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Harari is great and I really hope Zuckerberg has read and absorbed some of his stuff.

Harari's most recent book got some negativity for promoting meditation, which I think some took as a self indulgent detour but it actually makes sense...

His point is that the forces trying to manipulate people (eg. on Facebook) have become so skilled that they verge on knowing you better then you know yourself. One way to innoculate yourself against this manipulation is to really get to know yourself and what you believe - in a strong and stable way - much better and he feels that meditation is a good way to acheive that.
Never, in the history of the United States, was it ever common for "ordinary private citizens" to speak their mind without fear of consequence.

False. Me in graduate school in the 90's in South Carolina. My professor friend in the 90's just after she got tenure.

American culture, while giving lip-service to freedom of speech, has always punished those who venture to criticize the status quo.

No. Certain subsets/factions of this society have done that. There are many Americans who gave far more than lip-service to freedom of speech. My father was one such person. Many, many people in this society have been like that. It's in the past several years, that the mainstream media as a faction has turned against this idea. In my youth, they were among the loudest proponents.

When I was young, it was the hostile Moral Majority types who were against freedom of speech. It always seems to be moralist authoritarians who claim they're not moralist authoritarians.
How does this compare to Geoff Mendal's http://www.taxvisor.com/taxes/ ?
Ooh, awesome! Thank you!

It would be cool to weave some rope memory with this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_rope_memory
I think the SPAM folder is a separate issue (although important)

The article discusses mail not being accepted by google/gmail in the first place.
Super curious about this response saying on gmail you have more control, because from where I am the “mark as spam” button does nothing but move things to the spam folder. In theory it should learn from that but when someone used my email address to sign up for AT&T no amount of marking things as spam will stop their emails landing in my inbox.
Self respect, I guess.
https://gist.github.com/tajo/a84d96f248d454d1226e12bb07c8157...
> I'm left feeling like the fare - strictly from the perspective of a consumer - is actually too high.

Not to mention personal risk if you consider how dangerous some Uber drivers are.

However if you consider the cost of car maintenance, annual depreciation on a taxi-like vehicle, and petrol the fares are actually very low. I would be willing to bet that a lot of Uber drivers are wavering around breaking even on the long run. Maybe that's why a lot of drivers' cars aren't as well-groomed as they used to be.

Now, I get that "from a consumer perspective" this is irrelevant, but it does mean that a cheaper service is simply not possible without sacrificing something.
A generic (pseudo) quine is:

s = "print escape(s)\n{payload}"
print "s = "
print escape(s)
{payload}

So if you wanna do extra stuff on top of being a quine, just write that program and bootstrap with escape()
I recently missed an email from the UK government regarding a passport application, it went to Spam. Talk about missing the mark!
If you're going to tell us to "spend more time reading instructions", maybe you should take the time to read and follow the links you send. What the site your link refers to -- freefilefillableforms.com -- is not a service built by the IRS.

Did you really believe the U.S. Congress, and Turbotax's lobbyists, would be proposing and debating a bill on the existence of something you think you found with a Google search?
And yet, in my own none Gmail hosted email (fastmail), I currently have 2/55 false positive spam emails. I very rarely ever check it. To note I usually get one actual spam (non newsletter blog spam) to my actual inbox, a month.
Cue the *"but it's so easy to host your own email! Mine has been working fine for years!"

Until this happens. Which it does very often, for lots of reasons that are out of your control.
You’re right, your experience is probably exactly the same for people with a different skillset in a different industry, and they probably could have solved all their problems by simply requiring that their sole employer just double their pay. I wonder why that never crossed their mind.
Uuuggghhh, the baseless and ignorant JavaScript hate is a weak argument. It’s not any different than other baseless, weak, ignorant arguments; such as: ______ because _____(protected class) people.

I am paid well to do no work, essentially on retainer, because it’s so common for people to dick this up and then blame the technology for one’s own incompetence. Like anything else it only requires a little bit of practice. Running screaming into the night only to bury your head in the sand behind the magnificent glory of favorite pet framework x isn’t practice.

I describe this to nonprogrammers as hating on pianos because there is too much potential for bad music.
If you have a theoretical computer with single-bit registers, sure. Quicksort is also quite slow on such an computer.
So this is like the lightning network, but channel balances are never closed out to any kind of global ledger? If this were to be put into use, you would run into the following problem very quickly:

Bob’s debt to Alice grows beyond the point where Alice is willing to trust him since Bob is mostly using the system to buy things.
Yeah, just a difference of who the high-price customers are going to be.
Bloomberg have the responsibility to confirm it regardless, that's the job of a journalist rather than blindly parroting whatever a company tells you.

They are still publishing articles not mentioning the fact despite Polish media confirming it. Low effort journalism.
The impact of the stimulus can only last so long, and eventually you've got to pay it back down.

So, the recession had better be cancelled because we've already blown all the money that we would normally use to stimulate ourselves out of that recession.

Stimulating heading into the peak of a recovery seemed like a crazy idea to me.
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Really? I know an org of > 2,000 people who recently switched away from Slack to the open-sourced Mattermost. I don't think Slack is untouchable. Overall point is considering other companies too with massive losses being pushed on the public feels like a trend, and maybe ominously represents a certain phase in a cycle.
Ask HN: Looking for prior art to prevent obvious patent
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190034982A1/en?inventor=Chris+Bacon&oq=Chris+Bacon

I ran across this patent and it boggles my mind that it hasn't been rejected for failing the non-obvious test. I would think it not novel either, as I would expect there to be a lot of prior art. I wanted to submit something to help demonstrate prior art, but have had no luck finding something published, even though this to me, as a practitioner in the art, is drop dead obvious.

Essentially, the patent covers a browser requesting a list of events from a server, the server getting the events from a database, along with templates for displaying those events, then interpolating the templates with event values, and sending the result back to the browser. They are attempting to patent returning template value replacement on the server in response to a request for information from a client.

Anyone know of prior art that could be used to help prevent yet one more obvious software patent from getting issued?

FULL DISCLOSURE: I ran across this because I was working on something similar for a side business, and it blew my mind when I saw a company listing their patent pending "technology" of showing notifications based on templates.
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Governments in capitalist societies are committees of the rich.

The system is working as intended.
Afaik, they augmented the hash function with a random seed, which didn't work out. See: http://emboss.github.io/blog/2012/12/14/breaking-murmur-hash... It appears that SipHash would be enough (for now) to prevent hash poisoning. Most open addressing hash implementations doesn't yet use SipHash though.
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"Otherwise it's perfectly legally to insult people on the Internet and hurt their feelings."

It wasn't so much publicized, but it was not just a random insult. He was making a specific accusation, and claimed to have specific reasons for believing it was true. Most news sources didn't provide everything he said, and that's probably a mercy, but at some point more context was in an article I happened to run across.

So either it is true, or it was defamation, based on either malice or paranoia. Saying he didn't mean it literally just means you're ignorant of what he said.
Light create shadow, not the other way around. So remember to use shadows, erm I mean light, to bring your objects to life.
Well, the VCs have cashing out in the next 6 months when the lock ups expire. The question is what the valuation will be then.
Needs (2012)
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Reflections on Serverless:From SOA to Serverless Part 3
Sure. Here you https://www.dataengineeringpodcast.com/cluedin-data-fabric-e.... He talks about that around minute 40.
That just sounds like another way of saying we should be learning from this. Even if the trade offs aren’t worth it for us we shouldn’t be surprised when stuff that “shouldn’t work” does in fact work.
Offst includes the ability for Alice to set limits on her credit to Bob which would prevent this.
Make it enough that most people wouldn’t want to freely take themselves out of the rotation and take the loss, if they had the option. I’m on a 5 person team, and we rotate weekly. $500 per shift. So that’s $5000 per year. I hate on call, but I’ll take that pay. It used to be $100. At that price, I would rather never be on call and loose the $1000 year ( pre tax).

Make on call pay enough that people might want to trade shifts.

And then maybe let buy and sell their shifts.

That’s my 2 cents.
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I don’t think you have to be interesting but have an eye for interesting things. One way to do this is not to be “interesting” but to be “interested”.

On the other hand it certainly helps to do unusual stuff so you can take pictures not many people can take. For example there are pilots who post pictures from the cockpit. Hard to compete with that for most of us. Or even better be on the ISS.
Facebook hit with three privacy investigations in a single day
I think 'life' in "In an 11th-century English life of Saint Margaret" means a chronicle.

If she existed it was in the 3rd century.
In San Francisco there was nothing before Uber and similar companies started operating. You called a phone number (I used to have it memorized) and some surly individual would bark at you and then maybe a taxi would come in 40 minutes or maybe not.

Later, the driver would explain the credit card machine was broken and you'd need to pay in cash.
Regarding "about", if you're doing photojournalism, there's a simple idea that I found tremendously helpful (as an amateur student): your image should tell a story.

There's a lot of technical stuff you need to internalize, and some visual sense, but, at the end of the day, your main goal is not something that looks appealing above the fold on the front page, but that communicates some important essence of the story.
Good Russian talent is priced close to rural US talent. We've paid up to $60/hour.

That's not sfbay pricing obviously, but it's not what you would consider cheap.

Our primary use for contractors was spinning up engineers immediately.
I'm only aware of Eagleworks and the one Chinese group that replicated their results. Wasn't aware their claim didn't pan out.
What you are doing is a reasonable thing. It's always a good idea to put that money in a separate account. Meaning not to commingle those funds with your personal funds.

When I was consulting I'd deposit money into the business account and then transfer some percentage to other accounts.

$5000 --> business account --> $3000 --> personal savings account --> $2500 --> checking.
Spoiler: they wrote an ARM emulator.

Very impressive project, but if you were hoping to run Linux on an 8-bit microcontroller for anything real you'll be disappointed.
I’m not so sure. Plenty of authoritarian countries have done quite well (and even transitioned to more democratic systems peacefully) in Asia like South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore.
Estimated taxes are paid by the individual, not the business (LLC). And whatever interest the business earns is considered taxable, which thus subjects it to FICA, i.e. business interest is effectively earned income; whereas if it's individual interest it's unearned income and FICA does not apply.

You should discuss this with a CPA. Accumulate all of your questions, schedule an hour, email them in advance, go in person to get them answered and discuss.
Depending on the manner of beheading it's not the worst type of execution. A quick slice on a guillotine is preferable to an electric chair for example...
I've seen this. Had a co-worker who was up most of a night dealing with a page.

Came into work, wrote some brand new code, and since it was basically all written on that day, and all by him, it was easy to trace back to him / that event.

The whole thing was riddled with bugs, and well below his usual quality level. Most of it got rewritten fairly quick, but yeah, if he'd taken the day off and then written it the next day, time would have been saved.

I feel like it's hard to really know when you're in that state, too. Your mind is too apt to go "I'm fine."
Gratifying to read the author say that creating something as mind-boggling this was tedious and frustrating.

It's great, by the way :)
The great thing about being a bear is that you’ll be right eventually, but the million dollar question is when
Yeah, just because we want everyone to be created equal doesn't mean that they are. Some people will always be furious when research doesn't match what they believe, but we ignore/suppress/demonize it at our peril.

On the other hand it's remarkable how successful recent peaceful societies have been at working around this. I don't think we can easily appreciate just how much of that destructive nature is held in check by social mores.
Because all the GAAP numbers in the world don’t mean anything if a company can’t bring in more cash than it is spending.
I don't see an API or network protocol. Will this be provided at some point?
One possibly is because they want to make sure the redacted sections are really redacted. You can do a web search and discover that others have tried to redact sections of PDF documents, only to later discover that people can uncover the redacted sections via software tools.

Scanning a redacted document is the simplest way of making sure redacted sections stay redacted as there is no underlying information to reveal.
Well, it will run Linux on an 8-bit microcenter for real, just sloooowly :)
True, this could be said for any system, but in this case SASS makes it easy to create nested relationships, whereas CSS makes it hard.
Long ago I started taking to the tack of asking questions centered around what are you doing and what can I do to help.
I've wondered about it, and I suspect it's either the tivo part (you can't restrict the code from running), or the patent clause.

It's ironic because apple is actually violating gplv2 with bash (it should distribute rootless.h)
The most extraordinary claim of science is that of determinism. Still waiting on extraordinary evidence that the universe implied itself.
That’s fair and I agree that’s their biggest competitive threat. But investment wise that downside is mitigated by the possibility of being acquired
Mattermost CEO here,

Thanks for the mention. Increasingly we see mention of "Slack or Mattermost" as part of DevOps stacks. In my mind, the space is growing quickly and there's room for multiple winners.

I'm excited about having more and more functionality people love available in an open source alternative.
You should preface your statement with an n = 1.

After a week or two of great sleep, I will feel the effects of even a single night at 6-7 hours. My blood glucose tracking makes this clear (it's going to be north of 100 in fasted state), and if the required work for the day is cognitively challenging, ie. "deep work", it will be distraction city.
So his Model X saved his wife's life, then they didn't ship him his spoiler on time so he's pulling a hissy fit. His priorities seem a little cockeyed.
Is it the same as the radon map?
There are lots of ways to meet the handling and stability requirements for certification. You could just design the airframe to have the right stick force profile, you could have old school mechanical/hydraulic augmentation systems, you could have an electronic augmentation system like MCAS, or you could do what Airbus does and simulate the forces and responses of a virtual airplane, and then have the computer actually do the flying.

These all can be done in reasonable and safe ways. Boeing just didn't do it.
Amazing hack project .... and reading thru you see took only 2 weeks to write CoretexEmu. Amazing. Seriously reading this stuff impresses the socks off me and Im in awe of someone who can manage their time for writing enterprise products like VMware, flying planes(author has 2), and hacking at this depth. Kudos unlimited!!
Implementing Tile Encoding in Rav1e
For people interested in this, another thing to be aware of is uClinux: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9CClinux

Another easy way to play around with Linux fit onto very modest hardware (but not 8-bit microcontrollers), which is very popular and very useful, is OpenWrt on a cheap old home WiFi router: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWrt

(If you want to pick up an old router for $20, WNDR3700v2, WNDR3700v4, WNDR3800, and select later ones in that family are a good starting point. The OpenWrt wiki pages for them will give specs and suggest what hardware revs are better.)
There's is zero information in this article.

Uber probably has 1 billion+ $ worth of IT structure and presumably 99 Billion worth of goodwill and other IP.

A good start for a article that cares would be to estimate this more accurately.

So if it's all the same how can someone break into this market?

Who can go out and invest a $ billion + to see if they can crack the market knowing where ever they start Uber will smash them?
Sure, Bob is still out of luck though. This only works if Bob also receives an equivalent amount of income through his channel with Alice which is extremely unlikely.

Edit: I speak from experience, working on althea.org which included a similar system (although ours is backed by a blockchain and doesn’t require nodes to trust each other). The reality is that most nodes are either mostly paying or mostly being paid. The channels must constantly be refilled anyway because of this. We found that the saved transaction fees were not worth the complexity, and now nodes just use on chain transactions with no transitive trust system after about 50 cents of debt has built up in either direction.
I've also had email from Google recruiters (@google.com email addresses) go to spam. I considered this a high level indicator that Google spam filtering is incompetent, not malicious - if it was malicious, they would at least be able to get their corporate emails through.
You probably shouldn't automatically harbor that particular suspicion. Vastly more male Western tourists travel to Thailand to have sex with adult women, whether compensated or not. Many go just for the scenery, or low living costs.
You're right, the US should.

Whomever in the political decision making element who greenlit this tolerance must have been between a rock and a hard place
It doesn't seem like it. In my experience, a lot of taxi companies don't have fully-featured apps even today, and the ones that do were probably motivated by the spectre of Uber. They weren't motivated to do it because they already had the market captive.
No, in its current state, they can't be profitable. Other transportation options will become more desirable if Uber had to truly charge what it costs to transport a customer so for now and the near future they have to subsidize the rides which kills the possibility of profit.

Autonomous cars will help but that won't happen for years, 5-10 maybe more. Additionally, if autonomy becomes a reality for Uber it will happen for other modes of transportation too so they will have to compete there too. That will be even harder since it's easier to get a bunch of cars working once the tech is available.

Also Uber will not survive as it stands now. Regulations and public pressure will eventually force it to conform to something similar to a very large cab company.

Every industry eventually gets hit by consolidation. A business of individual drivers can be even more profitable if it joins drivers into groups. They become more reliable, they cost less to maintain and they gain power that they can leverage against large industry actors. Maybe then, it will become profitable. But that won't happen until the industry matures.
To qualify for a patent, there is no requirement that an invention works.
Wow. Miss this for decades. Life waste so much on colour.
> … relative speeds (and other metrics) of programs…

So when you say "the relative speed of those languages" you actually mean the relative speed of programs?

> … programs of a similar nature … preferably without mixing too many variables…

Seems vague, no-longer rigorous.

We can make mystery for ourselves — no one can force us to understand.
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I'm not, actually. If relativity were a law, we'd presumably have unification with quantum mechanics. But we don't. Relativity works really well (well enough) in an enourmous number of areas, but not all and completely breaks down at the quantum level.

And, it only takes a single counterpoint to disprove a theory. Hence theories are signifcantly harder to prove than disprove.

What you're referring to as laws are theories that work well enough in some circumstances that needing something better isn't needed. Such as relativity to implement GPS. Newton's theorems in Principia Mathematica are generally good enough for most day to day type stuff. E.g. we dont need to involve Relativity to understand the physics being acted upon a car (thats not a Tesla roadster launched into space).

Science isnt much about coining laws. It's more about obtaining an ever more correct model of reality, and as you say, make (reasonably accurate) predictions.
So it’s not just a quine, but a polyglot quine even. They are the best :)
Slightly inaccurate? The headline is grossly incorrect. Beheading a 16-year-old is materially different from beheading a 21-year-old. The appalling possibility of a kid being executed is what made me click on the story in the first place.

And now my comment calling out the OP for creating a misleading headline is at -4 points. If HN is going to be a Facebook-like shithole of clickbait now, that's fine, but in that case I would appreciate it if someone could send me a lobste.rs invite so that I can keep ahead of the expanding event horizon of stupidity.
Thanks!

The secret is three-prong: I absolutely love doing this (despite this project having no practical purpose), I have a FAANG job, and I have no family of my own.
Fair comment. But that issue is pretty simple: there is no good reason for them to fail to deliver email under any circumstances. (This has happened to me too -- someone tried to email my gmail account and gmail completely refused to deliver it. It was pretty embarrassing.)

Messages they think you won't want to receive are what the spam folder is for.
Do they define Gmail as a website? No. Actually, they pioneered the idea of calling websites "web apps" instead.