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Oh God, that sounds an awful lot like two more Australian systems: the Queensland Health payroll debacle, where a bunch of health workers were paid incorrectly or not at all. Or the National Disability Insurance Scheme debacle, where healthcare providers haven't been paid, resulting in small business owners having to take out huge amounts of personal debt just to pay their employees, and sole traders unable to provide services their clients need to live day to day while still keeping a roof over their own heads. (They're both IBM projects too.)
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Sweden has a whole bunch of not-yet-electrified lines - just not where most people are: http://www.jarnvag.net/component/customproperties/tag?cp[omr...
> implement that load of bollocks

They are retrospectively making legal things which have been going on for years.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/28/gchq-mass-su...
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How ironic.

All these are "slogans" aimed at lightning up broken minds.

And "we" resonate with them i.e. we really have broken minds.

Taking this talk seriously means getting together, working hard at making computer science a... science. Finding problems worth solving not solving problems we can solve (or worse, that we do not/should not have).

How hard it is to do that with broken, insulting, narrow minded (autistic to some degree) and violent minds (think of high priests of lower cults)?

The fact that these ideas did not take off (or wrongly: Java, "modern" GUI that initially targeted 8yo children, iPad which is a lying Dynabook) makes you wonder: despite the obvious and useful function that computation could satisfy, i.e. infusing the most powerful ideas into young children & advancing these ideas:
What in the world is holding us back?
Can we break loose?
I disagree there are finite number of error classes that lead to attackers disrupting your software/hardware. Code injection is just one of many possible ways to gain control of your computer.
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The list of agencies that will have access without any form of court order or warrant is truly terrifying. I had not realised it was so severe. It was promoted as being something that can only be "responsibly accessed". But this does not appear to be the case at all?

I'm concerned that information gathered from this will be used in court prematurely to perform "character assassination". And as we know, UK courts have a public gallery full of news reporters searching for juicy stories.
> "Data-around-shufflers" would be more appropriate

In the French language we have "calculateur" which is the direct translation of "computer" but only commonly used in the context of scientific computing, and "ordinateur" which is the common name for computers... The meaning of "ordinateur" pretty close to "data-around-shufflers", from latin ordino ‎(“to order, to organize”) - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ordinateur: "in its application to computing, [ordinateur] was coined by the professor of philology Jacques Perret in a letter dated 16 April 1955, in response to a request from IBM France, who believed the word calculateur was too restrictive in light of the possibilities of these machines (this is a very rare example of the creation of a neologism authenticated by dated letter)"
Nothing to hide? Notwithstanding that Cardinal Richelieu died in 1642, his threat should be wheeled out regularly:

"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him".
> If you can't be bothered to turn something off, why would you be bothered to turn it on?

If people aren't turning telemetry on, do you think they really want to send you data in the first place?

What you are doing is exploiting users assumptions of how normal CLI tools behave. They don't assume it's going to relay my information back to google when I use it.

Your entire argument essentially boils down to, "I'm sure I can get away with taking my users' information by making it the default behavior with a buried notification and I can placate people who care about privacy with an opt-out."

Your entire justification doesn't even mention privacy or caring about users, it only mentions dealing with pesky users who care to get your user-base higher and promote your product. You clearly have very loose ethics when it comes to privacy so I don't think there is much we will agree on. I just hope one day this behavior will be shunned enough that it will stop due to market forces before something like the EU regulates it away.
I have to disagree here. PalmOS was never intended to be a phone OS, but WebOS was absolutely awesome, many years ahead of its competition.
> There is an apparent trend of Planet Earth turning into Planet China recently.

Not planet earth, Planet US.
This is a plenty democratic place, I recommend coming and observing it with your eyes, asking people here questions, and assessing the history of the revolution yourself.
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This is a very serious bug, even if courts want to exploit it.
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When China does it it's oppression but when we do it it's for our own good.
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Music is really subjective - and I'm not aware of a way to quantify the impact of music generally. The same challenge applies to a musical "artists", but justification of the skills of DJs is often demanded, where the skills of artists isn't. Why is that?

From the perspective of someone who had gone through the learning journey, I know full well the difference between my abilities when I begin and now (and there's still a lot of space for me to improve). Those first times I DJed were fairly horrible experiences for everyone - most of all me.

What can we figure out though? There are really just a couple of main dimensions to consider, song selection and how those songs are put together.

Song selections are crucial to DJing and you can think of it in terms of tailoring the music to the environment. Whether you have 2 turntables or not, this is the most important part. Maybe you have a someone putting on other people's mix tapes - understanding the energy and environment are still crucial. I've seen people who are accomplished musicians get this very wrong. It's not something that comes of being a good musician, it's a totally different skill-set.

So before you even look at the medium (turntables), I think we can agree that there's a skill involved in being able to apply music to enhance the environment.

Then there's the turntable aspect. If you give someone with the skills to apply the right music an infinite supply of music and an mp3 player they'll struggle to make the experience smooth. A pause in the music is going to kill the energy in the room. But that's just the start. You can change the energy just by moving through tracks faster, before you even start looking at the interesting ways you can put the music together. Not only that, but pretty much every DJ setup these days is digital with much more you can do to the music in the mix.

It's like lighting - take a perfectly good party and put strip lighting in. It's all about creating the right environment. Music is a big part of that - though I suspect I'm more aware of it than other people.
I'm amazed how people always list "three ways of formatting strings", when in fact there are four. :)

Admittedly, the fourth is not built-in, but it's part of the standard library: string.Template
While I fully agree with your take:

Doesn't scale is a concept that only developers and entrepreneurs understand. Sadly, that makes it an invalid argument for the other 98% of the population.
>> Cho Chikun had the large advantage over Lee Sedol that his opponent (Zen) and similar programs (Crazy Stone, Leela) are simply available for him to practice against and probe for weaknesses.

That's an argument against Go having been solved by AlphaGo, not for. If Lee Sedol could beat AlphaGo given the opportunity to practice against it, then nothing is solved.

Also, for a system to dominate against humans in a game it must be able to beat any opponent every time. AlphaGo hasn't demonstrated this yet, so while in the popular opinion AlphaGo "dominates", in the technical sense it does not, and Go won't be "solved" conclusively until it has.
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Yeah so we have a different story. We build Natural Language Processing and statistics software. We tried the cloud first, but it was just unworkable. Limited IOPS, outrageous prices for even a modest amount of RAM, slow virtualized CPUs, limited GPU options with terrible performance. So one day I hired half a rack, bought some machines with fast SSDs, 128GB RAM each, dual CPU with high clockspeed, and even some boxes with GPUs. The difference was incredible. Not just in performance, which was orders of magnitudes faster (going from barely workable to "pleasant user experience" without any software changes), but also in terms of cost. If we were to provision these machines on Azure or E2 we'd spend in a month what these machines cost, and our current current costs are maybe $500 in electricity + rack rental. Sure, it's a bit of a workout to put stuff in racks, but I actually quite enjoyed doing it. Sure stuff will break and things will go down. We can take the downtime at this point. And seriously, cost and performance wise there is no competition between cloud and rolling your own hardware (if you know how to do it). Also I'm perpetually surprised by how overstated the complexity of this is, yes it's tricky. But so is CSS, and Javascript these days. And unless you go "full cloud" (never go full cloud), you still have to manage fallover/redudancy/CI/provisioning yourself. It's not much different on "actual" hardware (there is no cloud, it's just somebody else's computer). If my firewall or switch catches fire, that might be problematic. But if that happens at an Amazon or Azure data center, that's also problematic. At the very least you'll suffer terrible latency because it needs to move the VMs dynamically.
You could as well infect all your code with extra software, I fail to see how introducing Docker would change anything.

Of course, you should consider deploying containers only from your own private registry, and vetting any third party container before uploading it to your own registry as well.
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> TBH; the only people who would have agreed with me knew my points anyway so bother?

Can you please actually elaborate, or it defeats the point of your entire post. While the rant may have helped you, I don't know you, I don't your history, and this post doesn't encourage me to go through your post history to find it.

At the same time, OP's post filled me with a slight sense of dread as I'm about to go into a private cloud environment and wondered if I was making a mistake. Your post has certainly calmed those nerves. Actually having some meat with the mustard would help more.

Thanks in advance!
So are you saying we should "unplug" people who are too old, so that young people can have better lives?
Why do .NET Core seems to be a game changer? M$ is nowhere near to be a game changer in anything, imo.

EDIT: no reply, a lot of downvotes. A lot of people love it, nobody use?
>push a meaning in one direction then I'm allowed to point it out and attempt to bend it back a little.

I'm not pushing anything. Your argument is about whether or not copying information is 'stealing'. I'm just pointing out that it's a very commonly agreed upon vernacular all over many industries. Call your credit card company and tell them someone stole your credit card number and see if they understand what you are talking about and/or try to correct you by saying it was merely copied.

Go ahead and try to change the definition, but don't waste time on HN with that crap when the subject isn't even about whether or not it's "stealing" because it makes for boring conversation.
> Inflation reduces the value of things priced in the currency, so the 'mortgage' is a financial product and so is worthless

Not true, the price will go up to track currency devaluation unless the price was pegged via contract or legislation. Even bread will see its price go up many times in day
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> I said it was their decision to do so

And I said they may not be there to give that decision, so that's moot really. Organs like lungs and hearts expire very quickly. Reading comprehension indeed.

> Try a little empathy next time

For the dead person, or the person who misses out on a life saving organ due to the dead person?

It's your body and your choice obviously, but I think saying it's up to my relatives to decide isn't a great reason to be taken off the donor registry. There is plenty of time for them to grieve but only a few hours to take a vital organ. If you want to do something great if you expire unexpectedly then it's up to you, don't put that on your parter/relatives.
> The JS ecosystem is nowhere near .NET's. And C# is way more enjoyable

Really? This reply looks like a sponsored one. M$ is investing high in content marketing.
> Companies don't need analytics to improve software.

I was with you except this line. Data is needed to make better choices and prioritize improvements. How would you like people to collect data? Google Analytics is free, easy, and powerful. Adding the cost of buioding a KPI tracking and reporting later from scratch... simply would be too much for most open source projects.
Yeah I probably have some confirmation bias having travelled mainly inside the Stockholm/Sörmland region and from Stockholm to Gothenburg. I was very surprised to see that Edinburgh to Glasgow is not electrified for example.
There are many reasons why they do this, not least of which is that they handle Steam keys, and by imposing a minimum cost, it means bad actors can't as easily get tonnes of Steam keys for resale or using their purchases to game Steam and other services in other ways. They now apply this policy across the board.

Read more here: http://www.gamesradar.com/humble-indie-bundle-responds-steam...
Doesn't mean jack if you are logged into Chrome
GovernmentS can't host their services on Google's or Amazon's cloud for example.

(the US are not counting since this is THE government many others are not trusting and the home of the public clouds)
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Russia had a ceiling: Russian population was less than that of Europe or the US. Chinese population is larger than both combined.

Russia was wedded to an ideology; the Chinese are pragmatist and practicing corporate capitalism. China will not only avoid the same fate, they will almost certainly come to dominate by sheer force of numbers.

China is practicing the economics equivalance of embrace (buy Western technology), extend (their own 3G standards for instance), and eventually extinguish (locking the West out of their market)
A substring operation (say, name[:20]) is much more common and fails in similar ways.
With Three it's unlimited for 25 pounds, I use around 100GB/month.
Someone should hack the UK BBC site, Dailymail, etc; and place a few iframes similar to this on them. It would most probably solve this whole case.
If it was in English, I might call it yet another crappy project.

As it stands, there are many crap projects that appear in either one of the languages we label as "Chinese" or English. Seems to be a dominant split between them.

But, to reinforce my point, here are some Chinese projects of dubious quality, from GitHub's trending lists:

* https://github.com/qiyeboy/IPProxys

* https://github.com/callmelanmao/yunshare

* https://github.com/ruanyf/jstraining

* https://github.com/huacnlee/flora-kit
Japan was hit by a recession around 2012 (or the aging workforce starts to play a bigger role), but before that the GDP per capita development wasn't actually that bad.

http://www.economist.com/node/10852462
How do you turn it off for brew cask?

Anyway this option should have been available in their man page. But anyway they have clearly mentioned it.

https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics....

If they want data, I will happily fill up their survey form but please don't take it for granted that my personal data is yours otherwise I may go to China for their great wall.
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Assuming you are in support of his former public position, I think you'd be shooting yourself in the foot by doing that.

We don't know his private position any more, and it may have changed. But I think it's quite likely that his opinion hasn't changed; he just isn't allowed to state it publicly any more. In this case, it would be better for supporters of this position to keep him in the cabinet, where he can at least have a private influence. Consider this: if we could get everyone in the cabinet to share his opinion, we wouldn't have a problem any more. We need more David Davises in cabinet, not fewer.

The MPs to vote out are all the ones who are publicly in favour of the Snoopers' Charter. We can be far more confident in having an influence in our favour this way.
Cookie law is one of the stupidest laws that EU forced. I had to install additional rules to adblocker to get rid of this nonsense and it still doesn't catch everything and keeps irritating me... I don't care, damn it! http://nocookielaw.com/
You have diesel trains in Sweden too. On small lines like Kristinahamn to Ludvika and in the north. Various places where there is too little traffic to make it economic to electrify. Same here in Norway in the north.
Signed. Even though it seems like neither online, nor live petitions and demonstrations have any effect on European* governments these days.

* geographically
Then we hit the problem that if we don't push that request at users, probably a tiny fraction will turn it on.

Worse, that fraction will be the statistically unusual people who bother reading and finding such options, meaning we can't derive any statistically useful results about the user base from them!
For most countries this will first happen with wind. The locations of power plants will still be used because they connect large parts of the grid. So if we have batteries that allow using purely renewables (capacity high enough to overcome days with little production), they could be placed at the former plant sites, probably easiest for the grid.

Batteries would then of course also play a large role to control demand (in-house batteries to even out spikes), but there's likely still need for utility companies to balance out supply/demand for some parts of the day which would likely lead to large battery arrays at these locations.
China is practicing the economic equivalent of embrace (buy Western technology), extend (their own 3G standards for instance), and eventually extinguish (locking the West out of their market).

As private individuals, we don't mind being bought out by Chinese. As members of societies, I believe it is important to know that there is a concerted plan by China that is at best neutral, and at worst, hostile to Western economic interests. Individual gain at the long term loss of the society we form part is not really in anybody's interest.

We should still trade with China, obviously, and even sell companies, but the terms of trade should not be one-sided: Western companies should get the same market access as Chinese companies do.
Yeah, Newegg has a variety of interesting storage deals, I picked up 1 out of 2 $30 refurbished Dell branded Seagate Cheetah drives they had that are the same model as I used 3 of in a computer I built in 2011, all the original drives are of course beyond Seagate's 5 year enterprise warranty service (which is good in my experience). Might save me time and trouble when one of the original drives gives up the ghost.
They commissioned this study. They also pioneered the use of polyester in outdoor clothing...

http://brenmicroplastics.weebly.com/project-findings.html

Has been reported in a few places...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/20/microfib...
http://www.outsideonline.com/2131886/its-time-retire-your-ol...
Launch first if possible.
If you don't then there's still other ways to position your product.

Read: Positioning by Al Ries.
Oldie but goldie.

Good luck.
Possibly but I'd quite like to exit in another country sinces another layer of bureaucracy for them to deal with and not all countries have equal policies in terms of privacy.
Something else- today you can run programs that play chess at superhuman levels on your phone. At the time of DeepBlue's win against Kasparov the same kind of system could run on off-the-shelve hardware [1]. Very soon after AI programs running on ordinary laptops demonstrated dominance against human masters (that's in Russel & Norvig, somewhere, I can dig it up if you like).

So the fact that Cho Chikun won against a less powerful machine is not necessarily an indication that the entire system is weaker than DeepMind's one. To know that you'd have to run Zen against AlphaGo.

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[1] A big hint of why it didn't is that, at the time, IBM was still selling more hardware than software.
China is buying the world.