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Fear of non-being, whether through death, losing one's mind, dementia etc is one aspect of the problem of living. I have found in my own case that the purely rational, aspiritual approach in life leaves me with a pretty anemic and empty philosophy on how to live, composed of a few cliches and self-aggrandized 'staring into the abyss'. Eventually I found this rather unsatisfying. I was hoping for something more than a constant reminder to make good use of my short and brutish life, which I don't do anyway. On the other hand, spiritual belief systems spend all their time addressing the question of how live in expansive and well packaged detail - and there doesn't seem to be a competitive secular equivalent. That could just be my own intellectual frailty... maybe others have found such a thing, or don't think it is necessary.

The logic of atheism is inescapable, but then what? What is the point of an axiom that leads to not only nothing, but actual nothingness?
Some people find racist jokes funny. It doesn't mean the such jokes should be tolerated. You're judging an entire nation, yet you're complaining about judgement?
> 8051 was ~60K transistors (same ballpark as Cortex M4)

While I agree with your overall premise, could you provide a citation on this? I find it hard to believe that a Cortex M4 is only 60K transistors. A 32x32 multiplier should be almost 10,000 transistors by itself.
I don't think it is really about the difficulty of the project. Like prostoalex said above, it is more about the product being well thought out- ease of use, design, UX, its ability to solve the problem it is trying to solve, etc. Also, beyond the product- communication is key (as greenyoda explained above), so is the ability to prioritize problems that you want to solve (at its core, building products is about providing solutions to problems) and managing stakeholders' often competing interests and expectations.
Khoisan is the language with all the clicks in it (yeah, been watching Trevor Noah today).

In comparison, between the spread of that sound structure (culture, so to speak) vs genetic distribution, why would one spread wide and the other part not?

Or am I wrong about clicks being a rarity in languages of the continent?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8711510
False parallel.

What if Microsoft's products or services sexually assaulted people? Yes, there would be an outcry.
The article and discussion make me wonder about Portland, OR where I live. The city and metro area have become more population dense over time. In fact, the population of Portland per se has doubled since the 1970's while its boundaries haven't changed a bit.

Cities in Oregon have been constrained by "urban growth boundaries" since 1973, the idea is preventing sprawl and encroachment on farm land. That guarantees population increases will require "infill" and that's exactly what's happening.

This is a polar contrast to Phoenix, AZ, which happens to be the place I grew up in. Even as a kid it was easy to observe the immense sprawl associated with the region's inbred suburban culture.

The article's commentary about the sharp edges of development in the Phoenix area points ironically to a similar-appearing phenomenon in the Portland area. There are a number of roads a few miles from the center of the city where one side is jam-packed with dense residential construction, and the other traditional farm land stretching to the horizon.

It gives another meaning to the phrase, "keeping Portland weird".
Here are a few things I'm trying and it seems to be working well:
- Delete Facebook account
- Block time wasters using browser extension (reddit, news sites etc)
- Block these sites also on my wifi router
- Keep a daily log of all the habits I want to build/break (actually I've hacked a rails app to do this, it only runs on my machine tho :)

I've whitelisted only a few time wasting sites (HN and Twitter) but generally I don't read news articles anymore, I just get news in chunks from Twitter (good enough for me).
ewqd
A related concept is "final protective fire," which means something like "We are being overrun, please drop artillery shells directly on our position, we're in foxholes and they're not so hopefully it will work out." Scary.
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Crop funding is favored by policy wonks because it competes for the same inputs that drug production requires (namely, agricultural land and labor).
Good to know! The fix isn't specific to Instacart though; industry-specific settings now apply to all Stripe merchants, and have for a while. Hope Amex comes through on the cashback!
You make it sound like it's perfectly legitimate, while from my point of view, it's indistinguishable from astroturfing.
> rapes occur all the time, not relevant if someone just happens to be employed by Uber

This isn't a story about someone who "just happens to be employed by Uber" committing a rape. This is a story about a woman who used the Uber app to find a ride and was raped by her driver (who is not actually employed by Uber).
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South Park is a better show than you give it credit. They frequently explore serious issues in earnest and I have often felt the gravity of the message outweighs the humor in its presentation.
Completely different. The Microsoft employee beating his wife would be analogous to an Uber driver beating his wife, neither of which has anything to do with their company's products or services and neither of which would be interesting to HN users. The point here is that this is a case of a driver raping a passenger, which immediately challenges the safety of Uber's model. This is now a component of Uber's perception, much like Elon Musk's blog posts are of Tesla's, and those make it to the front page of HN all the time.
> Some of the things I talked about, like Encrypted Media Extensions, were, for the most part, still a pipe dream with few to no working implementations.

Why would anyone dream about this DRM junk? Something to dream about is for example Daala codec which is supposed to arrive in 2015.

Also, is there any non patented and freely available technology for adaptive video streaming? Unless DASH is not patent encumbered.
Actually, the article makes no explanation of why GNU is specially identifying "trivial" programs, nor how they came up with their guidelines. And neither do you.

So I will maintain that my copyright explanation is the best explanation, simply because (sofar) it's the only explanation.
Uber markets itself as a safer and more convinient mode of transport. Uber driver did not beat his wife, he raped a cystomer. That is breach of trust.

The right analogy would be.. If a Microsoft employee hacks your Windows computer and steals your data, it should be a front page story.
> I don't see how that's even possible.

3 billion on fighting terrorism? Sounds pretty cheap to me, considering:

https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/

> A $3bil cash infusion is going to increase prices and create need for more product.

Right, because there's an overproduction crisis hitting Afghanistan now, and that's why we see a natural trend in farmers choosing to not grow opium, and rather produce other cash crops?

If it was worked into a "sound" "hearts and minds" (not the: kidnap "suspicious" people for torture in the night kind, but something more in the spirit of the words, not the practice, born from British lessons on administrating terror in India), you could probably buy up the opium for below market value. I don't think most farmers prefer to grow opium.

On the other hand, it is hard to see how such a scheme would be possible, as it is probably against the real political motivations behind being in Afghanistan (which most certainly are not: help most of the Afghan people).
Yeah, something that you've built that when it comes up in the interview, you're able to explain the goals you were trying to achieve, the trade-offs and design decisions, perhaps some A/B tests you've run and metrics you tracked.

Even if the app is simple and has a grand total of 2 users, it should provide decent conversation fodder and peg you as disciplined, detail-oriented and big-picture-focused. For example, if you have not built something obvious in (internationalization, in-app purchases, deep links), throw in an explanation of how you're aware of it and made sure it fits into the next release.

One quote from Sam Altman' startup class that stuck with me was (I believe it was from Brian Chesky) someone asking two builders what they were working on laying bricks. One said "I'm building this wall", another said "I'm building the cathedral". Be the second guy.
http://thefirstruleofopensource.net/
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Once they are entrenched, and their allies and family members have started to siphon public money, why would they ever give up?

Especially since these are not countries with strong institutions and a lot of regards for human rights. Nothing keeps the next strongman from disappearing them. It's closer to medieval politics than western democracy.
Interesting. Do you believe in life after death? This is not something eagerly brought up on Hacker News but when discussing one's fear of death or lack thereof it is probably the most important bit of context to establish.
If we can't prevent farmes to grow poppies when it's "illegal" to do so, what's to prevent farmers from taking money to "not grow" and still grow opium?

I suppose, if one buys into the idea that this is mostly the result of a free marked (as opposed to an intricate web of political, economic and organized violent crime) -- one could offer to pay opium prices for food crops. But then you'd probably have to destroy that food, in order to prevent people from selling the food back, and collecting double payments on "not growing poppies"...
South Park wasn't "predicting" this, they were engaging in their usual sophisticated commentary on news stories of the day. Various pundits, who shall go unnamed here, have made a big deal of the threat of sexual assault by Uber drivers, which, you so correctly, have pointed out is a real issue for Taxi Drivers as well (just without the clear audit log)
That is simply not the case; only perhaps the ones listed on that page. People sometimes release code without properly licensing it. For instance I have seen code accompanied by a statement like "this code is in the public domain; anyone can do anything they wish" (without any disclaimers of liability).
It's also an accusation made up out of whole cloth about a guy who started working at Uber months ago.
The random shell output from "background" apps never bothered me that much ;-) Crunchbang you can just press F2 and get auto-complete and launch commands with no shell output. Ubuntu has something similar. If you have terminator, just split the pane if you need a fresh one, or drag the terminal to another workspace and it's out of the way. Also tmux has ^bd to "detach" I think.
Wow. To put that in perspective, I found a reference [1] saying the simplest Cortex-M0 chips have about 12K gates, which means that the processor uses about 20,000 electrons per cycle, per gate.

When you think about how many orders of magnitude of improvement there have been since the dawn of computing, it's astonishing to realize that there might not be too many left before we start hitting the fundamental limits of semiconductors.

[1]: http://www.arrownac.com/offers/nxp-semiconductors/cortex/cor...
They've done bits that I have liked, a lot that I didn't care for but can just respectfully not be a fan of, but if this episode is really as described above (link won't let me watch it) it sounds kind of sick.
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.

... yes, this is not a direct explanation, but you can extrapolate how subsidies arise for the suburbs when calculated on a per capita rather than per district basis.
Apparently, it is OK to care about profits and not customers these days. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/06/opinion/joe-nocera-uber-vs...
Threads can share data in caches (depending on the core and cache level), which is especially true for parallel computing use cases. Hyper threading can run another thread on a core while a thread is stalled on a read, which makes reasoning about performance even more tricky.
Ah..k...no peeking beyond just the head of the queue.
> Actually, the article makes no explanation of why GNU is specially identifying "trivial" programs, nor how they came up with their guidelines.

I didn't say they did. I said that they say what their policy is, and I said that the policy they describe has no relation to any distinction in copyright law. A counterargument would be to show such a relationship, not to point out the absence of something that I never claimed was present.
Sure, but assuming an Intel Haswell i7, L1 cache is 64K (two threads with hyper-threading) -- and the total of L1+L2+L3 is anywhere from 2 to 20 megabytes.

So if you "do little" with "much data", then that (might) matter, whereas if you "do much" with "little data" it might not.
'tab', a new command-line utility for processing tabular text files seriously
It's actually a statically-typed, type-inferred declarative non-Turing-complete language for querying tabular text files. (Such csv/tsv or webserver logs.)

It's designed to fill the niche between SQL and traditional UNIX utilities like cut/sort/uniq/awk.

The source and documentation is here: http://bitbucket.org/tkatchev/tab
edit- sorry ignore this.
+1 on having both versions side by side, otherwise you'll lose all the beauty of Dante's version :)
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384

Mac OS Yosemite..
Strange, I just posted this tech crunch article:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8711409

and it got several upvotes and was on the front page, but now it was removed from the home page

not sure how the home page rankings work, but it was on the home page for a while and getting up votes
While you are correct, your comment kind of misrepresents the article: perhaps a better title might have been "When the difference between 'thread-safe' and 're-entrant' matters"?
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Also not the original poster, but I give you this graphic:

http://www.thestranger.com/binary/ea57/CityLead-CLICK.jpg

It depicts the denser, more urban, and/or more populated counties of Washington State contributing more and receiving less from the overall state pool of revenue than less populated, rural counties. (The graphic frames it as Democratic-voting versus Republican-voting but the population difference is also similar.)

Here are some examples from my own time living in an urban setting versus the suburbs:

- Road packages are always a given and almost never subject to a vote unless, as in the case of Washington State, someone bothers to get an initiative or ratification on the ballot. Urban mass transit, like buses and light rail, always come with a vote. So transit has to clear the legislature, the governor, and then the people. That presupposes that the legislature actually does anything. Roads only get stuck with the first two and "building the future" is wildly popular.

- Going back to roads for a second dip: Road funding for rural and suburban areas tends to be at the state level. A highway through Okanogan or Ferry counties is paid for by King county residents. In contrast, cities in King county tend to fund their road needs through local taxes--usually through the much-hated vehicle registration tax--and have to do so in a series of piecemeal ballot votes. So rural areas get taxed once, urban areas twice or three times depending on how many taxing jurisdictions are at play and how much roads versus transit is needed.

- Services which would be inefficient to fund through direct charges, like sewer systems or electric, get paid for at the state or county level and the urban areas pay into those pools but get little back.

In Texas, there is a saying that "build the houses and the roads [or electric lines or what have you] will follow." I have lost count of the number of times my electric bill in my former residence went up because the poles-and-wires company needed to serve more far-flung suburban sprawl.

There is a lot to be said for taxing ourselves as a society to pay for our shared good. Education, clean water, sanitary sewers, transportation; all good topics. The problem comes with, as inevitably happens, those folks in the suburban and rural areas both declaring that they "did it all by themselves" and also denying the urban areas the ability to tax ourselves to build what we now need.

Is it an intentional act by the individuals who move to the suburbs? No, but it sure feels that way when the ballots are cast.
>BTW, this also happen in taxi cabs, but somehow they don't make the front-page of hacker news[1][2][3], I wonder why that is

Woman speaking here. I've been using Uber/Lyft over taxis because of the driver verification system and also the tracking. I will always send my ride tracking link to whoever I am travelling towards if I am solo. I am sure that taxis have their drivers verified also, but taxis don't send me their driver's name and car license plate nor can I track the ride within the taxi service system itself. User is using technology to make the relationship between passenger and driver safer. If they fail on this, they need to be totally open and honest about it and discuss how to find better solutions. Drivers also get attacked by passengers - the safety measures go both ways.
Yes, I thought rand()'s self-locking was pretty common knowledge, but it is a good example to teach the perils of multithreading because its signature gives no indication that anything bad will happen. strtok() is even worse.

C++11's excellent <random> library represents the PRNG as an object like it should. Besides making the statefulness of PRNGs explicit, its API encourages correct usage - it would be more work to share a PRNG between threads.
Unlikely. This type of incident would probably be considered negative PR for Lyft as well as Uber. Taxi bodies, Uber/Lyft customers, and those seeking to unearth stuff like this are probably the most motivated for this story.
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Moreover, he probably improved the single threaded version, and should re-check the scaling curve. There should be a `1 with random_r`, `2 with random_r`, and `3 with random_r`.
Something in between traditional bit vectors and sparse sets is described here:

http://upcoder.com/9/fast-resettable-flag-vector/

This is designed for a fast clear, but doesn't actually have constant time clear, it's just O(n) clear with very small (amortized) constant. It's a bit more cache friendly, though, I think, and gave us some nice speedups in practice.
> If a Microsoft employee hacks your Windows computer and steals your data

That's a good point. I wonder though what we can actually discuss here.

Consider this, if a MS employee hacked you using say, company access to your hotmail account that only MS employees have, a system by design ripe for abuse, and therefore fixable by MS and therefore a MS responsibility, then that's relevant.

But if a MS employee hacked you on the job without anything special that makes him a MS employee (he could've been working for DELL, Apple or hell he could've been unemployed) and just happened to be a MS employee that hacked you, what's the relevance? It's just an incident that MS has no real responsibility for.

Even less responsibility if said employee wasn't an employee, but just a 3rd party freelancer.

I think it begs the question: 'what didn't uber do that they should have?'. Why are they at fault, why is this news? It sucks, yes, but as I posted earlier here, 17k kids under 5 will die today, and tomorrow, as they did yesterday. There needs to be some context, an angle on gender relations in india, a gender-violent culture at Uber, bad policies in keeping track of rides so abuse can go unpunished, for example. But I don't see it.

We've heard that the screening process is weak and I'll believe that. But I genuinely wonder what part of the screening process is missing that could've prevented this. I'm all for screening out repeat offenders for jobs like this (where a client entrusts a caretaker, like for doctors, police or indeed taxi drivers) but this feels like an incident that's only posted because it's good tabloid material considering Uber is now a $40 billion company with a possible rape case after tens of millions of rides.
There just isn't a compelling enough reason to use ANOTHER social network. There is facebook, twitter, google+, instagram, snapchat, and to some extent reddit. There is only so much time people can attribute to this kind of social engagement.

While I personally have imagined the golden potential behind an anonymous social network (particularly when it comes to data mining; I mean imagine a world where Taylor Swift can't get a million likes because everybody attributes what she says to a hot girl). There is just too many social networks trying to compete for our time. This market is so over populated that at this point starting a new pizza franchise would probably make more economic sense.

While I find this ultimately depressing, this is just how things are. I only hope the engineers at secret don't make a bad mistake and waste that 35 million on a startup that won't overcome this bump in the road. I hope they decide to pivot and pursue an idea that leads their team and their investors to financial success.

That's just my two cents anyways.
Have some of the money paid to reveal them also paid to the person who is revealed perhaps?
Ah, that makes sense. TIL.

I'm Canadian, and we have something similar. But it only applies to corporations that are resident in Canada (where Canadian corporate taxes are paid on retained earnings?). I think the intent is to recognize the tax already paid on earnings, not necessarily to make it like taxable like capital gains... but it's all a wash.

It seems that qualified dividends in U.S. are limited in similar ways.

My confusion makes sense in retrospect: I have generally held stock from U.S. markets, so I don't often benefit from the credit. I believe dividends were always counted directly as taxable income.

So... supposing that you're in the U.S. and your stock isn't U.S.-based, wouldn't buybacks always be more tax favorable?
The issue here is not whether Uber could have screened better, but whether that very question should be flagged for removal from public view by senior HN users, or open to investigation and debate.

I think you realized partway into this how vile a corner you were painting yourself into with your "it only affected a single person" line of reasoning. But to follow your logic, which assumes that rape and the leaking of personal info are of the same magnitude of error, Uber's error would only be worth non-censorship if "tens of millions" of women were raped.

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.
Perhaps if the poster can choose the price, that could work, but I think it's more likely that that would just make no one interested in the secrets.
Most startups these days are hackathon projects trying to gain funding. It's laughable half of them manage to become actual companies.
> a JavaScript program nontrivial if:
> ...
> - calling methods with the square bracket notation

-something[key](x);
+var f = something[key];
+f.call(something, x);

phew, that really make my program more trivial
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