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"But long-term this is most likely not going to be economically feasible unless Uber starts to figure out other ways to monetise this, through adding delivery fees or charging advertising fees to brands that take part in the programme."

Really sums up the article.
I hate to have to dress up just because people won't take you seriously if you don't. To me this is just a very old preconception created by society long time ago (when perhaps it made sense) and people keep doing it apparently for no clear reason.

I love when I see CEO/CTO's dressing whatever they like (e.g. Mark Zuckerberg, Werner Vogels, etc.).

The only time I can accept this "dress up" thing with no contest is when you go to meet someone and you want to be respectful to this person, so you dress better to show respect/appreciation... like he did for the President. Now, the dress up for the sake of dressing up because this gives you status and then people will treat you better, I can't stand it.
I want to take a moment to talk about a woman in video games. She made a really great game, well some people don't call them games, but it was a text adventure game. A quite well made one. Many people didn't realize how effectively you could leverage the medium to make such an emotionally evocative piece of, dare I say it, art.

I am of course talking about Emily Short. In the year 2000 or thereabouts, she made a short interactive fiction story called "Galatea." ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galatea_%28video_game%29 ) I highly suggest trying it out.

I think it's sad how fourteen years later, similar to the devolution of FPS's from Quake to Call of Duty, some new text adventures may have gained a much wider audience and are praised to high heaven but are clearly inferior artistically and in design.
Way to take a quote out of context (literally cutting off part of a word). Here's the surrounding sentence:

"Some of the most original games in recent years have been made by women. Kim Swift was the lead designer for Portal, which one game critic called the first nonphallic first-person shooter."

Oh look, the full quote is appreciating a female game pioneer, and your mangled phrase was from a singular game critic. Also, it makes sense. Instead of shooting bullets, you're shooting portals. Seems pretty non-phallic to me.
Since ARM11 (ARMv6), cores have been running on Thumb 2 (16-bit instructions) and only jumping into regular 32-bit instructions when necessary. Before that there was the Thumb instruction set which according to [0] was introduced in 1994.

This makes ARM (especially ARMv7 and newer) a mixed setup like x86.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Thumb
It's normal to have users cancel rides (driver just missed the freeway offramp to get to you, etc), so over a year if you have 50k requests with an average 10% cancel rate... That's 5k cancellations. Nothing crazy here.
I'd say the correlation runs the other way. The best female programmers I've worked with dressed like stereotypical nerds (just like the best male programmers I worked with). The ones who "dressed up" were, by and large, those trying to compensate for substandard programming skills (again, just like the guys who wore suits).
Can't expect the time when you won't need libc or a shell, for that matter. Let's delete "bash" and replace it with a built-in do-it-all shell, let's call that "cmd", right ? Configuration should be done in binary-encoded files, with arborescent key-value pairs - I know, let's call that a registry, shall we ?

Package management should be done through a central place where application can be vetoed, like an app store, if you will. We could do away with silly editors like VI, we'll embed a powerful office suite right into the system libraries, shall we ?

Monolitic software is always better than small separate tools that do only one thing, right ?
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I'm putting this long list of "systemd myths" from Lennart's blog here: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.html before the discussion kicks off...

....and not to kick it off myself, especially as the devolution from reasoned argument to straight-up whining seems to happen often in discussion about systemd but: ugh, really? My init system now needs a DNS resolver - sorry, from the article "a caching DNS stub resolver and a complete LLMNR name resolution implementation" - to be baked into it?
Congrats, nice idea with potential.
What Minecraft could really use would be a scripting capability of some sort. Basically, once you've figured out how to do something, you should be able to build a machine that does it for you. That would be a pretty sweet game.
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Help topics are also great.

Bold

No hair. or. daring. or type of writing.
There's none of it in word perhect.
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I haven't seen anyone claim the bill empowers the government implementing the law beyond what it states.

The bill includes restrictions on the government at the level that falls within the jurisdiction of the law. The argument is what about jurisdictions that have no such law nor restrictions and take advantage of the existing hardware feature?

If we're talking Federal law then what you say makes sense, but as far as I know this is about a state law.
If you're a total beginner or at least relatively new to it, the Odin Project is comprehensive and free: http://theodinproject.com.

Edit: I created it, so I'm biased
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Mainly because they don't actually license them unless the local authorities force them to. They do vet them, in theory.

And to follow-on, the practical difference is that they are a lot less terrible than most existing cab / car services.
Hans Lemurson's "Minecraft in Minecraft":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdnO1QZJ--M

:D
And the USENIX page: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity14/technical...
Some possible explanations:
1) Inflation - a billion dollars isn't what it used to be.
2) Stock market bubble causing investors to look elsewhere.
3) Founders are younger - they aren't looking to retire yet so let it grow, let it grow, don't need an exit yet.
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Pretty sure it's Go. The order around the circle seems to match the chart right under it.
That is certainly a feat, but I think the more impressive part of this project is funding the web domain and server for 15 years!

In another recent HN article concerning the "screenshot all the things" guy, someone mentioned that they continually run across bookmarks they've saved from interesting sites only two or three years old that now 404--not to mention links from blog posts more than a year or two old.

[Which brings to mind StackExchange. (Socially) enforcing that users copy an answer's text from an external website for future posterity is brilliant.]
I like the idea of black holes being more common. If there is one close we could visit it someday and yet it doesn't pose any danger to us, since there is no chance that it is in our solar system.

Given the ratio of one black hole per 1000 stars, which is the best we can guess right now, the average distance to the closest black hole is
36 lightyears.
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I wasn't talking about the article being stifling, rather the discussion (as witnessed by the downvotes). Can you list some of the articles/books about specifically male game developers? I haven't seen any yet (though I must admit that I rarely read anything about gaming, except technically oriented articles).
As a resident of San Francisco, I find it somewhat amusing to be informed about local services via a British news organization.
> Also, because REVAT URLs are randomly generated the server needs keep track of the resources being pointed to instead of being able to understand it from the semantics of the request.

This is where he lost me. If you need to generate unique URL's, why not go for a hash approach ala git?
Like rewriting everything as a web app?
It appears there's only room for 11 or 12 big IPOs per year. If the current trend holds and late-stage investors are creating more private unicorns than the public can bear, we have a problem. The fallout from this mismatch wouldn't look like a tanking stock market. Just a lot of formerly impressive companies quietly being acquired for a relative firesale. I suspect Box and Square are both in this situation.
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The bar for becoming a billion dollar company is less nowadays of course. If you multiply the inflation rates from 2000 to now, you get a %36.77 amount of inflation since 2000. Todays billion dollar companies are approximately the year 2000's $750mm companies.

http://forecast-chart.com/forecast-inflation-rate.html
I'll save your startup money on digital marketing. Let me sleep on your couch
Using a throwaway account cz I don't want to get into trouble at the border (if any).

I'm coming to San Francisco from Singapore in mid-September and i'm planning to stay there for 2-3 months. I'm looking to bunk around to get to know people and save on accommodation.

If you're running a startup, I'll save you money on digital marketing and grow your metric in exchange. Facebook, Twitter, AdWords. I'll run your campaigns with the main aim of increasing the metric you want (e.g. hits, users, usage, subscriptions) that beats your current return. I'll also teach you how to do it yourself.

Track record: I've grown a startup's user base from 60k to a million at a fraction of the cost of what the marketing director was spending, with better users as well.

I can code too, so I won't be clueless.

Let's chat. throwawaysf101@gmail.com
As far as I could tell, Atom didn't have per-syntax settings. That made it a non-starter for me.
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According to Richard Feynman, you just have to put in the time and be patient. (The Las Vegas chapter of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman.)
That's like saying "Oh that cardboard cut out of Adolf Hitler? Yeah that's just for scale." Yes, indeed it is - but there's probably more to it than that. I'll go out on a limb and say due to the presence of My Little Pony that this person has a weird interpretation of what's considered appropriate.

On topic: This hard drive is incredibly impressive, and it's fascinating to see how the density changes between a 1K HDD and a 4k HDD.
I don't think that they have to necessarily be green. So the fact that you don't see them may not mean that they are not there. He may be using blocks the same color as the structure for aesthetic purposes.
I agree with you that he's overstating the case a bit. There is obviously a correlation between a degree in CS and good Engineers, but it's important to realize that there are great Engineers who don't have one as well. I think he's making the argument that the sign of a healthy organization is an openness to looking for talent in unlikely places. If that's his point, then I think we agree.
"non-phallic" implies all other first-person shooters are phallic. The word phallic implies many things.

Yeah, the phrase is from someone else, but it certainly wasn't included by accident.

Certainly not out-of-context.
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Yes, imagine all those people using Firefox instead of Chrome ;-)
ok, it does work. i totally forgot about the command blocks. he's using them to change the block type.
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I'm just curious as to why DC? They're not based there nor is DC considered to be one of the most densely populated cities.
A few years back you would be describing the role of the dispatcher for a taxi service. Now it's a killer business plan!
I imagine it would be similar to any site based on user generated content where they would first need to contractually prohibit users from uploading material that infringes on third party intellectual property rights and then they would need to have a policy in place to address any complaints by third party intellectual property rights holders that their right were being infringed. But it certainly wouldn't be a safe bet to just assume their off the hook entirely because it's too hard for them to determine infringement.
I think they are far from putting the business on cruise-control just yet.

Amazon is about to enter this space the $100m will make a good war chest but only time will tell if it's going to be enough.
systemd now includes its own april fools implementation which runs on 20th August.
When I was taking a digital electronics course in high school, Minecraft was getting huge. We would spend hours playing and usually try to build the stuff we learned about in class. It was an incredible teaching tool, tbh.
FYI, I used to think the same way you do, and I was very confused by systemd initially (and critical of it), but this is the way that someone explained it to me which made everything make sense.

> My init system now needs a DNS resolver

Don't think of systemd as 'an init system'. Systemd is a project that contains a number of low-level userland tools that do not belong in the kernel. The next logical place for them to go is in systemd. One of these is an init system, but systemd also contains other tools, most of which are independent.

Systemd in that way is sort of like coreutils - you don't need all of the tools, and you can use most of them independently of the rest. But some of them complement each other, so it makes sense for them to be maintained together, even if they can be compiled independently and distributed independently.

Or you can think of it like the Linux kernel - it's crazy when you look at some of the obscure drivers make it into the mainline kernel, let alone some of the kernel modules available, but it's not that most people use or notice them (or even have them, as they may not be compiled by default in most distros).
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A lot of government IT positions will allow you to substitute experience for a degree (according to USAjobs.gov).

I do agree though, although I'd say it's very positive thing going to a place like MIT, it really doesn't impact my decisions for hiring. I'd rather hear about your real story. When did you find out you wanted to code? How did you truly learn? What hurdles did you overcome? What kind of things have you actually done? Even college grads are expected to have some kind of experiences that relate to the job.
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So yesterday was YC demo day. Interested to hear if other YC founders and alum have learned similar things?
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You have it the other way around. Tomp is saying that indiscriminately shutting down any criticism of this topic is having a chilling effect on discourse.

I agree. Can you imagine anyone daring to post a negative opinion about this article? They'd be verbally assaulted, down voted and shadow-banned in minutes.
The idea is that it demonstrates respect for the institution: "I took the extra trouble to dress up fancy to come here." The definitions of "fancy" and "formal" in institutional settings change over time, but they change more slowly there than they do in the culture at large. So it's not uncommon to see people wearing clothes that the general culture would consider outmoded or obsolete in these contexts.

Here's an example. The top hat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_hat) was a standard part of formal dress in the latter part of the 19th century, but it had mostly fallen out of everyday use by the mid-1910s. Diplomats and statesmen kept on wearing them at official occasions, though, all the way into the 1950s (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_hat#20th_century).

Why? Because they had become part of the definition of "what you wear to an occasion of state." That type of distinction, once reached, takes a long time to fall away; no diplomat wants to be the first person to cause offense by ditching the top hat. So it had to be dead in the everyday culture for decades before leaders felt safe enough to stop wearing it.

Suits are probably on a similar trajectory: once an item of everyday wear; now mostly a way to signal that you're on your way to a Serious Event (like a wedding or funeral or meeting with a head of state); eventually just something people wear to Serious Events only because that's what you wear to Serious Events; then finally (long after they became obsolete everywhere else) left behind even for that.
You did, though. Whether or not you completed that goal because "it was easier to complete it than to not complete it because of my cultural upbringing" or because you had to push yourself and struggle every day doesn't really matter all that much to a company who wants to hire you. If you're going to complete a project to avoid a sense of guilt about not completing it rather than to achieve a sense of pride for completing it, it's all the same to your employer.

If you're preprogrammed for success by your parents and it comes naturally, that doesn't make success illegitimate. Just count your blessings.
That's defeatist and dismissive. On a marginal level we should be exposing immoral decisions made by companies so that they at least try to give the perception of being moral, which a lot of the time means having to make a moral decision. On our spare time we should be agitating and propagandising and what not, but just because the most efficient and affordable companies are usually the most exploitative, it doesn't mean we should act like there's nothing we can do about it.
Thanks for the comment xauronx

1) lol, I'm sure 98% of people noticed that! Yeah, I guess I can change it to what you suggested (exert-it) but it just didn't look as clean. Or I might change it entirely to something else. Not sure...
2) Yes, I was really disappointed once my app got published. The same images in the app itself have legible fonts. I need to change that in the next update.
3) Thanks! The app design and icons was one of my top priorities.
Yes, more-less. Things people invent to extract more money out of their customers, or keep afloat a business model that is visibly incompatible with reality - like planned obsolescence on lightbulbs and fridges, or DRMs.
Less often than once, probably, but I expect they do. I can remember a number of cases I heard of in the workplace.
Security, innit.
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Many smart guys have a degree but they're not smart because of the degree, it's just that they were smart to begin with but decided to finish their degree for one reason while other smart people decided otherwise for another reason.

Having a degree doesn't make a good engineer or a programmer: it just doesn't prevent that either.
One of the examples reminded me of some xml/html trivia I picked up a few years back -- attributes do not need to have double-quotes. (Yes, in practice you can leave out quotes altogether if the attribute has no spaces because browsers are tolerant, but the spec allows for single or double quotes, so if you're going to parse markup you need to allow for both.)

It occurred to me that HTML5 might have tightened up this rule, but it remains as before:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/syntax.html#attribute
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The other four levels are increasingly in conflict with various religions.
You should send an email to the guys at http://chordify.net/ . One of the people involved in that project has a PHD in computer science with focus on analysing music with code. They'd be great people to team up with for you.
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Thank you ianamartin. I will check it out!
I typically set my browser to clear cookies every session. Is there any provision for such a scenario? The authentication flow seems to suggest that if the browser was closed and cookies cleared, the user would not be allowed to install Dropbox.
I'm curious: what, in your opinion is the definition and criteria of "gender equality" in video game manufacturing?
> The idea is that it demonstrates respect for the institution:

You know what grown-ups see as demonstrating respect for an institution? Devoting a substantial portion of your waking hours to performing quality work on behalf of the institution.

If you prefer ritual displays of conformance as a mark of respect, that's a choice with consequences, and either not recognizing or preferring those consequences is not a sign of being "grown-up".
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An interesting essay.
Awesome list. The guy is a true hacker. Thanks for sharing.
> DNS server and caches separate and per-interface

This is rather strange. I don't believe any glibc-based client will care to use the same interface for resolution and connection (can you even force an interface on gethostbyname()?)

If that's not the case, why would multi-homed-aware system be of any use to the client? I can imagine the cache split helps, because you can drop only part of the cache when one connection drops - but unless programs are written to deal with this issue from the start, they're unlikely to re-resolve the hostname, or even use any network state events.

So who gains something from this new crazy system? I also don't really get why they pull everything in - this sounds like a completely separate project... I hate the idea of Linux/systemd the world is heading for right now.
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> this person has a weird interpretation of what's considered appropriate.

Assuming that it's a single person? The use of "our" in the description (as well as the fact that they've got an online map in the last picture!) suggests that this is on a shared server.
Thank you theiowan, but 'headless Drupal' might be an overkill for my project. Thanks for the input.
systemd offers great features but they all come as a part of the same giant ball of mud. Look at what happened to udev. In 2012 the udev codebase was added to the systemd source tree. At the time it was promised that using udev separately would continue to be supported[1]. Once kdbus is merged into the kernel using udev without systemd will amount to implementing a separate userspace kdbus[2]. This is happening with the release of 3.17 this year.

Nothing will be broken out. systemd is a blackhole. Nothing escapes. systemd is good and useful but the trend here is clear.

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.hotplug.devel/17392
[2] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTczNjI
I couldn't get this to work, after selecting a song it appears to work for ~30 seconds and replies with "This song cannot be analyzed because it is not set as public on YouTube." or "This song cannot be analyzed because it is not set as public on SoundCloud."
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> If any of our conditions isn’t met, we abort auto sign-in and ask the user to log in with an email and password.

In this case, the install succeeds and only auto sign-in fails.
It's turtles all the way down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6aP9S9rEQk
"Hey <initial>. I will not leave <city> without having sex with you. Deal?”

Aw, poor thing, he doesn't even have the mental bandwidth to use different copy for his messages :( Maybe someone can start a company to generate unique sounding sexual harassment messages? I predict a $10M acquisition.
The ultimate fallback always is to revert to letting user sign in manually. Installation success doesn't depend on cookies, so that should be just fine.
Good, because systemd isn't just an init system.
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