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It's not absurd at all, your premise is wrong. US infrastructure problems are not isolated to present annual highway & street construction outlays.

We have immense problems everywhere from dams to grid to schools to bridges to healthcare (we could use to spend tens of billions in additional money just on the VA healthcare system), that are not present in that $90 billion and would not be dented by $165 billion per year.

We spent hundreds of billions on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and it barely made any difference.

The cost to redo a bridge in the US and then properly maintain it, is far beyond the cost to presently barely maintain it properly as we're doing.

That $90 billion you're quoting, is a vast under-outlay versus what we should be spending. Which is another way of saying, we need to be spending dramatically more just to break even on our current maintenance requirements. The US is facing trillions in spending just to replace our failing/failed infrastructure, and then all that newly replaced infrastructure needs to be maintained properly - so take that $90 billion and increase it upwards of 3x; 2x is what we should be spending now and are not; 3x is what we'll need to spend after we spend trillions on replacement to maintain the new infrastructure properly. That's just for our existing roads / highway infrastructure (which is merely one subset of our infrastructure spending needs).
The article says Khosla doesn't even live there. As someone else in this thread pointed out, his whole motivation for doing this is probably just to get the state to buy the disputed part of the property from him for millions of dollars. Comparing this to someone breaking in to your your house is ridiculous.
The "exact same stack accesses" as reading arguments directly from the registers they're passed in?
But does he have that? That is the part that is unclear. Is there an easement in this property that somehow nobody seems to point to?
According to the article the case was appealed and a verdict on the appeal has not yet been issued.
Nobody in this thread is arguing that all beaches should be private. I'm arguing in favor of privatizing a tiny fraction of coastline, taxing the hell out of it to pay for other social programs, and keeping the rest public.
Are we entering the token economy powered by blockchain?
Are we going to be paid in tokens for searching the web, watching tv?
This sort of exists. The command syntax format is the standard man page "Usage" and "Options" sections, and an implementation is docopt (http://docopt.org/)
In this respect the income-dependent fines used in (amongst others) Sweden works better. The sentence will be for a certain number of 'dagsböter' (day-fines, [1]), the amount payable for which depends on the income of the payee. While a 'day fine' for someone who lives on the dole might be 150 kr (~$17), someone like Khosla might be looking at a day fine of more than 100.000 kr.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-fine
I this this is the unclear part. Why is this property bearing the costs of this public access? In most states, there is the notion of an easement. When you buy a property, easements are marked and enumerated. I cannot find this easement. Has anybody seen this record?
It also actually used the words "great success".
Well, the problem with the US political system is that everybody focuses on the presidential election and Congress ends up deeply entrenched due to extreme polarization and gerrymandering.
That is a hard-to-parse headline! While I understand a bit about the effort to map Jupiter's atmosphere, the headline led me to believe they were also tracking a separate Discovery mission.
@mikeash it looks like you might have a topic for an upcoming Friday.
AMD strategy is very ambitious: attack on desktop, workstation, and server. Can't wait for buying a Ryzen Threadripper (workstation CPU) with up to 16 cores (32 threads), DDR4 quad-channel, and huge L3 cache.
For those wanting a really intimate and interesting look at Dov's new venture, Gimlet's "Start-up" did a great job profiling him over a few episodes. Definitely worth a listen.

https://gimletmedia.com/episode/part-1-labels-season-4-episo...
It’s a simple easement issue. If he wanted to create a new path for he public to access the beach, then nobody would care if he closed this one.

It’s not as if this was an after-the-fact decision, the public access path existed when he bought the property, as did the existing law and state constitution. His responsibility as a property owner there is to maintain that public access.
Do I remember right, that three earths could fit inside?
You'd want to physically couple those cars because should any one of them unexpectedly lose locomotion, they'll be a huge train wreck.
> Communism is... the communal aspect of humanity and we all practice it every day.

So well put. Most families practice "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." Evil communist pigs!
It's prideful because using ads is the easy way out, and it's often not very cost-efficient. Doing it the hard way is cool.
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I bet it can, so let's get started!

Here's a list of companies that Khosla ventures invested in:

http://www.khoslaventures.com/portfolio/all-companies

Is anyone who works for or owns these companies reading this? Would you be willing to quit your job or return funding so as not to support a sociopath and to help make the world a better place?

Anyone know people who work for these companies? It would be great if you could (kindly) remind them of the types of people they are working to enrich every day and how those people are using their riches to abuse society. Bet we can change a few minds!
I'm currently working at a place that is basically tech agnostic when it comes to getting and it's pretty good in my experience.
He appealed the ruling and the appeal was only heard a couple of weeks ago.
>schedules were crammed with (largely superfluous) CS and math courses that left very little time for stuff that's actually useful, like the humanities.

That's funny, because so far in my college education I would say precisely the same thing except it'd be listing various superfluous humanities courses that I could have lived without taking time away from the STEM I'm actually there to study.

While I'm glad you got to experience the good stuff, I expect at most institutions this would be just one more torturous thing to get marked off the checklist.
Your arguments rest on irrational statements.

The US isn't spending $1.5 trillion on the F35. First, the costs will be spread over decades; second, the US will never order even half the planes in question; it never does when it comes to large systems orders. In 10-15 years they'll be slashing the buying down toward zero as with the F22 (as the military chomps at the bit to move on to new programs), the F35 program will cost half as much as claimed presently, as most of the cost projections are based on maintenance costs over 30 years for thousands of planes that will never be purchased (we're going to buy thousands of F35s over decades? yeah right).

That aircraft carrier will launch. Every country that has ever built one has had significant problems doing so, the US has a long successful history of building & deploying aircraft carriers, the latest one will be no different regardless of temporary problems.
I am planning on making this for a few of my sites as I have this same problem with Google analytics. I would build it for free for you if you agreed to be a beta user and describe exactly what features you wanted.
The law may only allow for fines up to a certain amount, no matter what a judge may want.
Huh. I could've sworn that at some point in this thread I had mentioned I live in Baltimore, but apparently this is not the case; no wonder we've been talking past one another. I have no idea what problems the Bay Area has, but it sounds like they're not closely similar to anything I describe.

In a prior comment in this thread, I mentioned a verge about which I later had more to say: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14666944 - tl;dr: the plot went for a song, the developer's going to make a killing, and neither the city nor its populace is going to see any meaningful part of that killing - but, this being the city it is, I'm sure whoever sold the developer a sweetheart deal will get a tidy little kickback out of it.
Sadly, they often don’t even get subsidized when they have a 1:2 cost to profit ratio! (as the Stadt-Regional-Bahn Kiel showed!)
NYC to SFO in 12 hours would be amazing. What train technology gets you that?
It's public access, Khosla doesn't get to decide if it's trespassing. That would be a complaint lodged by the local authorities against someone if they were accessing the land in prohibited hours.

So it would be murder. Who knows, maybe Khosla wants to hunt humans for the sport of it but probably he just wants to keep paying miniscule fines hoping to wear the public down.

I'd lodge the fines in the form of the land he owns abutting the easement.
"An easement is a non-possessory right to use and/or enter onto the real property of another without possessing it." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easement
What is a typical use case for dynamically adding methods to a class?
Reminds me my comment from a month ago...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14433094
He was warned when he brought the property that the public must, and will, continue to have access to the road.

Everything about this he has brought upon himself.
Then why ban escolar but not, say, oysters? Escolar might give you acute gastrointestinal discomfort if you eat too much or are particularly sensitive to it. Oysters might give you gastrointestinal stress that lasts for months if you get a bad one. It happened to me. The GI specialist said it was almost certainly an oyster that set off my months of dyspepsia. I don't think that means oysters should be banned just because I had a really bad experience.

Even with a warning, the side effects of escolar are so severe that literally no one should be able to choose to eat it?
Malibu’s Zonker Harris beach accessway is "closed for repair". Again. Since summer 2016.
It depends on the platforms C ABI, but no, the argument marshaling for va_args is not necessarily (or even usually) the same as normal args. In the case of iOS you can look here[1], the relevant bit being: "The iOS ABI for functions that take a variable number of arguments is entirely different from the generic version."

This actually manifests in errors if you directly call objc_msgSend, which is why in order to guarantee direct codeine you need to cast objc_msgSend to the actual prototype you want[2]:

"An exception to the casting rule described above is when you are calling the objc_msgSend function or any other similar functions in the Objective-C runtime that send messages. Although the prototype for the message functions has a variadic form, the method function that is called by the Objective-C runtime does not share the same prototype. The Objective-C runtime directly dispatches to the function that implements the method, so the calling conventions are mismatched, as described previously. Therefore you must cast the objc_msgSend function to a prototype that matches the method function being called."

1: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Xc...
2: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Xc...
Making Dnote: Capture what you learn as you code without leaving the commandline
Because what he's doing is not a jailable offense.
I can't imagine that most of the fats would melt off without it ruining the fish anyway.
The reason is that it justifies huge budgets for narcotics enforcement agencies across the country, guaranteed numbers of inmates, and employment for thousands to enforce it all.
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Looking at just ticket revenue seems shortsighted. A similar analyses would never be able to justify road construction and maintenance, which directly generate revenue only through gas taxes and traffic fines.

Urban centers are more productive than suburban sprawl due to network effects. Effective passenger rail allows higher density, resulting in a productivity dividend to everyone in the area.[1]

Economic analyses along these lines are often used to sell highway expansion -- since of course highways don't pay for themselves directly -- but research does not support claims that adding highway capacity has any significant economic impact.[2]

Research in this area:

[1] Transit service, physical agglomeration and productivity in US metropolitan areas [2014]
Paper: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0042098013494426 with 38 citations: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1548440332983701258...

[2] Highways and economic productivity [1997]: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0885412297011004... with 110 citations: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=4909135167466840847
Sorry, that sucks. But introducing more sexism because you faced sexism isn't the answer.

Also, there are lots of things you can do to make the world a better place on your way out. Please don't waste your life getting run over.
Police chief? Los Altos Hills does not have a police department.
He does not need to live there to want to protect his property.

It seems that he owns a property that has a path that the public thinks is public property. It seems legally the property is private. At least, I have not been able to find an easement description.

In a state and country where the notion of private property constitutes a sacred principle, it seems to me he deserves compensation from the public. If this happened to me, I certainly would demand it, but I am glad a rich person with resources can fight this for me. Otherwise, who is to stop people onme neighborhood to cut through my property to access the park behind my house?
For someone looking for a simple CLI option to get your remote IPv4, you can use the following:

dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com

In my case, I have a ip_remote.fish file in my $HOME/.config/fish/functions folder which defines an ip_remote function that executes the line above.

As an added bonus, you can get all local IPv4 with:

ifconfig | sed -En 's/127.0.0.1//;s/.*inet (addr:)?(([0-9]*\.){3}[0-9]*).*/\2/p'
My college required a CS specific ethics course. Everything the teacher said had an obvious rebuttal and when I brought them up he would agree with me and move on. It was at that time I picked up TIS-100 and played that in class rather then sit there and be spoon fed the dribble.

Finished the first set of puzzles and the hidden one all in the first half of the semester!
Did you just claim a 20x return on investment wasn't good? A 7% investment adjust for inflation will return about 4x over the same time period (40 years). I have no clue what the hell you are talking about.
I'd like to point out that the things he says he's doing instead of marketing are, in fact, marketing. It's "guerilla" marketing, and it's being paid for with the writer's time. Nothing wrong with that, just don't confuse "marketing" with "advertising".
I don't know all the answers to this, but I did publish an infographic recently about salaries of software developers' in Europe.

http://www.confessionsoftheprofessions.com/european-software...
Money laundering regulations can stop there being major exchanges without anti-mixing features. Across all coins.
Ask HN: Should a login be a Username or an Email?
I've always wondered which one of the two is more user friendly - a username or an email?

An email is usually longer and involves special characters. A username on the other hand is usually easily forgettable.

So what is the best practice when it comes to picking up a user login attribute?
beautiful soup is a better tool.

Regex is fine for grabbing something in a page that you have looked at yourself.

Parsing millions of pages you don't have this option, you need something robust, a tool that is flexible, that doesn't barf out too many errors, that is quick.
We also don't know the ratio of those who could retain it if they would keep thinking hard every day. It's really a lifestyle choice. You can still be wise, but when you have a lot of money you can just relax and enjoy the nature without wondering how it works. Some people just love thinking and studies suggest that it keeps them good at it (refs in that book).

I didn't mean to show by these examples that this is the default, or even that it's common. I don't think it is. But I hope it's getting better, mostly thanks to the technological progress which can be stimulating for those who choose to make use of it.
Many things are complicated but that doesn't mean we can't use data to understand and predict them.

IQ correlates almost perfectly (~ r = .95) with income at an ecological/epidemiological level (again, not at an individual level). The average IQ among the homeless is around 80. It may not be the only factor, but it's part of the story.
Americans are solidly opposed to the Republican party's agenda to gut health care. [0] Blaming Americans for their health care problems is like blaming Russians for Putin's largesse. It's just generally much harder for the masses to hold the few accountable than for the few to keep the masses in check.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/0...
We used to have a concept of "outlawry." What it meant varied over time, but it was rooted in the reality that the court system and law enforcement had limits on how much they could do. So, they would declare someone an "outlaw" as a means to deal with this. In some times and places, this meant anyone could murder them. They were not protected by the laws of the land.

I don't know what the solution is today and I am not suggesting that we should make it legal to murder someone like Khosla, but we need a mechanism for addressing the fact that our legal system cannot control everything. Someone this rich winds up being beyond the law in far too many ways and they don't care.

I think one of the things wrong with modern life is the delusion that the legal system is in control to a greater degree than it is. This has all kinds of problematic side effects. There are far too few rules for what to do when someone is breaking all the rules and it means that rule followers are routinely crapped on by certain classes of rule breakers in a way for which there is no real remedy.
Eh, I'd rather just drive out to the gate and cut the lock.

Where is it exactly? I'll do it next week.
I agree this is the same way I found out about the country, was remarking about this just the other day actually.
> I found myself routinely on roads marked 100km/h that couldn't safely accommodate two cars.

It's worthwhile pointing out that it's fairly normal outside of built up areas in Europe to just have a standard speed limit (often 100 km/h) apply regardless of road conditions: it's simply down to the driver to drive to the conditions. There's plenty of roads around here where you'll struggle to do 30km/h safely, but legally it's 100km/h limit; my experience in various parts of the US would suggest they'd probably have a 30km/h or lower limit there.

I'm surprised you found so many roads that couldn't safely accommodate two cars on any significant route, though!
Stuff is like the Daily Mail of New Zealand, as a general rule you should assume everything at that site is complete garbage. That being said, this topic is definitely worth discussing.

I received my degree from a technical institute in NZ rather then one of the major universities. For each level we were required to take a semester (6 months) long paper in Legal and Ethics.

I enjoyed them at the time and have also found the knowledge gained to be extremely relevant in both my personal life and career.

The papers were quite broad and covered a range of topics including the traditional idea of "ethics", copyright law/infringement, the NZ Privacy Act, The Treaty of Waitangi [1]. We had an enthusiastic primary tutor and multiple guest tutors from the industry (privacy officer, lawyer etc). Thinking back, they were probably the best papers I took.

My day job now involves writing software that deals with the vast majority of New Zealanders medical data. The ethical "grounding" and the knowledge gained about the NZ Privacy Act in particular is quite literally at the front of my mind with every commit. It makes me extremely nervous that our educational institutes are shitting out software developers without any of this knowledge.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Waitangi
Did you read the linked article? People believe there's a gender problem in tech because there is a gender problem in tech. These stories are pervasive. I'd encourage you to ask a woman who's been in the industry and while of they've ever been treated unfairly.

Women are almost exactly half of the workforce in the US, but hold only 25% of the jobs in computing. So that would imply the industry is worse than average. And the trend is going the wrong way: women were a much bigger presence in tech 20 years ago. IMHO, stories like the ones in this article are very common and are a major reason why. And that hurts everyone who works in tech.

Moreover, the fact that other industries may also have a gender problem in no way excuses what's going on in the linked article.
Mayor cutting fences? Hmmm, what is this, some banana republic?
It’s an acceptable choice for scraping, because with scraping you usually go into it with the expectation that it will break and need updates sometimes as the scraped site changes. The warning bells are more for things like validating user input on your own site, where there might be security implications of an impossible parsing task.
Even the mediocre VTA light rail in Silicon Valley has people standing during rush hour. although that is exacerbated by the California reluctance to sit right next to someone. Here when half the seats are sat in the rest of the people stand unless it is a big group like a field trip.
This is a fun (and classic) thread and it's worth reading the pro and con arguments.

It really falls under the old joke "you have a problem and you decide to solve it with regex, now you have two problems". HTML is very gnarly, and regex is very gnarly. Doesn't mean you can't get shit done if you're aware of the pitfalls.
The beauty of just collecting an email is that you can use that for everything, including a lost password. Since most of my web apps are more private and account-based without communication among users, I tend to just create the account with an email and password.

I am working on a web app though that is more social, and I'm implementing something similar to Hacker News. Create a username and password and you are in.. with the option to set an email for password recovery and display purposes later on.
Thank you for operating this one!!
It's the only one I use :)

I even think I embedded it in a PoC software I made in a previous company :)
That part is not unclear.

https://www.kcet.org/history-society/why-californias-beaches...
The 1932 civil disobediance in the moors near Manchester had long-lasting social impact.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_trespass_of_Kinder_Scou...