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A meta question, but why was everything from the comments to the title initially attributing everything to the man? The 35 year old woman spent twice many years doing this, claimed 2.4 millions compared to the 0.7 million that the man did.

Even ordering the father before the daughter looks odd but it is at least the original title, but the whole thing looked out of place here on HN.
Hey @rcarmo - So you're gonna sell these right? Bc I'll take way more than I ever previously thought I would spend on business cards.
> 10 years at 1/4 salary is... brutal in a way that bankruptcy isn't.

Perhaps you should remind yourself that plenty of people in your age group have salaries that are less than 1/4 of a silicon valley salary, and they think it is normal.
I can’t believe those pathetic bootlicking retards gave the money back to the bank. We deserve our chains.
If the replaced vehicle is used in some way, it’s a net win.
The main issue with the Seattle commuter rail, Sounder, is that the host railroad is not keen on giving more slots to run trains, so the schedule isn't very useful.

The issue with the station is that the Union Station office complex and historical building are in the way of proper wayfinding, so that the path between the commuter rail and the light rail looks more like an out-of-the-way alley than an actual path you're supposed to take.
That was my experience. I once talked to a newspaper reporter for 20 minutes and he used maybe a 10 word quote that I felt did not represent the point of what I had explained to him. I would not speak to a reporter unprepared again.
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Depends on how long it takes to find parking, especially if you're not willing to stump the higher cost for a garage space.

And wouldn't the alternative be transit? No one is walking all the way across Vancouver.
From a (very occasional) rider perspective: I only have an Uber account. From my understanding - which may be completely incorrect, but it's what my decision to only have Uber was based on - Uber is available in more cities (which are likely nearly a superset of Lyft's cities), has more drivers, and is cheaper.

In other words, based on my understanding of the brands, the only reason for me to install Lyft would be if I wanted to boycott Uber. And I already have Uber, but not Lyft, and I would likely have to keep Uber because I go to cities where Uber exists and Lyft doesn't.

So some network effect is there, but I don't see how it justifies the insane valuation of the company. AFAIK they're still operating at a loss.

Their strategy seems to be having the network when self-driving cars come around, but any competitor offering (safe) self-driving rides would get my sign-up just due to novelty. Even if not, $100B buys you a lot of new-user incentives.

Uber has to solve completely different issues than a self-driving cab: A self-driving cab company can just flood a market with cars to ensure a smooth experience for new users, offer a bunch of free rides in a limited time to get people to sign up, then move the excess cars to the next city (can't simply do that with human drivers).

No need to recruit and manage drivers, deal with driver fraud, settle disputes when a driver claims a passenger puked in the car and the passenger claims they didn't (if they take a picture after the passenger leaves). All the tracking and fraud detection systems of Uber are worthless.

Writing an app that can show a map and let people press a "I want a car" button may not be trivial, but it isn't going to cost a billion dollars.
I'd listen if you had anything to back up your claims, but as is the things you say go against everything I've seen and heard. Being open-minded just means that you listen to evidence, it isn't about listening to anonymous people on the internet making fantastical claims with zero evidence.

Also the other comment wasn't meant to insult you, just to show you how ridiculous you look when you come here telling people who have done actual research on the topic that they lack credentials to discuss this when you demand that we listen to you when you got nothing at all. I am not lying when I say that I'd be very interested to read any evidence you have, but since you can't show it then I must conclude that you probably don't have any.
Russia unplugged the internet and took a look at China.
Tangentially, QQ lets you customize the font in which your messages are displayed to other people. Some people express their personality by choosing quirky or fun fonts.

That caused problems for me. I know how to read Chinese characters in more-or-less standard fonts. I wasn't really able to read the quirkier ones.
“Seven years ago I led a team to create the first Google Santa Tracker.”
Amazon is VERY far from the stagnation that happened at Microsoft in the Ballmer era. In fact I'd say they are moving faster than ever. Why would you say they need a "turnaround"?
"He is not believed to have had any little helpers."
> I just want to get the fuck to work and use my brainpower there.

I find that I have more brainpower if I ride my bike to work, because it gets my circulation going.
Would you have your portfolio on your person at all times? Probably not, but you wouldn't go on a long trip without it. If you were actively working you'd have it available. If you didn't have it, you'd accept the risk of losing a contract or having your work temporarily withdrawn from sale. Maybe a bookseller would notice typos in your current edition and takes your book off the shelves until you can make a revised edition.

I mean, fundamentally, if you're saying your book needs to be on sale 24/7/365 then you need to be standing behind it 24/7/365 or paying a person or organisation to do that for you. If you want to take a break from the business of your book you should be prepared for Amazon to do the same.
I think both sides would agree that Republican administrations are usually more business-friendly/less inclined to regulate.
You could also have a dollar-neutral carbon tax by lowering, say, income tax to exactly offset the revenue from the carbon tax. The population as a whole would not lose any money, but low-carbon behavior would be incentivised.
> Amazon’s hard-driving company culture has come in for its share of criticism...

Byran Cantrill famously put Amazon on a pedestal for its Leadership Principles [0] but when I read his own startup's Values, they strike me an awful lot like Amazon's [1]?

> Other Bezos directives — among the most famous, teams should be small enough to be fed with two pizzas — have shaped Amazon’s corporate structure. Former employees say it functions as a collection of startups, each with the resources and support of a mega corporation... They inform business plans, product ideas, hiring decisions, promotions and compensation... key attributes of Amazon’s culture, such as its emphasis on data-driven decision-making... At the corporate level, Amazon is composed of many small teams, each limited by the two-pizza rule, part of Bezos’ strategy to stay nimble and grow quickly.

AWS re:Invent this year had numerous presentations [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] on exactly this.

> Some implementations can actually be quite toxic if you focus so deeply on one without some of the counterbalance.

This remains a problem for a section of employees. Outpouring of that emotion on Blind come year-end review is significant and sometimes there're folks complaining about it on news.yc, too [10].

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[0] https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/9QMGAtxUlAc

[1] https://oxide.computer/principles/

[2] Marc Brooker, Amazon's approach to building resilient services, https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/KLxwhsJuZ44

[3] Peter Ramensky, Amazon's approach to high-availability deployment, https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/bCgD2bX1LI4

[4] Andy Troutman, Amazon's approach to running service-oriented teams, https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/n1d20Yok000

[5] Colm MacCarthaigh, Amazon's approach to security during development, https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/NeR7FhHqDGQ

[6] Becky Weiss, Amazon's approach to failing successfully, https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/yQiRli2ZPxU

[7] Thomas Blood, Amazon's culture of innovation, https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/2ZQKPUD7vKE

[8] Andy Warfield and Seth Markle, Lessons from Amazon S3's culture of durability, https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/DzRyrvUF-C0

[9] Colm MacCarthaigh, Lessons from Amazon's highest available data-planes, https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/2L1S0zfnIzo

[10] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15910526
Thanks for the feedback. I'm hoping that's only going to be a short-term problem. Perhaps you'd (or anyone else) be willing to write a review for one of the categories that doesn't have content? :)

Categories that currently don’t have content:

Administrative, Arts & Design, Consulting, Customer Service & Support, Legal, Information Technology, Marketing, Media & Communications, Other, Product & Project Management, Research & Science

If you'd like to help out, you can do so here: https://www.kareerday.com/write-review
You are right, I overstated the case.

My impression is that Glenn Greenwald's reporting is indeed excellent. However my knowledge of secret surveillance is from the writings of people like him - it is not a subject that I have independent knowledge that I can verify anything from. Furthermore at this point I would consider him more of a subject matter expert than a general journalist. Reporting on the same topics in CNN or the NYT tends to be pretty shoddy.

That said, there are some publications, such as Propublica and The Economist that seem to consistently do a good job of reporting. So it is not all. But it is a lot.

That said, I was basing my comments on my personal expertise on programming, math, physics and a handful of celebrities that I happen to know personally. Reporting on all of those is pretty uniformly terrible.
well, it's text-editor based and scores of people worked with similar systems successfully without being a nerd before Microsoft and IBM started to push for WYSIWIG because you could sell a new UI for that every year or two (and now the same people are selling SaaS because people stopped taking the bait...). Efficiency gains for actual users: noone knows, but people are making a lot of money, so it has to be something.
The LDS church is interesting in that it simultaneously large enough and insular enough to make stark differences in journalistic angles sharp.

Journalism often falls into a trap that puts the cart before the horse. It's preordained [no pun intended] what type of coverage many events are going to get. Who among us couldn't guess what the NYT's take is going to be in a mormon leader's obituary before they write it?

A journo doesn't go into something to figure out "what's the deal with [foo]?" That won't sell (not to the public, nor their editors). But the reality is often worse. Journos think they have everything all figured out before they even investigate. They just need to investigate enough information to slap it into their story as if they were a algorithm automatically writing a sports story from the game stats.

edit: I'm editing out an already-vague story about being involved with something that receives media coverage. I'll just say if you notice how dumb journos are when they cover subject matter you're a unrelated professional in, being the "who" in receiving end of news coverage lets you see just how much they want to draw conclusions for the rest of the world unless you work on visibility to counter their obvious narrative angles. And the worst thing is, once this is the game it doesn't matter how right or wrong they are because organizations are going to fight negative coverage either way.
> Safari isn't that interested in furthering the web

On macOS 10.15.2 (19C57) using Safari 13.0.4 (15608.4.9.1.3), the proofs of concept mentioned in the article yield

> The previous tab is safe and intact. window.opener was null; mischief not managed!

Perhaps your dismissal of Safari is presumptive and mistaken.
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I thought they applied with Abby negligence in protection of PII? A breach can be little more than an exposure of poor PII protection.
I suspect that a report of one typo isn't enough to cause that. (And the tweet does say "whoever flagged the typos", not "whoever flagged one spurious typo".)

"Moreso" is just the author reaching for the most sympathetic example they can find.
As a functional programmer myself, I have the same confusion.

As best I can tell, category-theory a cargo-cult thing ("I want to look like the type of engineer who CARES about monoids [because if I use words you don't know I'm smart]" much in the same way hipsters claimed vinyl sounds better).

I'd like to be wrong about this, but I've already met a handful of "phonies" who rant and rave about this stuff, but when I ask them "How does labeling an array a monad help me?" or even "Is a hash-map a monad?" they are completely stuck.
> “ I see little difference between the religious dogma of the 19th century and the scientific dogma of the MWI.”

That suggests you badly misunderstand MWI or else have your own dogma in terms of how you’ll define it. Either way, comparing MWI to religious dogma is beyond ridiculous.

> “ For it to be remotely "settled," there actually has to be evidence. There is none.”

We have nearly a hundred years of quantum mechanical experimental evidence that supports MWI and doesn’t require no-evidence purely hypothetical extra things to be attached to the theory, like special collapse.

> “ What you are promoting is not science but philosophical posturing.”

Unless you can support this claim, it seems entirely disingenuous and it’s like you expect some purely rhetorical flair to make your point. Copenhagen is closer to your quote than MWI... it’s not even controversial to say so, purely definitional (as non-controversial as it can get).
Swastika is a religious symbol for us hindus .. whats so offensive about that ???
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21858962
There’s also a cost to honest taxpayers who are false positive audited that must not be ignored. Having been through it last year for tax year 2015, I and my Enrolled Agent spent close to 75 hours combined for a net result of around $500 increase in 2015 tax owed and a corresponding offset of the same amount in 2016 because I got the timing wrong on a payment that hit Jan 2016 instead of Dec 2015.

That likely cost the IRS a comparable, if not greater, amount of hours. Increasing the funding is not beneficial when it results in more audits like mine.
Also, what percentage of semi trucks are only utilized on these short routes?

A big thing in fleets is flexibility, and if you're requiring a much larger fleet, or two fleets, to do the same job that's not workable in many cases.
Talking to a journalist is like talking to the police. They have a specific agenda and standard for publishing that doesn’t necessarily align with telling a story as you perceive it. You have to be able to manipulate them, which is best left to professionals.

A lesson that I have seen learned the hard way. The reason why celebrities say "No comment" is that it can't be misquoted.

My favorite example of a deliberate journalistic misquote is that my mother was on a phone with a journalist and used a phrase starting with, "It is not that I..." It appeared in print as, "It is...that I..." Yes, the word "not" was replaced with "..." to reverse the meaning of what she said so that she would look bad.
I think that makes sense, I just don't understand what that would mean a republican administration mean there is more clearly antitrust
Integrated stuff can sometimes also be borderline unusable. For the .NET project we’re currently working on we decided to log using system.diagnostics.tracesource and co. It happens rather regularly that we wonder why something doesn’t get logged and we wonder where something gets logged to.
How does SS7 and Diameter hijack Signal app?
~100 milliseconds startup is good enough for those applications. ~10ms startup is not specified as one if its design goals https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/intro-141325.html

edit: and as I mentioned above, the HotSpot VM is specifically, explicitly optimized for long running applications.
well, it was not about the case, but about the thriving service sector in GPs-link, where people are offering the service of formatting word-files for e-book export. Considering that self-publishing is probably in the 20$-wage-range, the authors could easily learn pandoc+git (or just use MS Word the right way), save that money for subsequent books AND (which is the most important thing) should have a workflow in place, where they actually can check for previous version/can edit the published version easily.
> Using Jeff’s words: We are well into Day 2.

Where did Jeff Bezos say this?
In the US we already have Medicare and SS taxes dedicated to that. Many other jurisdictions also have dedicated tax funds for various purposes established by law, e.g. a sales tax used solely for funding transit services, for example.
Anyone who isn't stupid. Considering how may big corporations have ties with government agencies, if you try to pull something like that and you get caught you could easily be charged with espionage.
Uniqlo heads to full automation with robot that can fold and box clothes
Well, 30 regex is not a great case for libpcre as libpcre really doesn't have a multiple regex mode. Thanks to some excellent work in libpcre2 with accelerated searching, it's no longer the "7-10x slower than Hyperscan on a single regex" case of the past (still frequently slower), but it wouldn't surprise me if HS was 50-100x faster than libpcre once compile time isn't a factor.

However, the compile times of HS for 30 regexes might be not entirely trivial (maybe a second, probably less). A megabyte you'd probably see benefits but I think the benefits might not be drastic.

Probably the best way to find out would be to fire up hsbench (a tool that comes with Hyperscan now), figure out the slightly weird corpus format (sorry) and get some numbers for yourself on your own workload.
Raspberry Pi's goal is computer science and coding education. They aren't going to make anything that isn't beginner friendly, and can't at least run a Linux GUI, have basic networking, support standard peripherals etc.
It's not what's "the most attention grabbing tidbit" -- that's what tabloids do. It's ideological. As the piece says:

> [The journalist] forced events and personalities into a narrow, pre-conceived frame that bore little relation to the reality before him

Same thing as the NYT publishing an article about how the space program was about white supremacy. Same thing as the Times' 1619 project, which alleged that the Revolutionary War was fought to preserve slavery in the colonies.

Being a journalist is hard. Too many journalists seem to believe that "it's impossible to be apolitical" or "if you aren't working to dismantle the system, you're part of the problem" or even "no facts, only interpretations". These perspectives aren't necessarily wrong, but you can't be a good journalist if you've internalized them.
The original post was saying that "it [the merger] should clear antitrust" - i.e. the merger would be approved (cleared).
I don't know, I saw it many times over a fairly long time period. I suppose it could have been a long running prank.
This is in the report.. the 84mi EV is a Nissan Leaf. That was a very popular EV for 2015 (the year of the report). People definitely did and still do drive it. It's one of the best selling EVs every year.

I would suggest reading the report a little more closely.. It also has numbers for a 265mi Model S... so you don't need to make up estimates for such an EV.. it's in the report.
The problem for someone like myself is that I have taken some classes on basic abstract algebra in high school (groups, monoid, rings etc) and came out of it with some definitions and... Nothing else. I can probably still tell if some operation on some set forms a group or not, but that has never been a directly useful tool in what I learned further through high-school and university. It didn't help in linear algebra. It didn't help with calculus. It didn't help with control theory. It didn't help with numerical methods. Sure, I could go around and see if new operations I learned about formed, say, rings, and I'm sure a lot of them do, but that was never used in theorems or demonstrations in those fields (the way I was taught them, anyway).

It was only ever a set of definitions. And almost everything I've seen browsing on category theory seemed the same - like it's just definitions, new names for old concepts, with few theorems shown that elucidate the need for these new names.

For example, lists and optionals and Either are monads. IO is also a monad. The most I've seen make use of knowing this fact is some nice-ish syntax sugar that works for all 3 of these seemingly disparate concepts. But even then, the 'work' for enabling that sugar seems to be done by the simple properties of the monad, more than some theorem that had been proven on monads in general.

Are there some examples of common CS abstractions that are almost but not quite category theory constructs? Are there any simple examples where we get new proofs by recognizing that some old CS concept is, say, a monad?

I understand your point about theorems for free in principle, but I have never seen one in these kinds of discussions (at least, not one that wasn't also a definition, e.g. if X is a monad than Y must be a functor).
You did answer, MITM doesn't work for Signal and WhatsApp, correct?
Above, AlexCoventry mentioned a paper. If you would like to find more, go to Google Scholar and find all papers which cite that paper. This would be just a part of the whole story since bigger datasets and models are not in open. The progress rate in this field is incredible.
The entire comment section is full of naysayers who, nevertheless, choose not to dispute the facts. What's up with doom and gloom? By all _reliable_ accounts the world has never been more prosperous or less violent than it is today. Why do you feel the need to argue with this? Perhaps some self-examination is in order?
> but the offers aren't all that good

But, but, but... how can that be?! There's such a massive shortage of software developers! Surely you're mistaken, right?
Interesting point. For me it's more a question of whether the post-2016-election rally is organic. "Why the appreciation in value" is a different question than "why hasn't the stock sold off?"

We have seen incredible growth in market cap. Ultimately Boeing does big business with the Department of Defense and their spending is up, but the lion's share of Boeing's profits come from commercial aviation if I'm not mistaken. The tax cuts and cash repatriation holiday were great too, but how much can that reduction in tax burden really account for this rally in the value of BA? Seems like a sell to me on first glance, but the fact that there is strong support here at 330 despite all that has happened is telling that some big money players are confident that Boeing is irreplaceable.

A friend of mine refuses to bet against BA because it makes up a large component of the DJIA, which the President appears to treat as his own personal economic scoreboard.
> But we also didn't need as much memory.

Another way to look at it is that we only did the things we could do with such little memory. CP/M is a marvel of size-constrained code, but it's also crude in the extreme.

A multitasking virtual memory system with a decent file system and an optimizing high-level language compiler -- what most developers would consider the bare minimum for being civilized today -- really relies on having about a megabyte or more of RAM in practice.

Consider the web, one of the "killer apps" for computing in general. It's not hard to imagine implementing something like modern packet-switched networking and basic text-only hypertext documents, with a computer which can only do about 100,000 instructions per second. But doing it with only 4 or 16 KB of RAM, though? Just this comment is 843 bytes.