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This is an extremely important article.

In a world populated by IOT devices full of software (as discussed previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15034955), we'll end up in a post-scientific world where the underlying rules that govern a device's behavior are so complex and arcane that we'll have little chance of reverse engineering how basic devices work anymore.

I think in practice it will mean that devices become bricks relatively quickly, and when people realize they have been cheated, there will be a strong backlash: imagine "paleo diet" but for devices.
600 hands per hour ... won $1,913.13 over 387,373 hands

That's less than $3/hour, switching to any other career would be an improvement.
The percentages are approx 80% Mac/10% Linux/10% Windows in our company.
lots of great music is made to a click track.

it's an invaluable tool for some kinds of music and some songs in music of all kinds.

a good artist / producer knows when to use a click or not.
> back when "milk" that wasn't half chalk still might have a fish in it (see famous Thoreau quote on evidence.)

This also famously happened with bread. You can read about it for example in Bill Bryson's "At Home: A Short History of Private Life"

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/712524-because-bread-was-so...

“Because bread was so important, the laws governing its purity were strict and the punishment severe. A baker who cheated his customers could be fined £10 per loaf sold, or made to do a month's hard labor in prison. For a time, transportation to Australia was seriously considered for malfeasant bakers. This was a matter of real concern for bakers because every loaf of bread loses weight in baking through evaporation, so it is easy to blunder accidentally. For that reason, bakers sometimes provided a little extra- the famous baker's dozen.”

― Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Yeah, my first thought as well.
The Rich Hickey spirit is leaking..
A mysterious self-driving Toyota was spotted cruising around San Francisco
> Losing your child is for many people not that far off from losing their own life,

Usually losing a kid is due untreatable diseases and bad parenting (like driving them to school without taking proper safety measures and suffer the consequences of an accident)

There's no evidence that going to school alone is more dangerous than staying home with grandpa's guns
The point is, this guy shouldn't have to prove that it is safe. Rather, the state should have to prove that he did something wrong, as defined by a law. If the state thinks that this is wrong, the state should provide evidence that it is wrong and get a law passed. The state in this case is acting like a terrorist organization. It has no law on its side, and is at least implicitly threatening to take away the kids.
If he feels refreshed when he wakes up, he gets enough sleep.

The amount of sleep needed varies greatly from person to person

Edit: I mean, if he actually feels refreshed WHEN WAKING and not after forcing himself out of bed and downing 2 cups of coffee
You might not like it, but Breitbart is mainstream. They have an US Alexa rank of 56¹, way ahead of Politico at 220 or Fox News at 62.

[1]: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/breitbart.com
What do you mean by JavaScript not supporting concurrency?
Do you mean parallelism?
but much more dangerous
AFAIK it is fully supported, I also use often UDF, though for whatever reasons there are not so many users around, after all it is a formally documented and "standard" filesystem ISO/IEC 13346 and ECMA-167:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_Format

but somehow everyone thinks that it is only fod CD/DVD's.
If he is who I think he is then the guy has been at it since at least 1989.

He doesn't need to brag.
Part of the appeal of Hacker News is that it doesn't require a "first name" and a "last name" and an email address during registration.
It's a very intriguing idea and you may be pleased to know that such research lines are still being explored:

http://ssw.jku.at/General/Staff/ManuelRigger/ManLang17.pdf
Of course it is. One incident in two years, out of a population of tens of millions, is effectively zero. Regardless of how many kids ride the bus, if there were a significant number of predators out there waiting to abduct children, there are sufficient opportunities available that it would happen with some regularity. It's not for lack of unsupervised bus riders that it's such a rare occurrence.
Plenty of countries in Europe are way more leftist than the US, yet we still have kids wandering around. Seems like a very poor correlation.
> Sounds like something that should be backed up

Why? People state their opinions and experiences on HN all the time without such a requirement.
That's not inherent to the Java language. You can implement garbage collectors and kernels in Java if you extend the JIT compiler:

http://jnode.org/
Not only in Germany

Milan at 8.30 AM is like a battle field of screaming moms and nannies trying to get kids off these giant tank-like-cars but the car is parked in the middle of the street or on the sidewalk
I think they even had this as a production ready feature in the Xbox One at one time (before launch, but at a very late stage), but were surprised that users were a bit miffed about it.
If I were designing my own printer and wanted to both fully utilize ink cartridges (maximize efficiency) and also be able to print absolutely perfect pages when necessary, it'd be a simple solution: two cartridges. One that is potentially "low" and is used for printing low quality stuff, and one that is guaranteed to be full and is used for printing high quality stuff. Presumably, the "low" cartridge would run out first, and then you just move the existing "high" slot one down and put a new cartridge in the "high" slot. If instead the "high" one ran low first, then replace it with a new one and queue the old one to be the next "low" one when the existing "low" one ran out.

Or something. :)
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So I have seen this Michelangelo pop up in other articles.

The key question is? Is Uber going to open source it? If not, why bother writing articles about the specifics of their platform?
Agreed, what if we come up with a short word for it and spread it around, use it amoung ourselves and it will automatically spread around.

Something like CryptoC.
[looks at pending blog posts guiltily]

https://bitbucket.org/rjp/can-x-win/src is a good example - basically, apart from `all.do` containing the targets, I have a `default.do` which looks for a matching `*.od` which has the DEPS and then passes those to `go build`.
There are studies that show 5 hours a night leads to dangerous health consequences.

6 minimum
I've heard that handling most plastics affect testosterone production. https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/www.anabolicmen.com/plastic-...

How can we avoid plastics in our food and water though? Could this be the causing the dropping testosterone levels the past few generations?
It's the opposite. I've seen lots of code written in C that pretends to be out of memory safe. I've never once seen such a program that actually is out of memory safe. Invariably the codepaths triggered by malloc returning null are never exercised.

With a GC and exceptions you can theoretically be quite resistant to OOM conditions, not that anyone really cares.
I'm inclined to believe that there is some secret message encoded in the string "1 13 20 32 54 78 99"...
> So are we going to start banning the passing of gas at the dinner table?

No, we are going to enforce the existing pollution control laws and punish cheaters.
I think it depends on one's definition of "mainstream news". Traditionally and I think most commonly understood, it means news that is published in widely circulated newspapers, and on accessible television.

The times are, of course, a changing. Almost all newspapers in the UK at least have, today a really low circulation number. They are widely available, but hardly anyone buys them anymore. The Guardian, for example only sells 156 thousand copies.
So you created an account 'nomoon' simply to make this joke. I hope it was worth it.
Is dog training not mandatory in the US?
You forgot to mention security issues.
Anyone feel like taking over support maintenance of JRuby for a year ...?
Which ones are you thinking about?
The featherweight version of a Python class
> A difference here is that there is already an easy and widely supported and understood system for this restriction for the process case.

There is? I see a bunch of ad-hoc, retrofitted efforts, which seem to be constantly playing whack-a-mole in terms of what they forgot to restrict.

> And processes are easier to debug, instrument, monitor and manage.

Yes and no. The kernel/process boundary can make debugging and profiling much harder when you need to do so across it. With a lot of unikernels you can run the whole thing as a userspace process for development purposes and debug/profile without worrying about that. And these days we have a lot of good tooling for monitoring and managing VMs.

> If you were talking about running regular VMs for legacy apps alongside unikernel images, then that's of course valid, but I don't agree that this is an argument for using the VM interface for unikernel images.

That's what I meant. If you have a mixed deployment of legacy components and new-style components, that approach lets you realise the benefits quicker for the new-style pieces and ensure there's an incentive to move components into the new style. Whereas if you just run a bunch of processes, then no single component can benefit from isolation until you've ported everything.
I hope you're referring to the common use of the word "hacked" instead of "influenced" as a lie, rather than the underlying fact that Russia influenced the US elections in a variety of ways, and continues to influence through various means?
The entire population of children do not all ride alone on a bus though. It's % of those who do that that are abducted is important.
What happens when the process is bound to fail on start? (eg. trying to bind a port that's already being used) Never used that model so I'm curious.
You're clearly in a liberal bubble. I'm not conservative but the bias on The Guardian and NYT is obvious; I can't stand reading them.

The biggest difference between them and Breitbart is the subtlty - they do a good job looking smart and give lip service to opposing viewpoints. They also have much better reporters, designers and editors. All that actually serves to make their bias more dangerous though.
This is common in Iceland as most pumps let you pay with card at the pump so you pre-auth from a number of options and get charged the actual amount you pump.
They are banned from some: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/food/wp/2017/03/31/thank...

There are more than 1 million restaurants in the United States and the majority of them welcome families with children.

So much this. Kids won't appreciate the wine pairing. Reservations increased. I'd love more options for 21 dining, and I'm obviously not alone in this. I really don't understand the outage at establishments which choose to enforce these types of rules when there are so many other places to go.
> Should children be banned from all restaurants?

If they are rowdy, and it is not a place designed for children; Yes.
It gets even worse if you want to encrypt the data and have a modern filesystem, with encryption that both Windows and Linux support.
In my opinion AGI won't exist for quite a long time.

I also think for gigantic disruption in business or the military AGI is not required - the right species of narrow AI coupled with human intervention could be very effective.

Organizing a military invasion is one of the most difficult examples of complex coordination. The USA already has used similar systems for the first Iraq war. I suspect any nation that developed strategic agent systems to augment human generals would have an advantage comparable to going from infantry to motorized vehicles.
> The question is why we have poor and not a better distribution of wealth.

We're not going to solve the problem of "why we have poor and not a better distribution of wealth".

> Not the Nazi-grade question if poor people deserve to have dogs.

Nazi grade? Deserve? They can do whatever they want. Poor choices will result in poor lifestyles either way. Advising against spending money you don't have on things you don't need does not advocate Nazism.
A similar site: https://www.allsides.com
PR & attracting talent? Though open sourcing would be great and do the same thing, but more so.
Indeed. I have seen several teams with a bunch of (self-styled) "10x" devs, and found that the productivity and quality of the team decreases in direct proportion to the amount of "10x" devs on the team.

I shun "rockstar" and "10x" (and whatever other bullshit moniker they will come up with next) team members. Give me a group of smart people that gel well together, and are highly self-confident without egos getting into the way, and we can move mountains.
Hmm...

> I had mentors [...] who were the VP of Engineering, the GM of a $300 million product line, and the CFO of a $6 billion company.

> Just because your experiences have been different doesn't make your experiences universal.

You probably should also tell us what was your career position at the company at these times. VP/GM/C-level people certainly won't mentor a random Joe?
>"I could make the same point about children, FWIW. Most children are rowdy annoying and don't keep to themselves even after being instructed to do so by their owners. Should children be banned from all restaurants?"

If children are misbehaving a parent can speak to them sternly and discipline them in a language they are able understand. And often times a parent will take a child outside until they calm down.

Have you ever watched the futility and absurdity of a dog owner tell a dog to stop barking?
While reading this I started thinking about how interesting it would be would be to see an AI vs AI poker tournament.

Does such a thing exist? Some preliminary searches didn't bring much up apart from one-off experiments. [EDIT found a recent article about this https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-to-fold-huma... which talks about http://www.computerpokercompetition.org/]

Another interesting one would be a table of 8 players. Half AI half professionals but no one knows who is who.
The actual presentation starts at the 3:50 mark.
Oh, wow, now I understand why people sometimes call me out by name on HN. I didn't understand what that was about.

I'm not THAT Jon Dubois but quite a coincidence, he sounds like a real pioneer.

Now I understand why I get so many upvotes on HN. I thought it was because my comments were insightful :(
Practically all crime is at an all-time low, but that's largely beside the point.

Is the risk of robbery intolerably awful, or have we become unreasonably timid? I think that America (and to a significant extent Canada) is still in the throes of zero tolerance culture, where any risk is intolerable and any action to mitigate risk is justified.

Two kids get into a scuffle at school? Expel them both. Don't worry about what happens to those kids, don't worry about who started the fight, don't worry about the chilling effect on normal childhood behaviour, because we have zero tolerance for violence. The war on drugs, the war on terror, the broken window theory, mandatory minimum sentences, three-strike laws, the criminalization of poverty, the school-to-prison pipeline. When the only acceptable rate of crime is zero, the ends always justify the means.

https://www.brennancenter.org/publication/crime-trends1990-2...
Doesn't your explanation corroborate the parent comment? Individualism and traditional families are more correlated with right-wing policies.
You're close to why point to point connections have an advantage, well two.

Fixed links mean the signal can be narrowed so that less other things interfere with it and it interferes less with other things. There isn't contention or the crowded room effect (like an apartment complex stuffed with WiFi nodes).

The fixed nature also allows for a more optimal end point configuration. (Lower power, longer distance, etc)
The attitude of accepting the status quo, blaming someone, and proudly doing nothing is far more politically "cancerous" than any misguided policy.
Can't you think of ways to increase the "social capital"? Don't you share the good intentions that, as you admit, inspired a long period of "leftist" Californian governments?
You get immediate feedback when the pitch is thrown, which is prior to the next time you need to interpret the signs.
This is entirely anecdotal, but in my experience Californian dog owners don't exercise their dogs as much as British dog owners would, resulting in generally rowdier dogs. Your experience of "most dogs are rowdy, annoying, and don't keep to themselves" is something I've encountered more on the West Coast than I do at home in the UK so maybe that's a contributing factor.
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Because, currently the buck stops there.

Those in charge ultimately bear the responsibility.

Not criticising leaders is the road to ruin, and senseless jingoism.

National humility trumps national pride as a useful virtue.
The idea that C is predictable is in my view a sign of someone who hasn't got to know C really well.

The trends around undefined behaviour will hopefully put a bullet in the head of this idea for good. It's extremely hard to look at C and reason about what an optimising compiler will turn it into.

Malloc is not more predictable than a GC pause. Both malloc and free can take unpredictable amounts of time. If anything it's less predictable because modern GCs at least have pause time targets, but mallocs never do. You just don't notice it because people don't tend to measure malloc latency. In turn that's because malloc pauses only affect memory allocation operations, they don't stop every thread, which is a benefit it's true, but it's not about predictability and more about UI latency.

C not having exceptions doesn't make it more predictable. It just means that if something goes wrong you get a useless and probably corrupted core dump. The number of times I've been able to fix a bug in a piece of managed code given only a stack trace from the end user is huge. The number of times I've been able to fix a bug given "Segmentation fault" with no other info is zero.
Fertility is dropping so fast in western countries that within 50 years they will probably be showing pornos in high school.
> So does earning $70,000+

I don't earn that much, but in my country, I earn about 3-4 times the median salary. I really enjoy having the money and the liberty they provide. That doesn't stop me from being anxious and depressed most of the time though. I used to think money buys happiness. And for a time it did. However, that wears off as people adjust to the new financial status.
> But on the other hand, one of the main reasons I love HN is that there are still plenty of posts that are just about hacking/tinkering, without concern for 'usefulness' and 'purpose'. In fact, more effort put into something as silly as possible often makes the whole thing even more delightful.

Indeed, this is what makes most of us engineers. But if I separate myself from it and look at it from the outside, we "waste" a ton of time doing things that... well... don't matter. The exceptional few make advances most of us dream of, and they contribute a lot to the advancements of engineering. Many of us just tinker for the sake of it. I respect people want to do what makes them happy, but I find the lack of interest in solving problems bigger than what can fit inside a hard drive a bit... depressing. It feels like resignation.

> On the one hand I completely understand your point, and from the perspective of one 'culture' it feels like a waste of time and instead we should focus on 'getting things done' and 'making an impact' (in the shape of a successful business or whatnot).

I don't think it needs to be a business, just something that serves as a testament to a legacy that says "I left the planet in better shape than I found it."

The world could benefit a lot from more stoicism, and I think we'll need it in the future that's to come.
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Typically not possible to estimate for either murders or abductions which ate already extremely rare nowadays in general.

Are you suggesting chasing accuracy in a fraction of a fraction?
The RealClearXXX sites are my main entry point for news; the format is ideal and I don't know anything as well curated. However they definitely have a slight conservative bias, evidenced by their selection of articles and op-eds.
Are they? I have a deep seated feeling that this is a troll question: does the author himself really believe that coarse language hurts? Does anyone believe that when they stop and think about it?

Not every statement should require extended proofs. It's probably the case that you can't think of any children being hurt by coarse language, nor of having heard of any reporting of this. Absence of evidence is evidence of absence.
This is absolutely true. The vast majority of dog allergies are 'mild' though which is why people don't realise.
Is WSJ really liberal? I think it's very neocon.
What's the surface gravity? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3122_Florence

Mass isn't given, but could estimate from volume, and typical asteroid density?
Memo to camera makers: put Android in your device or face extinction
Don't work more than your 40h a week in an outsourcing centers. They have a different economy than software companies, noone should do overtime.
They can't do anything without going to court. Of course there are laws that govern this.
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