of the things you bring up are already covered by bcache. Bcachefs "just" adds a filesystem layer on the bcache tree structure.
As I was reading some of the illustrations, I began to wonder why anyone would prefer to use Lisp instead of Haskell. Can anyone mention a few advantages? Mostly, I find Haskell attractive because of the fantastic type system which allows me to write code that will fail when I'm writing or changing code. But I worry that I'm overlooking something because I can't understand why some people prefer Lisp.
They introduced a new "restricted" mode that removes many LGBT-related videos from search results:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/20/lgbt-comm...

This mode would obviously take them out of ad impressions as well.
IIRC They can with logged in users that have identified their age as over 18.
Math operates in all dimensions. Choosing a prefered vocabulary from one dimension is not helpful.

If you hate the number 2, then circumference of a circle is pi times diameter. Problem solved.
Simple stuff in Workflow basically looks like Automator, and advanced stuff in Workflow becomes inscrutable wizardy[1] even faster than AppleScript.

Workflow's advantages are that it A) covers the whole gamut of simple to insane with a single product, and B) has a sharing gallery so you can easily use someone else's magic without understanding it.

Maybe Apple killed the automation position because they were planning to replace it with Workflow, but do you expect them to backport the whole thing onto the Mac? In which case, are they going to actually maintain the user-submitted workflow gallery that makes it useful? Will it be a generally available API, or do they lock it down and use this as a stick to make people stop leaving the Mac App Store? I just don't have an easy time being optimistic about this, given where their priorities lie lately.

[1] Parse a Spotify response as a dictionary: https://workflow.is/workflows/1da14413405c4dcaa83904c2fe5cc3...
Why Verizon and AT&T are suddenly pulling their ads from Google and YouTube
Circle. When you going to send me the die cut one??
I didn't actually know that TCG was built from tcc, interesting.

Leveraging TCG in its current JIT-optimized state could actually be very compelling though: the only "C interpreters" I'm aware of are PicoC and Ch (and pedantically, tcc -run), all very different codebases. None offer a JIT-optimizing C interpreter though.

I take it that all that would be necessary would be ripping out the disassembler frontend and wiring in something like http://www.quut.com/c/ANSI-C-grammar-y.html + http://www.quut.com/c/ANSI-C-grammar-l-2011.html (or an equivalent), or maybe even a (heavily) forward-ported copy of tcc's C parser?
Healthcare Perks
I just read a job ad of a big company. Like all companies, they offer "perks" to their employees. The top of the list is routinely "health, dental and vision coverage".

In a modern society, healthcare is not a perk. Its basic Human decency. Its a commodity.

Making healthcare an employment perk is like making running water an employment perk. Imagine a world in which running water in your home was default turned off and really expensive but if you found a job, the company would turn it on for you, almost free of charge. This sounds really ridiculous, doesn't it?

People won't quit thinking of healthcare as an optional goodie that comes with good jobs unless you quit calling it a perk.

Quit calling basic healthcare a perk. Words are powerful.
Awesome, thanks for the pointers! I feel silly for not RTFM.
Why fatigue isn’t just about sleep
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Cars really are dead now; there hasn't been a release of the Model T since 1927.
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With the 4-6 (+) shelf life you mention elsewhere on-thread, could you setup a seasonal subscription? "Camping time! Send me x ounces every: May [x] June [] July []"
My only experience with this sort of thing was in Paris and it was very fun being able to ride around Paris, but in the end it was a complete pain.

My travel credit card had 200 euros put on hold, twice (two bikes). Which didn't clear up for about a week. We hired bikes twice, so I had 800 euros in limbo while travelling.

Not sure if this is a fault of the hiring system (not refunding or clearing the block quicker) - or my bank (not recognizing the clearing or block earlier).

Anyway as a tourist this was a huge inconvenience... hopefully we come up with better ways to address this.

I just realised this is not really a helpful comment, but just some personal context to hiring bikes :)
You must have a very narrow definition of CS, because several branches of it have nothing to do with code.
But seriously, who here hasn't done that?
So no different from China then?
Good articles and many clicks (readers) aren't each others opposites. Now the mindset at Medium seems to be that quality and popularity are mutually exclusive. It's like that annoying music connoisseur: 'I was a big fan of that band, until they became popular'.
Can you speak to how much the authorities in China care about bike theft?
Unless you have a national identity tracking system and register with every mobile phone, which in China's case, it does. If someone steal the bike, they will be sorted out immediately.
I wonder what the actual economics of a business like this are?

What are the real rental rates at which these companies make a profit? Because at $0.15 an hour it seems like well below what the cost of running the service might be. (also including the cost of buying and maintaining the bikes)

To what degree does the business model rely on becoming the dominant player?

What is the scale you have to reach to be profitable at $0.15 an hour? How many bikes do you need and how many trips need to be taken?

From what I understand about the habits of people with the nyc bike share program, the movement of bikes needs a lot of human intervention to remain effective, and the bike locations balanced. Are they just hoping that the pure density of bikes in the system helps them overcome this? I would think that manual rebalancing of the system is quite costly. (A driver has to track the bike down via GPS and pick it up, vs. a dock system where the drivers know where to find the bikes)
Shameless self promotion: I've been doing the same thing, for systemsy papers. http://blog.elvinyung.com/

I genuinely think it's really unfortunate that academic research are often so hard to approach without getting used to it. Often the concepts underneath are very cool and useful, and aren't actually that complicated. There is much to benefit from bridging the gap between academia and the wider community.
The DEFGENERIC line is wrong. It can't have a body like that. It should be something like

(defgeneric xplusone (x)
(:method (x) (+ 1 x)))

Also, generic functions are slower than regular functions (due to dynamic dispatch), so using them for type optimization would be rather counterproductive.
...or not.

I do it, likely will continue, and still do use monospace fonts.

What will happen is people will largely center on one or another, have their reasons, with a majority doing single space.

As for caps lock, clearly the author has not dirtied their refined hands on many numerical control systems. Oh, the shame and horror!

Sans the ongoing lectures about what "we want" as writers, one space would probably be adopted far more rapidly. Sometimes we want flow, sometimes we want a pause, and we may want a lot of things not necessarily in line with style purists best efforts.

TL;DR (complete with pretentious semicolon) I'm so sorry this trivia is elevated to such a point of concern. I feel you. Really. Ahem. (Pause intended, made explicit as HN renders with one space -a fine solution.)
> So let's say I get 10 article credits for my monthly subscription. I'd be glad to "pay" $0.50 an article if I knew 80% went to the writer. Each writer would have to invest in as many free teaser articles...

Isn't this just clickbait all over again? If you were actually willing to pay for good writing, a simple email address or paypal link would be enough. But you aren't, so it's not, and online writers have to do all sorts of strange things to pay the bills.
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They're also deliberately heavy to make them harder and less attractive to steal. Not an issue in a flat city, but much less fun on hills.

Hopefully in the long run electric assist is practical to implement on these bikes which should ameliorate their weight.
I am one of the Embark founders. I'm no longer at Apple.

Our acquisition actually ended up with the spirit of our product living on in a way that I am proud of.

At Embark, we innovated by taking a regionally nuanced and tailored transit App and giving it scale. When Embark operated from 2008 to 2013, there were small bespoke apps and there were larger more generic experiences (like Google) and we filled a void in between.

Apple's approach was quite similar. Like Embark, Apple Maps Transit has a more regionally tailored experience than many bespoke transit Apps out there, but they're also able to bring it to scale. It's now at a scale we never got close to reaching at Embark.

If you're curious, Apple talks about their city-by-city approach in this WWDC video. https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2016/241/
Gotta move to a subscriber / donation / ads freemium model.

Remove ads once user tips/pays more than $X in a given month (ie let X = $9).

Maybe have a alternative platform for content creators' own walled gardens subscriber model to monetize exclusive content.

Some posts won't monetize well because of advertiser objections, but it's still worth keeping controversial content and letting people tip toward it. If we always kowtow to advertisers, mainstream media is the result.

Finally, generously rev share with content producers, to encourage them to make great content, say 50/50.
It sounds like they don't do too much maintenance on the bikes, so that cost is probably fairly low. And I wonder if bikes would need to be rebalanced manually? Presumably with enough bikes in the system, the bikes would be distributed around population centers pretty well.
I'm looking forward to BcacheFS. ZFS on Linux is great when it works well, but it's an absolute pain when it breaks. Not only does it taint the kernel, but it doesn't really mesh very well in the kernel due to the usage of the SPL -- a layer used to convert Linux APIs to Solaris Kernel APIs. In addition, ZFS doesn't use as much native Linux memory management as I'd like, instead it manages its own pool of memory. This makes troubleshooting more difficult. This mechanism is further aggravated with the use of the kmem cgroup.

For example, if you have a dirty page in a cgroup, and the cgroup OOMs, the kernel will trigger writes. If any of these writes require memory allocations, they'll probably fail since the current cgroup is OOM. ZFS subsequently gets stuck in an infinite loop, and locks up. See: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/5535

I understand that a lot of ZFS works comes from LLNL & government funding. I'm not blaming them, as it works for their use case of machines that are running dedicated, controlled workloads.

We're experimenting with Btrfs, and we'll see how it goes.
Perhaps the economics are buy really cheap bikes and hope on average they are ridden for enough hours to cover the cost before they end up broken / lost / stolen.
I also preferred the vibrant colors of my CPC to those of a C64.
Winter 17 started in the winter of 2016? Confusing.
I'm just a lowly project manager, but my understanding from the tech wizards around here and those I work with is this:

It is possible, using the advanced technology available today, to make on your website a button which allows a subscribed user to independently cancel a subscription that was made online.

Through this technology, one no longer has to compose a pleading e-mail to customer service. No need to take on faith the co-founder's confusing promise that they want to make it easy for you to cancel while they simultaneously withhold a "cancel" button, with no stated plans to add one.

I mean, look, if you really don't intend to make a serious amount of dough off of people being too forgetful or busy to unsubscribe from a subscription they no longer want... what's the harm?
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Yeah but gp is talking about "flipping the bird to censorship", it isn't censorship to not buy ads. That just isn't what censorship is.
I thought pointing out post-truth politics was good? But only if the left does it, I suppose...

Character assassinations from afar are nothing new. It's been the progressive activists' favoured weapon for sure.
Sgamblingtarting with around $10-$20,000 in what were college loans, Sacca realized that brokers weren’t accounting for margin usage on a real-time basis. The result was that even though firms were only allowing 50% margin, as long as a customer closed a trade before the trade settled, T+3, and showed proper equity in the account, positions larger than 50% margin usage could be opened.

So this guy bought stock on margin he shouldn't have been able to, because certain on-line trading systems at the time didn't check margin account balances in real-time. In effect, he borrowed assets with collateral he purported to have but in fact did not. This seems ethically questionable, at the very least, and possibly even fraudulent. But it's probably exactly the kind of "naughtiness" that YC prises in its founders:

4. Naughtiness

Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody Two-Shoes type good. Morally, they care about getting the big questions right, but not about observing proprieties. That's why I'd use the word naughty rather than evil. They delight in breaking rules, but not rules that matter. This quality may be redundant though; it may be implied by imagination.

Sam Altman of Loopt is one of the most successful alumni, so we asked him what question we could put on the Y Combinator application that would help us discover more people like him. He said to ask about a time when they'd hacked something to their advantage—hacked in the sense of beating the system, not breaking into computers. It has become one of the questions we pay most attention to when judging applications.

http://paulgraham.com/founders.html
Apple removed transit before the Embark acquisition.
Sure but then that just shifts the question to why aren't t ads simply manually disabled on those videos if they are being reviewed already?
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Agree 100%. The fact is (well, in my experience anyway) that the people who want programs written don't really know what they want (they only think they do). The art of requirements analysis is very difficult to do well, partly because of this, and like you say, when (if) any machine becomes intelligent enough to equal a human in eliciting good requirements, we will all be in a lot of trouble.

Right now, is there any natural language system that can appropriately correct the punctuation on these sentences (not meant rhetorically)?

SPLINTERS WEAR SHOES

PANDA EATS, SHOOTS AND LEAVES
TIL a lot of people use two spaces and are very passionate about it. I've never heard of this in my life.
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There's even a new speccy coming out. http://www.specnext.com/
Here are a couple of good article on the effect these startups have had in China:

http://www.sinosplice.com/life/archives/2017/01/24/shanghais...

http://www.sinosplice.com/life/archives/2017/02/22/ofo-renta...

Expect to see piles and piles of unused bikes littering the streets.

Another poster was worried about theft, when the market is saturated by venture-backed bicycles a greater problem for most people will be lack of theft.
What's the benefit over a simple text document / any other guestbook-like script?

I had some problems with your site:

1) TTFB took over 20 seconds just to load data for another 10 seconds. That makes a half minute just for the static landing page. If this would not have been posted on HN I would have skipped the page after 3 seconds.

2) Your CTA is plain text. Why not style it as a button to catch the customers eye? I think a lot of people do not recognize the text below the headline as clickable.

3) For me, the description was misleading. From the text I thought that I could "travel through time" and get to know what ideas/notes I have written in which timespan.

Hope this helps to improve scratchpad a little bit.
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Ok, what if a machine is compromised (there are millions of zombie boxes out there)? Someone can gain access, do their stuff and then upload the result. Are they going to start suing grandmas with weak wifi passwords? That worked so well for the RIAA last time.
I think it is far easier to read with two spaces, even in proportional fonts; on web pages I even add a Unicode non-breaking space after the period so that the browser will not absorb it.
Hard is good when something can be patented, kept secret, heavily regulated or otherwise defended.

Mr. Wonderful and Mr. Coffee will knock this off in μseconds if there's any traction.
Pretty sure the carpenter will complain when anything made w/ wood can just be put through a 3d 'wood' printer and come out flawless, or a device that basically can take a block of wood, or 4x4s and construct just about anything without any human intervention. Won't be long before mining operations are all manned by drones and not a single human. This isn't sci-fi, it's near-future tech.
Maybe they just feel bad when they are going to sleep.
Cannot comment about China, but again from anectodal personal experience in India, the component of street justice in some places cannot be totally ruled out.

If you are caught by a mob while stealing .. brace for Impact!

edit:
The broader point being "risk" component of theft in certain places is sometimes inhibitive in spite of apathy from authorities.