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by surrealize 10y ago
The bus doesn't necessarily go where I want to go, when I want to go there. Uber/Lyft do. At scale, they can do both demand-dispatching and ride-aggregation. > There is no reason a well administered city government couldn&#x2
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by surrealize 10y ago
> There is no way a transportation system that revolves around everyone getting into cabs is going to match that sort of efficiency. If _everyone_ used lyft line/uber pool, the vehicles could be larger and more efficient. Uber&#x2F
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by surrealize 10y ago
> Apple supporting Vulkan on macOS and iOS wouldn't do anything to expose a new GPU API to the web. They are totally orthogonal. The web GPU API and the lower-level API aren't "totally orthogonal" if you're using
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by surrealize 10y ago
Thanks for following up. I found the hashmap example; it was from April 2013. I think that might have predated the Entry API. The code had ~ sigils! After failing to insert in the None arm, I tried rewriting it with find_or_insert and i
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by surrealize 10y ago
The first time I wanted a NLL, I did a hash lookup, matched on the option that came back, and wanted to insert into the hash in the None match arm. Since then I think they've added convenience methods for getting or inserting. I stil
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by surrealize 10y ago
"A work in progress, consisting of a hypertext book and a metablog that comments on it." Sounds like HN to me.
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by surrealize 10y ago
Human drivers who generally do a decent job still have bad days. They still get tired and distracted. They still can't see 360 degrees around them all the time. Each new human driver also has to be trained from scratch; when we'
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by surrealize 10y ago
Argh, this should work: https://chm.tbe.taleo.net/chm03/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?... Thanks for letting me know.
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by surrealize 10y ago
There's a nice Scientific American article that reviews the literature: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-diversity-make...
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by surrealize 10y ago
Pacific Biosciences ( http://www.pacb.com/ ) | Front-end engineer | San Francisco or Menlo Park, CA | ONSITE We make a DNA sequencing instrument (you put in a biological sample and get back strings of ACTGs). We're look
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by surrealize 10y ago
There was some discussion about potentially using a SAT solver for cargo in this issue: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/2064 and graydon wrote a POC of using the Z3 solver to find a solution where s
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by surrealize 10y ago
I was wondering the same thing. Just speculating about possible mechanisms: if the different colors have different particle sizes, then they'll move at different speeds. So if you modulate the strength and duration of the charge that
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by surrealize 10y ago
I applaud the effort, but I'm skeptical that building enough additional housing is politically feasible in San Francisco. San Francisco has its head twisted the wrong way on this issue more than just about any place else. A lot of peo
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by surrealize 11y ago
Okay, can we agree that lendup helps people who repay, and doesn't help people who don't? Relative to existing payday loan services.
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by surrealize 11y ago
It looks like it's comparable for a first-time borrower, as you say, and then gets better as you build a history of repayment with them. I haven't used payday loan services myself, but from what I've read, I have an easy time
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by surrealize 11y ago
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9845301 I've been really looking forward to this, because tree style tabs are the main thing keeping me on firefox. But now it looks like in-window sidebar extens
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Chrome marks sidebar extension API issue WONTFIX(code.google.com)
4 points by surrealize 11y ago|1 comments
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by surrealize 11y ago
Donald Trump is going to save us from self-interested billionaires? This isn't a story about how the political power of billionaires is failing, it's a story about one billionaire winning against some other billionaires. The unde
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by surrealize 11y ago
Awww, they took it down. It was a pretty cool video IMO. There was a curse word in it, but I thought it was totally justified.
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by surrealize 11y ago
Also: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Flyweb
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“you just browse the world around you” – FlyWeb talk at Mozilla all hands(dropbox.com)
2 points by surrealize 11y ago|3 comments
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by surrealize 11y ago
In fengwick3's comment, "vicarious" modifies "account". Assuming "account" refers to the linked article, then it's first-hand, and not vicarious. fengwick3's (or your or my) experience of the j
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by surrealize 11y ago
Pretty sure this is a first-hand account. The author experienced the judicial system directly, as a juror. Then he wrote this first-hand account. If you told someone else about it, that would be second-hand.
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by surrealize 11y ago
I had the same thought. The article does mention pumped hydro storage though. And for that, watts (the capacity of the turbines/generators) is a relevant figure of merit just as watt-hours (the capacity of the reservoir) is. The art
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by surrealize 11y ago
True. You do have to generate hypotheses before you can use them to drive studies, though. Those statistical associations enable the detailed studies by telling them where to look.
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by surrealize 11y ago
People have taken different approaches to this in bioinformatics for numbering intervals of dna bases in chromosomes. I think this approach is catching on, though. In that realm, it's important to speak unambiguously about insertions
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by surrealize 11y ago
The recent NYT story also reminded me of this older Yegge rant, which touches on amazon: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legali... > My stress level began approaching what I might call &qu
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by surrealize 11y ago
> Last year, during all-hands, a very high ranking Executive said > My mentor, an Executive > most Amazonians and especially Executives Who capitalizes "Executive" in the middle of a sentence? A middle manager who idoliz
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by surrealize 11y ago
I don't think I did. Security is obviously not a black-and-white thing, and my words "on par" and "close" are entirely consistent with a shades-of-grey view. Nonetheless, the posterior distribution shifts based on
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by surrealize 11y ago
PDFium wins on functionality and performance; I thought pdf.js won on security but this vulnerability makes me wonder. If PDFium and pdf.js are on par (or even close) security-wise, in my view that tilts the tradeoff toward PDFium.

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