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It is a thing, and here where I live (Italy) is pretty popular - I would say more than Uber, for what it's worth.

It is a service to arrange long trips from one city to another with other people, so that the driver can share the ride and get compensated from passengers (and also have company) in return
I loved the nested discussion of mailgroups. Compared to message boards and forums of today (yesterday? I think they may be passe?) they enabled interesting, meandering discussions. It's the way discussion flows between two intelligent people. Forcing discussion into an arbitrary topic has 2 problems:

* some people are unhappy because they feel constrained
* topics are an illusion anyway, people do post off-topic messages anyway, depending on strictness of moderation. People interested by the original topic are annoyed by the inevitable off-topic talk.
Recent example 2 days ago:

I'm Joining Report URI | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15599906 (2017Nov:160points,64comments)

>skrebbel: I don't get it. What does Report URI do? (top comment)
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Can you tell us why?
Hadley's book, "Advanced R" has a specific performance related chapter[1]. As well as techniques to boost performance within R, there's a section on "Alternative R implementations," which says in part, "There are some exciting new implementations of R. While they all try to stick as closely as possible to the existing language definition, they improve speed by using ideas from modern interpreter design." Renjin is listed in this section.

While I don't have direct experience of Renjin, or any other alternative R interpreters, I'm inclined to believe Hadley has and if he believes they improve speed, I'll take him at his word.

[1] http://adv-r.had.co.nz/Performance.html
A few possible reasons:

Because some can't work remotely (I'm one of those people).

Because you work in a regulated industry and no content can transit through internet.

Because the company think that it's easier to have cooperation when your colleagues are within walking distances

Because the offices are in area with efficient public transportation and available housing

Because it is harder to express yourself well in writing, compared to face-to-face
I've been half torn on whether in office or work from wherever is better for me. Everyone has opinions and they all seem to differ. I like how the article had back to back paragraphs linking papers that claim one is better than the other.

It'll be interesting for me coming up when I start a new job in a little over a week where I'm remote in a different city for three of the days, and then taking the hour and a half Amtrak down to where the company is based. When talking to the head of the group, the first thing I said is that I wouldn't be moving to where their office is. He was totally fine with that.

I like working on things from random places, but I'm also more than familiar working in an office with others. We'll see how this goes.
My pet theory (completely unsubstantiated, of course) is that intelligent life is common but that it rarely develops money. Stuck with barter, most intelligent life never moves beyond low levels of trade and technology.

The concept of assigning value to largely useless objects and using them to keep score is extremely powerful, but also highly weird.
I'm not sure it's nonsense. What I see is incremental change. Take the workstation, and move it to virtual space. Then add more 2D screens. Then try a different input or display method, one small step at a time. Sounds reasonable to me, much more so than re-inventing every part of the interface at the same time, and hoping to get it all within spitting distance of what's right.
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Socialism and communism are often used interchangeably, but communism almost always refers to the end state, while socialism tends to encompass both the transition and the end state. It’s a little hazy even to Marxists. This might help clear it up:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/fromm/works/1961/man/ch06.h...

Anyway, the type of socialism you’re referring to is associated with the cooperative movement which led to things like mutual insurance and credit unions. I fully support these types of systems in which people with common interests and a common communitry create structures to support themselves. I think this is the best way to create structures with community-based values that compete with for-profit industries which don’t always represent their customers.
Yeah, it's boggling how it went down. That's why I can't credit "UI" a cause, not at all. I'm no seaman, but I have some close contacts. UI might cover a BM taking a second before he realized the controls weren't ganged. Maybe.

UI doesn't cover mass confusion -> panic over critical loss of control that had NOT been lost. They heard hoofbeats and decided it was zebras, not horses.
We are SO in stealth-mode that we ourselves have no idea what we are doing!
The man literally visits Soviet Union as his idea of honeymoon after his wedding.

There's circumstantial evidence he was even a Stalinist at one point: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sanders+stalinist+kibbutz

You do realize how closely your argument resembles a "No True Scotsman" in this case, yes?

Person A: "No Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge."

Person B: "But my uncle Angus likes sugar with his porridge."

Person A: "Ah yes, but no true Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge."

EDIT: Here he is, calling himself a socialist without any qualifiers in 1989: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_QLek6Qvzg
Lots of emotional comments with the usual I-hate-MS bent, without a single reference to data showing Azure [Linux VM] users or non-users. Always shocking to see individuals who claim to be rational and open-minded in one domain become irrational, closed and judgemental in another.
But can you help us with the transformation to digital?
"The frequent cigarette breaks meant many employees were away from their desks upwards of 15 minutes each day, Matsushima added."

With smokers where I work, a single smoke break can last up to 15 minutes, with 3-4 such breaks per day. I've no idea how this is tolerated, but it's been like that for years.
Open a github issue or comment in here. That was obviously a point we were missing :-)
some nuclear submarines are not steam powered directly, they use electric engines.
It seems to me that their marketing is really working.. they just got to HN front page and I'm sure almost everyone reading couldn't resist googling them ;)
interesting, what makes you say so ? it's been used to build apps that I wouldn't call basic :

Calibre (https://ic.tweakimg.net/ext/i/1324631500.jpeg)

Spyder (https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder)

Orange (https://orange.biolab.si/screenshots/)

QGIS (https://live.osgeo.org/_images/qgis_style.png)

OpenShot (http://www.openshot.org/static/img/gallery/clip-overview.jpg)...
> sjw-ish

Faster than light travel = no problem

People having equality = zomg sjws everywhere.
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You stopped to eat instead of playing through meals? That's impressive. Were you able to sleep at all?
"Do" may be irrelevant if you are advising someone who is an expert in a particular vertical, in which you yourself have little experience or domain knowledge.

But if they state their model is Enterprise SaaS or Subscription-based Media Content. Then its easier to suggest a quick hack for training sales teams or where to find freelance editors online, etc.
I don't know but I would expect something interactive.
Yeah, used to live in Japan and it was quite annoying.

The 'building number' having no relation to location is fairly useless. I generally had to explain through landmarks/obvious buildings where I wanted to go.

The whole system is pretty useless for giving directions.

It's better now with Smart phones (wasn't a thing when I first moved there), but still bad. Korea uses the same system afaik.
I'd be interested to see how this breaks down as a function of cost instead of raw numbers.

This would for example control for development environments and pet projects as compared to production projects running on the platform.
https://hn.0x2237.club/post/15618149

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EFF destroys the podcasting patent, one last time
It’s as stupid as creating a fancy raster graphics system with windowing and fast refresh rates and hardware acceleration for 3D rendering, and then using it to display a bunch of programs that pretend to be a 1960s teletype.

Using new technology to incrementally improve existing ideas and techniques usually works better than trying to start completely from scratch.
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s/global warming is true/anthropological global warming is true/
Yes, if you believe the idea has merit.
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I thought most of YC HN was based out of/lived in a California bubble. Surely the rest of the commenters here have modern cars? I have a VW GLI that has climate control that beats the shit out of any car I've owned before it. There was also another posted complaining about their radio having to ''boot up'' before they could change the audio volume. I've literally never heard of these issues. This is ridiculous.
> IMO the problem today is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_overpopulation.

Worrying about overpopulation is short-sighted. Also, no matter what kind of problems overpopulation brings, it's hard to imagine how that could lead to extinction, which is what we were discussing.
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It's not a "free" market system when it's using public funds.
Simple as that. I'll keep repeating it, until you take a breath.

I don't know why you are so angry or arrogant, but this is the first semi-lucid response you have given.

Wrong, but semi lucid.
Whoever is getting to charge money/get paid to provide them.
The only eminent domain case that I'm familiar with was not compensated at anywhere near fair market value. Yes, a check was cut, but at a small fraction of what it would take to make the seller a "willing seller".
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Same problem with petrol stations in the USA. Most were pay-at-pump and didn't accept the card.
Same thing goes for open source projects. I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen an announcement along the lines of “Flurboska 2.0 is released!” and then when you follow the URL there’s no info about what it does, and if there’s an About link it often just has a list of release notes for various versions. Each entry says vague things like “stability improved” which doesn’t reveal much.
Note I'm not a twitter user so I have no real idea how far the average tweet spreads. That said I find it interesting how few impressions a lot of these tweets had. It is fascinating to see this "new" sort of propaganda though, it will be interesting (and horrifying) to see how propaganda like this evolves.
I never claimed otherwise. The ability to manipulate history affects the chain integrity. Perhaps integrity isn't the right word. Consistency?
I don't think most windows users would be amazed - or, at least, not in a positive way. I think they'd find most of their applications would not work, or they'd have to jump through hoops to get them to work at 90%. I think they'd find support for their machines scattered, incomplete, or out of date. This is assuming they're able to get their hardware to work at all under linux - you seem to be placing the blame on the hardware to support the software, instead of on linux to have decent hardware drivers. I'd think they'd be surprised by the entire appearance of the UI changing drastically between updates. I think any users using assistive technologies would be woefully underserved.
Random advice from the internet:

Keep doing whatever you did to get your product in the cafes of your partner's friends. That seems to be working, so it isn't broken.

Good luck.
I agree, it sucks. I also think its a good moment to step back and recognize the power we've granted these sites. People calling having your twitter account deactivated as being "kicked off the internet" sounds ludicrous to me, but it speaks to the power these sites have.
My job is well defined and "delivery" is physical devices, but it's problematic to work remotely as I work with an actual hardware and it's not feasible to have my own, dedicated, expensive equipment at home. "Well defined" in your context mostly means web/app development, which already have high level of remote working positions, and you left a wide gap between such jobs and "bullshit" jobs.
The woman is 60. Most people taking showers in the university showers are undergrads in the dorms. The age difference would make it uncomfortable and admin staff do not get the same privileges as current students anyways because they don't pay tuition. Stanford has a dining hall, but you need a meal plan, it's not free.

Google offers those things if you're an employee.
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Ah yes, thanks, I misread. So it's 0.35% per year so still quite a lot.

[My initial calculation was wrong. It would have been 35% per year, which would have been more obviously incorrect!]
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Restricting the bucket to the EC2 instances is easy enough..
> easy to give false reports which then leads to regular overwork in the days just before a hard deadline.

Working from home for three years now as a software project contributor, this is my biggest problem. I always get my shit done, but it gets majorly stressful since daily family life goes on the same regardless of my self-inflicted work crunches. Pretty sure the tradeoffs are still worth it, though.
Unironically anonymous imageboards (not 4chan, 4chan is overcrowded at this point). Sure, you will get called names, but at least you won't get censored and/or downvoted into oblivion as it happens on Reddit (or HN) if you express opinion, that goes againt majority's belief. Your comment will be as visible as theirs. Another big advantage is complete anonymity - nobody knows anything about you, they only see the content of your post and nothing else.

I have had some of the best thought-provoking discussion about politics or life in general on anonymous imageboards.
When I lived in the states I used to post rideshare availability on Craigslist to share gas and company on long road trips. Now that I live in Europe, I've learned of this new company that is trying to monetize that concept.
I have an encrypted LineageOS device and can update it just fine.
What is the pricing like?
When I did consult and visited a lot of workplaces (>95% open plan) in the IT sector, the typical 'collocated teams' reality was something like 2 to 3 socialites with apparently non too busy schedules behaving like the place was basically a bar without alcohol, free banter, jokes and non-work related conversations filled the room. Then 10 others wearing heavy headphones, always the one guy wearing explicit building site type noise protectors, and a preppy semi tech function junior type oblivious to the subliminal messages tapping people on the shoulders to get some basic info that is on the first page of the intranet or easily to google in 10 seconds. Did I already mention the 2 people that were just sitting there all day staring, waiting for the others to go home to finally find the peace to get some work done?
Ask HN: Can money still be made in online courses?
I'm thinking of trying to make money via online courses.

Is there still money to be made or has the ship sailed?

Which is the best marketplace to develop for? Udemy?
To me, content creators using psychology tricks to try and get the value out of me, my eyeballs for advertisers, before I have the ability to evaluate their value to me, the actual useful part of their content, is hostile.

Maybe the soup Nazi was a bad analogy, but how about a car salesman who knowingly sells you a lemon? They could be nice and polite up front and do everything they could to make you feel comfortable with making the purchase. They are still knowingly doing something to benefit themselves at your expense. If it was a choice where one side got a benefit and the other remained neutral I would see it as not hostile, but when it's a benefit for one side at the expense of the other side, it's become hostile at that point
Of course. Are you saying all programmers run ad blockers? Just visit any [usually divisive] ad blocking Hacker News post and you'll see people who aren't blocking ads. Chances of none of them being developers is slim. Also I don't block ads. So that's one.
I have been reading Dale Carnegie's seminal book. One of the advice therein - Arouse an Eager Want.

So, while the 2nd example is an improvement, many people might read the first para - So you are attending the conference and are some kind of bank with APIs...umm..so what? Why should I be interested in it?

The better structure will be to start thinking in terms of why/what an intended recipient might want to use the API, followed by the process and conference.
No, denial of humans as the source of global warming has been a core value of lots of people, including of scientists that as late as 1970s were claiming that all their data indicated that humans were causing global cooling. The science was settled at that time as well.
I agree that you're right in strict logic sense, but the statement that everything has bugs is already tongue-in-cheek.

Anyway, what I really meant was that every language has semantic limitations that can manifest as patterns which the users have to apply. Even Lisp (static type checking) or Haskell (dependent types).
No matter how bad times large segments of the planet are experiencing, there have been worse times. Meaning:almost all of the past was worse than it is today.

At https://ourworldindata.org/ you can find tons of data, info-graphics and articles from various (respectable) sources backing that claim. That's not meaning that things are all rosy yet - just meaning that they have been worse in the past!
Subsidies are the antithesis of a "free" market, since the government is manipulating the market.

This seems to be what we are arguing about here, and well there's no two sides to this debate. You are wrong.
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I love how my Raspberri Pi I can just swap out the SD card and have a completely different OS. As a software developer, it would be awesome if I could do that on my laptop or phone.
I wouldn't call that an illusion, but more a consequence of a high-pass/low-pass filter at different distances with limited resolution.

What I find much more disturbing is that even though I measured and known those lines are parallel or that those shades of gray are the same, I can't "unsee" the illusion.
I agree, we seem to shove such strict guidelines on ideas that can very easily be left to considering a mixture of both instead of one over the other.
To be fair, commuting to work is a fairly new concept. In history most people would work from home as their farm was also their home.
You overestimate my abilities! I mindfully create a horribly coupled mass of Spaghetti. But it's not anaemic spaghetti ;-)
And, possibly moreso than anyone else, the responsibility for the actions caused by his words. Freedom of speech is all good until you start yelling "Bomb" on an airplane. This guy is possibly talking us ALL into a nuclear war. I dont know about you, but I don't like being forced into the next persons fight becuase they couldnt shut their mouth, boss, mayor, friend, or Trump...
I really like Report URI (hi Scott!) but so much of their messaging is about CSP and report-uri (the technology they use) rather than what they do (stop cross site scripting).
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Overpopulation is a problem right now. I mentioned overpopulation as reply to the fear of too few babies.

I hope that poverty and the culture to have as many children as possible will not exist anymore after 2030 CE.
That's easier said than done. Try getting a meeting with the VP of Facebook, who's bonus depends on increasing ad revenue for Fortune 500's with a $100 million dollar budget. Or plow through and take the risk, and be the next Buffer.
Troy Hunt's post details what Report URI does in the first paragraph but it didn't explain to Skrebbel how they accomplished those things.
Nice post with citations.

Your first link messes up though. Seems to be the correct link, but got cut off somehow. In case you don't or can't correct it anymore, it's:
https://marketingland.com/ad-blocker-usage-highest-among-key...
This is a decent introduction into this fascinating cultural history, but there is much more to the myth of the yew tree and sadly we seem to have lost almost all understanding of it. Medieval stories in both England and France relate certain trees with the fairy world, the yew tree being one of them. One lovely story that combines these myths is Sir Orfeo [1], which is a delightful poem in Middle English and also has a translation into modern English by a young Tolkien [2]. It is a re-telling of the classical Orpheus myth, with Eurydice being taken by faeries instead of bitten by a snake. Relevant to this article, she is taken while sleeping under the shade of a tree at noon, and the fairy world to which she is taken is actually a Hades-like place where the dead live. The name/description of the tree in Middle English, though not exactly "yew" in the available manuscripts, has raised speculation that the tree is meant to be a yew tree in the source story or earlier translations.

The fact that multiple cultures across such a breadth of time have continued and created mythical connections between the yew tree and death is intriguing. Maybe it speaks to some natural or innate quality of the tree, or just the amazing staying power and transferability of certain myths. Regardless, I think the mythologizing of the physical world in these ways renders some beautiful and engaging stories that we lose through our modern disdain for myth and our retreat from prolonged physical interaction with the natural world.

[1] https://auchinleck.nls.uk/mss/orfeo.html
[2] https://allpoetry.com/Sir-Orfeo