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> Does your install script identify whether or not the user made any changes to the config file your previous installer script placed in /etc 9 months ago, and give them options (including viewing a diff and an interactive shell while installation is paused) about how to handle it if they did make changes, and use the new one if they just used the default? I doubt it somehow.

It doesn't overwrite anything because the file is intended to be modified. Problem solved.

> How do you build the binaries that your special install script installs then? My point is that package building tools generally leverage an existing makefile that you would already have.

I don't write C, I usually write python (interpreter already installed), Go (static binary) or sh (interpreter already installed). These never use makefiles, so I'd have to script a new one for this. And then there's dealing with all the different tools to generate the different kind of packages.

> Given that my software targets Linux servers, I actually imagine they're more likely to install from my packages (or an archive on a weird unsupported distro) than from your home-grown install script.

I was comparing the install script with providing a .tar.gz file with some files in it. Obviously people would prefer for packages for their obscure system, but alas, they don't exist.
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I loved the model since as a Developer who gots a Laptop and only gets the most necessary tools (which are paid) and IntelliJ isn't necessary cause of other Options.

I need to buy it for my self (i own the laptop). And know I can afford JetBrains since I can pay monthly, which I couldn't.

Thanks JetBrains, And thanks for the offline option :)

P.S.: I love this one:
> If you’re paying on a monthly basis, the software will > need to perform checks to validate the license using
> JetBrains Account. If it cannot connect to the Internet
> for MORE THAN 30 days, it will show you a message and
> provide a grace time for connection.

I hope you don't make more checks and 30 days Offline is enough for me :)
You could sell it now, and couch the sale in terms of having an unaffected, EPA compliant, car. If depreciation is your primary concern, then you can sell now and buy something with lower potential depreciation.
> It probably costs a lot more than $250,000 to develop a laptop from scratch (...)

Novena[1] had a total budget of ~750k$. It was done from scratch, with some nonstandard (and somewhat expensive) components (e.g. an fpga; it had a software defined radio included too, though it was a mostly-off-the-shelf-one).

[1] https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena
Your entire thesis flies in the face of the 95%+ customer satisfaction ratings Apple carries for essentially all of the devices they sell. People aren't getting fleeced. They buy Apple products because Apple products repeatedly and consistently satisfy them.
> Is it really "ridiculous" to not use endangered tropical woods

Let's say that I buy an antique desk. I might have an endangered tropical hardwood, but it was cut LONG before the law even existed!

Or what if I buy reclaimed teak from an old steamship deck and turn that into a lovely couch. It was harvested 150 years ago, perhaps even before the US civil war. But I wouldn't be able to certify, would I? How is that reasonable?

The point isn't that it's crazy to expect people to behave like good citizens, it's that there are a ton of corner cases that the requirements don't address because they were written as "feel good" not as "this is actually good"
You have to enable it using -fopenmp

http://blog.llvm.org/2015/05/openmp-support_22.html

http://clang-omp.github.io/
Yes, as such there is nothing to adopt. It is already there.

What I am in favor is Microsoft pushing C aside.

C++ provides safer constructs and if one wants to keep on doing unsafe C style coding, it is still there.
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Without divulging problematic details about the industry I work in, let me say that government incentives in the US are not much better. In the industry I work in, the government can step in and crown winners and losers with various grants and subsidies. These grants and subsidies are so lucrative in fact, that many businessmen in this space are really not entrepreneurs so much as expert lobbyists.

The net result for society is actually much worse than just free market competition, because the companies that just focus on product can actually end up worse off than the companies with third-rate products that focused on making friends with politicians and bureaucrats.

And yet the industry is addicted to these subsidies and contracts. Its the only way of doing business that they are familiar with. They can't imagine the same industry without the government's involvement. As a result, I think the American industry is about to have an existential crisis when competitors from abroad arrive on these shores with new products that are actually built for novel markets, and not for a bureaucratic selection committee.
In the case of some hard disks, the "write to flash" signal is in band, so you'd need some kind of active SATA firewall.

See http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=6
I'm curious how much of the accuracy gains come from only having to run the decoder when the LSTM emits a phoneme rather than for each 10 ms frame, which presumably allows the language model search to be much more aggressive.
Alternatively, nationalise the company with no redress to the shareholders. They lose all their money, the company keeps on running so the jobs are kept (until the business shuts down or is sold at least), and customers aren't left without support. If the penalty for failing to ensure the company you invested in is losing your investment then perhaps shareholders would police their investments better.
Your argument as presented seems to conflate the right to access information and the ability to access information. (Not that you're necessarily doing this, but the way you've written it doesn't seem to distinguish.)

For example, under the law I have the right to go to the Moon. But I don't have the ability. Having the right doesn't compel anyone to create that ability for me.

Back to the issue at hand, I believe the government should have the right to access any information relevant to a criminal investigation, if they have a warrant for it. But I don't think they should be able to compel the ability. At best they should be able to compel that people don't interfere, but the actual ability to access the material is up to them. So while I don't think I fall into that category of person you describe as "believe that they should have an absolute power to exclude the government," I also think that given the current state of technology, that power does exist.

I'm not really worried about backdoors. They look to me to be so ridiculous that it won't even be possible to attempt to mandate them. Even if they are mandated, how will that be enforced? The genie is far out of the bottle on this.
Ya I can totally see this side also. As a non-legal person, it seems harder to argue:

I expected 99x and 89y, but I got 120x and 70y

vs

You lied and spewed toxins all over the environment

as the first case requires some kind of weighting. Like if a pair of shoes advertises weighing 12 ounces, but they made a silent upgrade to only weight 11 ounces.. 99.9% of people are happy for that. The .1% of people who use shoes for boat anchors are not happy.
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I don't get it. Most of the remedies listed sound exactly like those sold every day by proponents of homeopathy and alternative medicines.
Boiron, which has a stable presence in the USA, has thousands of employees and revenues in the hundreds of millions, selling stuff like "Oscillococcinum", which is plain sugar, at a price of around $1000/kg.
Have they been condemned for fraud and false advertising?
> Thankfully the C++ committee is changing that with C++17.

Which C++17 feature are you referring to? Modules?
I worked for thredup.com when it was brand-new and we used Rails when it was still fairly new and we had a pretty good time all things considered. You just have to be a capable programmer. ;)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10239008
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That's going to happen no matter what. All you can really do is design them to be big and sturdy enough to last roughly as long as the road system. It doesn't make sense to try and severely outlive the roads that they cross.
They might want to try these approach:

1. They should convince company with $$$ such as Google, FB, Apple to build this for building between their campus buildings.

Those company has $ and regulation issues might be might a lot smaller compare to convincing a city like SF to do it.

Might be easier to sell because of the "cool factor".

Those companies can easily convince City of Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Cupertino to let them do it.

2. If #1 works, those companies can build routes between the public transit hub, large shopping malls to company.
Help ease the parking/commute issues.

3. Convince Disney Land, World to do this for the "cool factor".

4. All Major convention centers, sport stadium to build routes to major shopping mall/large parking structures nearby.
The author of comment 3 there was a manager, if I recall correctly. Which I may not. It's been a while.
I have a hard time believing those terms of conditions meets the inquiry notice requirements and would stand up in court against anonymous internet users.

I view a website and someone says I owe them my first born, does not make it so.
I loved the anecdote starting on page 41 where he accidentally "memorializes" his Facebook profile thus triggering an email to his wife about his death.
For what it is worth, the local code from Chrome extensions is easily available on your computer for browsing. On windows they are located in the "C:\Users\<ACCOUNT NAME>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions" folder. The extension folders are named with the ID of the extension, so it may take some trial and error to find the right folder or you can dig into the developer mode of Chrome to find the ID for a specific extension . The extensions themselves are just javascript and potentially HTML. You still won't be able to see any server side code, but it should at least tell you if anything you think is important is being saved or sent elsewhere.
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As a shareholder, how are you supposed to police for this kind of situation? The shareholders were lied to as well.
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>They just aren't written in hipster languages and they don't force you to compile every fucking thing you want to use on every fucking machine every fucking time you install it.

What? Homebrew has done binaries by default for ages now.
I have distaste for the anti-intellectual behavior/ideology underlying the NYT/Salon articles, and which is also visible in this comment thread. Doubly so since it's so dominant in our culture and since it is being used as a rhetorical weapon against tech.

The implication for society (assuming these findings generalize) is that most likely, we cannot solve statistical disparities via unbiased processes - we can have fair treatment of individuals or statistically representative distribution of spoils, but not both. As noted above, I'm very individualistic, so I favor fair treatment of individual humans.

Appeals to authority and accomplishments aside, I don't need to have written such systems to understand, infer, and conclude things about aspects of their behavior. My point is this: something created by humans cannot be, by definition, inhuman.

I don't know what you mean by "inhuman". It sounds like you mean the term to be "never tainted by the ephemeral emanations of humanity". I merely mean "inhuman" as "thought processes so radically different that intuitions about a human mind are completely useless".

Concretely, do you believe a random forest can somehow infer that the variable x[27] represents gender, and that to make it's sexist creator happy it should reduce the objective function in order to screw some women over? If you look at the internals of sklearn, that's just not what random forests do.

Two methodologies, the "human approach" and the "ML approach", might have radically different steps but come to the same conclusions. It would appear from your comments that you are OK with these conclusions ("An unbiased methodology produced these results, therefore, it's OK!"). Are you morally satisfied by the conclusions discussed above? Do the results of "such systems" influence your satisfaction?

I don't know what you mean by "morally satisfied". A fact about the world is either true or false. In computer science terms, I believe "morally satisfied" has type `satisfied: HumanAction -> Boolean`. Your question consists of applying `satisfied` to a value of type `WorldState` - it's a type error. In human terms, your question doesn't make sense.

In terms of my own individual happiness (as distinguished from moral satisfaction), this fact reduces my happiness. Because I believe many of these facts to be true, I'm forced to either lie about my beliefs (which causes me disutility) or suffer social opprobrium from anti-intellectual types and lazy thinkers influenced by them.
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It's just too far ahead of its time. You need to be able to do this without building special infrastructure for the pods, which is an enormous risky up-front investment for something that is, frankly, almost certain to fail. Times will change and the infrastructure can't change with it. And you can't roll the system out a little bit and get a little bit of the benefits; it's useless until you fully cover a significant set of use cases.

By contrast, if the pods were self-driving cars on the roads that already exist, the economics change completely. No special infrastructure. Can easily roll out on a small scale for small benefits. Can easily ramp up. Massively smaller initial outlay. System can grow and pay for itself as it goes.
No, a band-saw has a kerf, an amount of material that it destroys in the process of cutting. You don't want that.

What you want is more of a slicing action, like a knife.

I would imagine that it was done with a very big, very precise guillotine style cutting implement.
Yeah, the difference between Facebook and Instagram or Twitter is incremental. They basically do the same stuff, Facebook does a little bit more (although, they entirely removed direct messages). Why is the Facebook app so huge?
You misunderstood what they said then.

(With the new plan) If I purchase a 1 year subscription, then I get a perpetual license for the version AT THE TIME OF PURCHASE. Any upgrades I get during the year go away if I don't subscribe for more time.

Here is a link to help you understand: https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/204784622
I've been thinking about this a lot and think there's a few things to think about.

First, the reason we haven't seen these is because until very recently the tech needed to make them cheap wasn't there.

Second, the technology seems to be caught a classic "worse is better" situation. The actual PRT tech is clearly superior to buses and LRTs, but those are well understood and there's a simple evolutionary path (car, bus, bus lane, lrt, lrt lane, subway). PRTs require a leap of thinking from people and governments don't have any incentives or mandate to take such risks.

Third, PRTs tracks may be hard to connect to a true network where pods seamlessly switch between tracks.

Finally, the self driving car could very well kill this in its tracks, but no form of transport can deliver speed or consistency without a dedicated right of way, be that suspended track, tunnel, marked lane etc.
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What's crazy is that WhatApp has 4 Android engineers and 1 billion downloads.
I hear a lot that a car loses 10-50% of its value the moment it leaves the dealership, but I am somehow skeptical. If it is true I would love to buy a new used car right outside of, hell, even 50 miles after the dealership at half the price.

I think the truth is that it is so rare for a car to be sold at 0 miles that we don't really have a price point on it. It is effectively an illiquid good, so the pricing is just a meaningless number, because no one would sell their car at this fictitious price. Like how no one will bought 37 Signals for 100 billion dollars. [1]

[1] https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1941-press-release-37signals-...
Since when is JavaScript (V8) slow?

Is it 2006? :)
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I don't know about RPM, but for deb you can just do "dpkg-deb --control <deb file>" to see those scripts.
Here is my highly opinionated 2 cents.

Don't choose Elixir/Erlang just for the language. There are plenty of functional languages to choose from.

Choose them for what OTP provides. I doubt there is any language framework with as mature an operational framework as what Erlang/OTP provides.

For a startup it might feel like an extreme case of premature optimization but if you can make the technical investment you might reduce technical debt down the line.

I think Elixir in particular allows you to still get an MVP out the door with all the bells and whistles of OTP waiting silently in the background if your startup ever reaches the volumes to justify it.

BTW, I just attended a FANTASTIC 2 day (FREE) workshop conducted by Norberto Ortigoza (twitter: @hiphoox) at the HackerDojo that gave an overview of Elixir/Erlang/Phoenix and OTP. Thanks Hackers/Founders, Norberto and HackderDojo for arranging the training.
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xterm's STDOUT isn't hooked up to the terminal window it shows. For a demonstration, start one xterm, then start another from the first. Send something to STDOUT of the second xterm and it'll appear on the first.
I think the only option with real value is #4. The WVU pods are really nice for ferrying students allll the way from their dorms and apartments to the enormous football stadium. A place like Morgantown, WV, is pretty much using every square foot of land it can, so parking is out of the question. But let's face it, getting to ANY stadium on game day sucks when you're sharing the experience with tens of thousands of people.

Only problem is that it's a very specific use case and is likely only to have seasonal ridership. And any example that can be used to show why something can be built is one backfire away from being a reason not to do so.
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This is true! This reasoning was explored in an excellent paper by Blaes et al. in 2002 [1]. (Incidentally, one of the authors on this paper has the wonderful name Aristotle Socrates.)

Due to a very interesting dynamical phenomenon called the Kozai-Lidov mechanism, if the orbit of the third body is at high inclination relative to the inner two, it can drive the inner orbit to very high eccentricities and cause them to merge much more quickly. So even though you would form triples fairly frequently, the third body would cause the other to rapidly merge, so you would typically expect only to see binaries.

On a more shameless note, I also explored this in one of my first papers [2].

[1]: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002ApJ...578..775B
[2]: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014MNRAS.439.1079A
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And the vehicles in question -- the ones that are causing VW these issues -- do not have any urea injection system. That's the whole point.

http://ask.cars.com/2012/11/why-do-some-volkswagen-diesels-u...

VW claimed to have a trick that removed the need for it on their smaller, lighter cars. But that trick was a trick that only allowed them to pass EPA tests.
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Or they could just modularize into frameworks and use Carthage?

But, whatever, rewrite Xcode I guess.
People in cities need something similar. It would be hugely beneficial to have a bustling business district lined up on the left and right side of urban freeway crossings.
The storage problems are exacerbated for the newer phones, largely because the cameras keep taking higher resolution pictures.
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There are plenty of long-term stable three-body systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_star_system

Only 3-body systems nicknamed "Trapezia" systems are unstable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_star_system#Trapezia

Regarding the article itself: it's a nice simulation, probably correct, but the data barely supports the theory. Data is so noisy (and from different instruments) - they didn't even bother showing a periodicity spectrum. Feynman would call this bad science:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v525/n7569/full/nature1...
That doesn't work... every point in an exponential curve is the "elbow." That's its defining characteristic, actually.
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Note that this is what Hyundai did in the US a few years ago when they were found to have overstated their efficiency numbers. They simply reimburse you the difference in fuel costs, plus a little extra as their way of saying "sorry" or something like that.

https://hyundaimpginfo.com/customerinfo/compensation-informa...
Even then, that's not retroactive. It's your conversations that are privileged, not you. Removing you as the person's attorney doesn't make the conversations you had as their attorney not subject to privilege.
I'm surprised ULTra wasn't mentioned:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ULTra_(rapid_transit)
Depends on the documents and how many there are.

On your typical 50-100MB web-appy page (e.g. gmail) a couple MB is a few percent.

On about:blank, which is normally a few hundred KB, a couple MB is several thousand percent.

So if a page has lots of subframes and those subframes don't have much in them, you get large wins. The canonical things that have lots of subframes are techcrunch and the like, which have "like" buttons for several different social networks and whatnot all over them. Each of those "like" buttons is a separate iframe. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=988266#c7 has some relevant numbers for techcrunch; the difference there was 300MB vs 520MB or so (which means that the page has about 100 iframes, of course).
The problem with self-driving cars as a cure-all is the Jevon's Paradox: if the costs of auto transport are knocked down, then everyone will use them at the slightest whim, especially when tired or drunk. People can live 2+ hours away from work and it won't be a problem when they can work or sleep in their car.

I'm not saying this will happen but I do fear that mobile homes will make a comeback as people live permanently on the road in cars they don't have to drive or pay property taxes for, all while taking up 2-3x the space of a regular car.
Hmm, I wonder what it would be like to fall into a black hole rotating at light speed then? In addition to the spaghetti effect, would it be a whorled spaghetti effect? What would it be like to fall in from the top versus the equator or another latitude? I wonder what the singularity at the center would be like besides just a hoop. Can you make the singular hoop (english sure is strange here) process if there is another large black hole nearby?

Man, I need more or less coffee, I can't tell which though.