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It is frustrating that you ignore the meat of what I wrote, pick on a couple of things you can object to, and carry on carping. I'll try one more reply and see how it goes.

> I can only imagine that someone who rarely or never travels would say something like this.

Your imagination is poor. I've lived on 4 continents and am on an extended trip even as I write this.

We're talking about different kinds of regulation. You apparently care about things being shiny; most regulation, though, is about setting a minimum bar.

In the early, high-growth days of something, regulation is rarely useful because everybody's on their best behavior. It becomes more important when things settle down into a relatively steady state. Then, the incentive to shave nickels and dimes can come out elsewhere. E.g., taxis face significant safety inspections and maintenance requirements because when you use a car as a commercial vehicle, you put a lot more miles on it and you are more likely face safety issues.

We don't yet see these problems with UberX because it has only been going for a few years, and because Uber has a strong incentive to keep from becoming an obvious disaster until growth slows and revenue gains come more from exploiting their market position.

> Most Uber drivers I've talked to love the platform

Gosh, might they have some incentive to only say happy things to you? Gosh, might there be some selection bias in your sample? Gosh, might people not talk about their pain and fears to random strangers?
IQ might be a better predictor, but the linked paper says it's not a far better one:

"The results demonstrate that intelligence is a powerful predictor of success but, on the whole, not an overwhelmingly better predictor than parental SES or grades."
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I'm getting some downvotes but nobody explaining why.
I don't find it to be better or worse than any other Northern European countries. And I can't find good tomatoes at any price - the more expensive on-the-vine ones smell good initially but only taste slightly better.
That's the theory of the journalist, yes. The NYT does not actually show that though, they just state it/assume it.

If you read through the comments, one of them points out a perhaps less popular explanation - Ms Ramos apparently does not speak English. Large quantities of low skill immigration will inevitably make life tougher for people like her. But that would not be an explanation that'd be acceptable to the Times.
For the same reason a lot of people says that the use node as backend. Because they must use javascript in the frontend they use it in the backend. If one is using php as a language for a project and that project has related commands and with php your are capable of doing, why not?
There should be an options market for "shorting bullshit".
It's pretty hard to discuss such things without people getting emotional and defensive. I think people look at something like this and say "but that's not fair I earned all my money"[1]. They don't look at it and think about what the world would look like in such a scenario, how they might have lived differently, how they would instead spend their money before death (perhaps making the world a better place), or how they might have less concerns about needing to pass on money to their children because their children would be "just fine" in the society they created under this system.

[1] ignoring the whole subject about luck and what it means to earn something when two equivalent folks just have different dice rolls go their way, etc. Or especially in the context what it means to earn something when you just inherited it. (I have a bunch of friends who have inheritance coming their way and just totally expect it, they lead very different lives because of that than those I know who don't have that.)
In that case it would probably still be possible, but the proof would have to be
found by example. It seems like an advanced version of the Eight Queens
puzzle: which sequence of bags guarantees a losing board state?
Much of the wealth in Rochester never left. It just moved from city to suburb.
The (attempt at) emotional comfort is just weird to me. The relationship I want with them is "I give you money, you do what you promised." Simple! So if I'm calling them, most likely the conversation is gonna boil down to, "Hey it appears you're not succeeding at doing what you promised" or "Hey can you do this other optional thing you promised?" or more rarely "Hey for some reason I can't seem to successfully give you money."

Reading your story it actually seems like it'd be hard not to feel patronized. Which I hadn't considered before. Usually it slips by me, masked behind my basic assumption of good intentions, and my tendency to just ignore anything scripted. Like at the onset of "Wow yikes ouch too bad I'm sorry that happened for you" my brain says

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If you really wanted to get rid of human customer support agents, you could just put their internal manual on the open internet. After all, nobody could ever remember all the various policies within a company, so they have to be written down somewhere.

Of course, if the rules say "if the customer asks for a refund, stall for 5 minutes and then transfer to a different department, unless they threaten with legal action", you can't really do that. So I'd guess that most companies won't want to expose themselves that way.
"If you don't believe me, consider why the US dollar has value at your local store and the Monopoly dollar doesn't."

Well, the primary reason is that US dollars are declared by government fiat (hence the term) to be "legal tender for all debts public and private". You can't legally refuse to take US dollars (in the United States, obviously ... other countries give their own currencies a similar status). That seems only tangentially related to whether the dollars come from taxes or printing presses.
Twitter can edit, modify, or adapt materials without author permission/knowledge
It is fine, especially if you want cli tool that can do http, database connections, etc. without any external deps or other PHP code and want it quickly.
I have no idea what the big problems are but VCs are chasing a lot of stupid ideas. The one I can think of right now is Juicero. I can't believe even Google Ventures funded it! Really are people willing to spend $600 for a machine and $8 a pack of juice? What kind of market analysis did they do? And the founder had not engineering background. And they overdesigned the machine. How about something hand-cranked like a pasta press for 10% of the cost? You can even put a eco friendly twist to it.
By "park" you mean "invest" in (hopefully) productive participants in the economy. It arguably makes sense to seize wealth that's being invested in ways that are harmful to society and divert it into investments that are good for society, but imposing taxes based simply on the quantity of wealth won't accomplish that.
PHP is just the first lang. It's part of the Tarsana project which is his framework for writing command line apps in any lang.

To quote the Tarsana project git page...

The PHP language was chosen simply because I wanted to rewrite my lumen-generators using this framework.

Now I start to consider switching to Javascript...

because javascript.
Google, really? Please.

Google is a Linux shop that doesn't care at all about product continuity. Why would they have cared about Solaris? I'm sure it'd have got the chop instantly if Google had bought Sun. Sure, the engineers might have been able to find other opportunities within the firm, but Solaris would have been scrapped instantly (maybe open sourced, maybe not).
Physicists want to rebuild quantum theory from scratch
> Exactly, which is why "we" is the society, and "we" usually decide that every human being is entitled to have their minimum needs met.

Only if by "we" you only include progressive liberals and ignore the other half of society that gives preference to individual responsibility over welfare.

You obviously put a lot of time into your reply and I'm sorry to not address anything else, but so long as the "debate" is taking controversial political positions as axiomatic, there isn't really any point to continuing this further. I bid you good day, sir.
Nothing foolish about it. This was once a backwater, and then people starting draining swamps, and then lakes, and slowly turned this into one of the most fertile spots on Earth, and prospered. It was a good decision. Even with the increasing threat of flooding, it's still one of the nicest places in the world to live.
Lots of other reasons, such as the European Coal and Steel Community, which had the purpose "to make war not only unthinkable but materially impossible".
Linus Torvald's first email re: Linux belongs here:

> I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
Jeff Bezos should totally buy a coffee startup
Longer piece putting things in context: https://meshedinsights.com/2017/09/03/oracle-finally-killed-...
That is an agreement with Wells Fargo's Canadian branch/subsidiary. Wells Fargo Canada appears to provide services solely to businesses (i.e. no retail banking) so I believe that this subsidiary has nothing to do with Wells Fargo retail branches behaving unethically.
In a world where users should have control over their own computers, it is the customer who should have SSH access, not AT&T. But as you all know, most times the customer does not own the modem. One well-known workaround is for the customer to use their own modem or to use their own router as a gateway to the modem. But does this really give the user more contorl over the modem/router?

These user-owned modems/routers usually do not encourage SSH access by the user, if they even provide it. Instead they promote a "web interface". Indirect control of the settings. Better than SSH? That is for you to decide.

The "market" seems to love the "web interface". But this often the easiest vector for successful attacks. Less control, and less safety. Is the tradeoff still worth it? That is for you to decide.

https://threatpost.com/vulnerability-disclosed-in-ubquiti-ne...

https://www.sec-consult.com/fxdata/seccons/prod/temedia/advi...

http://www.securityweek.com/worm-infects-many-ubiquiti-devic...

Relying on "Keep up to date with patches" or "Enable updates" as a strategy to improve the safety of a product that was unsafe to begin with is a bit of cognitive dissonance given that its safety was deemed "good enough" for the renter/purchaser at the time of rental/purchase. To achieve a safer product requires not only manufacturers to set new priorities but also consumers as well.

How important is that "web interface"? More important than safety? And why not configure using SSH instead? Whatever the reasons, tradeoffs have consequencesre: safety.
By "properly" open sourced you mean no proprietary builds at all? Because virtually all of Java is available in OpenJDK and Oracle has continued to fund and open source major new Java upgrades.
Well I have AT&T and the hack it worked for me! Words could not express the feelings of terror that I have right now.
> I've gotten good enough to read most of them competently. I redline the sketchy parts and the parts my lawyers have redlined in the past.

One of my former clients was great about this. He'd send things to me, but whenever I wanted to make a change, he would always call to discuss the reasoning. He'd then use that information going forward and not need to involve me in the loop. He knew the risks and benefits of doing or not doing the thing and could evaluate whether it was appropriate for the specific project. He saved a lot of money that way.
php-cli scripts normally don't have an execution time limit (or a memory limit?), which makes them ideal for upgrades/database maintenance/cron jobs/etc while being able to reuse code from the application itself

one example: https://docs.moodle.org/22/en/Administration_via_command_lin...
As bad as these wars are, they're trivial compared to the endless misery that Europe inflicted on itself and the world in general for hundreds of years.

Multi-generation wars have been the norm ever since there were two civilizations big enough to fight one.
It seems you can no longer view Google groups without logging in?
I feel this is an overkill since PHP provides very well for the command line out of the box.

Main reason for commenting is the current (and I'm sure more) comments questioning "why?" or "right tool for this job".

Please, HN overlords, please please add a flag (icon could be a cow) and total counts so that I may filter out such comments.
I think you are right about leaving something to our children. It's a very natural human (mammal!) instinct, but there are a lot of middle ground between don't leave anything and leave them an empire.

About merit, I think I know about merit. If you take the public transport at 5:30 in the morning you will see a lot of people that go to work for years for a ridiculous small pay and, that if they stopped doing that, society as we know would stop. That, I think, have a lot of merit.

On the other hand, in any standard corporation, you can find people with huge wages, with company car, that never pay a lunch because they put in the expenses account and that employ its time in political movements to try to go up in the ladder.

Of course, if you think that markets give everyone whatever they deserve, or you have not been in the public transport at 5:30, then, what I'm saying doesn't make any sense.
Your counter to "bullshit quantitative analysis" is a pub-level speculative opinion? Frankly, I'll take quantitative analysis, or any analysis, over the flippant opinion approach to understanding.
I lived for 2 years in the UK - I didn't understand how they could eat that stuff ... it literally has no taste. Moved back home for 3 years and now I'm living in the Netherlands for the past year .. it tastes like nothing, the tomatoes, the cabbage, the carrots .. the parsley .. they all are so bland.

We found some actual farms around that we got some actually tasty stuff during season .. but the stuff in the supermarkets tastes like grass.
WhatsApp didn't replace internet chatting. It replaced (or maybe I should say "disrupted") SMS, and perhaps more importantly, MMS. There are two reasons: it's free, and the UX is far superior in that it mimicks how humans, especially groups of humans, communicate.
Why stop there? Forget Electron, build your next desktop application using PHP-GTK!

http://gtk.php.net/index.php
Yeah, the ideal tomato for salads and/or with mozzarella

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_cuore_di_bue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-j3ZxGnMC8

#foodporn
Could do. That might be captured sufficiently by the gift tax though. A bigger issue could be evasion through establishing trusts and the like.
I would love for software engineering to have the same licensing requirements as civil and structural engineering.

For simple stuff, like building a deck, you don't need an engineer. For a lot of basic-enough construction projects, you can just buy supplies and hammer them together. It's only where structural or safety issues kick in that you need to have someone sign off and approve your plans, and that makes sense.

Likewise, putting up a brochure-ware Wordpress site, just do it yourself or have some kid do it. But once you start collecting customer/financial/personally-identifying information, you should need to have a professional either do it, or review your code and sign off on it. There's a risk involved, and for too long we just shrug our shoulders and push the risk off onto the consumer, onto Visa, onto whatever.

I am looking forward to when the software world leaves this wild-west phase.
You buy an Oracle DB because (a) you have a fleet of Oracle DBAs who agitate for you to keep Oracle, (b) plenty of software you want to buy only works with Oracle (or only has Oracle as the top-tier option) and once you've bought Oracle and hired Oracle DBAs it's hard to justify having other things, and (c) Oracle are very good at selling their product up the management chain; their enterprise sales teams speak the language people who run companies do, and IT departments don't.

(And I don't mean golf.)
Reference for this? Never heard of it before, and doesn't sound likely on the surface.
The chip, from a design perspective, can absolutely be simple and get 15 TFLOPs. And in 5W is totally possible (in fact, greater efficiency is possible), especially if you only restrict yourself to inference with 3x3 convolutions. And it's not at all impossible that they know something that Intel/nVidia doesn't, that's how innovation from startups work ;)

And as to their power efficiency number, it's not just possible, but it's possible to do even better than that, as we have. And these processors are definitely simpler than say, an OoO CPU. Note that I mean this from a design perspective, from an innovation perspective, it's your call as to whether or not it's "simple".
You can get 90% of that benefit by using snippets in your favorite editor. I guess you could consider that "code generation", but "generative programming" means, to me, "check in the specification, not the production code".
Based on the performance of the people I have hired over the years. Of course, there is always the possibility that a candidate might have been great and this was not discovered by my approach, but I think this is an inherent risk.
I routinely use vanilla PHP (no special libraries) for CLI scripts. It's actually fantastic for this. It has a large set of functions that do everything you want, no imports required, and it has C-like syntax with real types and functions.
What? You think swift would be a better choice?

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There was never extraordinary peace. Quite the opposite. Tens of millions died in conflict post-WWII. The only thing that changed was conflicts no longer resulted in territorial acquisition as a general matter, and that split can be traced back to 1928, not to post-WWII.

The notion of the U.S. as a global policeman has some credibility, but only going back to the 1990s. Before then the U.S.'s reach ended where the Soviet Union's began, and there were plenty of proxy conflicts.
If Photoshop has a couple of bugs, does that mean Microsoft is better than Adobe when it comes to photo editing software?
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What value are you adding here?

There are plenty of companies that rely on PHP that also have to work with CLI. I believe they are better informed when it comes to making decisions between handling CLI via an entirely different language and sticking to PHP.
Really what has sort of stuck with me that is analogous is Alan Watts talks on living. Particularly about life being a dance.

http://www.befreetoday.com.au/alan-watts-life-not-journey/

Yeah it's a little pop culture but the way he talks about things is very accessible.
Ask HN: Best way to get pre-orders for software products?
I'm looking for a way to get pre-orders for a software project. This would useful for validating an idea before sinking to much time into it. I'm imagining something similar to Kickstarter, but for whatever reason Kickstarter seem to work particularly well for software other than games.
Symfony already provides this functionality. I fail to see why I would use this project over the de-facto standard PHP framework?
This is the case all over the country. When people say things like "St. Louis has lost over half its population" all it really means is that the small city center lost those people to the suburbs. What any reasonable person would call "St. Louis" didn't actually lose 50% of its people.

This applies basically everywhere. And a failure to really understand it leads to all sorts of erroneous conclusions about the rust belt.
Falcon Heavy’s 3 first stage cores have all completed testing
What strikes me the most when looking at many of the comments here is the blatant disregard for human suffering that extreme inequality and the resulting poverty cause.
The current economical status quo is accepted as a given and all the harm it causes is dismissed with the shrug of a shoulder.

"It can't be helped, the poor sods should have made better life choices to avoid ending up as janitor" is the attitude by which the matter is dismissed - as if requiring everyone to be a member of the educated elite just to be able earn a decent living.

There is so much wealth out there. This wealth is the product of society's common strive. Why not try to change the world instead of just submitting to the way things are?
Yes, this seems kinda silly considering just a few years later Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy started a major conquest war in Europe, Asia and Africa.

After WW2, we had Korea within 5 years, then Vietnam and Gulf War I, all wars of conquest. What ISIS is doing is a war of conquest. Israel was involved in quite a few. It doesn't really matter if the treaty allows them to keep the land legally, the only thing that can stop an invading army is another army.

Treaties and laws don't trump armies. When the rubber meets the road, might makes right, always has, always will.
Beautiful. We also need an intellectual vaccine: there is a cultural war going on where one of the powerful sides is an industry of hysteria-based pretended self-victimhood. Many fell into this epidemic hysteria that is pathologic to the core.
Most commonly-used CJK characters are in the Basic Multilingual Plane, and take 2 bytes to represent in UTF-16 and 3 in UTF-8. So you're only really saving 33%, not 50%. Plus, if you're storing e.g. HTML, all the HTML markup characters go from one byte to two bytes, which is going to offset the CJK advantage to some degree (or maybe even outweigh it). I think most web documents are served compressed anyway, which makes the difference even smaller.
I've now scanned the original article.

As I understand, they injected ova with the CRISPR/CAS9 plasmids and then fertilized them with mutant sperm. The goal was to see if they could achieve CRISPR-mediated repair of the mutant allele provided by the sperm, guided by the genomic sequence of the wild-type ova allele.

My knowledge of CRISPR doesn't extent to knowing whether this is a smart idea or not... Though it seems to be an issue raised by Robin Lovell-Badge in the OP:

>"Robin Lovell-Badge, a developmental biologist at the Francis Crick Institute in London, says that it is possible that there is a “novel or unsuspected” biological mechanism at work in the very early human embryo that could explain how Mitalipov’s team corrected the embryos’ genomes in the manner claimed."

They appear to claim that they achieved somewhat mixed results, i.e. the repair of sperm-derived allele guided by the ova-derived allele was not 100% efficient.

>Among 54 CRISPR–Cas9-injected embryos, 36 (66.7%) were uniformly homozygous for the wild-type allele with each blastomere containing MYBPC3WT/WT, while 18 (33.3%) were uniform or mosaic heterozygous (Fig. 2a and Supplementary Table 3). In this group of 18, 5 embryos were uniformly heterozygous with each blastomere containing the intact wild-type and intact mutant allele (MYBPC3WT/∆GAGT) and 13 were mosaic,"

It doesn't appear (to me) that selective lethality would account for this data.

I would need to spend more time with the manuscript than I have right now to be more definitive, though...
Yeah, this does seem to be largely duplicating symfony/console (which anyone using Laravel also has some experience with, incidentally).
Google released ARCore last week.

"ARCore works with Java/OpenGL, Unity and Unreal and focuses on three things:"

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/08/arcore-aug...

Which makes quite clear that even in AR, the role of the NDK is to support Java, Unity and Unreal applications, not to be used alone.

I am fine with it, given the security issues with the native code so we should actually minimize its use, I just would like they would provide better tooling to call framework APIs instead of forcing everyone to write JNI wrappers by themselves.