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> Look at how speed cameras and red light cameras get shouted down

The problem with both of those is that they get put in places where they maximize revenue rather than maximize safety.

San Diego has several extremely dangerous intersections which regularly result in fatalities--which never so much as see a policeman let alone a red light camera.

Instead of putting them on those dangerous intersections, the cameras got placed on high-volume intersections that weren't particularly dangerous but were particularly good at trapping people at a yellow light--especially during rush hour. The cameras had the added bonus that they increased the number of accidents at those intersections.

Speed cameras tend to be similar. Rather than speed cameras getting placed on stretches of road where it's critical to get people to slow down, they get placed on roads where the speed limit is particularly out of whack with the 85th% speed.
Generally math formulae are one based, the fft and the Taylor expansions being the major exception. Natural numbers, by convention, unless you're bourbaki, start at one.

I do appreciate that zero is easier because of offset caluculations, but you really do get used to it and in most cases the compiler figures it out with almost no penalty.
Only problem is, the Fire ecosystem is a huge bag of the lowest performance worst hardware you can imagine, with the worst apps on top of it.

If you forcibly package dog poop with each tv just to get that much dog poop forcibly installed at all the hundreds of millions of homes, then people are only going to associate you with dog poop.
Divorce rate is 53% in the US, and higher in many countries. So only a minority of people whi marry don’t get divorced.
Too bad you still need to provision instance and reserve max capacity.

They had a chance to outcompete AWS by providing a truly serverless Redis-like service with no upfront commitment and pay-per-use.

That’s what I expected when I first heard that GCP is working on “Serverless Redis” a year ago.
he claims it was simply the online, freely downloadable image.

the fact he sold to resellers make it even less shady. he sold a service to the resellers? or saved users time/bandwidth/trouble of burning image on botable cd?

any way you try to spin this will still go against comon sense the whatever spirit of the laws that are not "license to sue anything under the sun, because IP"
Also:

$[ = 1;

(Yes, I'm _old_...)
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Check whether you get the outer scope's value back when the inner scope terminates.
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Your argument is based on a major logical fallacy. There’s lots of reasons why cycling is far better for society than driving cars. But none of them matter because people do not want to cycle. There are no cases in the world where cycling infrastructure has been successful in having a measurable impact on congestion.

You’re also falling for the same fallacy that cycling advocates fall for by obscuring the impact of cycling spending. It doesn’t matter if hundreds of people want to cycle to work, or if cycling adoption is up 10% if all you’ve done is gone from 3% of commuters to 3.4% of commuters (which is where I believe SF is at after all of the billions they’ve invested in it). It’s the same as the startup that says they’re growing faster than google because they managed to go from 50 customers to 100. We all know it’s bullshit, it’s just a popular self-delusion that people enjoy.
It is however extremely more inclusive. Everyone in the world right now has very good chance to join. Unlike traditional capitalism where it can do lots of things to keep others from joining, keep many dependent on their salaries just to survive.

It won't be perfect. But it is definitely tons better than the current capitalism.

Another very important feature here is the ability to easily fork. So if we need to fix something, it can easily be done (no need to wait for an organized citizen revolution)(although this is probably better attributed to the idea of Free Software).
>> Very few of them actually have the organic bonds or genuine feeling of comraderie that real communities are supposed to have

> There is a tradeoff between freedom and community.

I think you misunderstood the comment. People who "like" a particular cat photo page likely don't think of themselves as being part of a _community_ but FB uses the term to try to con them.
I think it is much better for Kazakh people in the long run. You would be surprised how fast young generation adapts. Initial pains you describe is not that trenendous. I applaud Kazakh peopke for their decision.
Oatlys packages are funny. Their packages say "It's Swedish!" but when you read the fine-print on some packages, it's produced in Germany. I always preferred oat-drink istead of milk so have been using that since 1997 somewhere. My daughter had milk protein allergy when she was small and still loves Oatly and don't want milk at all. Luckily there are many other ways to get enough calcium if you just get away from the dairy industry propaganda...
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No, the problem is that you appear to be ignorant of the issues: a pittance is spent on transit and biking compared to driving, driving dominates road design, land use regulations are built around driving.

"We built everything for cars, and now everyone is driving!" What a shock.

The idea that politicians pledge to spend "billions" on biking (and actually do so) is particularly laughable. Where exactly is this biketopia? (It doesn't exist)
Allow me to hyperbole this a bit. If we go back to 2008, this is like saying - "there is so much money bet on subprime loan being correct, that we'll assume it is". And it worked for sometime before it dint.
The biggest problem is that the policy association between what the hardware and firmware provide and what the expected behaviour is vary between releases of Windows, and so having the kernel make that kind of association leads to problems. The goal of doing stuff with a userland library was to leave the mechanism up to the kernel (ie, expose the various different ways of driving the hardware) and allow userland to make a policy decision over which interface was least likely to cause confusion.

If you're having to write shell scripts then there's absolutely a failure - but I haven't bought a laptop in years where that's been the case (and I stopped doing this stuff professionally a few years ago, so I really do appreciate stuff working out of the box). Desktop environments should be providing the necessary glue to bind keys to something that can make an appropriate decision while still allowing overrides for the corner cases that the kernel can't catch.

Systemd actually makes it easier to handle a lot of these -it provides a centralised mechanism for exposing platform-specific quirks to other userland components. I'm not going defend every systemd design decision, but honestly it's been an improvement for everything discussed in this post.
The BBC covered the kebab situation in Germany last year.
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170203-germanys-favourite-...
Can you explain to me what's going on in this code?
You can also just cast screen to empty in the default case by adding a line that says (screen: empty). This is how the flow docs recommend doing it in Redux reducers.
> A source says that the chipmaker in question is Intel. Keller previously worked at AMD and Apple’s PA Semi.

He's leaving for Intel. Intel is doing a major accumulation of key personnel, such as Raja Koduri.

https://twitter.com/ryanshrout/status/989375581325213696

Headline buried the fucking lede.
http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/ should do pretty well too.
It is not only about package formats, since even when the format is the same, the expected directory layouts or installed libraries will be completely different.

No one really took FHS seriously, each installation is a special snowflake with its own GUI and dynamic libraries story across Linux variants is even worse than it was on other OSes.
Howdy, I'm the author :)

I definitely agree, for high traffic applications a compute or memory optimized instance are more optimal choices due to the consistent performance, especially when price isn't as much of a concern.

In situations where cost is more of a concern and the application has "bursty" requirements for performance, I still believe the T2 instance has it's place.

The guys over at Cloudonaut have an excellent article on the importance of T2 burst credits to maintain application performance.

https://cloudonaut.io/burst-credits-of-t2-ec2-instances-need...

EDIT: The new T2 Unlimited option mentioned at the above article is also worth considering.
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I get the sense you’re an autistic sociopath and would like to recommend mushrooms or LSD as the cure to what ails you. Milk is too weak a drug to do the necessary business.
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Source on SF having spent "many billions" on bike infrastructure please.

That number is ludicrous, you made it up.
> A bunch of wrongs don't make a right :-)

Funny how I always thought zero-based numbering[0] was a hack. Just in computer science a hack will become the right way? Any other fields where hacks became the new norm due to technical restrictions?

Your statement is a opinion.

To add to the list of languages using arrays in a "gross" way: pgsql, pascal, lua.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-based_numbering#Origin
This was originally posted with the original title: "Drew Cloud Is a Well-Known Expert on Student Loans. One Problem: He’s Not Real."

And then it was changed to the current, more clickbaity one. Why? (I'm saying "clickbaity" because the fake person's name, which was relevant information, was omitted.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_lang...
Peaked? The yearly cycle peaks during Q4 because of the holiday season.
It becomes societies problem once you are about to die because you bet to not get an expensive disease and cant afford the care once it happens. You dont live in an isolated bubble.

This boils down to a simply question. Is society ok with letting people die in the gutter because they cant care for themself as a result of having bet on not needing insurance? If not the discussion is moot. Because then the freedom of not being insured simply means people leeching on society once it happens.
"Again, not trying to be mean, but when your picture came up I said "Yep, that looks like a guy who'd expose himself to minors"."

You mean, after knowing about it? That's textbook confirmation bias. Would you have thought he looked like a felon before knowing about his criminal record?
May I suggest this interactive answer in the form of a text game by Markus Persson, the maker of Minecraft?

It gave me the answer as an experience and a feeling, not as a mental concept, and I appreciated it deeply.

http://game.notch.net/drowning/
> What I don't understand is that AMD/Intel differ so much.

At least one of the factors seems to be the Meltdown workarounds that are required on Intel but not AMD processors. My intuition is that this explanation is sufficient to account for the entire discrepancy between vendors, but I can't rule out other factors. (Querying the HPET incurs all the Meltdown workaround overhead of accessing peripherals like storage, but with none of the actual waiting on a peripheral device, so on a percentage basis this is probably the most severely affected task.)

> I.e. is Intel taking a performance hit, or are their 'non-HPET' numbers cosmetically showing faster performance that isn't there?

When the system is forced to always use the HPET instead of the TSC, the performance hit is real and not just an artifact of inaccurate timers. When you're not overclocking, the TSC is usually reliable and TSC-based time measurements should differ from HPET-based time measurements only by the overhead of accessing the HPET. That overhead got much larger this year for Intel processors.

Ian's initial benchmarks didn't include overclocked processors, just a test configuration intended to be suitable for future comparison against overclocked processors.
You can't give Facebook credit for lgbT acceptance when for a long time they banned trans people. They're also bad at moderation due to not understanding language; https://www.wired.com/story/facebooks-hate-speech-policies-c...

The internet may well have been great for lgbt acceptance but it's despite not because of Facebook.
Ya, that's not serverless by any definition of the word. It's "managed" redis.
HN does blacklist domains. Here's the blacklisted domain list from 2009[1]. Here's a blog post examining penalties applied to posts, some of the penalties are based on the domain[2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499044

[2] http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...
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Not the full picture.

You can have self selected individuals working on an interest who integrate and form a community.

My favorite example is the bay12forum for Dwarf fortress.

High barriers to entry, you need to actually be highly engaged to get over the interface - means that entrants to the forum (used to) stick around and get to know each other.

What you are seeing is the difficulty of paying matching costs for complex types of matches.

In the old system you didn't have options, so shopping around didn't make sense.

In the new system you do have options, so shopping around becomes more attractive.
“Purpose” is a construct that us humans have created. As far as I know no other animal has the concept of “purpose” in the way that you’re referring to.

Ultimately we attach purpose to ourselves because it feels good, or alternatively avoids the pain of existence.

If my purpose is to teach the next generation about science then it gives me a reason to get out of bed in the morning. It’s a thing that is greater than myself.

Some people refer to their purpose as their “immortality project”.

If your actions through your life make changes to the world that those changes still exist after you die, in a way you’ve become immortal.

I’d say the purpose of life is to understand the world and try to push it a little bit forward in your own way. It doesn’t have to be big, it just has to matter to you.

If you’re a bit lost with life, don’t stress about it too much. The best thing you can probably do is be okay with being lost. It’ll either pass or you’ll get curious enough to start looking for answers.

However if you’re asking why are people and animals alive I don’t really know. I think it’s just because sex feels good and then babies happen? Then those babies grow up and the cycle repeats for millions of years.

So the purpose of life is sex I guess.
In the meantime at the Sohn conference Jeffrey Gundlach said FB is a bubble:

http://fortune.com/2018/04/23/facebook-bubble-gundlach/
Thanks for the recommendation. I just started reading, and so far it's quite frightening but enlightening. Holiday uses a scary number of examples to show how effective his tactics are.

edit: I'm not seeing any deep description of the audience, other than as sheep who provide clicks, which is worrying. Surely knowing the audience is important?
When we get back from vacation my wife is absolutely subscribing. Its a step up from dieticians (who guve worksheets and meet in person) since the app looks like it will make everything much more streamlined.
they are no more eastern European than Chinese, European pierogi it's pretty much same stuff as Chinese jiaozi, so the title it's misleading
Absolutely - I spent way too long finding postgres tool, and even then, it was just okay.

Also, so many big players use proven MySQL setups (Uber, Github, etc), that I feel like the scalability is there if needed.
2013 Macbook Air. I did a restore from time machine and it worked smoothly and also freed up a lot of memory - there must have been junk it didn't copy over. I didn't really have speed problems but I'd recommend trying it.

By the way I had odd issues with CalanderAgent going nuts and using 100% cpu all the time after going to High Sierra. Dunno if anyones got a good fix for that? I managed to kill the calendar completely and am using google calendar instead now but it's not ideal.
“I want to pay with crypto”, or why is Crypterium app so anticipated
> Draft a law refining the traffic rerictions for local road access.

You don't even have to do that. You can engineer the road, itself, so that people don't want to be on it.

The problem is that these same neighborhood people also like their own fast access so they oppose doing things that would slow down their streets.
> But that's what people want to have

Are you suggesting that if cities upzoned more areas for smaller dwelling like townhomes and duplexes, families would, what, refuse to live in them? Those units would just remain empty? Because if so, you're wrong.

It's not the free market, it's not individual choice blocking smaller dwellings, it's zoning regulations.
That's demonstrably false. Look to cities in northern Europe like Amsterdam and Copenhagen, where bicycle use has caused a massive decrease in automobile traffic.

Can you cite any of those figures?
You would get a privacy benefit in the sense that the computation provider would not learn anything about the data you gave them. However you are right that centralized computation providers are equally constrained (ie don't learn anything) as blockchains in this regard.
People have a specific tolerance curve for commute time and traffic. With more and bigger roads, they gradually work and live further away (where land is cheaper and they can have a bigger house) until the traffic reaches the same critical point again.

Excess capacity induces demand, attracts it, by enabling people from further away to consume the capacity.
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That statistic allows you to say only a minority of marriages don't end in divorce.

People can be married multiple times so it cannot be true that most married people experience divorce unless they rarely remarry.
The thing is that proving small functions to be correct is often quite useless. You can cover them well enough with a set of unit tests. The big challenge are larger parts of the code, like entire classes or parts of a program. These kinds of things are very hard to prove formally. Even if you did prove them formally, the spec according to which you programmed might be wrong, or the compiler might be wrong (I've seen a variety of compiler bugs, especially larger projects uncover them). Formally proving code is like making sure that every single screw of a self-driving car is tightened to an exact torque, but then the car runs over a person anyway. It's solving the wrong problem.
They’re a long-established company with a mature product.

For those interested in the history, BigCommerce is the SaaS delivery of Interspire. You can’t buy Interspire directly anymore, I think. But I did have the displeasure of customising an Interspire source-code installation many years ago and finding it to be clunky and poorly structured PHP. I haven’t seen under the bonnet of Shopify but I found it much easier to build and integrate for. They talk about their architecture and engineering often at Rails conferences, and I find this a deal more confidence inspiring.
You aren’t wrong about it being difficult to allocate resources so I can understand where you are coming from.

If it is a money problem, don’t lie to developers and tell them that it is “to encourage collaboration” i.e. don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining.

If management truly believes in the collaboration meme, I fully expect them to share a big office. After all, what could be more important than having the gears of management fully meshed?

Either hire low skilled cooks to make your product and control them rigidly (like McDanals) or hire chefs. You can imaging how unhappy (!) a chef would be if you treated them like a Mcdonalds worker.
What are the problems with bubbles if investors can be cushioned from their worst effects when they occur?

The two main problems are mis-allocation of resources and maldistribution of wealth (investors don't worry where their capital goes and investment becomes a more significant source of wealth than work). Both of these problems are very much in evidence today.
Perhaps Mac users are pickier so complain more which is why they left Windows in the first place. So the Windows user base is less picky because the Mac user base is more picky.
"For other platforms" is not a synonym for Linux, there are plenty of other OSes out there, the majority of which still don't use package managers.
Totally possible: https://www.cnn.com/style/article/wooden-skyscrapers-timber-...

Large housing projects require less material and construction than low density housing. Why? Because low density housing is essentially doing a relatively giant housing project per person, spread over way more physical distance. People have to live somewhere, so if high density housing isn't made then they have to live in energy and resource wasting low-density housing.

That being said, living in high density will always be more energy efficient as less energy is wasted on locomotion for people, less energy is needed to service garbage pickup/disposal, less electricity is needed for heating/cooling, less material to construct a habitable unit, less energy is wasted transporting people to their work, less energy is wasted getting food to people (one grocery store to serve a whole high density area rather than a large distributed network of grocery stores), less energy wasted on food delivery (delivery driver can just go to one building versus driving the car around the suburbs)... and the list goes on.
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Does this mean all banks that are using their customers’ voices as passwords are going to have a big problem?

https://www.nuance.com/en-gb/omni-channel-customer-engagemen...
In London, cyclists make up less than 5% of commuters. Hardly a vision of success.
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I don't agree that they're biased. Take LA as an example: there has been a massive expansion in the highway system there (in terms of new interstate sections and lane additions). There's more land area dedicated to transport than just about anything else. The fact is that cars are inherently inefficient in terms of space — they're huge, there are tons of them, and they're not used something like 95% of the time. Sure, maybe you could build your way out of the problem, but, like, why? What's the point when rail is so much more efficient?

The popularity of detached housing is really only a post-WWII phenomenon created by massive infrastructure investments in highways and tax incentives for homeownership (versus renting, which is basically pouring money down a hole in the US). It's a historical anomaly, and I don't think you can disentangle the desire for detached homes from the policy structures that incentivize it.
I think it's a function of distance from source.

Mexico is close to the US. The US has a sizable Mexican population, which means expertise. It also means there is a demand for Mexican food, which spurs competition. Finally, ingredients for Mexican food (whether sourced from Mexico or elsewhere) are readily available. This creates an environment where its possible to find delicious and reasonable priced Mexican food.

Europe is far from Mexico, and the situation is different.

Allow me to generalize "Europe": In Europe you can get delicious and cheap middle Eastern food.

P.S. Where in Europe do you live? Last year we had a really good Mexican restaurant open in Warsaw, Poland.