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I did. That's true. I said that someone who murders to call attention to his writing is not worth reading. Moreover, that there is nothing to the man. When Hinkley shot Reagan to impress Jodie Foster, I don't think she was impressed.

Now as to your question, I didn't judge his writing; I judged him. Terrorists who murder for acclaim aren't necessarily the most insightful writers cuz like if they were, they wouldn't need to murder.

It's apparent that you somehow think there is value or merit to his writing and by extension, him. Then that would be your task, to show that. I don't need to prove the negative. You need to show this great idea that Mr. Kaczynski proffered.

Cuz like I'm not seeing it.

BTW, if by the book you meant Conrad's The Secret Agent, no I didn't know the book. Conrad is a great writer but this isn't his best which to me would be Heart of Darkness. It's still worth a read, irrespective of Kaczynski.
The most idealistic funding model that I can think of for this kind of work would be colleges (banned from 'tech transfer' and other money grabs) actually being used to advance academic research and 'core intellectual infrastructure'. Basic, public funded, 'research' and common components support.
The president is elected by the Bundesversammlung[1] which consists not only of members of the parliament but also of an equal amount of representatives of the states.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Convention_(Germany)
I should probably update that downwards [0] these days -- I've even been thinking of dynamically calculating it to have an excuse to do a weekend programming project.

[0] Busy with work and kids leaves me with less time for the Internet generally, as you can probably gather by e.g. my HN participation being "a time or two weekly" rather than "multiple times every day for years."
"And you can't even install ad blockers on the phone."

Nonsense. I've been using Firefox + uBlock Origin on Android for years. There are even browsers/add-ons that can disable JavaScript completely, but I find it too much of a hassle.
I don't like ads on the Internet, because I don't want to feel like I'm in a shop when I'm searching for information about something.

However I do like ads when I'm actually in a shop. The problem is that 98% of ads I see on the Internet are served on pages that don't sell anything.

It's mostly about context; I want to discover new services/goods/whatever only when I want to discover them. Most of the time I don't.

There are also lots of technical issues. One technical problem is described in OP's link, so I won't go there. There are also examples when the ad opens a new window. The ad steals focus -- window's focus, and my focus. It switches my context, it wants to hijack or steal my concentration. I didn't give my consent to that. It can track my fingerprint. It slows down my connection by issuing lots of HTTP requests.

Also, ads lie.
- 20% discount on something? Only with payments $399 and above.
- Price goes down from $200 to $50? How do I know that the price was $200 in the first place? Maybe it was always $50 and you just told me it was $200 few weeks ago?
- Price that says $200* for something? The asterisk basically tells you that this is a lie.
- Best company in the market? Best service in the world? Lowest price in the country? Those are most overused, empty and incorrect sentences in the world.

Simply put, ads are wasting my time (most of the time). Most ads are low quality eye catchers and nothing more.
As to what one should track, one should track _results_ if you've managed to accomplish something useful with very little code, that is decidedly better than accomplishing the same with much more code and hundreds of check-ins. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
If you think that overall, knowledge improve people's lives, then you can take either position and act the same way. If you think that knowledge overall hurts people, then you have to decide (and you should probably go with the people.)
which it won't be

All of History says otherwise. All surveillance mechanisms have been used to individually track dissidents, personal enemies, ex-spouses, etc. What makes this different?

If the police eventually develops a very dense sensor network that can track every car's movement across every intersection then there would be too much information recorded for me to personally worry about it

The availability of large databases (ex. DNA) have been shown to increase the number of innocent people caught in the net, since the probability of false positives increases proportionally and cops start relying on running wide searches over regular investigation techniques.

it would reduce the need for inherently-dangerous hot pursuits to follow a vehicle as the cameras would do that anyway

Only if you have a complete panopticon, with no gaps, which in a wide enough are will be difficult, if not impossible.
The Offline Recovery Feature of Fragment Component
IMO I'm only eating lunch there because I have to work there. My lunch time is work time.
yeah. touche. i haven't suffered that one personally but that could be a post all unto itself.
Google Ads, interstitials, multiple Tag Manager accounts, Analytics' tracking cookies, Facebook and Twitter buttons + embedded feeds, Video pre roll ads, Nielsen Tags...

At every new request from marketing you die a little bit inside, because you know you'll never win if you try to make a case against this stuff.

Then one day a manager finally emails you and goes "the website is a bit slow". And you smile while you start preparing your technical report.
The thing is people are voting with their dollars, but it's on credit.

People don't want to pay for "free" content, and "free" software. So instead they pay with malware, insane data charges, markups to pay for ads, markups to pay for dealing with fraud, the indefinite privacy tax of their data, markups extracted from monopoly positions, and much more.

The problem is people don't see all of these exorbitant fees, but they see that dollar in their wallet.
Worth mentioning that when you're dealing with pure functions that by definition avoid side effects, and your application somehow requires side effects. Most of the time you can solve this by pushing side effects from the pure code, so your functional code is decoupled and more manageable.
sorry for the late reply - crazy few days. Time to go if you ask me. My post tomorrow basically addresses the 'ok, WTF do I do now?" question that comes next ;)
Taken as a whole, your posts make little sense.

Why do you simultaneously think that urbanites show disdain/hate as well as ignorance/apathy over rural parts of the state?

Why do you think this is an effort to disenfranchise rural parts of the state while also believing they are already disenfranchised? Why would three states be better at this than one state?
Musk's Email to Tesla Employees Exemplifies a Great Communication Skill
That's not really relevant; if they knew they were being measured before and after the change, it would still show if the new system had an impact on productivity - even faked.
Why do we still need "seats", instead of having online voting for everybody on every proposed law? Because a small group wants the power.
>That's completely false. It was true though with NiMH batteries

No, it's not. NiMH have practically no degradation from cycling, which is why Toyota still uses them in the Prius. The tradeoff is in energy density.

Li-Ion batteries are not meant to be held at 100% State of Charge (SoC). There is a non-linear relationship between average SoC over the life of the cell and the rate of degradation. Optimal charge for extended life in a typical 4.2v cell is around 3.9v, or 65% of available stored energy. Keeping an average SoC near 100% can cause up to a 5x loss in battery lifetime. See the link below [0]. Specifically "Table 4: Discharge cycles and capacity as a function of charge voltage limit."

http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_li... [0]
Stack growth is orthogonal to the M:N vs. 1:1 distinction. You can have large stacks with M:N or small stacks with 1:1.
If the majority of the population is concentrated in urban areas why shouldn't the rural areas be marginalized.

Shall we count the trees and squirrels as part of the population in order to make it more fair?
He sounds crushed, I hope he's doing okay. Must be hard to have something be wrong after working on it for what I imagine was a very long time.
I've had a car that consistently showed 0.5 l/100 km less than the real consumption.
I don't think that's limited to SV.

Investors/advisors with free advice are abundant.

Just remember it's worth what you paid for it 99% of the time.
Mathematics of Machine Learning (2016)
Identifying and squashing potential threats has been part of Facebook's playbook from the very early days. It's not surprising at all that they have developed internal tools and systems to formalize the process and make it more efficient.
guys -thanks for all the comments on this. wasn't aware it was such an issue. Maybe it's the fact that the subscription pop up has a moving graphic. I'll remove that and hope it helps. thanks for the tip
NOVSIGHT Philip 60W 10000LM H13 LED Car Headlight
Go still has a lot of issues around the inability to preempt except at function call boundaries, which is an issue that doesn't exist in 1:1 threading. Fairness and priority inversion are likewise issues with M:N that apply equally well to Go's implementation. Signal handling is too, although any GC language pretty much has to sacrifice POSIX signal handling already...

Green threads done right strikes me as something like Windows' user mode scheduling (or Google's switchto patch that sadly never made it upstream), in which threads really are 1:1 as far as the kernel is concerned, but manually scheduled by userspace. This requires kernel support, but it fixes every issue except preemption, which is better to just not fix. (Few Go programs actually benefit from multicore CPU scaling; for CPU bound tasks a better use of optimization time is just not writing in Go, which tends to result in better speedups than trying to scale Go due to Go's compiler being relatively immature.)

In my ideal world, kernel-scheduled and user-scheduled threads would exist in the same language, and programmers could choose which one they want on a thread-by-thread basis. I/O calls would be equally compatible with either threading model (which could be done in a zero-overhead fashion with the proper kernel support), eliminating the problem of sync/async incompatibility. This can only really be done today on Windows, unfortunately...
First off, Hume rejected Descartes' cogito argument. Second of all, in Sceptical Doubts concerning the Operations of the Understanding[1], Hume makes a very rudimentary distinction between "Matters of Fact" (what we'd now call logical truths) and "Relations of Ideas" (what we'd now call empirical truths). Again, these classifications were intuited long before Hume/Descartes, but they exemplify them pretty well.

[1] http://www.livingphilosophy.org.uk/philosophy/David_Hume/Sce...
No, it's an iterable containing named tuples, not iterating over a named tuple.
Those ads were relevant though, and (I hope) not doing thousands of requests in the background; it was an IT-related ad, on an IT-related website, targeted at a person working in IT that was interested in new servers - what really is what the better ad providers are looking for. The rest is just idk, shotgunning and hoping something sticks.
Forth, meet Unix
Depends. How many products are you using which you first heard from via HN? That's a form of advertising too, albeit a lot less sleazy.
Would like to chat further. As CTO in a previous "fintech" start-up I tried to make something like that work: a tiny-pay-per-view is indeed something like the right goal for funding content.
Yeah but he has 6 developers working on it now (including himself).
Apple’s Tim Cook Barnstorms for ‘Moral Responsibility’
I had a Math professor in college who used to say amount of effort almost doubles if you wish to score a few extra marks above some point.

Like say if the you are already scoring 80/100. Going to 90 will almost take same the effort it took going from 0-80. Going 5 more marks higher will mean a similar long slog effort. It was simply his way of saying doing big stuff required insane amounts of effort. Often not justifiable.

I have seen something similar in competitive programming too. After a while solving regular problem gives your very little exposure in return, to keep your returns coming, you have to up your problem difficulty level at every step. And that consumes time.
C# - LINQ - Reflection
...depends on what you mean by "data center grunts"

As a former "data center grunt" for Google, I can tell you that total comp was around $140k, which was great for Iowa. The fix-it roles made less and the security guards made just a tad bit over min wage.
Related: Naval Ravikant interviewed by Shane Parrish (long podcast episode):

https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2017/02/naval-ravikant-read...
Aggregation sites, that use crowd sourcing to bubble up interesting content and products is a fundamentally different beast than paid advertising.
The fact that someone of his ability can take an intern's wages to do this, and for that long, shows the incredible altruism in tech.
Tesorio is hiring a lead product designer to modernize finance teams
There is one true way to measure this, you may be offering skills but you are selling your time.

100,000 / (5240) = $48 p/h (8 hours a day)
100,000 / (5260) = $32 p/h (12 hours a day)

You are actually costing yourself $320 ($16600 pa) a week by working and extra 20 hours.

60,000 / (5240) = $28 p/h (8 hours a day)
60,000 / (5260) = $19 p/h (12 hours a day)

You are actually costing yourself $180 ($9360 pa) a week by working and extra 20 hours.

I understand this is a fairly black and white way of looking at it, and you could easily say hey I am earning 100K and happy putting in the time.

Now if you take Gary's V point of view on an 18 hour day

100,000 / (52*126) = $15 p/h (18 hours a day).

You want to make sure you get a return on your investment, and as an employee you probably never will. However a business person, I agree these hours may be beneficial.
Woodworking.

It's similar in that you can go from a idea to concept to finished piece in a weekend while also providing something tangible - unlike code.

There is just nothing more satisfying than touching your project after it's done.

The best thing is: you even do sports, that is, if you don't use a lot of power tools. Forget the planing with the jointer and use the hand planer :)

Ask me for details if you'd like yo hear more.
> It would make more sense to create intermediate governments with power over metro areas.

That's basically a county. Perhaps we just need to reconsider those boundaries?

> Sacramento

As a native, it's not as homogeneous as anyone would presume; and I feel the surrounding counties and structure do more or less reasonably represent the geographical and societal divisions that are present in Sacramento and the surrounding areas. I'm not sure any of our neighbors would appreciate being lumped out of California and in with us.
There is a drive to improve performances of dynamic languages. Probably not a moral imperative but business imperatives. Everybody remembers what happened to JavaScript, from slow to fast in a few years. The same forces are at work on Python (or Ruby, which gets faster at every iteration.)

But those tradeoffs are difficult to assess. Example: which is greener, unoptimized code that took 1 hour to develop or optimized code that took 1 day? I guess it depends on how long that code has to run. And what if the company spending 10x to optimize all code is forced out of business by another company that got all the customers while they were optimizing code? Then all that optimized code is wasted.

Concentrating optimizations in the compiler or interpreter scales better IMHO.
I trust my range indication in my petrol car to be conservative. It has about 30km more range than indicated - imagine the uproar if you planned a journey it said you could do but ran out of fuel? It’s quite handy as there are some areas I’ve driven through have no fuel stops for over 100km, and I’m sure the US has quite a few areas like that.
I guess that depends on if the people in the urban areas want to eat...

We need the rural areas to be well run to survive...
I'm very curious about if there are any Googlers who raise their voice about how Google is maintaining its monopolistic status.
> You asked for something more specific now than you asked for earlier.

Nope, not at all. I said articles that mention Google/Facebook monopolies never mention ISP monopolies. That's true, they don't, including the vox article you link.

> The article is also critical of telcoms

Perhaps you misread the quote. That is reporting, not criticism. From the same article, this is criticism,

<< Google, like any other giant company, is going to sometimes find itself in the regulatory crosshairs, throwing its weight around to try to get away with things that maybe shouldn't be allowed. “Don't be evil” was a nice idea while it lasted, but business is business and politics is politics — no exceptions. >>
Wow, I can't believe I have been reading up lately on official Rust documentation and still I was under the impression that Rust had optional GC. Thanks for sorting me out...
Maybe this is a "whoosh" but (legit) ad networks are specifically designed to sell ads (and thus make the network owners some money); it is hyperbole to claim that each and every one of them has only an ulterior/illegal motive in place of the stated (unpopular one).
Tree Style Tab will support Firefox 57
> I think this is a short-term issue just because error correction is so good. We have many error correction algorithms that approach the theoretical limit for efficiency.

Doesn't this mean there isn't much room for improvement?
Here have an upvote. Can someone else comment/refute this?
Instructions on how to try it right now (on Nightly): https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/issues/1224#issuecomm...
That's interesting. I do something similar with online reviews on Trip Advisor and Amazon: I filter to look at only 1-3 star reviews (or sometimes only 2 and 3 star reviews if there are enough). In my experience, positive reviews are all the same, but negative reviews will give really good specifics. Then you judge just the relative proportion of reviews that are positive vs. negative.
Do you honestly think that Google is somehow magically better than other search engines? Or are Google ads the culmination of civilization? Google has definitely changed the world, but not always for the better. In many ways Google is worse than Microsoft in the past because abusing its market power has more far reaching consequences.
True but the more relevant question for someone making a decision today is how the economics change if you include the cost of electricity.
What if, instead, we reached the "slope of enlightenment" and these are useful applications that will lead to the plateau of productivity?
Ooh that's nifty! Is there any way to read a bit more about rigorous treatments of "Game of Life"? (Books on combinatorics I suspect?)
Scala Functional Programming Concepts – Map, Lambda
> That's basically a county. Perhaps we just need to reconsider those boundaries?

There are 9 counties in the Bay Area.
An independent third party can do accurate measurements and determine the difference between the dashboard measurement and the actual capacity; I like to think that if the difference was too high, people would've noticed by now. If the difference is too high and beyond the range of a simple measurement error, then I'm pretty sure it's fraud like VW's emissions scandal and Tesla would get millions if not billions of fines from the EU. But I'm sure Tesla wouldn't let it get that far - it could probably be fixed via a software update.
Mystery about Revolutionary Lithium-Oxygen Batteries Clarified
This is true...the union halls will be busy with "travelers" to make up for the lack of local IBEW journeyman. There will be a flurry of economic activity during the construction phase but it will taper off eventually as the site completes construction. There will be continual economic activity for the contractors (electricians, pipe fitters, fire protection system technicians, etc.) that will service the data center.
Web Scraping Service vs. Automatic Web Scraper
Especially since humans arguably uses wetware neural nets and don't we like to think we are coming up with causal models?
More syntax makes a language harder to read. The point isn't that making this special syntax would be harder, because it's not that hard. The point is that you don't need new syntax. In this case, the new syntax saves a few characters at best. I'm also don't think this syntax is any easier to read than a function call; I actually think it looks so similar that it would be easy to confuse with a function call making the language harder to read.
Cambridge University laid a fibre MAN and presented their fun at UKNOF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CLJlmcC2c8
Assuming it covers their use case, regarding API definition and O(n) expectations.
BS, my KIA’s are both piles of shit at 99k miles. The Optima SX Turbo is fucking trash, has had the high pressure fuel pump go out twice like clockwork at 33k miles each round. The infotainment system is non-upgradable technology, that is severely outdated. Now my Cooper S Mini, this fucker has been rock solid.
How a Polymath Transformed Our Understanding of Information
That's interesting because I know a lot of people with European Fords (Mondeo, Focus), myself and my family included, that went well over 350k km. Are the American Fords so incredibly bad?
It's opt-in, and has also been acquired by a company building a privacy-focused browser (I think?).
> No, don't worry, this isn't a bubble.

Crypto is definitely a bubble. Perhaps one of the biggest bubbles to burst when this happens four to five years from now.

> I need to start thinking of a few product roadmaps

I know you are being facetious, but it really is not as simple as putting out a roadmap. Think about it: If you could pull this off, but are not doing it, you'll have us believe you are willingly turning down millions. If you can't pull it of, your comment becomes a cheap meaningless jab at things bigger than you. Both options are quite unbefitting of HackerNews.

> You also have to write a whitepaper.

http://plasma.io/ Pay attention to mentions of "micropayments".
Python does have the ability to create and use packed byte objects which are interoperable with C structs. The interface is even in a module in the standard library called... 'struct'.

The main issues are:

1. The C-struct interoperability is cumbersome, since really it's just byte objects with some helper functions to pack and unpack them according to a given definition (so you need both the bytes and the correct format definition in order to turn it back into native Python objects), and

2. Most people already are using one of a few different struct-like things depending on their exact use case and preference, and getting everyone to agree on a One True Struct Object to build in to Python or its standard library is probably never going to happen. Just look at namedtuples -- they were an attempt to take the most struct-like thing in Python (the tuple) and add extra optional struct-like behavior to appease people who were frustrated with the lack of structs, but of course people rant about them for having a weird internal implementation and for having behavior that makes them backwards-compatible with plain tuples.
Earthquakes and friction evolution
The Social Smart Contract
Posted 2 hours earlier, 270+ points:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15145176
You don't need a Ferrari or Lamborghini to get an unreliable Italian car. You could also get a Fiat or Alpha Romeo.
Yeah, MVC was well known to the Visual C++ community in the 90s, and it was a well established concept among commercial (as opposed to academic) programmers even back then.