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I just hope that these planets to get to do not become first come first serve and these individuals claiming ownership of the vast majority of them.
>and implied that this should include adversity (which is what the Brian had a problem with, if it's a racially-based implication)

What, so we're not allowed to imply that racism exists anymore?
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Export compliance is a huge PITA for red hat. Most open source projects and libraries are not very well set up to meet requirements from the US gov. It sucks down a ton of time, making sure everything is above board.
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Yep, as I mention down-thread, merges only happen at GitHub/GitLab/etc.

The two mistaken scenarios I run into the most are:

1. `git pull` when I'm not in the right branch, which will want to do a merge.

2. When I have commit access on the master branch, and I do a `git merge branch` when that branch hasn't been properly rebased on master. My preference is no merge commit here, so I like that Git can catch this.
It is not the cost of the ride, it is the fact that an Uber driver will actually show up. In many cities if you call a taxi company at 2am, no one will answer.
The solution here is to use a hybrid model.

Users subscribe for $20/month (and that is their cap). And each page they visit they get dinged $0.01 (etc) and they have no risk of going over their cap.

When they hit a page with ads, the publisher site hides ads if they get paid $0.01, but they display ads if the users account is down to zero for that month.
And pretzels :-)
My grand-mother lives in a mountainous valley in the Carpathians Mountains, she's now in her mid-80s. She has only ventured 50+ miles outside of her village I think only 2 or 3 times in her life. On the other hand, she used to have two brothers-in-law (who had grew in the same village as her) one of whom had studied at the Leningrad Polytechnic (I think that's ~2,500 km away) and the other one who had lived and worked as a secret agent in East Berlin in the mid-'50s. The world is a complicated place, always has been.
IMHO, two reasons:

- Adults are not super humans and can make mistakes

- and 17 year olds are as capable as adults.

In engineering people frequently ask - why nobody thought about it - well because nobody did.
Yes. Shallow and pedantic.
"man ls" in bash showed me what I need, doing the same in powershell gave me some nonsense about Get-ChildItem.
Ah, blaming the language.
See https://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com/ for other languages and systems (including HN's current favorite, Rust), which apparently also "[hide] away the computational complexity and [make you] wonder why the execution is so slow".

Not saying Prolog performance can't be tricky, but it's not that easy in other languages.
SUSE is older than RedHat and is also successful.
Yeah, before Uber it was definitely easy to find someone to drive you home at 3 am from an arbitrary location with a full digital payment and accountability system.
50-50 seems unlikely: http://toddwschneider.com/posts/taxi-uber-lyft-usage-new-yor...
The trailer for his movie Gray State (beware: graphic violence, flashes) is here: https://youtu.be/Gy7FVXERKFE
Manufacturing and processing materials to sustain martian colonies, exploration, or satellites. The cost will be high initially, but if we're ever to have any permanent foothold, local manufacturing will be needed.
I know! Isn't it a lot easier to be wise after the facts? :-)
Thank you - I agree it turns on mens rea. Burning one's own property can be criminal arson, depending on intent or result.
Only in Iceland.

My pay is between me and my employer. It's none of anyone else's business.
Perhaps you haven't committed the crime of living in a poor neighborhood or looking like a minority.
If a third party fingerprint sensor is installed, the device's security is compromised. Are they supposed to provide a new Touch ID sensor for free? Is that the solution?
Ok. That makes sense because somebody will have to do all that. If I do have to go I'm gonna want Pizza.
I use uBlock Origin and find that more and more content is blocked. Which frankly I don't mind--most content online is a waste of time. Even stuff like NYT or WSJ isn't worth much more than the headline.
The zoning restrictions are one of the most startling things to be about the US. Especially since the US is in general very pro market but in this case is incredibly anti market.

The major my suburb recently sent out a survey asking people what kind of building projects people would like to see. The granularity of what was being asked for was shocking. It should not be the government's task to decide if we need to build single family homes or multi family homes and if they are allowed to be town houses etc. I felt like I was in the Soviet Union.
From the article:

> The IG took a random sample of 278 IRS forfeiture actions in cases where structuring was the primary basis for seizure. The report found that in 91 percent of those cases, the individuals and business had obtained their money legally.

That's not a very good signal. Even if the numbers were reversed and 91% had obtained their money illegally, I'd say that a 9% false seizure rate would still be way too high.
What about cache expiry? Minfiers can generate a hash and tack that on to the file name so it's cached forever. With http2 can you do this without the back and forward conversation?
It has always amazed me how casually people drink and drive in some countries; the US especially springs to mind.

Over here, drinking and driving is an extremely shameful and embarrassing thing to do. I would say it's on par with hitting a child. You just don't do it, not to save 20 bucks, or to save you from walking an hour.
I was wondering what the acceptance rates were for this MOOC. I understand it's difficult to deal with large numbers of applicants and that it's just not feasible to give every single applicant personalized feedback.

From the other side, I've been working on my goal for much of the past year and a half if I include collaboration attempts with offline businesses in my market that ended with job offers but no collab. I understand the long time span looks bad. I understand that it's minus that I'm a solo founder. It's just that I've gone a long time without a real salary or even insurance, I deeply believe in the value of what I'm working on and am beginning to have an idea of how much longer and harder the path is without mentorship from people who have done it before.

I see a tremendous value in YC and have already benefited from its free content. That said, estimating the EV of applying, has to include an assessment of likelihood and the costs of time and distraction as well as the tremendous upside.

Knowing the acceptance rate would be helpful in calibrating how to approach future applications, both for me and others who weren't selected.
Pix of formula 1600 please?

(I race SCCA Spec Miata. If anyone has questions about how to get into racing let me know)
I work for SUSE and we have a very similar view on making all of our products free software. Everything I've ever written or done for SUSE is free software and I contribute it to openSUSE before it goes into our enterprise distribution (we are a member of the openSUSE community and we very strongly believe that our contributions should go to the community before they go to our enterprise distros).
I've read a theory that all big ancient cities had negative population growth. Because of poor sanitation and understanding of pathogens (and other problems), diseases killed off people quicker than the birthrate. However it was made up for by constant migration from the countryside by people looking for work. I don't know if that's true, but I have heard credible people reference it.
It seems to me that data processing capacity must have increased to the point where they could just reduce the reporting level to zero (ie every transaction is reported) and so remove the entire need for rules against "structuring".
This is a frustration of mine. At university they try to install a knowledge of all kinds of crazy languages, before you're ready to appreciate their value and the issues they attempt to address. The most glaring example is probably teaching Haskell in first-year. As a working programmer, you're then corralled into following prescriptive industry-practice - that always errs on the side of dumbing down the choice of technologies available.
Yes! Yes yes yes!

IMO possibly what I think of as the lost years of Ubuntu are over.

I tried a few times but concluded that they had decided to go in a direction where I didn't want to go.
This is what advanced capitalism looks like - companies that are successful use their money and lobbying power to block competition. It's sad for everyone, except them. Capitalism tends to undermine competition and turn into monopolies.

But maybe now this will give a new reason to boost TOR-like anonymity tools. If millions of people participated in such networks, then they would be much faster.

VPNs could suffer from the same problem as ISPs - how can we be sure they are not selling customer data?
Traditional linear TV has very expensive reserved bandwidth for each channel. The Internet doesn't support bandwidth reservation because it would probably be so expensive that no one would use it.
That sounds quite atypical, I can't imagine UBO/UB causing problems with FB Messenger of all things.
So you guys literally milked ideas and and code in the guise of teaching the students only to spin up another business. I loved the whole MOOC idea until it was ambushed and hijacked by people running all manner of fluffy positions.

The whole system is now bent on profiteering with marketing staff fabricating fancy outcomes and guarantees to lure people to sign up for the paid version of the course.

Especially Udacity and Coursera. Edx not so much even though their programs are more rigorous!
p.s. If you set this config, and a fast-forward pull is not possible, here is what git does:

$ git pull
fatal: Not possible to fast-forward, aborting.
I've never heard it phrased as "exercising shares". Do you actually mean exercising options to convert them to shares?
> why do people drink so much, to the point of drunkenness?

Many reasons. To the point of darkness because it's a thin line between a light buzz and over-the-top-cannot-even-say-my-name

> Why is this so common?

human nature. Not only human, actually, monkeys drunk on fermented fruit, etc [1]

> Has this always been the case?

Yes

> Will this change?

No.

[1] http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2011/...
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14038000
and it was an epic fail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_computer#Fail...

A primary problem was the choice of concurrent logic programming as the bridge between the parallel computer architecture and the use of logic as a knowledge representation and problem solving language for AI applications.
sl [0] is always my favorite.

[0]https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl
Part 2 of this investigation should be "whose job it was to check new principal's credentials and and how they profited from looking the other way"

Edit: was that person the only applicant? If not why did the process identify them as the most suitable candidate?
Couldn't there be a middle ground where command and object member names have nice short aliases, but they work on and produce objects instead of character streams? I find it questionable that the productivity of the unix shell is due to it being stream-only - it could easily fall back to a stream (using each classes representation function) if you output it to a stream receiver, like the terminal itself or a text file.
I agree it's a rough tool and one they likely could replace with better tools in this day and age. And one hopes they would.
The problem is that all these routers and a lot of the embedded stuff don't get updates due to shitty vendor drivers for a lot of components. Most of the work on LEDE/OpenWRT is from volunteers that just want to make it work. Usally these devices/boards ship with an SDK from the manufacturer that is often based on OpenWRT but has some hard dependency on an ancient kernel, non-GPL sources or messy GPL drivers that need a lot of work until they can be upstreamed to the kernel.

That beeing said, LEDE is not only for routers - I think the ubus/procd/netifd system is pretty great - there is uhttpd-mod-ubus that allows you to configure everything via json-rpc (also websocket support is coming)

Maybe the tradeoffs from LEDE to run with fine with a current kernel/userland on 32mb (or even 16mb ram) / 4mb flash devices might make it more complicated to use it as general purpose system.
Yeah, that is my question. Why living on Mars, where you don't even have drinking water available? Human population in a lot countries, such as Japan/China/Korea is going to shrink pretty soon. In US, without immigrants, the population is on the same track with those eastern asian countries as well.

And working in space...for what reason? For certain industry maybe, but is it a really a worthy goal to chase after? I don't know.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14047659
> The optional flags to 'ls' are there to help "do it well"

And by default `ls` does it's job well.
There's got to be some way of predicting which people will transform themselves into the shittiest assholes, and put them all in the same shitty school, so that they can all burn it to the ground together, and we only sacrifice one worthless safety school, rather than 40 or 50 valuable institutions.

This is probably unrealistic, since one person's enjoyable experience is often in direct conflict with another's misery.

Maybe it just needs to to go down so that all the noisiest, most adversarial assholes, likely to compliment each other's misery land in the same place, make the most noise, and it looks like a huge, ridiculous disaster, but through this, 99% of everyone else's time at school goes smoothly, far far away from the well-isolated, planned demolition of losers.

Is this how wars start?
That seems like it would run in to problems in practice. What if there is no way to directly link 3rd party repair to malfunctions, but devices that had undergone third party repair malfunctioned more frequently. On the one hand, Apple shouldn't have to take on the burden of causing problems that were caused by third party repair. On the other hand, some of the devices would have malfunctioned anyway, and from the outside it appear like Apple is refusing service solely because of a 3rd party repair.
I have started a competition for autonomous vehicles. I struggle to see much spectator interest as well. I see it has more of an engineering competition that happens to culminate in a race.

That said, most of amateur racing has no spectatorship either.

http://selfracingcars.com
To my knowledge it has never actually worked either.
Do you have a link to the one you think is best?
I hate to piggyback on the top comment, but could somebody explain the 5th Amendment and its implications here.

I'm not a lawyer, nor am I from the USA. I've heard of the fifth, but never fully understood it in scenarios like this.
I do, sort of. I bought a text editor a number of years ago that was very popular. I still maintain it and use it daily and have often thought about putting out a new version. I have it running on many OS's and devices now. I have also added a lot of features specific to what I wanted. I'm not really sure if they are useful to others or not.

Example: I have an iPad version where I can use an Apple Pencil and handwrite my code on the screen. To me it is very useful when my wife is driving me someplace and I still want to work. Recline in the passenger seat and code.
NASM still in prototype stage after 20 years of development
Interesting. What do you think differentiates you from services like The Hoth or hiring someone from fiverr or upwork?
Flipkart to reportedly raise $1.2-1.5B in a new fundraising round
> highly functional a judge

Best joke I read today.
> The more I read about Uber, the more I get the impression that it's the best place to work today if you actually want to build the future fast.

Is there some sort of bizarro universe version of Hacker News that has been publishing "Uber is an awesome place to work!" articles?
Low earth orbit, meh.
It's not even just that. I'm not sure about everywhere in the country but in parts of Texas good luck depending on a cab to show up within even an hour+ time frame you called in for it to. Everyone here has cars so there are very few cabs and the service is poor because of it.

I went to college in San Antonio and Uber was banned for about a semester or so after it became the norm. Too many people started drunk driving again. For all intents and purposes, you either found a designated driver or didn't go out. Many choose the illegal third option.

No matter what the price, the fact that you CAN get a timely ride via ride sharing apps is a game changer here.
He's a huge fan of Star Trek - he named his family investment office Zefram LLC after Zefram Cochran, a fictional character who invented the warp drive. If anyone on the planet wants to see the future of Star Trek become a reality, it's him.
Blue Origins seems pretty likely to tap into a much lower cost market for panoramic views of earth at high altitudes, similar to Virgin Galactic (had they not completely messed things up). Developing something that will get them into LEO is massively more difficult, with significant funding at $1B a year however (which is about 5% the total NASA yearly budget), hopefully they can make up their lag. I would love to see more and more ventures enter this market. The more the better!
You clearly are not a visionary pioneer. That's what it is about. To go where no one else has gone before, just for the sake of it. Remember, there are plenty of people doing things like climbing Mount Everest for fun while you and I are watching Netflix.
This really depends on your style of using git. If you are rebasing (or otherwise changing history), merge commits can come back to bite you. You've got to make sure that you are dealing with the correct side of the branch. One side will have the history you need, while the other side may not. This can lead to serious weirdness like git reverting changes without telling you.

If you are not changing history, then merge commit cause no harm at all. You've got to be a bit careful about reverts and again choosing the correct side of the history, though.

IMHO, the rebasing style is great when you are working with a group that understands how git is working under the hood. As long as they don't do anything to break stuff, then it's very nice. If you are working with a team which a bit more laissez fair, then merge commits are generally safer -- just make sure to tell then never to change history (rebase, force push, etc).

If you mix the two, you will be spending the odd afternoon piecing your git repository's history together by hand. It is seriously not fun.
I think you're mistaken in thinking that the arguments presented by Bender et al are "physical", in the sense that you mean. Operator theory, Hilbert spaces, Lebegue measures, etc. are all purely mathematical constructs that are incidentally used to model Quantum Mechanics and derive physical insight. The constructs themselves are grounded in the usual sense of mathematical rigor. The inspiration to attack this conjecture, the Riemann hypothesis, framed as a quantum system might come from physical intuition, but everything else is rigorous.

I think Terry Tao gave an example of this sort of "inspired" thinking when he described the proof of the prime number theorem as listening to the "music" of the primes: "We start with a "sound wave" that is "noisy" at the prime numbers and silent at other numbers; this is the von Mangoldt function. Then we analyze its notes or frequencies by subjecting it to a process akin to Fourier transform; this is the Mellin Transform. The next and most difficult step is to prove that certain "notes" cannot occur in this music. This exclusion of certain notes leads to the statement of the prime number theorem."
Here is an angle on this:

The goal is to stick to something until completion.

Phsychologically this is easier if you are enjoying it.

So choose a project and a tech stack you can really get into.

Scratch your own itch so that even if no one else uses it or buys it are least you can.

Look at the non-financial upsides, so that if you make zero or little money you can still feel proud: For example - learning new skills that might help you get a raise, learning marketing so that your next project is more likely to be successful, etc.

A word of warning - once you have spent some time on a side project the shine will wear off and it will feel like a job - and you have to find ways to keep yourself motivated when you could literally just go an watch TV instead on your time off.
My understanding is that Z3 is primarily an SMT solver (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisfiability_modulo_theories), though it has also expanded to support queries beyond SMT.

SMT solvers excel at solving finite sets of equations involving finite or atomic data, like numbers, bitvectors, strings, and arrays of fixed length. They've been very successfully applied in software and hardware verification. They're also the essential tool for a big category of approaches to program synthesis.

This has some overlap with the sorts of numeric constraint solving available in prolog and with non-recursive prolog goals. Prolog however can express turing-complete computation with recursive goals, dynamically allocate data structures of unknown size, etc. that SMT cannot easily encode.

Z3 also has support for datalog-like queries. I don't know much about datalog, but my understanding is that it supports a more limited set of queries than prolog but can solve them more efficiently with a totally different algorithm than prolog's goal-directed depth first search.
> Before Uber, how many of those "independent contractors" were in the market?

A fair number were. I lived in Harlem from 2008-2011, and we often had to hail off-duty black car service vehicles due to the dearth of medallion cabs outside of central Manhattan. These were commonly known as "gypsy cabs," and the drivers were picking people up to make money on the side. I believe it was technically illegal but very, very common.
its not that .deb is a better than format than .rpm, but apt is better than yum, as a dependency manager.
> The judge is interested in learning the basic technology and learning publicly known art. This would be a good opportunity for a young lawyer to present in court.

How thoughtful to promote young lawyers like that! Nice judge.
Douglas Rushkoff interviews R.U. Sirius [podcast]
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/new

(PRs are also always much appreciated)
More important I guess than code contributions to gnome they stopped distributing gnome.

If I am at all representative for early Ubuntu users they themselves might also have lost quite a few enthusiastic fans in the process.

From what I read here they won quite a few enthusiastic users as well so it's not all black and white though.