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>I can't think of any other domain of business where a Western national or supra-national government set privte-sector prices because customers can't be trusted to read T&Cs.

Example: California, fixing prices of electricity within the state. (not a good example, but one you should probably be aware of as it supports your argument while also giving you a clue that its not just the naughty euro-socialists doing these sorts of things..)

Anyway the EU are not setting prices because customers don't read T&C's. They're setting prices because their citizens get royally screwed by price gouging, whether they read the T&C or not, and its a serious economic issue in a region where cross-border travel is significantly higher than in any other part of the world.

Its one thing to assume that the EU is exerting some sort of fascist power over the free market and ruining it. Its another thing entirely when the EU actually does its job and protects the subjects of its member states from predatory business practices... but I guess this is an economics argument about the free market and capitalism, which I fear is not one you and I are about to form consensus. I'm quite happy for the telecom's to be getting their comeuppance in this market - the gouging is really, really heinous. For those of us who have to live here and work within the EU framework, this is exactly the sort of thing the EU is good for...
Almost all doctors will make much more than the vast majority programmers. I think you are underestimating how much doctors earn.
Haven't tried it but for CLI apps, numbered references to items (named ID in taskwarrior) are often troubling for me.

In the Quick Demonstration[0] it seems that deleting will re-number the items but doing

$ task 1 done
$ task 2 done

and then `task list` should actually lead to

1 Buy eggs

shouldn't it?

or then

3 Bake cake

if IDs are kept

[0]: https://taskwarrior.org/docs/start.html
> functionality

That is, actually doing the work of init i.e. spawning daemons and services.
> getting pushed around by end-user focus is way too unacceptable behavior

why?
Indeed, trying to get a full understanding of systemd is not easy, it's so large. It's like trying to understand a large piece of corporate software.
Seems to be working for me at the moment. Are you saying it's not functional for you, or that it shouldn't be uploaded to Amazon?

edit: Just to update, changed up the file upload structure so it's randomized with an appended uuid.
They actually have a pretty good idea of what they ate. Interesting article on it here:

http://www.ravensgard.org/prdunham/irishfood.html

The TLDR of their diet is "mostly pottage and soups, heavy on meat and dairy. Some oats and barley were grown, but a lot of that ended up being made into alcoholic beverages."
That looks great, thanks. I generally live inside vim, and this looks like a nice, simple solution.
Exactly, I use Debian because it has a large user base and community. But that's precisely why it's important than the mainstream distributions continue to support the traditional Unix init. People don't want to have to switch to some obscure distribution simply to avoid systemd.
Was trying to find the section in a textbook I had read about this, but this article[0] on the Dojima Market goes into a good amount of detail about this, and is a fun read.

[0]: http://disciplinas.stoa.usp.br/pluginfile.php/69204/mod_reso...
No middle class person in the United States "pays more" than an upper class person, unless that person is actually evading taxes and destined for prison. It is simply mathematically impossible due to the AMT.

The ONLY caveat to this long-term capital gains, which makes a wealthy hedge fund manager who is tax efficient about his investment strategy pay approximately the same or a few percentage points less than an upper middle class childless couple that rents. (And there the reasoning is about double taxation and the macroeconomic effects that would have.)

Some on either side of the aisle may spin a yarn about the rich not paying their share, but as always I suggest ignoring the rhetoric, looking at the facts, and doing the math yourself.
Indeed. I may have judged them from the technologies that I see being used commonly, and turned a blind eye to important ones. That being said, Office365 and Azure are fairly popular anywhere.
I said it a thousand times. Joe average, who doesn't work remote and saves money for his two week holidays in Italy, will pay for the creme de ka creme hipsters jetting around Europe pretending they are in Silicon Valey.
I'm getting so tired of this conversation. Use a framework. Don't use a framework. Just build something already. Who cares how you made it? I'm so sick of getting asked "what framework did you use?" I'm so sick of seeing people pitch their projects as "ProjectName: built with FrameworkX and LibraryY", with zero indication what the project does. If the most interesting part of the project to you is the tools with which it's built, you're not an entrepreneur, you're a fetishist.
Path 2 is exactly what happened on Broxton. Source: I worked on it.
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Calling other countries is not roaming.
I've been using Linux for the last 15 years and I don't remember ever having to fiddle with any init scripts.
etherape is another option on Linux.
I find it surprising that so many HN users on this thread are rushing to the comments to make the point that the rich do, in fact, pay more than "the rest of us."

Did you not hear about the Panama papers? It should be quite evident that if you are wealthy enough, you can use creative loopholes to pay very little tax. It's also very well known that many big corporations use offshore accounts to pay little/no taxes.

No, I'm not going to cite sources. If you are so living under a rock that you don't know this is a real problem, a source isn't going to help you -- you're just going to start arguing about sources instead of the real, actual issue that should be fucking obvious.
NN is flavor of the month at HN but these core toolkits don't really do much. They're all running the same Fortran code and MIT FFT libraries Matlab's been using for 20+ years. It's the base that the cool experiments happen on top of.

Once you dig in and try to actually do something, you stumble on the cool stuff. It's often Python throwaway or Matlab spaghetti code in a .edu directory that starts with a tilde. And it disappears when you need it most.

(If it's Python, it's guaranteed to be something wonky that uses 2.7 if you're on 3.x or vice versa, or requires three additional packages that throw obscure build errors on your distro. And if it's Matlab, it inevitably requires you to shell out another $299 for some stupid toolbox just to generate white noise...)

Good times. I won't kill your fun by being overly specific. Dig in!
I don't agree with that advice.

By using Either you're forced to enumerate all errors that can happen and those errors are no longer exceptional. This means that the ErrorType can be an ADT or even if you're using things inheriting from Throwable, you can have a base type that's more specific than Throwable. More than that, you're free to generate your own errors. Because you see, whenever you do "throw new SomeException", or in other words whenever you're using exceptions for validations of user input or flow control, God kills a kitten.

The problem with exceptions is that they signal a very strong-side effect, as throwing an exception obliterates your call-stack. Forget about functional programming, because this violates the laws of structured programming, functions and modules ending up with multiple exit points, blowing up in your face when you least expect them. There's also a big difference between NumberFormatException and OutOfMemoryError. One is truly exceptional, whereas the other could be prevented, guess which is which.

Btw, when using Either, as a matter of convention, the errors are at the Left, whereas the normal result is at the right. So that would be Either[Error, A]. And nothing stops you from using for comprehensions with Either ...

val tryManyThingsSequentially = for {
result <- someDangerousComputation.right
other <- otherDangerousComputation(result).right
} yield other

Some people don't like Either because it is unbiased. In the Cats library you've got Xor, which is like a right-biased Either (so you don't have to use right projections explicitly, like in the above sample). There's also a similar type in Scalaz.
Seems to me that your argument requires measuring the income of high earners, then measuring the taxes they pay.

The behavior discussed involves parties lying about the former number and concealing income, thus making your calculation utterly meaningless is this particular context.

Presumably that detail didn't escape you, hence making this line of argument disingenuous.

This article isn't about what percentage of known income is taxed, it's about enforcement resources for finding concealed or obfuscated income.
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Also, the point of switching and studying is not clear. If all you need is service startup and keeping up, a few more polished tools exist with a dramatically ssmaller footprint.
Isn't that the point behind the article? That the kind of foods that you produce has a bearing on the progress of the society itself.
You're thinking on too small a scale. One of the most important commercial activities in the Roman Empire was the importation of grain from across the Mediterranean (especially from Egypt) to the capital.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cura_Annonae
I don't get it, what's the problem? Just google "Microsoft Flow". Seems fine to me.
But they don't have to and they aren't going to be held accountable if they don't.
Actually drawing the line at 10% undermines their case - it's an extremely inconvenient place to draw the line. The US tax system is even more progressive for high earners.

Top 0.1% pay an effective tax rate of 35.7%. The 10th-5th percentile pay 20.3%. The bottom 10% pay 3.1%.

http://www.pgpf.org/budget-basics/how-much-do-americans-pay-...

Based on the graphs herein, the convenient place to draw the graph would have been at about 1%.
I was trying to get in touch with him too. The images on the application can be traced back to an ME page for Carnegie Mellon but there is no contact info on that site or on the imgur site that hosts the images.
I wonder what this means for ITTT?
Ok so 3 layers increases the complexity but simplifies the connections. The human cortex has 6 layers.

Now create 6 layers, classify different sets of inputs as 'different' to represent different neurochemicals (you need several excitatory and several inhibitory and then a couple of very small master neurochemicals that have major excitatory and inhibitory responses to represent the dopamine network and a whole system for the amygdala), cluster different groups to either respond to inputs or create outputs, and set it loose on an environment. How close would we come to something that behaves as if conscious?
I used to. It wasn't fun, but it wasn't terrible either. And I probably overused rc.local...
> The top 10% have 50% of the income, and the top 1% have 22% of it.

So? That's about income inequality. That's not the discussion here. The relevant question is: do that 10% or 1% pay a lower, higher, or equal effective tax rate?
I also made this.
https://medium.com/@christophe.smet1/flux-irl-building-a-hue...

But a bit more, custom pcb and just an app.
Keeping it simple.
Cool to see other people's projects
This article uses such a broad definition of pre-colonial times. When exactly is that? I don't believe India was almost empty around 1400 AD. Quite contrary, given that there were already well established empires at that time.
Yes, but that's the issue that the original post in this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11601100) discussed (calling other countries from your home countries is more expensive than calling other countries while roaming).
Thanks for the suggestions. We'll definitely come up with a feature/roadmap page shortly. As for the demo account it is a bit more complicated, but we'll look into it.
There isn't much reason for a mainstream user to touch a system with a traditional init nowadays either.
Judging by the state of the various Skype apps, I suspect that getting anything added to Skype is a kafkaesque nightmare.

I bet these guys just let it drop in order to get their product released.
Lists of discrete tasks minimize interruptions because you add the item when it bothers you, and then take care of all of them when you're not in the middle of something else. Without the list, you'd likely forget something and be bothered by it again. Actual to-do software is just structured text which some people prefer and some don't, similar to IDEs, MS Word, etc.
> naively doing everything your own personal way (including at the team/company level).

You, and my downvoters, all assume (naively) that any in-house standard must somehow be different than "widely-adopted coding standards (that most frameworks probably use)". Obviously, that need not be true, and in my limited 40 years of experience, it rarely is. Not sure how you even got there.
> How close would we come to something that behaves as if conscious?

The human brain is recursive in nature - the neurons and synapses form a cyclic graph. You can't do that with a simple perceptron.
well, I'm sure IFTTT is more nimble than Microsoft and can leverage that by focusing on specific high margin verticals, though Kudos to MSFT for sure.

I do love how clued in MSFT is these days. Really raises the bar for everyone.
That you can use "creative tax accounting" to avoid paying your share hasn't been true for decades due to the AMT. The onus is really on you to explain what you mean, or cite a source here.
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> Rayiners numbers come directly from income tax returns

Yes, which is a ridiculous argument in a discussion of people lying on their tax returns.
If all systemd did was sysvinit-script replacement, I'd be 100% behind it. I agree with you, sysvinit-scripts are terrible. It's all the other stuff, and the lack of modularity, that makes me dislike it.
Once again, the claim isn't about the tax rate, the claim is about the top 0.1% using creative accounting to dodge their tax rate. The sources you provide does not refute that. The parent article is very specific about making the claim that the top 0.1% are dodging their tax rate and getting away with it.
T.J. Miller Really Hates 'Pretentious Rich A**holes' in the Real Silicon Valley
Bitcoin and the coming “Infrastructure Inversion”
Yeah, but this one will integrate pretty well with visual studio
The extra €0.05 per MB is a one year transition period. In 2017, the surcharge will go away completely.
Those numbers come from an OECD report.
One giant program to rule them all was never the Unix way. System's monolithic architecture will be its downfall. Rather than stabilize I predict that systemd will get more and more complicated and eventualy fall due to unwieldy maintenance problems at which point someone will come up with a better more modular system.
Well, ideally there would be a scheme where the authority facilitating transactions (with timestamps in this case) wouldn't be provided identifying information.
>I've been interviewing for past 1 month and every single company made me do whiteboard, big O stuff past phonescreen.

I don't doubt that at all, and I know whiteboarding is popular with interviewers. I'm talking about its popularity with interviewees.
I wonder if industrial software has enough developers, compared to web developers, and if one could compare the added value of web versus the industry.

I tend to think the web is more volatile and more oriented towards sales, ads and services, which in my mind are somehow "less important" than industrial software.

Of course every developer makes his own choice, but I'll always be more condescendent towards web techs in general, versus industrial, sometimes C-oriented programming. Maybe it comes from my technical teaching where I learned programming.
Great point. In the time before Dropbox, S3, etc Email was THE way to share your 50Mb zip file. And routinely having to clean your mailbox because you ran out of storage was a huge pain.
I hate non-standard length binary numbers! Just write 01100100 for God's sake...

On topic, Shannon is my favorite scientist of the last century, after von Neumann of course. If his only contribution was connecting Boolean algebra to digital logic, he would have been a pioneer. But no, he goes ahead and defines information theory out of nowhere, even though the majority of applications that can utilize it were not yet practical! I mean, come on Claude!
No, you can build your own full-text search engine with dynamic pages with postgres' fulltext index types. You can subscribe to changes through LISTEN/NOTIFY, or by outputting log entries in trigger functions, among other techniques. That fulfills the 'dynamic' part of the question.

I don't know how you read that question (well, ok, I do), but it's not how I read it. Whiff of an insult duly noted.

We did it because users demand it. A SPA feels substantially faster and more reactive. Users notice.

Dude! Whoever said we were railing on SPAs? But since you bring up Gmail I'd just like to note that gmail has been a slow, bloated mess for many years now. It takes a half a minute for the page to stop janking on my dev box with 50mbps internet, so I think Gmail in its current state is a poor choice of example. Gmail of old, back before they tried to cram 80 million things into it, was a pretty good example.
Generally the problem is not that your fellow HN users are living under a rock; it's more that getting good evidence about the problem is hard.
He mentions 'a macbook' which is most likely the air to start. People that run VMs or dual boot are almost all on pro.
It's the taking advantage of that's evil, not the political status of the code.
Pretty cool feature macs have had for over 10 years
Or, because peer to peer Skype sucked given the dismal status of the average home user's internet connection.
Apparently you have a different idea of what a quadcopter is than I do.
Great article, I'm a little skeptical about the sourcing though. Most of the information seems to come from general literature (as opposed to something more objective, like say taxation records). What people choose to write about isn't necessarily what's most common in practice. For example a visitor from France would probably be more likely to write about some strange kind of cheese he's never seen before than the bread that looks more or less similar to what he's been eating everyday.

I don't doubt the importance of dairy but I doubt it accounted for the majority of people's calorie intake.
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I had bad experiences with users who used disposable email addresses to register for my service. Once a user went on a public forum to complain about our support. Turned out that he used disposable email address so there was no way to reach out to him and he was not receiving alerts from our service.

Now I just have disposable email domains blacklisted. It is a cat and mouse game as new ones pop up. Once we identify such disposable domains, we disable such users account and put domain on blacklist.

Here is a list to get you started. https://github.com/ivolo/disposable-email-domains/blob/maste...
RT is sunk. Intel is in a much better position to compete on price performance in the PC space. They could cut their margins if they have to and still be profitable. They will be in the PC business for a while.
I've used Firefox since about 2001 when it was in beta and I agree with those that say this isn't an improvement. It seems like control. You need Mozilla to approve of any advanced API you may need access to.

It's probably high time to write a libre browser that focuses on being completely customizable. And not focus primarily on speed. I'm bewildered by those who are deadset on that over all else, it just serves into the goals of for-profits who can dump tremendous resources into optimizing to bamboozle away freedom.

Freedom doesn't cost millions of dollars. A libre Vivaldi, with a tighter feature scope (no email client etc) is where it would be at.
People are knocking this guy for not being an expert and maybe getting some details wrong. Maybe it's a little bit like watching a non-programmer stumble their way through a blog post about learning to program- experienced programmers may cringe a bit.

But I really appreciate these kinds of write-ups: he declares his non-expertise up-front, and then proceeds to document his understanding as he goes along. There's something useful about this kind of blog post for non-experts.

I'm working my way through Karpathy's writeup on RNNs (http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness). I've mechanically translated his Python to Go, and even managed to make it work. But I still don't entirely understand the math behind it. Now obviously Karpathy IS an expert, but despite his extremely well-written blog post, a lot of it is still somewhat impenetrable to me ("gradient descent"? I took Linear Algebra oh, about 25 years ago). So sometimes it's nice to see
other people who are a bit bewildered by things like tanh(), yet still press on and try to understand the overall process.

And FWIW I had the same reaction as the author when I started toying around with neural nets- it's shocking how small the hidden layer can be and still do useful stuff. It seems like magic, and sometimes you have to run through it step-by-step to understand it.
Why are perpetual roamers bad? The guest sim operators pays the host for all services rendered. So they do not lose anything.

Actually operators work in a big clearinghouse model where I live - so at the end of the month there are barely any charges exchanged.
they knew exactly what they were buying.

Why am I reminded of a scene from Airplane! here?

The average person probably doesn't even know what "the cloud" is beyond the name of a product or two. They know that they can push a button their phone and turn the lights off.

You imply a level of knowing and care that most people do not have, and so one that is not realistic, or reasonable to expect.
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A lot of straw horses being set free here.

The primary weapon against tanks carried by the A-10 is the Maverick missile. The GAU-8 can do wonders against a tank especially perforating the upper engine deck etc, but it's really designed for destroying soft targets in combination with unguided rocket pods or CBUs. Comparing it's accuracy with PGMs (that it can carry as well) is disingenuous.

Oh, and you seem to be forgetting that the A-10 has had Litening pods for quite a while, giving excellent targeting and ID capabilities.

The A-10 is one of the cheapest a/c the USAF flies, excluding drones which still can't compare with the Hog for effectiveness. There's a lot to be said for the Mark One eyeball in the cockpit. The cost for flying the A-10 would be even lower if the service wasn't continually gutting its support infrastructure.

The Texan/Tucano light prop a/c is always trotted out as the cheap alternative, but the disadvantages are huge. No self-deploy capability, no survivability against MANPADS, single engined so lower ability to overcome mechanical issues, and kleenex for armor against groundfire.
Skimming through the top bunch of comments doesn't reveal much... is his comment "plain wrong" as in it isn't a large group of people? Or they aren't in the US? Or they aren't paying? Or it isn't a virtual pop star? Or it wasn't created by Japanese businessmen? Or reality isn't as strange as fiction?
There's no reason to believe the telecoms can't make up for it with volume. Like, people might actually start using the roaming services a lot more.
I really hate how MSFT doesn't always respect its own SSO. Jeebus. I can't login with my live account. It's free, but you have to use a work/school account. Really?
Yeah, I dislike systemd but I'm not going to abandon the Debian Foundation over it.