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Folks,

We are not yet in a world where cloud > local for the top 45% of Dell's most profitable customers (think big, very big). And if we ever get there, I don't think they will be looking to Dell/VM for a solution.

Those "whales" are going to want a more integrated solution, so Amazon, Google, and Msft will take their cloud services one step further--further away than Dell/VM will ever be able to take it: dedicated fiber for their largest customers. How? Any of these three can lour their existing client base as bait and cut a deal with the Verizon and ATTs of the world for bulk (dedicated) bandwidth purchases. And if they don't have enough existing clients (Azure) they can post a cash-bond guaranteeing revenues to the telecom (just like msft did with the record companies to sell music in Win8).

At any rate, when your borrowing cost is exponential, and you have no cloud business to speak of, you won't be able to take your services to that next level. I may end up eating my words here, but this is too little too late for Dell--the beginning of the end if you will.

This is not financial engineering, but rather Silverlake and EMC denying reality, or at least postponing it until they can each cash out.
I do similar:

* Chromium = google services only

* Firefox = work, normal browsing (e.g. HN)

* Firejailed firefox = useful for sites too broken in regular Firefox

Both Chromium and FF are set to destroy cookies upon session termination and block third party cookies. I use uBlock Origin in "default deny"[0] mode which blocks all third party content by default. I never sign into accounts from google, twitter, linkedin, or any other advertiser purveyor within FF.

The firejailed firefox is for such advertising purveyors and/or for sites which are cumbersome to make work properly by selective whitelisting in uBlock origin. I use firejail, rather than incognito / private browsing, so that the browser will behave exactly as if it were freshly installed when I visit these sites. Some settings (and in the case of FF, add-ons) will impact incognito/private browsing; firejail allows me to run a browser "wide open" safely.

[0] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-de...
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> Tickets between Bart and muni have no discount, so you may take muni for five minutes and lose your "85 remaining minutes of paid travel time"

Actually you get $0.50 off the cash fare if you transfer from BART to Muni, and on certain transfers (e.g. from BART to Muni 14L in Daly City) you pay nothing.
Either (as the parent comment proposes) force them to pay dividends. Or don't: in order to profit from the higher share price, investors either have to sell some of their shares (realizing their capital gains) or use them as collateral for a loan (which should be treated as a capital gains realization event).
Well, to be fair the carrying capacity of Caltrain is immense, but they are slow as hell, poor coverage area and if you want to commute from the east bay simply to mountain view via Caltrain its three hours one way!!!

So while technically you may be correct, they way they have been implemented here in the Bay Area, is, in my opinion, an utter failure.

What's worse, is we knew they were a failure from an efficiency standpoint twenty years ago.

So either we join all the agencies together and fire any schedulers they have and start from scratch. Or we find some way to do what these agencies can't.
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That's all wishful thinking but culture and internal drivers matters a ton and I'm pretty sure the focus upon nothing but b2b and just bending for customers by relentless cost-cutting innovations rather than ones that are diversified are what led to their decline. Marc Andreessen was talking about how Opsware could have been AWS and I had to laugh so hard because if Amazon had released AWS with the kind of broken, unscalable software the Opsware product was about the time HP acquired it, they'd have met with the same success as the Amazon Fire Phone.
I've never once seen this happen on my clipper card loaded with "cash value"
It's an interesting article. I haven't quite figured the difference to TD-learning, but this part in particular:

in the spirit of temporal difference
reinforcement learning, I hypothesize that certain neurons become critic neurons. The activity levels of
these neurons can be interpreted as determining, at
each moment, the brain’s critic-neurons-based expected quality of overall performance of the task given that the sensed current environment and the brain’s current state, which, in turn, is a function of what has happened in this particular execution of the task up to now. Although one need not be conscious of this expectation during performance of a task, the phenomenology of skillful behavior suggests that this information is indeed encoded within the brain and is, in fact, available to the conscious mind. A baseball out fielder seems to know only moments after a ball is hit whether it is catchable and with what difficulty and likelihood. A skilled chess player, shown an unfamiliar yet realistic chess position, can report almost instantaneously the probable outcome of the game if it were contested by skilled players

How can that be achieved without a model? I don't understand what "model-free" is supposed to mean. Even Q-learning "works by learning an action-value function that ultimately gives the expected utility of taking a given action in a given state and following the optimal policy thereafter." (Wikipedia). The expected utility depends on a set of modeling assumptions, so it can hardly be called "model-free"...
Slower than that. I used to regularly walk from IIRC chestnut and Mason to CalTrain through Chinatown at around 6pm and regularly beat the 30.
They've actually started their own public cloud claiming to directly compete with Azure and AWS: http://vcloud.vmware.com/
Actually, the CAC is being used for desktop login into Active Directory in a lot (all?) cases, so it's reasonable to assume that the CAC is already in the reader when you fire up the web browser.
Wings. One fairly recent experimental plane [1] used aeroelasticity to control a plane instead of the normal surfaces. A wing made out of a material that can flex and bend would be able to much better take advantage of this effect.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-53_Active_Aeroelastic...
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Well, if we can make up incentives then we can come up with scenarios to make anything look bad. Let's judge public equivalents:

Prisons - the US has the biggest prison population in the world. Private prisons are becoming a more lucrative business because of the failure of public prisons to manage the prison population. It's clear that public prisons already had incentive for (or no incentive against) longer sentences.

Schools - the schools have little incentive to teach kids well. Kids in the US fall further behind of their international counterparts. Perhaps public schools are already teaching at a slower rate? In any case, public schools resist tooth and nail any attempt to have them cede kids, territory, and power to private/charter schools.

Hospitals - today in America they are facing huge liabilities due to patients' inability to pay. Keeping patients as long as possible only helps the hospital if patients are actually able to pay for all that treatment, which, seeing how health care was such a hot button issue for the past six years, does not seem to be the case.

Some things, we should question whether it's in our best interests to maintain the status quo (keep them public).
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When I Google around, it seems that sites explaining what aluminum honeycomb is pretty consistently follow the pattern "Aluminum honeycomb is a [adjectives] material with [characteristics]."

I get what you're saying about trussed steel, but I think that's really just getting at the point that categorical distinctions are rarely cut-and-dry.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10372465
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People who watch BBC Sherlock should be familiarized with it :)
i see now that you meant the career: Mathematics; and i am glad you are happier now

my concern was that if you ever found happiness in research that you dropped that happiness assuming the career and research were the same

what happened to all the open thoughts you developed in your area of interest?
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Since I have family that lives in Zambia and my daughter was there for three months this is scary. Mosquito born diseases kill more people than any other animal on earth. about 600,000 a year.

http://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/Most-Lethal-Animal-Mosquito...

This could go MUCH MUCH higher.
Do you have a youth pass? I get the discount every time. It reads out right on the screen when I tag onto a Muni bus or streetcar.
This type of tax plan will incentivize wealth aggregation in corporations, while increasing the cost of employees and goods/services.

You want companies to spend, to increase economic cash flow and generate jobs, which is why existing corporate taxes are on net income, not revenue or costs.
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I'm less interested in who is using so much water, than what it's being used for. That rate is around 1.37 litres per second, continuously.
Its not necessarily true that 1 person will SPEND less than 100 people.
I agree that all forms of motorized transport are heavily subsidized. We're already subsidizing the highways, gas, lack of pricing of externalities such as air pollution, etc. Given all that, why should taxpayers further subsidize the vehicle itself and the operator, instead of letting Google pay for all of that?
But those ARMs may be used in infrastructure that is never exposed to customers.
Your business model is not my moral obligation.
So I am definitely making a development-centered critique. Partly that's because most of my experience is in development, and I have very little experience in high volume product or DTC. However, I also think that the software problem is a whole lot wider than design, and that the state of software for hardware companies as a whole (including logistics!) is abysmal.

Distribution of physical product to stores is something unique to consumer goods, and for physical hardware I think that landscape is currently experiencing a great deal of change. Even ignoring marketplaces like Amazon, we're starting to see the emergence of distribution / fulfillment as a service, and the burden of entry into the online retail market is much lower. Many very successful hardware startups have gone in this direction first, only arriving at brick-and-mortar retail stores once the company is large enough and established enough to spare the resources to keep that up.

Logistics and supply chain management are basically managed by software at this point, but because there's no effective integration between software (even packages that have the integration botch it) means that it's actually in some ways made into a harder problem because the data is stored in 10 "convenient" places rather than a single unconvenient place.

The fast followers / competitors problem is, I think, actually a bigger problem for the software industry than the hardware industry, with the exception of offshoring. If you offshore, particularly to China, and don't have a very good relationship with the factor(ies) you're working with, this is a very real risk, if the entirety of the widget is being produced by that one factory. With more complex widgets, this risk is substantially mitigated. In general I'd say this is more a function of the quality and uniqueness of the product coupled with your execution on it than something inherent to hardware. This is not, however, a problem that good hardware software will solve. The ability to rapidly develop things will actually make this worse. I don't have a problem with that! Execution is everything, even in entrenched industries, and Davids have always managed to topple Goliaths.

Regulation is also, in my mind, being held up by software. There's certainly a component that's out of your control - once you fire off the paperwork, you just sit and wait - but there's a lot you can do to smooth the approval process on your own end, and a lot of that has to do with proper design documentation, which is once again suffering from terrible software.

I'm not trying to say that having better software for hardware will fix everything. It certainly won't. But, I do think it is the single greatest limiting factor by far in hardware production. I would estimate it consumed 80% of my productivity or more. It's an astounding timesuck.
Exactly.

Tech stock in general are underrated it's the SV investments that are overrated.

If the problem you are trying to solve is big enough and you have an idea on how to solve it then back of the napkin drawing ARE enough to get you funding with the right people.

But when everyone is running around and trying to invest yet another social, location aware travel and transportation unicorn to get rich and famous instead of investing in actual problems that need solutions but perhaps more years then we are left with a media backed startup reality show.
Just went through the whole application process with my daughter. It was horrible. It's a mess. It's sinister in the way it affected our family.

Pursuing a university degree should start with an exploration of:
- "What am I good at, really?"
- "What do I love, really?"
- "What matters to me, really?"

But what we saw all through high school was simply:
- "What can I do today that will improve my chances of getting into Harvard?"

Humans are prone to wanting the wrong things, and especially so when misperceptions lead us to believe they are the right things. I don't know how to ultimately fix the college-chasing-helicopter-parenting-test-prepping-personality-skewing of today's admissions process, but I've started by reinforcing to my younger daughter that what matters is her, not the the university she goes to.
Yes, it does. There are percentages shown relating how many would (if the shuttle service was gone): drive alone, carpool, move, get a closer job, take public transportation... Granted it is self reported but whatever.
Cambodia is highlighted here, but what isn't mentioned is that is specificially the border region of Thailand and Cambodia. I find that specifically worrying given the amount of travel that Thailand gets from around the world.

I remember reading a story a couple years ago of Thais crossing the border into Cambodia where artemisinin was cheap and unregulated, but I can't find it.
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Look up "Introduction to Algorithms: A Creative Approach" by Manber and "Algorithm Design Manual" by Skiena.

The former has the best exercises (borderline mathematical), but is lightest on implementation. The latter has the best introductory pedagogy and has implementation code, but is not what I would use if I want to grok algorithms deeply.

People keep recommending Cormen. He's the book you get AFTER you understand algorithms. Cormen reads more like a reference manual. Cormen can substitute in for Skiena in a pinch. Skiena sounds like the one you want most of all though.
It could also be fixed by not having any such boundaries whatsoever.
Umm why? For the most part a professor is a talking text book that stands in front of the class. You can go download charismatic people with fancy approaches to the material online. However, I don't think this really makes much of a difference (choosing the right curriculum does though).

The one place I've seen professors have real impact is in their ability to both answer innovative and novel questions and convey a sense of excitement and interest in a subject. While these only affect a small fraction of any given class they are the important value add and they are what someone who is personally passionate about the field and deeply knowledgeable about it brings to the table.

Worse, what seems like "good teaching" can often reflect a counterproductive attitude to the subject.

Everyone I know who has become a mathematician has done so DESPITE (not because) of their pre-college teachers (some have had the good fortune to run into one or two exceptions but still struggled past teachers who attempted to ruin the subject). These teachers were chosen entirely for their teaching ability but to no avail since without the perspective of a research career they weren't teaching people how to duplicate a computer algebra system instead of understanding the math. Focusing on accurate symbol manipulation and memorization is in active tension with understanding but is an easier rote to solving the kind of problems you can ask on AP tests.

College students are big boys and girls. They can read the damn textbook if needed. I spent an entire semester at caltech (my most productive one) without attending a single class (I had my friends turn in my homework in section). However, having professors available who could accurately convey (through course content, discussion and even research projects) what a discipline was about was invaluable.

Let's give up the charade people and let professors play videos of better speakers in lecture but lend their expertise to answering questions and talking to students.
Cost cutting by laying off employees only goes so far. In the case of HP (Which was once a great company) the rot extends all the way to the top. It's going to take more than just layoffs to fix HP.

I predict that there will be more layoffs at HP in the future, then a merger with another company (IBM?). The storage segment of the computer industry is shrinking.
You have to think about that in the past building a company was actually much much harder in every respect.

You didn't just build and app or used aws. You had to spend a lot of money on getting things set up.

And if the problems where genuine enough then I think it's fair to say that this happened much more often. But I don't have any data to back it up only my own experience.
I still pursue them for fun occasionally, and my papers (very minor, and never properly published) are cited or used even more occasionally. That's fine with me, as I've been able to do much more in my new field.
The bug has been marked as WontFix by the V8 team: https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=3354. It looks like they are considering fixing it for TurboFan and not for Crankshaft, but I'm not sure what that means. Does that only apply to asm.js code?
It would be really funny to hire a bunch of Julian Assange impersonators to hang out in front of the embassy.
It's pretty easy to find reasonable multiples on your assumptions. It's London and they might not be average policemen: salary x2 ; Overtime/nighttime: x2, Administrative overhead (they must spend time reporting, at the precinct, ...): x2 ; Multiple policemen (1 would not be enough to act): x3-x5 ; Management of those officers & briefings: x2-x3 ; That's already ~x100 and it's human costs only.
yes this looks interesting. It seems quite difficult to capture all the relevant terms in order to extract the holy formula within the boundaries of the twitter stuff. but if you can predict the election within a confidence bound of up to 7.43% I would say you have done a tremendous job and lives can be saved.
I would investigate the country club and the municipality itself, with the expectation that they are using it to water grass.
Even if the aircraft were noticed, which country would be responsible for upholding the international accords?

...and more importantly, what could they do if they noticed? It's not like you can "pull over" a plane in the air and suspend the pilot's license immediately, unlike with someone on the road.
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This came to my attention while reading the essays collected in Tony Judt's book The Memory Chalet (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/feb/10/tony-ju...). From the review:

"Physically unable to write [because of ALS], but with a mind as sharp and active as ever, [Judt] plotted the twenty-five short essays that compose this book in his head, while he was alone at night, using a mnemonic device taken from accounts of the early modern “memory palace,” whereby elements of a narrative are associated with points in a visually remembered space; but instead of a palace, he used a small Swiss chalet that he had once stayed in on vacation as a boy, and that he could picture vividly and in detail. He was then able to dictate these feuilletons the next day from the resulting structure."
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There are entire industries with thin margins (e.g. grocery, airline, blue collar services) that would be destroyed if you forced them to pay the same dividends as others.

Why are you fixating on share price? Now how are you going to tax LLC, LLP, etc.? Privately traded corps that don't have a market price?
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Ah, that would make sense. I already had some knowledge of general computing "culture" before learning Erlang, so I did not stall much on the broader concepts. Erlang is more heterodox, so it's likely the ideas could be an initial obstacle.
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We do use ElasticSearch.
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This is disturbing; the journalist is advocating the outing/doxxing of a private citizen who is breaking no laws whatsoever (at least as far as I can tell from the story). In the internet bully culture we have, that's incredibly irresponsible.

If there's something wrong with an individual using so much water (and there may very well be), then the right response is to change the laws, regulations, or rates to charge more or even to prohibit said water use; not to shame an individual who is acting legally within the system.
Less taxes == more money in our pockets.
Facebook higher taxed == FB Ads more expensive == Higher product prices for the consumers

Taxes are always as result paid by the consumers/employees, never by "businesses".

Money saved by Facebook corresponds to money saved in our pockets.
Atlanta's situation is actually pretty interesting. Most of the water loss is caused by bad infrastructure (leaky pipes and sewers), and they have massively pissed off pretty much everyone in three states.

The city was/is using up a very significant portion of the Chattahoochee and its reserves and tributaries, causing severe issues downstream for Florida, Georgia and Alabama communities. They also injected sewage into the water, causing silting issues. Additionally, faced with shortages, the GA state legislature proposed to run a water pipeline from the other side of the state, essentially stealing more water from other GA sources further east (Savannah area, iirc).

Last I was paying attention, GA state legislature had filed a request to take more water out of the Chattahoochee, over objections from Alabama. Went to a Federal judge, who pointed out that Atlanta's use of water from Lake Lenier was actually illegal, in excess of the original authorizations put in place when it was constructed by the Army Corps of Engineers. Oops.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Lanier

Go look up the "Tri-state water wars", pretty crazy stuff.
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