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> Because that can't make you more money. The only reason why doing that would make sense if you want to purposely do harm at the cost of making profits.

Of course it can make you more money! You can charge your competitors rent to stay out of the slow lane, and you can make your own subsidiary services artificially preferable to consumers (and therefore more profitable) by throttling the competition's bandwidth.

Your UPS analogy doesn't fit at all. UPS would have to own Jet, and Amazon would have to have no choice but to use UPS delivery for a large subset of its customers (remember that broadband service is an effective monopoly in large portions of the US). UPS would absolutely be able to slow down Amazon's packages, because that's what eliminating net neutrality literally means: ISPs are no longer required to treat all packets equally, they can pick and choose which traffic gets priority, and naturally they're going to prioritize their own, or those that have paid an extra tariff to get in the fast lane. Amazon's products would either be more expensive, because they're paying that tariff; or they'd have inferior delivery time. Either way, UPS profits, not because of the quality or speed of their service, but because they have the ability to degrade the quality of their competitors.

In a non-net neutrality world, faster != expensive (at least not any more than is already the case). Consumer choice == expensive. "Faster" would remain under the control of the ISPs, exactly as it is right now.
tl;dr: lawyer up, and don't talk to the feds until you do.
So, I'm just going to ask outright; what would it take to get a politician like Pai investigated? I'd find it very hard to believe at this point that he doesn't have his hands stuck in exactly the sort of pies (no pun intended) that could get him in trouble.
Many poor people believe they need to go work hard somewhere like Walmart and that somehow they will come out the other side better for it when their work is just feeding the rich upper class with cheap labor for more gross profits. Poor people need to work on their own businesses. Auto mechanics, janitorial, construction, etc where the input of labor will become joined with more and more business sense. Blue Collar Millionaires on CNBC is a great show that provides some examples of this.
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Well, the so called public defecation usually happens in a) slums b) rural areas where they have not built toilets at home. In the rural areas, they just go out into the fields which offer some privacy. It is never in the "public" like a river etc.
"Lastly, we started combining files, and we found out that combining all of our 200 models into one file decreased the compilation time from 1min35sec, to just 17sec. So we are like, "Hold on, this is interesting, combining everything into one makes it much faster." The reason for this is that, as much as I know, that a compiler does type checking for every single file. So if you spawn 200 processes of Swift compilers, it needs to 200x check all the other files and make sure that you're using the correct types. So combining everything into one makes it much faster. "

Good to know
One area in the world where society may have evolved differently doesnt seem to be enough evidence to debunk the idea that the agricultural revolution gave rise to cities. Isn't this just an outlier... if it even does predate agriculture.
The analogy would be, someone leaves their cigarettes or their gun out on the stoop all night, or their SUV on the street unlocked with the keys in the ignition. If they do that, something is going to happen to it eventually. Especially if they live on a street that actually spans the entire world, and whose entire length can be traversed in one second.

John J. Citizen should be thankful if the person who finds it only wants to deactivate it rather than use it to poison him / shoot him / run him over. No matter who finds it though, it's tough luck for that person; they're the owner of that item in name only, if they don't secure it.

Society has decided in some cases (in domains well-understood by legislators, unlike IoT) that the person doesn't deserve to keep that item if they don't secure it. Example: "Improper storage of a firearm" or the like, is literally a crime in many jurisdictions and can result in losing your gun license. Creating a burden on or a danger to society through your neglect has in that case been affirmed to be unacceptable. The law will catch up with this too, I hope.
> Why are you singling out rich people that drive drunk?

Because they're threatening the lives of random innocent people over something as trivial as a their easiness to avoid problems with the law.

> How would we demonstrate that we don't value a drunk driver's life very highly?

Putting them on jail the same way we do with people that steal iphones. I mean Literally the same way, with a lot of punches and armlocks.
My thought was "reading SSDs doesn't degrade them, so there's no disadvantage to constant scrubbing." Unless I've misunderstood what you mean by "reading."
if (extension === zip || tar || ...) then "This file is not commonly downloaded and may be dangerous."

Kind of like putting a warning sign at the swamp without poking for alligators (or yodas)
I worked in risk management in the mid 90's with Bond to Swap hedging.

You have it right.
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It's hard to answer that without any idea of why you find its presence surprising.
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Too many stages... for what? You haven't stated what the criteria for 'recovery' (for lack of a better word) are. What is the (intrisic) value of the data?

Personally, I'm a bit of a hoarder of data, but honestly, if X-proportion of that data were to be lost... it probably wouldn't actually affect my life substantially even though I feel like it would be devastating.
> Most people don't have that flexibility.

Most people really don't have the flexibility to not quit. See, if you don't then you could easily end up in the kind of trouble that will cause your life to go right off the good path and onto a terrible one. Keep in mind that simply committing one crime makes you more likely to commit others just because you are now vulnerable. That tactic has caused many smart and otherwise good people to lose their bearings.
as I am not surprised, I assume the author was using "literally" according to its secondary definition: "figuratively"
> Utilities and dumb pipes have terrible profit margins.

Utilities and dumb pipes also have incredible societal value. In the first world, potable water is so cheap that you can use a gallon of it to make your pee disappear, and water-borne disease is almost nonexistent. Businesses try to avoid this miracle of efficiency by putting that water in plastic bottles, trucking it around the country, marketing the hell out of it, and charging a dollar or more per liter, but I don't see any reason to encourage that behavior.
At some point, consider the use of different apps altogether. Perhaps having a front loader to detect which local app should pop up based on information gleaned from the phone and GPS.
That was addressed in the original discussion. It's good reading:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14122278
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You're going to have to make the connection between being a holy river, so people want to wade or swim in it and being ok with polluting it. If anything, I would think you could get people onboard with not putting their waste into a holy river?
omega3 and omega6 is present in small quantities in lots of fruits and veggies. In a pretty decent balanced ratio I might add, as well.
Read the comments of this article.

I think the 'poor' of India should be telling Bill Gates where to shit and not the other way around.
That's anything but a fact.

Investment increased overall.[1]

The FCC classified ISPs as "telecommunications services", same as now, until the mid-2000s. That's the framework that worked well for decades. The one Pai wants is the one that killed competition.

The FCC issued network neutrality regulations in 2010 because ISPs had started to violate the guidelines the FCC unanimously approved in 2005. They only invoked Title II after ISPs sued to block the 2010 regulations.

Privacy regulation wasn't a problem until Congress removed the FCC's authority, and they could easily give the FTC the necessary authority without re-re-re-classifying ISPs.

[1] https://consumerist.com/2017/02/28/fcc-chair-claims-broadban...
It's probably time spent in the linker. The advice of using WPO without opt is verrry circumstantial.
I don't think your runner analogy holds up, as the difficulty change essentially effects the global work required (lower chance of finding a suitable random value). It's more like measuring the total distance run by all runners - reaching the same total distance with less runners would take significantly longer.
car2go and reach now are much more usable than zipcar.

* cars are littered throughout the city rather than in designated parking spots

* cars are rented by the minute rather than by the hour

* cars don't have to be returned to where you got them from

The last point is the game changer. Now, it's feasible to do things like drive to the bar, but get a taxi back, or go on a long walk and grab a car back home when you're tired out.
I want to thank Jeff for assisting Dan in writing this article.
They could probably find Billy, who:

1. Worked with you.

2. Is neck-deep in the criminal enterprise.

3. Is testifying for the promise of leniency of immunity.

4. And is quite happy to throw the CEO, the CFO, and, since the FBI asked him about your name, you under the bus.

Regardless of whether or not his claims are true, he will be happy to testify that yes, you absolutely knew about the criminality, because you discussed it with him at lunch, and did nothing about it.

This may, or may not be true. He may or may not have misremembered this conversation. He may be trying to save his ass. Either way, it's your word against his, and the prosecutor, who pleads to the jury that there is no possible way you didn't know about your involvement.

You may well be found innocent, but you never want to put yourself in this position. Talking to the police is just giving them more rope to try to hang you with.
That's a philosophical assumption of what intelligence is. It's based on the metaphor that thought is calculation, and computers are thinking by virtue of manipulating symbols, and human brains are therefore doing the same thing in wetware.
What happens when Spotify emails its customers saying "sorry we can't provide service to Verizon customers anymore, they charge us too much"

Some may stay and downgrade their service as they don't require as much bandwidth and some may leave Verizon entirely. It's not all roses for them.

Then Comcast, AT&T, Google or anyone else frankly begins offering "True unlimited full access internet" and eats Verizon's breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Meanwhile someone creates a VPN service to get around the blockade.
You're applying a rigid idea of sharp definition of what constitutes a security vulnerability.

I'm sure this attitude is behind the 90% useless "security reports" that they receive.
You're coming at this backwards. They had 100 engineers already. They needed to design their software so that the engineers could all keep working on it. They explicitly say as much:

> This application has served us very well for the past four years. But as we've expanded and exponentially grown our mobile engineering team, we started seeing breakages of the architecture, we started seeing problems where feature development would become pretty hard. We had to test multiple code-paths because we shared a lot of view controllers amongst different teams. We really started to hurt with the old architecture because it was written by two engineers and we had grown the team to over one hundred, at that point.

The actual quality of the software isn't as important, since Uber drivers and riders don't have a choice anyway.
Dennis Hastert is another less-than-sympathetic "victim" of this statute:

https://www.popehat.com/2015/05/29/dennis-hastert-and-federa...
The quality of the website, and customer service is very very high, imo.

I now live in australia, I really miss the website (they only sell e-books here so far).
Looks interesting Luke. If it gets the traction it deserves I think this could become a very valuable tool for both content creators and people who want to offer their insight.
That does not sound like FBI to me but rather like two posers.
It seems like it would be simpler and easier to just give them skillets than faffing around with ingots. If one is worried about the perception of value or suspicion of gifts one could offer to trade them for their existing cookware.
Comically dense can be a useful ploy. I had it pulled on me and only long afterward did I learn that the person was not remotely stupid.

I felt stupid, and irritated, afterwards.
I think you're confusing empathy and giving a crap with the appearance thereof. Very few people, in my experience, genuinely give a crap in a way that fully affects their person.
What would be the criteria for splitting something out? They do this with uber eats but I can't imagine them doing this for anything else.

Why would I as a user want to download a variety of separate apps to hail cars, etc in different locations? People got really pissed off when Messenger was split out of Facebook (it's still mentioned in app store reviews to this day) I'd imagine they would not be wild about Uber doing something similar. I could see this getting really annoying really quickly.

Imagine landing at a new airport and having to download a new app just to hail a car or a tuk tuk or whatever.
Ah, right, fair point. AFAIUI SSD storage does degrade a tiny(!) amount when reading, but magnetic storage degrades quite a bit more.

(That's where that came from, draw your own conlusions :).)
Surprised about the lack of commentary about Hajime here on HN. This article was interesting. Is the author really whitehat? Is it just one person? Is it a state actor? Are they biding their time for a malicious payload?

Maybe it would be more believably whitehat if some fraction of infections just closed down vulnerable ports and disconnected from c&c or removed themselves.
Does it glaciate? That process often grinds away everything down to the bedrock.
Are there any good resources on the architecture of these systems? It sounds very different from the application and web programming that I know and it would be interesting to learn about it.
Probably assumptions about uses of PC. I'd imagine most of bits are media related.
I have hit soft errors in every desktop machine that used ECC. Either I have bad luck, ECC causes the errors or third thing. I think ECC should be mandated for anything except toys and video players.
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It does change it a bit. If one is more efficient than the others and is improving efficiency/utilization faster than others, then eventually that company will eventually be able to compete on price while others are forced to subsidize. At that point they can just wait out the other competitor until the investors in those competitors tire of throwing good money after bad.

Subsidies don't work at scale. The bigger the ridesharing market gets, the less a company can meaningfully provide a subsidy that changes consumer behavior. Whichever company can get to breakeven before R&D and capital investments are taken into account is going to clean up because at that point they can outlast their competitors indefinitely.
Nice file names, gonna have to start naming my bug reports similarly
Jokes I'm fine with, I just don't respect authors who go out of their way to insult folks.

But both of the Carolinas have passed or attempted to pass needlessly restrictive Voter ID laws. So perhaps we should consider it "unnecessary commentary" or "snark" instead of an insult?
I tell my super intelligent assistant, who's much better at understanding human language than Siri, to make me some paperclips.

It understands some to mean more than one and less than infinity. In fact, some means less than "a lot". The meaning of a lot depends on the context, which happens to be paperclips for me.

What is "some" paperclips for me? It depends on how many papers I might need to clip (or whatever use I might have for paperclips). My super intelligent assistant would be able to work out a good estimate.

After having an estimate, it can go make me "some" paperclips, and then stop somewhere short of paper clipping the entire world.

Alternatively, it could just ask me how many "some" means.
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I think for most westerners, the real WTF is the notion that any act of blasphemy can potentially deserve punishment at all.
You have heard this talk from faraway lands about a new type of machine that can supposedly do more than a person with a stick and something to put it against as a lever. The Watt steam engine, some people call it. If thousands of years before Our Lord, humans could roll on logs, pull on pulleys, or push on the inclined plane vast blocks of stone culminating in a Pyramid to their pretended gods, the argument goes, what is to keep someone from making a device more powerful than a man?

I am here to tell you that such lunacy rests on seven wrong misconceptions. While I will freely grant that perhaps it is possible to apply a lever, yet it is human power and human power alone that moves that lever. The idea that anything but a human could do work is absurd on its face. Nobody will ever get from one town to another except on foot, or perhaps on a horse. To allow the idea that a machine could do this or any other task is as deranged as suggesting that machines will fly like birds across continents, carrying people, or that one day men will simply climb up and into the atmosphere and go and land and walk upon the moon. It is clear from first principles that raising or moving anything takes work and power: it is just as clear that nobody but man shall ever provide that power, let alone any more.

I do not have time to rewrite the above: substitute a hundred billion neurons doing chemical reactions, and add that it is clear computers can never do either the same or even less so, any more, and you will see how completely wrong the author is in every way.

Nobody but a man can ever do work, and nothing but a hundred billion neurons can or will ever think.
My moral concern is some "board" gets to become the sole arbitrator of who is an "engineer". Ideally the board's warning must have been thrown into dustbin.
Well that's not going to save engineering resources and will also be worse for users.
I was at the park the other day with my sons, I noticed some other kids on the swings, 2 kids turned and locked legs then a 3rd sat on their joining legs like a huge human-made swing. The point being is I never thought of doing that before with my friends when I was a kid. An AI will be able to think of things we never tried because there are so many more things that we haven't. Speculating on the short end of this seems laughable to me, like someone from the 1800's talking about balloon travel in the 2000s, basing our limited understanding of possibility on our current limitations.
More specifically, what made societies around the world start building cities at roughly the same time? I suspect the answer will be that humans were a lot more mobile than we assume.
> 3 seconds of nonblocking load.

That's a lot. Because Disqus doesn't generally load when the page does.

You have the time the user is reading to load it, but generally Disqus doesn't load till it comes into view.
Oops, I guess the gizmodo article is the one that's popular here on HN. Although it's about BrickerBot rather than Hajime.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14201908
Religions of the Christian flavor (probably Muslim, as well, not sure), at least, have means to unite people who are otherwise not aligned together naturally, since Christianity specifically denies the importance of skill and power, which instantly popup as virtues when you remove religion.

The philosophy of Christianity, however flawed and poorly executed and rife with error, is that nobody is special before God, that your money will be lost when you die, that an obviously superior world is possible and available, that no matter what you do you can be forgiven and receive love. That's powerful. And in the face of the world we live in also very, very strange.

Once that was removed, nothing was put in its place, religious or not.
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The author acknowledges that choices are at play here; what he's arguing is that your ODDS become a lot lower from being poor.

It sounds like you're equating the ways in which you're fucked up with the ways in which she's fucked up. That may well be true; on the other hand, your kind of fucked up might increase the odds of your offspring doing well, whereas hers might not -- so in that way, your "way" was better even if your subjective evaluation of your own condition is not any better than your sister's.

Also, you resent your sister saying "It must be nice...", and I agree, it would be better if she didn't say that to you. On the other hand, aren't you (sort of) doing the same thing if you wish you had some social/personal component that your sister does but you don't?
I'm aware of that, but I'm not sure what I'm supposed to take away from it in this context.
I have done exactly this.
Why didn't they use react native?
They have a few other apps too, right? Driver app, Uber Eats, Uber Freight, etc.
Huh, as someone who grew up in SC, I think it's a reasonable joke to make.
> Smiths invisible and myopic hand

I'm intrigued by this phrase, could you explain it please?
I can't help observing that it's very common for men to take a leak on the street, especially if they've been drinking. It's not the most sanitary habit but it's not especially harmful either, and I don't feel anything different about a woman squatting to take a leak either.

Public defecation, though, I have no hesitation about shaming someone for unless it's some sort of emergency.
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How do you feel about Plan 9's acme editor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xVpMPn8M)? It's a "GUI", but from a very different branch of thinking than the ones we have right now.
But saying playing politics is a good idea so that you "don't get fired" seems to directly contradict why you said politics playing was a good idea in the first place:

>"...[Y]our direct supervisor does not want you to do more or better because that might get you promoted over him. Instead, he wants you to do not very well. Then he can have an excuse to fire you..."

Which means that it's not really play along and don't get fired, it's play along and get fired at an indeterminate time that under such a manager probably is much sooner than later.

It seems that if your boss really fears you being promoted over him, that implies it must be a serious possibility. Since in either case, focusing or not focusing on politics gets you get fired (i.e, it's not actionable, or at best futilely so), why sit and wait on the feedlot to get slaughtered and instead focus on what you do control, getting a promotion and building the skills/doing the things that get you closer to that?
I just threw up a little in my mouth.
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