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Once, when visiting my father's extended family in Missouri, an older man killed the dinner conversation stone dead by suggesting that the police should have just killed that ------ Rodney King. That remains the most racist thing I have ever personally witnessed.

My spouse's family in Wisconsin is more racist than my family in Indiana, disguising it somewhat by talking about "the chodnies" (derived from the Polish czarny). And my sister-in-law's husband puts the most obnoxious crap out on Facebook and Twitter. It isn't exactly "we're glad that black kid is dead", but rather "we support the police; hero hero, protect and serve, rah rah rah!" which is implicitly the same thing, when the cops seem to hardly ever kill any white people while they're out gunning down members of the community and their dogs.

There's a reason why Wisconsin instituted citizen review boards. "We investigated ourselves and cleared ourselves of all wrongdoing" works great for the cops when everyone on the local force is racist, but not so much for minorities. The hand that Black Lives Matter claps against is racism in police forces, and racism-by-proxy by refusing to hold the cops accountable for it.

It isn't always orthodox color-based racism, either. It's more like identity-based tribalism. The different "black" cliques didn't always get along at my high school. For instance, one calls the other "stuck-up boujie", and the other responds "thugs and chickenheads". They would definitely use that unmentionable slur on each other. The Jews would often hang out together because they already knew each other from Saturday School, and anti-Semitism is still a thing in the Midwest. I'd occasionally hear about fights that started with racial slurs, but never actually saw one. One of my friends got called "chink" sometimes.

What I saw from where I sat was hostile enough, and I suspect it was probably worse in the places I was not.

Mainly, you hang out in your own groups, and avoid those that don't like you. That keeps your group somewhat homogenous, which may coincidentally make it look like your group is racist. And that might be true, but a lot of it is surrounding yourself with people who think and act like you, and not just people that look like you. In my groups, racism was not part of the group identity, and the racism that occurred elsewhere was simply ignored whenever possible. All that mattered was that it didn't happen among ourselves. If it happened to one of us elsewhere, that was awful and pitiable, but the best we could do was to not add to it. It's a sort of head-in-the-sand approach, which works for a lot of social problems in the Midwest. If you pretend it isn't happening, it's only a problem for the people it's happening to.
Most animals are way more expressive that the average person is able to easily understand and pet tech would easily be a billion dollar market.

EDIT: I would also be happy to do this startup if YC adds me to the next batch; already offered to do one for the “Social Network for Children”:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15715865
Yeah, that's probably true -- linters do an OK job at attacking this problem.

But then there are still people complaining about JS semantics... I think there is a gulf between what tools professional JS programmers use, and what tools X programmers use when they write JavaScript, where X != JavaScript.
A History of Algorithmic and Generative Music
> I am very confident the type of people working in SV could make a huge impact, if only running prisons was like software development.

> But the goal of US prison is not to solve difficult problems. It is simply to benefit the US prison-police-state-complex.

See, that's why they couldn't make a real impact. The whole system is set up with the wrong incentives. From the SV/startup perspective, it's like one of your suppliers being the nephew of your biggest investor and a stipulation of the investment. Sucks to be you if they do a shitty job and cost you money, or make it hard to achieve goals. They know they have leverage over you, so you're stuck.

Prisons could kill large amounts of people that enter them, and release people as sexually molested PTSD wrecks that have little normal economic recourse and new ideas and connections about how to make money in extra-legal ways, and society still wouldn't care enough to change things. This is obvious, because that's what prisons do in the U.S. and we haven't changed jack-shit.

I don't have high hopes for change. A decade ago there was a lot of media attention and articles about how California used to be the shining example of the U.S. prison system (in the 1970's), with extremely low recidivism rates, and inmates leaving prison with a skill or craft they learned inside and able to find gainful employment. Nothing came from it during two terms of a Democrat president after that, I doubt we'll get change from a Republican one now, especially with his particular rhetoric on crime. Until we as a society get past "Justice == punishment" and focus quite a bit on rehabilitation, we're cutting off our nose to spite out face.
Many proponents are talking about LVT as if it were certain to work. They can even cite some arguments to explain why it should work. But economics is full of second- and third-order effects. Saying that this will produce faster growth is far more certainty than we have at the moment.

The article cites a mixed bag of experience (failure in Altoona, success but then abandoned in Pittsburgh). That's... not very much. It's far too early to talk about this as if the actual effects were certain. (And the article doesn't mention why Pittsburgh abandoned that approach, which I consider to be important data.)

The article (and the proponents) talk about LVT as if it were going to be a certain success and an unalloyed benefit. It may in fact be so, but it assumes facts that are not yet in evidence.
Does putting a human in the loop make scraping okay? Can there be a button on the web page : "please click here to run a price check for one of your fellow travelers" that initiates a web page being fetched, attached to a round-robin queue of fares that are being monitored?
Make it an app not a website. Users can download and install it, enter flight data and click to start monitoring.
Does JavaScript have some special definitions for delegation and dynamic dispatch? The definitions provided in the article appear to particularly relate them to inheritance - which is not the traditional definition applied to either term in object-orientation?
Similar story -- my twins were in the NICU for 3 weeks. The alarms at first had us on edge. After a few days, they became white noise.
They have it already.
Perl6 is about 10 years old, had at least 4 virtual machines. When it was announced people thought perl 5 was obsolete. And in the same time came RoR.
A few years(like 7 maybe?) ago a some new developers took over perl5 and added some really interesting new features. That made some perl6 developers unhappy, wanting to focus community around perl6. Perl5 developers believe a completely new language should have a different name. Some suggested renaming perl5 perl7. Then there was a website perl11.org redirecting visitors to scala-lang.org. That was about 3 years ago. Since then - I don't care:)
Perl6 will have to find itself a niche. The one once occupied by perl5 - a ducktape of the web is now taken by js.
So, a long transition is better than a remote perspective of unknown transition.
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it was a public domain image, licensed under creative commons.

Unless it was CC0 (which is not what was linked), Creative Commons licenses are not public domain licenses. Someone still holds the copyright and you have to abide by the license terms. Secondly, CC and "public domain" are about copyright, not trademarks. It's totally possible to infringe someone's trademark even with a public domain image.
I agree trucks like that are useful (and appear to be coming to market now~ish from other brands) but I think Tesla should stick to battery only.

There's enough short haul routes through stop-go traffic in pollution hotspots to keep Tesla busy for a while, and as they gain experience and reduce prices the range can expand.

The best thing about Tesla is that they're starting with battery only vehicles and throwing intelligence towards solving within that constraint.

Slow moving convoys of autonomous trucks that travel by night is one interesting possibility I'd like to see them explore.
Hi there, these are some good points.

This process doesn't put more risk on the employee, because at any job and with any interview process, one would hope that both the company and the candidate are still in the honeymoon period within the first 90 days. So even if I passed the 5 hour interview, I may not pass the first 90 days.

The biggest difference, is that I'm transparent about the fact that interviews are not a good predicator (I guess I could waste everyone's time by spending 5 hours interviewing?)
Nice work, it even has a deploy to Heroku button!

Honestly, I think it's pretty lame trying to profit from arbitrage on SW prices like that. $3 per alert? Really?

Great job making an OSS implementation.
As someone who has only ever written about 20 instructions worth of assembly, I am kind of torn.

The kind of cleverness needed to thwart the decompiler's efforts is very impressive. A part of me wishes I had been around at a time when assembly was an acceptable "language" instead of the last resort it is today for most scenarios. Getting this close to the metal (or silicon) and being able to pull off such a stunt must be exhilarating.

At the same time, another part of me is very happy I do not have to deal with such low-level details. Debugging code written in assembly (with assembly being the main language, not just inline assembly in a C/C++ program or something like that) must have been exquisite torture.
I would think so. That's why you don't see SW in Google flights or any other program. SW wants you to only get it from their website. I'd imagine if there was more to the discussion Google would fight it.
The London train system is one of the worst in the world.

- It's very expensive.

- Different parts of the network are managed by different companies which creates a lot of confusion around tickets and smart cards.

- The stations are relatively ugly.

- Signs are confusing if you're not used to the system.

- Trains from different lines often share platforms. Sometimes two trains that have the same destination might stop at different stations and it's not obvious which train corresponds to which line.

- The underground trains themselves are often narrow; difficult to stand straight.

- They are often crowded so you often do end up having to stand up.

- Delays are common and trains don't come very often considering how many people live in London.
The landing page (https://www.swmonkey.com/) still has the workd "Southwest" used several times, and the picture of what is obviously a Southwest plane. I wish common sense prevails and this (obviously very useful) service doesn't die because the founder can't control his ego.
You'll still find a much stronger sense of liberal values in the metropolitan cities vs rural in the midwest.

E.g. While Trump won the state of Nebraska, Hillary did win the counties of Douglas and Lancaster, the two counties that house the two largest cities in the state (Omaha 446K, Lincoln 280K).
This will never happen en masse. Humans are tribal animals, and naturally form us-vs-them mentalities when under the slightest amount of stress.
The situation you describe isn't even that farfetched. There is a moderately popular deck called Four Horsemen that depends on repeating a set of steps to repeatedly shuffle your deck until the cards happen to be arranged in a sequence that allows you to win.

http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/legacy-type-1-5/...
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I agree.

I actually started an Ask: HN thread a while back asking. "What problems in your industry could be a potential startup?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9799007

what I learned from it ended up in this essay:

https://medium.com/black-n-white/the-problem-with-problems-4...

One of the most interesting things is how hard it is for "us" to focus on the problem and not immediately jump to the solution.

Today I always ask for problems rather than ideas it's much more useful and allow many more people to participate.
I want my programming language to be predictable and easy to use. I'll "well design" my code, thats what I get paid to do. Type safety, yeah, never bothered me much anyway.

I agree, it sucks that js the only alternative in some cases. But hey, imagine if Java was the only alternative!
>Were those Nazis that committed those acts, or wannabes?

I'm pretty sure a wannabe means they want to be, and not only that but they'll transform their behavior to mirror that which they want to be.

"If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck."

As a person with relatives and ancestors from Germany who were persecuted, killed, and hurt during the Holocaust, I'd say any idiots who try to even act like the Nazis of that era should be labeled as such, lest we allow that behavior to fester.
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> The concept of "nuclear winter" is a great example of science gone wrong.

It's not science gone wrong. It's an example of politics co-opting and exploiting science because science has the credibility that politics doesn't. The elites wanted to scale back nuclear spending and needed a cover to convince the masses and the soviets to support "denuclearization".

History is full of "science" being exploited to advance a political agenda. One of the most poignant examples is nazi germany using social darwinism to justify their political agenda. Modern global warming scaremongering industry is the newest example of "science" being co-opted for a political agenda.

Certainly, human activity is affecting the environment, but the doomsday nonsense peddled by al gore, dicaprio and the media isn't science, it's a politically driven scaremongering tactic to get the world under one "system" ( carbon tax, trade, etc ).
Set it up so the user's browser scrapes it when a button is pressed, and send a reminder every X days as chosen by the user....

User comes to your site, clicks a button, and Southwest's page loads in an iframe, where js does the lifting.
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The land is being used efficiently. But per person they are using nearly the same amount of police, fire, sanitation, roads, schools, ... All of which is currently funded by property tax. I feel the tax burden will end up shifting away from rich people who can afford to live in brand new very tall luxury condos.
That's got a "boil the ocean" problem. It's probably easier to imagine it on a per-flight basis; how many people in a set of people who may look at a given flight are going to be swmonkey users? You have to get that number above a certain threshold before that would work, but it's hard to get that number above a certain threshold because nobody will want to use the service until you're there.

Plus, with the way airline pricing works now, just because Alice sees one price doesn't mean Bob will see it ten minutes later. The faster the prices change, the higher the percentage of people you need to have crowdsourcing.

And I've just assumed that "crowdsourcing" looks like "install a browser extension". If it involves "typing numbers into another site" you can expect a participation rate indistinguishable from 0%. I've also assumed Southwest remains oblivious to this and never takes any actions to counter what they consider an undesirable use, which is also unrealistic.
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Reason I thought about it was a reasoning for more privacy within social networks and the average person would often not get the demand for this, but would quickly agree that kids need it; basically, to me this is a door to more meaningful private social networks.
The paper linked was also based on 27 observable coin flips, all made with the same coin-flipping machine. Out of those 27, 18 were between .500 and .504 in probabilities - and the paper concludes by saying that the "the classical assumptions of independence with probability 1/2 are pretty solid".

Edit: Actually, 21 out of the 27 flips were in the 0.5 - .505 range.
True, though in most fictional accounts the construction mostly happens out of the gravity well - e.g. move an asteroid or iceball into orbit as a counterweight, and start building down from it (and up from the surface).
I think the point that should really be considered is that even in the prison system there's a clear segment of population that follow anti-Semitism.

It's an existent issue.
I'm sure you'd like that. But I cannot allow it, because while I'm sure you'd have perfectly benign intentions of just using it for stuff like that, Comcast and AT&T don't. And there is no fucking way I am going to let them have the ability to carve up the internet, and fuck the rest of us, just so you can offer your cheap plan.

I care far, far, far more about net neutrality, and not having the internet get fucked, than about your company making money.
And then SW has it removed from the app stores in about two seconds...
We've updated the title from “Southwest sent me a cease and desist letter”.
In addition to what cjbprime mentioned...

There's a lot going on in a modern (or even one from 10 years ago) SoC with regards to power management. Just the processor cores themselves can run at different voltages and frequencies, and these are tied to the software workload.

And then you've got the big / little stuff from ARM now, which is an asymmetric multiprocessor, and which cores you use depends on the workload.

At how it works and the interface to it changes from vendor to vendor, sometimes from chip to chip. So it usually isn't implemented all that well, nor is it maintained for very long either.

If (big if) we had more standardized interfaces to this functionality, we could use common drivers that can be upgraded independently.

Like I said, the desktop people may not realize how easy they've got it, where most things are accessed via a standardized bus interface (PCIe or USB). There's no virtuous cycle of software and interface re-use, like there is in desktop land.
When WebExtensions was announced, Electrolysis was already on by default in Developer Edition, and Mozilla planned to begin blacklisting incompatible extensions within 3 months.[1] The author of Tab Groups had just finished rewriting his extensions for Electrolysis.[2] He only gave up 18 months later, partly because of how frustrating Mozilla made the process of getting missing functionality added to WebExtensions.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08/21/the-future-of-dev...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20170128013037/http://fasezero.c...
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The problem isn't privatization, it's the payment structure. Crassus should have set up an insurance or subscription based system.

I imagine that a firefighting startup would not actually replace the operations of fire departments, they would simply sell products to fire departments.

One example of that is Active911: https://www.active911.com/ They sell a product that allows notifications to be pushed through multiple communication methods, and allows coordination of first response.
The Collateral Management Challenge in Payment Channels – and One Sight of Light
Better inform yourself before posting.

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/garnet/+/HEAD/public/rust/c...
I have a multi billion dollar idea where everyone in the world gives me a dollar for no reason. Want to invest?
I don't think a factor in the US would ever take the receivable from a typical YC startup...ie no history, no credit, and suddenly a $50K PO...possibly from a unicorn company with little/no operating history, profit, or cash. Maybe you could get $.10 on the $1...

I can only assume that they are looking for some sort of automated turk that would call and call and call until the check is cut. Like a nag bot.

And/or, instead of high factor costs, my guess is they want this <1% of the receivable amount.
SMP + NUMA performance
Another pretentious thought leader spewing misconceptions.
Perhaps. But does it have to be water? How do you know something won't work until you try it?

Even with all the fire retardant sprayed onto massive wildfires from the sky, we're unable to stop them. Why wouldn't a different approach work?

If you read about the Napa fires, some neighborhoods in Santa Rosa were entirely burned to the ground not because of a wall of gushing fire, but because some embers from further away landed on dried up brush and leaves and started the fire in that area.
I wrote you an email to the address in your profile but got a failure notice:

Sorry, we were unable to deliver your message to the following address.

<CTO@globalcyberalliance.org>:
550: 5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist.
Not to mention that in most (all?) places, such as my house here in Arkansas, the property is regularly assessed by the county and broken down between the land assessment and the improvements assessment.
Or if they do have signs, they are positioned up high, easy to see from a car but very hard to see as a pedestrian.
No offense to Mr Friedman, but almost everyone that works in marketing and tech has had the adwords for billboards idea, or tv or radio for that matter. I once upon a time played with an adwords for trade magazines idea that went nowhere. This is one of those things where almost every single entrenched player has incentives to keep this from becoming the reality, and outside owning the inventory outright I don't think its possible to change this system. (As a note someone please prove me wrong)
A key point is taxation rules need to put in place a priori of significant development/investments or implemented over an extended phase in timeframes of decades so developers/investors can plan/adapt appropriately.

What you don't want to become is city (or county, state or country for that matter) known for changing the rules of the game when its convenient.

Investors make what can be transformational improvements to a city. However the payback periods for a building can be on the order of decades (think Salesforce Tower - cost to build $1.1B, Salesforce lease will pay $560M but over 15 years).

The developer or investor takes on the risk and will by definition be in the red for the first decade or two (historically a 7% cap rate is expected - which is about a 15 year payback period). And that doesn't even including the planning period before the building gets built.

If a city suddenly changes the rules on a populist whim because suddenly the city is popular with the tech industry, future investors will definitely take notice and it will absolutely stifle any future investments in the city.
It seems like a cool idea, but I'm worried about the practical implementation, and that it is just another service to monitor (like Safe Browsing) where you could get blocked incorrectly.
With this kind of reasoning you don't need any logging on your servers.
You could also after a time keep stats to determine when the prices are most likely to go down, and then only get the user's attention at those intervals.
I grew up in South Africa from 87-92, I have lived in Detroit since 2011. In terms of this being an impossible situation, I think truth and reconciliation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_and_reconciliation_commi...) might be one way of addressing the racial segregation that persists here. (https://demographics.virginia.edu/DotMap/index.html). At the very least I was surprised and glad to see a comment about the racism that the article elucidates at the top here on HN.