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> “For anyone to tell you Mars will be there to back up humanity is like the captain of the Titanic telling you that the real party is happening later on the life boats,” Walkowicz said. “It is hubris to believe that interplanetary colonization will be enough to save us from ourselves.”

I cant buy this. Life boats are there for an emergency, and to continue with the Titanic example, these lifeboats helped a bunch of people and hindsight says we should have had a bunch more.
It's not so much about what I would like to see, but rather why some developers insist on copying Lua's stack-based API, merely because so many people have accepted Lua as the very definition of a lightweight, embeddable programming language.

It seems like a false promise to me is all I'm saying. People get lured in with a very questionable tactic, and then start to believe "stack-based API == tiny and great", whereas I think that this is a pretty bold statement.

In any case, I did answer your question - you can achieve the same level of minimalism by using linked lists, and yes, OOP in C. Shouldn't be exactly news to anyone who has learned C (not that difficult anyway).
I don't see any compelling reasons to choose a stackbased API over anything else.

I've found myself figuratively battling with Lua when I tried to create nontrivial objects, such as metatables with constructors, indices, missing indices handling, etc, you name it. It's fun and easy for small things, but gets cumbersome really quick. And inline-evaluating Lua code just because the API has been updated in some odd ways, so that previously perfectly fine working code now compiles, but no longer works, just feels hacky to the max.

With a non-stackbased API, this is literally just a matter of walking function calls (the native program stack). But with a stackbased API, you have to walk the machine stack AND the API stack.

That's not fun. Not even remotely. This is how you teach a programmer to hate programming.
Does this story have any actual proof or is this just an allegation?
Is that actually up on an inflation adjusted basis?
I came here to make this point ... engineering organizations applying scrum or agile make no allowance for something like this. And while you might dig deeper, find a problem that indeed would have been a major crisis, and in some cases get to add that as a Product support ticket, after the fact, if you're lucky, the reality is that a lot of times you'll spend a lot of time investigating, learn that much more about your infrastructure/codebase but find its a small (but not insignificant problem) that gets thrown on the backlog, while the PM seethes at you for screwing up team velocity, and going "rogue" (working on a problem without telling him). Or, maybe, even worse ... you don't find anything, now you just wasted a day on nothing.

Of course you could say something in standup about it, but you and I both know you'd probably be gently admonished for wasting time on it and asked to go back to what you were doing. because ... sprint goals, quarterly objectives yada yada yada.

If you make doing this enough of a habit, it might show up in your one on ones and evaluations even. There goes your big annual raise.

In essence, you have to do your work AND go figure out these sorts of things on your own time. Thats how you find yourself putting in 50-60 hour weeks, but its okay because you're a "passionate" engineer.

Either way The business wins.
> The problem is that any app could register to listen to those addresses

That's a feature, not a problem, and it's the kind of flexibility I expect from Android.

Take the domain reddit.com, for example. There are several Reddit apps, two or three of which are very popular. If the app to open was controlled by the owners of reddit.com, how would my favourite third-party app be able to register to handle those links?
Not sure if you're making an attempt at a joke but Gaye has been dead for quite some time now.
There are more responsibilities of citizenship than just paying taxes.

I actually tell my H1B friends that getting a green card but not naturalizing is likely their best ROI.
$ php -a

php > use strict;

PHP Fatal error: You seem to be trying to use a different language... in php shell code on line 1
'LibreSSL 2.1.5 released' – MARC
You're almost exactly correct! About 15 minutes, and we got almost 200k hits because of it. It was on Smashing Magazine, Little Big Details, and just about every designer I like tweeted about it. Totally worth the time it took :)
That explains a lot. I've always wondered why such an otherwise industrious and hard working people will head home or stay at home at the first sign of a snow flake, even amongst people born long after 78. Cultural memory in effect I guess.
> strict monogamy

Honored more in the breach than the observance, in many households.
Just for the record, those aren't the first letters the Greek alphabet, nor are they in order, given that alpha is shortly after omega and both are near the center of the list.

I assume they follow some standard of usage in context, but I don't know enough about economics to know what they're normally used to represent.
Marriage changes and cultural contributions
Those two things have jack shit to do with each other.
Pretty cool they got the price so low. I've consulted as an Android developer on the app side of medical software and for every day we actually wrote features we spent something like four testing. Unit tests, integration tests, UI automation tests, moving the app up from local dev, to integrated dev, to staging, to production (unused servers), then production (used servers). You can imagine how much that inflates the the time required and cost.
That's not what it says at all.

Pulling quotes from the Forbes article:

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, full-time working women earned 81 percent of what full-time working men earned in 2010... The wage gap statistic, however, doesn’t compare two similarly situated co-workers of different sexes, working in the same industry, performing the same work, for the same number of hours a day. It merely reflects the median earnings of all men and women classified as full-time workers.... the average full-time working man spends 8.14 hours a day on the job, compared to 7.75 hours for the full-time working woman

So yes. The wage gap is real. But no, it doesn't necessarily mean that women are paid less for the same work.

In the context of this conversation, about the financial independence of women that 81% figure seems entirely appropriate. It's fair to argue about the reasons for it, but that doesn't seem relevant to the facts relating the financial independence of women vs men.
We can't afford to live and vote in the city where we work because those with privilege have used it to push us out.
There seems to be a lot of discussion in this topic around the idea that "IF San Francisco did away with rent control, THEN the market would correct the problem."

Given that SF hasn't had rent control since 1980 (it only applies to buildings constructed before that), and the market has thus had 25 years to correct, which of the following is true:

1. There is no housing problem
2. Removing rent control didn't make a difference.

I'm actually curious to know the opinion of people blaming rent control...

(edit: typo)
they could have been interfaces, or arrays too.
Unfortunately, it's coupled with short-term risks and probably doesn't accurately reflect the cost of high divorce rates, low birth within wedlock rates, and both parents working rates. While some people do make a single parent work, or both parents working with children work, there is a huge impact of divorce and single parents on their children. Those long term effects are not reflected as well by economic incentives in those situations.
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I've witnessed a couple in a SF 1 bedroom rent controlled apartment (of many years) fret over when to have a child. A 2 bedroom at market rate is a non-trivial change. It certainly feels like a trap to them.
I'm not saying it necessitates rent control. I'm saying that Prop 13 and rent control both came from the same place, the high inflation 1970s (see the TechCrunch article: http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/).

Repealing rent control without repealing Prop 13 would result in a MASSIVE wealth transfer from renters to landlords. I don't think that's fair.
Never underestimate the need for a pressure release valve in a time of crisis.
> hire a delivery company

As usual, this plan is OK for the more affluent and makes life more difficult for the poor.
The assumption is that without rent control, average prices would be lower.

So... the assumption is that left to itself, a good which is incredibly scarce in a market full of wealthy, fiercely competitive customers would see a price decline?

I mean, I can sort of see a long-term argument for it (the people who would occupy the housing are dependent on a much larger and much less wealthy serving class for their food and other necessaries and luxuries, and as that serving class was priced out of being able to live anywhere within an increasingly-large radius, housing would begin to become less attractive and thus prices would finally come down at least a bit). But I highly doubt that's the argument attempting to be made here, as one of the goals of rent control is to shortcut to the end of that cycle (where costs have come down enough that the serving class can afford to live nearby again).
> "If local regulations did not do much to discourage creation of new housing supply [...] Costs would rise [...] And the value to the marginal resident would fall for two reasons. First, the marginal resident will definitionally be someone who is relatively indifferent between living in San Francisco and living somewhere else. Everyone more eager to live there would already have moved in."

That seems wrong. How much someone is willing to pay to live in San Fransisco isn't a measure of their "eagerness", but also a function of wealth. Marginal people in San Fransisco are also poor people who love the city, and are barely able to live there because they spend such a high proportion of their income on costs of living. Relative to their household income, they spend _more_ than someone not marginal to live in the city, but that wouldn't be reflected by their migration patterns. They're not less eager, just less rich.
The license has been changed to distribute GraphpostgresQL under the same terms as Postgres itself: https://github.com/solidsnack/GraphpostgresQL/commit/bec43e3...
Rent control isn't the source of the undersupply in SF.

Restrictions on new construction (both legal and social) are the source of the undersupply in the city.

Do you live in SF? If you did, you would know that in the few new residential buildings that have been constructed, rents are somewhere between $3000 and
$4000 per bedroom. What developer could possibly refuse that income? Do you think that rent control is driving rents in newly construction apartments that high? Likewise, do you think that -with rental rates like that- developers are failing to build new stock because of existing rent controlled stock in SF?

As an aside, if you didn't know how rent control works in SF, here's a quick intro. Buildings built before 1979 and rented as residential housing are covered by rent control. No other buildings -unless (as is happening in Trinity Place on Market Street) the landlord enters into a special agreement with his tenants- are covered by rent control. This means that new construction is NOT covered by rent control.

Because new construction is not covered by the rent control ordinances, in a market with extreme undersupply, like SF's, there is no economic reason for a developer not to build new housing stock.

Have you been enlightened? :)
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Check now :)
Agreed. I think the entrenched property owners and long-time renters are a big part of the anti-building coalition in SF. For owners, lack of building is actually in their interest. For renters, at the very least, the lack of building doesn't affect them.

Both have "got theirs" and don't want to let new people into the city.
On the topic of OSX productivity, is there a way to keybind moving a window to a new space?
Well..

On the first row of result images in the "divorce rate" search you posted there are 5 graphs. 2 of them measure "divorces per 1000 people", and 3 measure "divorces per 1000 marriages".

In the divorce per 1000 marriages case, it would appear to be independent of the marriage rate.
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This is a pretty toxic part of our industry. Everyone, in every position or role, should be able to accept constructive criticism of their work. Likewise, everyone should give constructive criticism. If your role involves "high risk" $x, you should hold yourself to exceptionally high standards, but that doesn't include the expectation that folks should fling non-constructive mockery at your work.

To your second point, learning from other peoples less-than-constructive criticism does not require going out of your way to help those people in the future.
Your comment is a mess. Most of your "criticisms" seem to follow the logic that if you haven't personally seen it before, it doesn't exist.
Introducing Neptune Suite
The evolution of Java build systems
... " and there is a way to dispute the tax assessor's value."
> Nitpick about what? Subtle about what? What are you talking about?

The clause I mentioned. I'm sorry if I was ambigious, but there were discussions in the past hovering about how the GPL still allows commercial software, and such. Yes, of course the GPL allows you to make good money, but in just about every example given, the actual bulk of the money isn't made from the software, but from the hardware the software just so happens to be running on (i.e., modems, smartphones, branded computers, mainframes, chipcards, etc).

> Under what moral code is it bad to offer alternative prices for alternative terms?

By claiming to offer Free Software™ with a very restrictive copyleft license with one hand, and expecting a 3-4 figure with the other in case you plan to use it on anything else than free software.

It's a little bit like imprisoning someone for their own safety, and expecting money if they wish to breath a little air.

I never claimed that there's anything wrong with the GPL/AGPL, but I do claim that there are cases where the GPL is a good choice, and then there are cases where it is not.
Hacker News is actually written in a similar way[0]. Here is the code to generate the lists page[1] (the code is a bit outdated):

(newsop lists ()
(longpage user (msec) nil "lists" "Lists" "lists"
(sptab
(row (link "best") "Highest voted recent links.")
(row (link "active") "Most active current discussions.")
(row (link "bestcomments") "Highest voted recent comments.")
(row (link "noobs") "Submissions from new accounts.")
(when (admin user)
(map row:link
'(optimes topips flagged killed badguys badlogins goodlogins)))
(hook 'listspage user))))

[0] https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
Guys, it's double licensed. You are describing exactly the point: they don't want companies to use this without paying. Pay, and you can redistribute it to your clients.

This is basically for-profit code from a for-profit company, with a side dish of "open source for open source projects." It's like... like Github. Like Travis-CI. Like QT.
> You're completely ignoring equity.

You're assuming equity is guaranteed.

If you buy a house at $X, and it adjusts to $X/2 because of speculation or job losses in the area, you're still paying down the $X + $Y mortgage, where $Y is interest, fees, and whatever else the bank tacks on, now or in the future, and have no way to recoup your losses. And you still have to pay property tax, based on the assessed value of your property circa pre-collapse.
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Kind of a shame none of the OEMs are picking up the API. Google really should have worked with Intel/Qualcomm/etc. to come up with something that the parts vendors were willing to support. The API really seems dead in the water as is.

It is a hard problem. When I worked at an OEM these were the same companies that were constantly making kernel source releases nearly impossible with strict licensed binary blobs for their parts, like Bluetooth modules. Not really unexpected that Google came up with an API and they ignored it.
This looks great. Is there a way to easily take it offline so I can read it on my Kindle? Also...

> If you are reading this book in a browser the previous block of code is interactive. That means you can click and change any part of the code you want to explore.

Now that's pretty damn cool!
I've seen WebMs on Imgur. When saved and opened to check the encoding some are VPx, while others are h.264 encoded in a WebM container.

I can probably find some links later. As I see no option to upload video directly I'm wondering if it requires an account, or whether it was their new(ish) GIF conversion process (IIRC some look like original videos though).
If a business is providing wifi to its customers, I regard it as reasonable that the service be paid for by showing ads to the customers, also it's reasonable that the users be expected to agree to an acceptable use policy.

That this is presently implemented as a man in the middle attack is a failing of the 802.11x protocols. the 802.11x standardization committees should have agreed on a documented, standard way for access points to do what so many had to bolt on as an afterthought anyway.
There aren't "plenty of other rental car companies out there". It's an oligopoly. There are only three:

Enterprise also owns National and Alamo.

Avis also owns Budget, Payless, and Zipcar.

Hertz also owns Dollar and Thrifty.
I cannot disagree more strongly.

Look at the technologies underpinning the internet. We badly screwed up a lot of things that are very difficult to fix in retrospect, because we didn't invest enough time and effort into foreseeing the consequences.

Nobody worried about the fact that SMTP allows people to send millions of unsolicited messages at practically zero cost until it was far too late to fix the protocol. It is entirely plausible that an RFC describing a proof-of-work scheme could have fixed the problem from the outset, but now we're stuck with Bayesian filters and black/whitelists that sort of work acceptably most of the time.

The issues we're seeing regarding surveillance and censorship could have been hugely ameliorated if our protocols were designed with greater foresight, if people like Cerf and Berners-Lee were more aware of those risks.

We look back in horror at the naive techno-utopianism of the past and the harms that resulted - tetraethyl lead, asbestos, nuclear fission, CFCs. They were all heralded as miracles of the modern age, but caused harms that we're still dealing with today. The technology industry needs to be far more circumspect about the hazards of what we do. We need less hype about changing the world, and more sleepless nights about the people we might be harming.

We need to be having big discussions right now about every aspect of technology, before we open Pandora's box. For example, the World Anti-Doping Agency already have rules prohibiting genetic doping in sport, because they know that it's a potential risk. They would rather figure out their policies now in the cold light of day, rather than in a panic when the Russian team arrive at the 2032 Olympics with a team of superhuman mutants.

AGI is a starting point for broader discussions about how society deals with increasingly powerful and ubiquitous computing technologies. Maybe it will happen, maybe it won't, but I don't think that's particularly important; What we can all agree on is that machine intelligence will only become more disruptive to society.

We need to plan now for what we would do if certain technologies come good. Driverless cars might never happen or they might be five years away, but we need to figure out what to do with the millions of Americans who drive for a living before we put them all out of work. What would be the social and ethical implications of brain-computer interfaces, of algorithmic decision-making in medicine or the criminal justice system, of ubiquitous facial recognition and tracking? How can we plan to mitigate those harms? If we don't give serious thought to those kinds of questions, then we're sleepwalking into the future.
Do you use hiccup as well as Reagent? Or must you commit to one or the other? Which do you prefer?
Memory Clean... when you can't stand having your bits set for no reason...
I wonder if you read the article at all or went straight to the comments. Your comment reminded me of the "banana" experiment that Ars Technica ran a while ago.
This is total nonsense, easily falsified by just looking at daily urban life in the modern world. The behavior you describe is completely routine in Shanghai; deaths are rare.

The Chinese appear to disagree:

Shanghai traffic police have punished 350,000 cases of pedestrian jaywalking this year.... There have been more than 200 crashes involving pedestrians that have killed 56 people as a result of ignoring traffic signals in Shanghai this year, traffic police said. (2012)[1]

and

According to Shanghai traffic police, 48 people have been killed and 206 injured in more than 200 accidents in the first 5 months of 2013, involving either jaywalking or scooters and mopeds running red lights[2]

[1] http://en.people.cn/90882/8059898.html

[2] http://www.healthandsafetyinshanghai.com/shanghai-traffic.ht...
AFAIK the Apple Watch doesn't support video of any sort, so if you want to get moving pictures on your watch the gif is the only way. Gif is about to make a comeback if anything.
Poor people are probably using public transit, not driving in the first place. Investment in public transportation would be good for them. Investment in roads (automobile infrastructure) benefits only those who can afford cars.
Yahoo Introduces 'On-Demand' Password System
The article is so ludicrously oversimplified that I didn't feel it merited the dignity of a rebuttal, but if you can find an argument that doesn't rely on the frictionless-spherical-humanoids assumptions of efficient markets, feel free to bring it up.