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"Liimatta tried to convince Google to install connections in community buildings, to power a cheap WiFi service in low-income areas. The company refused, saying it violated its terms of service. “It’s our biggest disappointment. We would have loved to have taken Google Fiber to the worst places, where it could have really made a difference.”
Your comment that San Diego, Orange County and LA should not have to pay for infrastructure work in San Francisco presupposes that the Bay Area is contributing less to state taxes then it's receiving. I'm interested to understand stats on geographic collection/distribution of taxes in CA, and how you know the Bay Area is a net beneficiary. I'd venture that the national trend of wealthy cities paying more state/federal taxes then they receive applies within CA.

Also, suggesting that state taxes should not be unevenly distributed among the state misses the point of state taxes. It's fine to argue where the funds should best be used, but not that a county should only get the proportion it contributed. Why not just have local governments be the primary collectors/distributors of taxes then?

BTW, I love southern CA and think you're awesome :)
Ah, thanks for the update
Yes, sorry I meant Apple in general rather than Mac. They have become a juggernaut, financially and culturally.

The Mac itself, though, has become more aspirational in society in general. It doesn't have the market penetration because Apple prices itself out of the the lower end of the market, not because its OS, hardware (hello one button mouse) or software range is sneered at, which used to be the case.
Not really accurate, their mobile/ Samsung solution is not windows.
It says that Firefox 28 was just released which means it's from early 2014.
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Wow, the only dubious of those choices would be the rocket. The rest of them are great for learning your body, and act responsible. I really blows me mind that a trampoline is seen as a dangerous thing - I'd say a pool is worse. The trampoline is a endless source of fun for children, and I've yet to even hear of someone getting anything worse than a sprained angle from one.
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Peninsula voters are somewhat allergic to inbound public transportation from the East Bay for whatever reason.
I agree. Many people (30% apparently) prefer text messages over voice calls. I don't see 360° VR video being convenient or worth the bother for casual communication.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/22/tech/mobile/americans-prefer-t...
Neil deGrasse Tyson is obviously an amazing person. He was also born into a nurturing, educated, well off household. He received a credential costing a fortune from an elite university which served as his entrance ticket into the professional world. Poverty and elitism are what prevent there from being more like him.
There are, however, a lot of churches. :)
Do LCDs have the high voltage death risk that CRT TVs had?
Eh. I can't say precisely what was wrong, but the Torchlight games didn't quite hit the mark for me. Some details I can put my finger on, though, include:

- The plot was, to put it bluntly, some of the most generic fantasy glop imaginable. The second game was particularly bad in this respect.

- Item generation felt... off, somehow. Some combination of too many item bases and too uniform a distribution of affixes made items generally feel kind of boring.

I personally found Path of Exile to be significantly better. Your mileage may vary.
That was part of the point, doing anything in Romania is going to be drastically cheaper, because wages are so much lower. That includes putting fiber into the ground.

If Romania's capital costs were $35-$40, and Google's are $100, the Romania cost is high by a significant margin if you adjust for the economies being so different.
Depending on what you mean by "Big Data", you may as well say "good luck treating any kind of Big Data without some kind of distributed system".
This is worth more than you'd think. The multiplayer demo I tried at PAX 2014 had me and a friend sitting maybe three feet from each other, and generic blank avatars in-game, but seeing him nod and nodding back myself was a hugely intimate experience. It's tough to describe, a purely emotional experience.
Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9137515
Just like every NIMBY. People like you have complained about this in the same way in SF since the 1900s. They've never been right.

Just conservative and regressive selfish fools with no ability to look at the bigger picture to help their fellow man (and themselves)
> he criticizes all of machine learning as simply unprincipled revival of nonparametric curve estimation

He's right. 'Machine learning' is just statistics with better, cleaner names for things. The underlying theory is the same.

(The commenter below says that 'statistics explains, ML predicts', but this isn't really true. Both statistics and ML build models, whether you use these models for prediction or explanation is up to you.)

One problem is that the 'statistics' as usually taught in a college course or explained in a textbook comes from a much earlier age, before supercomputers were available to the average man; in essence, it's like a kind of machine learning as done by paper-and-pencil. In contrast, 'ML' assumes from the start that computing resources will be available.
There need to be no one true consensus. I lecture children being violent towards others, or destroying things, or running in next to the swimming pool. Other people have a different limit. The point is that children learn that there is a world outside their home with a different ruleset.

Most of the time the parent are embarrassed they didn't react first, but only rarely do they throw a hissy fit.
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Sigh. Look how sideways technology moves.
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Isn't the right to be forgotten something, that esp. relates to search engines? They (esp. Google) have to delete the links to this content, but the content can stay on the web forever.

So this isn't per se a problem. But what happens, when I act as a "mirror" in this net and have mirrored some questionable content (who ever might define questionable is up to anybody to imagine). Will I get a shake down from the authorities, as oftentimes happened with people having tor exit nodes?

I fear that the clash would come rather sooner then later, as a lot of people do have a lot of incentives for a centralized web (money, politics, control, power).
The funny thing is I love Test cricket and I love T20 - but have no time for One Dayers. Even though it was created first, it just strikes me as being the worst of both worlds.
I have a feeling that everything involving strings in R is a major headache.

Case in point:

- stringsAsFactors is True by default, leading to all kinds of weird silent behaviors

- length('string') being 1, since that's silently a vector of length 1 (~ length(c('string')) ). Have to use nchar() or str_length()

But, analyzing strings is pretty cool - stringdist() or levenshteinDist() are great!
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It really depends on the child. If there's one thing I've learned from inheriting two toddler-aged stepchildren, it's that all kids are developmentally unique, even siblings.
> maybe the category "conspiracy theory" isn't so useful?

Maybe not. The defining aspect of silly theories isn't just that they involve conspiracies.

However many silly theories do wind up involving conspiracies, because assuming the existence of a conspiracy is the easiest way to explain away any differences between your theory and observable reality.

Think that President Obama comes from Mars? Well why is there a birth certificate that says he was born in Hawaii? Easy: someone faked it. Why didn't the records office notice it was faked? They were in on it. Why hasn't one of the President's medical examinations shown up his Martian physiology? The doctor is also in on the conspiracy. Why didn't anyone notice his spaceship landing? They did, the government covered it up. And so forth. There's practically no fact you can't explain away by asserting a giant conspiracy between all the people who tell us this fact.

Ridiculous conspiracy theories can usually be distinguished from vaguely sensible ones by looking at whether the asserted conspiracy would actually be a sensible way for the purported actors to achieve their goals. Ridiculous people claim that George W Bush plotted 9/11 as a way to achieve... something, but always some goal that could have been achieved in a much easier and less risky way.

On the other hand, the idea that the CIA would build a giant ship to raise a Russian submarine while pretending it's for some other purpose? That's actually a sensible way for them to achieve an actual goal.
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Maybe. But my first thought was the opposite, i.e. does the government _not_ want Facebook to provide free Internet for some reason?
Palmer did not make oculus from scratch. He took what was already there and used better optics and some nice mobile screens. Carmack was largely responsible for much of his success by helping show him its potential. He was rounded out by Iribe who provided leadership.

Palmer was more innovative, sure, but Zuck showed much more leadership and vision. Sort of like woz versus jobs.

As for changing the world, I think that might be a stretch at this point.
I think the ways we are using the phrase 'economically efficient' are different, and that's where much of the disagreement lies. In fact I'd reject the notion of the existence of a universal objective welfare function. If you include the welfare of slaves in your calculation certainly I'd agree that the system is inefficient; but since when has any slave owner done that?

It's actually an extremely uncommon (nonexistent) left wing view that welfare is maximized with some people enslaved. Literally nobody believes that and I certainly hope for your sake that you don't believe anyone believes that and are just trying to be incendiary. It is a very common view among most people (since it's the truth) that the welfare of /certain people/ is maximized with /certain other people/ enslaved. And then we can conclude if the first group has economic power and is subject to no regulation and act according to maximizing their economic welfare, they will implement it.

The contention is that your position, that businesses should refuse to operate in countries which regulate rights into existence since these rights have costs which hurt the bottom line of the business, if adopted leads directly and immediately to slavery. Slavery is unquestionably disgusting and reprehensible, so therefore your position, which leads to an unacceptable result, cannot be accepted.

So I'm suggesting that the /subjective/ welfare of people in a position to own slaves (wealthy business owners) is maximized under slavery. And from that I conclude the maximization of the welfare of wealthy business owners -- the natural result of unfettered capitalism -- is something to be categorically rejected. So we need fetters.
I don't think that's a tragedy of the commons. There's no rational self-interest in people who would rather walk past human misery every day than put a extra couple of dollars towards alleviating it. As you say, proper, civilized mental health funding could go a long way towards fixing this problem; even just funding for public restrooms with full-time attendants would help; but we can't get it. It's hard to put that down to anything other than self-absorbed callousness.
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Some quick points on DDD/CQRS/Event sourcing from my perspective. I've been involved in a project and have a number of concerns:

Firstly, the main drivers of this i.e. Greg Young/Udi Dahan/Particular are trying to sell a product and consultancy. While there is nothing wrong with this, there is a significant cost and the motivation to use this architecture is marketing driven rather than logical gains. Make sure it is appropriate for your organisation. 95% of organisations it probably isn't. It wasn't for ours but overzealous architecture proponents bought the marketing.

The cognitive load is immense compared to a smaller system architecture. Every change results in masses of friction, cost and time. Your agility will be destroyed pretty quickly. Also due to the cross-cutting concerns, there is no escape from it other than to port everything away.

The products to support it are generally immature, low quality and opinionated to the point that it's impossible to integrate cleanly on anything but a greenfield. Expect friction.

There are better gains to be had from changing your architecture to a purely service model (I hate the term, but microservices) and skip the whole concept.

However if there's one thing I have learned that Command-Query Separation is a good model for isolation. The Event Sourcing bit, not so much.
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Previous:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9726182

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9980264
That's a slightly differnet scenario, as the disgnostics don't actaully "fix" anything, although you can use disgnostics software to adjust settings like ride height, injector settings etc. There really was no extra work involved by the manufacturers in the link you provided, they had all the information well documented and just refused to publish it.

There is a downside to diagnostics tools being freely available, you can clear any fault codes before you sell the car to an unsuspecting buyer, this will prevent the dash warning lights appearing until the sensor registers the fault again, which could be under particular driving conditions. Of course, this is little different from the normal 'buying a used car' pitfalls.

ON the other hand, I saved literally thousands of dollars by diagnosing my air-suspension fault myself, and then carrying out the work required based on that fault code. Pretty sure the dealership don't want me doing that, but then maybe they shouldn't charge a high hourly rate for a 5-10 minute process of attaching a cable and looking at the screen?
OK, as apparently .js is the defacto thing to build cool sites, I for one will be left out here.

On sites not known to me, I typically block most (read all) .js at first, just to make sure that these sites do not leak too much information about me to external tracking tools, advertisers or the like.

So using .js seems to me a bit problematic in regards of people not enabling it by default (but this is an absolut minority, if I look at the stats of the sites I analyze).
Fortran also gives you the option to define any starting index, when you declare an array. (Even negative.)

But it's true, indexing from 1 is common, or idiomatic, in Fortran.
Doing either of those things is very hard.

I am wary of those who want to "change the world". Change the world for the better, or the worse? What makes you smart enough to be sure you'll be doing the former and not the latter?
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9196868.
By that standard, both Zuse and Turing built terrible computers.
Sorry, hadn't read your comment, before stating the same. Hat tip to you.
the mixed-age classroom phenomenon is very common in Montessori schools. My son has gone from being the classroom baby (he started just after his third birthday, mid-year, due to the way special ed services are handled) to being the big kid (5 years old, with an extra half-year of school experience compared to others his age) who knows everything.

Montessori schools also really emphasize kids teaching each other. Since my son is kind of a math whiz [0] he gets to spend a lot of time showing other kids math concepts, while some of the more socially adept kids guide him through social situations.

There are some kids who don't do well in that environment, but it's great for a lot of young kids.

[0] he can coherently explain Graham's Number, knows pi to 206 places last I checked, and has started exploring limits
Yup, decimal point fail on my part! Hmm, $2K isn't so much a no brainer, but it would still be fun.
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It's actually 14$/mo. with VAT in Romania for 1000mbps. I'm not sure if Akamai's state of the Internet also takes into account mobile connections, because those would certainly drop the average speed down.

Edit: the speed itself is also not limited to just inside the country, although ISPs in Europe use public peerings a lot more than those in the US.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/4647615600.png
http://www.speedtest.net/result/4647608031.png
If it were anyone other than your relative, I would tell you "A consulting company has two meaningful assets: existing relationships with employees capable of doing the work and existing relationships with clients capable of paying for the work. 100% of the company's assets exist in your back pocket. This suggests that your BATNA to not receiving an equitable amount of the company is, approximately, that you set up shop down the road and very quickly that shop is everything that this now-hollowed-out-husk once was, except with a cap table which reflects reality. You may not realize this, but this is one of the oldest stories in consulting."

Given that it's your relative, I'd weight "Hmm I probably don't want to damage relationship with X" against the economic reality that X is exploiting you while adding no value to the business. How you decide to act on that weighing is up to you. If it were me, I'd probably tell X "It's been fun working with you for the last two years. I'm looking for a new adventure. See you at the next family reunion!"
What's wrong with 3d rendered avatars? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zP0E2atshw
I assume that's recess, in addition to lunch.
I worked with the US navy for years, and while I suspect this was taped so they could prove the Soviet sailors were treated with respect, I have no doubt they would have treated the dead honorably in any case. That's the way sailors (particularly military) think, because they know they themselves could be under a flag tomorrow. They don't operate under the same day-to-day assumptions the rest of us do.
I hated naptime when I was at preschool, I could never get to sleep.

Although it's possible I'm just misremembering, and I got to sleep just fine most of the time and only remember the times I lay awake thinking about how I hated naptime.
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Some of the leading neuroscience is showing that what you conceive as the sense of self is something created by the brain. It does not exist the way you think it does.

That's not the illusion I was talking about though. It's one thing to read about that, but it's quite another to directly experience this. Like @kordless said, this is a repeatable process where you can see this for yourself. (And there's a great book written by a neuroscientist who also practices mindful meditation, and wrote about these two perspectives).

This is also not limited to the Buddhist tradition, though the sutrayana Buddhist teaches this as the primary thing and speaks the loudest about it. (There are ... realms, let's just say, beyond no-self and emptiness).
Even so, the rarity of a card is simply a measurement of how many of that type of card are produced. There are not, for instance, some uncommon or rare cards printed with different text or statistics from the common version of the same base card. (The idea is intriguing, though!)
It is not a very good argument to call SF seismically active and then compare it to Tokyo. Tokyo sits where three active fault lines converge. Having lived in each for a year, you can expect to experience more activity in two weeks in Tokyo than a year in SF.

Also, claiming that most of Tokyos subway is above ground is incorrect. The subways, Tokyo metro and Toei, are nearly entirely underground within the city center. This is hundreds of stations. Yamanote line is part of an entirely different set of trains for longer distance transit.
So, diaspora*?

https://diasporafoundation.org/

Unfortunately it never really caught on.
The title irks me a little: you already have the right to repair, provided you have enough knowledge. What the author demands is documentation.

I would love more documentation, like anyone, but you don't really need any documentation to replace a broken capacitor (a very common failure for most screens, I guess): you need to know how to spot a broken capacitor, find a replacement, and basic soldering skills. There are tons of videos that teach that, but few people really want to research that (generally because they are afraid of electronics, or think they are not smart enough).

On the other end, some issues can't be fixed at all, because repairing is so close to the full price of the device. Some examples that happened to me: inflating smartphone battery that damages the motherboard, damaged screen due to shock (wide vertical band of dead pixels).

Between that, there are probably a lot of small problems that are specific to a particular model. It would be great that those ones are documented, indeed.

Some other basic things, like replacing a smartphone/laptop battery and screens would be very welcome on the manufacturer website, but like capacitors, you should be able to find tutorials for a lot of devices.

The truth is, to repair things, you need mostly knowledge to identify problems and labor time to fix things. Both of which is what makes it expensive.
Some LCD displays are backlit by CCFL lamps, which require HVAC. But the voltage is lower than CRTs need, and there's less current too. There's no HV for LED-backlit displays.
It has mains power in it.
230v in my country which is fairly lethal.

But as i see it we already have the right to fix or own stuff.
I mean the warranty will be voided... which i my mind seams fair.
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Ah yes from the cross sections it seems much more viable that they dug the first layer, build the sides, then dug a slightly smaller hole, and so on.
Dk2 really needs a beefy computer. My concern about cv1 is that people will cheap out on computers or run the wrong games and blame oculus for motion sickness.

Ovr might want to restrict what apps can be run on what computers. Their mobile version has this benefit. Carmack had real vision leading the charge on their Samsung partnership.
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Somewhere they've got an exposed AC plug, and there's likely some decently large capacitors nearby. Overall much safer - CRT Tubes themselves had a very high capacitance, and required much more capacitance on the outside to regulate voltage, but I imagine there's still several places you could poke on a modern LCD that would kill you.
Looking at UPC they're charging about $15 for 500mbps, and RCS RDS is charging about $14 (as you noted) for 1gbps - those are about $90 adjusted to US incomes. Google Fiber in Kansas City is $70, which seems very fair to me, given Romania is renowned for inexpensive very high speed access.
We've been thinking about this problem for quite some time. My friends and I are passionate about re-decentralizing the web. The biggest challenge we've come across is this:

Many users want to do things with other users

That means there has to be a way to persist state and history (of a group activity, an evolving resource, etc.) across machines. Mental poker is still very hard to do for groups. Since most clients will not have amazing uptime, that means you still need a network of servers. Servers that manage security behind a firewall.

So, the conclusion is -- for group writable data, the best you can do is have servers be completely interchangeable, but you will still need servers and networks of servers.

The good news is, many of the challenges are orthogonal to each other. Someone's building a Mesh network, for instance. Someone else is building the protocol layer with IPFS. We're building the social layer for this coming web.