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A lot of China's tributary system was money / resources flowing from the center to the outlying areas, to keep them favorable / quell unrest / keep the center stable. China is very geographically islanded (depending on the dynasty, the fee to keep disarray at bay depending on the territory occupied; the many 'great walls' over the centuries basically land-grabs coupled with payments for compliance).

But this article is about Ford. Ford is an extremely low-key brand in China. GM is the biggest US brand, but there are far more VWs, Audis and BMWs than GM. Also more BYDs, who despite a reputation for poor material quality are making big pushes in buses, conventional hybrid and electric, and other public transport. BYD will be the name to look out for over the next 15 years.
Seems like a good a time as any to break out my favorite anti-MBA story.

I took a Masters CS class some time ago, and for our final class project, not knowing anyone else in the class, I got lumped in the "leftover" group with a working engineer and a Wharton MBA student. We meet up the day before the project is due to integrate each of our individual pieces together into a final submission and the MBA candidate shows up empty handed. Turns out he had spent his time trying to "schmooze" the answers/code out of the professor and the TA, who, to their credit, had stood firm. Guess who spent that entire night writing that dolt's portion of the project from scratch.
I was expecting to see a "(1999)" in this headline.
Multispectral imaging can identify weeds and separate different types of plants.[1] Humans have only 3 color sensors, but there's no reason you can't have far more. Some birds have 21. It's easy and cheap to do, although you need a camera with a special per-pixel filter instead of the usual RGB filter.

[1] http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1614/WT-07-104.1?journalCod...
Zenbook or Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000

Go through a 4000 every year or so, but they are cheap.
Disclaimer: I work at Google on Kubernetes.

I put that disclaimer at the top of all my posts, but this one truly is HIGHLY biased.

The absolute easiest way to do what you describe is to use GKE (Google's hosted Kubernetes). For $0.15/hr, we'll manage everything for you, and you can build out teeny tiny clusters that do everything you need. It's even free for clusters <5 nodes. Start it up, use a sample app from this directory (https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/tree/master/example...) and you're done.
I view Stack Overflow as a good resource to overcome technology/language/framework specific common pain points, to get you "unstuck".

I don't think posting your homework/work project and hoping someone on the internet will complete it for you is the intended use of Stack Overflow. The people allegedly using Stack Overflow instead of learning CS fundamentals will last long in the industry. (Who are these people?)
I agree with your general sentiment, but I feel like your examples are wrong. Uber has fundamentally reshaped how we view and consume transportation. With the addition of self-driving cars, it has the potential to utterly reshape logistics. Square has completely modernized the dinosaur POS business. As someone who works with a lot of small businesses, I can tell you that Square has really impacted their lives for the better. AirBnB, while I like a lot as a consumer for opening up a whole new genre of places I can stay and feel at home, has admittedly started to devolve into managing a bunch of unzoned hotels. LTCM while insanely leveraged was actually arbitraging an anomaly in Tbills. It was a great business run quite well, right until the Russian gov't defaulted and sent shockwaves through the bond market. That kind of high sigma event is pretty hard to forsee.
The "sphere" has more than the usual three dimensions, so the "surface" is really our four dimensional space/time.

From the point of view of any observer in our universe, space/time accelerates away equally in all directions - just like a grid on a ball that's inflating spreads out over time.

But the grid has more than two dimensions.

You may be wondering what's "inside" the "sphere." Whatever is there can't be reached from the universe, no matter which direction you travel in. It's literally in a different dimension.

But that's almost completely meaningless as a statement. No one has any idea how the "sphere" really works.

In our universe we can take it for granted that space/time defines a system for measuring shapes and distances.

Outside of the "surface" of the universe, there's no way to know how shapes or distances work, or whether there even needs to be something on the "inside" - it's possible the "sphere" only exists as a mathematical template, because it's the only way space/time can hang together, and it's some kind of weird emergent thing that has to happen. (Insert further idle speculation here.)

This is all really, really hard to imagine. Brains evolved for swinging through trees can't visualise it without math. Brains with math are still very much struggling with it.
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this article is bad. chomsky and his ilk have always acknowledged the wide variety of linguistic behavior; that's the whole point. universal grammar is the parameters to be set (what sounds have meaning? what word order is used? etc). learning a language is the setting of those parameters.

humans may have linguistic "knowledge" that they're born with, they may not... but this article is beside the point.
Humans are too slow. If this can be done at all, it can be done far faster than a human can do it.
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Disclaimer: I work at Google on Kubernetes.

I should mention Kubernetes is 100% open source, runs on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Digital Ocean, Vagrant, bare metal, VMWare, Rackspace and lots more I'm probably forgetting. Then you can pick the cloud you like, and lock-in be gone.
They hired him:

https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015 (https://archive.is/NU6PZ)

I'm surprised you could pull cheap bullying like that and get hired anywhere afterwards, it's pretty much a tell you'd stir up drama somewhere else.
And you're right; these are totally two separate things (cross-dressing, for example, is not much of an indicator as to whether someone is transgender or not.)

Now, that said, kids should be free to wear whatever the hell they want, but nobody should take what they wear as an indicator as to what gender they would be more comfortable as.
I'm much more interested in the company that brings us self-driving cars (or flying cars) than the glorified taxi company that leverages them. Call me a dreamer. I'll probably die broke and penniless though.

Also, comedic if you think that LTCM was well run. They were sniffing their own flatulence and getting high on their own supply. They employed two Nobel laureates and based their model on those laureates....whose work ended up being completely flawed. How many people use Black-Scholes today? Zip (if they have a clue). You really should read "When Genius Failed" if you think they ran a good business.
The HVDC line between the mainland and Mallorca is used to send power to the Balearic Islands (the big ones being Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza). There's already a Mallorca-Menorca line, and they plan on building one to Ibiza.
Ubuntu - for getting things done.
Arch - to satisfy the desire for bleeding edge
Jesus. I got over a clinical depression which lasted half a decade... I can't begin to describe how offensively stupid this idea is. To get over the dark days, you need to solve yourself, emerge victorious over your inner demon. The solution is not "to do stuff". The solution is to get a grip.
Supervised disambiguation? Isn't the entire reason word2vec is exciting because it's unsupervised?
Waste reduction isn't the same thing as value creation.

Even focusing on the waste reduction, whether walking decreases a person's health costs or their climate impact depends a lot on the person. I've seen reasonable claims that a person fueled with beef is, from an ecological perspective, better off driving than walking in that beef production causes more ecological damage. And the mentioned Africans already walking a few miles per day certainly won't see an increased health benefit from merely tracking that, and still probably wouldn't if they decided to walk more.

But even if they were on average reducing societal waste, that's extremely hard to monetize. If you'd really like to pay people to walk more, you're welcome to start with me! But even if you were game, I suspect the supply of individually contributed walking-incentive dollars is way lower than the demand.
As long as technology continues to be profitable and money exists, there will be someone lending money and analyzing businesses. I don't, as a rule, hate MBAs. There is certainly a level of skill involved in deep analysis, but I tend to agree that in SV at least, deeply technical people will be more valuable.
Disclaimer: I work at Google on Kubernetes.

This is a really good point - I've said it before and I'll say it again - containers neither add to (nor subtract) from whatever you're doing today. If you have a single VM and no shared storage, you're exactly as vulnerable as if you were doing things in a container. And, in the majority of cases, the exact same techniques you'd use in a VM work in a container or Kubernetes too.
Why did you write his code for him? You should've just told the instructors he didn't pull his weight, I think. With what happened, he ended up with a successful group without doing any work, which is a great outcome for him.
There are such scripts for Skyrim and the older games. You can do that ingame, if you have access to the scripting engine.
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My first thought as well. I imagine a good portion of them focused on getting through a work day with nothing to do.
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Disclaimer: I work at Google on Kubernetes.

We do care enormously about stateful solutions; I'll say what I've said elsewhere - how do you handle stateful services in your VMs?
If the good guys can get to it, the bad guys can also get to it.
How can some plugin reach million of installs but only few comments left?

What can install/comment ratio tell us?
Fair point, but the company bringing us self-driving cars started off as a glorified search company selling ads on the side. Maybe we should give these companies some time to mature, build a recurring cash base, and replow that back into cool R&D.
I'd suggest to you that incremental improvement is generally more important than revolutionary improvement, even if it's distinctly less sexy.
It's pretty ridiculous that actual problems are "out of scope".
My earliest memory was when I was about 2 years old, so it's not surprising that this could be true. Yes, it could be the case that the mother's retelling of the story is now the basis for Tom's "memory", but why abandon the entire article over such a trivial point?
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I never understood how things got so low or why people make a big thing out of these things. The person making the pull request, who was later hired by the 18F, was doing this to show how virtuous he was.

Yet, it showed a huge ignorance and ethnocentrism to the fact that other contributors on the project speak english as a second language. One of the developers being criticized first language is a gendered language [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_gender

This would make me a bit afraid to seek employment at 18F. It leaves me the impression you could be picked on or mobbed for completely innocent things.
Hmm... what about the damage done to all the folks between when this was first released and now? Or what about the damage done to folks who don't know that their particular ransomware infection is based on this?

Oh... and now that he's published what the exploits are he's provided a simple path to correcting them (use a better random number generator, don't use a static salt, don't send the data over http, don't use the same IV).

And he's provided a tool for breaking Hidden Tear... that's great except it's a visual studio solution. Not like my grandma can easily sort through that and figure out how to run it. No harm no foul?

All in all it seems like a lot of bullshit.
This is great, and I am very happy he also makes it very clear that anyone suffering depression (or any other mental health issue) should see a professional.

The stigma associated with getting professional mental health help can't go away fast enough.
Mailing lists and IRC are still in good shape. I don't know about hardcore cypherpunks, but Hackerspaces tend to use both.

It's not that they're not a good way to interact, it's more that the clients didn't follow with the times and didn't get all flashy and streamlined. You can use mailing lists fine even from GMail (as I do, still haven't figured out how to make it work with Emacs), but it's not so convenient as Basecamp. You can use IRC in pretty much whatever, but it's not as flashy as Slack.

It used to be that you could find mailing groups and even IRC in the internal networks of companies. But sadly, there are now SaaS products targeting those, and companies are switching because get one piece of infrastructure less to maintain. Also, I think Skype and similar is what really killed IRC at work. Companies use a lot of voice communications - what used to be phone teleconferences is now VOIP - and since everyone has to have a VOIP app installed, it's easier to just use its internal group chat for communication.
It seems very odd to have any notion of real gender issues until you've at least gone through puberty and have actually developed the sexual characteristics of your biological sex.

I'm admittedly skeptical about a 9 year old being trans.
This is very strange.

The original URL: http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevemorgan/2015/11/21/apples-ce...

changed to: http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/11/22/jessica-jo...

without any reason.
Agreed...

...and when I think about where the 'talent' is in the financial world, it's on the technical side and all of those people are still there.
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Don't downplay the social innovation of Uber though- it's created a worldwide transportation service run completely by a group of ordinary drivers, who need simply a car and a smartphone.
I"m not sure this is completely related, but every time I think about Chomsky and language and universal grammar, this comes to mind and still leaves me baffled and amazed. This is a short 5 minute video on whistling Turkish. In a village in Turkey, they uphold the tradition of communication by whistling phonemes. It is a direct mapping of Turkish to Whistling Turkish, where every phoneme in Turkish has a whistling equivalent. The difference is it uses pitch changes as phonemes. It blows my mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQf38Ybo1IY
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That's OK. It just doesn't belong in Silicon Valley. Ship it out to XYZ Valley/Alley/Prairie.

I'm also a fan of punctuated equilibrium and cladogenesis as opposed to evolution over millenia. But maybe that's just me.
Extensive discussion 5 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9818310
it is very important for single page application. In such application we need detect this from framework routing entry.
With this we can prioritize healing items and auto use them when on low health!
No, or at least not in the traditional sense. SGX is strictly CPL 3, i.e. user mode. You could plausibly stick a unikernel inside.
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California is completely out of water. I really doubt that many people are foolish enough to mover there by choice.
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Remember what? If you mean memories when people were that young, trust me, you'd be surprised about human memory.

I still remember my 3.5-year-old self trying to type some simple first grade calculations with MS Word 97 and print them. And I didn't knew English back then.
Ever heard of BoosterBuddy? It's is a free app designed to help teens and young adults improve their mental health.

While I can't comment on the efficacy of using apps for mental health, the idea is currently being done by the Vancouver Island Health Authority, here in British Columbia. The development was done through engaging with youth and health professionals.

While this isn't targeted at adults, something similar may work!
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strace is very powerful, but probably not the tool I would jump to at first to solve this mystery. Instead, just go to the source code. Being able to read, interpret, understand, and, eventually, modify other peoples' code is a foundational skill both for industry and open source work. Reading code is often harder than writing code, too, so it's a worthwhile outlet for your natural curiosity, too. (For this particular mystery, you also could have tried Git's own tracing via setting GIT_TRACE=1 in your environment; many tools, especially ones that work over a network, offer some kind of debugging or tracing).

I tend to keep a copy of glibc, Python, coreutils, openssl, and binutils laying around for random grep'ing. I also sometimes keep other more specific tools and libraries laying around, depending on what I'm working on. And, of course, whatever code you use at your place of work.

If you want to have some fun, strace strace to see how it works. Or strace lsof, or ps, or df, or other tools that inspect the state of your system.
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There's literally more than one XKCD strip relevant to this topic!

https://xkcd.com/725/

https://xkcd.com/1108/
Because I'm a stubborn ass who'd rather suffer a freeloader than hand in an incomplete assignment. In hindsight, I guess I should have finished the project and explained the division of labor.
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You are not the author. Psychology is as unique as a fingerprint, and what works for you does not necessarily work for someone else. Your solution of "get a grip" is broad stroked and insensitive to the nuances of psychology, motivation and coping.
> I'm surprised more of these businesses don't exist.

They tend to be small, and only wrap a single aspect of the AWS service.

My simple site wraps Route53, allowing you to maintain and change DNS via git-pushes, chances are you've not heard of it because the number of users it suits is pretty small - https://dns-api.com/
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Have you visited their website? Right on the main page is a link to their projects, "Learn more about what we're building and how we're doing it.". Links to https://18f.gsa.gov/dashboard/ with over a couple dozen different government projects they're involved with.
My wife and I have three children and live in a 1150 ft^2 2 bedroom apartment in downtown Atlanta. It's certainly a little cramped by suburban American standards, but is table stakes in Europe and elsewhere in the world.

It's the same way we all lived in my native USSR, though the apartments there tended to be larger and more rationally subdivided into lots of little rooms (so, an apartment with three rooms with closing doors, plus effectively a fourth room in the form of a kitchen, plus a foyer hallway, was a commonplace thing). My biggest annoyance with American apartment floor plans is the intense compulsion to imitate houses -- a door straight into a large combined living room and kitchen area. I'd gladly trade that for more compartmentalised rooms, and a layout that doesn't require someone entering the apartment to walk through space where someone else is hanging out.
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LTCM's main money strategies were fixed income arbitrage based on the difference between on the run and off the run Tbills as well as Merger Arbitrage. Black-Scholes model was not involved in their investing in a significant amount. Business was good until they were too successful (funds copying strategy thus diminishing returns and their capital base grew 8 fold thus harder to deploy capital). Eventually though it was the Russian debt crisis that blew them up, not mismanagement.
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Your Web App sounds interesting. Though I wonder if it is just helping to manage the symptons rather than addressing the source of the depression. Procrastination may be a sympton and not the cause of depression.
Unfortunately, for many people mental illness and depression is a result of very real chemical imbalances in the brain. Also, for other people letting go of a toxic relationship or unhappy marriage miraculously cures depression.
If it gets really bad they might have to desalinate which will cost... $3 per thousand gallons. Oh, the horror.
Yeah, the "start-up" label is subject to cargo-culting.
Well, the honest answer is that it does apply to everybody whose main income is not investment or anybody who must remain employed in order to survive. We live in relative luxury and privilege, but many of us certainly might not work for their current company or as many hours as they do if they had the freedom not to.
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> Uber has fundamentally reshaped how we view and consume transportation.

I live in a European capital. I have been calling cabs by SMS to address for 15 years now. I write starting address, end point and receive in sms the number of the cab and in how many minutes it will be at my door.

Can you point the fundamental difference with Uber?
Wouldn't that be, kind of the other way around?

It spreading uncontrollably would be it being language cancer?

What it would be for it to be language cancer would be for it to spread uncontrollably?

It seems sort of like a definitional thing, rather than a cause and effect thing, or even logical implication?

They seem like different words that mean the same thing, I.e. synonyms.

To say that it is one because it is the other is like to say that blue is blue because it is blue.

Which, is true in a sense, I suppose, but seems a little odd.
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Interesting stuff, anyone know if there are other startups in China doing products that require large amounts of RnD, similar to http://traintracks.io , that's mentioned in the article.
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Incidentally, flexlm/port 27000 used to be how a variety of apps were licensed. Much pain was had when the license manager would occasionally go out to lunch.
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