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IBM is a Silicon Valley company? I thought they were headquartered in some combination of Armonk, NY and whatever country has the cheapest workers that week.
No. A new jet engine is ~$10M, so a retired jet engine is probably ~$1M. The article says a single jet engine can handle a 1GW plant, translating to less than 1% of the cost of the power plant. (Electric capacity is of order $1/W https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_per_watt ) Some cleaning retrofits are do-able and worthwhile (just like the jet engine), but making power plants clean to developed-world standards is an order-unity fraction of the cost.
Which is why H265 will again become the dominant codec despite it being so heavily licensed. Hardware acceleration can't be built-in if the standards are a moving target. And you do need hardware acceleration. Since YouTube started serving VP9 instead of H264, its become a huge, huge battery hog (h264ify fixes this, but switching to VP9 is extremely user-hostile by Google). Same goes for pretty much all platforms running on battery: if you can't accelerate it, its dead. And since these days mobile (laptops/smartphones) is all that counts.. yeah.
You mean the same company that this year, laid off over 20,000 positions? Get the hell out IBM, you're acting like a bunch of sycophants.

P.S. Bluemix is bad and you should feel bad.

EDIT: I normally try to approach my commenting with a rational calm way, but I can't, not with I.B-fucking.-M.
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I agree the way you describe is even better. That said if the previous posters password isn't enough entropy for your use case some form of 2 factor auth should come into play as well.
Yeah, I have the impression that MS often rolls out new stuff too early, causing it to be unstable or disliked by users. I really wonder why they're doing this, considering how huge the user base of a product like windows is, and thus what the consequences are.

But to be fair, also great stuff emerges out of this. For instance, I really liked flat UI when they introduced it, and a few years later other large companies adopted it too.
That's nice to know!

If you don't mind me asking, how does Switzerland handle those which are required to work on election days?

That's one of the ugliest parts of the US election system to me, is the fact that many people need to fit the election around their work schedule, and I know of at least 3 people that couldn't get time to vote this year, and my state makes it so you basically need to be actively deployed in the military, or be hospitalized to get an absentee ballot.
You could submodule them all in an otherwise empty parent repo.

Bit of a hack, but could come in handy for other things (off the top of my head: "welcome to the team! Clone this one thing, it contains everything you need.").
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This has nothing to do with carbon and global warming. It has to do with smog, which kills millions of people through respiratory problems and decreases quality of life. The additional carbon emitted from running the jet engine is negligible compared to the carbon emitted by the plant.
A large part of the worst pollution days in dehi is not from burning fossil fuels but from burning agricultural fields because farmers don't have a more effective way of preparing the fields for the next year. This means that in November the air is the worst, and it slowly starts getting better in December. Even if you just address this problem it will make a huge difference in the air quality.
You make good points but as I understand it, Switzerland has a relatively direct form of democracy and already runs referenda very often.

> what does it matter if someone breaks one election? You can just run the next one fine

This assumes it's easy to detect manipulation which I think is very unlikely.

Edit: according to Wikipedia, Switzerland has 13 national referendums (not "referenda" apparently) in 2016 so not as many as I thought. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_referendums,_2016
I'm not sure if you're responding to me or just adding your perspective but each of those points can be summarized as "not necessarily" and ya, this is complex stuff, lots of possibility.
Two wrongs don't make a right. The Arctic and Antarctic are two seperate ecosystems, it's not a balance.
What does the term "new collar" mean? I understand the distinction between blue and white, but i don't get what could be new
You need a savvy hacker,one who specializes in Expunging Criminal Records and Change of University Grades. Contact edwardsnowcare@gmail.com One who would be able to carry out and successfully execute hacks on your behalf while keeping it all discrete and under the radar.
I disagree with your conclusion, and actually a good understanding of monads can lead to better designs that are not necessary intuitive, even for C++ experts - see https://bartoszmilewski.com/2011/07/11/monads-in-c/.
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Remember that economics is rather bad at pricing things like huge population migrations. "Bearing the cost" does not include an a huge array of expected outcomes that humans will find negative but are difficult to plug into a toy economic model.
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Not everybody thinks that a direct democracy is better. I for one don't have the time or the expertise to make informed decisions about all the issues my representatives handle.
No permit as far as I can tell. They have drivers actively monitoring their vehicles at all times and are playing semantic games right now as that article says. The biggest disappointment to me is the way they're deliberately ignoring NHTSA's guidelines around collision and near-miss data sharing.
A successful challenge to the results of an election will most likely end up in a civil war. In other words, whoever is officially announced as winner will remain so, even if proof of fraud is found; accepting fraud would question the capabilities/transparency/independene of the electoral authorities. This situation is aggravated by electronic voting, not because of the possibilities of hacking the system, but because the results come to damn fast: victims of fraud do not have a chance to react. While they are barely starting the legal paper work to ask for a recount, the winner is already giving his/her triumphant speech!
By sending all those soot particles high into the atmosphere, will they create an effect similar to that of a volcano where the soot reflects sunlight?
But the input types here are int's.
What do you want to say by that? There was snow in Hawaii recently, but it doesn't make climate change any better.
If Xamarin would be painless to use I guess we would see a lot more guys advocating it. However, personally I know quite a lot of app developers who tried Xamarin and disliked the quality of the tooling.

I hope that Xamarin keeps on improving as I believe it still could be (one of) the best x-plat option.
I get that they were trying to avoid this:

> Process flows [were] “embedded” within the code of multiple application.

But why did they choose a "JSON DSL" (which fortunately seems to mean JSON and not a DSL) as the best way to accomplish that? Seems to me that a builder pattern could have achieved the same thing without dropping compile time checks in probably the one place where they are most useful.
From the original article referenced:

"The company doesn’t require a permit from the California DMV to operate in the state, it says, because the cars don’t qualify as fully autonomous as defined by state law because of the always present onboard safety operator."
I absolutely love the previews. I think those png images take up less bandwidth than the js heavy page load. Plus it's a static image not tracking my every movement.
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But why does it have to look like SQL (and not like xpath or jquery)?

Not many people enjoy writing SQL statements on the command line. It's verbose, the order of things is arbitrary...
Hasn't been ported to Safari (uBlock Origin has though, and if you turn on advanced-mode its pretty close to uMatrix).
Interesting. My guess is Uber is just planning on paying the inevitable fines as is their modus operandi. I wonder how much an infraction like this costs? I doubt there's any precedent.
Or just use mpd: https://www.musicpd.org/
Hacker News: where a commenter won't hesitate to take a dump on your hero, but will lack the confidence to assert any truth to their contrarian takes.
I don't get this either. Blue and White collar workers haven't gone anywhere. They've been sitting here for years terrified that their jobs would go away. Let us not forget that IBM just eliminated 20,000+ jobs just this year.
Free Software extensions for cameras such as Magic Lantern http://www.magiclantern.fm/ exist. I wonder if it's possible to add encryption support there, before images are written to the SD card?
Something seemingly related is Myrepos [1], for doing stuff like "update all these repos". Probably more capable, and complicated to use.

It's also "vcs agnostic".

[1]: https://myrepos.branchable.com/
it loads the page, then reloads to a 404 page
Could this be accomplished at the storage level instead of at the camera level? Could an SD card have an onboard encryption engine? We have cards with built-in wifi already.
But he starts with saying the file can be processed offline. And I wonder, if one gets the "password" file to be processed offline, why can't he simply get the data too?

Maybe there is a difference between what is supposed to be protected. The login to some server based server? Or something I use locally like my tax files.
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The problem is so many government decisions can't be rolled back, like military, treaty, supreme court appointments, some environmental regulations... You'd have to change everything else and every other country first to tolerate a "by bad, we're gonna redo" attitude and then implement "my bad, redo".

An interesting simpler direct majority rule scheme is to halt elections completely and use jury selection techniques to select decision makers. What we'd lose in expertise we'd more than gain in the lack of sociopaths and psychopaths. A government completely of jury duty/draft would be far more effective than the one we have, which is probably why no one in power wants it.
Neither Lisp nor Scheme offer prototypical inheritance out of the box. Lisp uses ol'-fashioned nominal subclassing, while Scheme doesn't even have "objects" in the OOP sense. They're powerful enough to add it, but nobody does because the prototypical object model pales in comparison to CLOS. Come to think of it, every object model that's not CLOS pales in comparison to CLOS...

I think this is a poor recommendation regardless, because programming in JS really is more similar to modern C# than it is to Lisp or Scheme.

Also, Douglas Crockford is an asshat. How did he wind up an authority on anything?
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your right, makes more sense to have both in c++
My high school science teacher took it as I was bored, and gave me open-ended research questions to occupy me.

e.g. Why is the sky blue during the day, and red at sunset?

Though that's much easier to answer today, it taught me some great skills, and how to not be afraid of failure or rejection.

I ended up having some great conversations with the professors at my local universities.
Care to elaborate at all on those additional misgivings? One thing I could see is that the material might not be very mind-blowing to someone who already has a software background.
Looks like a term for white collar workers that they want to treat like service workers
Ruby takes the seed for rand() from /dev/urandom, according to doc. That's good enough for a single use.
They also discourage biometric use: https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html#biometric_use
He does love him some chain restaurants.
If you fancy a CLI and git repositories for synchronizing your password database, try the standard unix password manager
: https://www.passwordstore.org/
I've been thinking lately that it shouldn't just be possible to watch the ballet process end-to-end, it should be actively encouraged.

Voting days should be public holidays, polling stations should be festivals, and moving ballet boxes should be a parade.

We hold festivals like these for far less important purposes, so why not celebrate the foundation of our society.
Like I added in my edit, there is almost no such case: Sundays are a mandatory day off for most. That means you can't go shopping on a Sunday, except in very few shops (train station shops have exceptions). Doctors, pharmacies and most other emergency things operate on a reduced schedule.

I'm not certain what would happen if say a nurse working a shift in an ICU was selected. I'm pretty sure it's either announced early enough that the hospital would have to switch shiftees or they would be given a pass for free. I suspect a person working in a train station shop on a Sunday would tell their boss, and would simply be shifted to another time (it's not like the boss or the employee can do anything about it - it's law).

EDIT: to clarify once again - I'm pretty sure it does happen, but the case is probably rare enough for it not to matter too much. The rule works for a good 90% of cases, exceptions can certainly be done on a case-by-case basis at community level.
I wrote a PowerShell script that does exactly this for Windows Domains.

http://pastebin.com/raw/ytwy0nCB
They describe this as a third-generation vehicle, but it still requires multiple human-driver interventions over a single journey. How many more generations to reach reliable true autonomy?
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Schneier is simply wrong there.

He wanted to rant and therefore didn't read the description of the "xkcd scheme" with enough concentration to understand it.

Legions of security people debunked Schneier, but unfortunately he didn't have it in him to retract his claim and update his post.

This blog post is the best example you can give of Schneier quitting academic discourse and becoming a pundit.
That seems like click bait to me. I believe they require a permit for a fully autonomous vehicle, but since there's a driver in the car monitoring the systems with the ability to override, it isn't considered fully autonomous. This is neither sketchy, surprising, or even skirting the rules. The fact that it's picking up passengers seems mostly like a PR move to me as the income generated by them probably pales in comparison to the cost of the car plus the overhead of a (not typical) driver plus engineer.
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Do machines actually beat doctors?
"CEO Ginni Rometty announced that the new jobs will come over the span of four years"

That's roughly 6000 per year. I'm curious what the definition of "new jobs" is. Since they have 300,000+ employees, I would think they already hire 6000+ a year just to cover natural turnover.
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In cases like this I'm much inclined to say it's genetics that allow for the sleep cycle and other things than the sleep cycle itself.
That's a hell of a Weissman score
Judging from the context, I suspect it mean hiring former blue collar people to fill what would traditionally be professional roles (IT).

Basically, they laid off a bunch of expensive, educated and experienced people and are now looking to backfill the areas they cut too deeply in with cheap labor that they can boot camp to a minimum level of proficiency and then charge the same prices for.
We also have professional cameras that can be tethered to a laptop and record directly to the encrypted disk. Encrypted camera storage sounds cool, but the filmmaker of Citizen Four could have just tethered to her MacBook.
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You would need to enter a password, somehow...
The conclusion of the article:

> Rometty, the sole Silicon Valley leader on the advisory

> council, may be trying to show Trump that IBM is working

> to keep jobs inside the country.

Is directly at odds with the implications of the CEO's words in the same article (emphasis added):

> We are hiring because the nature of work is evolving –

> and that is also why so many of these jobs remain hard to fill

That reads a lot like the language used by $everyone to convince legislators that more H1B visas are required.

In addition, I saw nothing in the statement that indicated the hiring would be in the US, or of US citizens.
She ties the term "new collar" to vocational training versus college degrees. I suppose the cynical view is that they are trying to shift jobs that are currently held by expensive, degreed, employees...to fresh, cheap, vocational school grads.

Edit: The letter she wrote to Trump outlining what "new collar" means: http://fm.cnbc.com/applications/cnbc.com/resources/files/201...
Wtf is "new collar"? Some bullshit IBM-talk for hiring back the 20k skilled workers they fired earlier this year for less money/benefits?
Besides IBM's Ginni Rometty, the list of tech execs due to meet the President-elect today includes Apple CEO Tim Cook, Alphabet CEO Larry Page, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Facebook COO Sheryl Sanddberg, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, Oracle CEO Safra Catz and Cisco Systems CEO Chuck Robbins. [1]

List of "invited, but not going": Uber CEO Travis Kalanick (currently out of the country), Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield. [2]

Announced a few minutes ago however is that Travis Kalanick and SpaceX's Elon Musk are due to become members of the Presidential advisory council. [3]

[1] http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-top-tech-executives-larry...

[2] http://www.recode.net/2016/12/10/13908492/trump-tech-summit-...

[3] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-forum-idUSKBN143...
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Can any of us approach the behemoth calmly?

It seems that wherever I go, everyone has something terrible to say about them, but they still keep getting huge contracts that they fail to deliver on.

Is there someone here who can reasonably explain why they like IBM?

Because I can't understand it.

And I congratulate Queensland, Australia for banning future contracts with them for the next fifty years. (QLD can't contract to them for 50 years).
Hey! I was cleaning up stuff in my basement last weekend and found a 3.5" floppy disk, and I was wondering what was on it. Now I remember! Thanks.
I would not want to live in any country where elections are run on the basis of cost.
Well consider if you use both dictation and typing simultaneously. Vi and kakoune are ergonomic because it requires minimum changes to hand positions. But if you added voice dictation like "toggle tab 2" or "toggle terminal" or "go next brace" etc, all while STILL typing my guess is efficiency would go up physical fatigue would go down.
> could have just

I thought the days of wandering around with a camera while having a recorder on a shoulder strap were left behind in the eighties.
If you search around for other places where she uses the term, it means jobs that require only vocational training. Handy that these "new collar" workers will be less expensive, right?

Edit: The letter she wrote to Trump outlining what "new collar" means: http://fm.cnbc.com/applications/cnbc.com/resources/files/201...
I don't understand what "legal or not" means here. Does that include making the board 1000x bigger and increasing the number of pieces? Seems like by changing the rules of the game you could make a position arbitrarily complicated.
and never letting them go.
I might be missing something, but this sounds like an idea taken from the movie Idiocracy.
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Where pr meets identity politics old issues can be forgotten. The hopeful branding of a generation of workers as "new collar" will reframe the class gap debates in a wonderfully confusing way for all who don't want to identify as either of the previous, equally non specific "collar" types.

I'm surprised that they didn't just go with "No collar", but I suppose it doesn't rhyme with either "blue" or "white".
> paragraphe

:) It's paragraph in english, or section.

I'm guilty of it as well. Despite English being my primary language for the last 10 years, whenever I read my previous comments I catch glaring mistakes.
Regular humans have, for over half a century, possessed the ability to annihilate the entirety of civilization by basically pushing a button. So it always amazes me when people feel the need to make science fictional assumptions like AGI in their doomsday scenarios.
Civil war? Last time America had a civil war was 150 years ago, and not due to election fraud. Who exactly in today's America do you see potentially engaging themselves in civil war? Most young people - those that would usually be recruited as soldiers - are busy studying, working (debt off). There is no generation of idle, dead poor or undereducated youngsters to pick soldiers from. Many of the young people are really out of shape and have lived comfortable indoor lives. Most importantly they have better options than to fight a war. In what scenario would more than a few thousand crazy people take to arms because, for example Trump was caught in election fraud and impeached? I just cannot imagine that happening.
I switched to Opera a long time ago. It has the same backends as Chrome (webkit/v8), and the same developer tools but muuuuuuch better battery life.
No permit. They're avoiding the regs like usual: https://www.ft.com/content/a6e8c5c4-c16e-11e6-81c2-f57d90f67...
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That was the last tried solution, didn't work out well. And what is holding is nothing haskell specific. Is just wasting effort re implementing good broad used code at Facebook.
Unlimited doubling of wait time puts you right back to being vulnerable to DOS.
I wouldn't want to live in a world where people's imaginations were bound by their current reality. I don't make this argument as a "right", its a what if. AND if they're cheap you can run em all the time, that's interesting isn't it?
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My experience so far is that I tried to install it yesterday and VS didn't acknowledge it is installed. I restarted my computer and then VS was able to run the default project, but the project immediately crashed upon start, without any stack trace or pointer about what could have gone wrong. Not a great start :)
And it is a good thing: imagine how large our pants' pocket would have to be to accommodate one of those good old days keyboard? We would all look exactly like MC Hammer!
Haha, don't try to pull that one here. When there's less ice it's global warming, when there's more ice it's climate change. Get on board.
I meant when in two years you add something to your tex file and make blows-up, that's a reason to use roff if you can get away with it.
But it wouldn't be locked out until the MacBook was shut down. Until then, the keys would be available in memory, and effectively unencrypted. Not much protection against immediate physical seizure.
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When I did poll watching (for knocking up supporters) for Labour a while back we where not allowed in the building and you could not have anything with the candidates name on within 50 or 100 yards - plain rosettes where ok.
Just this year the presidential elections in Austria were repeated because of formal mistakes during counting of the ballots - proven fraud wasn't even the reason. When I was there recently it looked nothing like a war zone.
Not yet. For now it's in very experimental phase. When I get somewhere with it I will certainly do Show HN.