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Obnoxious advertising is the reason I left Yahoo! Mail many years ago. It's even easier with Gmail because you can copy your old emails out with IMAP and forward new emails, all for free.

All these conspiracy theories about Inbox seem to be using overly simplistic black and white reasoning. If Google didn't enrich emails with relevant information that users might eventually find as indispensable as a spam filter, somebody else would and steal their users, given how easy they've made it to move off their service. The jury's still out as to whether Inbox represents such an improvement, but it is obvious to me what its purpose is.
Why is this so surprising? Wasn't every teacher a high school student at some point? Is the experience so traumatic that they completely forget what the schedule was like once they become teachers themselves?
I still fail to see how this kind of thing avoids violating the Fourth and Fifth Amendments.
Classic MITM.
This whole idea is similar to the one Robert Pirsig explored in his book Lila, the less-well-known sequel to his famous "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance."

He explored the idea of evolution at many levels for a whole chapter, pondering about how the concept of evolution has itself evolved. From pure energy, atoms "evolved" in a sense. Those atoms accumulated in a sort of physical evolution into larger bodies; stars, asteroids, and planets. Stars fused atoms into larger, more complex atoms. Planets congealed and evolved on a geologic scale, the Earth specifically forming mountains, rivers, oceans. In that form, molecules evolved further and increased in complexity and organization into amino acids, and life itself, which evolved in the sense with which we're more familiar, from single cells, to multicellular organisms, to a myriad of forms, and finally into sentient humans.

The evolution, however, has not stopped as we normally assume. Instead, humans are and have been only atomic parts of the phase of evolution in which we're currently taking part, where we surpass the limits of our biology and evolve in a social way, and then a technological way, to form a being far greater than any single one of us. We are networked like a giant brain would be, we have information from the far reaches of the world at our fingertips, the ability to coordinate and execute incredible feats, and surely the ability to grow and spread and prosper as never before.

This is the evolution of the universe. Each phase happens at a more and more rapid pace than the one before, and each increases in the complexity and capability of the organism as a whole. For some reason, despite entropy and the supposed tendency of the universe to randomize, it turns out it has a surprising tendency to organize in spite of itself.

So yes, the city is in essence a big brain that can solve big problems. The whole world is, and all of history has been leading up to this. What will we do with it?

Here are two appropriate images.

1. Neurons as compared to cities: http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/cityneuron3.jpg
2. Neurons as compared to the distribution of galaxies in the universe: http://3rdeyevisionblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/neuron-g...

Take them as you will. Is it a perfect analogue? Of course not, but it is a striking fractal self-similarity that illustrates the types of structures that tend to form in the universe. Who is to say that a city is not a form of brain; or the globe, networked in much the same way? Or the universe for that matter, massive clusters connected by vast filaments of matter held together by gravity and energy itself?

Each part, at every scale, centers around the transfer and storage of information. What is this thing, this universe, that has formed these patterns at so many levels?

It's fun to think about.
The most popular implementation of the JVM itself is written in C++. But more importantly, Java has experienced a multitude of serious security bugs over the years.
Thanks for the questions.

1. We pivoted a several times during YC days. Initially we were trying to pivot into similar ideas. (standard "pivots") but after discussing really hard internally, we decided to think what we really are excited about regardless of what we had been working on, and we felt AnyPerk is the idea that we wanted to work for the next 10~ years.

2. I have to admit that it was not easy, but when you are working on your best idea with best people you know is so exciting that you can feel so positive about everything.
Some of the replies you got with knee-jerk reactions about spam are truly ridiculous. People are just spouting nonsense without any idea about what you do. I hope you aren't letting them get to you. I enjoy your newsletters.
So many people these day argue their own case based on "this is a fallacy" to support their argument (instead of only needing factual arguments) then go with a fallacy of their own.
This is sort of interesting double-speak on Google's part.

1. Kills RSS - forces people to receive updates from people / blogs / companies you want to follow in email.

2. Wow, that inbox is looking pretty messy - we should help clean it up!

3. We made a nifty little app to help keep your inbox clean (and filter out those annoying companies you used to subscribe to via RSS).

4. Our customers like their inboxes clean - so if you're a company and you want to talk to your customer - you better pay for a spot.

RSS + Email were dumb pipes. Google's doing everything in it's power to control those pipes either y eliminating them (RSS) or using their near-monopoly to shift people to a new standard (gmail/inbox). Now, this is all smart on their part, but not necessarily great down the road for consumer or companies.
This is what the press does. The median or average case isn't interesting, so they find interesting stories that are outliers and write about them. Is it illustrative of what normal people can and should expect? No. Is it useful in any way for somebody who wants to start a business? No. Is it interesting? Yes. The press' job doesn't involve building a useful narrative for people, it is just to write interesting stories.

Changing the press is not going to happen, but if you disagree with this story, I highly recommend flagging it and if enough people agree that will drop it off the HN homepage.
I am the author. At the time of hiring I built few simple apps but my knowledge was really limited. Of course I didn't knew that :)

This knowledge gaps had to be filled:
- ActiveRecord is not replacement for SQL, it's just abstraction. Try writing complex query in rails, good luck.
- You can't learn practices for maintaining code if your app is 200 LOC.
- Reading someone else code is different than reading yours.

You get real experience by building apps for clients.
Didn't see this was up here. Yeah, it's using WebRTC.
Except in a modular app, I should be able to upgrade module-x to Angular2 without having it break the entire app. With this change I have to re-write every module in my app.

We've been looking at React at work over the last week, and were considering moving some of our angular directives to react. Now there is a larger case for building a complete app in Flux.
But it's not an either/or proposition. There are sci-fi works that are just in the future without being overtly dystopian or utopian. Asimov's Foundation Series and the Ender/Bean books, for example. Literature is dominated with dystopia now not just because of narrative possibilities, but because it sells and perhaps speaks to a contemporary world view many of us share. I can't speculate too much on why dystopia is popular, but it's just clearly not just because it's easier to write.
Replacing gmail and changing the way we use email mean exactly the same thing, by the way. And yes they started changing it a long time ago.

And yes, open protocols are the losers. And users, and everyone else outside of Google, obviously. Proprietary, non compatible, you see what they decide you can see, etc.

So it sounds like the author's post has a point.
> UCSD Pascal

bwk's point, then as now, was that once you deviated from Standard Pascal, you had to either bet on a specific horse in the non-standard Pascal race, or develop your own Pascal-like language with its own inherent defects, similar to but different from the defects of Standard Pascal and other Pascal-like languages. Your code would likely never interoperate with anyone else's Pascal variant.

C, which had one de facto standard implementation and less genetic drift (because the standards, first K&R and then ANSI and ISO, were never as terrible as Standard Pascal's definition), didn't suffer from this nearly as much.

Mesa didn't, either, but only because it was fairly obscure, and there sure were a lot of Foogols running around for a while, of which Pascal and its semi-clones formed only one family.
How about a workaround: if you want to deposit less than $10K in cash, you first withdraw an amount that, when added to your original deposit, totals $10,001. This automatically triggers the reporting requirement. If enough people made every deposit reportable, it would be like a denial of service on banks and the IRS.
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And if you do have the means to hire a lawyer they would likely require you to travel to Virginia and pick a lawyer from their list of lawyers approved to represent people in that specific district.

Our justice system is a complete joke, I wonder if it's always been this way or if it's just common knowledge now that every indiscretion is publicized on the internet.
I think the only reason to flag it would be the title, which is bad clickbait. The narrative problem goes deeper than the press's interest in rags-to-riches stories; journalists are not the only ones telling people that if they too would give up their comfort and security, they could be uplifted by the grace of VC investments.
additional info: http://np.reddit.com/r/excel/comments/2jtd2f/worked_on_a_com...
OK, how about this: C was the first portable, non-assembly language used for writing OS kernels. Is that true? And I mean portable in practice, not just in theory, and portable beyond one family of computers.
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> Even djb's software, intentionally written to be minimalist and as secure as possible, has had exploitable overflows (both qmail and djbdns have suffered from this).

Which of these are you describing as a buffer overflow?

http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-9069/...
Nick Hanausr says much the same thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKCvf8E7V1g

Here is an excerpt from the Atlantic:

"Anyone who's ever run a business knows that hiring more people is a capitalist's course of last resort, something we do only when increasing customer demand requires it. In this sense, calling ourselves job creators isn't just inaccurate, it's disingenuous."

"That's why our current policies are so upside down. When you have a tax system in which most of the exemptions and the lowest rates benefit the richest, all in the name of job creation, all that happens is that the rich get richer."

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/05/here-is-...
How is it a conspiracy theory to think that an ad-based company is trying to make ads perform more effectively with one of their high-profile properties by trying out a new app medium?
True. I'm just saying that in a looser ordinary language sense of "anticompetitive", Apple by itself probably brings an amount of market share to bear comparable to these companies together - at least out of all US retailers supporting smartphone payments.
IIT as alma-mater gives the engineer an escape vehicle from India. That is partially why you see so many of them at interviews in SV.
ATS is a definite contender too, especially once the high entry barrier issues are worked on a bit.
It's better to delay release rather than ship a pre-mature product (cough,windows8,cough)
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having a pointer/reference deep into a vector or some nested element of a tree requires a garbage collector or is unsafe (runs the risk of becoming dangling)

Yes, this is a problem, certain data structures need to be intrusive in order to be fast. Rust for example is a highly memory-safe language but its "unsafe" mechanism needs to be used in order to implement performant data structures for this reason.

http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/2jec05/problem_with_im...
Wow. This is like the holy grail of processor performance optimization. It's so weird that 1000's of PhDs in the academia have not been able to solve this yet 250 engineers can. If this were true, it will drastically alter the course of research in computing. I'd see "low-hanging fruit" optimizations in ISCA, MICRO, ASPLOS, HPCA and the likes in the coming years. Again, assuming this technology will deliver.
Distance checking for scoring in sports.
Stop trying to shoehorn your backend into your web frontend, and treat the web frontend like the mobile one. That means, one single HTTP API to access the backend for both. I bet you already have this for your mobile app.

More often than not, the web frontend ends up being client side HTML/JS and some sort of intermediate middle-end server that hosts that HTML/JS. That way it turns into a fullstack app that does some processing on the middle-end to pass it on to the front-end JS.

You can make the frontend 100% static HTML/JS (and serveable off any static file CDN), so all you have to worry about is the API between them.
Yes, I think your first paragraph is the correct takeaway, but I'm not sure about the second.

Using Haswell as the example (because it's current and I'm more familiar with it right now), the linear search comparisons are really fast: the processor can handle 2 correctly-predicted branches-not-taken per cycle. But the single branch misprediction at the end costs about 15 cycles, plus the latency of reloading from L1 any registers where the load had already been speculatively executed (about another 5 cycles).

The conditional moves are slower than simple comparisons, but still very fast: the CMP/CMOVcc pair can have a throughput of 1 per cycle if unrolled, so half as fast as a CMP/JMPcc that is correctly predicted as not taken. But there is no penalty at the end of the loop, so the overall speed is better for small sizes out to a 64-byte cacheline or so. I haven't tested, but I think the branchless approach has extended his lead in recent years. He's using Westmere, which is pre-Sandy Bridge, which is pre-Ivy Bridge, which is pre-Haswell.

But the question of how this changes for data that needs to be brought into a cacheline from memory is probably more complicated than just the memory latency. I think the issue is more that the memory latency swamps the reading, and it isn't (or shouldn't be) that linear searches can take advantage of prefetching but binary can not. It just might take some 'trickery'. For the small sizes he's dealing with, you should be able to just load it all without waiting to see what you need. And I don't think that there is currently any advantage of forward versus reverse scans regarding prefetch, although one or the other might allow the loop to be structured differently.
I feel like he is too. There is just something so vague about his AI pronouncements.
There's also the niche differential. VRBO & Homeaway tend to be more for vacation rental properties (not all, but that's the trend).
Do people really use loans for iPhones?
Basically, once your asset has been frozen, the game is nearly over. Even without any charge being pressed, it takes years to get back the seized asset/property, if it's given back at all, that is.

If you were charge with a crime and this gets dismissed later for whatever reason, things get even tougher.

Additionally, if you even get arrested, you won't have any money for bond (a good time to call up the rich relatives), and you could be in jail for a long time.
The JVM is ...hairy, and poorly understood. Some of its code has not changed since 1996, and much has been very heavily hand-optimized; the people who work on it today are not the people who originally wrote it. Implementing anything in the JVM is not so simple; it's not really a reflection on the complexity of the thing you're implementing.

(It might have got better now - I know the OpenJDK folks were making some efforts in that direction)
Or my configuration when I want to stay anonymous; Me->VPN->INTERNET->TOR. You have to have access to a corporate VPN though.
God is perfectly just, even if you are robbed. Turn the other cheek. If a man wants you shirt, give him your coat, too.

No worries. God is perfectly just.

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The CIA or angels have had me in a prison when I have been trying to market software to the public.

They hope I will give up and make license plates so they can study my brain and fuck everythgin all to hell.

Say hello to Mr. God, evil dumb fucken niggers!! diE!!
The only thing worse than "clickbait" headlines are comments complaining about clickbait headlines. If you don't like the article - don't read it.
Innocent until proven guilty doesn't apply when all three branches of government agree that it doesn't apply.
I've read that and believe I understand what he's trying to accomplish, but I'm just saying the execution takes me out of it somewhat. Much like I read Greek myths (or Jules Verne, for that matter) and wonder sometimes how anyone could believe them (though I also understand that the word "belief" is perhaps not the right word when talking about the mindset of ancient Greeks when relating to their mythology), I read Gibson and just think: "This is how my Grandmother thinks about computers". I feel the world he creates would be better suited for straight up far future sci-fi where "believability" is couched in pseudo-technical terms we all know are fake but are able to accept within the context of the story or with less focus on the explicit technologies involved and more on how the characters interact in a world where this technology is simply a given.

Part of it is likely his maturity as a writer and the time he inhabited during Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive. A time where, much like Verne, the technology was both new and alien, yet it was becoming increasingly clear it was important and soon to be omnipresent. A world where literature dealing with this technology was necessary, but where it was still mysterious enough to have creative license. It's not bad, but it doesn't age well.
How can someone who has been teaching for 14 years pass themselves off as a 16 year old?
So what are you complaining about? Do you want to use runtime libs or not? It sounds like you're dissatisfied either way.
Generating optimal code is much like the travelling salesman problem. Optimization algorithms will lead the result to a local minima, while missing a global minima.
Why wouldn't you just shop where you want and use a credit card wherever ApplePay isn't supported?
I must say that Wikipedia community has become very effective at giving partisan editors tools to target undesirable editors - a Byzantine collection of policies which admins overzealously enforce without a second thought, and without thinking of a big picture. Admins in fact are incentivized not to involve themselves, which basically gives the enforcement gun to POV-pushers which are intimately acquainted with all the glorious details of the relevant wikilese. I urge admins to think outside the policy-enforcing request-observing mode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ivan_%C5%A0tambuk
OFFS, RTFA.
Oh, so then you're probably after syntactic relationships. Yes, we heavily rely on it. You may want to look at the /parse method.
I mean, there is no guarantee of anything, to the extent that there is uncertainty. However, if I have email to receive messages, and I don't receive messages, I would obviously leave. That is emails utility, a message conduit. It would be silly for a company to obscure legitimate messages and it would be baffling if anyone was stupid enough to try.
It's simple: utopia is boring. Utopias do not contain many opportunities for exploration and invention, mankind has always been at its most creative when constrained or in trouble. And for quite a good sized chunk of the world today such dystopian futures would actually be an improvement in the standard of living so even that is relative.
Before, I wondered how such things could not be found in violation of the constitution, while they were obviously taking property without prosecution, guilty until proven innocent, etc.

The answer is simple: because someone in power said so, and with his thugs buddies pressured the right people to turn it into law - aka "might makes right"

A recent US exemple: civil forfeiture, even of the money you set aside for your own legal representation, is totally ok, even if it actually impedes your right to defend yourself, cf http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2014/02/ci...

To those who still can't believe civil forfeiture in the US, here is a sweet example in the EU. The constitution explicitely says : "The Union shall not be liable for or assume the commitments of central governments, regional, local or other public authorities, other bodies governed by public law, or public undertakings of any Member State" (article 125 of the Maastricht treaty aka constitution)

Yet the european court of justice, equivalent to the supreme court, found that bailing out Greece etc. by the European Stability Mechanism (purchase of dubious greek debt) was perfectly kosher.

Now people object to the idea of the european central bank doing quantitative easy, for similar reasons - because it's against the basic premises of the ECB, the constitution, etc, but it will be done, regardless of what the law says, if enough pressure is applied by those in power to result in what is in practice disregarding the law.

Basically, you can have a crystal clear constitution saying X is strictly illegal, but unless it's followed in practice, it's as worthless as the freedom of expression that was granted to the citizens of USSR by its own laws.

There used to be a separate judiciary power - even the state was subject to laws. It is no longer the case. This separate power is being swallowed by the state.

Is it profond disrespect of not just the spirit, but the letter, of any constitution? Whatever. "Might makes right"

(Edit: clarified)
It won't be a denial of service TBH, since the american government in general has complete knowledge of financial transactions that go on between US financial institutions. This kind of report anyway can be reduced to a 1kb tuple.

And your suggestion is an active behavior that will be done by a minority, that doesn't work.
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The ashes simply are a rich mineral source.
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How on earth can these practices continue in a country which prides itself - to the level of claiming so in the last line of every stanza of its anthem - on being the 'land of the free and the home of the brave'? This type of injustice should be taught in history and literature classes in the guise of Prince John and the legend of Robin Hood. It should definitely not be part of the government curriculum.

Required reading to become successful in the injustice department:

Robin Hood
1984
Brave New World
...
ARSS [1] is a similar tool, check the examples [2]. LTFAT toolbox could do something similar using isgram function [3].

[1] http://arss.sourceforge.net

[2] http://arss.sourceforge.net/examples.shtml

[3] http://ltfat.sourceforge.net/doc/demos/demo_isgram.php