skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe his point was they implemented hard-real-time, embedded Java with GC on some components that was fielded successfully. That refutes any objection to whether it can be done. At that point, we're talking whether the new project can pull that off on what kind of hardware with what constraints.

EDIT to clear up two sub-conversations here: what Aonix pulled off for hard-real-time Java; that there's also hard-real-time GC's for embedded. Example of latter.

http://michaelrbernste.in/2013/06/03/real-time-garbage-colle...
Yeah. Nothing says a company like this can't work at all, just that it's risky and can easily fail when times change.

But it can succeed, if either:

1. The company buys you out and takes you inhouse instead of making a competitor from scratch (this seems to be a common business strategy for startups operating like this)

2. You can spin off the userbase into separate service (like mentioned by the commenter above).

3. Somehow you can exploit the situation to build a brand for a completely different business or industry. Kind of like how a lot of fan game developers use their temporary fame to market themselves to the industry or retrofit their work to be more original after the inevitable cease and desist notice.
I mean, you could just put in a few more heat sensors.
Indeed this is a very common practice in the high end fashion business where people use personal stylists to help them pick clothes. The stylist grabs a bunch of products for the client, sends them "on memo" or "on consignment" and they pay for only what they don't return. Even when you're dealing with clients for whom floating a few thousand dollars is no big deal, the psychological impact of not actually hitting their card until the return is compelling enough to retailers that they are willing to give up the inventory for that 5 to 10 day period.
How does this make Uber the nice guy if the riders tip drivers, not Uber? Uber still takes a cut of up to 25% of the fare. Anyway, riders can always tip drivers with small cash.
There was one that I recall: The Deck, which shut down recently [1] after more than ten years. Could be seen originally on sites like A List Apart where its ads were small, felt relevant and were of good quality (they had a limited monthly pool of decent brands and artists that used them last time I checked).

I actually liked them, though after switching to uBlock Origin years ago I'd forgotten about the network and to whitelist them, sadly.

[1] http://decknetwork.net/
Drivers will rate first before seeing tipping information.
Once you've jumped the shark and play with introspection and internals, are you really going to make the point that metaprogramming should be banned ?

"Banned", no. Just that's not simply this big trove of goodies that it's often cracked up to be. And in particular, it isn't strictly speaking necessary or essential for a language to be successful -- or even among the top 5 considerations that make a language successful or not.
> If you want a multi line lambda:

I don't want this though. This doesn't do what multi-line lambdas do. It can never do what lambdas do. It's not a lambda function if it's named and fully pre-computed.

> Adding multi line lambdas would make the ultra simple structure harder to quickly parse.

This is just about the least compelling argument I've ever heard. "The parser writers are not going to have fun."
Agreed on all points.

But ultimately, bugs in software happen, and bugs in macros can be a pain in the butt to debug. The extra steps to go in and expand the macro, and then translate the fix in that expansion into a fix for the macro itself gets complicated, fast.
The largest full quantum computer simulation done so far is 45-qubits which was performed on the Cori supercomputer [0][1]. The main limitation in these kinds of exact simulations is memory, and so simulating 50-qubits would require about a 1000x the memory of Cori, which is infeasible.

There are some other methods of approximate simulation, but that gives the cut off for full, exact simulation of a quantum computer.

[0] https://www.nersc.gov/news-publications/nersc-news/science-n...
[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.01127
Widely despised social pressure.
It's cheaper for a service to OCR locally than remotely.
Some suggested reading on the subject.

I wrote a paper "Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin’s Peer-to-Peer Network" [0] about maliciously partitioning the Bitcoin network. Much of the paper focuses on how to partition the network, but Section 1.1 Implications of eclipse attacks should give a good sense for how Bitcoin's security properties depend on the network not being partitioned.

"Hijacking Bitcoin: Routing Attacks on Cryptocurrencies" [1] also discusses network partitions and Bitcoin. As with Eclipse Attacks it focuses on both the how and the effects.

Interestingly blockchains built on Algorand [2] would not fork under a network partition they would just cease to create new blocks until the network is whole again.

[0]: "Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin’s Peer-to-Peer Network" https://www.usenix.org/node/190891

[1]: "Hijacking Bitcoin: Routing Attacks on Cryptocurrencies" https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.07524

[2]: "Algorand: Scaling Byzantine Agreements for Cryptocurrencies" https://people.csail.mit.edu/nickolai/papers/gilad-algorand-...
Aren't you confusing language with understanding?

In computer terms (which I'm more familiar with) this is the difference between expressing a program in some language vs evaluating that program.
It's not like they're fooling anyone though...regular users of uber will know the average outlay from using an uber is $X, whether it's through the fares charged or a lower fare plus expected tip. I would much rather have a higher fare than the stress of figuring out how much to tip. I could just decide on a tip to always give, but what about those times when the service is really shitty? Do I "get back" at them by leaving no tip? Isn't that the whole purpose of the tipping process? But that makes me feel like a shitty person, and the cognitive outlay in thinking about all of this is just annoying.
What makes you think your lack of tip doesn't impact your rating now? The few Uber drivers I know expect a tip.
Kalamata olives are left to ripen to a deep purple (not black) on the tree, and are cured like other olives (brine or oil). California olives start green, and the curing process turns them black. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKWBJkaoRjM
How often you're paid depends, often it's twice per month, but the agreed amount in the agreement (and everywhere else where you'd discuss it) would be listed as x eur/month.
This feels appropriate:

https://danluu.com/julialang/

tl;dr: Julia is a great idea, but with poor testing and quality control. Community is (apparently) a bunch of dicks.

Just to be clear, I don't personally have much experience with it, I'm just summarizing Dan's review.
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screw this; charge a fair price and pay people a fair amount. Relying on the random generosity of customers to pay your employees/contractors/indentured-servants a fair wage is a bullshit business model (yes, I am aware this is how the restaurant industry in the US survives).
Hate this as a consumer.
Doesn't matter if it's despised as long as it's accepted.

Edit: To be clear, I am speaking from Uber's perspective.
Zing.
> Except that languages which try to provide facilities for this principle have bolted it on in the wrong way and we as an industry have come to accept some other feature ("public/final/private" keyword languages) to mean we have, "encapsulation," in our language.

Actually, there's an interesting talk from Uncle Bob saying exactly that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMuno5RZNeE&t=2325

The idea is that public/private/protected is an attempt to restore some of the "perfect" encapsulation we had with C; and that we lost this encapsulation with OO langages.
My initial reaction using Google Jobs search compared to LinkedIn:

- Not enough jobs. LinkedIn seems to have more jobs posted for the things I searched for. While many recruiters still post to Indeed, Glassdoor, ZipRecruiter etc... The beef of postings, from my experience, is found on LinkedIn.
- Not easy to apply. LinkedIn has the ability to more easily apply. Yes, one could argue this is a bad thing (since companies get spammed with candidates) but I think with AI a lot of bad candidates could get filtered out more easily.
- No social network. Since so many professionals use LinkedIn, it's easier to find people you know who work at a company you are applying for.

I think this is a long, long way to beating LinkedIn for job search.
I can't parse this in a way that it makes sense; I suspect you're mixing up some terminology. I'm guessing you mean that you need access to all transitively included headers to know a macro's definition. That's certainly true, but it's not linking, which involves resolving symbols in the object files that are the output of the compiler. The C preprocessor logically runs before the compiler; its output forms the compiler's input. You can run it without running the compiler at all.
lol, recruiters have access to google.

EDIT: To clarify, when I was a recruiter, we could build profiles on candidates, buy information on candidates, etc. It was pretty trivially easy to get all the relevant info from linkedin alone. My thought is, why not want that? It'd save me wasting a candidate's time if I could glance through his linkedin and see he/she wasn't a good fit. Because if you had a private profile, 80% of the time I'd be able to pull your phone number from a resume you'd posted somewhere (that my company paid pennies to have access to) and give you a call, just to find out real quick if you're a good fit or not.
this won't have any bearing on linkedin because they see themselves as a (professional) social network, not a jobs site (even though recruiting is a decent chunk of revenue).

jobs seem to be a natural extension of google's search service, and a direct competitive response to indeed. these job search results will be useful to people but i don't see it changing the industry. discovery is an important step in getting a job but it's only one step.

(i say this as someone working on the matching problem between employers and employees.)
I have a sense this person is popular not for the gravity of his thinking... But the attractor function of philosophical-ecological critique for lefties. Particularly those that have a high verbal IQ.

If you don't have a good map for the different levels on which kinds of things can be said to operate, then it's intellectually trivial to lay your noodly appendage across a few, and name whatever comes out some combination of latin-greek roots.

I'm all for redirecting and expanding perceptions of what is meaningful and what is moral, but it seems that there are a lot of different flavours for the same thing: 'x category definition leads to y outcome'. What determines the momentum of this claim relates to timing and status, fools gold for prescience.

If we are to take any insight from whatever thing that 'hyperobjects' points to, then it should be the notion that the material consequences of our actions are entwined with our state of mind at the point of consequence. Every experience I have of action informs the kind and timing of future actions. Whatever is held to be more essential of these (action|conception) to some phenomena prescribes what kind 'really matters'. In Morton's world this is hyper-objects - in my world, evolutionary essentialism.

Non-departmental 'philosophy' (edit: I mean 'non-canonical') unfortunately often seems to lead to, 'we started with these popular categories and their features, applied some functions, now we have something different, guess we didn't need those other categories since we retained features. We promise this is unique and cool. And that we definitely retained those features. We fail to mention possibility of knock-down responses, or look for analogues in other fields since we want some money and fame. We hope you get the experience of intellectualism without the effort. Buy my book.'

It's not impressive to take strands of popular rationality and make knots.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14594469
Yes, you'll see post offices in the UK absolutely rammed full of ASOS returns. They must spend an absolute fortune on delivery/postage.
Wow. There are a lot of people in here that have never worked in the Services industry or done the math for an Uber driver's take home pay after taxes/gas/maintenance.

It's ironic how the same people who say they don't mind paying a higher price vs tips, are choosing Uber because they are cheaper than a Lyft/Taxi.
why not just ignore the tipping option, you don't have to.
I think the moment that Amazon starts figuring out and recommending clothes to their end users... yeah, RIP TrunkClub and StitchFix.
Certainly not on Earth.
Now that we can track driving habits, would it not make sense to put them all on salary and set standards for employment?
Addition:

... and seemingly this "high temperature" sterilization (which is still within 110-120 degree Celsius, so perfectly doable in glass containers) adds acrylamide:

https://www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publication/?...

in almost unbelievable amounts:

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1021/jf5022829

Heck!
410 micrograms/Kg vs. 1.4 (Greek Olives) and 0 (Spanish Olives)!

http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=george&dbid=260

>What About Acrylamide and Olives?

Research on olives and their acrylamide content has shown some inconsistency over the past several years and this inconsistency has sparked controversy in the public press about olives and their health risk with respect to acrylamide. In data assembled by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), we've seen more than a dozen different kinds of olives, including Spanish, Greek, Kalamata, Nolellata, Sicilian, d'Abruzzo, and Gaeta, and di Cerignola that were determined to contain no detectable level of acrylamide. Yet we have also seen FDA data showing levels of acrylamide as high as 1,925 ppb in some canned, nationally distributed brands of black pitted olives. Based on this data, we suspect that these higher acrylamide levels in select canned black olives were related to specific handling, storage, processing (especially preservation and darkening methods), and heating steps that favored formation of acrylamide. It's also important to note here that we are not aware of any data showing problematic levels of acrylamide in any extra virgin olive oils available in the marketplace.

At present, we are not aware of any foolproof method that consumers can use to avoid purchase of canned black olives that contain unwanted amounts of acrylamide. Since the FDA data has shown no detectable levels of acrylamide in numerous samples of important olives packed in brine, those olives may be worth considering as options that may help avoid unwanted acrylamide. As stated previously, extra virgin olive oil is another form of this nutrient-rich food that, to our knowledge, has not been shown in research to contain unwanted amounts of acrylamide.
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Enjoy!
Perfectly logical if that was main reason not to use Lyft, now on a leveled field Uber may seem worse and Lyft wins the business. No tipping was kinda big difference for Uber.
On Windows, I would just put the certificate in the trusted root at install time. No need to use a CA. That's what Fiddler does. It seems safe, since the certificate is one-off per machine, and never leaves the machine.
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Not really. They can just put a hold on your card for 7 days without charging you.
Yes, we had non-trivial floating point errors in Level that appeared after multiple divide operations in an early version of the product. We stopped using it.
A program that can be evaluated only by the coder who wrote it is kinda useless.
I despise how little drivers are paid. This is also accepted. What's your point?
"I believe we have different definition of embedded system. "

Counterpoint:

http://www.atmel.com/Images/45107A-Choosing-a-MCU-Fredriksen...

The 32-bit market was at $6 billion by 2014 per Amtel's report. There's also a huge amount of sales for Windows Embedded and embedded Linux's. That represents a significant chunk of a massive market. So, it's quite worthwhile to call even a 32-bit-targeted, hard-real-time GC useful for "embedded" systems. As he said, it's part of the standard definition used in the embedded sector. The 32-bit side is going up rapidly, too, due to decreasing cost and power usage.

EDIT: The specs on them are also starting to look like the desktops of old. Actually, started to do that quite a while ago.

https://cache.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/fact_sheet/IMX7S...
Its the jar seal that's the problem. Space age plastics have no problem with 240F, 1920s I donno they had to use wax or natural rubber?

Edited to add, and the jar too.

The Ball Perfect Mason Jar was introduced in 1913 with a bead for the seal to rest upon. That would have been under patent and expensive in the 20s. So the tech (barely) existed to vacuum seal pressure cooked canned food in the 20s but it would have been patented and too expensive compared to cheaper cans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_jar
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What about craigslist?
You think the interest rates will rebound?

Honest question. I'm quite young (27), so most of my impressions of the market have been post-subprime-crisis.
Here's what she's still missing.

Models about things like salaries and prices have to be careful to disentangle supply and demand.

The insinuation when you hear that space-users earn more than tab-users is that space-users are somehow more productive, sexier or in with the times. When, as other commenters here have noted, large cool corporations tend to contribute to and use open source code, which is more often space-aligned.

The money question here is -- can I improve my earnings potential by switching to spaces? And this isn't solved by just noting that spaces correlate to Git and open-source; what I need to know if switching to spaces (or using Git) changes my supply of productivity-adjusted labor; or if it's just what they use in higher-paying jobs.

Here's how you disentangle this: you pick a variable that correlates to X (spaces vs tabs) but not to y (salaries). The textbook example is the demand for foodstuffs. Regressing quantity bought versus price tells you very little (supply and demand may be moving simultaneously); instead, you add something like crop productivities as an instrumental variable to filter out the supply effects and see the demand only.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_variable
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Since the include chain has to terminate, can't we just run the pre-processor over every file before we index it?

Seems, um, like a pretty reasonable idea to me if you care about C-style macros (I sure don't.)
Ultimately I think the underscore itself is a hack. The need for protected/private members is so great that people will do it by convention anyway if the feature doesn't exist.

If Python developers were truly serious about everything being public there would be no underscored members.
> When they have started, the motto was, "Uber - Your private driver" and it was truly like that

Are cash tips expected on Uber Black? My understanding is that segment operates on much more generous rates than cut-throat UberX.
Probably. If I was monster/linkedin I'd get chills on reading this news. Luckily the google employees interviewed were saying things along the lines of "we just want to make it easier for people to find jobs on these providers, not replace the providers."

CEO of Monster said basically the same thing - I can't find the quote on mobile, but essentially "This fits with our goal, which is for candidates to find a good fit. This will be difficult times, however, for jobs sites that depend on SEO."

EDIT: found the article https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/20/google-launches-its-ai-pow...
And does a user's rating matter?
I expected to see "I used no spacing whatsoever for PERL and I liked it."
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Tipping does not increase the service you get from someone. It just makes the customer feel guilty or pay more. Look at Publix: Rated No. 1 in the Temkin Customer Experience Ratings and No. 2 for Customer Service. But Tipping their baggers, even if they help you out to your car, is against company policy.
> We all know that next there are going to be the subtle and not-so subtle encouragements from drivers to tip. Then the expectation to tip.

That already happened, with passive-aggressive comments about how you can tip in cash.

> I don't see the lasting benefit here. Just increase prices or increase driver share of payout.

There's a clear perceived benefit to Uber: PR with drivers, perceived improvement as a company (as opposed to having to fix hard corporate-culture issues), and the ability to keep the "advertised" price lower. (Of course, they're missing that they've now abandoned one of their major differentiators from their lead competitor.)

But there's certainly no lasting benefit to customers. Tips should be for extraordinary, stand-out service, not a customary hassle in every transaction.
Well, there goes my last reason for using Uber. I had been really excited that they were the one oasis pushing back against the tipping culture[1].

Particularly troubling is the framing:

>Uber is enabling passengers to tip its U.S. drivers with a tap on its ride-hailing app for the first time, part of a push to recast itself as a company with a conscience and a heart.

What? As if anyone preferring that a service be upfront about prices is "heartless"? Anyone who doesn't want tip jars at the grocery store checkstand or bus farebox is heartless? All of Europe and Asia are heartless?

As if all of the alternatives for increasing driver compensation are heartless? (Higher payouts or the Sidecar drivers-set-prices model.)

[1] Before anyone says it, yes I know you have to pay more for a tip-free service; I'm not an idiot. I'm fine with that. I'm not fine with the lack of consistent, clear, compatible expectations it involves, and being stuck in the position of either a) overpaying, b) making a silent faux pas, or c) having negative feedback misinterpreted as stinginess.
In restaurants, when a waiter is tipped, the kitchen gets part of the money. How would that work with Uber? Will programmers receive part of the tip money?
It sounds like the point of this "briefing" - replete with polished videos featuring a who's who of executives hammering the point home - is to threaten corporate employees not to leak. Apple isn't hosting these meetings to satisfy anyone's curiosity; it's to make an implicit threat that if you leak, you'll eventually be caught by talented people whose full-time job is to catch you using the experience they gained at various three-letter agencies.

> “But there’s a whole slew of folks that can be tempted because what happens if I offer you, say, three months’ salary?’ In some cases we’ve seen up to a year’s worth of salary being rewarded for stealing product out of the factory.” Apple workers on the production line make approximately $350 a month, not including overtime, according to a 2016 report from China Labor Watch.

Duh. If you give valuable intelligence to workers who are paid a pittance, that info is inevitably going to find its way into the hands of people who are willing to pay a pretty penny for it. Good luck to anyone who hopes to address that without altering the economics of the situation.