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I didn't read all that, but it seems like the issue there is that, if the compiler sees you are reading from uninitialised memory, then it can effectively 'choose' a value for the contents of that memory to suit it's optimisation purposes. Is that right?

If so, then this isn't actually a problem in the case of sparse sets. With sparse sets we don't care what is in the uninitialised memory and if the compiler wants to get tricky and choose values for this memory (which I don't think actually applies in this context) that doesn't change the correctness of the data structure..
In many countries, capital gains are not taxed at all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_gains_tax
Ok, I shouldn't have put it that way.

What I mean is that I get the distinct feeling that you know what to do, you say you like to be informed but you are getting an overload of info. It is so extremely easy to conclude you should reduce the amount of information you consume that you already know that. So why don't you do it? Because you don't know how. I'm saying it will take a lot of work indeed, and a lot of willpower. There is no other way than to indeed just stop reading reddit.

Imo, what you need (and me too) is more time to let your thoughts wander, to let your brain connect dots on its own without distraction, to let your brain relax. So you reduce the amount of info. Why is this hard? Because you seek immediate satisfaction, that is what you get from all that information. But all this info is not satisfactory in the long run, hence your cry out to HN. The process of undoing these tendencies is not rewarding at all in the short term, but it will be in the long run. That is why it is hard, especially for someone like you (and me.) Hard problems require focused willpower, not changing /etc/hosts, you'll find something else to distract you.
> Generally, state legislatures provide representation in proportion to districts rather than population. Urban centers often represent a large portion of a state's population but only cover a handful of districts.

This was often true -- up until the 1960s. However, under the rule laid down in Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533 (1964), state legislative districts were required to be apportioned so as to provide "substantially equal state legislative representation for all citizens".
strtok() is even worse. (Because it has global state)

There are a lot of C standard library functions from the 1970s that should have been moved to a "deprecated" library around 1990 or so and phased out by now.
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Yeah fair enough, although it does seem as if they just went with the 'standard' message, by your analogy 'windows is a safe and reliable OS to make payments', as opposed to 'windows is out now, enjoy the safest way to make payments ever conceived'. If you then get hacked after the first message ('it's just safe and reliable'), and it's a single case of 1 person being hacked due to a single 3rd party app not behaving like it should without permission from Microsoft, I don't know if it's worth discussing. As another member said, it feels like a tabloid story that's only interesting because Uber has a $40b valuation and rape is a justifiably concerning topic in general. But it doesn't seem like anything systemic is going on here.

I've never used Uber and am not too familiar with their marketing, but I'm not aware of them ever pushing hardcore the notion that they're the safest concerning the trustworthiness of the driver. I don't even think that's a marketing variable, even in a place with a history of rape in moving vehicles that you mentioned. (reliability of the driver concerning trip duration, professionalism etc, sure, but whether you can trust him not to hurt you?).

I think the core question is whether they really missed out on something in the screening process. If not, it kind of feels like this is a lone incident in a country of 1 billion people, one of few such cases (2 or 3 now?) after tens of millions of rides.
doesn't seem so, and AFAICT rhyming isn't respected either, but I think trying to fit metric, rhyme, and meaning would be nearly impossible.
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How can you say it's completely wasted? This guy just blogged about getting $$$ from facebook, and it hit the front page of HN. It might inspire others to also report vulnerabilities. And conversely, if he was looking for bounties and didn't get any there would instead be a front page HN story about facebook not paying bounties.
I recently switched to Spacemacs and I'm really enjoying it. If you're a Vim user who wants to try Emacs, or an Emacs user who wants to work faster I recommend trying it.
What? Uber doesn't even function without GPS...
it's disconcerting how the PC movement in the west converges with the talliban movement in the middle east.
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No worries, just clarifying in case folks didn't understand.
The Divine Comedy also underlines that in the pre-Galilean European cosmology, the centre of the universe was not in fact considered the best place to be ...
That's why we have comment sections ~!
I really disliked the negativity and I know many others who agreed and also deleted the app. It just wasn't worth it. I'm not at all surprised they are struggling.
So, my favorite part of the divine comedy is not even the divine comedy.
Is how, in Canto XXVI[0], Dante takes Homer's tale of Ulysses (odysseus) and extends it.
And then 500 years later, Lord Tennyson takes Dante's idea and extends it further[1].

I find this two thousand years long compounded work incredibly fascinating.

[0] http://www.italianstudies.org/comedy/Inferno26.htm
[1] http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174659
This is an unproductive discussion, you're telling me that "you're wrong, but I don't know why".

In any case, "trivial" has a meaning under copyright law and therefore is very relevant to the GPL and whatever argument they're putting forth. That is all.
That's me agreeing with you, but wishing we could do more about it.
as an italian ... it's strange to read Dante in english :)
I found 'screen' to be pretty handy for running scripts in the background. Then you can also reattach later to look at stdout as it's running.
I might be misreading your response but just to reiterate: Asking if Uber has a reputation management firm to handle stuff like this is like asking if they have tax lawyers.

And a professional, expensive firm would certainly have enough clean accounts to do this undetectably if that was even necessary (no idea what detection ability HN has).

In my opinion that's the most plausible answer to why, but it's not the only one.
I can whole heartedly second these recommendations, it's basically exactly what I did a couple of years ago and it's helped me tremendously.
This is the best way to help Africa's people. Moreso than providing charitable donations of free food and clean water; helping to empower this continent's people so they can provide for themselves is the best possible way to improve the lives of the African people. No self respecting human adult wants to be "taken care of". They want to earn their keep. They just need the opportunity to pursue something worth earning. This is the kind of philanthropy they deserve.
Secret has an image problem. Pando Daily's article on Secret is titled "With bullying app Secret on life support, investors learn the risk of investing in assholes".

http://pando.com/2014/12/06/with-bullying-app-secret-on-life...
> Hating "suburbia" is actually a deeply suburban stance. The upper-middle-class, isolationist people who are now crowding into Williamsburg are the same sorts of provincial people that their forebears (the artists who can no longer afford to live there) fled suburbia to escape. That suburbia's biggest haters are (in origin and mindset) quite suburban is actually ironic rather than just sarcastic.

It's a false dichotomy. Manhattan is not the only way to build a dense city. It's not the most pleasant way to do so, either, but neither is it even the most unpleasant.

There are ways to build dense cities that people can afford to live in and actually enjoy living in. What there's not a lot of is political will to implement these ways of doing things, because location is assumed to be a zero-sum privilege people should pay for instead of a public good people should share.
HTML5 video! available everywhere and broken for everybody.
Personally, following Allens instructions to the letter made GTD "stick", when all the digital tools I tried had failed for me over and over again. Having a physical reminder of everything made building a habit far easier and avoided distractions that come with a computer and a screen.
I had a family member attacked by a cabbie. The driver was actually mere hours away from getting away with it too because a) The passenger had no record of the transaction and b) The cab service recycles their camera data every few days.

The way I see it, there is no guarantee of safety in either situation. You never know if your driver is a criminal or crazy. But services like Uber seem considerably more safe: There is extreme record keeping, user ratings, and no direct money changing hands.
If you read it, you'll see that things are much worse than that.
This. Fighter Jets are the modern equivalent of mounted knights. Glamorous, lovely and of marginal use in a full-out war.

This is why they are the favorite military service of the useless scions of the nobility that we most definitely don't have.
No, this is an article about military procurement: http://www.defensenews.com/article/20141113/DEFREG02/3111300...

(Btw hyperbolic, although sounding cool, is not what you really wanted to say)
The non-Khoisan languages Xhosa and Zulu (30 million+ speakers in South Africa, now far greater than the Khoisan languages) also have clicks, but in smaller numbers.

One of the UCT Linguistics professors had a theory that the clicks that infiltrated Xhosa and Zulu (and not other languages) were due to a tradition in which engaged women had to avoid saying the letters in the names of their fiance's male relatives. Clicks from neighbouring Khoisan populations entered the languages as a strategy to help much more recently than the split this article is talking about.
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From what I remember of my major in linguistics at UCT (I was lazy and it was almost 10 years ago):

The Khoisan languages have a greater density of phonemes (there are more identifiably different sounds) than in any other on the planet. This language [1] has 43 clicks, compared to the 3 of Xhosa and Zulu (actually it might be that by the system of measurement used in that article Xhosa/Zulu actually have more, but it still won't be as many).

Speculation: I always imagined that this was similar to the story of Mitochondrial Eve, that these languages look like what language looked like 150 000 years ago while the rest of the planet's languages are fragments, kind of like we only have fragments of Mitochondrial Eve's DNA. Of course I have no idea what the current thinking is on ME, maybe that idea has been discredited.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taa_language
You don't want to encrypt your video chats with your lover? With your business associates?

I guess you Don't Have Anything To Hide™.
The 'magic' here is that you can quickly iterate over the data because it lives in 'dense'. In dense cases 'm'='n' and we loose. The apparent faster clear performance is because the length ('n') is stored as an auxiliary value, which is not unique to this scheme. As pointed out before, the extra logic will break vectorization and result in poor performance.
No. There is no reason to think that BQP = NP.
My story with this link survived the culling: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8710607
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Parent's talking about the amount to achieve a goal, you're talking about what's fair. The two are valid, they just shouldn't be mixed up. The problem with the latter, of course, is that there's no objective measure, but you certainly can't assume the receiver is necessarily reasonable in his assessment.
There are three main types of problems on which quantum computers outperform classical computers

1. Searching an unsorted list. (boring)

2. Factorizing numbers - generally the hidden subgroup problem. This one is interesting because it breaks certain classical cryptographic schemes. (just shift to different crypto schemes)

3. The one that is really interesting is the ability to simulate certain quantum systems efficiently. (it doesn't look from the contents that these guys are discussing these algorithms). The ability to simulate quantum systems efficiently has promising applications in biological systems, chemistry and condensed matter physics. These applications have the potential to create structural changes in human civilizations on the scale that the classical computer revolution had.

For example, drug design today proceeds by a lot of trial and error and experimentation. This is because of our inability to simulate cellular processes by using classical computers. Quantum computers might be able to make some of these simulations feasible, both in terms of time and economics. It is only currently a 'might' because on the one hand we have had continuous improvements in quantum simulation algorithms, we have also realized that certain problems cannot even be solved feasibly by even quantum computers. Future progress in the field of quantum algorithms will tell us which side of the fence we land on.
Epic poetry seems to have died out, at least for a time, as a literary art form. Will it make a comeback? Would or could the Internet play a role in such a comeback?

One of the last great epic poems written in the English language is G.K. Chesterton's The Ballad of the White Horse:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_the_White_Horse

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_the_White_Horse

Readers here who have their interest stirred by Dante's poetry might enjoy Chesterton's work.
I have been very curious recently about DND testing ancestry.
I think it is amazing to know our origins, wanted to share my interest.
There is a very good reason to think that: the press always gets this wrong. So unless you either have some real knowledge in the field or you've come across Scott Aaronson's writings, you may be excused for believing that quantum computers "try all possibilities in parallel".
This is why I left Wikipedia. This post if a manifestation of our community which is the purpose of this website. If the purpose is something else, I will leave.
> You won't miss it [news], you won't miss out (the big stuff will find its way to you regardless)

Maybe it is different in the valley or wherever, and of course highly dependent on your social circles, but not being able to comment any current affairs can make some conversations quite awkward. Personally I'd find that it would not reflect well on the person.

Also I would say that it is far better to choose your own news sources rather than rely on random regurgitations.

And this is coming from a person who does not follow news, and hasn't done so for most of his adult life. Ignorance is a bliss, but it is still ignorance.
Hematite – A simple Minecraft written in Rust with the Piston game engine
Custom Sony Malware Indicates Previous Knowledge of Sony Networks
Uber Taxi: Yes to profits. No to customer service.
No kidding! I tried to make a landing page with a <video></video>... seems like you need 3 versions of the same video for cross browser format compatibility...
Nope, flagkilled.

Honestly this is starting to look absurd. HN readers consider this event interesting and worth discussing (as evidenced by this thread). There is an obvious effort to either censor or manipulate the system in order for the stories to stay off the front page. I would have expected more outrage.
The article doesn't mention the game's official website, which includes screenshots and a gameplay video that shows what's happening outside the screen: http://www.keeptalkinggame.com/

Also, there's a weird focus on the PS4, when, at least according to the website, it seems like it was developed originally for PCs, and may end up there as well.
Which description are you referring to? I don't think anyone described that bit as humor. In the show it was used to portray how vile commercial sabotage can be, even to the consumer. The grave realization is that while the chosen situation seems hyperbolistic, it isn't—it's a real concrete possibility.
2015 is shaping up to be a great year. New Horizons visits Pluto and the Dawn probe visits Ceres. Two dwarf planets in one year, when we've never visited a single one before.
> it's trivial for even a mildly technical person to figure out how to get around it

Copy & paste?
An article can be flagged. If it has been flagged by too many people, it will be "flag-killed." Guess certain people don't like the article and want to suppress it.
tl;dr the Khoisan lived in the part of Africa that kept good throught all climate changes phases. The other populations suffered reduction in numbers and eventually part of them spread to Asia and Europe. It took them a long time to recover and finally outnumber the Khoisan.
You're missing the point. The point is not that it's 'only bad if it happens often'.

The point is that if it happens to tens of millions of people, it's systemic. If it's a single case, it's an incident UNLESS there is evidence that it's a direct consequence of certain policies.

And if it's an incident unrelated to Uber's policies, I don't think it's relevant, personally. That's the point. That doesn't make it 'not bad', it just makes it 'not-relevant' for a tech-focused community. To filter out irrelevant topics is not censorship, it's focus.

Now you have said yourself the issue is not that Uber could have screened better, so does that mean indeed that it's an incident? That's the focal point of my issue here. I'm not for flagging or censorship. If I think it's relevant, I'm all for keeping it. If the story was about 1 person being raped and it was because of Uber policies, or an interesting story on gender relations in India, or the history of trust in taxi companies, I'd love to read that. Hell, if 0 people were raped but Uber policies were such that it could happen anytime soon, I'd want to read that, too. But this has none of that as of yet, it feels like an incident, therefore not relevant and therefore I don't care to see it.

As for the flagging, I've never flagged in my life and don't feel strongly this should have been flagged either. But you're implying there was an investigation that was censored. To me it feels as if there was no such investigation, but rather instead, a tabloid-like article on an incident with a rape by a freelance driver of a $40b company that everyone happens to be talking about. If it really is an incident, not systemic, not caused by Uber policies and just tabloid material, then it doesn't seem like the worst idea to down vote it to remove its visibility. I don't know exactly how HN works, apparently through flagging which is like a mega-downvote I guess? I just don't particularly see the problem.

> Whether or not this was truly due to a flaw in Uber's screening process or an unavoidable crime is certainly a valid question. All the more reason not to censor it.

So help me do answer it :) This thread hasn't been removed, has it? (I wonder by the way who flagged the other threads. One member said it was because the title used the word ra ping instead of ra pe, implying the others might've been auto-flagged, which would certainly be strange to me as you can't presuppose anything about the validity of the article from the word alone)
> Manhattan is not the only way ... neither is it even the most unpleasant.

> There are ways to build dense cities that people can afford to live in and actually enjoy living in.

This is a subject that deeply interests me. I would be interested to hear your thoughts on what you consider viable alternative models; personally, Manhattan and its satellites seem the closest to a realistic (if obviously flawed) design strategy for achieving livable density.
This could result in Uber's implosion in India. What were they thinking when they had an unverified driver? Heck even local taxicab providers use drivers with extensive background checks and police verification (atleast in Bangalore).

No point in using Uber if they sink to such levels. The only reason they could've gone with such a driver would've been economic.
Screen or tmux. I tend to prefer tmux, but the both have this ability. I'm actuality surprised that there isn't a more elegant choice other than redirecting stdout and stderr to /dev/null where you can fork jobs to a background and reattach later to see the tty. Is there a shell that has a job queue that can be accessed from any number of shells?
I'm not sure... Probably not directly (if you could even quantify it). However, lemme ask you this: Do sick people pay more taxes because they use more healthcare? I hope not.

But, now that I think about it. I think they do, especially if it's represented by a usage tax. Say fuel levies, or property taxes.
You should be able to avoid those issue if you use a volotile variable.
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This now appears to be deleted/dead.
"800 articles I have yet to read...Currently my instapaper account has some 800 articles I have yet to read. Kindle has about 10 books I want to read...pinboard account has about 100 unread article"

The following is just my opinion and I don't mean to be antagonistic. However, IMHO, your issue is that you think that being aware of topics is equivalent to truly understanding those topics. If you were really interested in those 100 unread pinboard articles, you would have read them - you seem to like the idea of knowing about the topics of the articles more than actually understanding the underlying concepts contained in the articles.

Stop trying to "be smart". If you're interested in an article - read it. Right now - try to understand it. If you read it and don't get it, find a writeup on the same topic written by a different person and read that. Continue this until you finally "get it". If you can't take 5-30 minutes out of your day to read something, you're likely not that interested in the topic. Your entire post screams that you don't know what you want to know nor how to manage your time. If you're serious about learning, start learning - and that means not adding another thing to any list until you have crossed off everything of your existing list. Instead of adding things to lists, make an effort to try to check things off of your list that already exists.

At the end of the day, life is all about choices - you can choose to continue to add things to your "to-do" list OR you can choose to start completing the existing tasks on your list.