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> Edit: are people getting pleasure out of downvoting me? Am I not contributing to the discussion, whether or not you disagree with me?

Imagine, for the sake of understanding the downvotes you're getting, that your post could be read as "well, science might mostly be right, but we're exercising a lot of caution before relying on the germ theory of disease, because washing our hands could be dangerous; one person we talked to said that, so it might be true, and there are reasons to be skeptical about the quality of soap and the honest of the industry that pushes it". And, not only that, but imagine that comment was posted in the middle of a thread containing many links explaining the problem, and links debunking material that started the anti-soap conspiracy theories.

That post would get downvoted into oblivion, just like yours.

There's a giant pile of anti-science conspiracy theories and "think of the children!" paranoia, started around a single falsified paper, and your comment plays into that. There are already numerous comments in this thread explaining that, including links to articles about the falsified paper.

You're getting downvoted because, in the midst of all that, your posts suggest that your immediate reaction wasn't "we might have some deadly misinformation here that will hurt ourselves and others, we should learn more about this issue, figure out how badly we've been misled, and solve the problem"; instead, your reaction seems to be "eh, changing our minds would be hard, we're 'exercising a lot of caution' instead [and probably won't end up doing anything, because that's how hesitation like that works]".

Changing your mind, really changing your mind, is hard. Finding out that an expert you should have been able to trust was dead wrong is hard. Accepting, as an otherwise educated and intelligent person, that you were wrong about a question of fact is hard. The mind has non-trivial defense mechanisms that make it easy to avoid doing any of those things; people use those defense mechanisms every day, in lieu of feeling uncomfortable or incorporating new information.
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have you tried making the keto flax focaccia bread? it changed my life.

http://www.healthfulpursuit.com/2014/08/flaxseed-focaccia-br...

as far as pizza crust goes, there are myriad alternatives for that as well.
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Happy to see they pick ReST over MD. ReST is vastly superior for these purposes, in my experience.
But is this a proof?

It's seems like essentially the same as 'proving' Riemann by using a computer to calculate the first 100,000 values of 0.. which is considered unsuitable as proof

If using examples as evidence of proof I was under the impression you needed to also prove the completeness and consistency of the pattern from the examples

This reads to me like if instead disproving a finite hypothesis Euclids proof of the infinitude of primes just consisted of listing the first 7 prime numbers allowing the reader to make the assumption, 'well those are getting bigger they must all get bigger'
>Consequently, I'm not convinced "keeping skills current" is the way to go.

Depends on what you mean by "keeping skills current". Certainly, chasing the latest fad framework / language is clearly a losing game. However, there are plenty of fundamental areas that are worth learning (or refreshing), such as statistics + data analysis (the basis of the recent "data science" hype), systems programming (e.g. driver development, embedded systems (the basis of the IoT hype), DSP + signal processing, and so forth that broaden your capabilities and are both independent of language and essentially timeless.
Man, this is definitely useful, but I hope you'd agree with me when I say that I hope you can safely get rid of this tool in the near future. I really want to see a better way of reusing resources in k8s (for example, a first-class Environment object that mimics /etc/environment).

I'd really like to get rid of my custom hacky kubectl wrapper scripts and either just use a cluster add-in or have a kubectl build-in processor that helps reuse.
I would absolutely _love_ to have some more experienced people on my team.
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GMO is not inherently bad, but the goals of most companies working on GMO seeds are profit over all else. This means they select for compatibility with pesticides, fertilizers, and monocrop annual planting. Perennial wheat, for example, could be an incredible ecological success for GMO. But it wouldn't have the built-in annual demand for seeds. The concern over GMO is misplaced--people should be debating the accompanying practices that are pushed by the industrial system. When Bayer buys Mansanto, that should be a huge f*cking red flag.

The big vision for the future doesn't need to be entirely novel. The great cuisines were born out of a conversation with nature. Highly local, distributed, diverse farming systems < 50 hectares with an emphasis on soil health should be the model. We just need to make it easier for people to collaborate on these kinds of projects. Entrepreneurs and farms on this scale are mostly constrained by up-front resource requirements. Once ecological systems mature, they are far more profitable than the factory model.
That doesn't make me a car fetishist anymore than noticing that most people are religious makes me a believer in the afterlife.

What I'm actually saying, though, is far more benign, which is that just as many people would own a car in NYC as in Kansas City if it were equally convenient and inexpensive [0]. People (in general) don't choose public transit merely because it's convenient. They choose transit when it's more convenient than car ownership.

The flip side of this is that high car ownership rates aren't necessarily evidence of nonexistent or inadequate transit. Where car ownership is cheap and convenient, people almost universally choose to own a car (even if other options exist).

[0] Well, clearly not just as many. I don't like driving, either, and New York is attractive to me, too, because it enables that preference. But, still, consider that nearly half of all New Yorkers do own a car, despite how wildly inconvenient that is. Consider also that even in cities like Detroit and St. Louis something like 25% of people are carless, so there's some baseline level of poverty (even in very inexpensive cities) that prevents ownership. All of which is to say that a 50% ownership rate in NYC actually strikes me as pretty high (and as evidence, again, that people really will put up with a lot to keep driving).
downvoted for asking a question, kills me it does.
It's bizarre that these people are so intent on changing an interface, seemingly just it's been around for a long time and/or because it was used in a movie once and it "looks cool".

When you actually try and use full body gesticulations and having every appendage and/or eye gaze be an input you realize quickly that it's actually very tiresome to have to manage the fact that literally everything you're doing has an effect on the system. We control our eye-movement subconsciously, it's not easy or intuitive to be constantly controlling your eye gaze.

In fact, the eye gazing technology has been around for years if not decades, and there's a very good reason why it hasn't taken off except for things like user experience testing. Same thing with gesture based interfaces. It's fun for 20 minutes when you're playing Wii Tennis, but beyond that it's tiring, unwieldy and intuitive.

Fingers have evolved to be the main appendage for interfacing with the world. Having a passive, finger based physical input will never go away, because it's intuitive, our fingers are designed for this, and it works just as well in a classroom or meeting room as it does at home.

Even once we've mastered direct-to-brain input, the physical finger-based interface is virtually guaranteed to remain for certain tasks. Perhaps in 500+ years we'll have the technology to move on, but certainly not "soon".

Pursuing an interface where one ends up performing full-body gesticulations like in Minority Report is a fool's errand. It doesn't inspire much confidence about the future of Microsoft when they're making idiotic predictions like this. Is this Windows 8 all over again?
I was about 8-9, but now I can appreciate watching the old episodes again because while I found them funny as a kid, there are so many more "adult" jokes I now notice as an adult that make me laugh at how naive I was as a kid :-D
I don't think that's a fair assessment (I'm not affiliated with YC in any way). I think that:

> Not using misleading, illegal or dishonest sales tactics.

> Keeping your word...

and:

> Generally behaving in a professional and upstanding way.

cover more ground than you imply. While it might not hurt for them to take a few more stands (e.g., "ensure the integrity of customer data", "don't be a net drain on public resources"), I think it would be a bit difficult to add a lot more ethical requirements without getting overly industry-specific and excessively lengthy.
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In my mind, it's one thing if a Web site that I go to learnt about me based on my interactions and a whole another thing when people start correlating data across sites. That's what Facebook is doing with its stupid buttons on nearly every news site.

Amazon knows a great deal about my buying habits but that makes complete sense. Facebook knowing what articles I read from the Globe and Mail and the CBC is something else.
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I'd still pay good money for an Android phone with a proper landscape slide out keyboard. Think an updated G1/Dream or G2/Desire Z but with a nice 5"+ screen and top tier specs.
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> Edit: are people getting pleasure out of downvoting me? Am I not contributing to the discussion, whether or not you disagree with me?

You are spreading dangerous misinformation that leads directly to the spread of disease and death.
The freemium model would effectively defeat the whole point of OSM.
More lively discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12597109
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... or in rural areas where the GPS position of roads is just plain wrong. Hwy 3 north of Steele, ND was off by about 100 yards on the GPS for a couple of miles. Nothing like a GPS yelling at you to get back on the road.

I get the feeling we are going to have to add some "beacons" to the current roads to deal with local conditions and just provide a decent verification.
I must admit there was a time I believed that nonsense myself, so I shouldn't really judge!
The iPhone is not a better professional device than a BB OS device from an organizational standpoint. For instance as an MDM administrator you can't control the OS version of company devices other than saying it must be within a range for the device to connect to company resources. This creates a risk that users will update the OS before a required app supports the new version. You also can not capture SMS/iMessage data which leaves regulated industries needing third party solutions which are not carrier agnostic (eg Smarsh). Apple is slowly catching up with features like DEP, VPP, and supervised mode but it has a long way to go.
BlackBerry owns a bunch of patents around Elliptic Curve Cryptography [1] - since they own Certicom [2]. Maybe they're going to troll as a business model?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_patents
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_Limited#Certicom
As someone who does not live near any major datacenters, this kind of service just doesn't work for me. At all.

The absolute lowest ping I can reliably maintain from my house to a major datacenter are those in CA, and it's around 60ms. So, I'm effectively attempting to play a game at 15fps. Workable for some 4x games and a few single player action games, but nowhere near pleasant.

Since my real world pings to game servers are much closer to 100/150ms (10fps) with the occasional burst of packet loss (especially in the evenings), cloud gaming is unrealistic (PS Now basically says "No, you can't use this service").

I'm getting 60ms averages from work (which is on fibre) to AWS-East (where parsec hosts their website from), so there's no way this would ever be viable for me.

Seems like it would have limited appeal to non-casual gamers, if I'm honest. You have to near a major datacenter with reliable broadband, and you could never play competitively in a broad set of latency-sensitive games. On the other hand, I could definitely see the appeal for those who want to play the latest Peggle or Parking Dash games.
You can download them TWICE. I guess after that you smell like a pirate.
(Adam from Realm) First, we respect everything Firebase and team has done. Others might feel differently, but shipping great software is hard, so nothing but respect from us there.

Second, and to address your question, we are very different architecturally than Firebase. We built from the ground up an object database that runs on mobile. As a result, this means when using Realm Object Server, the mobile development is still focused around that database. In practice, this means developers only have to think about local APIs because their UI is now bound to the data in their local Realm, with the networking handled automatically. This isn't just a basic cache, though, but a full-featured database that includes: memory-mapped object interface, ACID compliance, querying, and much more. Firebase doesn't offer that capability since it's mobile SDKs aren't built off a mobile database like Realm.

Beyond the mobile capability/developer experience, the server-side capabilities of Realm Object Server go beyond whether it is self hosted or not. While not included in the developer edition, we offer server-side SDK support and event handling capabilities so that the server can integrate into existing infrastructure vs attempt to control how you build your backend.
the short summary of what you describe is...

1. new business evolving quickly to meet and discover the product that fits the market they are chasing.

2. established and optimizing for a possibly still growing market but very well established set of features and use cases. They can take longer to deliver new features and can save lots of money by optimizing.
They're splitting the charing cross branch to run to Battersea Power station, while the bank branch will run to Morden. Kind of how it currently works (Charing Cross trains almost always start at Kennington), so can't see it decreasing reliability. https://tfl.gov.uk/travel-information/improvements-and-proje...
I've worked on both types of projects. My previous project used Scala on the backend and Node for the public API. Thrift was used to maintain persistent, reusable, connections between the public API and the backend, and to enforce strict typing on message values.

What I really liked about Thrift is that all I needed to know how to use the service was the thrift definition file. It was self-documenting.

My current project uses HTTP and JSON to communicate from the public API to the backend services. There is significantly more overhead (latency and bandwidth) and no enforced document structure (moving toward Swagger to help with that).

HTTP+JSON is great for the front-end where you need a more universally parsable response, but when you control the communication between two systems, something like Thrift/Protobuf solves a lot of problems that a common with REST-ish services.
> My immediate reaction is "Of course". A return on investment or risk analysis should drive activities on both the corporate and the government level.

You're looking at this in only monetary terms, or at least Yahoo is. But frankly, I don't give a fuck about whether Yahoo succeeds financially--I want my life and the lives of other people to be better. And I want that to be the goal of my government.

> But this isn't a big, bad, greedy corporate problem.

Of course it's a big, bad, greedy corporate problem. The reason "return on investment" matters in a financial sense is because big, bad, greedy corporations only care about their bottom line. And quite frequently Yahoo's bottom line is in direct opposition to improving my life and the lives of other people.
We reverted the title.
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IBM releases DataWorks to give enterprise data a home and a brain
Actually, there is the idea of "net carbs" on keto. This means if the package says:
Carbs: 4g
Fiber: 3g

Your net carbs is 1g. You always subtract out the fiber from the carbs. There's a long explanation for why you do this, I'll leave it to you to find.
A lack of a responsive/mobile specific UI is not the end of the world. Safari on iOS does a pretty decent job of desktop-sized sites.

But to detect the device and then just say "nope. SorryNotSorry" and do it with a forced screen size so the message is basically off the screen is kind of a dick move.
I was addressing this:

>It's also that the US doesn't play games with it's currency,

Let's call a spade a spade. Sure, the US wasn't directly affecting rates. But a the time the financial world was burning, and people were flocking to (and holding) the Dollar for shelter. QE 1 2 and 3 were 600B, 600B and a monthly 85B. That much money put into the market keeps rates down simply because of supply influx.
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Yeah. I'm not suggesting that it's an A+ job well done. But at the same time, relative to the target they are, seems like they're doing something right.
Are we encouraging or shoving? Just the other day I heard a counselor tell a student she should enter tech not because she wanted to but because it was 'needed'.
With sensor fusion incorporating signals about position and velocity from devices like accelerometers, optical flow, lidar, and magnetometers, you can get better precision than the GPS alone and this is common to do in practice.
OSM is an incredibly impressive and useful project. It's gotten to the point where it is, at least for some locations, competitive with Google Maps.
The goal of software design practices precisely is to increase productivity.
Dependency injection (not talking about DI frameworks here) seems to be one of those practices that get ditched too easily, often by people who don't understand its benefits.
don't want to sound elitist but a lot of us will consider the driverless car successful if we get it working in places like california and ny and completely ignore rural areas
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I posted this elsewhere, but I think I intended to post it in response to your post:

Well, there are a few possible solutions, and they don't all involve corporate incentives:

1. Government regulation

2. Technical solutions (alternatives to communication that have end-to-end encryption, for example)

3. Eschew corporations entirely when it comes to our data and communications (i.e. open source and personal hardware solutions)

Personally, I think some combination of 2 and 3 is my ideal endgame, but we aren't there technically yet. 1 isn't really a great option either, because government is so controlled by corporate interests, and corporations will never vote to regulate themselves. But we can at least make some short term partial solutions with option 1 until technology enables 2 and 3.

However, none of these options will happen while people hold onto the naive idealism that the free market will solve all our problems.
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Aha, and you want to make servicename.localhost resolve there. That makes sense. Making plain "localhost" go somewhere special seems dubious.
Maybe my ignorance, but do they have services like left-pad-as-a microservice? I can't understand which 1000 microservices you can derive for a cab-renting application.
As long as you're interested in software development and that's why you get up in the morning, it doesn't matter how old you are.
EU copyright proposal reinforces DRM
AN-26 was hit with a MANPADS which cannot target altitude at which civilian airliners fly. No one at the time thought that Russia was crazy enough to supply the rebels with BUKs.
It is also possible to reduce the glycemic index of food by ingesting acetic acid (apple vinegar).

See: http://www.jbc.org/content/135/1/157.full.pdf

TL;DR Apple cider vinegar will decrease the glycemic index of food by interfering with carbohydrate digestion.
I'd argue it >is< a corporate problem, and the article we are looking at shows exactly why. There should be consequences for running a company in this manner, and there are not. The people who made this decision did it because they were protected from the damage they did.
To this add what I call "pre-breach failures of imagination". Most often manifesting itself as "Why would anyone hack us?"
Is it also socially awkward to use a gesture typing function like Swype? Because that's what many used before Speech to Text was so good and it's still faster than thumb typing.
$5 Million is hardly a hedge fund.
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To be fair to them, a developer preview is not the final shipping product, so it would not offer any guarantees anyway. It's better for them to test once the final code ships and educate their customers not to instantly upgrade just because Apple recommends it.
> After a short time you start to touch type; although it's possible with an iPhone too

On my Android phone, I've even begun "touch swiping," using swipe gestures without looking while leaning heavily on the autocompleter.
Display size is just a nice concrete example of something that seems quite harmless, but is not.

getClientRects is exactly the kind of thing that would be carelessly standardized by developers working for surveillance companies with little care for users' security. As I said, there is little reason for code supporting a web page to need that type of functionality. And if it "really" is needed, then the rendering specification needs to be based on a fully formalized algorithm (ala a networked game or Bitcoin) with every parameter quantified in bits. And yes, I realize how different from the current stack this would be.
Yes that's not good, but there's been no inflation as a result and the bonds the fed buys are freely tradable on the open market. Further the fed only trades on the secondary market so they wont directly bid in a Treasury auction. This isn't too bad picturing it. I assume if there is inflation there will be a problem so long as its not overdone like in the late 1970s.

There's more vexing things that would affect this perception such as the credit rating, especially with so much debt. Yet History says the managers in government, and the Fed are good at their jobs. So even despite the QE perception on money printing the issues with this haven't been much of an issue, or it would have shown up with a weaker dollar/diversification away from USD on central bank's balance sheets
Realm supports AES-256 encryption so you can encrypt your data at rest and then SSL/TLS for security in transit.

Realm Object Server supports the ability to control which users can access which Realms, supporting for example shared Realms among users to power collaborative experiences like the drawing app in our demo video. The client side APIs to manage these permissions weren't exposed in this release but will be coming soon in the beta.
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