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all the threats to my self-determination were exactly why I left a potentially bright or uninteresting career in defense contracting
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Because history shows that developers don't update their apps and drivers if they're not forced to. As such this change would be pointless if a crappy team, like Skype :P, would refuse to update their API and would block concurrent access for all other apps.
Have you seen "All Cared For By Machines of Living Grace" by Adam Curtis? I wonder if Curtis used this as source material? It's the same basic idea, although it may appear that Curtis generalizes to a different view of the fallacy underlying all this.

The ghost of Otto von Bismarck laughs every night.
Usually it's a /major/ update. Like going to a whole new version of libc. If it isn't planned out properly you could end up needing to do a re-install (which would be like upgrading from one version of Windows to another; except that generally all of your settings are actually kept as they live in /etc and/or ~/ ).

Having said that, I've performed an uncounted greater number of upgrades than I can remember and have only OCCASIONALLY hit this issue, and it was always when I was doing something outside of the distribution recommended set of instructions (more akin to trying to go from WinXP directly to Win10 without any intermediate upgrades).
Ohh there is a way to do it, and it is a show on 60/60. I think to be specific, there is a delay between NJ switch to Wall st, so some ppl tap in the switch in NJ, know what you plan on to order, then make their order use a different route to wall st... this was well documented. I dont know if it still exist though.
While this is almost tautologically true for many things (guns, butter), I'm not convinced it holds for everything.

The market doesn't value everything optimally, especially when you consider present vs. future value. The market has done a terrible job of pricing in the future costs of climate change, for instance. It's improving, but slowly and (seemingly only) with significant intervention (for instance, carbon credits).

Is the market going to properly value future scientific gains from ongoing operation of the ISS? Would the market have paid for the LHC? For NASA, 50 years ago? Even if you believe the ongoing science collected is of minimal value, what about the effects of inspiration for kids to enter STEM fields?

I'm not saying the ISS is worth it. I'm only saying I don't believe your thesis that "market value" is fundamentally equal to "value to society". It may be a good approximation in many, or even the majority of cases. But acting like it's the only correct way to value something is, I think, foolish. One of the benefits of government is to get everyone to chip into large-scale projects that (hopefully) benefit all, but are difficult to monetize. A network of roadways, research into science and medicine, and general education all come to mind.
Ask HN: Why there is no any successful auto based messaging application?
We are working on auto (license plate as id) based messaging mobile app and searched for if any successful app exists before. What we have found so far:

1-) www.bum.com : last news from 2011 seems to failed.

2-)https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.marzki.reparkapp seems to be inactive.

3-) http://platewave.com/ focus on dating and UK only and only web and mobile app.
Well, there is in a matter of speaking. To take the analogy further, imagine not buying a gallon of milk but 100,000 1 gallon can of milk.
The guy with the Ferrari wouldn't be able to get in front of you at the next door target but they'll loot the most convenient Walgreens, Safeway, Walmart, and Amazon Prime.
Of course, the analogy no longer holds for numerous reasons (100000 gallons of milk, driving around, buying from the farms directly) but the point is the Flash Boys work on the likelihood of such an event happening which, believe it or not, is fairly common in the stock markets these days. Think, mutual funds, ETF managers, etc. This is now, largely, considered the cost of doing business.
Oscar Wilde: "A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing."

> the cost of station is not what it is worth, that's simply the cost.

Yeah, but isn't it also wrong to say that the price is simply what it's worth?

Maybe a lot of the value is scientific, and maybe difficult to capture.

If corporations can't extract this value, maybe they won't be able to justify the running costs, the auction will flop and it will be de-orbited; but doesn't mean the value doesn't exist.

Maybe the item is so large and so rare the market won't clear efficiently - maybe investment is too risky, the worst case future costs too high - there's a limited supply of capital willing to take such high risks; insurance has its limits etc.

You did say: "In monetary terms" - maybe you were moving the goalposts there; but if so, that's you, not the original article.
I often thought of starting a news site exactly on this premise: having to explain why.

Who wants it?
And in the wifi hotspots, there'll be a separate network and you pay a dude 1CUC to type in the password (access for 1hr). It's obviously not legit but it works and people get online this way.
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You have got to be kidding me. There's a difference between "having a plan" and "planning to do something". National militaries are obligated to have a plan for everything. That doesn't mean the military wants to do those things. The civilian government decides on actions, the military just makes plans for potential actions they might be asked to do, no matter how unlikely. I'm sure there's also a plan for invading Rhode Island were it to be occupied by aliens. That doesn't mean they expect Rhode Island to be occupied by aliens, or that they think it's likely to happen, or that they want it to happen, or that they think the civilian government expects it to happen or wants it to happen.

Do you really think that America is any different from any other large nation in the world in this respect? Do you really think that the Russian military doesn't spend just as much time (if not more) planning for every eventuality? If they don't, they're failing at their jobs, and while I have issues with Russia's political direction, I don't think of them as suffering from an underfunded or incompetent military.
I thought it was "a board is found" not "a bored is found" what is bored? A board would be a bulletin board system, one of many precursors to the modern web.
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You don't do the kind of trading HFTs do. No matter whether trading is done with hand signals or in FPGAs, you were never going to be making markets.

Meanwhile, cost of trading for normal people like us has gone through the floor. And we're only really looking at the last 15 years when we think about trading costs, but even steeper reductions precede that, and it was all brought about by replacing human market makers --- who are crooked as a barrel of fishhooks --- with automated systems.

Respectfully --- I don't know you, and this isn't a personal comment --- but my guess is that you distrust HFT because you've been told to distrust it. If you do even the most superficial cui bono analysis, you'll see the people most interested in making you believe that are themselves major financial institutions, all of them far larger than the HFTs.

It wasn't HFTs that brought down the economy in '07-'08. It was their adversaries.
Because network effect. You can't get there from here.
A whole different world! Unbelievable!!
Discloser, developer of Polarr for Chrome here https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/polarr-photo-edito...

To us as developers, the biggest advantage of Chrome Store is discoverability, reviews, and store front organizations. As a fairly new developer, we also have a web app, but it is late in the game and there is no way to out-SEO the existing players through Google Search. Chrome Web Store was the place where we felt a fair game where we can compete on product quality and getting better reviews and out-rank the same competitors who also have chrome apps.
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From my experience most recruiters ever contacted me were just buzzwords detectives. When i put in my linkedin profile how can i help, what are benefits of my work, what can i bring to the table, almost no one reach me with specific job offer. Just one message during month or two.

Another sad thing is that job description is very often the same bullshit as most linkedin CV's. They put in every buzzword, but reality is somewhere else. Your day-to-day tasks are far away from original requirements and very often also from whole job description. Same is it with candidates. Matching between buzzwords and real candidate value is very difficult. And only real HR professional can do it.

Outsourced hiring process make this gap and misleading even bigger. They play just keyword matching game (good opportunity to automate them).

I think that something like HN's karma should be implemented in linkedin.
Current situation is facebook style (more friends more reputation). At least this could help filter HR pros from spammers.
The technology put a lot of people out of work and at the same time eliminated a loophole that wealthy people had to take advantage of the markets.

That is a recipe for vilification.

Think of the wrath of the unemployed truck and taxi drivers that will be aimed at the evil computer programmers and engineers who perfect self-driving cars and trucks. The headlines will be amazing.
If you want to by 100,000 gallons of milk you don't have a god given right to do so at the currently posted prices in every grocery store in town. Those grocers are well within their rights to raise prices as soon as they figure out what you're doing.
I see HFT as good for everyone.

Market has a hard time reacting to option spreads when the long option is executed prematurely. I don't see why big players can't use them.

Also the market can't react too predictably. Because then the big player could just yank the market around and profit.

Some of this is limited by regulations on large holders / insiders.
> If everyone goes to the doctor because of a little cough because it's "free"

If you've had a cough for more than 3 weeks it's probably nothing, but it might be cancer.

https://www.nhs.uk/be-clear-on-cancer/symptoms/lung-cancer

> If you've had a cough for three weeks or more, tell your doctor. It's probably nothing serious, but you're not wasting anyone's time by getting it checked out. Call your GP today.

> By socializing healthcare, we destroy its efficiency and drive up prices. If everyone goes to the doctor because of a little cough because it's "free", that is precisely the irrational uncapitalistic decision making we do not need.

We know you're wrong by looking at rates of medication compliance. People who are prescribed medication often don't take it correctly. This is the case for minor and severe illnesses; it's the case for life-threatening illnesses; and it's the case if people get their meds for free or if they pay market price for their meds.
Please don't stoop to the same level as the original comment. You can say or believe all you want but no operating system or *nix distribution is free of bugs and updates are known to have caused regressions on either side.

There's plenty examples out there of Linux kernel regressions that have been introduced along the route, there's even a full paper on tracking them. Then there's plenty of examples of things breaking on upgrades in Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/CentOS/Arch, systemd caused some trouble too and so on and so forth, and not just on major boundaries.
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I'm not certain what you're getting at; -match doesn't handle multiple matches so you can't replicate the above just with it? Yes, that's a bit annoying. You could match line by line:

gci *.js | foreach { gc $_ | foreach { if ($_ -match ..) { $Matches...

which is ugly, but doesn't use [regex]::Matches. But you can do:

sls 'require\("(.*?)"\)' *.js | select { $_.Matches.groups[1] }

or other variants of Select-String, depending on exactly what data you want, without departing into the .Net Framework too far.
Selling Windows to a non-profit foundation would be the first step toward this, though even after then it would not be trivial.
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Are you saying education is a luxury in the 'knowledge' economy?
Well, for what it's worth, there's this comment on IT stuff in movies:

"We write those scenes to be inaccurate and ridiculous on purpose.

I'm a young writer in his mid-30's, computer and game savvy. Lots of us are. I guess you could call it a competition of one-upping other shows to see who can get the best/worst "zoomhance" sequence on the air. Sometimes the exec producers and directors are in on it, and other times we just try to get bits and lines into scripts.

90% of our TV viewing audience will never know the difference and honestly, we love it when threads like this get started and love reading the youtube comments. "

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/f2i7t/ive_written_f...

The comments on that thread link to a lot of ridiculous moments of IT movie/TV history.

(My google-fu is strong today.)
It's straightforward with dependent types, unless the language treats multiple arguments (or functions of multiple arguments) specially. In my Scala example in the sibling thread the ().zipped is sort-of-language-level, but one could easily implement the same thing using a HList instead of a tuple; turning the function into a function that accepts a HList requires language-level support or a (standardized) macro but it wouldn't in a Haskell-like language where a function of multiple arguments is curried by default.
I love how the EFF singles out Windows 10, but doesn't mention iOS and stock Android pretty much do the same thing.

Your tech rights articles points out IV, but fails to mention they raised money from Google. They also like to equate Linux, Android, and ChromeOS. That article is just poor. Microsoft has done, and continues to do some shitty things. Windows 10 update and privacy is a debacle. But their releases from a tech standpoint are a welcome change.
Wow, I didn't know about the Seattle Underground. Very cool. Thanks!
Here's a demo of the project:
http://ryfeus.github.io/urban_osm_sentinel/demo/

Also does anyone know if it's possible to get the code for this? Haven't found a github or bitbucket repo for it yet.
I think that's underselling the ISS just a bit. It has been invaluable to our knowledge of how humans (and other organisms) can survive in space/zero gravity, as well as providing comparatively easy access for all manner of research and commerce in LEO.

If you take the stance that space exploration/utilization isn't useful than it's possible to argue for decommissioning the ISS as a waste of money. However if you believe the ongoing exploration of space has significant value to the world it's hard to say the ISS is/will only be useful for science fair experiments.
I've always been somewhat confused by chrome apps. How do (did) they differentiate themselves from extensions? Even Google seemed unsure about that as Hangouts has been available as both an extension as well as an app for quite some time.

As a user I'm really glad to see this move, along with the move towards android apps on Chrome OS since I'm hoping it will unify the Google-driven ecosystem a bit more.
The grocers' price is irrelevant to the discussion here.

The guy with the Ferrari would still outrun you and offer you a new price, with a margin just enough for them to be profitable, yet not substantially large as to talk you out of the deal altogether.
> Sigh. In monetary terms, it would be precisely worth as much as the price at which it clears the market[1]. The idea that somehow the value of the space station has a monetary value that isn't tied to the price at which the market clears is incorrect.

Oh look, you know econ101 and think you are smart. The worth/value of an object != its price. There is a reason different words are used, you might have figured this out if you actually read some econ books.
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That is a good explanation. I'll point out for anyone that clicks through, that unlike what he says, depth in ANNs do serve a purpose: to make learning more tractable by building representational abstractions.

There are feedback and recurrent connections in the brain but what (2) means to say that the specific mechanism is not biologically plausible. I know there are prominent Deep learning researchers who are trying to work around this but those explanations have never struck me as particularly parsimonious. It's better to start an explanation from experimental data on brains than from them most important aspect of neural nets.
I'm aware that Rust's bootstrap compiler was written in Ocaml. And yes, there are lots of ML inspirations in the language -- but not enough to make an ML language. Where are the module functors, for example? Many would consider that an essential element of an ML language, and it is a stretch to call a language an ML family member without them.

I don't want this to devolve into a No True Scotsman debate, I just feel that the parent post -- which decried a lack of similarity between Rust and Scala because they were both in the ML family -- was founded on a weak premise.
My recommendation is to put it in something like the Vanguard REIT ETF. So if real estate is up by the time you are ready to buy your house your investment will likely be up proportionally. In the event you get a negative return it is very likely your down payment might be lower as well.

Alternatively if you want to lower your risk (which also lowers your expected reward) you may invest half in REIT ETFs and the other half in an uncorrelated sector. Think of what sector goes up when real estate goes down.

DISCLAIMERS of course: This is not professional advice. Invest at your own risk.
Buy a house/condo in a college town or near a military base and rent it out.

If you want mostly passive, you can move the entire application, document, and payment flow online (no paper, no mail, no deposits at the bank). You just need to find a couple good contractors/handypersons. This is my approach.

If you want purely passive, hire a property manager. But they will take 5-10% of your rent and sometimes a fee for new listings/leases. This is also best if you aren't in proximity to your rental.

Obviously, paying cash is best but if you can put enough down, you can make it work as long as mortgage+taxes+expenses < rent (I'm simplifying, I know). Also depends on how long interest rates stay this low.
Math? A lot mathematics doesn't deal with data.

Here's on whether CS is a science

https://www.cs.mtu.edu/~john/jenning.pdf
Automated building detection isn't exactly novel in remote sensing. People have been doing it for years so they can measure how fast cities develop, monitor inhabited areas after natural disasters and so on. This kind of work is never 100% correct. It usually relies on multi-band imagery so you can figure out what's vegetation and what's roof tile.

As far as I know Google does something similar to automate mapping of roads, and then they have a huge team of people cleaning up afterwards.

The best solution here (IMO) would be to add a list of potential buildings that should be checked by people either by cross-referencing satellite imagery or by people who actually live in the area.
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I like the idea of a timely conference, but it feels like the whole idea of conferences is a bit dated. Sure unconference means that it is more informal and in this case more timely, but I'm not flying across the country for a few days.

Shouldn't we, as the general set of hackers, be developing or exploring online virtual conferences? A Speaker in Norway in front of a camera presenting their stuff to thousands of people around the world.

Has this been tried? Is there a good platform for it?

This seems much more efficient- you can have conferences more easily and frequently without the interruption and cost of having to physically be there.

In my team there are a dozen global tech conferences that are relevant to us, but only the sales guys and "executives" at my company go to them. The engineers do not. Because it costs us thousands of dollars to send someone to shanghai.

And it's perceived that the sales guy makes sense to send, but not the engineer, cause we don't need to spend thousands on keeping engineers up to date with technology, or have them make cross relationships with others advancing the state of the art.
Even if on average most citizens are peaceful, it only takes one ambitious lunatic to tip the scale in the wrong direction [cue Trump/Putin/Kim].

While I don't necessarily agree with the large US military spending, I feel better knowing we have more national defense than necessary rather than not enough/just enough.
I also believe that some[1] believe that CNNs and other image processing networks do some extra work that our brains don't need, as we can "cheat".

For example, we get some translation-invariance for free with the ability to move our eyes.

[1] http://ilp.mit.edu/event.jsp?id=6094 (I had the video URL bookmarked, but it's broken now)
A network of roadways, research into science and medicine, and general education all come to mind.

Not to mention the programmable electronic computers and open internet without which we couldn't even be having this discussion!
Depends on your denominator. For example, WTC was bombed in the 90's but it didn't fall down. Lightning doesn't strike twice but terrorism does as it seeks out theatric and thematic targets in well known areas. So I wouldn't use the all 300 Million Americans as a denominator, more like those who work/visit iconic locations events e.g. Nice on Bastille day.

Also depends if being Jewish is relevant [not counting Israel] and if you frequent Kosher grocery stores, and synagogues, in which case the denominator is again much lower. Also depends if being actively Gay - nightclubs, parades, etc is part of your style. Again much smaller denominator means the proportion of untimely death is much higher.

Finally, there's the equivalent risk assesment of how many people in the US have been killed by a Tsunami? The answer is none...so far but it's not impossible in the future for an order or two of magnitude greater fatalities due to terrorist attack, e.g. a whole stadium full.
The percentage difference between 2.1% and 3.3% is 44%.
Any details you know?