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>The point is, there is no good outcome in a pissing match over what has the most negative impact when we routinely ignore any number of causes of death that we can be fixing but don't.

That isn't the point, any time you mention nuclear power you get a swarm of people saying it's so unsafe and we need to move towards renewables. It's safer than the largest renewable source currently, and the UN considers some nuclear power a renewable source. The US doesn't, largely due to fossil fuel lobbying.
Luckily Apple is ignoring the false dichotomy and giving us reasonable OS updates every year.
You don't "measure" zero tolerance. And there's no success here--that is, there's no point at which you say "this problem is solved." You commit to throwing out the bad apples, you throw out the bad apples, and promise to throw out any bad apples as you find them in the future.
I am probably way behind the current state of the CPU judging by the downvotes I got so if you are saying there is no reason and the data can be written into a device without leaving the CPU I will just concede my ignorance.
I am still waiting for Silicon Valley TV show to pick up this vast subject of Myer's tenure at Yahoo into one of its episodes.
> In terms of implementation, I'm not aware of an algorithm that can randomly pick a real number on an actual computer

An actual (finite in time and space) computer can't even represent arbitrary real numbers, much less randomly choose them.
Like with any academic work, the biggest challenge is a route to market. Do you plan on any(for the your hardware tech) ?
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What exactly do you think this will help with? It's not hard to understand why people use/buy guns. People are just terrible at evaluating risk; not much to it.
Lack of money... they seem to always be short on it.
Are you kidding? Classic MacOS was riddled with viruses and it was made worse by the fact that they were used by designers who, as a matter of habit and necessity, would exchange disks with random people and use them in random computers.

In the 1990s visiting a copy shop with Macs was like going to a sketchy by Thai standards brothel. You were almost guaranteed to come back with some new infection. You'd reasonably quarantine anything that came back from your print shop until you could scan it. The temptation to hold your Syquest disk with rubber tongs was there.

Switching the processor PowerPC made many of the viruses incompatible, but they weren't fully eliminated until the switch to OS X was complete.
I'm mostly unimpressed. Most of the suggestions are just process changes, which often just obfuscate organizational issues and cripple performance. The only value is the signal it sends to employees that affect the culture negatively.

The most substantive recommendation, IMO, is that they suggest a COO that controls most of the day-to-day. It's a clear move to reduce the CEO's power, and most likely a path to remove the CEO in the future unless the CEO regains power, which is unlikely.
The standards are higher for the cryptocurrency sphere which is notorious for extreme hyperbole, tons of hype, and poor results to match it, especially when you're talking about code that is supposed to solve the single most difficult problem of blockchain currencies.
Most stories or comments I see on the web are about Mayer's "male purge" but also her salary/severance after gutting Yahoo.
That "you must cancel in person" level of shittiness is typical for things like gyms. California actually has a specific law dealing with these situations for gyms.
Meg Whitman of Hewlett Packard is another female CEO (and before her, Carly Fiorina). Both have certainly come in for their share of criticism. So would I, if I had to be responsible for HP.
That's pretty outdated :-)
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Disable/Don't install Flash and Java, disable auto-loading imagines in Mail, and install Safari extensions to block ads, trackers, and unwanted JS.

And keep your system up to date of course (done by default, or at least the notifications to that effect). And don't use the admin user on a day to day basis (done by default).
Once the kid learns to swim you're done.But there is no way to teach a kid tonot to die from a random bullet.
Ditto. I read it more as a "good luck moving up in the world" sort of comment rather than a "Teachers suck!" comment.
"I can tell you of a few engineers currently working on technical problems that offer zero promise to add any business value to their companies, just for the sake of the technical problem being interesting and challenging, the engineer being too inexperienced or not value-driven enough to realize why it’s misguided, and their leadership being too little technical to understand that this work should probably be reprioritized."

I think the author works on my team.

Since starting my current gig I've built several functioning prototypes at work that have business value. After about 1.5 years I was given lead on a project that just shipped to production, which serves a business need. I don't really consider myself a 10x programmer, but I create useful stuff.

The lead developer on our team has been spinning wheels on a project whose result is supposed to be useful. The problem is he doesn't have the proper technical knowledge, and our manager is even less technically inclined than him. He simply smiles and nods whenever the lead spews jargon at him. This project has been going on several years without tangible results. It blows my mind.

My issue isn't that his project is useless, it's that our manager strongly urges me to follow his advice. I can't follow the advice of any engineer, lead or otherwise, whom I've never seen ship a system. Period. So I just do what any good engineer does - whatever I think is best for the company.

Edit: The sad part is I'm only working 20 hours a week on average. When I work from home I do take naps right after lunch; usually for about 2 hours. I could actually take on a second job and still be sane. It's quite dumbfounding to see what passes for "productivity" in corporate America.
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Well, if the voltage is low enough, not much. 24 volts, which IIRC is what the Tesla runs at, won't do too much interesting in anything but really salty water. Any high voltage coils, though, might not fare as well.

Worth a try, though. Anyone with a Tesla want to give it a go? I've got a few rivers nearby...
Or, you know, it could be that different people want different things?
What time is the dinner served?
Are you seriously comparing the murder of millions of Jews to a multinational corporation ignoring taxi regulations?

Uber fanboys have lost their minds.
Agreed.

Been using My Style [1] for readability on his site. Even this small tweak helped:

body {
max-width: 768px;
margin: 32px auto;
font-family: Helvetica;
font-size: 20px;
}

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/my-style/ljdhjpmbn...
We could colorize and format texts via right-click menu in the text box (and even have plugins there like quick syntax highlighting of selection), instead of having to use closed un-interoperable solutions.

Word is succesful, but you can't highlight syntax in Word, apply styles in MD, do WYSIWYG in HTML (cause fonts).
> That something can occur has only superficial relation to whether it ought to be to be discussed in a given setting.

Given the setting (an alcohol-filled after-work work party), I fundamentally disagree.

> Your comment reads as if you have little understanding of how women are treated in our culture.

My comment didn't mention women, men, or anything in between, because, hey, men sometimes have sex with men! You'll notice that Travis' email didn't mention women either.

Since I love channeling my inner Scalia, I'm just going to say that, in general, you're doing yourself a disservice by not being a textualist. With that said, I'm not going to be baited into defending a straw man, many years of philosophy trained me well :)
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I suppose that's true, but startups generally take VC funding, and VCs want the company to either IPO or get bought.

There are bootstrapped "startups", but if you're not taking VC funding and trying to go big, then it's less obvious what the difference is between a "startup" and a "company".
The comparison to Mac OS 9 makes no sense. Apple was dying in the late 90s. The OS was extremely obsolete and the whole company was on the verge of falling over. They needed a big change to survive, and that was OS X, which suddenly gave them a modern OS and made their computers popular in many segments which had previously completely ignored them.

Apple was doing just fine in 2007. OS X was in great shape. They had recently transitioned from the faltering PowerPC CPUs to x86, which revitalized their hardware offerings and opened up a world of new possibilities for users to dual-boot or virtualize other OSes. Their market share was pretty solid, and their share of PC profits was quite high.

You say "stature in the industry" as if there's a single "the industry" that encompasses both PCs and phones. If Apple hadn't done the iPhone then maybe Microsoft or Nokia would have done better, but so what? That wouldn't affect Apple in the PC market. Wikipedia says the top five PC makers are Lenovo, HP, Dell, Asus, and Apple, and as far as I know Apple is the only one with a substantial smartphone business.

Of course Apple wouldn't be nearly as relevant overall in a world where they never produced the iPhone. I don't care about that. I see no reason why the Mac wouldn't be about as relevant in the personal computing space, which is what I care about.

In any case, I'm not just annoyed at the existence of the iPhone, but the nature of it. If the iPhone had been a Mac-like open platform instead of this walled garden bullshit, all of my complaints would go away. I have no problem with mobile per se, I have a problem with pervasive vendor-controlled code signing, not getting root on my own devices, etc.
Agree here, but I'd also be in favor of some method of requiring gun owners to undergo this kind of course as well. While accidents are a small fraction of total gun deaths [1], they seem especially preventable by creating a well-regulated militia[2] and ensuring that armed citizens are required to at least be trained in the proper storage of their weapons.

[1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/gun-deaths/
[2] I'm not sure I agree with the interpretation that the "militia" in the second amendment consists of potentially all citizens, but IANAL and SCOTUS seems to disagree, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Can you explain a bit further? MacBooks have always been premium laptops. Are you saying low end laptops are able to serve basic needs better than a few years ago? I agree with that, and take it to be a sign of a mature market, not a failing of Apple's.
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With respect to endurance sports where you will exercise long enough to exhaust glycogen stores, you actually want a mix of fructose and another sugar such as maltodextrin.

http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Fructose

http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Nutrient_Timing

When you hear a marathon runner refer to hitting the wall, what's happenened is that they've exhausted their glycogen stores.
In the short term, not much because there is a lot of inertia behind organizational programming knowledge, and the target runtime influences language choice (why JavaScript has become popular).

In the long term, I think expressive type systems will dominate programming. Simply because they allow programmers to provably generate correct programs without bugs. If the industry always used languages with a type system expressive enough to fit their needs, horrible errors like WannaCry would be eliminated (a classic buffer over-read due to programming with inadequate types). Of course, pure functional languages are at the forefront of type systems, though they aren't mutually exclusive (Rust for example).
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Why is it admirable to plug holes in capitalism? They're literally keeping afloat a broken system instead of allowing it to fail. Like I get that they're helping individual children in the here and now, but the morality of sacrificing from oneself to ensure governments can keep underfunding programs is not so cut and dry.

I do believe in many situations it is more moral NOT to help, NOT to take that underpaying job, etc. These crappy situations are made possible by people at the top. By giving into the situations and sacrificing of yourself you are helping the poor decision makers at the top to keep making poor decisions.

At some point a failure and rebuilding could ensure no child goes without school supplies. Continuing to sacrifice of yourself so a few extra kids each year can have school supplies may mean less kids get school supplies in the long-term. In some sense teachers aren't sacrificing for the children, they are sacrificing so the shitty administrators and government policy makers can keep their jobs.
This is awesome.

Now, if only you could have a hierarchy of organizations. If you have a large company, it'd be helpful to have github.com/companyname/someinitiative/{project,project2,anotherproject} , rather than a single organization containing hundreds of projects.
I assume you're referring to Fluffy's announcement stunt?

There is neither evidence, nor motive, for "insider trading".

All he did was troll the moneychanging/parasite class, which is a beautiful thing.
The comments to this video actually say (with proof) that this was an error in the video.
Isn't the whole point of catered dinner to give people an incentive to work longer hours and have them be taken care of if they're staying at work pretty late? It's not a free meal, it's an incentive to work into the night. It's optional, you can go home if you want. What's the issue? Some people make the tradeoff to spend their life at work, others make the tradeoff to have a family and go spend time with their kids. This gets pretty philosophical, but should we be reducing the freedom of choice and mandating what the correct lifestyle should be for people?

When I visited for dinner one time there were barely any people there taking advantage of it, and the food was actually quite good, so it anecdotally didn't even feel like a systemic issue of people "feeling the pressure to stay at work until 9pm".
That seems to be very much intentional
They are not in most US states. Not federally as long as they were manufactured prior to 1987. That's what makes them expensive; limited supply.

Here is a class I took on the MP5:

https://youtu.be/Vr8G0uXf19A
Ah of course. Just a less cluttered starting point, I suppose :P
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I think root_axis draws an important distinction between normal software and crypto currency software. Until it is live it hasn't been proven whether it's resilient or requires a hard fork.

That could be worse than vaporware. There probably needs to be a term for touting a feature that may turn out to be like the DAO.

SchrodingerWare?
> If one just makes it faster without major benefits that patch is likely to be rejected

IF the project were overwhelmed with incoming patches, then I would agree that there's probably higher priority changes than optimizing 'yes'.

But I'm almost certain the GNU project is not being overwhelmed with changes to the core utilities. Everything else being equal (code quality, readability, test coverage, etc.) there's really no reason to reject a patch that demonstrably improves the project, even in some silly way like making 'yes' really fast.
That's the usual meaning of parent and child in computer science.
>The users were asking the maintainer to re-publish a non-broken tarball.

Yes, with such helpful suggestions as changing to a fresh directory because the original directory was "corrupt". Except that wouldn't have fixed it; the problem was eventually discovered to be a bug in npm on Windows[1], so every single "republished" package would have also been broken.

[1]https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/16734
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Yes, but it makes the development process very frustrating when you have to wait for a slow machine, type slower, not navigate as fast, etc.

It might not waste much physical time (totally guessing here, could be a lot), but it wastes brainpower and really kills my enthusiasm for the task. All of which are negatives. I optimize my code, why not optimize my coding environment?
A product that has much needed use in developing countries to track aid trucks for providing meal services.

Product built by excellent team. Recommended.
You think they are brave enough to touch the "inspirational female leader" topic? Theranos and HP would be enough alone...
Why are we continuing to insist that incredibly complicated and unrestricted computing devices which served well a few million highly technical folk a few decades ago can equally smoothly well serve ~8 billion people of varied capacities and hues?

At this point we need to accept that severely locked down and curated devices are the easiest and least painful road ahead for the majority of the world's citizens to participate in digital transactions, while unrestricted computing devices can used by those who are learning or specifically involved in technical tasks or are simply those who agree that they know what they're doing and the tradeoffs involved.

Am not saying unrestricted devices should be banned. It's just that they should come with warnings on the box and an advisory to use locked devices if the intent is to simply buy it and mindlessly use it.
1% seems like a lot. Could you liquidate 1% of US dollars all at once? Or gold or... anything else really?
This is a concept that seems often overlooked. In rural parts of the country (US) a gun is simply another dangerous tool that gets a specific job done. Much like a beam saw.
That it isn't human nature that is the problem with population growth, otherwise we wouldn't have large parts of the free world with almost none and even slightly negative growth. The problem is cultural/historical and the problem of chinas one child policy was that it tried to combat the effect while the people still saw having a male heir as important.
That's the issue, right? Everyone wants "diversity", but no one wants quotas or hard lines that could discriminate against other groups. I think you need to do your best to root out any biases in your hiring process or people. At Uber's size there is also an evangelism role that can be played to reach out and encourage a more diverse applicant pool to apply for roles. But this report falls flat on how you could possibly measure whether your team is "diverse" or "inclusive" enough and also fails to call out any existing practices, processes or people that would've gotten them there in the first place, opting instead to use those principles as PR tools.
That is an excellent point. I recently switched from Google Docs to Org files with Unison and ediff for syncing. Having everything work offline and on, over multiple machines, and being able to review and merge changes really makes things much more convenient. I now have multiple local and remote backups and no longer have to worry about losing my Google account. Another common pattern is to diff files that come in over email, or to diff when someone takes my code changes and modifies them by hand/rebases them.

At this point I think that plain text files in a distributed version control system that can also import/export patches for emailing (like darcs and git) is clearly superior to cloud-based document storage. The promises of the latter have just not panned out - what we got instead is vendor lock-in and the Damocles sword of account lock-out/deletion/hacking. In many ways (UI responsiveness, control of data and privacy, service discontinuation due to vendor shutting down product/acquisition/bankruptcy, etc), the cloud apps are a big step backward from PC applications.
What a fascinating organ!

I never realized the liver only holds 400 calories. I always figured it was a few thousand. (I just looked it up)

So is your body always burning fat or does the liver glycogen have to be depleted first? Does the liver deplete every night when you're sleeping?

I really don't have a great mental model of this stuff.

Is it true that you need to reach high insulin levels before the body starts storing fat?
It is full and old 100A I think. Like I say it's an old house early 1970s.

My reasoning is I may as well change the panel and house wiring while the electrician is there. It's a small house so really it would be more efficient to get it all done at once.

My other concern is the growing number of things using power. When the house was built TV, fridge, stove, washer, dryer, lights, furnace and water heater. Now there's Xbox consoles, big TVs, computers, cellphones charging, A/C units.

This is small town Canada too probably more expensive than the US unless I can get a good buddy electrician after hours deal.
I could have sworn that Continuum had gov't funding for numpy development, but maybe that was just for Blaze?
No they did not, at least not in the context of this story.

At the time, the story was Trump's fallacious claims that there was widespread voting fraud and tampering with voting machines. The implication was that there were millions of illegitimate votes for his opponent. There was no justification for his view that it was possible, or even if it was, that all fraud would favor the Dems.

The context of this hacking is mostly of voter databases. This information can be used for propaganda campaigns, and other kinds of targeted attacks that suppress voter turnout, intimidate, and sew distrust in the system.
> There's no way to short ether or bitcoin

There very are ways to do so, at least against other cryptocurrencies.
It seems to me the only thing on Windows that cares about CRLF is Notepad.

Everything else works fine with just LF. A lot of new Windows software even seems to ship with LF format configuration files. Especially games, probably because it is so common to have a Windows game with Linux backend servers, so the developers are working with both.

So anyway, I'd go with just LF unless your software is Windows only.
That's unfortunate. I hope Adobe reaches out and apologizes.
I am honestly surprised that frog + gun isn't on the list.

I thought that was the meme that started the thing + gun.

edit: I also discovered that HN comments don't support utf8 emojis
Gold glitters like pyrite, but the latter is not scarce and therefore not valuable. For both gold and ETH, it is scarcity, in combination with the network effect, that is critical.

For gold, scarcity is enforced by laws of nature, which encourages networks to treat it as valuable. For BTC, is there a similar constraint? I'm pretty sure the tokens can be reverse-transmutated by the software that counts it. This is true for all cryptocurrencies. Gold today and pyrite (or worse) tomorrow, which would make all of them unsuitable as long-term stores of value.
How long will you walk from Stanley Park to the border of Burnaby? By that logic, you can get anywhere in Canada simply by walking as well.
Yea, but passing a large object around is what I was talking about. Still not great, but when you deal with a 200k LoC library and all of it's API functions take that single large object, it's way better than having to mess with the global state of it. Like in one of those cases I can add naive multi-threading (two copies of the large state object), my own custom functions, and split out functionality for reuse by other systems. In the other I can't without understanding and likely rewriting the whole thing.
Might be more stable when they switch to proof of stake though?
I disagree. There are lots of things here that are very widescale, and as the board accepted _all_ of these suggestions, assuming they all happen, I think real change can be realised within Uber.