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Paying for someone else's healthcare shows compassion.

Not paying for someone else's healthcare does not indicate a lack thereof.

A line needs to be drawn somewhere, and many Americans seem to draw that line as "primary rights need to be protected, and all else is every man for himself". Let's say you really want new Macbook Pro. It costs a lot more money than you got. So someone else in society pays for it. Ok, same situation, but someone else doesn't wanna pay for it. Does that really make them a person without compassion.
I did not see it.

As I commented in email, I did it by hand while very tired and made multiple mistakes.
That's a very good point and even better pointed question!

Part of the value of the network is how much bandwidth one can use in a month. The other part is simply the convenience of being able to send/receive lots of data in short bursts.

I'd argue most people don't need to consume lots of data to appreciate 1 Gb connection when it's available. I think you'll find most people are willing to pay a premium for convenience and optionality, even when they don't use it.

Now, if they're not using more total bandwidth, then your point stands. If the network is idle, it's more than likely not to get built out at all, but I'm not sure that rule applies to last mile networks.
Apple does not make nearly as much money in china as you seem to think. More importantly 1/3 of their stock price is from cash on hand. Further one company even AAPL taking a 3-10% hit is small potatoes.

Second if China suddenly dumped AAPL manufacturing most companies would quickly pull out of Chinese manufacturing which would destroy their economy and likely result in civil war within a decade. Banning products has no such risk.
Why not Boise? We have population of refugees here looking for an opportunity.
From what I've read (and I may be off), but to me it does not seem that D provides many of the features that make Rust useful: algebraic data types, typeclasses, memory safety without a managed runtime.
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I didn't have a chance to read this before you deleted it, but let's get one thing out of the way immediately: I'm not a white male, yet you seem to be attacking me (and others who think you are doing more harm than good) on this presumption.

You need to understand that the way you engage others on the internet is harmful to your viewpoints. You honestly come off as hostile and even childish. You're fabricating complete strawmen and attacking them. I honestly have to question whether or not you have some sort of personality disorder, given how upset you get over things that the people you are attacking have not said or even implied. You also seem to be extremely self-loathing, and you want to project that onto others.
Useful as Macron pushes France as a startup centre to have a large exit like this. Zenly are based in Paris.
Well Java relies on "life support" from Oracle (and previously Sun) and it has definitely achieved mass adoption.
You can do things with these backtracking algorithms that are difficult (capturing subexpressions, start of match) or impossible (backreferences, arbitrary lookarounds) to do efficiently in an automata based algorithm.

Sometimes users want these features more than they want theoretical purity. Who are we to tell them they are wrong?

That said, we do have some projects in mind to try to bridge these two worlds (feature-rich backtracking world vs speedy/streamable automata-based). Anyone interested should contact the Hyperscan team. Make a nice project at undergraduate or even postgraduate level depending on scale.
I was thinking client-side encryption and decryption, and if you need to run operations on the server, utilizing homomorphic encryption practices. Is this not feasible or just naive?
As deplorable as much of Uber's behavior was, the Yellow Cab drivers are much worse.
how? this is the statistical norm in the IT industry
What does PRISM have to do with Net Neutrality?
Guns, God and Gays. Republican voters are easily manipulated to vote against their own economic self interest by playing to cultural issues. And there are a whole lot of republican voters who are in parts of the country that don't have the economic growth that the coasts and the cities do.
Weird, I've been feeling like the same thing has been happening, just noticed over the last couple of weeks that it doesn't seem to find what I want.

I'm in the UK and noticed I often seem to be getting US centric results and have to try using Google more often.

Edit: ddg has been my default for 2 years.
Right. After reading yours and basically all other replies to my comment I understand that NN isn't supposed to prevent ISPs from limiting individual users' bandwidth or charging more per heavy usage.

In those terms I think I can support NN and take back my comments.
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NPR just did a story this year that it's being used in the manufacturing industry, so it's still being used, just not for leisure: http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/03/18/514...
The laws restrict the right of people to do with their labour and private property what they want. They should be left unenforced, just like laws against marijuana and other personal choices. Driving things out of the formal economy and into the informal economy, and punishing people for engaging in voluntary interactions - in the name of 'protecting' them - has very harmful unintended consequences and goes against the foundational principles of liberal democracy.

Moreover, restricting voluntary economic interactions behind a wall of regulatory licensing schemes, like hotel licenses and taxi licenses, exacerbates income inequality:

https://www.brookings.edu/research/make-elites-compete-why-t...

In short, there's no commonly advocated policy more harmful to society than what you're advocating.
I used Azure Functions (when I was a MSFT employee, in fact), and found it to be unusable. A list of complaints:

* setup is 100% completely clicky-clicky UI driven, which was a huge pain to scale. instantiation of a Function on behalf of a developer for production use was a huge time sink

* it's clearly a thin veneer on Azure Web Services, and the abstractions leak badly in the portal (deployment credentials, for example)

* the web UI breaks completely and mysteriously if you enable authentication

* management of service princi- uh, I mean, Azure AD Applications was weird, and the (internal to MSFT, I suspect) permissions model to the Graph API was a huge barrier to ease of use

* management of NPM packages required me to start a terminal session in the UI and run commands manually, which was a huge turnoff (and had to be repeated ad nauseam with every new Function created)

* the configuration files for the runtime are utterly undocumented, with the sole exception of the bits used to plug Azure inputs/outputs together. this makes automating things exceedingly difficult. I recall there even being a magic value in the topmost config file

* the edit-commit-push-test cycle was VERY slow, with new commits sometimes taking tens of minutes to "appear" in my function

* I never found a way to run it locally, making the previous point that much worse

* log output is very difficult to find, and can live in a few different places. I spent too much time hunting for errors, especially things like syntax errors that make the runtime itself go kaboom. This was the thing that really killed it for me; if I had an error that resulted in anything but a "clean" return, it was torture trying to figure out where I'd missed the paren.
I think we should prohibit monopolies. Anyway the incentive isn't zero, we needn't exaggerate. ISPs aren't the only company to participate in multiple markets, I don't see why we should be more concerned about them than Amazon.
Not really - evaporation is used to trap the residue in the water, and dispose of the water itself.

This is the reverse - dispose of the residue, keep the water.
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Cool.

I'm sorry you couldn't be bothered to read the whole thread and jumped to the end just to criticize instead of providing reasons, but whatever.
I see it's got really great reviews, but the user count seems low given how useful it appears to be.

Is it just new, or maybe an unintentionally well kept secret?
Supposedly that is how it is used now, by doctors, factory workers, and other niches. And it is thriving from what I hear
It seems like use-after-free is still a potential issue, even with those guard rails.
Rust deals with those through named lifetimes --would those ideas be useful in D as well?
Racist, sexist, anti-Semitist, terrorist, socialist, liberal, etc. are what I like to call "duct-tape labels". You stick that label onto people's faces to instantly silence them. Or rather, they'll keep talking but you refuse to listen. So the tape is actually applied to your own ears.

In the long term, excessive use of duct-tape labels works against you. Because they keep talking to the public anyway, while you've cut yourself off from the only thing that can give you a clue about what's going on in their heads.

Iterated prisoner's dilemma games [1] give us a good idea of how "liberals" (in the author's rather academic usage, not the popular usage) should deal with people who harbor other kinds of ideas: whoever tries to stop the discussion first, loses. You keep civil and engage their ideas publicly as long as they're still talking and not shooting.

Only when they do something other than talking that causes harm, you retaliate in kind. Violence (arrest and imprisonment) for violence (murder and other violent crimes), and political action (protest and civil disobedience) for political action (unjust legislation). But if all they're doing is speaking, the only way you can retaliate is with more speech.

If they're doing plain ol' demagoguery, well, isn't that despicable? You counter with better demagoguery. Thinking you have a better product is no excuse for poor marketing, and this applies to the marketplace of ideas as well. If you try to silence your competitors first, there goes your moral high ground -- the only high ground you might ever have had.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma#The_itera...
Great additions! Gustaf is very insightful.
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I didn't know GSL could be used right out of the box. That's good to know. The declarations part is pretty nifty too. I can't believe I didn't notice that before.

Perhaps easy for you and probably not super difficult for most people considering CL, but it's still a bigger pain than having 1 single tool that can build fast code with very little hand optimization, REPL, analysis libraries, built in plotting, and with a familiar syntax. Thanks for all the comments though. You pointed out parts of the CL ecosystem aren't nearly as bad as I thought. You should consider some blog posts if you've done this sort of thing before!
Fair enough, but sparrows are so numerous that they can really crowd out all the others.
This sounds reasonable, but is simply not correct. There's nothing inherently slow about either algorithm in the average case and there's absolutely no reason that Thompson (or the One True NFA, Glushkov) should be slower than backtracking algorithms.

The exponential algorithms are commonly used because (a) they rarely hit their exponential behavior in practice, (b) they offer huge numbers of features that automata based algorithms cannot easily supply (capturing subexpressions and backreferences are the most obvious - yes, you can do capturing in automata but it's pretty hard) and (c) they are simpler than building something like Hyperscan.

Our codebase is enormous compared to a relatively feature-rich back-tracker. Partly this is because we've been at this a while and under constant pressure to do well on lots of cases and metrics (a cleaner, 'toy' system would look nicer but maybe we wouldn't have survived as a startup if we hadn't optimized 'that one case'). But if you want to build out a Glushkov NFA graph and do a ton of optimizations, you're already more complex than a backtracking engine and you're just getting started.
Nice! I really like Google Glass, the only issue I have with it is the reduced battery life. I wish there were a supported way to replace the battery. Or is there?
Partisan and legislative difficulties aside, proper continental broadband at reasonable prices seems like it would be a significant public good.

I wonder what impacts other readers think it might have, or non-obvious opportunities it could open up that are impractical at present. I'd rather not get sidetracked into discussion of past policy sins or whether the current FCC commissioner is doing a good job etc. etc.
Yes, but they haven't made it down to the automotive level yet.

Most automotive LIDARs just report the time of the first return, but it's possible to do more processing. Airborne LIDAR surveys often record "first and last"; the first return is the canopy of trees or plants; the last is from ground level.

It's also possible to use range gating in fog, smoke, and dust conditions.[1][2] Returns from outside the range gate are ignored. You can move through depth ranges in slices until something interesting shows up. This seems to be in use for military purposes, but hasn't reached the civilian market yet.

Range gated LIDAR imagers have been around for at least 15 years. By now, it should be possible to obtain a full list of returns for each pixel for several frames in succession, crunch on that, and automatically filter out noise such as rain, snow, and dust. It's a lot of data per frame, but not more than GPUs already handle. Some recent work in China seems to be working to make range-gated imaging more automatic in bad conditions.[3]

[1] http://www.sensorsinc.com/applications/military/laser-range-...
[2] http://www.obzerv.com/en/videos
[3] http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceeding.aspx?ar...
A lot of this cheap stuff is high-margin "weaponized food" that's had thousands of man-hours thrown at it to make it addictive. Capitalism is optimizing for the wrong parameter, just like it does in just about every other situation related to human health.
Maybe your vision of tumblr's userbase is biased by the kind of people you follow. Personally, I'm on the "computer science/glitch art/study/science" part of tumblr and I don't see much NSFW content (Apart from some bots who follow me which I block automatically).
The driver might have realized (too late) what happened, if the driver noticed the second passenger left with a backpack they didn't come in with. Then gotten scared and decided to avoid calls and lie about things.
I have no idea why NSS never got more use, but it didn't, for the most part. I assume there's a reason, but for the most part major adoption seemed to have been limited to Mozilla projects, Sun Enterprise Java, and OpenOffice (possibly because it also originated from a Sun project, and it seems to have enjoyed some popularity at Sun). If I had to make a wild guess from that info, it would be that it's more complex to work with, as odd as that sounds given the current context (although I guess it's possible OpenSSL got more complex over time, and was much simpler a decade ago).
It will recover, and as a result will be more robust than it was before. Regulatory prohibitions centralise the job of risk assessment and management leading in the long run to a more fragile economy, that's more dependent on a Single Point of Failure (the regulatory authority).
One of the biggest differences in practice between reference counting and GC (or "other forms of GC" if you consider RC a type of GC) is that nodes involved in a cycle will never be freed.
TLDR it can find barcodes and scan them faster than the human eye can. Yeah fascinating.
I think The Matrix applies now and not necessarily just in the future. Our daily existence (work, chores, passive entertainment) sits us within the enslavement capsules while the 1% have politicians paid and on puppet strings to keep everyone fearful and busy.
A classic argument about which is better, consumer or enterprise. I struggle with this one myself. I naturally gravitate to finding enterprise niches and targeting specific use cases. But that comes at the expense of being perpetually in "accidental stealth mode" because the tech press generally cares only about consumer applications. Google traditionally is better at large scale consumer apps (and getting the PR that goes with it). So it was not a surprise that they didn't target the enterprise first with Glass. They like making flashy large-scale "bets". Which makes sense since they're an ad company and are constantly looking for ways to expand that platform in the biggest way possible.
No, they really are shite: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/...

The only special election they should be disappointed about is georgia 6th. Many of the rest have been fairly encouraging, given that they have been competitive in red districts.
> Said skeptics then intentionally, comically ignore that Lyft is and has been doing the exact same thing and has radically less capital & valuation to play that game with.

I'm blown away that you have to read more than half way down all the comments to get to this observation. It should be an automatic reply every time someone echoes the fantasy that Uber runs out of money and Lyft is magically left to take over. I don't understand the mental gymnastics and contortions one needs to make to arrive at this absurd idea.
The score is at -4 now.
On the other hand startups pay you money, B schools cost you money. With the delta easially being 300+k. So, you can take a fair amount of risk and still have the startup being a better bet.
Psst. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering
The duplicate detector allows resubsmissions after about a day or so if the previous ones didn't receive significant attention.

Edit: Also mentioned in the FAQ under “Are reposts OK?” https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
>Apple does not make nearly as much money in china as you seem to think.

I don't know how much you think Apple makes from China, but I know it's a bit more than 20% of their total revenue as of last quarter. It's almost as much as the entire Europe combined.

>Further one company even AAPL taking a 3-10% hit is small potatoes.

3-10%? AAPL goes down like 5% all the time on a rumor that they may miss their iPhone shipment forecast, if the Chinese government bans AAPL products tomorrow you think they'd only go down 3-10%?

>Second if China suddenly dumped AAPL manufacturing most companies would quickly pull out of Chinese manufacturing which would destroy their economy and likely result in civil war within a decade. Banning products has no such risk.

What? You don't just pull out of China for manufacturing. Where are you gonna go? In fact Apple can't even pull out of China for manufacturing in a short amount of time. That's right, Apple would still make iPhones in China even if the Chinese government bans them from selling it there.

Additionally, why would anyone care about what the Chinese government do to Apple? Did Yahoo or Microsoft leave China after the CPC banned Google?
didn't think such an obvious comment would be so controversial

There's a lot of implicit assumptions in your original comment, and immigration policy is a politically extremely loaded subject, so people are almost inevitably going to project additional inferences onto your remarks inssofar as they seem to resemble well-known political arguments.
Yeah, I use quotes a lot because otherwise I find the results are pretty poor (ie. they seem to be more likely to miss at least one of the terms I searched for, and if I'm searching for a phrase then an unquoted phrase could have its words scattered all over the place rather than be treated as a phrase).
GA-06 hasn't had a Democratic rep in almost forty years.

I'd be more disappointed about SC-05, where it was a close finish with little resources dedicated. If some of the GA-06 millions had been spent there, it might've been a win.

I wouldn't be at all disappointed with the fact that both districts went Trump by 20 points, and were quite close less than a year later.
The areas are kept quite separate, but that doesn't mean that there isn't still a huge porn userbase. Many people on tumblr have multiple blogs on different subjects, and deliberately keep their porn blog(s) separate from the rest.
A lot of negative nancies in this thread. I'm not here for kicking people while they're down.

But didn't they have a layoff a month ago? Isn't there a management saying that goes something like "If you're going to eat shit, eat enough so you only have to do it once", specifically about layoffs?

Etsy engineers (and other workers) reading this, I wish you good luck! May you survive and thrive through tough times.
I just checked out Coedit. It looks quite nice, although I'm rather baffled that it's written in Pascal.

I assume it's forked from an existing open-source editor, but there's nothing in the source headers to say which one.
It's true she created a lot of vapor shareholder value while burning down a runway of proportions not seen since the Pharaohs' day, and demonstrated just how abusive one could be to employees in her own.

I had forgotten that thx.
Obviously I am longwinded. I was trying to give backstory as to why I left my IT career to make hot sauce. I had a successful (record breaking) crowdfunding campaign that gave me the confidence to change my entire life.
Make a tax-deductible donation to the EFF. Any influence you could have projected with a company you can likely outperform with its value in cash.
Fantastic writeup, thanks
> value of the average individual to the country as a whole is usually negligible

Usually negligible because we have data only for developing countries. There's still no case of a developed nation with 1b+ population.
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I won't make that mistake again. If I were giving someone a ride I would have helped them with their bags and not thought about taking them. I assumed people shared that quality.
Recently? I could see that happening a decade ago but I think it would be harder to do now, especially at the (A)AA level. Still, the video game industry remains volatile and a lot of independent developers are one missed milestone payment away from layoffs if not shutdown.
Right, I understand that the telecommunications industry is not a free market in any sense.

But imagine that you think NN is wrong (I no longer believe that), but since it is better than the current state of non-free-markets-plus-telcos-doing-anything-they-want, you defend NN.

That just makes things worse, since it shifts the focus out of the real underlying problem (markets aren't free) and tells everybody the problem is this other one (no NN being enforced).

Since imposing NN will not solve all the problems, and may as well create some new problems, the next time a problem appears the State will be prompted to introduce a new regulation, and we'll be each time farther from the free markets. Regulation brings regulation.

I don't know if the above applies to this situation in particular or if we should oppose a measure that looks better just because in principle it is not the best measure.
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Ugh, I'm living in my vehicle on the SF peninsula but writers'-blocking on startup ideas and in the market to execute quickly.

Criteria:

- low overhead PoC

- scalable

- defensible

- somewhat novel

- full-stack engineering is covered (yo)

- more necessity than discretionary (downturn survivable)

Any pointers, suggestions or crowd wisdom would be greatly appreciated because I can take it from there.
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