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Yes, I am really surprised. I think most of my karma comes from posting articles, not from my comments.

My opinion is somewhat respected on specific topics, such as homelessness. This article is not on a subject where I expected anyone to care one whit what I thought.

Plenty of my comments are initially met with downvotes or strong criticism. I participate here a lot because I'm medically handicapped and don't get out much, not because I have any fantasies that the world is particularly interested in my opinions.

I generally figure if the world were strongly interested in my opinions, my various websites would have more traffic and make more money. In point of fact, I am routinely mocked on HN for complaining about how my participation here has failed to garner me anything resembling a middle class income and told to STFU and go get a real job.
People survive plane crashes, even over water, all the time.
It is not higher and study after study shows this to be a fact. The US has higher costs and worse outcomes than any western European nation.
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Not to mention life saving medication. I frequently travel with someone who has a kidney transplant. Their medication is always in their carry-on and with them so it doesn't get lost or shipped ahead.

If our plane went down I would definitely be helping them retrieve their carry on as we evacuated the plane because they would die without their medication.
"So, Dexter? Hannibal? How's that ribcage-ripping animation coming along?"
At the same time though, the new Turkish state pushed universal literacy as a policy goal and invested enormously in it in a way that the Ottoman empire didn't at all. It's very difficult to extract from data of that period (which may also have been manipulated for political purposes) how much of that change as due to the script vs other factors.

While I don't think it's controversial that phonetically written languages are easier to learn at first, nor that the Turkish Ottoman alphabet based on Arabic was not ideal for writing Turkish, I don't think it was uniquely difficult.

I think it's about as difficult as writing English correctly using our alphabet, which is to say it is harder than Spanish but much easier than writing Chinese languages.

Note that literacy rates in Arabic speaking parts of the Ottoman empire - most of it - where the script and the language matched was also low. You can make the argument that Arabic diglossia was responsible for some of that but still)
Circuitry and radioactivity don’t mix. Bots might be the solution, nanos probably not.
So you would rather they tell you the wrong thing twice? C'mon.
what do you mean? like lock down the overhead bins so people can't get to their stuff?
> What a waste of tax dollars

The better point is we can spend the dollars more effectively to improve the environment.

The military / military spending has nothing to do with it.
Maybe you already have them - the proportional strength and agility of... a living room.
Thank you so much! We are trying hard to bring as many talented artists as possible under one roof.
I wonder why you're downvoted. I live in a former Soviet state and my impression is that the Soviet era taught people to always prioritize your own stuff, because nobody else will care about it.
> This is an experience every young trader ever has had many, many times. Myself included. You see an economic figure, you think "hey this should do x", and it doesn't do what you think. The senior trader on the desk will remind you that your wrongness is worthy of further thought.

s/trader/programmer/g also true
I’m not German, so I can’t speak to the German media landscape. I’m American, though, and to portray the media landscape in the US as right dominated is insane. Literally every single prestigious media and cultural institution is dominated by the left in this country. Insane views on the right regularly get deplatformed on facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc, whereas insane left wing views are ignored. Left wing causes have a chorus of support from famous celebrities, musicians, and actors. Right wing views might have some support from random C-list celebrities or country music stars.
No, banks won’t do this, most banks still struggle with basics like storing passwords securely.
>> Uber spends far more on app development than any taxi company ever spent in radio dispatch.

I'm just not sure what there is to continually develop? Thinking of recent new features... UberPool, Multi-Destination Trips? Fine tune the surge algorithm? Some data science insight?

http://www.businessofapps.com/data/uber-statistics/

According to this there's 3.9 million drivers world wide. As I understand it Uber takes 25% per fare.

Hypothetically, even with each driver contributing a nominal $1 per day as an "app license" you would amass a reasonable costbase which easily offsets the 25% commission per fare.
The document also forgets that API's are not read-only. So let's say you have users and usergroups and you can request a usergroup with its list of users and you can add users to usergroups.

If you use links for read, you should also use them for writes, otherwise it's quite inconsistent. So now you need to add a lot of parsing everywhere to extract the id's out of the urls, just for the sake of being more dogmatic
Reducing waste via repair is indeed a valid goal, but at the level of consumer volume, really a very tiny thing to be worried about. The quantity of plastic bags, bottles, boxes, and other packaging is staggering compared to what one might generate once every few years when buying a new phone.
Car crashes are much, much more frequent though. I think the point the parent is trying to make is plane crashes are infrequent, and the worry isn't worth it - especially compared to what you can actually do.

It resonates with me quite a bit since my parents worry about everything, even trivial things, or would spend a silly amount of time trying to save pennies - not worth it. Given that humans are bad at probabilities/risk assessment, and that people survive way worse disasters, and that SSD probably isn't so important once you gain a different perspective, maybe it is worth worrying less in the long run.
Reporter declined to reveal source. Then police showed up at his door with guns
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Two reasons: first, it lets me back up the work I do on the plane and second, it lets me buy a new laptop wherever I am and carry on. (I actually lost a laptop to water once on a trip, not through a plane crash, but by a freak storm that soaked our tent while on a safari in Africa. The backup I had with me let me recover as soon as we got back to civilization and made the 24 hour flight back home much more productive than it would have been otherwise.)
For starters, consider that Stallman, and his kind set the goal posts far enough away that the field we get to play on is very large. Without them, there wouldnt be a field or anything to play with. We would be paying a subscription to watch it at home and it would probably have commercials.
Sometimes

x = x + 1;

is meaningless drudge work and sometimes it's going to cost tens of millions of dollars, a company's reputation, the private data of thousands of innocent bystanders, and sometimes lives.

Unfortunately, it's also not immediately obvious which case is which.
If you're poor though, losing that stuff could mean very bad things in the future. Would you be okay with those people staying on board until everyone else has gone and then grabbing their stuff? I would probably be willing to be the last to leave if it meant I could take my stuff.

Edit: even if it meant that I'd be taking considerable risk.
Absolutely. The two roles are both challenging, but math teachers don't typically have kids competing to be in their class. It's a lot easier to motivate someone when they have someone on the bench who wants their spot.

Up early to make sure the classroom is ready. Stay late to help struggling students. Lesson planning. Multiple groups of students per day, each of which might be on a slightly different topic. Far fewer pep rallies.

source: Live with a math teacher. Child of two teachers, one of which taught for 18 years in a Brooklyn public middle school.
At the same time, just because not everyone is chef de cuisine material, doesn't mean there's no point in their learning to cook.

The theme in this comment thread seems to be something like, "Only rockstars should learn to code, it's pointless for normal people".
I'm a "heavy" Stack Overflow user https://stackoverflow.com/users/1348195/benjamin-gruenbaum and I use tags all the time.

Otherwise you're just playing "fastest gunslinger in the west" trying to answer generic stuff before anyone rather than sniping questions you genuinely find interesting and can teach you.
When I am on a plane. Especially on foreign trips, quite a substantial amount of thoughts goes into not leaving anything behind, and thinking about scenarios what would happen if I lost or forgot something important. Of course everything of those items would be less important in a life and death situation but as my brain is already trained for holding onto my stuff I can understand why this happens.

I am not saying that this is a good thing but I think ingrained habits are hard to break.
Hell, my math teachers in high school were the coaches.

Geometry - Volleyball

Algebra II- Football

Trigonometry-Track

I wish I had a math teachers who taught math as a main function, not a secondary.

At least my daughters middle school math teacher has a BA in math.
I have a vague sense that I would like to semi retire into teaching maths, but have a horrible suspicion that it would be infuriating and tiresome rather than fulfilling :-/
Biggest example to me is the push to loosen regulation on the fossil fuel industry without enacting a tax that pays for mitigating the damage that burning their fuel does to the climate.
> I don't have a great solution to either problem.

IMHO this is basically the answer: https://www.amazon.com/General-Systems-Unique-Learning-Schoo...

The idea is having different teachers for each topic rather than for each grade level, and letting kids move from one topic to the next once they master it. And having some statistical software to detect when kids are getting stuck and need outside intervention. This model is much better at teaching, produces kids who are much more engaged and self-confident about math, and is also much less expensive than the traditional model for teaching math.
Not taking responsibility is one way of not letting responsibilities get in the way
Would it have made a difference if your architect had to take personal, professional, and financial liability for the system?
Just dump all the sorted garbage into sorted landfills in the middle of nowhere. In the future, AI-powered garbage bots will be able to make sense of it all and perhaps turn it into upcycled iPhone cases.

Or maybe global warming has killed us all by then, in which case having dealt with all the garbage of the present would've been a total waste of time.

The same goes for nuclear waste. People debating how to safely store nuclear waste for hundreds of thousands of years don't realize that the hazard material of today might be valuable tomorrow.

I'm dead serious.
Why don't you just encrypt the data before uploading?
> This is a troll right?

Nope.

> Plan for a plane crash but not willing to use proper waterproof storage?

Yep. A ziploc bag costs me about a nickel, takes me five seconds to acquire (because I have them in stock), and fits neatly into my pocket, which is a really important feature for this use case. I don't know of any "proper waterproof storage" with those features. It's possible I'm being foolish, but I'm not trolling.
A wonderful world we live in. The best I could come up with as a kid was a used Xbox running Linux and a homemade VGA cable for something like $150. A then-modern machine for $50, I sure couldn't find one. (Of course adult-me is better at bargain-hunting)
From a quick glance I'd guess ZPHASH is literally a https://www.phash.org/ for fast comparison and lookup.
Indeed some people are acting on instinct.
Airlines know this all too well, and yet, to unfasten a seat belt on the airplane you have to pull, while to unfasten car seat belt you have to push.
In an emergency situation, fair amount of people will fallback to their instinct to push to unfasten and loose precious seconds.
I spent some time in Azerbaijan and I was amazed at how much the locals helped us out. We had a mechanical break down and random strangers stopped to help us out. They actually fixed our car and got us back on the road! It was mind-blowing, genuine love for fellow humans and it deeply affected me.

That said, of course that's a microscopic sample size in a vast empire. No doubt it's not representative.
Studies were supposed to be about science and the scientific process and even there we now have reproducibility crisis and a whole string of dubious and discredited studies.

We are being overwhelmed by a culture of heavily funded think tanks, industry groups, sundry organizations and interest groups pushing completely motivated and self serving studies and being unquestioningly magnified by the press.

It's time to be extremely skeptical and closely examine the funding, motivation and organizations funding studies and research especially in scientific communities. The alternative is perpetuating toxic unscientific narratives backed by anecdotes and 'intuitive sense' of some.
After entering the 20 sentences, getting "sorry the server is down trying later" is the worse user experience ever. If the server is down, please do something before someone enters 20 sentences... or have a "try again" button to submit again...
Such an event will "complicate your life" regardless. When you're poor, that's always an issue, e.g. if/when your car breaks down. Just one reason why being poor sucks. But should you put others at risk? No. The point still stands, there's an immediate need for identification, everything else can be sorted later.
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Does the shift to charging for checked bags make this worse? I suspect this choice is new to most people since they used to have that stuff locked away from sight.
Math teams are a thing. They even have a coach just like football. Also football gets played in regular physical education also, with much less individual attention to students.
When traveling, I keep those important and valuable belongings (identification, money, life sustaining meds) on my persons either on inside pockets or a holder on a lanyard tucked inside my clothes. The only time I might be separated from them is when going through airport security. Typically I'll hang onto my ID though and carry it through the body scanners (unless they tell me not to).
They are quoting a Wikipedia page. If you believe the information is untrue and you know better, edit the Wikipedia page.
how does this reconcile with stuff like this ? https://factordaily.com/indian-data-labellers-powering-the-g...

is this very contextual to business space (like enterprise startups) which A16z clearly mentions ?
Isn’t this an old technique compared to ‘dense pose’?
http://densepose.org/

Upvote for good explanation.
It is likely more efficient to scale lab-grown fish than it is to scale farmed fish. Cell farming is currently expensive an inefficient, like any new technology. But this can be improved. Yet it will always take at least x energy input to create at most x/10 edible fish output. (https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-10-energy-rule-in-a-foo...)
>Well, this comment casts a lot of light on why you behave the way you do generally on HN.

Well, you first accuse me on following you on HN and treating you this or that way repeatedly. And when I tell you I don't keep tabs, and I seldom know who is who I'm answering to (I'm just answering when I think some comment warrants an answer), you write the above that implies that you, instead, keep tabs on me and "how I behave generally on HN" (and, logically, on others too).

To me that's akin to stalking.

I'm not here talking with my friends or expecting long term camaraderie and rivalries, and going into who said what when. I'm on an open online forum with hundreds of users. Each new post is to me a new discussion, not a picking up from where we left, with animosities etc on what someone said.

>If you aren't going to pay any attention whatsoever to social details, such as whether or not you have ever spoken to this particular person before, it's generally a best practice to refrain from any kind of personal commentary at all concerning their behavior.

Well, I don't feel I offered personal commentary. I wrote a generic commentary on what you wrote to the grandparent, that can apply to anyone:

"Making a point in a discussion is not about the personal circumstances of the one we're talking to. Doubly so if they're an outlier, and triply so if we don't know their circumstances to begin with, because the discussion happens in an online forum."

>Behavior is influenced by context and you are making no effort whatsoever to understand context at all, so your opinions about such things are going to tend to be uninformed opinions that go bad places.

Sorry, the context here is technical, hacker-oriented discussion, and being informed (as in "informed opinions") rests on the technical, historical, etc knowledge of the issue in each TFA.

It's not about social subtleties, who is who, who said what in some earlier thread, etc. This is not Livejournal.
Lots more reasons why you might loose a laptop while traveling, it's not a dedicated plan for plane crashes.
The good thing is there are infinite functions, not just infinite data. So even if you limit yourself to finite data, you can do interesting things.
On point 1, perhaps it’s time to whip out the Mythical Man Month?
You are correct. The chaos that results is due to misaligned understandings of what these two words mean in each participating discussion member's head.

It's advantageous to define what these two things mean up front for your team before engaging in debate in this spirit. In my experience, defining strength of opinion as confidence in coverage of potentially relevant circumstances and defining looseness of holding as eagerness to identify blindspots in that coverage can help dissipate some of the toxicity.
Speaking as a programmer without a degree .. yes.

never had access, so taught self from references. I'm working as a firmware developer now and pretty much do "full stack" so I think it worked out in the end. I have blind spots I know, but working on them as I can.
Latency SLAs are what’s missing: “No packets shall be lost, and latency shall not fluctuate”.

Classical phone lines worked so well because there is never latency. You might get static, but we’re adapted for listening through static. But you never get timing disruptions.

Videoconferencing is a black art of trying to smooth over tiny latencies that the human brain is wired to be extraordinarily sensitive to. People read too much into a single lost packet.

This same problem applies to VR - if the latency is not rigorously consistent, people vomit.

It is possible to design a network that connects two people reliably and with predictable latency - last century’s landline phone network stands as proof. Until someone builds a network that offers the same level of service for videoconferencing, it will continue to be a tool of last resort.
Had a really hard time watching that trailer. Makes me question if the developers have researched what level of gore their audience finds acceptable in an age of near photo realistic gaming.
Could you please share the story about how you started such a wonderful business? Specifically, I am curious of how did you go about lobbying artists and convincing them to get onboard? Are they local artists in your town or are you doing it remotely?
>The reason is because students should have a right and an expectation to equal access to education.

For mathematically gifted children, Prussian-style schooling is a net negative. The way to ensure equal access to math education isn't to funnel more resources into the system that tortures the love of math out of generations of children. Some kind of organized program that allows students to opt out of traditional schooling for mostly self-directed education seems like it'd work much better.
I left a job after 2 months because I got the offer of a lifetime (leadership opportunity at a fledging startup). I felt really bad about the situation, but at the end of the day it hasn't affected me negatively. It was a huge boost to my career and I'm way ahead as a result.
This analysis totally appeals to my economist brain. However, you would have to look at the risk-adjusted return on your capital investment.

Reading the above does make me wonder whether smugglers like in the Guardian story have access to some sort of dark web insurance policy which pays out if they are caught. My guess is probably yes because the market abhors a vacuum.
[Edit: this comment is obsolete; author fixed both issues]

The attribution is missing: As the README on the repository (https://github.com/xmonader/letsbuildacompiler-pretty) explains, this is a prettified version of the plain-text “Let's Build a Compiler” by Jack Crenshaw, published in serial form during 1988 to 1995 (https://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/).

This prettified version is nice; if nothing else the syntax highlighting in the code samples makes them easier to read.

But comparing for example the first installment at the original (https://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/tutor1.txt) and here (https://xmonader.github.io/letsbuildacompiler-pretty/tutor01...), looks like the title, author name, copyright notice, and date have all been removed. Hopefully the maintainer of this repo finds a way to add them back. (Also, Part 9 seems to be empty? Reporting on the repo.)

Edit: Reported on the repo and the author fixed promptly. Thanks!
I often have my backpack stowed under the seat in front of me. I could theoretically put it on while still seated. But I'm sure I'll be fractions faster if I'm not wearing it.
I don’t think it is at all, as long as you realize some co-workers are only work friends and when you or they leave that you won’t really do much of anything together anymore.

I was responding to the parent post that seemed to insinuate that it’s young employees at fault for believing their work friends are friends and that’s more of the culture of technology companies.

I’ve made a handful of good friends over the years from people I met at work, but I also have seen the nasty side of that when it comes to promotions, people leaving, drama/gossiping and so forth.

So it’s best to just go in eyes open and realize that some people may be your friend on the surface but they’ll fuck you over first chance they get (same can be said for real life as well)
Good analogy. But to extend it, part of the disconnect is that management/business side wants a lot of coders that are the equivalent of line cooks at a chain restaurant: just competent enough, with someone more educated/competent overseeing, and most importantly: easily replaceable.
Exactly. It could have saved someone's life.