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I would say that Zuckerberg is much more recognizable than Spiegel. Likely gets mobbed where ever he goes.
Will Snap exist in 5 years?
Windows search is still so bad.
> This concept of a social contract misrepresents both the letter and the spirit of open source, including copyleft

Eh? The GPL is a copyleft license that was made to do just this, both in letter and in spirit. "Getting code back" is its explicit purpose.

> If anyone's out there writing open source code because they anticipate getting anything in return from anybody, ever, for their efforts, they have misunderstood the spirit of the thing and will most likely be disappointed.

Open Source and Free Software are similar but different, and you're conflating the two. Redhat is the canonical example of someone who writes FOSS because they anticipate getting stuff for it. Atlassian also writes specifically open-source stuff; you can inspect it, but you can't use it without paying a license.

And I think you're semantically wrong anyway - if you're writing free software because you're community-minded, then it's not unreasonable to expect some engagement from the community, especially for a popular project. No-one is legally obligated to help you, but at the same time, for so many to use your stuff and so few to kick a little back over so many years is something that a reasonable person could be a bit sour on.
One of the reasons Bill Gate's father among others were campaigning against the repeal of "Estate Taxes" was so we wouldn't have a permanent wealthy class in the US. (Estate taxes are taxes paid on your money when you pass away before being distributed. Right now I think its only on holdings over 5million)

http://billmoyers.com/2015/04/18/william-gates-sr/
Which comparison? I was comparing firefox OS to android and later saying how good firefox performance is in general.
2037 will be a great year for games for sure.
It's a patrilineal family line. Women of the family who bear children are (in most of Europe) considered to have exited the family. In addition, sufficiently distant relationships often break off into cadet branches and stuff like that. There's a whole field behind this weird stuff.
Beware of patents.
This is exactly the kind of argument I'm trying to burn to the ground in the second part of my comment above (see "nerd niche itch"). You write this, thinking that you're revealing some uncomfortable truth that the bubbleheads don't understand. But the real truth is that Chromebooks are killing.

The penetration Chromebooks have made in education is huge. And even if it were an entirely no-profit/break-even situation, the idea of millions of students and public library patrons doing work on a "Firebook", and that it would be a serious contender to Windows-based PCs in a number of IT departments, is so perfectly aligned with Mozilla's ideals that it makes me sick to think about, especially juxtaposed with the hundreds of millions that Mozilla Corp has thrown away in the go-nowhere endeavors that it did pursue.
I think you're confusing the company formerly known as Snapchat, now called 'Snap Inc.' with the 'Snappy' package manager (hosted out of 'snapcraft.io') which makes linuxy packages called 'snaps'. The two are unrelated.
I have Cortana turned completely off and settings are really easy to get to. Win key -> sett<enter> isn't particularly difficult. Or just typing in part of the setting usually finds it right away.
I've used Algolia [1] and Swiftype [2] in the past for search on static websites, but recently experimented with lunr.js [3] for our company playbook (built with GitHub pages): http://playbook.wiredcraft.com/

I still want to separate the index in its own JSON file, but so far, so good. Search is fast and index is rebuilt automatically.

[1]: https://www.algolia.com

[2]: https://swiftype.com/

[3]: http://lunrjs.com
> A good example of the trade-offs there is that Israel was effectively forced to cancel it's Lavi fighter aircraft program and buy "expensive" F16s instead.

See http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/the-lavi-a-dream-aborted-in-m...

"There is a myth that it was American pressure that led to the cancellation of the Lavi program. Nothing is further from the truth. It was a self-inflicted wound, a shot in the foot."

The reason the program was cancelled was because it was very expensive and there weren't enough potential international buyers of the plane. The unit costs of F16:s were unsurprisingly much lower because they have been mass-produced for decades.
Totally agree, it's very half-baked atm.
The latter give cover to the former, making the rioting possible and preventing apprehension of the rioters.
Need better documentation!
Need to do some more testing, but I have suspicions that Chrome actually doesn't put the sound icon on the tab if it's playing silent audio.
Ping me as well please, radim@rare-technologies.com.

Love your no-nonsense pragmatic attitude :)
And then they join you
Even incognito?
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I am getting confused and you nailed it. I'm referring to Snappy
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I don't know if this is obviously wrong with these concerns but...

“we have qualified our engines to be robust” to such cracks but are “modifying the design to avoid them altogether.” The pending changes “will be part of the final design” for the Falcon 9, he added, “in partnership with NASA to qualify engines for manned spaceflight.”

In other words this might not have been a meaningful safety issue. I am not qualified to judge robust in that context, but this reads like a one sided hit piece and the writer has demonstrated past bias. EX: bulging backlog is not a neutral statement.

The only thing we can say for sure is it has not been an issue in the last 29 flights, so the actual risk must be greater than 0 and less than ~10%.

PS: I would hope they would take even a specific risk at 0.01% per flight as a serious safety concern. But, again without data we don't know if it was more or less than that.
The successful students do that in spite of the bad teaching. In my view, a lot more students would both enjoy and do better at maths with more appropriate teaching.
I just finished the Elon Musk biography — there's a good discussion about how Tesla was founded on the premise that the market did not yet recognize how cheap lithium ion batteries had become.

The original prototypes involved connecting hundreds of small batteries in parallel.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22535480-elon-musk
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> Grid scale lithium ion storage costs about $0.30/kWh right now. Residential is probably about $.40-.50/kWh.

I think you meant .30c/Wh, right? Or perhaps you are referring to the cost to purchase off-peak energy stored in grid-scale Li-ion battery storage systems (If so, I'm curious where you got that number).

Otherwise, .30c/Wh for storage implies that a 100kWh battery pack would cost $30, when it clearly costs much more.
Am I the only one who never had issues with BSOD's, outside of hardware malfunctions?
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Nope. Not at all.

Normal expenses are things you pay, and then you declare how much you just paid.

This is not a normal expense, it's a long term contract. It states how much they'll pay IN ADVANCE over a long period of time. That can be used to make all sort of accounting magic , adjusted per year over multiple years however you like it.
The second example is quite nice, I think.

But the first one will only work for the first commit, you can't really pinpoint any other one. Using a heatmap for that is probably even overkill.
By "user", you mean an entire company that houses data on thousands or perhaps millions of patients, right?
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I don't think the suggestion of a "personality requisite to study math" supports the articles thesis.
The biggest problem for city drivers (I'm in San Francisco) is we only need a car that goes about 45 mph, but we can only buy vehicles (electric or ICE) that are designed for 70-80 mph. They tend to weigh over 3,000 lbs, and a Tesla weighs near 5,000 lbs.

The best we can do right now are "Neighborhood Electric Vehicles", limited in the US to a top speed of only 25mph. Scoot rents one, a Twizy: http://blog.caranddriver.com/in-a-twizy-nissan-renting-elect.... They're fun to drive, but VERY rough and crude.

Perhaps we need a class of lightweight vehicles with a top speed just barely insufficient for freeway use? For pedestrian and bike safety, I'd think we need to keep vehicle mass and velocity as low as practical.
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The Start Menu search in Windows 10 doesn't search Program Files by default. It only examines Internet Explorer History, the Start Menu, and Users/AppData.

It's super frustrating. When I search for "vlc", it gives me search results for VLC and instructions on how to install VLC, but it doesn't actually return the vlc.exe program that I already have installed damnit.
> but I am sure it's not coded as good as it could and should be.

Nothing ever is, except for NASA's shuttle control systems.
Maybe it's where I live, but I can only remember seeing one Chromebook, and that was years ago.

The fact that many people believed the dream -- including myself twenty years ago -- doesn't make the dream any more realistic. Eventually, people notice that they would like to do more things than their browser allows them to.

So, yes it is true that people have been willing to migrate to cheaper, limited computers (but mainly tablets and phones; not tiny laptops). But those computers are not generally modeled after using the browser for everything.
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It's fuse based however, so that has some caveats.
Interesting project though, could see a native port one day maybe.
Except that the options at the time were space shuttle or NOTHING--not space shuttle or Saturn V.

NASA threw in with the only folks willing to fund spaceflight--the military. And the military demanded an orbiter that could do circumpolar orbits--which was totally crazy from an engineering standpoint.
What if OP posted a pastebin of the paywalled text?
So why not short the stock? You will likely have to wait until after the IPO and may pay an arm and a leg for the privilege with limited initial float, but it's entirely up to your discretion. Even more appealing if snapchat does well on the first day of trading.
There absolutely is: free movement of labor. Unfortunately that's the solution capitalists absolutely will not countenance, and they will happily stoke xenophobia and buy off the most reactionary elements of government in order to keep it from becoming a reality.
And what R&D do you think SpaceX is built on? I'll give you a hint: you mentioned it in your comment.
Microsoft really needs to up their game in usability. Windows search has always been and continues to be shit.
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By what metric?
You mean they'll be making them that long?-) Despite their huge development cycle, they'll probably release them this or next year.
Seriously. It amazes me how ignorant some people are to what the Internet actually is.
>At Forbes, one contributor wrote that the book “may help explain the otherwise inexplicable”.

It's only inexplicable if you live in a coastal bubble where everyone thinks the same way you do. It can't be that your values were rejected by people you deride in "flyover country" (and still not by a majority of the country). No, it must be that they've been brainwashed by television!

But somehow the purveyors of this theory have remained untouched by the corrupting influence of mass media.
At some point, the tax structure for cars has to be changed to account for electric vehicles wearing the roads and not yet paying to maintain them? I'm not sure, but I think that's what fuel tax pays for? So, the cost will go up at some point in that sense.

Then, on the other hand, $3/gal is a US-only phenomenon among countries that can really afford electric cars, everywhere else it is ~2x that? Europe, japan/korea/australia? I could be wrong here too but I think that's how it is. So there electric may already be quite a bit cheaper, depending on generation cost.
I consider 'toomuchtodo a voice of authority on operations based on much reading and discussion (particularly on moving to physical, which we've discussed before), have performed the very exercise being discussed four times in my own career ranging from a couple cabinets to a couple hundred million in capital, completely agree with the entire comment to which you are replying, and feel that your jab about "serious experience in the real world" was totally unnecessary.

If moving operations around is insurmountably difficult, you built operations incorrectly. Put another, even broader, way with a few more implications: if you are totally reliant on one vendor for continuity of any part of your operations, you built operations incorrectly and are introducing unnecessary risk. If us-east-1 goes down and you cease generating revenue as a result, you have built operations incorrectly. That's really all there is to it. And yes, I realize this means 80%, maybe more, of the operations in in the world is built incorrectly. We just learned Snap's is[0]. Maybe even yours! And that's fine as long as you're working on it. Good news: said exercise is a good chance to fix it!

Now that half the crowd is inhaling to bombastically retort that undoubtedly controversial, yet completely true, paragraph, allow me to quickly redirect:

What's "the real world," anyway? Most of HN forgets a Windows/.NET ecosystem exists, not to mention extra-valley gigs in, say, Nebraska. Would you say the lone sysadmin holding together a hospital in Des Moines is gaining "real world" experience and able to meet you in discussion? Seriously, I hate "the real world" and the people who fire it as a volley during an argument. Even your career is not indicative of "the real world." (Nor is mine.)

[0]: Flagrantly so. I've spent the better part of an hour trying to concoct a scenario where that deal is even remotely in the win column for Snap. Still trying. You enshrined a business disincentive (nay, prohibition!) toward optimizing your opex into a five year contract and $400mm a year operating Snap was some kind of win? ... How on Earth? Even with a quarter billion DAUs...
Guy #1: Shaking pinecones will scare snakes away.

Guy #2: No it won't.

Guy #3: Do you have any sources that disprove that claim?

The onus is on the person making the ridiculous claim.

I can tell you from personal experience I have had a Nissan LEAF for about 2.5 years and ~24k miles, driven daily and it has lost no range whatsoever. But if you want a study or something, you're gonna have to Google for yourself man.
If I recall correctly, they invented banking. So, yes, they were really advanced.
Mass Effect 1 is one of my favorite game stories; it's like a pretty good light sci-fi novel, which puts it head and shoulders above the vast majority of videogames. The reveal towards the end is beautifully creepy.

Mass Effect 2 forces the player to join a racist terrorist group and does nothing interesting, and then Mass Effect 3 is pure anticlimax. As Franck says, it just seems like they had no idea where to go after the first one.
It seems obvious that a battery needs to be charged. But it's not true that fuel has to be burned to recharge the battery. There are many other, cheaper, sources than burning things to turn a turbine to generate electricity.
Depending on your drive cycle, you could consider a plugin hybrid that has enough EV range for your daily commute, but can easily go 300+ miles on gas if needed. We have one, and we barely use any gas, since most of our daily driving is within the EV range.

The selection of PHEV options are really great now. They include the Chevy Volt, Ford Fusion Energi, Ford CMax Energi, Chrysler Pacifica Minivan PHEV. If you are looking for a performance or luxury PHEV, even those are available: Volvo XC90 PHEV, Audi E-tron, and a couple BMW models.
That seems a good start. But maybe that's game-able too. If you're dealing with an AI (or proto-AI, at least) that understands you better than you do yourself, you're pwned. So then you need your own AI, to filter input and flag exploits. Rather like anti-malware, for your mind.
I'm curious if this could be related to lack of exercise or lack of sunlight or perhaps poor diet. All would probably go along with living in a high pollution area?

Edit. They mention they control for a lot of those factors. I wonder how well they can do that?
In particular order - exercise (ride), masturbate, breakfast, shower all between 0530 and 0800
We are moving from fossil fuels to renewables. There are a number of different parts in the ff system, and we can't replace the whole thing all at once, so we are working on different parts, and over time. And it's working.

But I bet you already knew that.
Trying to stay on topic ... the US also gives lots of aid to Egypt, but Egypt doesn't seem to have such good tech. Why?
I have Firefox in my Start Menu, and searching "Fir", "Fire", "Firef", etc will turn it up. The search algorithm is just so bad that it ignores partial matches that don't start at the beginning of a word.
They plan for sometime in March.
This is what this case is about. TWC did this to me. They leased me a Motorola SB6121 that is capable of doing 100Mbps. They then "upgraded" my speed to 200Mbps, but kept the price the same. The 100Mbps tier then became $10/mo. less than the 200Mbps tier. At that point, they were ripping me off for $10/mo.

I confronted customer support with a well-crafted chat message pointing this out, with links to their own specs. They moved me to the 100Mbps tier and credited me $80 or $90 for overcharging me, and didn't fight about it at all. It's like they made damn sure I didn't engage the Streisand Effect.
Square's wrapper around pt-online-schema change is really slick: https://github.com/square/shift

It has a nice webapp to monitor and run schema migrations, including peer review. I use it all the time at Square, and it's pretty great.
It's a risk factors statement, not an intent statement. They also aren't seeking to have anything else in that list become true.
I found it ( http://www-archive.mozilla.org/docs/mozilla-faq.html ), question 4.1:

"4.1) How about a Mozilla Operating System?

"Mozilla is positioned well as an application software. However, it makes very little sense to try to make Mozilla into an operating [system], almost as little sense as it would to make a Word Processor or a MP3 player into one. Beyond technical reasons, the operating system market is currently glutted, and a new entry would be unlikely to attract enough users to ensure the writing of drivers for a new system, a critical mass point. People who want to work on an operating system no doubt would be welcomed by the BSD teams, the Linux team, the Freedows team, or any of the many other open source operating system groups out there."

That analysis appears to have applied to webOS just as clearly as it had applied to the desktop and laptop market a decade earlier.

And just to twist the knife a little more, the last sentence in the answer to 4.2 is "Reinvention of the wheel is a poor use of volunteers."
Fair enough. But what about the causality issue?
I came here wondering the exact same thing. Seems insane.
A good example of this is Marjorie Rice, an amateur mathematician, who discovered four new types of tessellating polygons.

[0] https://mathtourist.blogspot.com.au/2010/06/tiling-with-pent...
Yes, I think that's what the parent was saying.
Given a paywalled future vs a clickbait driven present, the choice doesn't sound so bad.
So glad The Expanse is back on. Last night's episode was amazing; I'm surprised there hasn't been more coverage of the show in the press.

A fine return to form for SyFy.
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> ADC, MCU, DAC, done. Cheaper, too -- I think 50 cent ARMs can do that these days.

And yet smart engineers keep using Analog Devices SHARC DSP's for effects on audio interfaces.

So SOMETHING must not be quite as simple as your claim.

(The answer is that most of these guitar effects are VERY non-linear and simulating non-linear stuff digitally is very much NOT straightforward in real-time.)
Hey, your anecdotal experience is better than nothing. I'm reading this thread as an interested observer.

Both you and 'jjawssd are making claims, and you're very confident that 'jjawssd is wrong.

This is a bullshit statistic that has somehow become a meme on the internet. It just flat out isn't true.

I don't think it's unreasonable to expect someone who expresses that level of confidence to have something to back it up. And if the false claim is so widespread, I'd also expect someone to have busted it and publicized it. From my outside, ignorant point of view, both sides are unproven, with an edge to you because of your own experience.
To add to this, I bet most people here would think that the immigration changes are universally loathed, but most Americans support them:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-immigration-poll...
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Yes transfer learning is a fairly umbrella term encompassing a lot of different approaches. We tried to give an example of the one most commonly used in NNs almost exclusively with regards to feature extraction. Do you have some resource that lists a variety of transfer learning approaches? Happy to work with you in creating a aggregated list.
I'm talking about the cost to store energy and then deliver a kWh from the system later, accounting for the lifetime cost and output of the system. The grid storage number i get from Lazard's:

https://www.lazard.com/media/438042/lazard-levelized-cost-of...

And the residential I get from Tesla's estimated numbers for their residential system. The residential ones may therefore be a tad bit optimistic. But if you happen to know an electrician.... maybe then it's realistic, as a huge amount of the cost is not the battery itself.
Yes, and the carbon footprint is huge (An even longer commute to drive past farms in the middle of the city)

But if it makes people happy, it might be worth it.
What are examples of places with high levels of these pollutants?

Are suburbs generally ok? Should I limit exercise in urban areas? Would it be bad to live near a highway?