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Yeah, I think this would not be a bad solution. Public transit, once it’s built with sufficient coverage, is a lot cheaper and more effective than private transport. I think it would also make sense to fund it via land value taxes since usually land captures a lot of the value that public transportation generates
They have to implement the existing API or their own. The cost will be the same for both cases. For big platform vendors, almost no(extra) cost.

On the other hand, we, the ordinary developer must pay the cost of supporting N APIs on M platforms. Every APIs carelessly invented by vendors just because almost no extra cost burden us all.
Baltimore and DC have free buses called "circulators". There was a story that the buses are losing money but would lose more money if they charged because they're getting grants for being free and have ads which would be worth less with lower ridership.
From what I see Datomic isn't written with anything resembling natural language - not anywhere nearly ACE.

Can you give good examples to the contrary?
Ctrl+F Greenwald ... No results
Ctrl+F Intercepted ... No results

The question "Can you write an article about Snowden and The Guardian without mentioning Glenn Greenwald" has been answered.

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/glenn-greenwald
> Isn't that bad?

Yes. You don't invent or build math; you discover it. It's nature.

Patenting DNA is also silly for similar reasons.
I actually wrote a post about this just now, perhaps it can show you some possibilities! https://medium.com/@marcospgp/how-i-code-for-4-hours-a-day-a...
Interesting read. I might sign up for the "Hackernews by email"
I believe you tried meditation but I don’t buy the “it doesn’t work for me”

That’s like saying exercise doesn’t work for you.

Maybe you are going too hard too fast and getting injured or any number of things that make it difficult.

But meditation works, even if it’s (like exercise) a difficult habit to pick up.
Captcha of the future: Which of these photos contains the answer to an unsolved mystery?
SmileDirectClub makes its debut on the public market
That's a good heuristic for a programmer but it's no help to a compiler.
You’d be much better off using a VM if you want snapshots. Process snapshots requires that you can:

1. extract all kernel state related to the target process

2. replicate the state on another machine

Both of these are extremely complicated problems.

The first problem is difficult because it’s nearly impossible to isolate all relevant state in the kernel. Process state is closely intertwined with the entire kernel state, making it all too easy to produce an incomplete snapshot that can break the system in all sorts of ways. Worse, things would get more complicated if multiple processes are involved.

The second problem is just as hard if you consider external dependencies or different kernel versions. It might simply be impossible to recreate the process even if you did succeed in creating the perfect snapshot.

Process snapshots are simply not worth the trouble.
Profit incentive is still there, but apparently it is only OK when it is California who profits. Also please do not forget who puts people in those prisons.
Cooking recipes are algorithms too. Why aren't those patentable?
One tick closer to a nuclear clock
How many people reading this right now make a very good living writing software without a “computer science degree from a top 25 university”? To what extent are those degrees also just for sorting?
Isn't the primary issue anyone has with private prisons the same one we have with defense contractors: that they might, would, or do subvert the system to get innocent people imprisoned or their prison terms extended in the case of private prisons, or promote wars America doesn't want or need in the case of defense contractors?

What I mean is nobody really cares if prisons buy commercial toilet paper, for example. (As opposed to a hypothetical government toilet paper.) Nobody cares if the military uses the private industry for procurement of computers or whatever. We don't feel the government should be creating its own version of all private industry products.

But when the prison itself is private - and likewise when defense contractors themselves are developing, shopping around, and selling new weapons only to the military, that the military didn't ask for - then suddenly there is a new player in the budgeting process.

Ideally few or no people are committing crimes. If the prisons have excess capacity, free beds - good! But if it's a private prison, how can they fill those beds? Well, by working to imprison more people.

This is the incentive structure that people don't like about private prison.

In the United States it's de facto "illegal" to walk around while being black: there is a high chance you will eventually be jailed on non-existent charges. (And accept a plea bargain, for example, rather than risk a really long term.) I'm a white guy. If I had lived the exact, exact same life, done every single action exactly the same (and this is true of other people reading Hacker News) I likely could have been jailed for no reason at all, just for walking around while being black. That's a fact. I probably would accept the plea bargain I'm offered, too, and resolve to work for change later. What am I going to do? Tell the judge and prosecutor (who often is scored based on how often he gets a conviction/plea) that he and the system are racist? How well will that go over? Will it get me my freedom? Or will it get a vindictive term from the judge. I'd rather just sit in prison for a few months and then avoid the cops better next time, I think I would decide. (Rather than risk a 20 year prison sentence, again, totally innocent of anything. A few months' plea - which my counsel would probably advise I take - is nothing compared to that.)

So why are innocent black people jailed? Well, to fill prison beds, apparently. That is one of the reasons that people don't like private prisons.

We don't want anybody to be "selling" prison, so we don't want prison to be a private enterprise. It's quite straightforward and is something most people understand very easily.
Toyota is trying to put solar panels on a Prius to charge battery during the day
> You have literal customer lock-in

You could let the prisoners freely switch to public while they're locked up.

The main issue I have with this system is that the "consumers" making the choices (the prisoners) of product aren't paying for the cost. So incentives aren't really aligned.
That's what I was thinking too
I think in rural areas there is still a benefit in running shuttles between towns. For example running an hourly shuttle between two towns of 1k-5k 20mi apart
Every time I hit the Play button for ranked I feel such anxiety with Dota2. Normally I just play in the arcade, like 12v12 or some tower defense instead.
For whatever it's worth, I'm a proponent of generics in Go.

"Static type checking" does not mean "every conceivable program is safely expressable by the type system". Haskell doesn't make this promise and neither does Go.

Anyway, Go is as slow and as unsafe as Python in the ~1-5% of code that is generic. It's still a pretty good deal even if you were mistakenly expecting 0%.
People often want to believe that modern social structures are based on human nature. That's sad rather than amusing.
Sadly, real C standard libraries are anything but small. glibc is pretty huge; statically linking a simple hello world program produces something like 750KB of output (libc.so itself is nearly 2MB in size). A quick peek at glibc's documentation shows just how much stuff there is: https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_mono/libc.html.

Unfortunately, I wouldn't call all of it critically useful stuff. For example, "strfry" and "memfrob" are useless beyond toy applications as neither are remotely secure; "l64a" and "a64l" are useless (and possibly even dangerous) because they look like they implement base64 but with a different alphabet (and a much worse API); they have a hilariously large number of random number generators, _none_ of which produce high-quality random numbers for simulation or especially cryptography; etc. etc.

Neither MSVC nor macOS will let you truly statically link a binary (because the system interfaces aren't constant), so it's harder to directly compare, but on macOS "libSystem.dylib" depends on basically everything in /usr/lib/system which is about 5MB of code.

So yeah, I don't think I'd call many real libc libraries "small" by any stretch.
> You can't really know if you're underpaid for what you're doing if nobody else is paying more.

I was talking relative to my coworkers at the same job.

It can quickly become apparent how much your coworkers are making relative to you if you pay attention to subtle things like vacations they take, what they did on their weekends, the cars they drive, where they live, etc.

In my case, teams had been "right-sized" such that I solely owned systems that at one point had a total of 13 people assigned to them, with no help. Yes, I held myself to a constrained budget to contribute to 401k, save as much as I could elsewhere and had a modest, yet nice apartment. Yet, my older coworkers had less responsibility, worked shorter hours, drove nicer cars, owned houses and took extravagant vacations where I drove a modest used car, rented and my "vacations" were to visit my parents (although, admittedly, airfare to visit my parents is high - it'd be cheaper to fly to Europe than visit my parents in the US, and I live in the US).

Thing is, for years, at comp time, I'd been arguing for a larger raise than bonus. I was getting a token $5k/year raise, but several 10Ks in bonus. Salary is generally a given (sure, they could in theory lower it, but rarely do healthy companies do that if you're performing), plus, typically your slice of the bonus pool is also partially determined by your salary.

So, yeah, it took trying to quit, with an offer in hand, to get my salary adjusted to where it should have been given my tenure at the company and the level of responsibility I had. Once they realized I was serious and was ready to walk, over a weekend, they gave me a nearly 30% intrayear raise. It wasn't quite what I wanted, but it put me on par with my coworkers and it was several 10s of thousands over the offer I was willing to walk for.

Also, the offer I walked away from was from one of the FAANG, and I won't say which. Apparently, having walked away from the offer has effectively black balled me from progressing in interviews with them. I've had a few phone screens with them since that I think I did well in, just to get radio silence from them. Not even a response from the initial recruiter. I've stopped entertaining of even responding to inquiries from the particular company.
PLBs have no subscription. You must register them with the government but it's free. And mine only cost $250--watch prices on Amazon to get a better deal.

What you are thinking of are the SPOT & inReach units--those have subscription fees but provide you text messaging while off the grid. PLBs are single-shot HELP messages, they can't be customized. (Are you simply stranded like these guys, non-threatening injury that keeps you from getting yourself out, or is it a major issue--say, the guy here last year that keeled over on top of Hell Hill. It probably wouldn't have made a difference but the hour it took to get help certainly wasn't good.)
> At the beginning of the article, they are talking about building a "v8 light" for embedded application purposes, which was pretty exciting to me, then they diverged and focused on memory optimization that's useful for all v8. This is great work, no doubt, but as the most popular and well tested JavaScript engine, I'd love to see a focus on ease of building and embedding.

Would you ever consider an engine designed for that, like XS?[1] Or is it V8-or-nothing as far as you're concerned?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16883567
> ($80/hour, which is pretty competitive for a Python developer with 10+ years of experience, 6ish of them in Python)

I have this kind of experience, but the most I can make is $50/hour. How do you find high value clients?
Go currently does DWARF generation in the linker, but is in the process of moving that into the compiler. Also, most closures linking problems are relatively easy in Go.

As far as stack variables for the GC, the stack is exactly scanned for all but the last frame (I believe), but conservatively scanned for the last frame. This makes it much easier.

Types -- you're partially right. It is mostly all generated in the compiler, and deduped by the linker.

There's no reason Go's linker couldn't be much simpler and likely even simpler than a standard C linker. You might argue that Go will give up things like LTO, but Go designs out lots of the LTO problem (not PGO) by nature of how packages work, and the fact that there aren't cyclic dependencies.

Overall, the Go linker could be quite simple. It just needs some rework is all. :)
You think you expelled the Latinos and stole the land? That's simplistic perspective. If you go read the real Mexican history books (serious scholars and historians) you will realize that many people in those state were pro-leaving Mexico. Why? Well, Mexican 19th century history is defined by the conflict between Federalism and Centralism where everything was to be controlled from Mexico City. You can guess how people living on the outskirts of Mexico took to taxations and impositions of politicians from the center of the country. Sure, the US swooped on this, but you can bet the people in those territories were not particularly bothered, au contraire. Also you have to factor in that Mexicans have not felt particularly united as a nation until after our Revolutionary War in the 1900's
Slightly tangential, but Hannah Arendt, in addition to being a political philosopher, wrote a fairly thought-provoking tome called 'The Origins of Totalitarianism'. Worth a read if one is interested in such things.

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

I'm not completely well-versed in Heidegger, but is it possible that he did not hold his Nazi beliefs so close to his heart that true love (corny, I know) could not usurp those feelings? I would not suggest that a man such as Heidegger would not be forthcoming in his beliefs, but I do think it's possible that him (and others throughout history) adopted political beliefs partially out of convenience. Sometimes, it's difficult to tell the lengths to which someone holds their convictions.
Or even that it changes depending upon the container it's displayed within
> a fully general counterargument to any incentive structure.

A general counterargument is worth considering. Any incentive sufficiently powerful to draw forth extra resourcefulness in its legitimate pursuit is quite likely to also draw forth extra resourcefulness in its illegitimate pursuit.

> It's what businesses use for their leadership teams.

This is may help your case considerably less than you think if you look closely. Various forms of the principal-agent problem pop up all the time. Pink and Kohn have also forwarded some research suggesting that extrinsic incentives have diminishing returns or run counterproductive in some cases. And Goodhart's law is a proverb in the business world for a reason.

Aligning incentives is still important, but getting optimal performance is rarely as simple as tying rewards to a goal. Hell, half the time defining optimal performance is a project.

And when the underlying issues involve social safety and significantly curtailing someone's liberties via imprisonment (and the already fine tension between them), it's an especially tricky topic.
It all depends on your definition of improvement...

C is a bit like a Formula One car. Regardless of the historic reasons that caused it to evolve the way it did, it ended up occupying a niche and being very well suited to it, while at the same time being ill suited for other, more general purpose, uses. Under that perspective, change is slow because the people most invested in it want to make improvement happen in a very narrow and precise direction. McLaren, after all, is not going to bat an eye if you complain about its latest model lacking a baby seat!!!

C++, on the other hand, started sort of like NASCAR racing. It wanted to make a racing car out of a mundane, everyday car, and it got very, very good at it. Unfortunatelly, because C++ is based in an everyday car, and because it is Designed-by-Committee (TM), it shows lots and lots of "improvements" that individually kind of make sense, but in the bulk lack any coherence. Nowadays, C++ may perform like the Batmobile (from "Batman Begins" movie) on a good day; but you never know when it is going to bite you in the ass and turn into the Homermobile from the 90's Simpson's TV show.

It is a mix of necessity and lack of insight that many of the people in my generation had to learn how to drive in fucking racing carts!!! But when it's all said and done it gives you a little perspective on how things work and helps you appreciate the differences.
Neither. I'd build a responsive web app first and make sure it works on all devices. I'd only build for iOS or Android if the web app gets traction.
>Almost everyone whose work would be protected by software patents, is fervently opposed to them.

Please provide some kind of basis to this claim.
It is called Objective-C and it was pretty popular recently. Strings, arrays, classes, jsonserialization, etc.

Or you can JUST use D.

Why people always skip enormous work already done decades ago and whine that they miss something and something in C?
>multinationals

Also the nature of patents incentivizes you to claim patents even if you fundamentally disagree with the patent system, if you want to continue doing business. Otherwise a troll or competitor could try to shut you down
I distinctly remember thinking in 2001 that being able to play Nibbles on a cell phone was the apex of technology and it would be tough to get better than that.
Even weirder, before their love letters were published, Richard Rorty wrote a kind of hypothetical apology for Heidegger where he says "Well, if his life had been different and his lover were Jewish, maybe he could have had the same philosophy but not been a literal Nazi"—except he totally did have a Jewish lover and a Jewish mentor professor and still, Nazi.
I think you mean "cite".
Hillary Clinton Read Her Emails as Performance Art at the Venice Biennale
Arendt actually met Heidegger prior to the rise of the Nazi party. That said, Arendt continued corresponding with Heidegger long after he officially joined the Nazi party. It was definitely a weird, problematic relationship.

What's worse imo is Heidegger's treatment of Edmund Husserl. I don't think it would be a stretch to say Heidegger threw Husserl under a bus when the Nazis came to power.
Plugins are hard, and very OS dependent. There's plenty about the current system that is fragile, and likely to cause problems. I think it's likely the linker rework needs to happen before plugins can be properly addressed.
Groceries from Amazon Prime/Whole Foods is like estimating commuting costs using Uber. I just can't believe people live like that, or not for long. Nobody has a steak for every meal, or even every day, either.

Also, has anybody questioned that charity amount? That's like 1%. Like, you're making $300K and you can't afford 10%?
I do, but will leave it because I stand by me inability to spell. Thanks!
What do you mean by closures, and by linking of closures?

[I've implemented a Scheme before, in C, for context, so I'm wondering if I'm reading what you wrote with common vocabulary.]
Have you actually tried it on a cellphone though? LiveView works decently enough for me over my cell phone connection even when using a vpn. I wouldn’t want say a todo app made using LiveView, but for dashboards and other sites which require server data anyways it does fine. Oddly I find LiveView can even feel subjectively faster than an SPA making a discrete request and then rendering the result.
Public transit, once it’s built with sufficient coverage, is a lot cheaper and more effective than private transport.

What makes you believe so? The better coverage public system has, the less effective it is. At very low coverage, where you cover only a handful of popular routes, it is indeed much cheaper than private SOV transport. At the other extreme, where you have a regular bus coming every hour to every house in very sparsely populated area, it wil obviously be very expensive and inefficient. Thus, somewhere between these two extremes, there must be a break even point. Public transit can be definitely be cheaper and more effective, but it isn’t always automatically so.
Triple? $350K is close to six times the US median of $59K (2016).
JavaScript Packages in Debian Stable
>Any experiences or thoughts?

I used to have Ting for phone service, you can require mfa/lock number porting, disable or activate or change a device/sim, toggle voice sms and data and forward calls from their multi factor authenticated dashboard. Requested an extra sim and kept a dumb cdma phone lying around in case I broke lost or someone stole my phone. Also used an app to sync texts in case of broken scren. Now I use verizon and keep a spare cdma device, you can change devices from their web portal in combination with a message syncing app. You could also port your # to google voice for similar features but I assumed google will scrap it with little notice so I have not.
Neural Embedding Allocation: Distributed Representations of Topic Models
I like software patents. Made tens of thousands off of them, and then used those same patents at another company when the first company forced a cross lic agreement. First company ultimately lost millions and didn’t realize why. But, their lawyers probably got a bonus.
Yeah, of course if you build coverage everywhere it is not cost effective. There is definitely a point where cost effectiveness peaks. What I mean is that when you get there, it is much cheaper. It very rarely gets to that point in most of the world
I'd love to have personal ALPR on my car: I'd like a heads up when I'm near a crazy driver who has nearly hit me before. Since I drive similar paths, even without noticing, I'm likely to run into the same cars repeatedly. And I'd like to know/log who is pulling into my driveway and when.

If you're not trying to log the movements of the public, the usage is likely moral.
That's interesting because, after quitting WoW back in 2012 or so, a couple of years I started playing vanilla on a private server and now it's my go-to "down time" thing again. I'm currently kind of sad because my server shut down when Classic released (and I don't want to sign up to Classic for other reasons) and I'm missing my game. :/
You mean besides the mass sexual violence in Cologne, the Berlin Christmas market attack, or the fact that migrants in Germany are disproportionately more likely to commit violent crimes [0][1][2]?

What really gets me is headlines like “German far-right capitalizes on migrant crimes,” as if those politicians were happy the crimes had been committed or consented to the policy decisions that led to them occurring.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-germany-c...

[1] https://www.thelocal.de/20190415/german-far-right-capitalize...

[2] https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/germans-shaken-...
The free rides are over now. Literally.

Yes, Seattle discontinued its mobile homeless shelter program.
I read that mostly as making sure capture is handled properly.
Healthier than what? I buy antibiotic free grass fed beef from local farms.
Google Search itself may have a high marketshare, but that doesn't stop you from using Bing or DuckDuckGo does it?