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The construction bit seems silly. Everyone lives somewhere, so construction industry is just more active in exurbs and building more roads. Skyscrapers are very expensive per unit, they are only a bargain where land is expensive
Grandparent (me) feels that if the EFF is trying to fight massive corporations and lobbyists with blog posts -- and the end result is three posts an hour on HN -- then perhaps the EFF needs to reflect upon its strategy.

Also killing every bill that you don't like isn't a long-term strategy. They come back. They come back hidden. They come back stronger. They come back sleazier.

Killing bills that are not perfect (obstructionism) merely pumps up the pressure cooker. This is not the path to reasonable legislation.

Sometimes the path forward is to enact a bad bill then sue to set case law.

I don't see a lot of these nuances discussed during the quarterly "this kills the internet" fire drills. Perhaps you still find them exciting? I do not.
> "...but I'd be very surprised if they don't see themselves as having more in common with marine infantry than air force pilots do."

You're exactly right. AF pilot here, not a Marine, but it is my understanding that all Marine officers go infantry school first. The Marines are very good at Combined Arms - it's what they do.

But that doesn't mean they are necessarily more committed to CAS. CAS is pretty much all A-10 pilots do. They live and breath supporting dudes on the ground. Objective #1 for just about every CAS training mission is something along the lines of "Achieve the Ground Commander's intent."

One key difference is that Marine pilot mostly provide CAS for other Marines. AF CAS pilots mostly provide CAS for the Army -- a completely separate service.

So going back to Objective #1, a Marine pilot could very well personally know that ground commander. Went to various schools together, crossed paths, etc. The USMC isn't terribly big, all things considered.

An Air Force pilot has about a 0.1% change of knowing who that Army ground commander is. Question becomes, does this matter?

A Marine may say it does, and I won't argue with him. I will say this, as a A-10 pilot: I don't give a shit you who are. If you need CAS, I will give you everything I've got. Even if all you need is for me to stare at building with my targeting pod for three hours to to see if any bad dudes are hiding inside. That's how I was raised, and that's what teach brand new A-10 pilots.
What's wrong with that. I have the right to know the source of the food I eat and decide for myself do I wanna eat it or no...
Insightful comment, as someone constantly surrounded by computers (I have four inside 20ft right now) it had never occurred how incredibly dependent someone could be on a cheap phone.
I'm going to start a fitness career at age 43.

Just do it.
What does that mean, "without being placed in a school district"?

Is the next school 20+ miles away?
I wish they made those tiny little round white stickers they have inside Apple products out of gold [1]. They keep getting wet and voiding my warranty.

[1] http://www.ebay.com/itm/10x-Water-Damage-Warranty-Sensor-Ind...
fyi for you and other commenters, there is no need to do this anymore - you can have separate accounts and create an iCloud Family instead, purchases + payment info get shared and nothing else.
How? They must be illegal since those aren't longtime residents.
Sarcasm isn't meant to help. That doesn't mean it has no place.

The fact is, a large number of the people and governments that criticize the US are propped up by the US financially, militarily, or both.

This doesn't invalidate either point or opinion, but it does reintroduce complexity where points are boiled down to one-liners, absolutes, and sound bites.
This is amazing. Recalling many times trying to press DEL quickly enough to get into BIOS set up... sadly doesn't work.

Has anyone found an Easter Eggs?

I know Windows Me was bad, but did its gradient progress bar really go backwards?
I thought I had more emphasis on next step when I wrote the reply. I don't believe school is ever the motivation. Those that are motivated in school see it as a means to an end.
There's two points here:

Have fast planes with targeting pods proven more effective than A10s thus far in practice? (I don't know, I'm asking.)

How many potential enemies have high end AA missile systems? It's all very well to argue that a weapon system can't defeat X, but is X what we'll be fighting in practice?

The M1 Abrams turned out not to be especially useful in Iraq although it remains superb for defeating a Russian offensive in the Fulda Gap (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulda_Gap).

I think the US needs to figure out what its strategy is before it picks weapon systems. Since the end of the cold war we seem to have lost the plot both in terms of strategy (what do we want? how should we get it?) and tactics (how will we employ available resources to obtain desired results). If anything, our strategy seems to be dictated by our tactics which are dictated by resources which are decided by pork barrel politics.

This is hardly surprising -- when Senator McCain "schooled" Obama on the meaning of strategy (as Grand Tactics) he demonstrated that top policy makers literally don't even know the meaning of the word.

Recap: the A10 is very good for fighting counterinsurgency against people with relatively shitty equipment. Do we think we should be fighting a lot of such wars? Why? If the answers make sense, then sure, keep the A10.
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Because there's demand for labor in SF.
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Can you point out to me in his quote what exactly you claim he understood?

"A quantum state can be much more complex than that, because as we know, things can be both particle and wave at the same time and the uncertainty around quantum states allows us to encode more information into a much smaller computer."
How do you ask for a salary negotiation?
I've been at the same level for 3 years. Its a big company(MSFT). Unfortunately due to org changes every couple of months, I am now on my 10th Manager. When management changes, its like a restart. New manager sees me as a under performer, while the previous one mentioned that I might be due for a promo. How do I bring the topic to my new manager of 1 month that the last 3 years should at least count for something. I have taken on a lot more responsibility since then and I deliver as much as my white peers on a much higher salary. I can't quit since I am on H1-B. I have a green card application that I don't want to jeopardise. I feel stuck.
Total complete BS
Look at this fraudmeister' latest video.
He's got $500 of 20 year old eBay electronics (note the 30 year old pen plotter in the hallway!!) and a pc board with a couple of mosfets that would take less than a day to cobble together.
People have been SCAMMED for 1.2m. Look put the legal background & prior bankruptcies on this sultan of greed. Slime. Indegogo allows blatant fraud, and are profiting hugely.
It'd be cool if it didn't suggest names that very obviously don't sound good in (at least common) non-english languages, eg., I got "culojoo" as a suggestion for 3 syllables, which won't sound good in Spanish at all.
Can you talk a bit more on "And if someone on the Grid makes a query that needs your data then it is properly anonymized first."
Rule of thumb for OS disk I/O: write as soon as possible, i.e. write as soon as possible without hurting performance using buffers on memory for slow component amortization, spreading operations during longer periods.
12,000 people moved to San Francisco in 2014. How many new units of housing were built? Almost 4,000!

What housing crisis?
https://medium.com/@TomPJacobs/what-housing-crisis-3c0568a5d...
the same "the Guardian" that called their audience "russian trolls"...
Until someone who doesn't care changes some code and that pattern is no longer durable.
The high cost of housing is simply due to the transformation of land into a 'gold-like' asset. This was done by untaxing it and reducing interest rates to zero (propelling demand for more 'gold' like assets).

It wasn't a market inefficiency that made land hard to create and intentionally drove up its value. It was neoliberals.
It was a coherent summary of a complex subject, delivered clearly, with just enough information to support the point of his message without getting bogged down in details. This takes skill; popular science writers make their livings and sometimes even become famous based on their ability to create this kind of summary.

Whether or not Trudeau's knowledge of the topic goes any deeper than what he's said here, he's demonstrated that he either cares enough about the subject to have consulted with people who understand it and learned how to repeat their explanations without falling off the rails, unlike good ol' Senator Ted "Series of Tubes" Stevens for example, or that he cares about the subject enough to have learned enough about it that he can articulate an opinion in a clear and accessible way. Either way, what's impressive is not that he is repeating information which is true, but that he cares enough about quantum computing to get it right.
Thank you for the link to the video. Its probably the most intellectually stimulating 20 minutes I have spent in a long time. I loved the conversation around politicians, religion, ufos, aliens and their particular proclivities.

I am reminded of the choice of selecting Rev. Palmer Joss instead of Dr. Arroway for the mission in 'Contact' because he represents the 99% of the world who have some sort of religious faith vs one holding a scientific or skeptical view of it.
Ouch. Way back in the day I helped a small software company in LA that did Dental Practice billing port their system from a DEC RT-11 base to MS-DOS. What I found interesting was how much knowledge about how various insurers and other agencies worked was in the software but not part of the generally accepted knowledge base. Things like "you use this code for fillings if they are on kids, but this other code for fillings on adults, unless you expect them to become crowns in a couple of years, ..." That was the real crown jewel, not the database of codes and procedures.

Sounds like Tata was caught trying to appropriate that kind of information.
In short, you are blaming the market for the results of zoning and land use restrictions.

I didn't blame the market for anything. You have reading comprehension issues. Fix that.
Looks to me he used a bunch of buzzwords followed by a humble brag.

In reality it isn't so weird for a leader to know about quantum physics, like if you asked Angela Merkel I bet she will actually explain the concept. So I don't get all this hype.
Ok, we changed the title from "All CPU and MCU documentation in one place".
In London they currently have 230 buildings 20 stories or more being developed, or planned for development. It looks like the investment capital is doing wonders there.
OK, so my request is more AJAX , less page loading :)
Ok, so you seem to understand it's a huge problem to attack and many, many people tried to do it and viewed it as "the next big thing" in programming (Wikipedia page [0] lists more than 100 visual languages).

I think a possible way to a success is creating a domain-specific language tailored for enterprise users. I think it would be extremely hard to win "real" programmers with a visual language. There's a huge cultural clash of the traditional programming centered around text (editors, VCS, build systems, Unix integration etc.) and visual GUI tools that are just from a different world.

So a tool for visually building a mobile app by a non-programmer from some pre-built "blocks" - yes. A general-purpose programming language - not a chance. Why being forced to use your GUI tool, when the same structure can be represented in text and thus supported by the multitude tools that are known for decades?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_programming_language
I'll try to answer this by presenting two types of computations a quantum computer is good at.

1) Quantum Simulation. So in a quantum system, your state can be in a superposition of states ("because waves"). There is a lot of information that resides in the way this system is in superposition and it determines how the system will interfere and evolve (amplification or destruction of certain states). Mathematically, it means you need to keep track of the complex amplitude of each of the 2^n states of a n-qubits system. On a classical computer, this means 2^n complex numbers are necessary to represent the quantum state.

However, on a quantum computer, you only need n-qubits to represent the quantum state, because qubits can be in superposition the same way any quantum state in nature can be. You can now do careful operations on your n-qubits state and simulate any quantum mechanical phenomena. It is therefore way easier to simulate quantum mechanics on a quantum computer than on a classical computer. This could be useful in many areas, like chemistry to simulate protein-folding.

2) Factorization (Shor's algorithm). It is possible to engineer a quantum state that is the superposition of all possible inputs. Then, it is also possible to carefully create interference so that non-solution of the factorization problems get lower amplitude, while solutions get bigger amplitude. At some points you can measure the state and collapse it in one of the state. Since the amplitude of the solutions is big compared to the amplitude of non-solutions, you get the solution with significant probability. You can then verify it using any classical computer because multiplying two numbers is easy. This algorithm breaks most of today public key cryptography used on the internet.
If we stopped gently holding down Israels's rage at every shell that gets sent their way, I can certainly see Israel's own hard-lined leaders trying to slap down Palestinians and their outside support once and for all. Such a lopsided military offense would certainly draw support against Israel from other parts of the Arab world, and the rest is a snowball on a steep hill.

But this is conjecture to be sure.
It might be 20+ miles away, or your kids might go to different schools: http://abc7news.com/education/developer-suing-fremont-unifie...

The school district has designated this new area as unassigned, meaning the children will have a seat somewhere, but no guarantee of a close neighborhood school.
Arguably the first US patent for a transistor, specifically the field effect transistor, was awarded in 1926 to Julius Lilienfeld, though the invention was not implemented back then. The later developers of transistors (Shockley, et.al.) built model devices using the ideas in these patents though never referenced or credited Lilienfeld's work. However, the later work was taken in a different direction and avoided conflict with the earlier patents.

Lilienfeld went on to invent the electrolytic capacitor in 1931 when he was 51 years old. He was 44 years old when he patented the FET. This is very much in line with the other data.
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I'm not sure if sarcasm or not, but that's the point. If they got wet enough to 'trip', then enlighten damage could have been done to internal components to void your warranty anyway.
The article takes the stance that all stereotypes are groundless, but a more realistic position is that they are often generalizations with some valid foundation. I'll just illustrate with my experiences of Python software. I have used many, many data manipulation, simulation, visualization, etc. tools over the years, most of them coming out of either academia or government labs. I long ago developed the habit, when faced with using a tool written in Python, to look for an alternative written in C/C++, because it has been my experience that the C/C++ alternative will usually be more stable and better thought out. I have not worked deeply with Python or Python programmers, so I can't offer an informed opinion of whether the main problem lies in the people or the tools. It has been my tentative hypothesis that this trend is the result of C/C++ placing a higher bar to use, requiring developers to both be more capable and spend more time planning.
Thanks for a great post. I can see the potential for what you describe.

My goal was quite simple: rather than a popularity contest, I wanted someone who was my intellectual equal. This was a novel concept to the women I dated. None of them could cope: dominate or be dominated was the game. I knew my wife as a friend for 10 years before we married. To this day, we see each other as equals, which is unbelievably fulfilling (even after years of marriage).

Other than our love of technology (as early geeks) we don't have many hobbies in common. I don't think any dating sites would have helped us find each other because of our different interests.

I don't believe in a soul mate and never did. My wife and I both understand our personal needs and our needs as a couple. Find that commonality and you are likely to find great happiness.
A good solution is to use SQLite. It addresses the issues (pretty much by doing all the fsync etc mentioned including on directories) and has a very comprehensive test suite. It is also used very widely on desktops, mobile devices, applications etc. https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html

A notable quote: SQLite does not compete with client/server databases. SQLite competes with fopen().
I'm going to do it no matter what, I'd just like to hear opinions on what I'm getting into, so I can plan for likely roadblocks.
The irony being that Vancouver real estate is only a great investment vehicle because they've had such strict building regulations, with the view corridors law.

Other cities are not such a sure investment, a spike in supply could destroy your capital overnight.
They have indeed, decent 1 bed in downtown is ~2800 now instead of 3000+ a year ago
This is very similar to the Canadian system - the main problematic outcome in it is when the Inner Party takes control of the agenda... In contrast to the interests of the rank and file.

We're seeing it happen right now in the US, with Clinton and the Democrats, and we're also seeing it happen in Canada, with the debacle that is the NDP / Mulcair.

For non-Canadians, the NDP is supposed to be Canada's socialist party - it was responsible for putting senior security, national healthcare, student issues, unions, etc on the table. Over the past ~15 years, it has shifted so much that it's almost entirely to the right of the big-business-friendly Liberal party. This has largely happened behind closed doors - with no input from their grassroots supporters. Most of my socialist friends are very close to tearing up their memberships.
How would they "collaborate" if the supply was higher? I think the point of the activist was that the demand is far too high (almost double what would be caused by normal incoming techies).

My worry is that this investment is "flight-y" (they are not actually residents) if we double up supply and this investment leaves, SF becomes a Detroit that looks like Manhattan?

P.S: Obviously, increasing supply to meet actual renters'/new residents' demand is a no-brainer.
The authors of the article mention Spritz, but I have to wonder whether they've actually used it. They argue that speed reading involves skipping over words. However, when you use Spritz, you do read every word -- you simply do so faster.

Research [1] suggests that whilst use of Spritz does negatively impact reading comprehension, that impact is relatively minor. My own personal experience of using Spritz agrees with that finding.

I'm not saying there are no downsides to speed reading, but there are times when you do need to read something quickly and you can sacrifice a small amount of reading comprehension. In those cases, speed reading can be immensely useful.

[1] http://sdk.spritzinc.com/www/1.0/psb/Spritz-PSB-study.pdf
If you think builders won't screw home-purchasers every chance they get, then you don't know many home builders.

There's a reason we have housing inspections at so many steps in the building process.
Yup. One possible solution we're considering in Vancouver is some kind of residency requirement - for example, if you don't live in your property (or rent it out) for more than x% of the year, you get penalized on your property taxes or something.
Lower middle-market private equity firms are probably the most likely investors. Often, they'd want to buy the entire business, but in some cases they might look at taking a minority stake with some control rights.
The research itself seems interesting, I just have a hard time understanding the applicability of an app doing this for me.

I just went on a couple OKC dates after a recent breakup. First one we had a fair amount in common "on paper" but there was just no chemistry or ability to really click in person, but it was perfectly pleasant.

Second date we had arguably less in common but clicked instantly. Maybe an hour in, she asked "so how's this going so far for you?". I smiled and said "seems pretty good! you?" and she laughed and agreed.

I guess in the future we'd check an app to tell us how we feel about each other? Next up: try eating this food and ML will tell you whether you enjoyed it!
And IPython notebooks allow you to not only share the results but an interactive copy of the process as well.
Great idea! If the EFF were half as organized as the NRA, then they'd have a scorecard of my representative's voting record with regard to electronic freedom. I bet that post a week before election day would get more than 60 comments on HN. Again I'll refer you to my original comment: "time to build up the rest of the toolbox."
I bought an Asus UX303UA with 8gb of RAM(I expanded to 12gb), and Sata HDD(I upgraded to SSD). After easily updating to kernel 4.5 I'm really happy, Linux Mint Mate edition(tho mainly using i3wm) works wonderfully battery is 8-9h-ish easily coding.
I graduated college CS in 1988 at 30. I had no trouble finding work. But that was 1988, and I've never worked in SV. All the world is not SV.
Actually, 64,000 people moved to San Francisco in 2014.

7,000 moved into the 4,000 new housing units that were built.

5,000 crowded in with existing residents.

52,000 displaced 52,000 existing residents.

Source: http://www.sfexaminer.com/exposing-special-interests-room-ba...
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