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There's no way to "fix C" in a way that saves you from the cost of fixing all those broken programs written in C. The best a language-level solution can do for an existing project is make it easier to figure out what specifically needs fixing. Or blow up your code and run time with checks, I guess, but if that was technically feasible, to say nothing of political challenges, those projects wouldn't have been in C to start.

I feel like Elrond at the council of Rivendell: "you have only one choice." Except throwing a ring into a hole is a comparatively well-defined task relative to rewriting an unknown number of crappy pieces of software. Ed: also there's no conveniently situated group of people to whom to assign the project.
Assuming 300-400mln out of 1B is R&D and we cut it completely, they need to make ~600mln per quarter -- which is, as comparison, in the same ballpark as the quarterly revenue of Twitter.
Exactly. It's the economics version of the Prisoner dilemma. First city to give up the tax breaks gets the jobs, but to truly win, everyone has to say "build here if it's right for you. You're not getting any incentives from us."
I just opened the Lyft app and tried it. After entering a destination, I was taken to a screen showing the prices for the various options.

There was no confirm button Or anything else hiding prices.

(This was on iOS)
Sure, a sleek modern taxi company that got employees in jail by city governments, and has an aggressive rep to fight back.

How many people got jobs and faster and cheaper commutes because Uber took a hit themselves to disarm local morally bankcorrupt governments?
We know there's a disconnect. That's exactly the problem.

Without discussing these things, the bar for 'normal' will simply continue moving.

Consider that in 2018 the term 'spyware' has essentially become meaningless because outside of FOSS products for power users and a few systems for enterprise _everything_ is doing it.

I won't buy my family products that spy on them and will recommend them against buying such. They need a moderating influence that understands the issues and doesn't have a vested interest in screwing them over like advertisers do.
In principle I agree. An IDE should be able to automatically generate something like a header file regardless of language.

But still, no IDE or tool I've seen does this better. A header file gives you a very nice overview, and it really isn't any hassle to speak of to keep them up to date.

It takes getting used to (as with everything when starting out with a new language), but before you know it you might even start to miss them in other languages.
Agree that the lock-in is weak compared to other markets. Their strategy has been to incentivize drivers and riders to not split usage between other apps.

Uber drivers who do a certain number of hours or rides per day/week often get bonuses, so they'd have to forego these bonuses to split time with Lyft.

On the rider side, they're pulling a play from the airline playbook, with their version of frequent flier miles and status: https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/14/uber-rewards/
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Everybody is currently conditioned to think they have to stand up on a stage and give a TED talk/I Have a Dream speech -> drum up enough support and you are on your way right?

Wrong. Because everyone else is playing the same game.
It's an arms race for peoples attention. And mass attention is highly scattered and diffused over all kinds of things in the spectrum of useful to bullshit.

That needs to change first.
You have to set your particular console as your PSN account's "primary" console. When a console is set as your primary console, any other accounts on that console can use software that you have bought using your PSN account. However, I think only one account can have a particular console set as their "primary" console at a time, so if your PS4 is your account's primary console, then it cannot be your wife's account's primary console, meaning if she buys software, your account cannot access it.

https://manuals.playstation.net/document/en/ps4/settings/act...
Agreed that a sample size of 1 doesn't tell us much - but it does tell us something, which is my point.
Tech hasn't been kind to Seattle or SF. Maybe to the people attracted likely to be filling this jobs, but not to the people in the surrounding areas.

LIC was mostly warehouses at one point and you're right a lot of the new units are housing for people moving away from Manhattan. But the concern is not just about LIC; it's about Corona, Astoria, Jackson Heights. These are areas with a lot of immigrant communities, communities that'll start getting pushed out once the Amazonians move in.
IIRC, that technology originated in fighter jets, and worked it's way down to consumer goods. The company sold Bluetooth headsets for a while, but multi-mic solutions were cheaper and worked better. They tried to hang in there for a few years, diversifying into consumer electronics like the "Jawbox."

It didn't work out, and they went bankrupt.
And I’m saying that it’s not at all intractable in a plurality system. The closer the candidates are, the less it matters who you choose.

In my example, the decision of whether to “approve” of the horrible candidate has enormous stakes.
It's not just money is it? It's also things like infrastructure they'll provide?

Could that possibly make Amazon more efficient, and so employ more people who spend their salaries and so on, creating a net gain for the whole US?
I did not read it as a complaint, just a commenting with a similar story of inefficiency in a different industry. I found his story to be interesting. Really no need for you to come across so angry/aggressive.
> I do wonder if the ride-sharing business will wind up like the airlines business: valuable, booming but very, very tough to consistently make large profits.

Rather, how the airline business used to be, before it consolidated down enough (in the US). Now it's a goldmine of consistent profit compared to what it used to be.

Delta - the world's most profitable airline - generated $24 billion in operating income over the prior four fiscal years; $3.3b in the last two quarters. Not impressive compared to certain tech giants, however still excellent operating profitability given the history of airlines. The major US airlines are of course domestic focused, so the corporate tax cut took them all from ~35-40% rates down to closer to 20%, further bolstering their bonanza.

It's why Warren Buffett bought ~10% of all of them (Berkshire owns 9.2% of Delta, 9.7% of American, 9.8% of Southwest, 9.8% of United). He perceived that the market had permanently shifted due to consolidation. The airlines have become more like the modern railroads, going from brutal competition to stable oligopoly and consistent profit machines.

Last four years operating income:

Delta: $24b, American: $23b, United: $17b, Southwest: $14b
>They patch some bugs[0], but they don't patch the shallow characters and mediocre writing.

They solved this in Fallout 76. Can't be accused of having shallow characters if you put no characters in the game!
Artificial Intelligence meets Art: Neural transfer style
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FPTP did exactly what it was designed to do during 2016. It stopped extremely lopsided states like California and new York (6 million vote difference right there).
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I honestly think they will eventually license and lease their platform and technology to others and just rake in money (every cab company would pay for this type of access to customers, Uber Eats is an indication other delivery services could likely license it too for a reasonable price). That is where their true value is at.

Being acquired is still a long ways off when they still have this insanely high imaginary valuation.
It's very tough out there on the HN comedy circuit. Exhibit A - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16633615
Don’t have too many recomentations for the printer, but you may want to look into printing services rather than buying one. If you live near a university they may offer this service for relatively cheap, same for local maker spaces. I’m sure there are online places that will do this too but I don’t know too much about those.

As for modeling I would probably recommend you learn some sort of CAD software too, fusion 360 is probably the best free one right now. This would be useful for very precise parts but not necessarily for artistic endeavors.
Typical Rent in LIC is around $3200 for a 1-bedroom. It's an extremely high-income neighborhood in Queens. Go a little farther down the 7 and you start to see some of the middle class, but they're not really in LIC.
I have heard apocryphal stories of people not wanting to hire ex-uber employees, because the culture there had such a bad reputation as being ethically bankrupt. I wonder if continued fb employment would make someone similarly less desirable as a hire.
Are you talking about SQL Server? You can keep using old versions, and the performance improvements of modern hardware and new versions end up providing more value overall.

With Maps, there's suddenly a new price and you have no options.
You should definitely give WPF a try. At least for me Windows Forms is way less productive and nice.
I'd be delighted if they made it mandatory. Speeding kills way too many people.
As somebody else in this three said, the Confirm button is only for airport destination when you select the airline where you want to be dropped off.
> ... and it's still not fixed

It was fixed in May: https://www.xda-developers.com/google-fixes-flaw-spoof-inbox...
How is your comment even remotely relevant to the post topic?
Even though the cost of energy is divided by thirds, fusion still generates so much more power that the sheer scale can overpower lots and lots of bottlenecks.

For instance, it is chemically possible to combine water (either atmospheric or from a normal water source) with atmospheric CO2 to chemically synthesize hydrocarbons. It just takes energy. So you could have a single, absolutely massive fusion plant next to an atmospheric fuel refinery and use the hydrocarbons for fuel storage and distribution. You could do likewise with hydrogen and oxygen if you wanted to make fuel cells or rockets. And this would probably be cheaper than refining fossil fuels. You could actually run OPEC out of business this way, make the electric car obsolete, make airlines carbon-neutral, etc., etc.

Climate change? Just extract the atmospheric CO2 using cheap fusion energy and turn it into an easily sequestrable form. Nitrogen fertilizers? You can make those from the air too. Drought? Use fusion power to run desalination plants. Arable land becomes a non-issue with fusion because vertical farming becomes easy. Every city could just grow whatever they needed in exactly the right climate conditions in a set of enclosed vertical farms, though they might not need to because energy will be so cheap that there's no problem shipping the stuff from Honduras anyway.

Computation scales with power, too. More power, more computation, except computation produces heat, which you need even more power to chill.
This is one of those no-shit responses, parroted over and over again.

At the end of the day, Pepsi and Coca-Cola sells you sugar water. McDonald's and Burger King get the same meat form the same vendor trucks. You charge a credit card whether Visa or MasterCard.

The point isn't who brings you the convenience, it's that you have convenience at all.

Uber/Lyft has commoditized driving to a product sold at ~$2/mile. That's why this week they both launched loyalty programs, back to back.

And from there they'll just keep trying to add more value bit by bit. Not surprised at all if in 10 yrs Uber doesn't have cab hailing anymore, but you ended up on an Uber flight to Shanghai.
Got any actual sources? That link pushes a fearmongering agenda, and repeatedly mentions a "NASA study" without ever referencing it. It sounds like they're referencing the infamous NASA Clean Air Study, except that didn't examine radioprotective properties of plants. And that doesn't make sense anyway, because the radioprotective benefit is only conferred if you consume the plant.

EDIT: read through more of the link, and it's total bullshit. A representatively BS quote, brackets mine:

> Because of the spider plants amazing abilities at cleaning out pollution [completely false extrapolation of the Clean Air Study], it is also believed to be effective at absorbing forms of radiation in the home [WTF?]
Your state should probably border the east coast to fall into the category of "east coast".
What's wrong with using multiple microphones?

A mic element costs about thirty cents, and the processing power required for noise cancellation already exists in the CPU of the mobile device.

I think it's particularly interesting that Amazon has made microphe arrays particularly cheap, due to Alexa. MiniDSP offers a microphone array for under $100, which is an unheard of price considering what these cost ten years ago.

https://www.minidsp.com/products/usb-audio-interface/uma-8-m...
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seL4 has a guaranteed WCET.

Did you make such a calculation for your microkernel?
I think the fear was that you would take the job and then leave ~6 months later for a better one.
Last 5 SpaceX launches of 2018
I suspect it already is in use in Lambda, an AWS rep mentioned something about them using a custom JVM internally for Lambdas when they gave a talk at our company recently, so this is probably that.

As for the default on AMIs, it probably will go that way when OpenJDK 8 support ends next year. They'll have the option of distributing RedHat's OpenJDK build with their patches, or packaging their own. It'll probably be similar to the `mysql` package actually providing MariaDB, and no one will really notice.

I am intrigued if there will be noticable performance improvements. They do mention performance enhancements on the page, but I believe this is more about dealing with Oracle's licensing changes and maintaining support for the LTS releases. But there's plenty of incentive for them to make it better performing than alternatives too.

I expect my company will switch to this because we're already on Amazon Linux 2, and have been struggling to make a decision on how to update the JDK with future releases. But if there are performance improvements, that might push some more AWS users to switch to Amazon Linux over Ubuntu and other distros in EC2.
2 potential fixes on the rider side:

- Uber prime

- Uber points
This isn’t hyperbole. Corporations are stealing directly from the tax payer via politicians and they should be jailed for it.

We need more calls to action for holding these people accountable.

No one “dislikes tax incentives” what an absurd straw man ... they don’t like being robbed for the benefit of a small few at the expense of everyone else.
You're asserting that it is responsible journalism. That is not a given in this debate.
Not meaning to be accusatory, but it's possible you're seeing lower quality drivers because your rating is low?
It is my opinion that these initiatives fail for political reasons rather than on their merit. There are perverse incentives for all interested parties to avoid changing the status quo. Anytime you find a cause with diffuse costs and concentrated benefits it's going to be an uphill battle to get things implemented. As indicated by the article, math was not the barrier to implementing better scheduling. We are able to do the math.
Willingess to pay higher taxes doesn't translate to "supportive of any conveivable use of the tax revenue".

I'm happy to pay my taxes for certain uses but am still entitled to complain if my elected officials use tax revenue to fill a room with gold coins and swim around in it like Scrooge McDuck.
Here you go, all offered under the 'Business Productivity' umbrella of AWS:

Amazon WorkDocs https://aws.amazon.com/workdocs/

Amazon WorkMail https://aws.amazon.com/workmail/

Amazon Chime https://aws.amazon.com/chime/

Amazon Alexa for Business https://aws.amazon.com/alexaforbusiness/
AWS: a web gui with 200 options, some of which have 200 menu items to select from. Experts work well. neophytes are stuck behind canned recipies which are limited. Want IPv6? deploy a /56 explicitly to locations, because they didn't pre-can a model to manage it for you. What?

command line tools in JSON are pretty good however. Can drive from shell.

Azure: too young. Tried k8s, the fit was awful. I'm told by people who don't know, but speak to gossips there is a metric french tonne of 'reboot it again' going on behind the scenes.

I never got to a point I could test if I could drive from the shell. it just wasn't baked.

GCP: its 2018. Google still can't do native IPv6. That aside, this is the interface I wanted all along. I drive this from the shell every day. We live in k8s.
You mean they announced a five-year supported LTS after Oracle once again told the world they want money for their LTS version? Ouch.

It was kind of nice to have Gosling announce it though.
I see a lot of Google Cloud bashing on this thread, so thought I'd share my viewpoint as a customer.

We've been a Google Cloud customer for close to a year now and just recently signed a deal to move all of our infrastructure over to them from AWS. I've previously managed infrastructure spends of $>10M a year on AWS before, so have a decent amount of experience with them. I've never used Azure.

We had been running our CI/CD pipelines on Google mostly because we received startup credits from them. Over time, our use cases expanded as we adopted BigQuery for data warehousing. We choose to commit to Google long term because we've been a heavy Kubernetes shop in got tired of managing it ourselves on Amazon. We participated in the Amazon EKS alpha and felt that they were years behind Google in their Kubernetes implementation. We have probably been able to save 1-2 DevOps hires this year by adopting some of Google's managed services.

If there is a downside on the technical side, it is that some of their products don't have the same number of features as Amazon such a prefix signing and reporting on GCS. There also isn't the same level of community awareness on how to use their stack so documentation gaps are more painful. Other things like a lack of presence in China could be challenging in the future as well.

On the business side, Google has been amazing to work with. Whenever we have a technical question, the sales team has generally been able to quickly get us an answer or we've got to talk to the product PM. When working with Amazon, you are usually referred to a solutions integrator who can't answer tough technical questions. Google is very open with early access releases as long as you're willing to provide them feedback - which they truly value. Their sales processes aren't as mature as that of an established enterprise company - which can be a good or a bad thing - but they've certainly earned our trust as an enterprise customer.

In some ways, any of the big 3 are going to have marks against them in some way as they just do too many things for them not to piss you off in some way. I wasn't a fan of Microsoft a decade ago because they regularly killed open source products I liked by releasing their own version of it under the Microsoft name.

When looking for partner I'm looking for someone who can accelerate my business and earn my trust. So far, that's what I've gotten from this relationship.
Yes, I take a lot of notes - I used to use physical notebooks ( http://cloudeddesigns.com/img/design-books.jpg ) and have tried many digital products.

I wrote and now use https://www.lifepim.com as my primary note source, it uses a simple markdown format and is working well for me.
This is a good summary of the last 5 launches planned by SpaceX, no Falcon Heavy launches however. If they pull this off and hit 22 launches this year, they will be very close to the target of 26 launches per year (on average one every 2 weeks).

At which point I start to wonder just how much stuff is out there that people want to launch :-).
I am not even a proponent of basic income.

The point is that in policy today, "everyone's needs will be met" isn't an automatically a winning argument.
You're just seeing why metered taxi rates came to be a thing in the first place. Rather than individual drivers it's the platform getting creative about distance and price.
The draft for the merged version expected to be in C++20 is here: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p110...
Couldn't it just as readily be racist, crooked cops rolling up some local thugs to satisfy their own motives? What's to stop them from killing one and blaming another?

Without evidence, this idea is just as valid as the theory you propose.
Anecdotally I've met an absolutely crazy amount of recent Google Cloud hires in the past few months so I'm curious if the pace of updates will improve in like a year as they throw money at it.
Which particular GCP IAM features are missing?
I agree with everything in this article right up until the proposed solution. Yes, people need to feel useful, and UBI does nothing to address the fundamental social problem. However giving everyone tech jobs is not really going to work—I agree anyone can learn to write code to some level of competence, but the problem is that there is not really a big market for the basic level of competence. If you don't have the fundamental curiosity, systematic thinking and famous programmer "laziness", you will never attain the level necessary to go beyond the "bullshit job" level of coder. For example, anyone can learn to code HTML and CSS, but not anyone can build Squarespace, and yet even at minimum wage, it's not cost effective to pay a mass of individuals to create sites manually because it'll be more expensive and lower quality than just using Squarespace. More abstractly: top programmers are capable of automating away the work of lesser programmers, and this balance will worsen significantly if we start trying to push everyone into programming as a basic job.

I know this comes off as elitist and dismissive, but I've been mentoring and training junior programmers for 20 years, and it's just a fact that not everyone is cut out for programming. It's not even about intelligence–there's just something intrinsic that people need to be able to create significant value from programming. And if we assume some kind of general AI or singularity is coming, eventually we will reach a point where no human programmer can create any value over machine-written code. We're not sociologically equipped to deal with these changes, and I think it's going to get a lot uglier before it gets better.
The same argument could be made for the USA by individual states having different income and sales taxes.

That's just as bad as Irelands tricks helping to avoid taxes due in the UK and other eu states
#3 is kinda hinky.

Yes, there are differences between men and women - physical and emotional. But they also respond differently to hormones. When men have low levels of testosterone, they may get a bit depressed; but those "low" levels of T are far higher than what any woman will ever experience, even women who are thriving. So it's pretty clear that male and female brains do not react the same way to these things.
Snap and Spotify account for 13.7% of Google Cloud: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/20/spotify-will-spend-nearly-45...
The post discusses bit-fields in the context of implementing some part of the USB OTG specification. Author makes a joke about USB having bits for “a valid oven”.
I agree. But I imagine it would help some people get more excited about it.
Maybe first figure out exactly what is broken and why?
Seems like this would be a plus - more closely simulating real war conditions.
That was, to put it mildly, exceptionally generous of your dad and mom. Very few people would go that far in helping a complete stranger. And what happened to the homeless man eventually?
Basically, until the world gets rid of UNIX derived OSes, we call it a defeat and go back home.