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I think you misinterpreted the picture - the left lane ends and merges with the right, as when joining a motorway (we drive on the left). You can see the real thing in the photo above the closest two cars.

The zip system is used ubiquitously here - I didn't even know there were other systems, so I was curious to see what new thing the article was about. From what I understood, the alternative is not really a "system"?
Yes, I agree. Suspension was appropriate. I wish the article had described the "much worse" behavior of the white children. It's important to communicate this to make the author's point.
Watching TV after work makes you feel 'guilty and like a failure'
I'm living in Newcastle, Australia
To be fair, we drag around (and rigorously defend) many bad artifacts of past programming languages. Case sensitivity? Double-equals-sign for testing equality?

But still, programming seems far more willing to fix mistakes than hard sciences/math. We've been clanking around with Pi instead of Tau for how many centuries?
They're not going anywhere. The recent change to the corporate structure has been for tax purposes. They will continue to grow overseas, but I don't see them closing Sydney any time soon.
And who are we to be skeptical of a motivational speaker's anecdotes?
This is the saddest part about it. Cable companies and broadband were once the tip of the spear of innovation in terms of internet speed.

In '95 in Chandler, AZ I went from a 56k to a broadband connection up to 6 Mbps broadband connection (with so few on the nodes then) in one day. It was amazing innovation and almost magical.

The sad part is that the same companies that brought that are the same companies keeping us from leaps like that now, no longer disrupting or innovating, bean counting instead while the US broadband and subsequent innovation possibilities / new markets burn.

The best way to make more money and be more liked as a company if you are in broadband is to jump up a level and put your competitors on their heels by giving more speed/bandwidth, but there are no competitors worthy yet to challenge and shake up internet connections like cable companies did back when phone companies were lethargic.
The upsetting thing to me is not that the networks make money. That's fine. It is that they have stymied growth of our economy in favor of milking as much money as they can.

According to Ookla,

US: 25.9 Mbps
South Korea: 54 Mpbs
Netherlands 46.3 Mbps
Sweden: 46 Mbps
Lithuania: 45.6

See also: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=internet+speeds+by+coun...

Think about the tremendous power unleashed when MP3 sharing, YouTube video, and Netflix streaming all became possible thanks to sufficient bandwidth. Now think about what would happen if we ramped up speeds instead of letting them trickle.
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OS X 10.9.4 Update Broken?
A bit of a rant: the OSX 10.9.4 update is supposed to fix a bug where the computer would not re-connect to Wifi after sleep. In the 3 years of owning my mac I have never had this issue. Since updating yesterday, the exact problem the update was supposed to fix has been happening consistently when my mac wakes.<p>Yes, I've tried restarting. Curious if anyone else is having this issue?
I checked it out and it looks pretty sweet. But is there a way to get syntax highlighting for the Slim templating language that I'm not seeing? I use Slim extensively. No Slim, no Cloud9 for me.
Thanks! I'd love to do more elementary school topics. I still encounter revelations about things like basic counting (fencepost problem) and arithmetic.

My meta goal is to raise people's standards for what it means to understand something. ("If it didn't click, I should keep looking for a better explanation." vs. "It didn't click, I'm no good at this.")
That image is clearly photoshopped. The image quality of the tree pixels vs the background, the strange lighting discrepancies and the shadow on bottom left of the planter box that is somehow towards the light.

Look at the transition at 29 seconds in that talk [1]. The clouds are in the same place.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9EuJ9QlikY#t=29

I don't hold anything against the artist though, the article just picked a terrible image to use.
Whether you believe that or not, the actual point of the article is that a white child behaving that way is much more likely to remain in school than a black child.
Honestly even if you're only about 10-20% in some of those categories you mentioned, and maybe 20-30% on your basic programming skills (data-types, algo's, design patterns) you're probably at the right level to start looking for entry-level positions. I've seen 4-year degree-holders who are less proficient at how everything ties together across a basic web stack.

Just take risks and go for it. Have some decent code examples ready for your interview, be confident in yourself and go for it!
Why would other mothers admit that their children were suspended?

It's entirely possible that unfair punishment is occurring but she needs a lot more than "the other mothers told me so" to prove it.
That's a process by which they could receive a monopoly which they by no means hold. Or was FedEx just a fake company invented for Cast Away?
Why restrict yourself to one/two stacks/languages?
In Thailand, it's the opposite: Burger Kings are most likely to be in upscale restaurants and have far more "classy" dining rooms than McDonalds. Feels very strange, to be honest, and they still don't get much business.
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> absolutely

When a vendor uses superlatives like "absolutely" in answer to a capability question, they are lying. This also applies to politicians.

If the answer is "yes", they will say "yes" or "yes, because/for example ...".
What an unusual front page HN story!

The preschool to prison pipeline is a phrase I hadn't heard before but I can believe it is absolutely a reality. The statistics are real and so is pernicious racial bias.
You do realise that the article is about a parking system at an airport?
it's not that it's too thick, it's that it minimizes the opportunity for Company X to sell me a whiz-bang conversion adapter at top dollar for increased revenue and brand lock-in (Oh, well I already have the Brand X conversion adapters, I guess i'll continue buying Brand X as a cost saving measure.)
EDN and Transit are different formats but share a common philosophy towards types and extensions (as they originate from the same place). There are likely small differences in what types appear in both. The extension mechanisms are different but of equivalent expressive power.

I don't think it would be difficult to convert between EDN and Transit using existing readers and writers for both. The common meeting point is values in your language.
I don't think Transit does or plans to handle cyclic object graphs.
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I'm going to nitpick that article. Not all of the coverage of Trello at Disrupt came from writing reporters ahead of time. I know because I wrote one that mentioned Trello: http://www.wired.com/2011/09/startups-techcrunch-disrupt/ and Joel did not pre-brief me or Mike.
Critical Mass by Philip Ball has some nice bits on traffic.

http://www.philipball.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&vie...
Some of my best times spent not programming in the office has been sitting in the coffee bar chit chatting with Joel, so yeah, I'd like to have him around as much as possible :)
With 3 (three) guys.
This reminds me of something Larry Page said at TED this year:

I say, wouldn't it be amazing if everyone's medical records were available anonymously to research doctors? And when someone accesses your medical record, a research doctor, they could see, you could see which doctor accessed it and why, and you could maybe learn about what conditions you have. I think if we just did that, we'd save 100,000 lives this year.

So I guess I'm just very worried that with Internet privacy, we're doing the same thing we're doing with medical records, is we're throwing out the baby with the bathwater, and we're not really thinking about the tremendous good that can come from people sharing information with the right people in the right ways.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mArrNRWQEso&t=839 at 14:00.
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Ask HN: Looking for startup advisor, any suggestions?
We're going to launch Alpha soon. Looking for advisor to make intros to investors/big startups CEOs to test our alpha. Those who've been there, done that, any suggestions who can be a good candidate? We're giving equity to the right advisor/s.
Thanks for the encouragement. Thanks for also giving me a heads up on the skill set.

I have been told I will end up with an approximate 20 - 35% understanding of the languages as they relate to building web apps. In the end hopefully it works out, only 5.5 more months till I know :D
When I took my first programming course, one of things I was most surprised by was case sensitivity. It's kind of funny thinking about it now my perspective is entirely different -- "D" and "d" aren't the same value so why would they mean the same thing?

Is case sensitivity a bad artifact? It doesn't seem like it is to me anymore, but my former self sure thought so.
> …his impression is that there were plenty of Haskell people there that seemed to barely tolerate having any talk about Scala in the conference.

It’s a conference about functional programming. If they believe that functional languages are better for software development than imperative languages, then they may see hybrid languages as making unnecessary and detrimental concessions.

> Haskell and the like will remain used only by people that just think there's no way to write any useful program without first learning all about category theory.

You’re repeating the false meme that I/O in Haskell is difficult or theoretical, and furthermore implying that learning is a bad thing.
Thanks for the info!

I hope my demo projects end up being noteworthy but now I really can't wait until I'm done to see how it ends up (:
Except that that's false, as the USPS doesn't have any government mandated monopoly on package delivery (it has a monopoly on letters only, and even that has exceptions.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Express_Statutes
I'm the same - I have HN, Wikipedia and many sites on some level of zoom.
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I can pick a few holes...

EC2 i2.4xlarge: you get 16vCPU, whereas that Rackspace gives you a DUAL 10 core Xeon E5, 40vCPU - it's 40 cores, not 20.

Memory is much of a muchness.

The drives are 2 1.6TB OCZ PCIe devices that can be RAID 0'ed if you choose, and each has 400,000 IOPS, up to 800,000 combined, whilst the EC2 instance tops out at about 155,000.
They're still on VB6 and MUMPS. They've just recently started doing C# stuff.
The link is pretty weak evidence.

> “We all speed, yet months and months usually pass between us seeing a crash,”

This is a stupid argument. Do you really want to be in a crash every few months? Roughly the average person has a 1% lifetime chance of dying and a 10% chance of serious injury in a car crash. To me these are pretty high numbers.

> that sign won’t make people drive any slower

Where I live, speed limits are zealously enforced - loss of licence for a third offence in two years - and people do comply with them. So yes a sign won't do it but you can get people to comply.

As usual the US seems to find the worst solution: overly restrictive speed limits (55mph) combined with lack of enforcement. This causes large divergences in speeds, which is apparently dangerous.

The article seems to confuse the merits of driving slower than most traffic, with the merits of slowing traffic as a whole down. They are very different things. If most people on the autobahn are doing 110mph then one driver doing 55mph would be dangerous. However slowing everyone down to say 60 mph may be a much safer overall situation.
I don't think something like this is fixable, it's pretty much a flaw in human nature. This is why courts and juries and checks and balances have to exist. Many people are cynical, self-interested political animals especially in positions of power because being cynical helps them get power. It's something you have to recognize as a very real risk before blowing that whistle. You will likely be sacrificing your career, and in some cases your freedom and life.

Discrediting a whistleblower who jeopardize a life's work and career works in leadership's favor, especially since they're probably mad as a group. As an example I've witnessed high ranked enlisted working together, planning and cheering the demise of lower ranked individuals. If it's not worth the personal cost, one can consider taking the anonymous route which is getting easier with the tools the EFF is creating. One should also learn good opsec and not brag about what was done ala Chelsea Manning.
Acquisitions are famous for a high failure rate, but so are companies in general. At every stage of a company's life, it faces significant existential risks. If you're lucky, the checks keep getting bigger, but the risk doesn't go away just because business is going well. Especially if business is going well...

So assume every significant business decision carries pretty significant risk and the best you can do is manage that risk better than the next guy. Companies acquire other companies for a variety of reasons, some better than others. There aren't any hard rules either--a right decision in one scenario might be exactly the wrong decision in another. The build vs buy decision is a much more complicated question than it seems at first.

All of that to say, I'd wager acquisition failure rate isn't all that far apart from general business failure rate or even the failure rate of a company doing a project internally vs buying a company.
You are a bad person. Someone parking over a line does not give you a reason to vandalize their vehicle.
> It’s a conference about functional programming. If they believe that functional languages are better for software development than imperative languages, then they may see hybrid languages as making unnecessary and detrimental concessions.

If that kind of extremism was applied in discussion of other paradigms, we'd be excluding mention of "hybrid languages" like C++ from discussions of Object Oriented Programming.
Interesting. I have only really seen the term 'nuke' as either referring to nuclear weapons or as a colloquial term for microwaving food.
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>I was basing my cost comparisons on Rackspaces's "Raw Infrastructure" pricing

As parent clearly stated, there is no raw infrastructure pricing; all pricing includes support already.
"I'm excited to know which diets, exercises and lifestyle define a healthy human"

The thrust of this approach (as mentioned in the article) is that they're searching for the magic of optimal biomolecular processes, not necessarily a universal regimen.
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Dr. Jennifer Francis at Rutgers has a great talk on the polar vortex and climate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETpm9JAdfcs (40m, polar vortex starts at 24m)

Full unedited: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtRvcXUIyZg (1h24m)
I don't feel these guys are scammers at least when it comes to kickstarter. They have plenty of evidence to show that they have built something (even though it's incomplete).

I feel it's more accurate to label these guys as talented people who don't know how to manage a project.

As for AirBnB, the label is accurate. They're probably mining bitcoins as well since the electricity bill is so high.
You've got to own some shares to make money in an acquisition. It's not for the press.
A lot of that fiber run circa 2000 was by folks not in the charts. Qwest, Level3, Global Crossing etc.

All the last mile ISPs were doing circa 2000 was hooking smarter silicon on their existing copper.

The first big last mile fiber builds started towards 2005 I think. (fios etc)
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This can be seen in miniature on my university campus. Thankfully some new surface markings make it slightly more obvious that they are going the wrong way.

Out of curiosity, is your traffic circle configured in a way where taking that left requires no turning while the proper right actually takes effort?
The limiting factor right now isn't the lack of clever algorithms or computational power, but the lack of data that covers enough people over enough time with enough depth and quality. Also, more of former can't make up for a lack of the latter, even if it's sexier, especially for a company like Google.

They should consider partnering with these guys: http://www.nature.com/news/medicine-gets-up-close-and-person....
That last link on the shortcomings of most predictions based on statistical analysis was a great read. Thanks for sharing.
Realtek provided a rock solid, stable, GPLv2 driver. The "proper" driver is a piece of shit, requiring a reboot after a few minutes of use. They shouldn't have changed the driver interface, leaving people like my parents with broken hardware, if they don’t have the manpower to fix this sort of issue.
I believe Mu Sigma qualifies.
The problem is these companies try to act as utilities, not technology companies. They borrow large sums of money (look at dept of AT&T or VZ), invest some of it in their network, but use big chunks to pass on to shareholders as dividends. They are financial companies, not technology companies. They are far more concerned with paying a few cents more in dividend per share than delivering a few more Mbps. I guess that it capitalism, but it is short sighted. I think the days may be numbered. It would require a good investment of capital, but Google fiber for example shows that from the technology side it would be trivial to disrupt them.
>>> Especially newspapers will take a serious stance against that and it will simply not work.

Or they won't, as you noticed they are owned by ex-politicians. Or they would, but the law gets passed anyway and what they do? They don't have 1st amendment to appeal to, so they get nothing.

>>> Free speech American Style is American, the EU is different, whether better or worse is not for me to decide

Why not for you? Nobody can prohibit you to think for yourself and decide if having freedom of speech is better or worse than not having it. Not even EU can, at least for now until they didn't invent "right not to be thought of".
The internet has created and expanded many markets. I am sure there are folks who considered the availability of services like AirBnB when making a decision to invest in a rental property, just as I'm sure there are folks who started a new business in part because they believed internet advertising would make it easy to reach potential customers. Should Google inform unsophisticated advertisers that they might lose tens of thousands of dollars on AdWords campaigns if they don't know what they're doing or overestimate response rates?

At the end of the day, you refuse to believe the simple fact that even if AirBnB goes out of its way to inform its "hosts" that their use of its service might subject them to certain laws, risks, etc., folks like the landlord in question will continue to click on your so-called "easy button" because whether greedy or naive, many people simply don't consider the possibility that anything bad can happen to them. Until it actually happens of course.

As I pointed out, the landlord here is on record stating that she ignored her own gut feeling about her tenant from hell after there were early indications he'd be trouble. If an individual presented with clear and specific warning signs that trigger an instinctual unease is willing to ignore such signals, why do you believe such an individual would make a better decision when presented with, say, a popup containing abstract warnings?

As for the idea that this story will prevent other such stories, the landlord in question is hardly the first landlord to have to deal with a rental gone bad and she won't be the last. Situations like these are not uncommon, and today's crop of real estate newbies makes the same mistakes that real estate newbies were making 20 years ago. The only reason this got any attention at all was that the so-called victim played up the AirBnB angle, which many people correctly recognized as being a red herring.
It is if it increases the cost for each transaction. Specially now that Visa and MasterCard are being sued for preventing retailers from "steering customers to cheaper payment forms"[1].

You don't even have to defend Bitcoin - in my country, we have a sane push-style payment system (implemented by the banking system) and it's much cheaper, especially since it only has a fixed fee.

The only reason you could not care about this problem is because Visa and MasterCard have been using their size to get other customers to subsidize card-paying ones, but that seems to be ending.

[1] http://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/2014/07/18/visa-master...
One could also build the same functionality into a Twitter account fairly easily.
Seems like they removed the "zen mode".
> If that kind of extremism was applied in discussion of other paradigms, we'd be excluding mention of "hybrid languages" like C++ from discussions of Object Oriented Programming.

If I had mentioned exclusion, yes. C++ is mentioned at OOP conferences like ECOOP and OOPSLA as often as Scala is mentioned at FP conferences like ICFP, CUFP, and Lambdahack. But I have little doubt that a strawman proponent of a pure-OOP language such as Smalltalk—or Self or Ruby or Java or whichever language embodies the definition of OOP you prefer—would be as miffed about the use of C++ in lieu of their preferred language as hibikir’s friend’s strawman Haskeller is about Scala.

And anecdotally, the top C++ developers I’ve worked with didn’t have anything good to say about object-oriented programming anyway.
I won't even do my own income tax, I send that to our lawyer.
> Newspaper archives do not vacuum up random facts about random citizens, they don't build mile-long profiles, they store articles about events that were considered news-worthy by some newsdesk.

Funny thing is that the case that brought this ruling is about forcing Google to delete any mention to a newspaper article and nothing about the article in itself
To call Viator a "startup" would be a bit of a stretch...
Certainly possible. There's some great stuff going on there.
I see this as well whenever crossing the Lions Gate southbound. I suspect if there weren't 4 lanes merging together it would be a different situation (I don't see people doing this correctly in other parts of the peninsula that merge).
Yeah, 'cause Google and Facebook, with all of their extensive online surveillance and profiling, have done such a bangup job giving me ads I care about. Fuck that.

EDIT: Seriously, if the yardstick is "but but but think of all the great things we could do, just like we have with the internet" I'm going to request proof that we've in fact accomplished that tremendous good in terms of advertising and whatnot.

If they can't even show that for their main line of business, any claims about medicine seem shaky, no?
Regardless of what word comes next, it should probably be "24 x 7 x 52".
I'm in a hotel right now, so I did the test feature. I must say I'm impressed. A couple clicks and it correctly found the right hotel instantly and did the test seamlessly. Bravo.