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My company Treemetrics has been challenging the forest industry for method used for measuring forests. They use the average tree size as the method for valuing a standing forest. From our data we see forests with thousands of trees where only a handful of average trees actually exist. Very helpful article for me to explain the flaw of averages.
If there are any left
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In all jurisdictions that I'm familiar with you can, but of course since you're already talking to a lawyer it would be best to open the discussion with that question if you are unsure.
The real issue is: why do hotels cost so much?

It's just a normal room, so renting an hotel room for 30 days should cost as much as the rent of an N room apartment shared with N people, but somehow costs can be 3-10 times more.

For instance, typical prices can be 300$ for renting a cheap shared apartment room for a month while the cheapest hotel rooms costs 50$, while they should instead cost 300/30 = 10$.

That's why people use AirBnB and share apartments with roommates for more long term stays, otherwise everyone would just live in hotel rooms, which would be far more efficient and reasonable.

I suspect the problem might be government regulation.
There's a lot of variations on "it's better to have loved", and this is one of them.
You're more likely to regret not doing something than doing it with good intent and sound reason.
It has some opcodes implemented, but at a quick glance I found no signs of any memory management and no way to actually execute opcodes.
So, you're against autonomous driving vehicles too?
Great for you. But for Uber to wilfully decide to attack certain laws they decided were unjust was a conscious decision and in some places that caused real trouble for drivers and others. Of course if you are aware of all that and you still decide to go through with it then that's ok with me.

But there are other laws than just the taxi medallion ones (which are locally quite varied) and those other laws for the most part are better left unbroken. In other words, for every rule there are exceptions, better be aware of when you feel that you are entering that exceptional territory and better be in the possession of very deep pockets in order to deal with the resulting fall-out.

For the vast majority of start-ups it would be a very bad decision to go and break laws willy nilly without understanding fully what the consequences could be.
Yeah I don't know why it is not introduced more. But here are some references from 2 years ago when it was released:

https://mvogt.wordpress.com/2014/04/04/apt-1-0/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/04/msg00013.html

And the HN post I made because the previous comment got so many upvotes that I thought lots of people didn't know about it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11229406
When times are tough getting out of bed in the morning is hard.

Having lived the tough experience the best advice I can add is don't do anything you will be embarrassed about looking back 10 years later.
You are looking for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivariate_normal_distributi...
lol, actually i am too afraid to give my company email, because of spamming thing, so i always use this this email. I gets 500+ spam/useless emails daily. Btw we have 100+ web site, 50+ apps and games, but i still prefer gmail. Let me know your concern.
According to the article the person that said that was then repeatedly asked if they really meant it and they said they did with reference to their prior utterance.

Later they back-pedaled on the statement (presumably because of the fall-out) but at the moment of the original statement they were very much aware of what they were saying and the context seems to be accurate.
Didn't mention the thing that tripped me my first time in the uk: don't tip bar tenders.
> Red Hat world domination agenda has been hurting non-enterprise Linux users

How come? I'm a non-enterprise Linux user and I don't recall ever being hurt by anything RedHat did?
Nice hustling!
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They're kind of like smart land mines, we'll kill people when you're not around except this time we promise we'll try to only kill bad guys, pinky promise.
The Daleks are not machines; there is a living thing inside of the shell.
lol, i would have given you bank details, but i dont have permission to. sorry.
Commute time is my reading time. I truly enjoy it!
But there's no shareholder value in acknowledging externalities, so most professional CEOs appointed by a board won't challenge immoral acts if it would contradict their mantra to "increase shareholder value".

As a recently arrived member of the "C-suite", I find that the cult of maximising shareholder value leaves me cold. But ultimately, the shareholders pay the piper, so they can call the tune.
You haven't read the original paper, don't even understand the methodology they used to reach their conclusions and yet you "can't help but feel this research makes pretty poor use of statistics and logic"?

It seems something is bad here, but I don't think it's the nutritional research. If you can't be bothered to actually read the paper, why do you think you're able to critique it?
Think winforms(not XAML) and all of the stuff that Microsoft IDEs provide out of the box. The one thing they got right was GUI builders. Pity they had to ruin it with XAML.
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...and we've already had an instance of autonomous killing machine gone wild. - http://www.wired.com/2007/10/robot-cannon-ki/
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Yay! —yet another 'Dear John' letter to a piece of software. The originality is strong in this one!
> All food is healthy.

Except for the food with cyanide in it.
Yes it is certainly true that it hard to fire anyone when you are pretending to be looking to expand - nothing breaks the spell that all the hard work is just a consequence of not being able to hire like firing a member of the team.
I am working on a language with goals similar to this which is much farther along though still not quite ready for practical use. For example, there it does not currently have a C API. It is written in Rust so it shouldn't be to difficult to provide once I feel it is usable.

https://github.com/Marwes/embed_lang
And judged by three year olds.
I'd love to read more advice like this, especially about how the execs can be effective leaders and lead an organisation to a good culture. I have worked my way to a point where I can now call myself a Chief Something Or Rather, and I'm terrified that the Peter Principle is in play. While I am undertaking some training on governance and finance (which is really aimed at board of directors rather than newbie executives), it's overly formal and doesn't cover the implicit leadership challenges.
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Like apples
Sounds like Wing Attack Plan R. How could that go wrong?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8qCkVklFWE&feature=youtu.be...

It's Dr Strangelove all over again. (Dr Strangelove was about a crazy general who launched a nuclear attack, using a provision that he was able to do so on losing contact with Washington)
Hopefully driverless lorries wont overtake each other on dual-carriage ways.
Everything above echoed, with the important addition that I feel I can share this article with all of my non-techy friends and family and feel they will step away with a much better understanding of the Apple discussions.

I still see unease with some of my friends and family about the topic, and although perhaps some of them have realized the ultimate question of should the cockpit or the cabin control things, I don't think they have a good understanding of why that is, or how this phone security compares to other things that are called "security," whether a door lock or the airport security line.

Very vivid writing that explains this for everyone. And I dig this type of humor.
Yes, that's the functional diff and test cases. It compiles and runs. None of the subsequent commits to Classic fix bugs in that code. It was solid from the get-go.

In the comment you linked to, Greg Maxwell is trying mightily to paint a rosy picture of SegWit while disparaging a block size increase. As the diffs show, his assertions on the complexity of these changes are simply incorrect.

> Code committed less than a month ago can hardly be called "ready today". In what sense is classic readier than segwit?

When it comes to reliability, time since commit doesn't matter nearly as much as testing, code reviews, and the complexity of the change. There are several senses in which Classic is more ready than SegWit. The Classic switchover has been run on testnets without issue. In contrast, SegWit's testnet had forks as recently as a few days ago. Thousands of people are running Classic in production right now, including companies like Coinbase. SegWit won't be production-ready for months.
> Never again will you have to hunt through your tabs to pause your music, or stop listening to your favourite song because Chrome is guzzling up all your RAM..

> Dev Requirements

> Node.js (Recommend 4.2.x)

Yeah, right....
Ah perfect, thanks.

This whole thread has been a huge boon to me, very glad for all the input.
>The Amazon Fire OS 5 Bellini will come with the latest tablets from Amazon and will be available for older tablets via an over the air update in the coming months
I always sign my real name, or sometimes a smiley face drawing when I am using other people's credit cards (with their permission!) No cashier has called me on it yet.
> When does a 'desktop app' become a 'bastardised web'

When it is a chrome over a gigantic web view instead of properly making use of native UI widgets.

> iTunes, the Mac app store

Both good examples on how not to do it, specially on Windows.
Most of the AirBnB "guests" people have issue with are immediately followed by other AirBnB "guests". Repeat. Repeat. Your once quiet apartment building is now a hotel with a stream of "guests" who treat it as disposable instead of as a home.
Very good Reddit discussion on this article: https://www.reddit.com/r/mit/comments/458xli/feature_a_strug...

I suppose one good piece of news is that it's now possible to fire people working for MIT (this wasn't particularly true prior to the end of the Cold War, about the time I left the community as a result of leaving the Boston area).
Or -- if you think everybody is the same -- then you aren't looking hard enough!
I tested compiling SATD() with gcc-4.8.2 and gcc-5.2.0 with -O3, and they do not "optimize" SATD() into an infinite loop. That some version between 4.7 and 4.8 did actually do it was well publicized, and is also documented in bug report 53073; this bug report was resolved as "INVALID", yet somehow a change was introduced before 4.8 was released that results in compiling SPEC as intended. If you want to know which patch achieved that, you can bisect the commits.

The gcc maintainer who justified that change to me is Andrew Haley. He may not be working on SCEV, whatever that is, but, unlike you, he admits to this change that has provably happened.
Is there any argument against autonomous guns, other than that they might go wild and cause a lot of unexpected deaths?

We shouldn't mind them sometimes making mistakes and killing innocent people because human soldiers already do that often enough. Perhaps the robots will be slightly more accurate than humans, and that's surely good for everybody except their enemies.

Maybe the real question we should be asking is why humans are allowed to kill people? When two countries fight each other, soldiers on both sides somehow decide it's OK to kill the other. They can't both be right, so in any war, thousands of flesh and bones killing machines (all soldiers on the "wrong" side) effectively go wild and try to kill lots of inappropriate people. That shows that human decision making is extremely poor, and can even unanimously agree on the same lethal wrong decision.
IRC and email are federated systems, they have always been that way. The nature of the federation is different, email systems talk to each other, IRC systems don't. The issue with bitcoin is purely that it solves a problem no-one has, we don't need cryptographic gold. Consensus changes happen to DNS and email all the time, because they solve actual problems and have been made flexible enough to handle change.

The task is not to make a magic free-floating decentralised system, but one which is resistant to getting central points lopped off or controlled. For that look at bittorrent, or even DNS. Whenever the US government has flexed it's muscle, trying to assert control over DNS, other countries have threatened to make their own DNS root and the US has backed down. Anyone can run a DNS root, but that alone doesn't fix the problem, it takes people actually using that fact to prevent centralisation. Bitcoin is stuck in a place where the vast majority of users have to agree to a change before change can be made.
You could say the same about people. I'm not sure why we treat machines differently. If we can build robots that can discriminate people we're okay with killing ("enemies") from innocents about as well as human soldiers, where is the problem? I don't think we currently can do that, but that might change in the future.
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Long term rental apartments are removed from the long term rental market and turned into illegal short-term rentals on AirBnB. Owners/renters that do this often have several such properties. This is often done in areas with no shortage of hotel rooms because they can be rented at a lower cost (no tax, no requirement to follow regulations, no inspections, no conformity to hotel fire code, etc). So the long term rental market sees a decrease in available units due to some being illegally sublet as short term rentals. This exacerbates long term rental prices in areas where there is already a shortage of units.
>The real issue is: why do hotels cost so much?

Do you see AirBnb lobbying to eliminate hotel taxes?
Bad news for advertisers who want to use a zillion targeting factors -- and yet somehow not be disappointed by the minuscule audience that results ...
>There seems to be much more organization from the anit-AirBnB side than the pro-AirBnB side

Kidding, right?

http://observer.com/2014/07/hiding-in-plain-sight-what-airbn...
>As the diffs show, his assertions on the complexity of these changes are simply incorrect.

The comment was before those commits were made, so it may have been correct at the time of posting.
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You can relatively easily add credit cards to Apple Pay that don't belong to you.
Id say go back to the SaaS that freed up your time. What makes you money and what you are passionate about can be orthogonal. No shame in that.
The point of my posting was that you don't need "optimizations" to optimize away redundant bounds checks, optimization* is able to do it just fine. Sorry if I did not get that across clearly. What does your "No, it would not" refer to?
You can also take into account that it is much harder to blackmail or threaten a computer with a gun.
I have turned down jobs before because they were no in cycling distance. Do others just take anything anywhere?
I'm always amazed with the capacity and skills American have to write so many words without any actual content. Just words, ramblings, perfectly synchronized sentences. I remember when I first read "Getting things done". You'd get 1 valuable lesson/advice every 30 pages. Same thing here. 1 valuable piece of content every 5 (giant) paragraphs.
There is an argument that you're allowed to have a stable set of neighbors. We made it and codified it into law which says that you can't do short term rentals within long term rental units. Even if your lease says it's ok, it's still against the law. That's why all those whole unit apartment rentals you see in NYC are illegal unless the person offering it has a bed and breakfast license for the space. AirBnB won't tell you that your rental is illegal even though they know it is. The illegal whole apartment rentals is how they get most of their revenue in NYC.
If you run them close together, you lower drag.
I think that if you believe that I'm American that's probably the best compliment I could get. Writing is hard for me, and this is not my native language, but I'll take your criticism to heart and I'll try to tighten up the text. Thank you for your feedback, greetings from NL.
Feel free to link to your own, better written, content then.
I'm sure it's worse in common law countries, because precedence cases hold legal weight there, but in civil law countries, it's not really hard.

In Germany, all the laws are only in multiple formats (including on GitHub with proper history in markdown), and all the regulations are freely available, too.

Additionally, the laws here are written in normal language — so anyone can just read them.

I personally have read quite a few laws in the original text, and I'm just a normal CompSci student, not even a C-level exec.

So, at least in Germany, there's no real excuse.
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> Instead it's made us richer.

some of us, anyway

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/census-data-half-of-us-poor-or-low-income/

I wonder what it means when half of the richest country in the world lives in poverty..
The webpass.io subscription service is a change from the standard consumer - publisher relationship. Instead of having to create and maintain subscriptions with different websites, consumers can subscribe to a single service and affiliated websites can check with the platform to confirm entitlement - thus eliminating friction.

Depending on how websites configure the service customers don't need to create local accounts to get benefits - unless of course sites require accounts for things such as posting comments in topics and articles, or using other non-subscriber's related services.

I am not involved with the service, except as being a publisher using the platform as an alternative to ad-based revenue/subscription model.
I'd suspect the opposite: It's pretty damn hard to take control of a vehicle that lacks human-accessible controls. Furthermore, I'd expect autonomous vehicles carrying any sort of valued load to also include tamper-detection; the truck would be calling for help within milliseconds of an unauthorised entry attempt.
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Well, that's not something the EU can fix.

The EU itself can not do any action, just approve or deny one.

The competence to suggest laws or executive orders lies with the national governments.
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It goes even beyond just upsetting some shareholders paying for it. The CEO has the fiduciary duty to ignore such externalities.
That is an oft repeated un-truth.
>That said, why hasn't Google yet created a desktop application for Google Play Music?

I don't understand the need (and I guess that Google does not either).

Is it because you need an offline mode ? That's the only addition I can think of.

With the play music chrome extension, the website responds to media keys, so outside of a dedicated app icon in the tray (even though the miniplayer has one), I don't see what a desktop app would bring.
What do you mean by 'integrating Java'? You are comparing Java to Visual Studio, which feels like comparing apples to orchards. AFAIK the vast majority of Java programmers use Eclipse, Netbeans or IntelliJ. Oracle has had JDeveloper since 1998. So what was Java being integrated into?
Autos! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
>We've had autonomous killing machines since WW2

What are you referring to?

The only examples I know involve using animals to do the targeting. But all examples failed, as animals don't detect friend from foe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_animal#As_living_bomb...

I'd like to note that human being deciding when and where an attack should happen, never counts as "autonomous". Otherwise we have to count simple traps as "autonomous" weapons and the whole term becomes redundant. You could claim that any bullet shot while aiming through night vision goggles was "autonomous" because the shooter just set time and direction, but didn't really see who he was shooting at.

Second thought: you could claim that Japanese balloon firebombs and British balloon troops were using "autonomous" weapons. Then you would need to claim that changes in wind was the "AI". And strictly speaking that might be correct term. But then it's pretty easy to see why current hype about computerized "AI" has taken off in different way.
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I suspect it comes from statistical physics, as it's a very common approximation when you're in the thermodynamical limit, which basically means that the phase space has a very large number of dimensions.
Would love to be corrected with evidence.
That's a renderer, not engine. An engine is a lot more than just putting some triangles on screen.
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-cor...

Will that do?
As an American, I will say I wish my response would have been as classy as yours.
In the US, a CEO level employee would commit an estimated 3 Federal felonies a day (perhaps more, since I think the book is aimed a bit below that level): http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/...

Improvements are just not going to happen prior to the downfall of our current ruling class; a window into how this currently works is the excellent Extortion, How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0544103343, or as Ayn Rand put it in Atlas Shrugged:

Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against - then you'll know that this is not the age of beautiful gestures. We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one 'makes' them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted-and you create a nation of law-breakers and then you cash in on the guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with.
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How do you know that the overwhelming majority of people can not look past their gender? The assumptions in your comment amaze me but that's just me I suppose.
I think this vindicates the banks' decision to build their own blockchains instead of building on top of the Bitcoin blockchain.
What is the problem with Lua? Just syntax?
Instead of waging wars on drugs or on terrorism, politicians should rather make a law to forbid and eradicate this dangerous chemical from the surface of the planet!

I hear some people even consume several liters of it each day!
Give me a native app that uses native widgets, works with native toolkits, and can be themed with my Qt theme.

Give me a native app that feels native, that looks native, and that is native.

Any included WebView to display content is an instant "nope" criterium, because the WebView content won't be themeable or look or feel native.
Recent discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10361314 (95 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10369153 (160 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11202172 (165 comments)
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