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The simple fact that cities don't scale beyond a certain point is driving up prices.
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You're probably right, but for the wrong reasons. Racism leads to positive and negative expectations [1]. And do explain how you'd control for expectations based on race in your study.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_effect
The draft or the ratified version?
> I would imagine that when surge pricing is in effect Uber comes away with less revenue than periods where fares are normal.

That seems very unlikely.
This. Wish i could upvote 10x. When the negotiations are secret, it's one thing. When the agreement itself is secret for longer than a (usa) president's term, that's another.

Doesn't pass the sniff test.
Why would the global revolutionaries decode to stay home if they have to wait an extra few months to see the treaty?
Well, I never knew this field of study existed before, and now I'm interested in it. I'm not going to blindly trust everything in this article, but now I have some starting points on things to look up. The article mostly discussed the interesting, big picture ideas. That aroused my interest far more than if I just started on some technical math article.
I suspected it months ago too. In July last year, when the NYT published the story. :-)
There are also tons of vineyards in the Columbia River Gorge. Even the Seattle area has a few (namely in Woodenville).
That is a pretty good paper. 1996. What it talks about is relevant. CAP wasn't talked about and distributed databases where not the topic of casual conversations between developers.

It mentions Lotus Notes. As a piece of trivia, the creator of CouchDB (Damien Katz) originally worked on Lotus Notes (at IBM). Then created CouchDB in his spare time. I believe its design is influenced by Lotus Notes quite a bit.
Sloppy thinking ... supporting the status quo through confusion ... yep, sounds like the media doing the job they're told to do.
It looks more like a prophecy.
I posted one this week with a partner (we were pleased with the results, though it was hard to stay on the front page for more than an hour).

I think a weekly Show/Ask HN roundup post could be really helpful.
It's clever because it's a fancy and inferior alternative to browser tabs. Comments always show up in a partial width sidebar: http://www.producthunt.com/posts/sprites
This is not a revolutionary idea. Public college has traditionally been heavily subsidized by the state, and paid back by income and property taxes , aka an equity stake.
> The thing that allows you to post on this forum is the prior art computer hardware. The software only tells the hardware what you want it to do.

The software "only" tells the hardware what you want it do? That is the most important thing! Without software the hardware does absolutely squat.

Here's another way to think about this: imagine you invented the lever. The thing that allows you to move heavy objects you could not before, is the prior art of a log and a rock. The beam-and-fulcrum arrangement "only" tells the rock and log what to do.

> Moreover, your formulation is erroneous. Concrete things can do abstract things.

Non sequitur. Anything can be abstracted to an arbitrary degree. A very specific type of a screw with a very exact shape made of a very specific alloy can be abstractly defined as a "fastening component." That does not mean nothing is patentable.

> The fact that a particular braking system can slow down a car does nothing to establish that "slow down a car" is not an abstract idea. It clearly is an abstract idea.

Yes, but it's clearly not an abstract mathematical algorithm, which is what my parent post was questioning. Parent was wondering how software consisting of algorithms that are "abstract" can be patented. My point was precisely that the "abstract" that the court has in mind is very different from the "abstract" that we have in mind when talking about algorithms. "Slow down a car" is a different type of abstract from "E = MC^2", even though they are both abstract.
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The outside of a letter is public information - when you give the letter to a postal worker you know that a series of people who you will never meet are going to have to look at that address in order to route it to the right place. It's not clear to me how you can have a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Based on the age and region of the artifacts, they are probably related to the Dorset culture. Some of the First nations in the area are descended from the Thule, who migrated from Siberia and extirpated the Dorset after the date of the most recent of these finds. As such, this is not really the heritage of those first nations that is being studied, but people their ancestors may have encountered and still tell tales of. Other first nations in the area likely share a common, but distant, ancestry with the Dorset. Most people of European extraction are far more intimately linked, in terms of decent, to the Roman empire than any of the modern first nations would be to the Dorset.

It's a bit strange to think of in this way, but the Inuit are almost as new to North America as Europeans are. Vikings built tentative (and quickly abandoned) settlements on the East coast of Canada when the Inuit were establishing themselves in the West and had yet to spread across the North. The Vikings actually encountered the Dorset before they disappeared, and later the Thule as they replaced the Dorset. As such, those of us descended from Vikings are almost as intimately related to the Dorset as the Inuit!

Archaeology is a discipline that, ultimately, tries to tell the story about those who came before us, no matter our relation to them. First Nations groups really have no more right to protest these digs than we, here in Canada, have to protest digs in Italy. It is only our vast ignorance about the pre-history of the Americas that forces us to entertain their court claims. The artifacts uncovered by melting ice must be found within a very short period of time before the stories they can tell are lost for all time. While it is important to involve First Nations, just as any other Canadians, their interference, to the point of entirely preventing searches some years and thereby causing the loss of a part of our heritage, must not be permitted. The history of humanity belongs to us all.
The winemakers of Walla Walla thank you for your patronage. We don't have much of a tech industry here, but if anyone wants to join me in creating the "Silicon Vineyard" then c'mon over.

Honestly though, while we have a lot of good wine, we also have a lot of swill.
> At that point, something like Uber still makes sense as a centralized ride brokerage.

Since this is such an obvious part of the business model, I don't think they will get the chance to do this.

There's one thing people don't yet understand about robots in the public space. Who carries the responsibility for the driving, and for accidents ? Currently for normal cars this is shared between producer and driver. With self-driving cars both the producer and driver are one and the same company, and obviously the occupants won't feel a great sense of responsibility, they'll feel they are victims, for obvious reasons : they didn't do anything.

So ownership and insurance of things don't make sense for driver less cars. Ownership of them doesn't make sense because the responsibility thing doesn't work if you don't allow the producer remote access to do anything they want to the car. Insurance doesn't make sense for similar reasons.

So yes I'm sure the car companies will allow Uber to take part in some "affiliate" scheme, but I'd expect that to be the limit of their involvement.
Bezos graduated with a CS degree from Princeton. I wouldn't call that non-technical. He is extremely sharp.
The comedy to that is, the biggest junk mail service provider is the US Postal Service. In fact the only junk mail I get is from them selling access to my address and PO Box.
Given Google's relationship with Jetbrains for Android Studio how about Kotlin. Cut out Java entirely:
Kotlin -> ART.

Kotlin seems approachable and modern. Also compiles down to JS.
I don't think they could be an ObjectiveC object, because they're described as C, not ObjectiveC.

I think the problems you're describing are ones that are going to be faced in any attempt at C closures. Closures have memory attached, that's the appeal of them and also the source of all the problems.
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> It could be that, in reality, that kind of data doesn't exist, because any data worth keeping is worth the trouble of keeping consistent

Not necessarily. What is important is not "dropping" the data on the floor in an unpredictable fashion. The sane eventually consistent models will present the conflicted versions to the user. (Optionally all sides picking the same one value, as winner, but never throwing away others).

That is what Riak does in its correct (sadly non-default) configuration and that is what CouchDB does.

This bubbling up of eventual consistency to the very top layer is the correct behavior. The database might find that both you and your friend withdrew $100 from the same account. Now that account is in a negative balance perhaps. But the important thing is it keeps both transactions. So something above can decide to pick a winning one, not pick any and cancel both, to use maybe a timestamp. Or to cancel the account because of possible fraud.
Indeed, I don't think you do:

Blocks are supported for programs developed for Mac OS X
10.6+ and iOS 4.0+,[1] although third-party runtimes
allow use on Mac OS X 10.5 and iOS 2.2+.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocks_(C_language_extension)
This article could be applied to the organizers of huge international sporting events like FIFA and Olympic committee. I would love to see the books of those organisations checked.
Pointer, length or start pointer end pointer has overhead multiplied across n strings may even become larger than the strings themselves!
It's not so much about expecting things to be private, but more of expecting things not to end up in databases, virtually forever.

As programmers, we tend to view the world in a very "black and white" fashion, similar to our security model: If it's public, there is no expectation of privacy.

But the world is not like this ... shouldn't be like this. While there should be both technical and legal mechanisms in place to prevent privacy abuses, it does not mean that, if they're not there, we should simply expect governments to do as they please, log everything, put us in all sorts of databases, make those databases accessible to all sorts of people, etc.
This reminds me of when people talk about hearing demonic messages in popular songs when played backwards. I think Stairway to Heaven is one of the more famous examples
This pains a lot of us who used to work at VA. It was a combination of the dot com bubble bursting and mismanagement which caused everything to implode. I remember saying at the time "if we can't make money during the largest economic upswing ever, when the hell are we going to make money?"

I think if we'd had any kind of fiscal responsibility we might have been able to survive the rocky years. At the time though, the idea was to ditch manufacturing and put everything behind SourceForge. In retrospect, that probably wasn't a horrible idea, except for that someone got the bright idea that the only way to for SourceForge to make money was to sell banner ads. I think GitHub proved that was a bad idea.
Well they're purely a product of regulation only in the broadest sense: without regulations (rules and laws) you wouldn't have international trade, and so there would be no multi-nationals (or civilized societies).

Has this been demonstrated conclusively? It seems like international trade probably would have come before international law.
I think you (and the folks making the same point below) misunderstand. The USPS is indeed part of the problem. They would also be utterly incapable of carrying out the kind of "enhanced" treatment of direct marketing "people" that's required.

Since the USPS is only the instrument, giving all the postal covers to the FBI, I say let the FBI/CIA/NSA/NRO have a shot at the direct marketeers. Those organizations have demonstrated a willingness to "deviate" from the usual behaviors in the defense of Truth, Justice and The American Way. They're just the sort of folks you'd want to "handle" the Direct Marketing Association.
Kernel extensions in OS X 10.10 need to be signed and justified to Apple
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Would you consider anonymizing the data properly and re-publishing as canonical torrent for future analysis?
RIP ... i actually did one of the earlier freshmeat logos back before it had its own proper domain.

https://web.archive.org/web/19980419152907/http://freshmeat....
True re Google's experiments. Given there's one guy in charge of Android and Chrome/OS developers could use a clearer direction. Preferably an alternative to Java (Kotlin?) which can also run on Chrome OS.
Yes, you can. You can use it to create an approximation of named parameters, because struct members that don't have an initializer will default to zero. It's still not nearly as compact as, say, Ruby, but for C it's pretty awesome and fast.
I can't find a language specification anywhere. Can you give me a link?

go language spec hit #1:

http://golang.org/ref/spec

dart language spec hit #1:

https://www.dartlang.org/docs/spec/

java language spec hit #1:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/

For Swift, I can only find guides and references.
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Some possible examples include qsort() and iterators. You could also use them for event handlers, but those are probably clearer as separate methods.

I haven't used LambdaPP, but I'm guessing you can get around the lack of closures the same way you do with callbacks, by passing a void* with necessary data.
I too heard "... is at the next stop" right away.
This is what you'd expect government to do when taking away a licence would mean the person loses their livelihood.

The same thing is true for lawyers, land meters, certified accountants, ... they effectively get one "get out of jail free" card for any offence that occurred on the job, and isn't an obvious repeat offence, or was an obvious case of corruption (and getting paid a lot, but not directly to commit a crime is not corruption).

Why ? Two reasons. Firstly, because taking that licence destroys the person, nobody wants to do it. Second because of the effect of taking away licences, their competitors could cause their licence to be taken away to increase business (for lawyers at least, I know two cases where this happened)
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I've been using the YNAB[1] app for expense tracking, and I'm pretty happy with it.

It has a nice feature where it records the retailer's location using the iPhone's location services, so when you enter new transactions for a retailer you've been to before it can automatically guess the payee and category. After a week or two, the app had learnt the payees I used the most, so entering transactions became super fast.

The downside with YNAB is that you must sync it with a desktop version of their app. The iOS/Android apps are free, but only support a small subset of the desktop app's functionality.

With YNAB there's also a whole financial management system that they want you to buy into. It works well for me, but might not meet everyone's mental model of how personal finance should work.

[1]: http://www.ynab.com/
That page does mention Linux in one section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocks_%28C_language_extension...
Since this is a technically inclined audience, here's a tiny bit of mathematical background.

When Ms. Das says that our brains constantly use prior information, she (probably) means prior in a certain specific, technical sense. Modern cognitive scientists often think about perception and cognition in probabilistic terms, so you might characterize the brain's task in interpreting that utterance as finding the most probable sentence (S) given the acoustic input (X), or P(S|X). Bayes' rule says you can write this expression as P(X|S)P(S)/Z, where Z is a normalizing constant (don't worry about it for now).

Because these expressions are so common, we've come up with names for referring to their parts. The first part, P(X|S), is called the likelihood, which tells us how probable the input we experienced would be given a particular interpretation. For instance, if the sentence actually read "competition center" rather than "Constitution center", the sound in the recording would be less likely (although maybe still possible, aka non-zero probability, due to noise, speaker variance, etc). The second part, P(S), represents the prior probability of the sentence. Given our knowledge of English, some sentences are simply more likely than others. For instance, the sentence "colorless green ideas sleep furiously" is grammatically well-formed but tremendously unlikely.

So, to conclude, when the presenter says we use prior information, she (probably, no pun intended) means that upon hearing what the correct interpretation should be, we increase the value of P(S), thereby allowing us to compute the proper perception.

Here's a nice and fairly readable overview paper (with a whole section on prior knowledge) if you think this stuff is as cool as I do -- www.indiana.edu/~kruschke/articles/JacobsK2010.pdf

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I still don't think he's got the point that every last one of his expanded suggestions are likely to result in a mediocre monoculture.

And yay for sending your employees to places they can meet more young white straight guys.
Google unveils independent “fork” of OpenSSL called “BoringSSL”
Yep. I got in on the RHAT F&F deal thanks to some bug reports and a patch here and there.

I made the stupid mistake of allowing coworkers to buy some shares through me but I wasn't fully aware of the tax burden. Basically everything I made myself went in to paying the taxes on everyone else's shit. What little was left I had to give to my family to help with other bullshit.
Did anyone else find the only part of the jibberish they heard was "...next stop" and they heard it on the first pass?
The EU's right to be forgotten laws are sounding very attractive...
Australia has a system whereby "bill the farmer" (and miners) can claim a tax credit for fuel excise taxes, whereas inner city drivers can't.

The UK has a system where inner city drivers have to pay congestion taxes.

Both of these systems make some progress towards limiting congestion and subsidising public transport in dense areas without hurting those outside the cities. Personally I think they should both go a lot further.
The "reasonable expectation of privacy" standard does not work in a world where computers exist.
Nope, they're an ObjectiveC object with some specialties at the compiler level. Google how they're implemented.
It's also not reasonable for the public to be excluded from the conversation of how that data is handled.
Wow, that's so cool - are there any other examples of these audio illusions?
I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

Let me take a stab, though. Keep in mind that the text of the code does absolutely nothing until it is interpreted or compiled. Now, say your code implements a way to detect porn in an image, which is what your patent claims. By publishing the code in the patent, is Google Patents, or heck even the USPTO, making, using or selling "porn detection in images"?

A simple answer to this question is the answer to the question, "Can I submit an image to USPTO/Google Patents and get a determination of whether the image contains porn?"
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Interesting. But it's a bit hard to tell what the bot does just from this page. Could the sample games show the Tweets that were sent to create them?
What's so funny about watching/reading all these explanations (videos, images, tutorials etc.) is the utter lack of mastery displayed by all the computer scientists / programmers in presenting a simple, rigorous, complete mathematical definition. Due to leaving out these essential details, and unable to actually define what 'the lambda calculus' is, they end up confusing people. Jim Weirich never actually articulates a clear definition and ends up uttering a jumble of words.. although I'm sure he understands it intuitively, he's not able to convey it.
The exact same can be said of the contents of an unencrypted email.
Right? I thought the guy in story looked familiar. Sure enough, same article from a year ago.
Fantastic stuff. Can you give some more info on how it was created, what libraries it uses etc.?
Thanks! Yes, I implemented the logging system after those two games were made so they don't have a public log right now but I'm gonna try and build a little game to demonstrate the whole thing. Feel free to follow https://twitter.com/gdevbot for updates.

EDIT: I'm building a little game now, you can see it get build over here - http://gdevbot.sparklinlabs.com/p/starpick/edit
Of course they have to look at it to sort, route, and deliver it.

What I expect is its existence to be forgotten as soon as each step in the process is completed.
> motherhood provided the crucial, emotionally satisfying transition into adult life.

I know someone who worked at a treatment center for disadvantaged inner city girls (drug treatment, mostly court mandated). From what I understood motherhood is a status symbol, also a right of passage. A way to earn respect. All of the sudden people pay more attention to you. It also affords a pass into a club of other unwed mothers, many older ones, that might have served as role models growing up. Like the observation said, it is seen as the next step in life.

One deeper level, I think it also provides companionship and family where there is none. Deadbeat deads or moms, girlfriends and hookups who are abusive, come in an out, but this one little person, will be there looking up to them never going anywhere, providing love and attachment that they never got much. That is at least my interpretation of it. It is unfortunate because in most cases these children and parents will have a hard time. It is very selfish to bring children into the world just to be used a status symbol or someone to provide companionship when there are just no resources to raise safely.

On an even deeper, perhaps unconscious, level, maybe having children can be seen as giving up on accomplishing more in life and instead choosing to procreate, hoping maybe the offspring might have a better shot at it.

> The good father is somebody like your friend.”

I can see how that would be an attempt at reversal or mend their own experience with their fathers growing up. Their father wasn't there. Their father wasn't their "friend". Their father used to beat them and be harsh. So they vow to be the opposite.

The one hope in this is that it would also reverse some of the stereotypes about men. Men are the default guilty party in family disputes. They are the stereotypical predator and abuser while women are given a a great leeway and only with concrete and absolute evidence will they be considered as unfit to take care of the child. This mentality has permeated the court system, the school system, the culture in general. Hopefully this leads at least to a re-evaluation of those stereotypes.
Thanks, over 50% return so far!