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Apparently Yellow Cab went bankrupt. I didn't know this and it wasn't clear from the preceding anecdote, so now you know.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/uber-and-lyft-didnt-bankrup...
> Apple wouldn't want to have to offer a subpar default search offering to their users

That's what people thought about maps, too.
Why not? If the state of affairs is disturbing and unjust, should the disenfranchised not seek to improve their lot?

It may be easy to sit on top of the busily productive pile and insinuate that those on the bottom be satisfied with the scraps ("...those at the bottom get bigger scraps than they otherwise would have", etc.). But it's much more palatable and interesting for me to seek out how to remedy injustices (as I perceive them, I can't claim to be objective about this), to "quantum tunnel" out of this extreme gravitational well of inequality, so to speak.
> would be unleashed

That's the theory that the rich hoard their money in Scrooge McDuck cash vaults, keeping it out of the economy.

That's false - all of it is in the economy, via investments. Even money kept in a checking account is invested in the economy (banks loan out that money).

The only cash kept in cash vaults is the reserve that the government requires banks to keep to provide a buffer against runs on the bank.

Various times in history people have "liberated" wealth from wealthy people, and it never stimulated the economy (quite the reverse), because the wealth was already in the economy.
How would you explain, to a layman, why standard candles--phenomena we must measure from great distances--are trusted to be as consistent as well believe them to be?
Honestly, most modern C/C++ software has converged to readable formatting. Before that ~C99 it was a crapshoot, but that was 18 years ago!

I'm sure python fans will disagree, but the fact that whitespace errors don't effect the correctness of C/C++ code is a feature in my book.
It depends on your idea of comfortable.

Some western foods for example are highly priced compared to local options: imported au/us beef is similar cost to Australia ($20-$30 a serve) but local "steak" is maybe $3 to $4 a serve. It also has the consistency of a finely barbecued shoe.

It also depends on the area. A lot of expats want to live in areas surrounded by other expats, so things are priced higher in general.

If you go live "in the sticks" ie you will stand out as one of few/only foreigners in the district, things can be cheaper (once people know you're a "local")
It makes perfect sense when you remember that the reason Android exists is to get users into the Google ecosystem, as a loss leader. iOS exists to sell expensive handsets. I don’t think Google cares what phone you have as long as all of your valuable data is in Google services and you’re viewing Google ads.
We need more diversity in the video streaming world.
"Google needs to pay Apple a small fortune to remain the default search engine on iOS"
Since when was $1B a small fortune?
Please consider libsodium or a similar "modern" crypto library instead. There's a lot of ugly 90s crypto in GPG and the API is terrible.
Libsodium makes it hard for non-crypto devs to shoot themselves in the foot, and is much less code to write.
I wish.

I'm currently working on a 1 year old subsidiary that tries very hard to be modern (Spotify organisation, brand new offices…), and as part of that modernity went full Open Plan™.

It's not a full blown boiler room, but we do have zero privacy and a good deal of noise.
Here's all that Uber has to do to succeed:

Become the quality brand they started as. Charge more than Lyfy and Taxis because they have higher standard. Immelt can make that happen with process and measurement. Uber's tech will allow them to monetize data, and show customers their value is better. Better response times, better service, shorter faster trips, etc. That's how they can win. Trying to be cheaper than Lyft will fail miserably.

Right after he's announced, he should find a buyer for 3/4 of Benchmark's shares to get them out of the conflict, and immediately appoint Travis Kalanick as Chief Vision Office, and hire Holder or someone with perceived panache as Chief of HR and put them on the board. That'd be a good deal to make with Travis - Kill Benchmark's influence by paying them to go away, trade a TK board seat for a neutral party. Win/win/win/win.
It is, but is also a sign that Apple wants to commoditize search on the iPhone, weakening Google's position. All without stop receiving Google's billions of course.
And yet you're moving the goal posts. No one is saying anyone can't excerise their first ammendment rights; just that by the same token no one can strip private citizens and business of their first amendment rights. Nothing can, and hopefully never will, stop these groups from running websites and holding rallies; however we as citizens and business can say "not on our servers" and not without a 15,000 strong counter rally. Free speech is not mono-directional (the exact same way nature can tell antivaxxers to fuck off until they do a peer reviewed experiment or a forum can ban you for posting affiliate links).
I'd go further and tax destructive activities, such as polluting or consumption of finite resources, instead of productive activities.
When Siri decides your request needs web search results, it uses Bing by default. You can override this by asking Siri to "google search" for your term. The behavior is different in that it will open your default browser to a Google search results page.
European countries are much smaller than the USA. I realize that within the USA there exist differences but I think your population centers are far larger than ours. Europe has a larger population but it is very dense with small, medium and then rarer large communities (similar to Japan I think). The USA appears to me (this could be quite wrong) to have large, very large and then sparse communities.

I wish I could summon up a one of those nice charts on this subject from gapminder! That would show immediately if there's something to it.

It could also be simply that the American media and intellectual class are unusually neurotic and there similar issues exist everywhere but the local reporting in my country doesn't emphasize it as much.
Look if people still eat fermented shark some of us can enjoy an occasional Hershey bar. Also, while good, Lindt typically contains soy products. There are a lot of very good milk and dark chocolates out there these days. Alter Eco 85% is my stand by. I know Hershey's doesn't have a local of cocoa content, but food tastes are as much culture as quality for some things.
Fox News, Breitbart et all are massively anti-globalists.

Breitbart marks Globalists in their article headlines with literal globes. Also a pure coincidence that all of those are Jewish of course.

Trump ran on abolishing NAFTA and TTIP.

How is this not a mainstream position now?
Not games, and the code is in AWK, but this comes to mind (full disclosure - I only read a chapter or two, but the TOC is impressive):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13451454
The GD was caused in large part by the Fed's poor understanding of economics. I wouldn't take what the chairman of the time said too seriously.
Both of these ships would have radar to detect each other, so I'm not sure how effectively you could attack them with GPS spoofing. Even if they go off course, they can still avoid obstacles with radar.

I'd also guess that a destroyer wouldn't have to rely on GPS - it would probably have an old-fashioned inertial navigation system (gyroscope) as a backup. In a war against a major power like Russia or China, you should expect that they'd be able to knock out your GPS satellites.
Isn't it interesting that the fight is between Google and Apple, while the consumer is the one holding the product in hand.

They did a extraordinary job of taking control over the final user. The user has the power ("ability" but let's exaggerate) to switch to any search engine they want, thwarting any decision these two companies make. But that's too complicated, let's leave it to the techies.

I really wish for a mandatory class in schools where students are demystified about computers.
You could be on the low end of "comfortable western lifestyle" in the Bay Area for $3k/month, renting at $2200 in the East Bay, spending $300 on groceries and $500 on entertainment. Something doesn't seem right.
Suggest new title: "Google pays Apple $1B to remain default search engine (2014)"

There is no new story here. At all. The title is very misleading. Google paid Apple $1B in 2014, and they're digging this up to reuse old content. They speculate that the amount has grown since then.
> hoarded money is useless to the rest of society.

There is no hoarded money. It's all invested. Where do you think Gates' money is, for example?
>where governmental power structures are almost entirely transparent, egalitarian, and rule-bound.

Bahahahaahahahahahahhahaahahaha. F'in right they are :)
I have been low-level systems coder for about 10 years, and have no clue how demos are made besides the fact they use the technique of procedural generation and/or shader(s).

Is there a guide on how to start making one?
I've actually switched, after a long time, to using Apple Maps as my default mapping application. It's good enough for 99.9% of the time. And I like its privacy-conscious construction.
The difficulty re-targets once every 2016 blocks. Bitcoin Cash (BCH) has a added feature that re-targets the difficulty downward if blocks are being found too slowly. Bitcoin's Legacy chain doesn't do this so if enough hash power leaves the legacy chain in a short period of time it causes slow block times and people hope that if it gets bad enough there will be an inflection point where people abandon the legacy chain for Cash. The likely hood of that happening is anyone's guess.

[0] https://medium.com/@jimmysong/bitcoin-cash-difficulty-adjust...
But a private office is very very expensive. People might think I'm trolling but I honestly think that until "engineer > real estate" there will be no real progress. All this talk about "open space", "hot desks", etc. is because costs of private office space just does not make sense to any CTO or CEO.
> References? In my personal experience that's far for accurate. If anything they are an extremely nationalistic country.

Turkey is a nation that is even more nationalistic and they have very serious trust issues with their fellow citizens.
That's true. Maybe there could be an 'enable advanced permissions' option?
I don't know what you are saying. You can't mine bitcoin with a GPU. You can mine ethereum and probably other cryptocurrencies with GPUs. Bitcoin is a specific cryptocurrency. Nothing you are going to say is going to change that reality.
> They did a extraordinary job of taking control over the final user. The user has the power ("ability" but let's exaggerate) to switch to any search engine they want, thwarting any decision these two companies make.

This sounds less like someone taking power and more like everyone collectively ceding it. Part of this involves transaction costs. Relative to the minor gains many might expect from taking the time to switch search engines, the cost of learning how to do that is steep. Naturally, those economies scale favor Apple and Google.

Perhaps the switching cost isn't, or shouldn't be, as high for consumers. I think the solution is in education and lowering peoples' fears with tinkering with their tech. But another part of me thinks most people simply don't find such fiddling worth the bother.
According to stackexchange (https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/533146/dantzigs-uns...) they were these two:

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoms/1177731912

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoms/1177729695
This is why cubicles are a thing though right?

Obviously it doesn't have as much in terms of sound dampening effects but the cost nearly isn't as high and there's a psychological effect

Though... cubicles do make it so that you're working in a "pit". So people... start wanting to remove the barriers..... and we end up in open office plans again. Hard to figure out how a smaller company can manage this (since private offices _are_ expensive)
The dirty secret is that there's a whole class of jobs, mostly decently paying white collar jobs, that have most of the training on the job.

Hell most of the jobs that only require an undergraduate degree involve extensive on the job training; college is used as a weak signal for aptitude, interest, and class not really capability (this is the entire business model around coding boot-camps).
I work in an elementary school in technology and I follow this space very closely. I can confidently tell you we are moving in the opposite direction. While arguably there has never been as much talked about “computer science” as there is now, we’re fueling this growth by essentially removing just about any computer science that was left in these courses.
Yes, since Android Marshmallow (6.0), which is almost 3 years old, there has been a granular permissions system. Most apps support it now, but there is the problem that only 45.8% of all Android devices have M or later.

https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
Remote access for MS engineers? Can you explain please?
Hi Josh,

Thank you for writing this.

Just noticed a small typo (I think)

> For a long time Atom couldn't open a file larger than 2 megabytes because scrolling would be to slow.

to should be too.

Sincerely,
reddit was coopted by marketers about 5 years ago. As is every site which relies on ads.

What's puzzling to me about reddit specifically is the politicisation of almost every thread.

It's exhausting dealing with that mindset.
Back in days, each engineer in Microsoft had a private office. Oracle too... Good days...
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There's a good explanation in the movie "It's A Wonderful Life" about what happens to the money deposited in a bank, and where it goes.
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I think the ideas proposed here are excellent, but again there is the problem of monetization. Where will a product like this get funded, and how will it be monetized?
I wouldn’t be surprised if POS stands for Point Of Sale, but I’m guessing that’s not the case.
Mostly true, but note that Android isn't a "loss leader" by any stretch, Google has made tens of billions on it: http://www.investors.com/news/technology/google-has-raked-in...
I think the opposite could be said. That the C++ implementation hides the simplicity of the blockchain in a language that lacks powerful abstractions and prevents code reuse.

If cofree seems like it isn't programming, that is only because this style of code helps avoid the need for it.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15009278
people respond to incentives.

how have the benefits of membership in the Elks lodge or the FreeMasons (or whatever) changed since the 1970s?
> I really wish for a mandatory class in schools where students are demystified about computers.

I do too, but I don't see how it would make a difference in this situation.

I know plenty about computers and I choose to use Google search anyway, because I've tried the alternatives and they are nowhere near as good. I choose to use Apple products too, because I prefer them to the alternatives.
Cubicles were maligned as passé ("cubicle farms") and staid so that managers and facilities could present open office spaces as au courant, forward and entrepreneurial so that in turn they could save in area per employee expenses.

If they can call cubicles "farms" (echoing sharecropping, drudgery), then we could just as easily and aptly call open office layouts "sardine cans" with all the earned baggage that comes with.
it's nice but it definitely suffers from the SV echo chamber
You're correct, but I think capital may still be distinguished by the degree of value added by labor. Ownership of land and natural resources is a different form of capital than ownership of shares in an company or a factory building, but both would be considered "capital" broadly. I think the distinction is in how much labor and human ingenuity has been added to create that capital.

People should own what they create (organizations, buildings, goods, and services), but the natural geography of the world should belong to all. If one wishes to lay claim to a stretch of land, and prevent all other equally born humans from entering or making use of that land and its resources, one should pay a tax to society for that privilege.

As you say, "people competing to allocate capital for higher returns" is a great thing. However, I dispute the fact that some people should even have the right to decide how to invest their land without first paying a societal price for it (much higher than current land tax levels--high enough to cover a corresponding decrease in most other taxes on labor or production).
God yes, I need partitions high enough not to be able to see people's faces, otherwise I'd be so distracted I may as well stay home.
Same here - wife shops for us and reads labels closely. She/we won't buy the cheap stuff because of the ingredients.
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If the world worked like this, then BigCorps would probably demand easy to use, intuitive payroll and ERP systems first.

But exhibit A: SAP.
I sure wish I had treated it (as you say) more like a "real" contract. It would have saved us a ton of trouble to lay out our respective expectations, roles, responsibilities, duties, and penalties for breaking the above.

I think it would have saved us both a ton of trouble, misunderstandings, and hurt feelings.
People are welcome to see about how many players my alpha multiplayer server can support: www.emergencevector.com

The theoretical limit as configured is 460 concurrent players. Be sure to read the instructions, or you won't be able to shoot, and you'll drain your energy and become helpless.
I don't want obfuscate correlation and causality but over the same time period we have seen the greatest bond bull market in history.

The upshot is that the rich, more specifically the super rich, benefit disproportionately from lower/lowering interest rates.
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Good points. Also:

Unless you have an on-premises child care facility that's physically separated from the office space, crying babies (which are very loud) will cause a great deal of disruption to the work environment.

Note that the author of this article is the CEO of the company, so it's not likely that lower-level employees will complain to her if they find her baby disruptive. I can't imagine that someone who's not the CEO could get away with something like this.

And what's going to happen if the parent/CEO is in a meeting with an important customer and the baby starts crying? Are other employees going to be expected to change the baby's diaper?

"Most of us are pretty much pre-wired to find babies charming and happy-making."

And many of the rest of us don't want to be anywhere near a crying baby - and yes, there are even women who don't like babies and don't want to have children. (The same can be said about dogs in the office - some love them, but some have been bitten by them in the past and would rather avoid them.)
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I agree and disagree. There is nothing about the usage of Cofree and other similar concepts which is "not programming". I think it's a completely viable way to write software within a particular scope (e.g. depending on the team that will work with the internals of the code, and whether the users of the library are to be required to understand the concept). If it provides the correct abstraction and can lead to more performant, maintainable and/or readable code (which is of course subjective), then by all means.

That said, I agree that the article doesn't spend a great deal of time explaining the concepts, whether blockchain itself or the category theory it's using, leading to a sense (for me) of being overly terse and coming across as a bit pompous. Although, I realize that for a certain audience there's nothing pompous about this at all and it might seem perfectly reasonable.
Loans create deposits. Banks are not constrained to make loans based on how much is on deposit.
I've meditated quite a bit. Been through some stressful events in the past few years (charged with drug trafficking,

lost access to my child). I find three things have help, in order of descending importance /: meditation, jogging, weight training.

But without meditation life is noticeable worse.

So while we're using the computer metaphor, maybe meditation is like Garbage Collection:

* Enables you to develop your application without having to free memory.

* Allocates objects on the managed heap efficiently.

* Reclaims objects that are no longer being used, clears their memory, and keeps the memory available for future allocations. Managed objects automatically get clean content to start with, so their constructors do not have to initialize every data field.

* Provides memory safety by making sure that an object cannot use the content of another object.

Yep, I'm gonna run with that.
Yes, and with your powers you choose google. If apple was to switch your default, you will silently go to settings and restore it to google search. Now imagine not even knowing there is a choice to be made.
You could do a fairly straightforward conversion but it would be terribly slow for many things.

Is there a non-straightforward conversion that isn't? It seems to me like any SoA->AoS transformation is going to have pretty much the same effect on locality.
So the delay between BCH's new rapid/emergency 'difficulty downward' and its re-targeting back upward using the standard method is the window of opportunity/market inefficiency/whatever you want to call it?

This was linked elsewhere in this discussion: http://fork.lol/pow/retarget
In the big 5 that I work for, MBA's become product managers and make less than programmers (per years in industry). They then have to compete for more than a decade (with programmers going into management), for a shot at even VP level.

Guess what, there are some VP's that have 5 more layers of VP, Senior VP's... before C suite.

You want to incentive people to work hard at their jobs to get promoted to the next level so you need to constantly pay them more. When you have 10 layers in your company and people at the bottom are making 6 figures (for software engineers, easily the case), the top level employees are going to make a lot of money.
Last names can start with a lowercase too, like d'Auriol.
Can you link to some criticisms or refutations of Snopes' content? (Specifically criticism of the content and not the authors, which is certainly not irrelevant but doesn't necessarily reflect the accuracy of the content.)
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I agree there's a need to separate work and life. I really struggled with WFH until I got some designated space to do it. I'd imagine that's not uncommon.

That said, whether it's worth it depends on how you value your time. Not sitting in traffic an hour each day ~20 days/month, if you value your time at even $30/hr (entry-level contractor in midwest, say), it should cover the cost of the extra space.

If not, well, you also have to factor in being able to use your own kitchen and especially bathroom. Ever since working from home for the previous few years, it's so awkward now having to go shit and piss in grungy toilets a foot away from my coworkers and managers. Would definitely pay some big money to avoid that.
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As people usually say here: It's not censorship unless a government does it.
That downward adjustment is total bs, and can enable (like is happening currently) a scenario where miners lower their hashpower for ~12 hours, the difficulty drops, and they all pile back on and get ~2 minute blocks for 2016 blocks and earn a shit ton of money.