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> We don't claim that gold has inflated when more is mined, because it is understood that the gold mined already existed.

Historically, I disagree. There was a big gold / silver crash that could only be described as inflation when the Conquistadors returned from the "New World" in the middle-ages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_revolution

We're talking about a change in Gold / Silver prices which lasted for two CENTURIES. Yes, Gold / Silver is effectively finite on Earth. But it is wrong from an economics perspective to ignore the "short term" impact that can last centuries.

I'd argue that most people are probably concerned about time-scales roughly relating to one's life.
Uber and Lyft are middlemen, but because they interface directly with the consumer, they also create demand. I deleted my apps when I realized that I was spending a hundred bucks a month compared with twenty bucks a month if I had used cabs, and getting little real benefit out of it. It just feels so convenient, but the fares add up quickly. I bet if they sent weekly or monthly summaries people would use them less.
> Angry drunk vs. happy drunk is a good zeroth-order personality test.

And to be fair even "happy drunk" can be unprofessional in the wrong context.

But I think anyone who judges someone for how they act in a bar, after dark, and the concern is they were too jovial (absent some kind of sexual harassment or belting out racist jokes) is not someone I'd want to work with anyways.
On the one hand I applaud KPCB for giving up their interest in a founder friendly way, but this also leaves a bad taste in my mouth and seems a bit “Heads I win, Tails you lose” from Sahil’s pov. The VC investment let him build a fully fledged product capable of breaking out. But it didn’t and he still got to keep the company without much liquidation preference. This is an example of a true VC subsidy.
the author wants google to shut down apps, that are legally permitted in a specific country, that disagree with their beliefs.
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Hi there! I work in the Google Open Source Programs Office. Echoing what others have said, it's usually just a matter of an engineer or team deciding it's something they want to do. Other times, it's a strategic choice.

We open sourced our open source policies/docs a while back, so if you're so inclined you can dig deeper there. These two links will be of particular interest: https://opensource.google.com/docs/creating/ and https://opensource.google.com/docs/why/
>but commercially it was the wrong plane with the wrong technology at the wrong time.

I think the consensus is that it is the right plane, right technology at the wrong time (it missed the 747-era, and too early for a future when 4-engine jumbo-jets may make a comeback).
I moved to a more commercial role. Presales. Few months of that and you really start to miss engineering. :)
According to the survey, it's 84% done.
Ask HN: What stack would you use for this project?
I need to write a simple web-based tool that can take input from the user, plug it into SQL queries, and display the results as tables and graphs. I may also need to call some APIs. Earlier in my career I would have used JSPs for this. What stack would you use in 2019?
> It makes me wonder why Google wouldn’t put their efforts into using Rust, for example.

Well some newer projects in Chrome/Chromium are written in Rust so for what it's worth there is some effort.

I believe just yesterday the security team published a document which recommended avoiding unsafe languages for safety critical code: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs...
There are a boatload of pentesting (i.e. penetration testing) tools that use fuzzing. Just be sure that your sysadmin and / or your cloud provider are aware that you intend on running such a test, as that's a really quick way to accidentally bring down servers you weren't anticipating would be connected, or get your IP address banned for DDOS attacks (looking at you, junior QA guy who had good intentions but caused all sorts of havoc).

Edit: Just realized I didn't quite address your question fully. https://pentest-tools.com/home is an online service that will run tests, including URL fuzzing and what not. All of the features they offer can also be found in open source and proprietary software. Not sure about saving failed tests as selenium tests for re-running in the future, though I imagine that you'd just re-run the same tool in the first place.
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I've been fortunate to fly Emirates A380 numerous times. The most impressive flying experience I've ever had, both from Emirates customer service as well as the A380 experience.
I think your post hides a few ideological conveniences which you've used to bolster your argument, or at least make it suond convincing. For instance,

>total lack of change at a meta-scale like a society only exists in totalitarian societies

Does it? Why?

>in the scenario of a command economy, some of the people involved in the economy would fundamentally need to be oppressed

Why? Where does the oppression come in? If it is being told what to produce then doesn't capitalism do the same, though through a distributed model of command? Isn't it true that under capitalism, one must work by someone else's instructions, by the duration dictated by this other, in the method prescribed by this other, in exchange for compensation often only negotiated by a group of these 'others' (save the power of unions intervening)?

>regardless of any moral or ethical judgements, a totally static economy would be inhibiting of the liberty of any given individual participating in it

According to what definition of liberty? Here's what Marx talked about[0]: communism comes in the form of a stateless society, its conception of liberty is radically different to the English liberal tradition's, which places liberty negatively defined as freedom from interference from others. So it seems like you need to preface "liberty" with "bourgeois liberty", or if you prefer, "classical libertarian definitions of liberty". You cannot take them for given.

>laws and regulations, when done correctly, can increase the number of practical/feasible options available to a populace, even though they technically restrict some of the options that would cause a society to fall apart

Under this schema, a hypothetical restriction on employing labour could do the same - people have more options on how to spend their time and to what end. But it's worth nothing that Marx (or any traditional socialist) never argued for imposing laws and regulations, they spoke about changing society, the whole framework of it. Consider that in Hegel, freedom is defined as the negation of necessity.

[0] https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/f/r.htm
Udp websockets would solve this problem pretty quick, but we're stuck with webrtc which has few open source servers and none that perform as well as they should. It's effectively proprietary, services like discord build their own server software to handle webrtc at scale, and good luck building that yourself.
That's an extremely thin sourced description. WPS and BOOPSI both were object-based systems written in C, yes, but WPS originated from the SOM work at IBM Austin: http://collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca/science/rpn/biblio/ddj/Web...

I developed for the Amiga and used OS/2, even on PowerPC machines. They did not look like each other. Although BOOPSI was object-based, it was still something bolted on top of the 1.x APIs. For example, BOOPSI had base classes for gadgets and images, but windows were an entity that lived outside altogether. OS/2 had the same problem: application windows were handles. But inside WPS, everything was a SOM object.

In the Amiga Workbench, everything was ad-hoc, even if some semblance of object-orientedness appeared with things like AppIcons, which required cooperation from the applications. They were still not objects: I am fairly confident that AppIcons were implemented through calls to workbench.library, not by creating a new BOOPSI object. I remember this stuff because I had lots of arguments with some very vocal OS/2 developers.

I still don't see what IBM would have needed from Commodore. It was actually the other way around: IBM extorted patent fees and cross licensing from Commodore. They had more patent lawyers in Boca Raton than C= had engineers in West Chester (my source: Dave Haynie, who dealt with such lawyers and had probably the most useful Commodore patents, the Zorro ones).

And as I mentioned, ARexx came out in 1987, in the 1.x days, as a commercial product, years before Commodore adopted it and before the OS/2 events mentioned. It had no license from IBM (what for?), since Will Hawes wrote it himself for the Amiga's architecture.
How is this not immediately solved by suicide?
Check out the book "How Markets Fail" for a discussion on how the efficient market hypothesis gained popularity (part 1) and a discussion of the many ways that real markets do not maintain the preconditions for markets to be efficient.

In particular, the precondition that Adam Smith stated was that increasing production required linearly increased costs. However, this is frequently not the case (utilities, railroads, software, social media networks, etc.). Also, markets require a certain minimum number of producers (and consumers) in order to remain efficient. Consolidation can reduce the number of producers below the level that meets the precondition of efficiency, and then barriers to entry to prevent newcomers from joining the market.

As far as efficient market theory applied to the stock market, I've always thought that efficient market theory was trivially disprovable: did all companies in the US lose 20% of their value all at the same time this past Nov - Dec, in the same season that they are selling all their inventory during the holiday season? And then regain 10% of it all at the same time the next month? Did Apple lose 50% of its value from between July and December, despite the fact that its revenues, costs, dividends, assets, people-capital, know-how, brand, consumer sentiment, etc. remained roughly the same? Compare to, say, PG&E during the same period.
Npr and old media solved this a while ago. national news shows follow strict schedules, with fixed length breaks at fixed times. Local stations inject their own content into the stream. And a lot of that is produced live.
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7 Cups (YC S13) Is Hiring a Director of Engineering
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> why is low unemployment bad?

Low unemployment isn't inherently bad as an indicator, but attempting to force low unemployment with monetary policy is. In this context, lowering unemployment means increasing the financial pressure on workers so they accept lower wages.

Meanwhile technological progress is eliminating many traditional positions, so workers end up stuck between a rock and a hard place - the screws are being turned on them so they go out and look for a job harder, yet there's nothing to be found!
The US is the world's largest recipient of foreign direct investment and maintains a substantial capital account surplus. Capital inflows finance our current account deficits.

https://www.cfr.org/blog/mapping-capital-flows-us-over-last-...
Perhaps a noobie question, but it mentions c/c++ specifically. How does this hold up for Go? Where you have pointers but no pointer arithmetic?
Sometimes the accommodations are just as hidden as the disability. Things like giving people flexibility about when they come and go at work, or putting someone's desk in a different location (near windows, or away from windows).

I admit that some folks specialize in physical manifestations of ADA (wheelchair ramps, elevators, bathrooms). In some sense, these are easier problems to solve -- you just need to pay a contractor to build a thing on the building. Accommodating hidden disabilities often requires getting people on a team to change their behavior or response to a behavior; a much harder problem.
That is not the best way. Defining “reasonable price” is extremely difficult and that’s one thing the market does much better than the government. The history of regulation in the 20th century, not just in the US but all over the world, is a pattern of governments ditching the idea that they can calculate the “reasonable price” and impose price controls, and moving to more market-oriented mechanisms for regulation.

In the case of wireless, where there is no natural monopoly, the best approach is to simply open up lots of spectrum and ensure there are a sufficient number of competing carriers. There is a ton of spectrum being wasted for things like television that could be used for broadband instead.
Have to say that nothing can make your program automatically safe (defined by common sense, not "memory leaks are also memory safe"[0]) without any effort, and the trend to claim some languages are inherently "safe" while others are not is definitely a hype. Modern C++ plus static analyzing (Chromium rolled out their own Clang plugins to do that) provides better flexibility.

[0]: http://huonw.github.io/blog/2016/04/memory-leaks-are-memory-...
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Facebook opens newest data center in Los Lunas, NM
I saw it in 3D and I would classify it as nice, but not necessary -- 3D is mostly only used to add a little bit of depth, not to do anything that'll make you gasp in astonishment at the 3D-ness of it all. (Which is probably appropriate for this project.)
Exactly. And a lot of foods you buy at grocery stores already include extra B-12 (e.g. soy/flax/oat milks, tofu, etc.)
> So under socialism when people work, they work always and only for themselves or as part of a cooperative that they are an equal owner of.

I don't see how this is possible without killing or even reversing progress.

Example: You work alone and make $500k a year. You know that if you had another good developer you could make a million a year. You know a lot of developers who currently make $100k a year. What is a fair pay? You might say $500k, sure, now both of you earn the same. But, then you realize that you can earn $1200k in total with yet another developer, what should you pay that developer then? $200k? Seems unfair, now he earns less than the first developer even though they do exactly the same job. Do you reduce the salary of the first developer to $350k to make it fair for both? I doubt many workers would think that reducing salary just to hire people is a good thing. Also you yourself would still earn $150k more than them, so would you reduce your own salary to $400k to make it fair? Then why would you even do the work to hire these people? Would they be happier to be stuck with $100k a year when you could easily pay them both $150k a year while still keeping significant profit? Would the world be better off with the 3 of you producing $700k total value (your $500k + their $100k each) instead of $1200k that you would produce together at your company?

Ultimately, the only reasonable thing to do is to hire people at what their job is worth for a typical company or slightly above that. Any value above that is not created by the worker but by the work creator. Then they are happy since you pay them more than they got before, you are happy since you earn money for the work of providing valuable jobs. As a bonus you never get into situations where you would like to hire a person, the person would like to work for you but you can't pay him the same as the rest of your workers since those workers are significantly overpaid compared to the rest of the market.
>They sure sound like bay area people to me.

They do don't they. Almost as if one sentence form several different people were compressed into the perfect stereotype. And from the article's opening, we're to believe these opinions are why land is overvalued and homelessness exists.

>Interesting you assert [the friends are] fake.

The friends who prefer progressive taxes and called hypocritical for opposing the new regressive tax bill?

The friends ranted about on the web?

The author also spends allot of time with welfare families living in luxury apartments, feasting on food stamps and enjoying "at least $160,000 per year pre-tax"[0]

Perhaps they all have dinner together. Naturally in the welfare recipient's luxurious home.

[0]http://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2015/06/01/book-review-the-...
Most 3D films are shot in 2D and converted in post, unfortunately. It’s very common.

See: https://realorfake3d.com/

Edit: To be clear, I'm saying that since most 3D films aren't shot in 3D in the first place, this film probably won't be substantially different from other films, in 3D. It seems some people thought I was confused about what the movie was.
It's certainly true that when I work out, my default response is that I should "reward" myself with bad food. Of course, it's important to ignore that impulse.
One of the benchmark goals was to test "scheduling" efficiency of each runtime. In other words to show how well it scales given many-core instance, which often is more economical in transaction/$$ sense.

Question: how using cluster module is different from spinning up multiple node instances?
+1

I can speak a little bit about what motivated us.

We saw from OSS-Fuzz (https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz) that this sort of thing could be widely useful and wanted non-open source code to benefit from making fuzzing easier.
I fully expect my ATT Fiber to go up in price or down in transfer allotment as a result. What a shame.
Could not agree with you more - tracking the AMD compute story has been painful. Talks about having Tensorflow / Torch upsptream support have been going on forever. Reading between the lines OpenCL seems to not be the favored way to do compute anymore, so its unclear if I was starting today what the canonical forward looking path is for writing compute on AMD cards.
Markets are probably only efficient if P = NP, and it probably doesn't:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2284
Oops, you're right. jcupitt is the creator and principal maintainer of libvips, but I guess I linked to his "personal copy" git repo (which comes up first on google!).

You linked to a git repo, I linked to docs, but here's docs with internal links to the 'official' repo.

https://libvips.github.io/libvips/
Yep he nailed many things so well.
I wonder why payday loans are widely regarded as predatory if existing regulations are sufficient.
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In hindsight, it's telling that even the biggest A380 operator didn't actually buy the plane themselves - they leased it through various special-purpose vehicles which were then sliced into various investment portfolios. Goldman Sachs is one investment bank that set up some of the structures for this - https://www.goldmansachs.com/s/2012annual/assets/downloads/G...
It's less about the act itself (though they'd be called out for that too) but the immoral aspect is the fact that this is sex tourism.

You can ethically justify going to a Vegas or Amsterdam brothel under the pretense that the workers choose to be there and you're paying a fair wage for the service; it's a fair transaction and nobody is being exploited.

Shopping for prostitutes at a time and place where people are doing anything they can to survive in the wake of a disaster is exploitative.
Our parents exist, one or the other way, for the pleasure of us.
>minutes after the truce: most of the men could not grasp the fact that they could now stand upright without dying immediately.

But seriously, would you be the first to stand up, when the last guy that did it was mowed down?
Coming from a CS/Econ/Finance background....

Efficiency as “the market fully processes all information” is decidedly untrue.

Efficiency as “Its very hard to arb markets without risk better than a passive strategy” is very true.

Most professional money managers don’t beat the market once you factor in fees. Many private equity funds produce outsize returns, but it’s based on higher risk and taking advantage of tax laws.

Over time, positive performance for mutual funds don’t persist. (If you’re in the top decile performance one year, you’re no more likely to be there next year)

Despite all of this, there are ways people make money. But it’s a small subset of professionals. It’s high frequency traders who find ways to cut the line on mounds of pennies. It inside information from hedge funds. Or earlier access to non public information. But it’s generally not in areas that normal people like you and me can access.