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>Mr Vaishnav dispels the conventional wisdom that crooks win because they can get voters to focus on caste or some other sectarian allegiance, thus overlooking their criminality. If anything, the more serious the charge, the bigger the electoral boost, as politicians well know.

Nothing in the article backs up this statement. I hope when the author publishes his book, somebody will point out why.

I believe caste and identity politics play a huge role in such elections. Thefts and crimes are ignored precisely because people think that XYZ crook(from their caste/community) has the courage to stand up to authority and will represent them properly.

Different communities promote up their own representatives and as the elections becomes dirtier, in the end only crooks from various communities stand up.

Kind of similar to how capitalism forces merchants to sacrifice most skills not relevant to 'reducing cost/making money', Indian politics does this to our MPs/constituencies. Money and muscle power become a pre-requisite for being considered as a possible electoral candidate.

Then again, the advent of social media and the internet has started changing things (I don't have stats to prove this though). Crimes committed by MPs (or their families) are being highlighted throughout the country and the guilty are being shamed. I use the word shamed because I am not too sure what happens once the media spotlight moves somewhere else. Possibly, they walk free...
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Bear in mind that the AF447 crash was primarily due to a junior officer not knowing basic flight principles. Visibility of the side stick to the other two crew (the captain had come back into the cockpit and was positioned between the first and second officer) is an issue, but I am not sure that central style yokes like Boeings have would have been a huge help to a crew already overloaded with an insurmountable amount of data to resolve.

There have been many cases of pilots turning the yoke the wrong way [1], or shutting down the wrong engine [2] which are levers in full view of both pilots and not getting immediately picked up.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nCvO_QlEm8
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransAsia_Airways_Flight_235
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It looks like k8s is simplifying fast enough that it may eclipse the others. kubeadm is already a huge improvement.
I certainly don't remember anything of usable quality being available to end-users. My Windows 98 machine could barely play 360p videos and didn't even have a camera. The voice recognition that I do remember trying was of very low accuracy.

Do you remember any specifics of where & how exactly these features were available?
Or ones that provide a fake number. Sounds like an easy way to DDoS a bank, charity, political, call center.
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> At least when I was a student, I would be pretty unlikely to ask on Stack Overflow because I'd probably need answers quickly and not want to wait for a response, but I don't expect everyone to be like me.

Many classes have assignments over a week or two. It absolutely makes sense to ask SO for questions.

If anything, there was less urgency to my homework questions than there is to my current professional ones.

> I also don't even feel like my assignments were typically due on Monday or Tuesday.

While I had my fair share of assignments on Monday, that doesn't need to be true to explain this. Even if you assume that students work equally throughout the week on homework, they'd represent a larger percentage of developers during the weekend (when professionals are much less likely to be working).
Stack Overflow questions get answered very quickly. At least the answerable ones do.
Not trolling.

The comment being replied to said "Well, Windcrest is a subset of San Antonio, Texas." Not "the city of San Antonio, Texas." Both officially and unofficially, San Antonio is the name of not just an incorporated city, but of the metropolitan area of which it's the largest city. When you say that the metro area, as opposed to the city, was "not what was being discussed," that was an assumption the comment I replied to was making. But nowhere is that said in the comment that started this thread.

The principle of charity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity) "requires interpreting a speaker's statements to be rational and, in the case of any argument, considering its best, strongest possible interpretation." The interpretation of the statement being replied to that makes it true is "Well, Windcrest is a subset of the San Antonio, Texas metro area." The "pedantic" comment I was replying to ignored that possible interpretation in favor of an interpretation that made the comment false. But why not interpret the comment in such a way that it's true, given that there's a very common way of reading that (San Antonio the metro area) where it's so?
RE example 1, there is offline voice recognition, though.
> Shannon invented a way to copy information perfectly

No, this is at least as old as the written word.
Not sure if Siri and Alexa (and Google Now) send every recording to a data center - the .NET speech recognition libraries ship with Windows, so all audio data stays local to your PC, afaik. I'd expect Cortana leverages these libraries as well, instead of sending all data to a remote server.

You can build basic functionality into a speech bot in Powershell ("PowerShiri, what time is it?" "PowerShiri, what is the weather?") as a weekend project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11663029
It's a little funny that GVFS itself is hosted on GitHub which means you won't be able to pull it as a GVFS repo.
Now you're faced with exactly what the GP said: address spaces are hard to change later.

What part of Urbit involves voting?

Even if Urbit were a democracy, which sounds improbable, why would the people who have the scarce thing vote to open it up to more people? Look at Bitcoin right now: they can't increase the block size because large miners benefit from the small block size.
Not a chance. The terms of this new deed may be more onerous than the original employment contract, and might land you on trouble if, for example, you did some programming outside of this company while you were employed.
You can do that with btrfs snapshots and letting your package manager snapshot the fs on every transaction. Then just boot into an older snapshot.

There's also etc-keeper for keeping /etc & co in a git repo for a partial approach.
Single-thread performance is as important as it has ever been.

That a secretary typing a document or someone who only spends time on facebook doesn't notice the difference is irrelevant- consider, for example, the massive capital outlay by the financial industry to have servers located as closely to the world's trading hubs as possible. If they are willing to pay whatever it takes to shave milliseconds off a round trip, faster CPUs are a part of that equation.
There are some comments in this thread bringing out examples of corruption in the West. While Western societies are by no means perfect and have their own warts, they are much better than India when it comes to corruption, effective judiciary, free press or tolerance for scandals.

People typically vote with their feet. If you have any doubts about which society treats its citizens better, just look at how many Indians are clamoring to get out of India and immigrate to USA/Europe and the numbers of Americans/Europeans wanting to immigrate to India.
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Not sure why you're being downvoted. That's indeed what gvfs commonly stands for in industry. It's a poor and confusing name choice.
How about https://ring.cx/, based on peer-to-peer discovery and connection?
Each switch of a gate causes energy to be expended. When a transistor switches, there is some current flowing and some voltage across the source and sink. That voltage * current is greater than zero, and therefore requires power. This is opposed to the stable non-switching state where there is no current and therefore no power.

So, because each switch consumes the same amount of power, the power consumed is directly proportional to the switching frequency. Double the frequency = double the power.

As other posters have alluded, Intel tried to work on the power issue by decreasing the voltage. Unfortunately, they were not able to figure out how to decrease the voltage as they had in the past. With the high power required to run high frequency circuits, cooling would have been more of a problem than could be overcome economically.
I don't actually understand why web 3d APIs need to exist? Why is WEBGL not as feature rich as OpenGL? Cant there be JS bindings or something to just use OpenGL or now Vulkan?

I think Apple can go foff. I don't really care so much for 3D in the browers anyway but if there will be a new API I hope it will be Vulkan based.
My point was that we don't weigh ourself in 'newtons' despite that being what we are actually measuring. We make some reference conversion to a much more intuitive unit, kilograms. We rely on the fact that it's a pretty constant conversion between the two.

Is this really much different than that? I don't think so. The aerodynamics of the plane (stresses on the structure, performance of the aircraft w.r.t. stall, etc.) all remain ~constant for a given IAS which is why it's used. We're just making a dynamic pressure measurement and converting it to a speed in such a way that it factors in all the environmental conditions that influence what we actually care about - how the plane responds in the air.
Apple will always be taken seriously since they are not just a major mobile vendor but the only vendor capable of getting any technology widely deployed.

Your arguments are very reminiscent of the "Apple must adopt Flash" era. And as we've learn Apple was 100% right to dump that technology as it was simply a poor fit for mobile.

I've seen nothing about Vulkan that indicates it has some inherent qualities that make it suitable as a Javascript API.
India does have a high level of criminality and corruption in politics, but it is different from the U.S. in one aspect.

An Indian politician who brags about sexual assault and doesn't even deny video-taped evidence of the bragging .... would have no chance of being elected as Prime Minister. As we demonstrated in November, American voters have a much higher tolerance level when it comes to electing our president.
If you're interested, there's a little Lisp interpreter here:

http://www.sonoma.edu/users/l/luvisi/sl5.c
Oh in comparison. Hmm didn't get that the first time through.
When I read statements like this, I realise how detached many people are from the African reality.

I'm a Ghanaian/German and my wife is a house wife.
Indeed, I go to work while she stays at home to clean, cook and take care of the kids.

The point is, it's her choice to do so. Because she doesn't work, we can't afford to get help. And she prefers to take care of her kids herself at this young age (oldest is 4).

Does that mean we need to change so I leave work and come help her with the washing?

Well, I bought her a washing machine due to the sheer volume of laundry my kids generate in a day so she doesn't have to, on top of her other chores spend her whole time washing.

Now she has more time to study as she's done with chores sooner and is less tired after doing them.

The split of roles is mostly a necessary evil in our part of the world.
Mothers are some better suited to taking care of their children than fathers are. Slice it whatever way you want, it's a fact of nature.

Our realities are different, sometimes I wish people would understand that.
Certainly not any time soon. A rover has a lot of complicated moving parts that will have to be exposed to work properly, and will almost certainly fail after a short time on the surface. All of the sensors will also have to be exposed, and the interface between the sensors and the enclosure will be vulnerable. A lander may work for some time, but a rover would be very difficult. Venus is a very, very harsh place.
Or maybe people just don't want to have to buy their tools/operating system/database etc that they tinker with on the weekend
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If someone hacks your business checking account, you have 24 hours to detect and report the unauthorized transfer. After that, the UCC doesn't require the bank to give you your money back.

And yet every business has a checking account, and many aren't that diligent about checking it every 24 hours.
I wanted to like Urbit (I write p2p software), but their connection with alt-right and ant-democratic reactionary movements is a deal breaker. To say it doesn't affect technical decisions is naive. Have you ever wondered why their network layout is like little hierarchical fiefdom? And not flat p2p? It's no accident and deeply related to political and social beliefs. It's dystopian and isn't the future I want.
If the CEO is primarily focusing on one of these domains (product, operations, PR) who is the individual responsible for debugging the flawed human systems everywhere else in the company?

In my opinion, every level of leadership is accountable for every action of every individual under them (because they either hired the person, or hired someone who did), and thus the CEO is the only role uniquely qualified to fix everything. However I get the impression most hole themselves up in their office with some charts, talking to the board, and meeting with other C-level people (but rarely going to the front-lines).

It's my experience that an implicit class system is formed (based on resumes) where titles only associate with like titles, even when many of the most brilliant individuals are not even in management at all.
I cannot imagine why you'd think The Economist is generally a racist publication. Have you ever read it? Really? I do not get such an impression from TE at all and I read it often.

As to this article, The Economist is reviewing a book by a third-party. If the facts are correctly quoted from the book, the book's sources are correct and the item is newsworthy, I see no problem at all with such a book review.

There need be no racial motivation for pointing out institutional failings in any country. India is an important country in so many ways, and the readers of The Economist would surely want to know about politics there.
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> Haskell is actually infamous for having an evangelical following and limited real-world uses.

That may have been true 15 or more years ago but is not the case any more. I've been using Haskell almost exclusively for the last 7 years for everything from financial analysis to web back ends to, most recently, web front ends.
I thought exactly same :)
That was an interesting non sequitur...
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The issue here is corruption, not socialism. Socialism is just another pretext for legalized theft: give the elderly inadaptable and the nostalgics some breadcrumbs to keep them busy while the politicians steal the bread factory.

I'm attacking the party that has more members with criminal records than all others combined. An organized criminal gang controls this praty. The president of the Chamber of Deputies who's also the president of this party already has a criminal record for election tampering and is currently under investigation for abuse of power. The president of the Senate is currently under investigation for perjury and aiding the felon. This is without even counting the many members of their parties who have been prosecuted and/or sent to jail.
What's racist about it?
Not sure about the software but webcams were available from the early 90's. I think there was an old amiga magazine that came with some facial recognition demo ware.

For voice there were things like dragon that could do reasonably accurate full voice dictation. IME it was more accurate the google voice is today because it was trained.

Moving these to the cloud is more about controlling data than it is about lack of local computing power.
Is this really the experience of voice recognition people have? I can't get Siri to reliably create appointments... takes about 3 tries for the voice recognition to work correctly.
macOS is not popular among gamers? I don't understand what the problem is.
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Reminds me of Lenny, the bot that tricks telemarketers:

https://www.toao.net/595-lenny
We had people in the office in the late 90s with repetitive stress issues who were using Dragon NaturallySpeaking pretty effectively.
For others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe_ratio
I imagine it's dependent on domain expertise and ability to execute. You need to be able to break it down into smaller problems in lieu of an aggressive weekly growth goal.

If you haven't already check out Chad Rigetti's talk from last year's Startup School. Excellent perspective on the challenges and rewards of working on "hard tech"
Apple allows GPU manufacturers to ship their own Vulkan support as well.

It's likely not worth the vendor's effort but still.
I like methodology they used to estimate number of airstrikes.
I remember around 2007/2008 Sony VAIOs had facial recognition login. I freaked out on how decent it was, then thought about the DMV and Facebook being able to use this and really freaked out.
No its not rhetorical and your answer is naive at best.

People in India will take money if you give it to them, but they will vote on identity only. This is because there is no reciprocity - once the voting is done the politicians have no incentive to pay them again and they don't. The only reciprocity that exists, if at all, is along identity and everyone gets it.

Take a look at any CM in any state of India - their win is largely explained by identity and not money. The current PM who was two time CM of a state, doesnt even have a house to his name.
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> I assume you are talking about cases of drivers not being up to date.

No, I'm talking about users even having the unofficial vulkan-supporting drivers installed (on Windows).

Users aren't going to suddenly get Vulkan support in a driver update from Windows/Microsoft Update.

> I don't see how browser makers can fix that, besides warning users that their drivers are too old.

Try to read this carefully, I've mentioned it several times: The point of this WG is to provide an API layer on top of a range of low-level GPU libraries.

For Windows (where Vulkan support is possible but not practical due to the unofficial nature of Vulkan supporting drivers) the most common API library that browsers would use, is DirectX, which is provided and supported by Microsoft, across a vast range of hardware.

No one insists that all browser vendors use the same TLS library, or the same DOM library, or even the same JavaScript engine. They just (aim to) support the same standards, usually building on things already available from the OS.

If you still can't grasp this, I have to assume you're simply trolling.
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> WebKit developers are pretty much the forefathers of all modern web tech.

IE4 was the forefather of modern web tech[1].

> They erroneously conclude that WebGL's successor must also be a Vulkan based solution. [...] All of which is is essentially the tech version of "libtard" based arguments.

No, people are sick of working against 3 different APIs. One of which is a standard. It's Microsoft doing their own thing with IE all over again. A safe subset of Vulkan would be familiar and would have existing documentation. All designed by GPU experts.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_HTML
I don't think this is going to DDoS the scammers by calling them back; I think the point is you just transfer the inbound call to his bot -- the success rate on these things is so low, if he's got good enough penetration the false positives will overwhelm the true positives.

I think, anyway. Spent five minutes reading the post and other parts of the blog, and dimly recall seeing something from this project posted previously. Happy to be proven wrong.
The issue that I have with the newly imagined Docker Swarm is that it continues Docker's trend of trying to be a jack of all trades.

I have no specific examples for Docker Swarm, but using this approach in other areas has led to some pretty major deficiencies in Docker's design that they have been slow to fix, and I'm not keen on seeing that happen again.

For a concrete example, see https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/19474 - in a minor release, they completely changed how DNS worked and broke previously working systems (i.e. https://github.com/weaveworks/weave/issues/2157), all in the name of service discovery
State of the art for dictation was probably Dragon Dictate / Naturally Speaking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_NaturallySpeaking

Windows had an API for basic command recognition, in late 90's giving the ability to navigate through telephony menus, for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Speech_API#SAPI_1-4_...
> "One can walk just about the whole way from Mumbai to Kolkata without stepping foot outside a constituency whose MP isn’t facing a charge."

So there's a line of clean constituencies from Mumbai to Kolkota? That 'isn't' should be an 'is'.
I understand that for operational secrecy reason, not all action would be published, but I would have thought there should be at least post mission briefings and outcomes being discussed by news sources and political leaders after the fact?

For instance, here in Australia I know there has been a squadron of F/A-18s conducting bombing and strike campaigns in Afghanistan, but we don't hear anything at all about the sorts of missions they have been running, nor their effectiveness. Indeed, many Australians I have spoken to actually have no idea that we had a sizeable amount of our Air Force over there conducting operations.
IANAL, but you sound like you're in the catbird seat. They need all formers to sign this, they laid you off, you have side projects and a life, and so why devote a thought to their needs? Charity?

Turn it around and tell them your needs: you don't want to lose rights to your own work. Leave at that at first, and see if they come back with anything, such as a list of the specific works they want you to disclaim prior to their acquisition.

You get the open end, not them.

And charge them for laying you off, I assume you don't have equity that will act as any kind of redemption in the sale.
FreeBSD provides this with boot environments:

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?beadm
Yes. I was working on Nehalem in 2001 as an intern, designing 10 GHz circuits. It was exciting. Even then, though, the power projections were scary. I came back in 2002 and 2003, and so I got to witness the whole project shift as people realized that 10 GHz was not going to happen.

Watching this shift motivated my research into parallel computing and its applications.
You seem to be wanting to expose the messed up world that is high end PC gaming to the rest of the web. That is quite delusional and I would be thrilled to have Apple standing up for ordinary users in fighting any such move.

The aim of the web is to just work and then as a lower priority work well.
If people voted with their feet, how do you explain Bush and Trump ?
If you still think of the world as divided into good and evil, then I have to break it to you that you have been played. Brainwashed by years and years of media programming.

One man's terrorist is another man's hero. The U.S routinely bombs other sovereign countries and this is show cased as a "hero" activity. If the bombed people retaliate, they are terrorists. The truth is not black/white. Same way U.S data surveillance is OK but same thing done by China is seen as backward regime.