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I have been quietly advocating for version controlled legislation for a long time. Here in Massachusetts, bills describe what they would change in the text of a statute directly - a bit like an ed script. Here's an actual example:

>SECTION 2. Said section 35 of said chapter 123, as so appearing, is hereby further amended by striking out the words “is an alcoholic or substance abuser”, in lines 17 and 18, and inserting in place thereof the following words:- has an alcohol or substance use disorder.

>SECTION 3. Said section 35 of said chapter 123, as so appearing, is hereby further amended by inserting after the word “a”, in line 36, the third time it appears, the following word:- qualified.

>SECTION 4. Said section 35 of said chapter 123, as so appearing, is hereby further amended by striking out the fourth and fifth paragraphs and inserting in place thereof the following 3 paragraphs:-

As someone who attempts to keep informed about changes to the law, this style is a huge obstacle. It often necessitates a lot of manual piecing-together in order to form a complete view of the final change. A simple diff view would make it much easier to understand.

I have considered tracking changes to the law in git, including representing bills as branches, as a side project idea, but I determined it would require far more effort than I am willing to put in.
Why not just pay them hourly?
i would like ff to implement commonjs modules and support nodejs lib and modules in a elevated mode.
users would be able to host a chat server by visiting an url, settings could be saved in localstorage or local db.
CouchDB and iCloud already have this.
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With VT-* and now apps running in VMs, how is it different from Ring 0/everything else separation?
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> However, the data that I have available to me as a hiring manager is the sample of developers who actually applied to my job.

Actually, you only have the sample of developers you interviewed for the job. How many didn't get an interview? Are you confident that your resume filter is good and that the resumes rejected were actually bad?

> Meanwhile a friend of mine with barely any experience had to apply to about 50 places before getting a single offer.

Following up my previous point, how many interviews did that yield? The discussion here is over developers who look like idiots in the interview. Confusing that with applications clouds the discussion.
Well, in fairness, David Bryant joined Mozilla in mid-2015 and Ari Jaaksi in late 2015; Firefox OS was dead in the water before either joined. The leadership problems exist above them.

Mozilla has no technical leadership problems, but they have some huge people and business leadership problems, and until they figure out a path forward, the path will continue to be a meandering trail to the bottom :(
> it means that the airplane could have very small wings, which are usually good for efficiency

This is all well and good under normal flight conditions, but the glide ratio in the event of motor failure would not lend itself well to commercial flight.

Short wing aircraft are fine for military use where low occupancy and ejector seats provide emergency egress.
Passenger aircraft - not so much.
Me too, I've dabbled in tile-based shenanigans since I was a kid, but ultimately nothing ever materialized. One day...
> After all, what are they going to do? Stop having friends?

They probably opt for more tolerant friends. ..but that's just a guess.
Polluted air affects 92% of global population, says WHO
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Wow that's much lower than I thought.

I've been looking through some 990s to get a rough idea, but that ballpark percentage difference is what I haven't been able to figure out.

Thanks!
This is not a requirement by the government. The question is asked on behalf of the communities of faith that explicitly tasked the government with that. That is a right religious communities have guaranteed by the constitution.

The government is not asking you if you are a member of a religious community that has not choosen to use that service.
Any of them lesbians participated? :V
Are you serious? The valuable ads are IN the videos. Did you even read about any of the features here?
The leadership from the Firefox OS era is all gone, FWIW.
Most cars with a CVT are configured from the factory to have "gears". Even though the transmission is continuously variable, it is made to quickly move between distinct ratios. This is mostly because with a true CVT acceleration is very smooth and difficult for the customer to perceive.

So the graph looks almost identical.
I love this - going to put it on my "things to do with kids on RPi and pi-ceed list"
It's been a little while since I was close to Microsoft (they were a client for a bit at Matasano), but: those people spend more on software security for WINMINE.EXE than a lot of startups do for their whole stack.

Would their software be safer if it was open source? Probably. Open code is rarely a loss for security. But it's not easy to say how much safer. Probably less than you think.
Inshallah! What a wonderful magic, God bless these parents
A $3k Tesla K80 GPU is not 'consumer', nor do most consumers (or most researchers or small businesses) have $24k to drop on a set of GPUs alone.
‘Sticker Shock’ in Los Angeles Housing
emodendroket is stating that "ignoring the smart stuff" means disregarding high-quality imaging available on the top-of-line products.
It seems the population is literally addicted to FB hence the cognitive dissonance. If anything should be lobbied for it's better mental health services related to social media addiction.
The above is exactly why i got out of ever buying an inkjet again and have re-adopted laser printers.
I was interviewing in Spain a while ago, the salaries are fairly poor here. Some guys with ten years experience were asking for very little. I should have told them to up their requirements.

At the same time none of them seemed very enthusiastic at all.
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You can (and usually should) make your own custom build: http://openlayers.org/en/latest/doc/tutorials/custom-builds....
A direct Firefox to Firefox OS comparison is not reasonable. For one, FxOS was a greenfield ecosystem, so it was built with multiprocess from the start, whereas the e10s project moves relatively glacially toward a multiprocess world so that nothing gets broken.
I suggest NativeScript as an alternative that's very similar in scope but far more mature, definitely not a platform-of-the-month. The latest version is built on top of TypeScript and Angular 2 instead of React Native like Exponent.

I wonder why we don't hear that much about them in HN.

https://www.nativescript.org/
>They even go to church, amazingly enough.

Why would that be amazing? Another set of rules to be co-opted and exploited against their fellows must be like catnip for this type of personality. Its the first place I'd go looking for them.

Remember that the Jesus that they claim today was so unpopular for showing up at their churches and throwing down with exactly that type of personality in his day that they had him killed.
My understanding is that some schools are experimenting with this. CS is unusual (though not unique; music is an obvious other example) in that there can be such a wide disparity in experience among otherwise equally bright/talented entering students. By contrast, no one expects an incoming Chemical Engineering freshman to know much in the way of chemistry or engineering beyond their couple semesters in high school.

As someone with a fair bit of programming experience, but who doesn't really do it professionally, I can say that with one of the Intro to CS courses I took on edX, I would have been utterly and completely lost had I none or little programming experience.
To avoid the protections of the FLSA.
The idea of starting new fresh copy of Windows software stack for every site is kinda naive. I would say they are using something similar to Linux kernel namespace mechanism for sandboxing in Windows kernel, which is quite efficient and secure sandboxing without going through the pain of virtualization(Google uses this mechanism for implementing Android subsystem in ChromeOS). But how hyper-v fits to this equation, I don't know.Maybe something similar to docker service in hyper-v.

But anyhow this is quite amazing idea, Microsoft really tries hard to improve Edge.

The reason they can overcome technical difficulty of something this cool is because they have very consistent and very limited underlying platform (they don't have to support macOS, Linux, etc). Imagine how hard it would be for Firefox and chrome to pull off something similar.

>I presume this kills any of the offline-storage approaches?

Not necessarily, it depends on how they did implement this.

(I may be wrong,please correct me)
The problem is, for example, one site on my site gets over 50% of all traffic. No random selection technique will solve that problem, unless I don't include that page.
Does your community share some set of problems in common? If so, look for sponsorship by an organization that makes money solving those problems.
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The parent article never mentions ads. Is there a version of this article for advertisers?
Is this the inspiration for "Sidd Finch?"
qed.
Considering the product video described it as being a tool for system administrators, I'd hazard a guess at yes.
I think you should focus on something like Docker and Swarm providing IaaS and everything being fully open-source. No one is going to want to get their hands dirty on this one without knowing what's within it..
Good luck, best wishes!
They are, but it's still pretty frustrating when your car ends up in that one impound lot in SoMa that has one star ratings (I'm near Bernal), and you have to work with GetAround support to get it out of there.

The first tow cost $500, the second one $700 for the renter (2x more expensive than towing in even NY), but that's a separate issue.
I had the same problem with a Mac losing the wireless connection to our Brother. The best I could do was make the router give the printer a fixed IP, then manually set the port to that IP on the Mac (I'm not in front of it now, so can't recall the exact details.)
Probably. The marketing material here is extremely focused on Enterprise customers.
It says the database is open source but I can't find any link to the source code. Is both the client and server open source?
All I want is a high-quality, instant-on 55" IPS LCD panel with four HDMI inputs, proper support for HDMI CEC (ARC, power on/off, and input changing), and maybe an ambient light sensor.

I don't want smart features, a fancy remote with two dozen buttons, TV tuning, or anything. I'd be happy with a thin TV but I don't need one.

Just give me a way to put my PS4 on the wall and I'll be happy as a clam.
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From the linked thread, I wrote "You have no idea why I stepped down" in reply to your "Eich chose to step down due to community pressure" line, which you made up. That "due to" explanation was your interpretation, nothing I ever said or wrote.

Have you heard of the fallacy of the excluded middle? I resigned, I said so at the time and keep saying so, even today on this HN page. This does not exclude other possibilities that are none of your business. "Forced or resigned" is a false dilemma in general. Even if you don't know the specific details, the general point stands.

I think you know this, since you understand oppression. Oppression does not in general remove all agency from the victim. Two things can be true at once: oppressors used force; victim had freedom to move. Note I'm not saying I am a victim, I'm using an analogy to knock down the excluded middle fallacy that I think you put forth. Can we agree on this much?
Only Enterprise (for now anyway).
National PKI. Every citizen would have a key pair. I believe I have read that Estonia has implemented this.
@timanglade, congrats to you and your former team! Always awesome to launch, good job.

Full disclosure, I work on a competing product (MIT licensed, https://github.com/amark/gun ) and do a lot of testing on distributed systems.

You guys say it is offline-first with conflict-resolution. However your documentation ( https://realm.io/docs/realm-object-server/#conflict-resoluti... ) states the "Last update wins". This is contradictory for two reasons:

A) Either you mean last write wins relative to the server. But an offline update is going to get sent late (on reconnect), which would make it "last" and lead to weird problems.

B) Or you mean last write wins relative to the time stamp of the client. But this does not account for wall clock drift. What happens if the client's clock is intentionally set 2 years in the future? In a distributed system, everybody has a different "last".

The demo video, while very well done, uses a drawing app which does not really demonstrate real conflict (ie, if 2 users draw over the same space, it becomes a z-index rendering issue, which could be solved with conflict resolution but isn't a good example of conflict).
I guess I should clarify: I put in extra effort to treat them nicer than baseline.
While I dont have any external publications addressing this general claim, this is taken from my current and past experiences with internal studies focused on neural networks implemented on the TX1, other GPU, custom ASICs, and FPGA approaches. In terms of power efficiency it generally goes ASIC > FPGA > GPU > CPU. If you're doing just fp32 BLAS it's hard to beat a GPU, but it turns out many problems have features that you can optimize for.

The TX1 power consumption including DRAM and other subsystems peaks 20-30W. Typical usage is 10-15W if you're running anything useful.

That 1 TFLOP counts a FMA instruction as 2 flops - while accurate and useful for say dot products - for other workloads the throughput will be half of this number.

As an example of an FPGA performing significantly better than the TX1 is DeepPhi [0].

[0] http://www.deephi.com/en/technology/
Please don't make unsubstantive comments like this here.
People, no. AIs, yes. Ppeople shouldn't be in power in the first place.
It occurs to me: What are the ethical problems with designer babies?
Is this really true? At Berkeley and other UC schools, the programs are often "impacted", meaning they are looking for reasons to kick people out (or, more likely, deny them entry in the first place). A bad early semester with a C in physics and B- in calculus (not at all uncommon at places with less grade inflation) can spell the end of your CS major. People get bounced from this degree all the time.

Just for the record, I don't approve of this. I'm all for standards, glad they exist, but I think some UC schools are pretty callous in how they treat students. I admire those who get through, but there are plenty of people who would have made wonderful contributions if they'd had just a bit more understanding and breathing room. I think Berkeley wastes people because they know there will always be another 10 lined up to take someone's place.

Can't say I love privates in every way, but really, it's a good thing to try to work with someone who is new to college and struggling rather than kicking them straight to the curb.
It's kind of obvious that for pretty much any ad supported service good user experience is in direct conflict with revenue. But I think this is not about that. It looks more like a PR piece combined with an attempt to reach more people.
Yesterday, I opened whatsapp on my phone. During the last weeks I have been clicking on the `Not Now` option when whatsapp gave me the new terms and conditions. Yesterday, the not now option did not exist. This is not good.
Stop projecting how you treat your users with how other people do.

Being able to download at different quality, being able to preview, and being able to share over Bluetooth are just straight up usability improvements for people in the targeted region (and probably elsewhere too).
I've been working a bit with open data associated with congressional districts, and I'd like to do a visualization of boundary changes over time. There may be some interesting data features associated with places that have been subject to frequent redistricting.

https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-line.html

ftp://ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2016/CD/
Well, even at a tech conference, "we eBPF'd and ASLR-ized your app sandboxes even more and now you have even less risk of getting pwned" might draw a "meh" reaction. In very real terms it helps close the device security gap between Android and iOS, but it probably just can't hold people's attention.
Such a requirement would terminate my relationship with them immediately...
Libtcod 1.6.0, a roguelike game library, released
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Are they giving to charities ran by their church (or an affiliation)? Are they giving to their church and it's called charity?
> Once you are no longer combusting fuel, all of that compression is simply wasted energy.

Not true. Instead of burning fuel, you can use electricity (something like an arc welder) to generate heat. And the efficiency with which that heat is turned into mechanical power will be dependent on the compression ratio, regardless of whether the thermal energy is coming from electricity or burning fuel.

Thermal energy in chemical fuel and the potential energy in a battery or a raised weight have the same units, but there's actually a difference. You can turn energy in a battery or a raised weight into mechanical energy with 100% efficiency - not achieved in practice, but there's no theoretical limit.

When you turn thermal energy into mechanical energy (via Otto cycle in a car or Brayton cycle in a jet), the peak efficiency you can achieve has a theoretical limit based on how much you can compress the working fluid (air) before injecting thermal energy (burning fuel or an electric arc).

So if you've got electic energy that you can turn into mechanical energy in a fan with 100% efficiency, why would you take the thermodynamic losses of "burning" that electricity? Because we don't know how to go supersonic speeds with a fan or propeller - the only way we know how, for now, is with a jet running on the brayton cycle. And all the advances we've made in high compression fuel-burning jets would apply to electric jets just as well.

If you're okay limiting your top speed to ~Mach 0.7, then you're correct spinning a large propeller using electricity is absolutely a better way to go, and you can make that propeller a lot bigger if you're able to tilt it.

Karem Aircraft has done extremely interesting work on figuring out how to tilt rotors, and much of their research would apply to electric motors as well: http://karemaircraft.com/
Not against Google, it's not :)

I think that the conditions that Google impose on handset manufacturers are something that probably should be investigated by the Commission. The travel search thing, not so much.
Clothes "did not even exist for the majority of humanity's existence" and it is socially alienating to not use them. Not a great argument.
Graduate positions - yes. Otherwise I'm not sure.
Getting hard to find this thread again, but I've been enjoying this exchange...

While that graph shows labor's share as stable, many others do not, e.g. in this piece by Jared Bernstein: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/09/why-labors-shar...

Of particular interest to me is that if you look at the BEA numbers, they split 'labor share' into wages and non-wage compensation (benefits, SS, medicare, etc.) - the latter share has climbed over time to 20%, meaning much of the stability in the "wage share" is just increasing money being paid to Medicare.

It's not clear what's being measured and not in that chart, but, for example, this St. Louis Fed data shows both an increasing Dividend share of GDP and a declining wage share of GDP:

http://qvmgroup.com/invest/2012/09/05/profits-cash-flow-divi...
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> Why would going to church be evidence that they are good people?

I've heard from a Skepticon talk that some studies show that it is. They give more to charity, participate more in their communities, things like that.

At the very least, going to Church is most probably evidence that one is either striving to be a good person or already think of themselves as good persons. That last hypothesis would explain how they can sleep at night.

> Take that a step farther. When you already believe yourself to be a worthless sinner who has a blank check of forgiveness from Jesus, what incentive do you have to not act like a worthless sinner?

Aren't you supposed to make amends first? At the very least, show some contrition, and promise you won't do it again?
A more obvious consideration is upper level classes have smaller sample sizes. They defaulted to 'not binomial' which creates a very strong bias in their methods. Even then they found a statistically significant results across a range of samples, thus invalidating their conclusion.

The issue seems to be a failure to understand statistical analysis. The possible results are probably Yes or inconclusive.

PS: You can also hide bi-modal distributions by averaging several offset distributions together. IF class A average is 70 with 2 peaks at 60 and 90 and class B average is 80 with two peaks at 70 and 90. You get four weak peaks at 60, 70, 80, and 90. Now repeat for a range of averages and it's going to look like a bell curve.
Here's my simple project utilizing leaflet (1.0-RC1 actually) to display a procedurally generated infinite heightmap.

https://github.com/Mchl/simplexnoisemapgenerator

There's a link to a demo, but the machine it's running on is not really powerful, so expect poor experience. You'll do a lot better downloading and running the code on your own.
My understanding (which could easily be wrong) is that it works similar to Sandboxie. However it looks like it is using the Hyper-V container functionality they recently announced.

So basically when you run this protected Edge session it starts the browser in a Hyper-V container, it has some read access to the host file system, registry, etc. but no write and when the session is closed everything else goes with it.
I'm not convinced German constitutional protections are weaker than the 4th Amendment. The constitution even includes a right to the guarantee of confidentiality and integrity of information technology systems as ruled by the constitutional court. https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Entscheid...
I'd say it depends on how well the non-profit is doing. I recruited a couple dozen engineers for a couple of successful non-profits in the Bay Area. They usually paid 10% to 20% less than my startup clients, and probably offered a less demanding life style.
You can to an extent. If the app supports widgets, and the widgets are the right size to fit together on your screen, you can fit a small number of widgets. That doesn't mean they look good though. Android widgets look like widgets, Windows Phone tiles are just the interface. That's what it looks like, it was designed to be that and only that and nothing else.
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That was pretty interesting. Especially that the Mac CL survived so long in about the same form. The one thing that confused me was Apple acquiring "Allegro" Common LISP. That's name of Franz's product. History of Franz says nothing about Apple. I'm assuming they're different products with the same name just to trip us archaeologists up?
I don't see how their approach contradicts "traditional biology".

Sure, they are concentrating on one of the many aspects of human biology but as long as their findings are mere recommendations to get tested more often etc based on the potential genetic predisposition I don't see anything wrong with that.

As far as the article is concerned - I'd be very cautious going into the "share your dna report with your employer" (or anyone else for that matter) territory for a variety of reasons.