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I've met women who are similar to what you describe. Mostly religious women who were really into church from their childhood. Some were even in CS.
The ones I met weren't really asexual. More like, they simply don't feel comfortable talking about sexual things with others who aren't part of their close friends circle, and even then. Their lack of outgoing-like attitudes definitely constitutes to less dating but not in a way that prevents them from dating at all.
It doesn't challenge JS in the browser, it augments it.

Though I guess you could say it challenges stopgap measures like asm.js.
They unequivocally did the right thing. He was killing millions while the likes of Chomsky defended his unnamed regime.
Tablets have strong light intensity that make them unsuitable for reading causing more eye strain than e-ink.

The first thing I did after trying to read on a tablet was to buy a Kindle.

Reading on a tablet, minutes, reading on a e-ink device, hours.
Never-mind the military-industrial complex. A nation-state is in itself a monopoly on sanctioned-violence expressed through your local police department or standing Army. Property rights, human rights, taxes, and everything funded by government revenue is only possible because of the guys with the guns projecting government Force.

This isn't a metaphysical question, this is literally how modern governments are able to exist and operate at scale and how your dollar bills or local equivalent have any value at all.
I was going to expand on that but didn't want to go overboard on the comment length!

This custom is not confined to the Bay Area, but it does vary from place to place. It's not a function of American English, it's about the culture and governance structure of the area in question.

Someone from Brooklyn, New York might describe their home locality as "Brooklyn" or "New York City" (or indeed their neighbourhood in Brooklyn, e.g, Williamsburg). But it's perfectly valid for a person from Brooklyn or Manhattan or Queens to say "I live in New York City" as the five boroughs are all contained within the municipality of NYC.

In Los Angeles, someone from Santa Monica or Beverly Hills might just say to a foreigner "I live in Los Angeles" for simplicity, even though they're separate municipalities from the City of Los Angeles, though they're all within Los Angeles County. Whereas someone in Pasadena or Malibu would more likely name that as their home town, even though they're also in Los Angeles County.

I'm not so familiar with specific customs in many other major metropolises, but certainly the metro areas of Seattle and Boston are collections of separate cities - I.e., Redmond, Washington and Cambridge, Massachusetts are referred to by name as distinct from Seattle and Boston respectively.

But I'll again remind you of the whole point of this discussion: in Australia we have a fairly straightforward understanding of what is meant by city names like Melbourne or Sydney for the purpose of discussing a topic like this news story: it refers to the greater metropolitan area.

In the US it is less straightforward and sometimes quite different depending on where you're talking about, e.g., SF Bay Area, hence the root commenter's helpful clarification for US readers.
That seems odd to me. I don't think I've read any ring/algebra/module theory text that doesn't explicitly denote equivalence classes with, for example, square brackets.
I don't think there is any way to do that unless yahoo was in on it.
> Key management isn't exactly an unsolved problem

you're right its not an unsolved problem, its an unsolvable problem.

There is little point in encrypting mails between apple users, if the keys are kept on the apple servers. What would it achieve after all? Apple, and by extension every nation of importance would still have access.

the only reward you'd get from that is getting locked into the apple ecosphere even stronger, because now you won't be able to read your mail archive anymore unless you use an apple device.

And you obviously can kiss search goodbye. There is no way to search encrypted data after all, unless you decrypt it.
One of the points of my original comment was that when it comes to equations the = does not mean equal in the sense of stating two objects are the same. In the context of an algebraic equation to solve the = sign is really a question. It’s asking, what is the set of values that make the statement true?

I know of no mathematician who thinks x^2-x+1=0 is anything other than a polynomial equation. Specifically it’s shorthand notation for the variety of the ideal generated by x^2-x+1. And in general you don’t look associate this variety with the quotient ring of the ideal generated by the polynomial. You look at the quotient of the radical of that ideal.

Without any further information the only reasonable interpretation of x+3 is that it is a polynomial. Without any further context in an algebraic equation x is a variable and is not assumed to be an element of the base ring.

In the context of function spaces like C(R) it’s a different matter. And viewing x+3 as an element of C(R) the only reasonable interpretation of x+3=1 is that we are finding the pre-image of 1. And to do this for a complicated function means solving an equation. And solving an equation by hand, the context of my original comment, means reducing the equation to a simpler one. In the case I gave this means reducing x+3=1 to the simpler equation x=-2 whose solution is obtained by inspection. That’s the goal of all the algebraic manipulations we bore beginning algebra students with. Reduce complicated equation to simpler equation. One whose solution is obtained by inspection.

Your view of how to interpret x^3+4x is too simplistic because the only to way to algebraically manipulate that object is by considering it as an R[x] or R(x). You have to view the x as an indeterminate in some larger ring than the base ring.
I think good diners are available wherever good food is. My experience is that you’re more hard pressed to find consistently good treatment of vegetables. CA, NY, and anywhere with a good port or agricultural industry is usually ok, but I’ve had some truly sad experiences.

Think wilted salads with pancake syrup as the dressing (what... the...).

As far as Diners go though, I’m yet to travel somewhere in the US that lacks a good one. 24 hour operating hours is a very LA/NY thing. I’m sure they’re in SF, Chicago, etc but I haven’t spent enough time in those locales to know. Otherwise I’ve had a lot of variable quality food from 24 hour truck stops.

Maybe the best was a 24 hour sea food oriented spot in the middle of nowhere Indiana.

The worst was the Fosters Freeze on the 10, smack dab in the middle of the LA to Phoenix stretch. Simply horrible.
https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/11/iphone-replacement-displ...

Can you explain this?
Venture capital flourished when the tax rates plummeted in the late 1970s.

Yet business formation in the US is near a forty year low: http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/08/news/economy/us-startups-nea...
Yes they wiped out the netbooks.

Now at the old netbooks price range you can only find hybrid/detachable keyboard laptops.
Oh, I mean the rule against insinuating that other users are astroturfers or shills: "Please don't impute astroturfing or shillage. That degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about it, email us and we'll look at the data."

It's not that such things don't exist, but they're much less common than people jumping to the conclusion that someone they disagree with isn't posting in good faith. I've written tons about this if you or anyone wants to read more:

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Everything I read in the article made me cringe.

It's pretty obvious Google is moving the facebook way. This will evolve into a proprietary messaging system, basic mail gets demoted to a third-class service, and people get locked into yet another non-standard ecosystem controlled by one company.

The only difference is that facebook was blatant about it, and google's taking the boiling frog approach.
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I think you're not catching what fallous is saying, because s/he's using libertarian vernacular. Libertarians view taxation as force, because if you don't pay the tax the police can forcefully take your property/valuables. IMO this view is shortsighted and doesn't properly assess the advantages to generally granting the government a monopoly on the use of force.
What a great last paragraph:

"The tragedy of the cybernetic revolution, which had two phases, the computer science side and the systems theory side, has been the neglect of the systems theory side of it. We chose marketable gadgets in preference to a deeper understanding of the world we live in."
I have a printed book that's the same age as the U.S. constitution (now 231 years) and another printed book that's a few decades older (293 years), both of which are still completely legible. "Decades" feels like a big understatement to me. :-)

We mostly think of paper as a poor archival medium because of a few decades, mainly at the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, when high-acid wood pulp paper was very widely used. (Newspapers are also sometimes printed on cheap acidic newsprint.) Acidic paper can become brittle within 20 years or so, or in any case much less than a century, although this also depends on many other factors. But both before and after this period, many books were printed on acid-free paper, and these are likely to survive for centuries, even with occasional use. The observations about paper's longevity in, for instance, Nicholson Baker's polemical Double Fold, tallies well with my experience as the son of a bookdealer. My father routinely sells books that are over a century old to people who fully expect to read them.

And I remember visiting an antiquarian book fair where a first folio Shakespeare was for sale for millions of dollars. It was still possible to turn the pages with no damage and all the printing was completely legible, even though the book was already 380 years old or so.

Books on low-acid paper are really a very durable technology when treated with respect.
Wow, 269USD is pretty good. 10GigE ports and upto 16G memory... tempting!
I think we should absolutely stigmatize workaholic culture, or we will end up like Japan.
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> I suspect that metaphors are the tools of cargo cults

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but are you using some much more restrictive definition of 'metaphor'?

For example, as far as I can see, one can't escape metaphor because they're deeply embedded in the very language you're using right now.

The most basic metaphors are ones that refer to the body or the physical world. Jar [1] originally refers to a 'screeching sound'. Understand probably from the literal sense to 'stand between' [2]. Compute derives from 'com' (together) + 'putare' (reckon, settle an account) [3]; the latter root originally comes from Indo-European 'to prune'. Almost all vocabulary is in fact a form of extended metaphor; in fact, it cannot be any other way, because to describe a new thing requires one to compare and contrast it to existing things.

You yourself are making a metaphor when you say that an analogy has to 'at least rhyme' — a metaphor for poetic sound similarity to stand for a sort of logical similarity.

The distinction between an analogy, where one explicitly calls out the comparison ('like', 'as'), and a metaphor, where the relationship is taken implicitly, is much blurrier than it seems. All our language and thinking is saturated with metaphors at every single level, to the point where they seem to be taken for granted and disappear.

IMO, the problem is not metaphors themselves, which are unavoidable; it's picking wrong metaphors (which is really using the wrong language) that lead us astray.

[1] https://www.etymonline.com/word/jar

[2] https://www.etymonline.com/word/understand

[3] https://www.etymonline.com/word/compute
Here, how a kid in Africa used a Nokia feature phone doing T9 typing, before he could eventually get a job doing Android development.

https://hanselminutes.com/615/developing-on-not-for-a-nokia-...
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Maybe so, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News. It doesn't help.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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But that's the point - 2/3 of what you'd get from an established company, multiplied by a few years, is a very large amount of money.

If "maybe 1/3rd of what I’d get from an established company" was enough to pay mortgage and provide for a family of 3, then in the "not doing a startup" scenario you'd have earned&saved that money, and you effectively lose it if your startup doesn't work out.
Well, the thing about liking Microsoft is pretty much regional, just like Apple's or Google's love.
Undergraduates mostly have textbooks which change every couple of years. Also, electronic books that don't have DRM don't die when the device does.

I was physics/math and was lucky that my textbooks didn't change that rapidly, but still, it's a bit odd to claim that paper is the obvious choice for everyone based on widely varying circumstances.
Unless you have an interest in the project or a specific goal in mind then it's hard to say.
Let's be clear, we're not disagreeing on policies we're disagreeing on what the behavior of government is in enacting policies. Government does not have resources it did not acquire through laws... which are by necessity enforced. Say "no" to the IRS and see how things work out.

A diminution of force is not the absence of force and you simply can't have a government act without the consequence of enforcing its actions. This isn't "cooperative" since that requires voluntary consent of all parties. I may support any number of government actions but I do not hide behind euphemisms to convince myself that those actions carry with them the very real potential and actual consequence of force.
However back then there were a lot more deductions for individuals tax returns until the 1986 reforms so I wonder what the effective tax rate was.
I tried reading this book several years ago and bounced right off. Given the multiple recommendations, I'll give it a second try.
I was taught to use tilde in big-O notation. Your use of "set element" operator is not quite correct either, because of the limit that's going on there.
Most interviewers aren’t engineers, in tech sure, but their are lots of other industries
Sure, but it’s not like I was living under a bridge or anything. My standard of living did not change one iota. The stereotype of a starving founder is just not true most of the time. In fact I’ve yet to meet a founder who did not pay him/herself a pretty good upper middle class living wage. Not millions, natch, but still six figures.
I think having a way to overcome the usability problem is a good idea.

Keep in mind that Peepeth is a self-funded effort by one person (Bevan). I'm sure he'd be more than glad to solve the usability problem, but purchasing ETH on your behalf can't be done without funding or a source of revenue.

However you can donate see https://peepeth.com/support
It looks like there is a sizable market for curated brands, even for routine items like toilet paper, razors, baby formula etc.
If you are this afraid to tell your customers and/or users your name, they are right not to trust you.

ps -- if you want not to be required to disclose anything under the GDPR, don't collect any personal data. No ips, usernames, access logs, etc.
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Any language can have a JIT compiler, that is just an implementation detail.
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Jef went to work for Canon after leaving Apple and created the Canon Cat which implemented his original vision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_Cat
I think the tone is heavy-handed. Leaking can happen accidentally--for example, by leaving an iPhone in a bar--and sending the message that this could result in criminal prosecution doesn't seem good for morale.

Of course, every employee at Apple knows the culture of the company, so it's not like it should be any surprise.
We understood Moore's Law, so it made sense in the early 70s to make a personal computer in 1973 that would have the power of much less expensive personal computers 10 or more years later. Why? Because the new SW and UI takes a lot of work to invent -- this allowed us to show Steve "the 80s" in 1979.

(Worth pondering this way of going about things.)

What was disappointing is that the market couldn't value personal computing, especially the general market. For example, the Lisa with its hard disk was really the better machine to be the flagship for Apple. In the early 80s it was priced at less than an average car -- ~$10K -- a mass market price if you could see that this would be your "information and speculation vehicle".

Instead, PCs could only be sold at consumer price levels, more or less as novelties and in business as spreadsheet machines -- and this forced the Mac to be much smaller (both in RAM and disk) so that it was more like a toy than a vehicle.

So, no, we (not I - I was part of a research community) did not underestimate the importance of economics. Note that my original Dynabook paper in 1972 said these would eventually be sold for the same price as color TV sets. But we did underestimate the ability of the early market to value computing.
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If you read the document link seen in the article you will see that one of their priorities is focusing on efficiency and size output of wasm.
Argentina is not an underdeveloped country. It used the be the richest country in south America. It became poor again but thats nothing comparable to a country that never knew development.
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I wonder how far down the stack they plan to go with manufacturing their own designs. In the past, System76 was largely just rebadged Clevos with software/firmware updates. I wonder if the systems going into their new chassis will be sourced similarly, of if they'll have any spiffy added features.
Hmm, I never thought my informative post would get flagged, while baseless speculation is upvoted.

The parent is pretty much 9/11 inside job conspiracy level stuff. I just stated a few facts about what happened, and how that contradicts the parent's speculation.

Anyway, whatever. Evidently HN is not a forum for reasonable discussion around this topic, because people don't follow what's happening wrt Syria closely.

EDIT: Let's just say, that this reaction is pretty typical. Almost universally, whenever a chemical attack happens and is reported, we're told that rebels are doing it to themselves as a false flag, to inspire western intervention.

After 40th case of rebels successfully throwing canisters with chlorine upon themselves from helicopters they don't have, to inspire intervention that never happened in the last 7 years or didn't bring anything good,... it gets ridiculous...

The problem is that anyone who doesn't watch closely, only sees this one medialized case in MSM, and thinks that false flag somehow may make sense. And "why would Assad use chlorine?" pops up, when it's docummented he uses it regularly.
>A society's benefit takes precedent over the desires of individuals. A society wants people living in their homes most of the time. They want the majority of housing for residents with very few, specific examples such as resort towns.

Okay, then if society > individuals, definitely you should not regulate airbnb over long term residents, because short term residents are a higher portion of society. Way to shoot yourself in the foot!

> Again, that's not the case. Hotels are purpose built, temporary places for people to stay. AirBnB is made on the premise of converting existing long-term housing in to short-term rentals.

Unless you have the strange assumption that hotels take no space whatsoever, they also convert long term housing to short term housing.

> I don't have any numbers here and without doing it, I'm not going to hand wave at it anymore.

One of the biggest new companies in the world, valued at multiple tens of billions, takes a 15% cut on short term rentals, hotels stocks are doing fine and you honestly believe people are not travelling more?

I suggest you talk with people you know and ask them how many times they stayed at a hotel in their lifetime and how many times they stayed at an airbnb. The answer will surprise you.
it took me a bit to understand too. i think it means why people who started companies did so instead of joining them
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I've been seeing a lot of threads/articles about systems thinking come up on HN lately. As a developer, why is it important to learn "systems thinking"? How will it make me a better developer?
not all whistleblowers are related to Mother Teresa.

MT was a fanatic and a fraud, so it’s not clear if you think that’s good or bad
All laws rely ultimately on force.

Would you call policing a 'war on crime'? The enforcement of contracts a 'war on fraud'? The collection of taxes a 'war on free-riding'?

The deficiency of 'war' as the correct metaphor here is that war implies much more than simply 'force'; war has a particularly structure, in part:

1. It is a conflict between distinct groups

2. It is the exception and can be distinguished against 'peace'

3. Victory, or defeat, is possible (in ancient times, where warfare was common and vicious, the literal elimination of entire polities was very common)

None of these things are true of the 'war on poverty' or 'war on cancer', for example.
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Hobbes recognized that the social contract is enforced by the sovereign, otherwise we have anarchy. That good is derived from such a contract does not mean that it is absent force... it's necessary. It is absurdity is to try and hide from that fact just because we like the initiative or results.
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Software engineering has been recognized as a discipline of professional engineering since 2009 by NCEES, the national body of engineering licensing boards in the US.

See my other comment for details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16835964
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First, violating terms of service isn't illegal - ToS isn't the law, it's a contract; breaching contract terms isn't illegal but may expose you to some liabilities depending on the contract.

Second, terms of service don't always apply, you may refuse them, and then you're not even in breach of contract. Things like shrink-wrap/click-through EULAs aren't binding contracts in Norway; so the default provisions of copyright law apply, which allows reverse engineering without the permission of the copyright holder.
I've digitized a bunch of 16th century books so I (and everyone else, they're out of copyright) can read them on a tablet or whatever. Added a search function, too.

I am suggesting that claiming that one thing is best for everything and everyone is not true.
I think we do. Especially if we want to take advantage of the new AR and VR apps that are coming to market.
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> In the early 80s it was priced at less than an average car -- ~$10K -- a mass market price if you could see that this would be your "information and speculation vehicle".

A car is a major purchase and people keep them for years or get significant resale value out of them. Moore's law would mean Lisa would be rapidly devalued. For businesses that could justify it generating $x amount of revenue in that time it could make sense. For individuals at the time I'm not sure.

That's not to say people don't spend extravagant amounts on cars beyond the base level of needed functionality. I just can't think of too many purchases at that level that get obsolete so quickly.