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I don't think this is true, corporations do bad things, and there are bad corporations, but no corporation has anywhere near the power of a state. Corporations can't force you to give them an arbitrary amount of your income the way the revenue service can. Corporations can't kill or imprison people. Corporations can't control and set rules on currency. Corporations can't regulate industrial practices or limit others from participating in the market.

In fact, corporations are actually creations of government. Corporations would not exist were it not for laws defining certain times of companies with limited liability for owners.
Also according to some benchmarks net core os the fastest "mainstream framework" beating node 4x.
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What is the ratio between public and private cloud data centers is in terms of server count / data center count etc?

I think the amount of enterprise DC's / colocation facilities is pretty stable but that almost all of the growth is in public cloud. Don't have any data to back this up though.
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I think that's why poor countries suffer so much. Our rulers don't understand basic economy and money. Look at Venezuela right now or Brazil. Our rulers think they can just print money and distribute it.

But the truth is: money is just a tool, a way to get something.

In your example, there's no point in giving a million dollars to the homeless, it would make much more sense to make the $3 loaf cost 0,3 cents. Now everybody can buy it.

But if you just drop money in the lap of somebody that doesn't know how to produce value and change this value for money, those who produce the real value and owns the means to produce it will still making more money from those who can't produce.

To solve that: take the homeless, provide basic care and opportunities for him start to produce value. Then the money will come.
Why would Microsoft do that? As right now, the blog looks like a site dedicated to photography and Apple.
This article paints it as if we're replacing it all with wind power. Actually we have quite big nuclear power plant projects underway. Still, sunsetting coal power is a great target and can't come fast enough.
Were it true that you had control over your governments you would have control over the companies would you not, as it is the government that regulates and controls companies.
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I think he's referring to traders paying for colocation in the exchange data centre.
It's economy is going to fail like almost every MMORPG economy because they only cover the supply side but not the demand side. Since every item is a commodity which is mostly obtained incidentially there are a lot of sellers that sell low quantities of that item. They don't care a lot about losing a bit of money they want liquidity. there is usually a limit on simultaneous sell orders which means you cant sell anything at all if you don't prioritise liquidity or have high quantities. The easiest way to quickly sell your items is to just price your item lower than everyone else. When everyone is doing this the value of the commodity is quickly plummeting far below the price most buyers are willing to pay. Heck I've seen items that cost less than the money NPCs would give to you (premium users can access the market place anywhere outside a city and they dont want to go to the NPC) This gives rise to traders that buy these cheap commodities and then sell them for the market clearing price. The simple solution would be to just reflect the demand side as well. Allow players to issue buy orders like "I want x of item y. I pay z for each." on the central marketplace. Those who need liquidity get it and those who want fair prices to sell their items at get them too.
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I've seen this crop up a few times recently and a vocal minority seems to panic every time. I ran into it the other day installing pm2 w/ npm which downloads an optional package that they use for analytics
https://github.com/Unitech/pm2/blob/master/package.json#L184

Is the problem that they are using google's service? Is it the tracking that people don't like? Is it the messaging/copy to the users? I'm sure there's plenty of people on hacker news that build analytics software for a living. I've worked on email click and open tracking. Doesn't seem terrible if it helps them build their product.
It's kinda ambiguous: it could mean either "a meager 750k" or "a meager top 1%".
The real losers will be those who can't manage their money.
As others have noted, this blog uses an approach to data modeling that is considered an anti pattern for an AP data store like Cassandra.
I agree with this. Also note that GA's terms disallow the sending of personable identifiable information so the data they collect has to be anonymous (see https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2795983?hl=en).
Is there an archive?
This topic has been discussed on The Changelog recently:
https://changelog.com/podcast/223

If I recall correctly, opt-out was chosen because they really want/need some analytics data and most of the users would not opt-in.
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Better become they then.
The implosion design is more about offering a way to turn a non-critical mass into a critical mass on demand, since you don't want the thing going off the instant you finish manufacturing it.

The "problem" (scare quotes because, really, something being less efficient than it could be at wiping out a city in a single go is hard to frame as a problem) of the bomb blowing itself apart before most of the fissile material has a chance to undergo fission is believed to be solved by other methods.
You're right. In fact, late 30s and early 40s is generally when people traditionally started companies.

But when I say "start up culture" I basically mean "silicon valley startup culture" and HN is basically that and its fan club. Mostly the latter. It is the difference between being part of "the gig economy" and just a part time/contract worker.

Yeah, there are some older people around here, just like there are at reddit and the like. But just reading and engaging in threads, it is very clear that this also skews pretty young.

And a large part of it is that the people who are in their 30s and beyond tend to either not have time to hang out on a message board and discuss things with kids in college (in my defense, I am between projects and killing time).
Makes me wonder why they don't just invest all the money under management in that fund.

Edit: They are capped and take out profits...so I wonder if the cap is the magic or if they use better algorithms for their private fund (only natural since it's their own money). They would have the same inputs (their data sets, infrastructure, programming language etc.) so I wonder if they have two very different models (<=10 billion and >10 billion) or how those are linked.
If you are handling data that is subject to national regulations concerning personal data (e.g., health care) using a cloud provider for all your needs is risky and might not be legal. If you use one of the big-name (and therefore affordable) providers such as Amazon, your data may very well fall under America's Patriot Act — there is a lot of legal uncertainty about this. If I go with a local party instead, there is also no guarantee that this company in turn won't branch out to the US, or get bought up by an American company, again putting citizen's private data in reach of (in my case) foreign governments.
Another way of thinking about this is marginal value. Imagine a world where person X has a heart attack and the next best person qualified to do their job steps in and paid their wage demands. The fall in social benefits less change in wages is their marginal contribution.

For Einstein, this is presumably astronomical.

For the best primary school teachers this will also be high (it might be low/negative for some of the worst).

These are not directly relevant to the question of whether the quant traders have a positive marginal contribution to society.
Another traditional US ally re-aligning itself between the two major spheres of influence. The balance will tip further in China's favor as the USA recedes further from global development.

What's interesting is if you look at the parallel international institutions that China are developing that will compete with the IMF et al, many of the partners are traditional and very close allies of the United States.

For ex. with the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank, six of the top ten participants are all traditional very close allies of the United States - including Australia, France, the UK and South Korea[0]

Long before Trump, Obama lobbied the leaders of these nations and advised against joining the AIIB, to no avail[1] All that post-war development and planning of building up the US sphere of influence slowly and steadily fading away.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Infrastructure_Investmen...

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-asia-bank-idUSKBN0M...
I think that Second Life (still running, and where you can still trade in-game money for real money see: https://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/B...) is a better example than Diablo 3
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She'll never do a day. She knows all the right people to pull the right levers. The privilege of wealth.
What about privacy? Our company doesn't use a cloud provider for that exact reason.
If the method was specifically targeted at high-crime neighbourhoods, the chance of an accurate match would presumably increase. You could also map the entire population of a country and detect previously unknown "criminal" hotspots. Both are awful, authoritarian ideas, but would potentially give useful information to support regular policing.

Thankfully, the most likely application of this technology I can see in the near-future is someone making an app that scores your face for criminality.
I completely agree with you, but think your comment should be moderated down from 'They produce nothing usable', to 'They are paid exorbitant amounts compared to the value the produce for society as a whole'.

"but they manage your retirement fund", really? do they? last I checked there are algorithms running the entire show and making sure I and every other little investor get screwed for every 10th of a cent so that a few investors at the top who already have loads of money can have more. They've made a game out of moving money and skimming a bit off the top all the time. Let's not forget that they are actually taking money from your 401k every time they make these trades. Let's not pretend the financiers care about you, the little guy.

Another comment mentioned that YC is in finance, but let's be clear, YC is financing start-up businesses and helping them to grow. They're small finance. When I buy a share in Facebook, I'm not helping it grow, I'm betting on it's growth and the big finance industry is just the casino.
Looks like the 10k goal has already been reached :)
You know...you can already get analytics if your mirrors just agree to share logs. It may not be as detailed or complete, for sure, but using another analytical tools does feel a little superfluous.

> Is the problem that they are using google's service?

This is part of it I think. The brew devs get stats, but so does Google which they can aggregate across everything. Standing up your own analytics server/cluster, especially for a project the size of brew, wouldn't be trivial and I can see why they leverage Google's service.

But I can understand people not wanting to have data sent to Google. I moved everything off Gmail to my own E-mail server back in 2013 and moved search to DuckDuckGo.
God help them if they ever visit Chicago...
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Please make it opt in. If you truly believe people closely read the prompts for having their data harvested, a default to "No" should not impact you at all.

If you don't believe they read the prompts closely, you're an asshole for stealing data by default.
Were it all about resources it would show up in the data with more investment in resource-rich nations, which it doesn't [0]:

> According to her data, the top 20 African nations in which China is involved include not only commodity-rich nations such as Nigeria and South Africa, but commodity-poor nations like Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda.

> the largest deals — which tend to be government-to-government — do in fact involve infrastructure projects and natural resources. Those are the deals that make headlines. But, she asserted, they tend to skew the total reality. When looking at all Chinese firms that invested in Africa between 1998 and 2012, she said a picture emerges of small- and medium-sized private Chinese firms whose activities have nothing to do with commodities. “The number-one industry, in fact, is in services. It’s business services; it’s wholesale and retail,”

There's a separate question of how robust the environmental controls, etc. are - but a lot of that is up to the local governments.

They're going to take the sweet deals rather than the more onerous US terms and all their requirements.

The article below is a great read - it talks about how the African nations are including more stipulations in deals - such as quotas for local employment, educational investment etc.

[0] http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/chinas-investment...
Know and ability to spell are two completely different things.
- Random text editing? Sublime text. Fast, multi platform, native, great plugins, and I've paid for it, else I might have used Atom ;-)

- HTML/JS Coding? VS Code - not native but still pretty fast and has many things that make developing wonderful such as Intellisense and Git integration.

- Remote config editing? Vi or Vim, it is fast and it is always there for you.

- CLJS or Clojure tinkering? LightTable, with its immediate feedback is great for trying out Clojure ideas.

- The power of the old gods + a bit of finger speed and sanity? Spacemacs. It combines the speed of Vim with the power of an Emacs Lisp environment, plus has many amazing plugins (looking at you, org-mode), and also works on a remote host.

- On Windows? Well, Notepad++ is not bad. It can deal with pretty large files better than many other editors.
I bought both NVIDIA and AMD. AMD has a big GPU patent portfolio as well. AMD trades at about 1/5th NVIDIA and could be a takeover target for a bigger player trying to move into AI.

In my opinion NVIDIA needs a moat. CUDA is a good start but they need proprietary data that's hard to create. I thought they should buy Yahoo which would give them a large and unique data set that NVIDIA users could tie into through an API.
What was concretely better in the India of 1750 than today?

Communications? Medicine? Nutrition? Science? Housing? Civil rights? Arts? Life span?
They are blatantly admitting they are stealing user data then if they realize most users aren't reading the prompts and accept the defaults (data harvesting in this case).
Yes we know. brew tells you that. And you can disable it. Data is being sent to Google everytime you do almost anything in almost all websites, using the same technology. So what?

Some of the times it's to make the product better, or better targeted. Some other times it's just for spying on the users.

Let's stop complaining about stuff that someone does and tell you they do it. There are many more that do the same things without telling you.

Furthermore, now that you know, for brew specifically, will you opt out? Is your brew command history so secret that you care more about noone looking at it than helping making brew better? Chances are you use brew quite often. Chances are brew is not perfect. Will you choose to make its progress slower because of no real security reason?

How do we expect open source to become better if everyone is being a crybaby because brew got a history of how often they do brew update?
If this is so good, make it out in. Out out is dishonest.
Africa is so corrupt; I don't need to provide a link. Their will be no win-win.
Sorry for the hijack, but what's the state of .NET Core development on Linux? I'm dominantly a Java/Scala dev (although using other langauges) and I'm kinda used to working on Linux...
Anyone reading this from the UK: don't lose hope. You can change things. The recent uptick in fascism in the UK is really disheartening but your voice needs to be heard.

For example, they tried to bring in censorship in Australia and failed. Change is possible. Don't be a pushover. You must fight.
Well, I've paid several times more than my welfare and education cost already so I'm square.

From now on I'm like anyone else. Could be up, could be down. But in this great civilization, we share the risk.
Simply use Atom Syndication Format instead of RSS.
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> ... which is, of course, silly. And the author should know that.

This is not sufficient to explain to people why there are no rich conspirators hiding wealth. Mind you, I mostly agree with you. But I personally feel we need to have as simple as possible, verifiable, non debated arguments before we are allowed to think of things as silly.

> ... which is, of course, silly. And the author should know that, since I assume he is aware of $clear_refutation

Otherwise we either delude yourselves or dismiss others
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God I hate leaf blowers.

Interestingly when I went to Beijing recently I was pleasantly surprised at the absence of noisy gardening machines. The streets were much cleaner there and the landscaping noticeably better. I think I want to move there now.

Coming back to the US I feel like this is a poor third-world country now.
That's how you make friends once you actually work at the place.
I'm on an xps 13 2016 and it runs just fine.
Guess you just have to upgrade. /s
Agreed. Just finished watching this. It's definitely worth spending an hour of your morning on listening to what these two giants (mostly Kay) have to say.
'Stealing' data? Is that like 'stealing' by downloading a movie?
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Calling it theft feels a bit hyperbolic.
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> The fact that "100 most commonly used, make up 50% of written words" (a dubious statistic, source?) is irrelevant.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_common_words_in_English for a claim. It is what teachers use as a guideline. It's the first 100 words they teach children to write.

> the idea is you use a mnemonic generator to pick the words.

I know you are supposed to use a generator to pick the words, that is how BIP39 for bitcoin works. But average Joe is not going to do that. He will select "I went to highschool in 1992". Authentication is a hard problem, and unless you force a reasonable scheme, it will be weak.
I find it only natural. The free-ish market is one of the greatest things about humankind. I find the complexity, information movements etc. highly fascinating. Trying to beat the market essentially means that you're very interested in how mankind works at a core level. Academically that's very interesting and it's nice that the tokens you use to keep track of how successful you are happen to be money.

Additionally at least in theory they do help allocating capital to better uses which has giant leverage effects on the economy as a whole. I'd argue more efficient capital allocation and innovation (in the Schumpeterian sense) are both very valuable. I couldn't make a value judgment of what's more valuable tbh
Privacy erodes one complacent action at a time. Every time people secretly (if it weren't subversive the default would be opt-in) funnel information off to Google or some other massive aggregation point, we should raise hell rather than bending over and accepting this hostile behavior.
i guess if you would make the battery smaller you could fit a raspberry pi inside it, and perhaps thats exactly what they've done..
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While factual, the title is a bit misleading. Brew uses Google Analytics and prompts you to inform you that it does so.
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"Exfiltrating" would be a better word here.

(Also, downloading a movie is a different thing - there you're not stealing nor exfiltrating anything, you're downloading data as intended by uploader, who may or may not have the copyrights for that data.)

(INB4, ripping a DVD and uploading it is not data theft. Exfiltrating a pre-release copy from movie company's servers would be data theft.)
Not necessarily, but it will be harder work reverse-engineering what OEMs do without the modified kernel source releases
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No, it's like stealing personally identifying information and sending it to the world's largest ad company.
This doesn't "predict criminals", it predicts those who will be convicted of a crime, which is not the same thing. Suppose that people have an unconscious prejudice against those with eyes set close together. They will be disproportionately convicted, and this neural net will find the correlation.
What are double binds?
I am from Pakistan and I really wish it was the US. I wish they had spent 1/10th of the money on development they spent on the war. This could have been something that brought stability and more US influence in the region. I think China will reap all the benefits now.
Obviously it's not prominent enough then.
We have to start somewhere. Opt in should always be the standard.
Data isn't being sent when I use most of my developer tooling. When I visit a website, I expect it's going to be inundated with garbage analytics so I use things like ublock and noscript.

What I don't expect is a package manager siphoning off data to Google.
I need to play devil's advocate here -- and hoping everyone will stop and think about this in a more practical way for a minute. This has less to do with VR/AR, and more to do with pre-existing overlap:

o What if Tesla is interested in improving sensory accuracy for its self-driving vehicle program?

o What if Tesla is interested in Hololens' pixel greying on transparent surfaces?

This seems like the most viable use of this kind of tech in a car. In an extreme case I could see something like head/eye tracking on the windshield, though that isn't in any way guaranteed or even necessarily practically useful.

Improving external sensor accuracy, or even pixel shading on transparent surfaces, however, is probably a FAR bigger overlap between Hololens and Telsa, than anything for augmented reality. Hololens has immense requirements for sensory precision and pixel blacking, and I could see why Tesla would look to an industry expert to carry over any useful architectural guidance for that.
People advocate so fervently for privacy, but can't be bothered to read a prompt...
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> Data is being sent to Google everytime you do almost anything in almost all websites using the save technology

No, it's not. µblock, µmatrix + clean links.
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I'd like to see what human recognition would be as a null hypothesis. You could also block out certain features to see what's driving the decision making here.
Does google simply have access to you analytics data to do whatever they want? I was under the impression that they could only use it in ways that you the account holder defines.