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Yeah VNET is a pretty advanced feature at this point, hopefully once it's in 11 it will be more approachable to new users without any drawbacks.
It's only legal because of corruption in the government.
> But tablet sales are flat too, aren't they?

At least for Apple, since 2012 that seems to be roughly the case. iPad sales are about on par with Mac sales, maybe a bit higher, but both iPad and Mac sales are dwarfed by iPhone sales [1].

[1] http://www.statista.com/statistics/382260/segments-share-rev...
It is not only a packaging problem, there is a fundamental physics problem that cannot be avoided. When power is produced by the front wheels they create a force between them and the ground. This is the force that causes the car to accelerate forward. But this force also puts pressure on the stickiness on the forward wheels and makes them want to slide.

If you apply a lot of torque you start getting microslides, or momentary losses of traction which reduce the front wheels ability to steer the car and cause torque steer and understeer.

A lot of the problems of oversteer you see in youtube videos and the like are really just very extreme cases. I doubt the Bolt, even with its electric motor, will have as much torque as a the souped up mustangs and corvettes that you usually see at those conventions.

In general, for the same amount of torque, oversteer is much better than understeer, because it does not cause nearly as much loss of steering (and the little loss it causes usually goes in the right direction, i.e., helping you turn). Oversteer is the result of the rear wheels sliding, and the rear wheels are not as crucial for steering as the front wheels. Thus microslides in the rear wheels will not cause such a loss of steering authority.

I remember i test drove a 200 hp front wheel drive audi, and it had noticeable understeer and torque steer problems. Then i test drove a 300 hp rear wheel drive infiniti, and it had no oversteer problems even though it had much more horsepower and torque.

Of course you can always cause dangerous situations with oversteer, but you need much more power and torque to do it.
Why do these get rejected? Is it just people being lazy? Or people not understanding how to handle the request? Seems like a lot of work for them to go to court?
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Yeah, I shouldn't have posted the flippant comment. Sorry. I've posted the bug tracker links in another comment - looks like there's some concerns about the effects of the patch on high-end networking gear.
In Mongolia I found this article http://ubpost.mongolnews.mn/?p=6614
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You mean Elsevier doesn't need to earn $2 billion for hustling free editors to do their work proper? You know, it's more than just pushing emails around. You have to deal with people.
Yeah, now I get it. It's like progressively larger group chat roulette.
Yes, but they are only checkable at runtime in C++.
Nest three while loops and a five if...then conditionals and see if you get what you expect.
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For me, this is a storm in a teacup. I use Netbeans Profiler regularly, and it produces decent results for me.

It's only when the profile starts getting pretty flat that the inaccuracies of this method start showing up, but for run of the mill performance problems where you have nice fat spikes sticking up here and there, it is perfectly adequate.
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Just remember that WCAG isn't the be-all-and-end-all [1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ijIzUUXdTM
That plus we know little about the actual scope of this project.
Sure it looks like a randomly jumping arrow - but does it have a backend? Does it have all the 'settings' and 'technician modes' that usually bloat projects x10 than the MSS scope?
Hah, I need a huge 4K screen and a full size keyboard to do programming. I only use a laptop when I travel, and even then I bring along a full size bluetooth keyboard. (I had to look through endless lists of Bluetooth keyboards before I finally found one, and only one, that was full size.)

And I want an even bigger screen! I'd like one the size of my desk, with retina pixel density.
They had this problem in cases of activists going after slumlords that weren't maintaining their buildings. The problem was, in order to get tenants to rent a building in that state, the slumlords had to discount the rent by pretty much exactly the cost of the repairs not made. Paying for the repairs would have required (and allowed) rents to be increased to more than the existing tenants were able to pay.

So every time the activists forced a slumlord to bring their building to code, fixing it allowed them to increase the rent and the people the activists were trying to help were forced to move out because they could no longer afford it.

But at least they made it less likely that the whole city would catch on fire.
No, you really can't.
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The tests are written independently of the original code. If someone has made a logic error or misunderstood some part of the spec, there is a good chance that the independent test implementation is not going to have the identical error. It's definitely a higher chance of finding bugs than having 1 developer write both, as long as the testing is written independently based on an API.
I guess it's oriented at people who isn't used to Linux and want a pretty OS to play with, or people too lazy to do it themselves :p
Investors buying more shares with dividends doesn't decrease the number of shares outstanding. If you increase the share price without decreasing the share count, you have created value out of thin air and are saying the company was more valuable without the cash than it was with it.

The key is the asymmetry of information. The market price should reflect all public information. However the company has non-public information, which puts them in the best position to judge if money is best invested inside the company or out. Share buybacks are a legal form of insider-trading.
I appreciate the systemic concern around these things but every time I see this response I see it as todays thinking applied to tomorrows world.

Right now, we have so few data points that we have little idea about the natural rhythms and variations of our body chemistry - just like how we have static imaging techniques but almost never any imaging of our bodies in motion. We have this really static view of all aspects of our bodies, coupled with 'normal' ranges that may not be our own normal. If we choose to do a bunch of tests on a perfectly healthy person, there's something bound to be outside normal. Applying todays thinking, that's a patient over-diagnosis problem as you say.

However, if we're gathering frequent data from lots of people, we'll be able to approach diagnosis differently. We'll have a new, deeper understanding of the variance in our bodies, and its unlikely one area of bloodwork getting outside normal range is going to cause alarm - we'll be used to this (and normal ranges themselves will change). These data might result in health care providers recommending some minor preventative medicine course-correction, but if the data gathering is frequent enough, we'll have much better ability to understand when something is truly problematic that requires expensive & risky treatment. In that respect, frequent testing can lead to less expensive/risky over-treatment than today's world of infrequent sampling, and more cheap/minor nutritional/activity/etc interventions backed by data.

I think the concern behind your statement is that the current system isn't going to be able to easily adapt to this new approach, and in the meantime there's going to be some over-diagnosis until the medical system can wrap its head around a new data-rich approach to things. The desire by patients to understand and optimize their health is going to be the driver here.
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Cuckoo Sandbox is a free software that automated the task of analyzing any malicious file under Windows, OS X, Linux, and Android.

Main site: https://cuckoosandbox.org/#about
Github: https://github.com/cuckoosandbox/cuckoo
Ugh, can we please stop using "beautiful" to describe user interfaces?

lyk dis if u cringe evrytiem

Seriously though, it's such a cop out and it cheapens whatever you're trying to sell.
jails seem like an advanced feature to me - so much manual configuration. Docker has ruined me by hiding the complexity.
Well, I'm me, and it's a bad thing for me.

I don't want the world to change so that these devices don't exist. I'm just sad that there aren't options. It feels like a huge waste of potential. Creation benefits us all.

In a world without something like the IBM-compatible PC we'd likely never have gotten to the point of creating smartphones because the tools simply wouldn't exist.
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For some reason this makes me sad, I guess it's similar to a motor enthusiast being angry at someone who thinks a car is "just a car". In my opinion, computers deserve to be more than consumer content endpoints.
Can the 1% tell us now that they don't need privacy? The leak is similar to the effects of digital surveillance on the population.
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No. The goal of M&A is to increase shareholder value, if the data said acquisitions generally do not do that, we would not have M&A. Your links simply show that some M&A scenarios (major acquisitions, acquisitions that are overpaid for, etc) lead to underperformance, not that M&A as an overarching thing "typically leads to the destruction of shareholder value." Nowhere do those articles say that.
To be quite honest it's and nice effort. But I think most large companies already don't pay that much of taxes. Like in Belgium the company tax is around 33%. There are already some accounting tricks to get the taxable amount down. There are even some legal ones made for multinationals. Second those companies mostly got tax deals that they pay less than 1% company taxes. So even opening it up doesn't work. But these companies can bend the rules as they want.
Isn't the whole point of pensions to make sure people actually invest and retain the money until retirement? If you could invest it in anything you directly control, then you could easily get the whole sum out whenever you want (defeating the purpose of pensions). I don't see this specific point as having anything to do with corporate overlords.

As a national program, it's better if your pension is delayed, rather than your investment completely failing and you becoming homeless and sick at 62.
Any realistic approximation of AIXI would use probabilistic Turing machines. That either output probabilities instead of exact predictions, or perhaps use probabilities internally as well.

However for true AIXI with infinite computing power, that doesn't really matter. Randomness can be represented as a stored random seed data, and isn't treated any different than any other unknown variables.

I never used philosophy jargon or even the word "self-awareness". I stated my issues with AIXI in plain english and explained them. It has literally nothing to do with the Chinese Room.
Nobody has made a good looking car since the 60's. The wind tunnel testing has turned them all into lozenges. When I rent a car I have trouble finding it in the parking lot, as they all look the same.

I admit that modern cars are better in every way other than looks. And it is amazing what 60's cars could do without a single transistor. But dang, I do like the way the 60's cars looked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f1oneqYefc
Saying phones are stealing market share from PCs is like saying that shoes are stealing market share from cars because people spend more time wearing shoes than driving cars. They're different devices with different purposes. Phones are OK for media consumption but terrible for anything creative (other than maybe photography.)
Just for clarification, that's revenue, not unit sales. iPads outsell macs by a little more than 2:1 today based on box count.
What I want to know is does it still work if they turn on the rotation lock and hold the iPad upside down?
You are probably talking about the comments for this article: http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2016/03/02/sci-hub-and-th...

I agree, some of the opinions tossed around by incumbents in the industry are mind-blowing. My favorites: "A PDF is a weapons-grade tool for piracy." ...And on parents of sick kids looking up articles: "Do you really think a search and downloading of technical medical literature means anything?"
Still nursing along my beloved 17" MacBook Pro with matte screen, now almost 5 years old and irreplaceable.

How ironic that you can get a huge iPhone and a huge iPad, but the 17" MBP is history.
Beacons are used in the Brooklyn Museum to give you more info about your favorite exhibits.
Converting the microcomputer into an appliance was (and is) literally Apple's entire schtick.
Clearly there are millions of end programmers who disagree with you, since they could be using a language with more precise abstractions and yet they choose not to. As one of them, my claim is that you need to eliminate the burden of manually tagging each value, because that effort usually isn't worth it. And eliminating that burden while keeping precise abstractions is not an easy task for implementors.
That makes sense. It is true the shareholders will own a bigger piece of a smaller pie.
Number of shares doesn't matter, enterprise value does and it doesn't change. Your implying that there would be a further equity issuance which doesn't routinely happen on buybacks.
How do you use NixOS to manage your OS and applications and configurations? I thought it was for having reliable reproducable builds?
Yes. Because it is effectively a cartel.

"Home is where the Cartel is"

http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/6287.html
A lot of C-level pay is to tied to the company's earnings-per-share. A buyback makes that number go up without actually improving anything. It's a lazy way of getting your bonus. Here in the UK it was illegal for a very long time.
People don't invest in companies that merely have cash. Growth and recurring revenue are more important metrics to most
What you are saying, in simpler terms, is that the traction circle in FWD vehicles is limited by the fact that the same contact patch must handle both acceleration and steering. And that's true. This makes FWD setups prone to understeer. Everything you describe services this truth.

What's not true is that torque-steer is caused by lots of torque overcoming available traction. The same torque is applied to both wheels in the absence of unequal-length half-shafts. You might induce understeer with the application of torque, but it will not induce a force which changes the steering angle moreso than the same understeer situation would induce on a RWD vehicle, and that's a function of the suspension setup, and mostly dependent on caster angle.

Thus I submit that torque-steer is not an inherent flaw of FWD design, but of the most common packaging design in ICE vehicles. It's easy to conflate the two.
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I can't tell if this is a serious comment or a facetious one. Do you know me from somewhere else? Very strange.

If serious, I believe that it would be categorized under the "appeal to nature" group of fallacies. Secondly, who is "we" in this situation? People are making their own choices. We live in a representative democracy and people vote to decide things. Not everybody gets their way all the time. And then, is it worth the time and energy spent on differentiating between those who can't hunt and those who won't? I would think it's much more efficient to assume that everyone who asks for help needs it and simply help them.
The model 3 looks like something which started trying to look like a 60k Italian sedan but was redesigned everytime someone said "you know .. that corner offends me" or "I don't like that edge" until you got something where almost no one can say "I don't like that part", but lack anything special or interesting. All is round, round and .. round.
I regularly interview bootcamp grads. They all come with the same impressive training, skill set and portfolio. I don't know how to differentiate between them. Their performance in coding interviews is uniformly good (feels like they train for it) and they have no career history to judge them on. So on objective measures, they all look the same. Yet, I don't believe all bootcamp grads are equal. Like all junior devs in their first gig, some will excel and some will struggle (and some will completely fall off.) I try to dig into their background and personality to make an educated guess as to how they might do, but I'm guessing.
Or they can price it according to the market. How many people in US buy iPhone at full price? Most mobiles are sold at full price in India.
Travel like that is your choice and is based on what projects you want to do.

Generally speaking, the travel is because the client wants the team to be on site and pairing with the client's people.

We have a bunch of people who prefer not to travel as much, and that's fine too.

Also, work-from-anywhere tooling is getting better and better, and more of our clients are asking about it. In my opinion these tools are really good though not as good (yet) as being in person in groups.
On top of other commenter's remarks, notice I specifically said to acquire companies holding monopolies over aspects of Apple's competition plus opportunities for expansions of current strategies. Hard to imagine a HP/Compaq failure scenario here. Just lost money which the company might loose anyway. Locking in long-term success more might be worth that, though.
Would you be able to point me towards a shipping product/library that does this? It's easy to find examples of people hardcoding x64 assembly (x264, zlib, libyuv) but I haven't stumbled across anybody making good use of a high level wrapper.
Taxing capital gains at 39.6% (our current top income bracket as of 2016) would be bad for business, job creation, and growth in the US economy. California also taxes long term capital gains (LTCG) at a top rate of 13%. It would mean that an investor in California would experience a LTCG rate of 52.6%, the highest in the entire OECD. Capital has legs and having a non-competitive capital gains rate would incentivize investors to allocate their capital elsewhere.

[1] http://taxfoundation.org/article/2016-tax-brackets

[2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2015/03/25/u-s-capita...

[3] http://taxfoundation.org/blog/how-high-are-capital-gains-tax...
you don't need this kind of cultiness with a manager at the centre to 'bind a team tight'(from experience of working on high productivity, high focus teams).

Sure you need open communication on all levels, not a manager forcing you to talk to him 3 hours every week "with undivided attention", which is just weird.
I didn't down vote you but I assume the people that did have some kind of value system that doesn't involve culling the underperforming subsection of humanity during their annual review.

The implication in my original post was that there is enough "wealth" to go around but the current system prevents it from being shared with everyone. When I say shared wealth I don't mean equally, I mean enough so that people can survive without having to fight for subsistence wages to work part time at their local mega mart.
The auto pilot tech is from some Israeli company and has been bought by several other car companies.
Not sure about "single code path". Differences amid SIMD flavors are significant, there are cases when translation one-to-one is either impossible or unpractical. A bright example are AVX2 instructions operating on 128-bit lanes rather whole 256-bit registers.

And wrappers exists in the C++ ecosystem, C programmers are stuck to intrinsics.
You're right, rep is not a proxy for programming awesomeness. But it is a proxy for how helpful you've been to the rest of the programming world, and I think that's something worthy too. I've only been 1/5 as helpful as you, and I'm quite proud of it.
The radio modems on pretty much all phones* have complete control over the phone, and they can be controlled by state-level actors. So, I hate to say it, but your phone can be bugged at any time. Very similar to the Management Engine on all modern Intel chips.

* There are a rare few phones where the modem is connected by USB, which could (in theory) prevent the modem from taking control over the phone. I don't recall if the modem still has direct access to the mic though, in those cases.
The land value goes up but not by the full amount. If the land was worth $400K before, with less restrictive zoning it's worth maybe $800K, but then you can build ten units there and the per-unit cost of land is $80K instead of $400K.
Careful with things like survivorship bias. Even as recently as the mid 1800s there was an earthquake that took out ton of buildings, temples, and dams in Nagano, Japan (Google Zenkōji earthquake).

But I do understand and partially agree with your primary point.
As he says in short the masterplan is to:

"Build sports car.

Use that money to build an affordable car.

Use that money to build an even more affordable car.

While doing above, also provide zero emission electric power generation options.

Don't tell anyone."
Basically...we should just count the number of accountants and lawyers a company hires and tax that number by a yearly adjusted multiple.
How is that not interesting? This discovery can speed up engineering new bacteria that helps us cure allergies, produce energy, etc., We still need to go through usual trial and errors but this makes them significantly easier and faster.
Why does this surprise anyone? Forget an app. Just a normal computer that government buys ends up paying 1.5 of what you will get on Amazon.com. This is because government does not pay on time, there is a lengthy and resource consuming process in selling something to the government.

The app was probably $10k, rest was the compliance cost.
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Hear, hear! It wouldn't be America if we didn't vote to make the government prop up our poor investment decisions.
Yet for some reason you never question Wikileaks leaks despite the fact that they never target Russia or China.
Sorry for nitpicking, but: in Russian language Vlad is the short form for Vladislav, not Vladimir.
This assumes that capital can get the same ROI anywhere in the world, which is not at all true.

If the strongest businesses are based in the US, the US can force investors to play by the rules they want. It's just another part of the equation.
The steering wheel for Model S and X has buttons for climate control and basic music functions, not to mention phone functions and some other functions. Why do you think the Model 3 will lack steering wheel buttons?
I'm not sure what it's it like for some countries, but having done a cafe of my own, I found gross profit margins on restaurants to be huge. As far as making money goes, restaurants are a near foolproof way to convert time and money into more money.

Of course running a restaurant can be extremely tiring and frustrating. The money is good because not many people have the patience to work 60 hours a week for 10 years straight to make a million dollars. It's just better to do a startup or get a full time job making games or something.
"Hey Google, find me a house in this neighborhood where I can pick up a ham sandwich."
Just confirms that Government is the biggest Mafia.