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> When push comes to shove these things determine the allocation of resources in society.

John Bogle, founder of Vanguard and renowned investor, seems to disagree with you: "The stock market has nothing—n-o-t-h-i-n-g—to do with the allocation of capital. All it means is that if you’re buying General Motors stock, say, someone else is selling it to you. Capital isn’t allocated—the ownership just changes. I may be an investor, you may be a speculator. But no capital goes anywhere. This is basically a closed system. You have new IPOs and whatnot, but they’re very small compared to this vast thing we call a market, which is now around $24 trillion. The allocation of capital? That’s just nonsense."

I think you are mixing up the concept of a market economy with a specific kind of market, the "stock" market.
In NYC at least, robocars could just avoid the goofy streets, since the easily navigable streets are never that far away.
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What? Do the docs on the page really say that[0]?

':back' is mapped to 'H' -- in correspondence to the usual Vi/Vim paradigm to move the cursor with the home-row keys, hjkl. ':open' is naturally mapped to 'o' and drops you into a tab-completable shell. ':tabopen' -> 't' and so on.

The key part, as in Vim, are /not/ the mnemonic, highly effective shortcuts.
Rather, it's the modal workflow that Vim and it's spritual descendants bring to the table.
I'll leave it at that (sounding like a damn preacher already).

[0] Now that I've looked at it, it becomes clear that they're selling rather directly to Vim-acolytes. Pity, perhaps.
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> for over a generation the US citizenry has been trained to vote against anyone who asks for more taxes.

My understanding is that in the Reagan era, it was assumed that if tax payers could get tax cuts passed, then common-sense budgetary-discipline would force the legislature to follow through with spending cuts. The motto was to "starve the beast".

The problem is that transfer payments (from tax payers to voter blocks) are so compelling for most politicians that they refuse to swerve in the game of political chicken.

Nowadays, some libertarian-minded voters call for spending cuts directly, hoping that the tax cuts will follow.

Either way, there needs to be some way of signaling for errant government to do more with less as we do via market signals in the private sector.
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> Putin is not a warm, fuzzy, lovingly altruistic person. He wouldn't do favors if he didn't get something in return.

Right, all he really needs in return is that it embarrasses the US. Heck, for the last 22 years the US has been letting Cuban defectors come to the US and gain residency (whether or not they have valuable state secrets to trade) simply because it makes us look good and makes Cuba look bad.
An idle web app will use up just as much battery as an idle native app.

Idle apps can still vary in how much battery life they consume. I've seen some background apps that don't appear to be using any CPU (i.e. "0%" utilization) but actually have high-frequency timers which will wake the CPU every time they fire. Waking the CPU is bad news because it kicks it out of the low-power C-states and thus eats more battery.

If you're on Windows try running 'powercfg /sleepstudy' and you might find some interesting power-hungry behavior from even "idle" apps:

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2014/06/26/sleep...

On Linux, you can use 'powertop' for the same purpose, though I've found powertop is more useful since it shows more raw data and makes fewer assumptions.
One part of my personal set of extreme political views is that private ownership of land should be impossible :)
It's only available on newer yubikeys.
The gears and chain generally wear at the same rate. If you put a new chain on a worn out old set of gears they will likely slip.
The modularity of all human designed complex systems is a direct function of the fact that multilple humans need to be able to discuss the system intelligently. The designers themselves were only capable of performing the design because of modularity.
Replying to self long after the edit deadline passed: perhaps I should have mentioned that my experience is in Norway, not the US.
Unless that something is of negative value.
I know some people have already tried that and obviously failed. they just pull the "security" card and say any information they have cannot be disclosed in court because its a threat to national security. then they'd say those matters can only be conducted in a secret court where everyone has "security clearance", and oops - sorry plaintiff - you don't, so you're excluded from your own trial.

This was part of what happened to Ladar Levison, owner of Lavabit which was served with an NSL. He couldn't easily shop for a lawyer because he could only contact lawyers that were authorized to handle top secret material. And he had to appear at one specific court venue in Virginia even though he was from Texas.
What about for iOS? Sure there's more pervasive methods, but I doubt any are as ubiquitous as GA. My ghostery plugin shows GA for nearly every website I visit.
> If there is demand for dumb TVs and dumb cars, this supply will (eventually) be met.

Such demand will never rise to substantial levels. The moment your solution to a problem requires the general public to (change their behavior/become educated about something), your solution is unworkable.

If the general public regularly changed their habits out of principle, Windows would have been displaced by Linux in the 90s and the banana and diamond industries would be dead or dying.

It doesn't work that way, and it's unrealistic to assume it ever can.
Safari has been multi process for ages now (several years). I don't think that's the difference. I think Safari simply errs on the side of better resource consumption where Chrome's highest priority is cutting edge shinies for web front end devs and being as fast as possible at the cost of everything else.

One example of this is where Safari will suspend tabs (as in slow them down or freeze them while keeping them in memory) you haven't used in 15+ minutes that aren't playing music for anything. Effectively, this means that Safari's total power impact is only that of the 2-4 tabs you're currently actively using instead of how ever many you actually have open. It's a bit nicer than something like The Great Suspender though, since it doesn't just trash the loaded pages and force you to reload upon visiting said tabs.

If you're using an adblocker based on WebKit Content Blockers, that can have an impact too. They're much more efficient than even uBlock and add almost no additional CPU or RAM usage to web browsing, meaning you fully reap all the savings of blocking ads and egregious JS.
What you describe (non-linear) would probably have been superior but in my youth and inexperience over 15 years ago (and pressed with time and code-size constraints) I am sure I did nothing more than a scalar, maybe clamped with a C macro MAX() or MIN(). Sorry to disappoint; sometimes game AI and sim work just needs to be "good enough" and ... most importantly, needs to ship on time (on shelves, yes shelves, X weeks before opening day of baseball season) with zero bugs (no online patches in those days). So there is a certain satisfaction in that. :-)
It goes beyond foreplay (I've seen that Sexplanations video before, I like the video and I'm subscribed to the channel, it's just not what I'm talking about).

Intimacy is about sensuality and closeness. Those don't have to be anything to do with sex. For example, it's possible to experience intimacy in a completely non-sexual setting, such as a honest conversation about death. Intimacy is about the feeling of closeness to someone, not about what that closeness results in.
Is this plane landing or departing?
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sikuli is a project that can find things on screen and (among other things) click it. its a pretty interesting project. Would be nice to integrate some of its logic into robotgo
Maybe I just don't know what modulation means, but I figure it's when you pump the brakes to prevent skidding. How do disk brakes eliminate the need for it?
Breaking at similar speed on the rear brakes will cause a fishtail and slide rather than brake. I'd rather endo (flip over my handlebars) than ride in front of a car.
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It would be silly IMO for the taxman to officially discriminate against (poorer!) dishwashers vs. waiters in the same restaurant.
That UWP thing is the new real native. On some Windows platforms, win32 API is emulated and very limited.

It works fine without .NET. The API is COM-like, can be consumed from C++ and JavaScript. However, C# is much simpler than C++ for that, one reason is many APIs are asynchronous and C++ has no async-await.
The 2-speed internal gear hub seems to be the same SRAM Automatix that you have probably heard of, it's been around for a while (since 2011?) and used in quite a few bikes on the market.

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/automatix.html
This is the going advice many Rustaceans give to beginners. Cloning something in Rust is nothing like cloning in dynamic languages where you need to notify a garbage collector and allocate heap memory. Rust is fast and copying data is fast, especially if you're cloning a stack only value to satisfy the borrow checker.

Make it work, then make it correct, then make it fast. Chances are you'll never need that last step for most code you write.

Edit: another thing you'll learn with practice is when to make the right trade offs. Rust has lots of types in the standard library that allow you to pick and choose which guarantees you want the compiler to uphold and whether to do it at compile time or run time. Check out "Choosing your Guarantees" in the new version of the rust book [1]

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/book/choosing-your-guarantees...
For the purposes of this article, the neuroscientists aren't concerned with the molecular level of how brains work. Just the higher level components. ALthough it's argued both ways, it seems like you can understand "how a brain works" without understanding the neuron's molecular behavior (diffusion, electric propagation), you can just model it at a coarse grained level.

The difference in understanding is the nature of the wiring, in that electronic systems tend to be wired in highly modular ways, while biological systems tend to be wired in highly interconnected ways.
Cirques du soleil is the reinvention of the circus (yes they do have a travelling tent). It's a great lesson for us to see how a stale industry can be transformed.
There is some Gestalt psychology involved; realizing that how people perceive the "whole" final product is separate from the individual tasks required to create the product.

When I stress about delivering on larger expectations, I do the GTD task breakdown exercise, and trust that the assembled "whole" will be fine if the "parts" are solid and of high quality.
Holds true for other industries as well. Clearly this company is a laughable facade for some scammy one-man show: http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/
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My bicycle has a stainless steel self lubricating chain but I know where you're coming from. lots of people are put off by the idea of maintenance of their not very often ridden bicycle.

They will still be disappointed when they get this one out of the garage next summer to find the tyres are flat and splitting.
Taxis are subsidized by artificial scarcity (medallion quotas).
Since you seem to be unable to see that the issue has not been "decided" as you think it is, especially as there are different bicycle types and different body types, I'll leave these quotes here from [1] and [2] so that other people can be safely warned:

"You should always apply the rear brake, and slightly in advance of the front brake, so that a slight skid at the rear will warn you if you get close to the hazard point at which the bike may tip."

"Flat asphalt is one thing, 30 degrees sloped rocky road is another. My hold is that in the second case the back brake is MORE important than the front brake."

"I myself got into the accident once. It happens so fast that you never have time to lean your body backwards and provide more tractions for the rear wheel like other have stated."

"Depending on where your center of mass "hovers" over your bike, you may need a different strategy."

"Having had more than a few over-the-handlebar incidents back in the day, there is no situation in which I would ever even consider using only the front brake again."

"On the road bike you are alot lower and therefore don't go over the front quite as quickly."

"If you learn to move your weight back (ideally behind your saddle) during strong braking then going over the handle bars is nearly impossible (except under very steep hills)." (Note the "steep hills" part, which is my whole point about safety.)

"On mountain bike, the momentum partly transferred to seat and pedal as a result from a more up-right pedalling position. Remember that your body is about 3-5 times the weight of the bicycle, and they are on top of the bike. So the higher you are from the ground, the easier for you to toppled up."

[1] http://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/10918/do-skilled...

[2] http://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/25856/why-do-we-...
"BlackRock inherited the three-decade-old quant business with its purchase of Barclays Global Investors in 2009. Initially, the group was a big success under new management, delivering outsize returns. More recently, things haven’t panned out quite as well." -- well you know those Barclay's Boys[1]

Its an interesting question about machine learning and market returns. But there is a remarkable number of people who seem to just step over the line of legality and pick up the extra profits they need which taints the whole industry.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jul/04/libor-riggi...
If you see my comment up-thread, this can only be successful when it's premised on a broader coalition with clearly stated values that oppose the ownership class. Mountain View can shutdown Google because they can just paint this as tech industry villains trying to screw over "the little guys." The only way to get redress for affordability is to first pursue it for the most disadvantaged and rob the ownership class of the narrative that undergirds their political support.
Why don't they build the new legislation upon the Do Not Track setting? Do they even know about it?
Why can't you just rotate the pedals forward to a comfortable coasting position?
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Was there placebo control?

Pain is a notoriously good responder to suggestion.
This is due mainly to CA's very progressive tax rate, it makes the lions share of income based on capital gains and therefore the tax revenue much more variable than in other states.

This is unrelated to property taxes, which go to the city/town not the state.
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>"To use a non-digital analogy: It’s as if the NSA sent agents to the U.S. Postal Service’s major processing centers to conduct continuous searches of everyone’s international mail."

It's worth noting that U.S. Post Office also records meta data of all snail mail:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/03/us/postal-service-confirms...

The last paragraph in the above link being completely laughable if course.
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Protip: You'll find two app on Windows called Powershell. One is just called Powershell and the other is called Powershell ISE. I mistakenly picked the regular one, to later find out that Powershell ISE is epic. It's like a combination of a terminal and some kind of IDE.
I stand corrected. I was not shopping for smartphones this time around, so hadn't looked at those. There isn't nearly as much variety in basic phones and feature phones offered in the US.
Good belts are less elastic than chain. Really good belts are less elastic than gears.
That was required from the exact tip-over happening too often
Haven't had a coaster brake since the Schwinn Typhoon I had as a kid in the 1970s but the coaster brake was flawless. I think it was Bendix. Never failed to engage and was very controllable.

Of course Schwinn today is not the same as they were then.
This title is a little editorialized. Gates Foundation research cannot be published in non-open-access journals—"top" or otherwise.
> By definition a victimless crime involves consenting parties with no harm to outside parties. There can be situations where something does impact a non-consenting party, which is when it stops being victimless.
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because it's easier than declaring himself king, yet just as effective?

you're all idiots.
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Haven't they been devastated by Uber and Lyft?
> Trying to create a competitive and compelling mobile experience today requires an ecosystem of apps, tooling and most importantly developers.

I agree those things are all important considerations but you're lumping too many things together.

Some of those are antithetical. For example, buying into an existing app ecosystem means you don't get your own developer mindshare.

And tooling doesn't suffer from network effects the same way app stores and developers do. For example, they could use Android but write a new UI framework. They'd still make use of Android tooling, get partial entrée into the Android developer mindshare, but divest of the app base.

Personally I don't think a phone startup can succeed without creating a new UI framework around a new paradigm, whether it's VR, social, AI, semantic Web, or whatever. Facebook had the right idea although they failed.

If you are just competing for the same users with the same apps you will lose to Samsung. You need a new app base. Imagine a game console that only had multiplatform games. Who would buy it? A game platform with no third party games but a few compelling (to a niche) first party ones would have a better foundation.
Did you post on HN to get comments and criticism from other professionals? To drum up business for a $50K programming course? Or to troll?

If anyone wants to sit next to me for two years learning Linux, PHP, MySQL, HTML, Javascript, etc. I'll teach you all that for less than $50K, and you can live in a fun exotic city that costs 1/5th LA prices. You'll get to work on REAL applications for REAL companies and even learn how to freelance and get customers. I'll even make an (unaccredited) degree for you.
That's a pretty standard approach/attitude of human traders too, to cut your losses and move on.

Remember it's trading, not longterm investing.
WebKit2 behaves in the same way with regards to the points mentioned above. The sandboxed content process(es) are responsible for network, IO, layout, etc. The UI process (normally, the browser process) serves only as a broker for developer decision making and final drawing of the laid out content.

See https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKit2#ProcessArchitecture
You don't understand correctly. That's not even remotely what the article said.
I'm not sure is particularly necessary to choose. It's true that many protocol design concerns are highly complicated beasts. Do you care about repudiation, or do you want the exact opposite? Do you care about your entire protocol being indistinguishable from random to prevent fingerprinting? What are your performance requirements?

I think this is where the real challenges lie. We've got plenty of good tools for most of this, and we're now seeing protocols like Noise and STROBE that break new ground past TLS and in many cases help fill gaps TLS left open. You don't need to understand all of the design choices in those protocols in order to be able to write useful applications on top of them.

There are plenty of experimental tools left, like SNARKs and multiparty computation and all sorts of cool stuff -- but that's OK, we can take out this class of problems first.
Ugh, so the answer why other industries have so much profit is because of oligopolistic collaboration.
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They started much earlier than that, in 1999 with the release of IE5:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee692768.aspx

Just tested their "get OS version" example on my Windows 10, works fine.
I believe it is this one (or an OEM variant):
https://www.sram.com/sram/urban/products/automatix

I think its gimmicky.

If you're going to bother with internal hub gearing, you might as well make it manual-- its even easier than shifting a derailleur and you don't need to be moving. Its not like automatic 2-speed shifting is solving a real problem.
I suppose the key insight is this: it's human nature to want those who disagree with us to turn out to be hypocrites. Much easier than dealing with the possibility that our moral code is broken.
ISE is the best for learning but doesn't have good readline support (it's not quite a normal windows console). Once you're up to speed, grab ConEmu. It's the iTerm2 of the Windows world.
Many drivers will work for multiple companies in parallel, e.g. Lyft and Uber at the same time. Even if they only get 10% of their rides from Lyft, it isn't a huge cost to the driver. As a result, from the driver perspective, the network effect protection is relatively poor.

This battle will play out city by city, which just reduces the barrier to entry for smaller operators. All in all, I think Uber's defensibility is fairly poor.
Probably read them on a blog and made the connection later when I was searching for reasons why I keep procrastinating. Putting a convincing name to the mental force that holds you back gives you something to fight/say no to. Or you can pretend it doesn't exist and hope it goes away (doesn't work for me).
I'm in Amsterdam right now as well.

> Brakes don't work? Here, put this duct tape on the brake pads, now they work.

That's something which I have not seen. Not duct tape but brakes. I must be one of the few who don't have coaster brakes. Then again, expats don't really count.

> Somewhat uniquely, American bike enthusiasts are insane about safety. "You could DIE with an improperly maintained bike!", "Not wearing a helmet is like not wearing a seatbelt!" and "Walmart bikes are death traps" are things I've heard recently. But somehow, when the front of my $20 bike falls off (which has happened twice now) all I get is a minor scrape to my hands.

I think this applies to lots of things in the US comparatively. I can't imagine anywhere in the US having Canals and no guard rails; Jaywalking like you born to; Firecrackers in the middle of street for NYE. I think the US has too much of a "fear" attitude that's probably due to frivolous lawsuits, whereas in Amsterdam at least, it's more laissez faire. That translates to $1000 cycles for recreation vs $20 cycles for transport.
And to provide jobs for Women. Usually the only female "executive" job is running HR.
> the discussions could result in influential journals making special arrangements with the Gates Foundation to permit OA publishing

On one hand, such a deal would send a powerful signal. On the other hand, it does feel like it compromises the spirit of supporting open access.
Around that time, the same HR department decreed that nothing in anyone's cubicle could protrude higher than the inter-cubicle divider wall, about nine inches.

One employee had to take down a little American flag (this was two years after 9/11) and another, a trophy the company had given him.
One day this article is flagged and dead, the other day its first on HN. I think something is wrong with the system lately.
At least you have proper copy/paste in ISE :P