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I want to point out that this measure does not take effect until there is actual open housing in which to send homeless folks. They cannot be told to leave otherwise. Since there is no funding for new housing in this measure, there is some chance the removal measures outlined here will never get to be used. This means shelter will be guaranteed to anyone who is told to leave.

That said, my political club voted against this measure because the 24 hour time frame is way too short and does not meet federal standards for managing homeless population. It takes more time to engage with a homeless person and negotiate what sort of help would be best for them.
If I've sifted through the hyperbolic language correctly... I still don't see how this relates to IoT products at all. Can anyone explain the connection to me?
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The music industry also went to DRM-free several years ago (all the stores sell unencumbered MP3 or AAC or some lossless codec); video content has not yet caught up.
"... President Obama is a big Star Trek nerd."

I feel validated! If POTUS can be a trekkie without being ridiculed then so can I. :D
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There won't be breaking changes from 3.3->3.5, so the code changes are the same either way. I guess skipping a release saves the effort of making the release/prioritizing things that appeared in 3.4.
Or nuclear tipped cruise missiles on ships or in-air bombers. The nuclear triad is still unbeatable.

The article is pretty terrible in general. Hypersonics won't change the balance of anything, especially considering what a decent sized one can do. If you're delivering nuclear-levels of destruction with hypersonics then your opponent will retaliate with nuclear weapons. There will be no exception for "Oh, you used hypersonics on us, that's cool." If anything, hypersonics make the nuclear option more likely and nation states will be wary on ever using them on another nuclear power.

The article does play up a 'Russia/China will soon dominate the US' nonsense that gets ad impressions, but if these weapons ever hit a US carrier or city, then a nuclear response will be the most likely scenario. The development of these weapons has been pretty slow and no one is sabre-rattling with them for a reason. They'll fall under the category of weapons of mass destruction, which is probably what all the major powers want because the alternative is yet another arms race, on top of the low simmering nuclear arms race that exists today.
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We're not artificial, but we're general intelligence. However, we don't have the ability to rapidly improve ourselves in exponential ways, or to debug and self-improve our thought processes in fundamental ways, or even to multiplicatively improve ourselves by running on faster hardware. We can't perfectly and instantaneously transfer knowledge between people, and we lose large quantities of knowledge and experience by the hundred-fifty-thousand per day.

An AGI doesn't have to reach physical limits of intelligence (if there are any) to rapidly become far more intelligent than humans.
Who do you think does the negotiations? It's lawyers on both sides.
I think you are missing the point. No one wants the homeless to live on the sidewalks, but there isn't a better place for them to go right now. Given that, any proposal removing them from the sidewalks is only going to make their lives more difficult unless it also provides for a alternative, which this bill doesn't do.
It would be ideal if they wouldn't have to spend time, but just because things don't work it doesn't mean you're now entitled to take something you didn't pay for.

If the blender I bought doesn't work I should be able to take it back to store and get a refund. But just because I spent 30 minutes driving back to store, that doesn't mean I can just take another one from the shelves and walk out without paying.
ICBMs are held in mutual check by MAD.

US enjoys conventional dominance due to ability to project conventional force anywhere. This capability is in part supported by the ability to effectively shield remote force projection platforms from conventional threats. (For atomic, see MAD.)

HS conventional weapons can neutralize the defensive shields. This undermines the projection platforms. That would make US insecure. If it insists on remaining hegemon, it needs to shoot its load first. So, destablizing.

HS conventional and nuclear armed weapons look and act the same. An HS projectile coming your way gives you a short window of time to determine if it is conventional or atomic. Not a good time to toss coins. Shoot off atomic load first. Destabilizing.

That is the thesis.
Yeah but you really don't need "UX designers" to tell you any of that, nor can UX designers fix it.
This is what I use, and I love how responsive the Amazon FireTV remote is. I have the FireTV hidden behind my TV and the remote works from anywhere in the room regardless of if I'm pointing it at the device or not.
I agree. I was working at a somewhat large IT company (~30k employees) this year. I made a plea for React and while our development section agreed, it got bounced by legal because of these points.

If Facebook is really serious about Open Source, they also have to make their licence so that every organisation is free to use it.
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>>>But I suspect that people don’t ask those questions because, after trying a time or two and getting no answers or wrong answers, they just give up on Siri.
<<<

Absolutely this. I mean, you try a few of this these "long tail" queries and you eventually say "Fuck it!" I attempt these "long tail" queries (which to me, that term sounds like some shitty play-it-down excuse from Apple) weekly just to see if Apple is finally getting their act together in regards to Siri usefulness. I am consistently disappointed and never surprised and delighted.

I try to screenshot "Siri fails". Here are the last few in my screenshot album:

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"Open last screenshot" → "You don't seem to have an app named 'last screenshot' We could see if the App Store has it [App Store]"

"Share this with my wife" (Photo was open in Photos.app) → "I'm sorry Joe, I'm afraid I can't do that"

"When is the last time I exercised" → "Interesting Question, Joe"

"What year was this song recorded" (In Music app with song playing) → "Interesting question, Joe"

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We're living in a world where we can do more and more without using the screen as an interface. It's happening. I'm worried that Siri is a low priority product for Apple right now and they will soon be scrambling to play catch up if they aren't already.

EDIT: I'm hoping that Apple's recent buddying up with IBM allows for some of Watson's intellect to seep into Siri. Who knows, maybe in a future keynote we'll hear Tim say, "Ladies and gentlemen, Watson is coming to your Mac and iPhone!"
Which makes sense. Think of how unfair it would be to those who actually paid for a house.
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What about true MVCC?
It's for services available to the public. So if you wanted to build a site that required payment to sign up you could do so.
Oberon ship has sailed long time ago. I still like it, but that is just a nostalgia thing.

It was a great experience in the mid-90's, but a modern language in 2016 requires much more that what it offered, hence why I eventually got disappointed with Go's feature set.

I would rather see Ada, SPARK, Swift, Rust, ATS, Idris, F*, Formal Methods or whatever else that ensures that our code runs on top of solid foundations.
To add clarification:

FASTER is a 6-fiber pair system, with 10Tbps (Half Duplex) across each individual fiber (I.e. 10Tbps tx on one fiber and 10Tbps rx on the other)

MAREA is an 8-fiber pair system with 20Tbps (Half Duplex) across each individual fiber (I.e. 20Tbps tx on one fiber and 20Tbps rx on the other)

This test was a single fiber test, with 65Tbps (Half duplex) across an individual fiber. It could be used to make a 65Tbps per fiber pair cable system.

FASTER does this with 100x 100Gbps waves, MAREA will need 100x 200Gbps waves. It's a shorter cable, so a higher modulation scheme can be used (and newer technology by the time it's installed).
$10 a month.

$10 a month.

$10 a month.

I'm repeating this because this is something that seems to be escaping people here. You're paying $10 a month for access to a massive library of content. Having every popular movie available for instant streaming is worth WAY more than $10 a month. If you want to watch recent blockbusters and popular movies, you can rent them on Amazon or iTunes.

To the people using this to morally justify their pirating, give me a break. Renting/buying movies on Amazon or iTunes couldn't be easier. The only problem is that you would rather steal than pay.
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> hoping it would be suitable for my kids (10 & 13), but having half its content in footnotes killed it as a kid friendly book.

I remember being exactly that old as your kids, absolutely hating the books that were specially made to be "kids friendly."

Because I was aware that the books existed that weren't dumbed-down. That the grown ups were reading. And of course I wanted as soon as possible to be one of those. And I liked to see and learn the details when the topic interested me. That included pictures, diagrams and footnotes.

So from the point of view of me, age 10-13: I hate your approach to your kids (that were the words of me then, maybe I'd more polite now).

I can imagine that your kids actually need some "kids friendly" books as seen as such by the parents, but you should honestly ask yourself if there's your responsibility for that too. I know my nieces also prefer the material for grownups, if it interests them.

I know what I didn't like at that time: the long fiction books about some people who lived hundred years ago, at the times when everything was different. I didn't care to read about what some lieutenant of some non existing army said to some young aristocrat woman in some country I never saw, at the ball that actually never happened, but that the author invented to pass the point and obscure the relation to the now long-dead people he knew, and how the author thought the woman thought about it etc. But reading details about something, if I was interested at the topic, more of that please.

So if something is not kids friendly, it's more that the kids don't care too much about history, and they even more can detect if something is "modern" or not. You know, the parents are already the generation that "doesn't get it."

My position: if the kids don't like something, fine. But don't decide for them.
>"There's a lot of legal overhead per country, unfortunately." //

Which it's worth remembering is entirely self-imposed by the industry.

Why, if Netflix comes along and says "we want to give you more money by showing this media to Swedes too" do the media conglomerates not fallover themselves to make it happen. It needs a couple of checkboxes on a form somewhere.
Yeah, an arbitrageur would buy SolarCity and short Tesla. So that isn't a risk for them.
I just asked mine 'what color is the sky', and it gave a reasonable answer, which is sourced from NASA.

Might be a lack of corpus? Idk. Seems like if they could perfectly solve translate, that wouldn't be an issue heh heh (strong if).
Similar thought, but in cities, I'd prefer to cross major streets and make left turns at signaled intersections. I might save 2 minutes on my 30 minute commute, but those are incredibly risky and stressful maneuvers. I use my GPS because it has saved me from an hour of traffic more than once, but I don't need to risk my life to save 30 seconds.
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> Just the whole filesystem layout of the C:\Users\<username> is weird. It's as if Windows have gone to create lengths to hide the "home folder", for no apparent reason.

I don't understand this. It seems less hidden than C:\Documents And Settings\<username>. In fact, it seems fairly prominent to me. Where could they put it that would be less hidden?
I build car dashboard software. You are right. The SW is shit. Exceptions, from what i've head are Volvo and Daimler. Don't know the kind of resources Tesla puts into their SW and am not sure if it's not just hype.
It's interesting to see how kids have adapted to the slide deck as a form of writing documents.

It seems to be a lot more intuitive and creative for them (draw a text box here, drag-and-drop a picture there) than the traditional word processing model, which was taken from typewriters when you think about it. We're two generations past using those anymore.

At first glance my thoughts were "shit, we're raising a generation of kids that will communicate solely through awful Powerpoint presentations and clip art", but in reality they've just adapted the tool that works best for them.
Do you have a lot of SQL servers? If not, why not just get proc licenses?
Obviously there's still a long way to go, but yes, Google is working on everything you suggest and more.

This is actually Google's bread and butter, and why Mossberg found so many cases where Google Now does better than Siri. It's not clear how Apple can catch up, either, given Google's massive advantage in training data.
That's your choice and I disagree. Nevertheless, my main point was that it's one person's opinion. Linking to some kind of study or survey would have been useful. Linking to some restaurant critic's opinion about not-restaurant-food is silly.
So if the market hasn't updated the prices to match yet, does that mean most people don't believe it will go through?
I think for your customers the conversion rate counts. Do you have some customers where you can take the date and show the benefits of your service in terms of real profit examples?
The first release of Node.js was in 2009. "Old" is relative.

Nearly all modern JavaScript build tools are built on Node.js and NPM pre-dates most of them.

The only other thing I can think of that has seen as many shifts in JS development practices as NPM is Express (*2009) and that library has far smaller complexity and has arrived at a drastic reduction in features and a far tighter scope.

The NPM client on the other hand was originally cobbled together by Isaac and then grew organically as the NPM registry massively grew over the months and years of node's success.

The NPM client and registry are the epitome of technical debt. Calling it "old" is the most charitable way to phrase this.
I skip breakfast as well. I only eat one meal per day, which is the double dinner in the late evening - except for occasional "social eating". I also semi-regularly skip 2-3 days of eating to let the system repair itself (usually increases mental focus and well-being even more).

It took about 3 weeks to get over the withdrawal effect of sugar and what you might call detox (I was the biggest sugar junkie in the world - and had an attention span of 15 minutes tops). That stuff was rough. When the cravings stopped it took about a month or two before the benefits really started to show. After six months / a year it was second nature. Been doing it for 6+ years now. The benefits are so great that I would never consider going back.

It's important to note that you'll have to eat a fat-focused diet (paleo / keto). No sugar, low on carbs. Otherwise you won't get the benefit of not thinking about food, which is essential. After a certain amount of carbs your body will drop out of ketosis and you will get cravings - and that requires will, which drains resources. If you're successful at that your body will after a while get really good at leveraging fat as its main fuel, resulting in even keel energy.

I do this for mental clarity, focus and other health benefits, so I have no experience with the weight loss part. I've been 75kg since I was 17 (30 now) and my weight has never fluctuated more than 1-2kg, regardless of how much I eat. People would say that I eat a lot though. I also rarely exercise (at least hard).

Edit: typo
That's not the point either. The point is that if I asked you, a human, "Who is Tim Cook" and you replied "123-555-1212" or "tim@apple.com" I would be a little dumbfounded.

If I'm asking the question - maybe a friend is nearby who doesn't know them and I'm too lazy to explain - then I want to know who they are, not what their contact info is.
SQL sever doesn't have a "Data center" license.

You would license SQL sever on a core based licensing model, which doesn't use CAL's.

If anyone can purchase a login to your website, that's still classed as public. What its means is internal apps require licenses.
Linux is the only (albeit unfeasible) choice left...
Its already the case that as the camps get larger, the police come in with city trucks to force everyone out, then they remove the trash and sometimes seem to steam wash the area.

Removal seems to be roughly based on the proximity of the camp to retail/residential, and the size of the camp. This has been going on since at least the 90s, although the camps are larger and more visible in the last few years.

As a result the homeless kind of blow around, try to find an inconspicuous spot, and hang on until they are ousted again. I've known several people with palette and tarp covered homes tucked away in corners in light industrial areas hang onto a spot for 3 or more years. But usually, a tent on the sidewalk (or a barely running tan RV) establishes a safe place for more tents/RVs/vans/etc and the cycle continues.

Once there are a few people living in a spot, the police become regular visitors because of all the fighting, human waste, theft, etc. Residents constantly call in complaints hoping to raise the bar enough to get them removed.

Since the police are already spending a huge amount of time trying to manage and break down camps, how is this law going to help?
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Because voice recognition from all the major providers goes at it completely backwards, being ready to answer any of the world's questions in every situation.

In the real world nothing goes like this. We start with context and work outwards from there. And I don't mean know-everything-about-your-personal-life context, there's no need for that either.

I'd say more but that is what I am solving at Optik. We're a bit over a year into development and things are really starting to pick up. Using Cortana in the Hololens is making it painfully obvious just how close but how far off the mark remains most voice command software.
I sure hope someone releases a good public GPU miner in time for launch, otherwise the distribution is going to be quite unfair.
If there's money behind the case, lawyers will sue anyways, arguing that the IP shell is a related entity whose actions can be reflected upon the parent.
I have an idea: they should pass a law which forbids homeless people from setting up tents anyplace except certain zones. Those zones will be located in and around the very wealthiest neighborhoods in SF. Any violators will be simply moved to these locations. No funding is even necessary, only the designation of various places (like parks) in the wealthy neighborhoods as OK for homeless people to set up tents and camps.

I predict this would solve the homelessness problem in SF pretty quickly.
Ok, so expanding on that, the problem becomes this:

1) You create a successful app using React

2) Facebook blatantly copies your app.

3) You can't sue Facebook
Yes. It's essentially mirroring the phone screen so you've got to focus on watching movie or a show and not worry about playing with the phone notifications. That's a trade-off.
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That's awesome! I'm a Vim user, but that's a tempting feature.
I think it addresses number three too! If I can live anywhere I want, I can buy anyhouse I want, and sell it to someone who is looking for similar house-features instead of location, location, location.
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I suspect the downvotes (I didn't, but I can see why someone would) are related to the impression you're giving that this is useless in its entirety because it isn't something that is perfect for you.

> But you need to reboot on install, updates and uninstall,

this may be true, but can be mitigated with planning.
MS's patch cycle is some predicatable multiple of "weekly" (I think it's either every thursday or every second thursday, whatever)

Our tech team schedules one member to work from midnight to 2 AM on "patch day"

As an alternative you could architect for rolling updates across load-balanced systems.

I'm not personally fussed about the drawbacks either way, the mitigation is easily planned for. It becomes a part of the cost-benefit analysis.

Now consider the world of containers, startup is actually ridiculously quick. In addition they need to be patched far less frequently. They have less "cruft" from the get go.

I'd recommend this entire video, but this graph highlights some of the advantages: https://youtu.be/XVtsw-uzovA?t=500

70% fewer reboots required on containers. 90% fewer critical patches.

> all these operations that can take up to two hours for no reason.

the workflow can be: spin up the newly pathed server while the old one is running, then "flip the switch" so new requests point to the patched machine.

They both point to the same physical files. When the old machine finishes its current cycle, it shuts down gracefully.

Fully mitigated by a container workflow.

> And the express edition is capped at 10gb db.

yes, but this is not actually something that needs to be all things to all people, or even something specifically for you.
It still has value.

The express edition is intended to be used by developers and "small data" applications.

I don't see what the express edition license is from this link, but I'm sure it is expressly not intended to be an enterprise database.

If I were downvoting you, it would likely be because you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater on this.

Once we get SQLSERVER running in containers, there's nothing to say we can't swap out to the enterprise edition virtually seamlessly.

> So, no, SQL server is nothing better than alternatives at least if you aren't in the big ones and DBA is your job.

Again, you're coming across as crapping on "a good thing" because it isn't the perfect thing for you. That comes across as petulant, selfish, and irrational ... all of which tend to be features that the Hacker News community prides itself on edit: discouraging.

So, with respect, I'd suggest you're not getting downvoted for "facts" but for "tone"

Even your follow up comes across as, I almost want to say "entitled"

I'm sorry, I don't want to start a flame war with you, but I'm letting you know what my "read" of your post comes across as.

If you're offended by it I'm happy to delete.