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> I am saying is that it's hard to justify that he has added proportional value to the world that is worth the money he has made.

Donating almost everything back to society, that does not count?
Elon Musk not planning to quit Trump’s advisory board-immigration ban
I guess I'll have to check out the books then
i agree with the fact that PS object oriented communication between commands is much better then text. But I disagree about your point (2) saying that command names are more discoverable. with linux style conventions, there is a hierarchy that helps you navigate between command's features. for example `docker image ls` you can type docker, see that there is an images subtree, type docker images, see that there is an ls command, and run it. With Powershell you kind of have to guess and type `get-docker` and tab through commands. Also some times the verb is not easy to guess. So in terms not relying on documentation as you called it, I think PS is worse.
That being sayd, once you do know the command you need, using it is much easier with PS as you nicely described. tip - if you liked tab completion, try ctrl+space :)
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If you think about it in terms of hourly contracting rate, the opportunity cost of participating in this conversation could easily cost more than $230.
Somewhere between 500 and 2000 usd for the complete port?

(based on an old apple story about Jobs vs Woz)
This year, I decided to pony up for ACM lifetime dues with digital library access. That's $3960, or 20 years worth of dues at this year's rate. I think that's a fair cost for a professional in industry.

IEEE, on the other hand, is an annoyance. Annual dues are $198 this year too, which essentially gets you a print subscription to Spectrum magazine (free online; bloated with ads) and Google-hosted e-mail account (no ads; internally spammed by IEEE), but that's effectively it. With a basic 3 papers/mo digital subscription (which should be included at no additional cost as part of annual dues IMHO), that'll set me back $425.40 this year alone...over 2x ACM annual dues for a tease of relevant content. Despite having spent the past few years wait until the end of January to internally deliberate whether I should stay legit and renew or seek alternative means, I nevertheless end up paying the piper for another year.

For all intents and purposes, Elsevier can suck it. About 2 years ago, a few of their business development guys came to my division to pitch a new service. There's only one other guy (PhD candidate at the time) in my division who follows the literature, but he wasn't there for the pitch. That gave me free reign to take up the entire Q&A session pointing out broken or deficient aspects and subtly jab at the irrelevance of their product to our mission. In the end, the bosses didn't bite on the product...they would have taken us to the cleaners otherwise.
Seriously, a 51.6MB "gif" that doesn't really add anything to the article?
PLEASE do not state fear-mongering numbers without source, especially about medicine!
Anesthesia is safer than traveling by plane, nowadays.
According to a 10 sec googling, the mortality is now sub 10/million/year, and that's including high-risk populations.
source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2697561/
Indeed.

That's a relatively recent development, however. Not that long ago, they were virtually not-for-profit firms. Then they got acquired. And restructured to maximize profit.
To clarify: is Amazon designing their own Uninterruptible Power Supply for AWS, or their own parcel shipping service?
> Electrolysis is basically here and working, slowly rolling out

Unless you use extensions, which used to be one of Firefox's biggest advantages.

I gave Firefox on Ubuntu a try for a week last month because I was looking for a replacement for Chrome and if I wasn't tech savvy I wouldn't have been able to figure out that Firefox was running in single-process mode and how to fix that.

E.g. the default "Ubuntu integration" extension that Firefox ships with on Ubuntu (where it is the default browser) is not compatible with electrolysis. Additionally the (now outdated) Lastpass extension from the Firefox addon shop isn't compatible. I think the Trello Scrum extension also isn't compatible. The React developer tools also only just experimentally enabled compatibility.

I'm not nitpicking -- users don't care why Firefox is slow or why electrolysis is disabled. If an extension is available for Firefox, especially if it's available on the official addon shop, users expect it to work and not to make Firefox slow to a crawl.

That said, even with multiprocess mode I found that Firefox would often be considerably slower when having many tabs open (it's normal for me to keep 30-40 tabs open and this isn't rare, even among my non-developer friends). And as a developer the dev tools are still lightyears behind.
When Google eventually buy Snap, it's better for them to already manage the infrastructure.

Then everyone can honestly announce that Snap user data won't be handed over to Google - because it's already there. ;)
Looks pretty but not quite realistic. Expect the iPhone 8 to be very similar to the Galaxy S8 in design. i.e. no physical home button, curved screen and no bezels at sides but keeping small bezels top and bottom.
Snapchat is based on Ubuntu servers. http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/04/ubuntu-infographic

Coincidence?
> This sounds like a really bad move on their part and they should have committed to building out their own infrastructure on 'bare metal' over the next 5 years instead.

It doesn't mean they won't. Apple is reportedly spending a similar amount on Google cloud.[1] They're also investing billions in building their own data centers.[2] Those things go together.

Do you really think a company facing literally hundreds of millions of dollars in cloud service bills is not going to run the numbers on plugging in their own servers.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/google-nabs-apple-as-a-cloud-...

[2] http://fortune.com/2016/02/02/apple-data-center-move/
That's put an unexpected smile on my face.
This seems to be lacking context. I would suspect that's why it got flagged in the first place.
It's not really the demise of native apps. I think it's almost undeniable that a percentage of native apps should be websites, it's just a question of whether that's going to end up as 30% or 80%. Seems unlikely it will ever be 100%.
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Miserable Story: Socially anxious person Explain what he really feels like
I personally found (34 here) that this cliche is either a pile of poop, or badly worded for what it actually means.

It's not that we don't do these things after 30 or even 40, it's how we do them (hint: more means, wiser/less stupid about it 'cause been there, done that).

Now there's a historic truth to the cliche, but let's not pretend this is 1960 still, not even 1990. As we near the 2020's, socially everybody may work (M+F), everybody may change diapers, everybody may get drunk/high even after 40. It's not frowned upon anymore to just live, so what do you know, people just go on about living their lives, whether in their twenties, thirties, eighties... "Living" includes drama, it's just the nature of it, and there's this kid inside all of us --but as you age you're just so much better at handling said drama, and turn it into no less memorable but much more comfortable stories.

Most incredible nights of my life? Twenties for sure, even late teens. But best nights? On average it's not even funny to compare: at 34 it's so much easier to feel good with oneself and with the world. Which makes me actually much more daring personally, with work (and outside-the-box thinking), with relationships (and quirks), with my very own self.

Just to widen the perspective beyond my own anecdotal experience, I wonder: why this change between 20th century and 21st century societies? You see, when you read people from some 2,000 years ago, you quickly realize that they shared the same thoughts, the same feelings, the same life stories. Funny people back then would probably be funny today, and you could hear Romans complaining about foreigners taking their jobs and changing their culture... The human being part of the equation didn't change.

What changed is organization, and that's a long talk but essentially I feel that as we gained freedom on an individual basis, we need less "general principles" to guide otherwise clueless peoples --and this is currently still changing fast as even the perimeter/mission of the state and governments is very much in question, from corporate/money influence over citizenry, to wiki and other leaks, passing by individual rights. On the other hand, we begin to observe what the human race really is like, how it behaves, when given the freedom to set its own way (at least in the western part of the world, but surely these days "social progress" is happening everywhere regardless of political/economic freedom).

It's 11:30 and I am now going to resume work after this early morning coffee. :}
How Alternative Finance Can Help SMEs: A Case Example from Italy
From my understanding, the LEAF has a primitive battery management system compared to other EVs, including passive air cooling of the battery. Lithium batteries are fussy about temperature (they have similar temperature preferences to humans) and outside of this the degradation can be faster. Other EVs have liquid heating and active cooling of the battery.
> If you read their S-1, they list a dependence on Google cloud as one of their big risk factors. Yet they then go ahead and make this commitment instead of working towards eliminating it.

If they ran on bare metal then they'd list that as one of their big risk factors too.
>id honestly be curious to why this comment is being downvoted so much

Because it confuses revenues and earnings? It defends Snap chat for not having "negative billions" when, in fact, it is has negative billions.
How about the Mitsubishi i-MiEV, Fiat 500e, or the Chevy Spark EV?
Yeah, I wonder if this will affect who gets the next exclusive interviews with the prince.
>Even on the assumption that the rich only have 2-3 children, a billion-dollar inheritance should be diluted to nearly nothing after 15 generations

Not if your children exclusively marry other wealthy people. Then the rate of dilution depends primarily on the growth in the overall population of the wealthy in each generation. The Italian population overall has quintupled since the 1400s, even if we make an allowance for the wealthy having more living children who reproduced, the wealth will not have diluted away completely.
It seems dangerous to commit to spending so much money for so long into the future, with a particular vendor. Who knows whether Google Cloud will be best for your needs four years from now? Price, performance, reliability, support, whether it will have best-in-class abstractions, and so on...
Must be unlocking the same thing that Amazon Prime Photos is doing. I have to say that scanning photos automatically and allowing me to search by what is in the photo is the only solution to cope with the proliferation of photos, especially from camera phones. I still curate my better photos in Lightroom and publish them to Flickr albums. But that approach just isn't scalable for all the "normal" photos I am taking with the iPhone; so privacy concerns aside, I am happy for a machine to help me find the photos I am interested in.
Congrats! It sounds like you found the right channels for your business (at least for a while).

Direct sales and paid ads are both solid channels. Others that I've seen work are SEO, Content Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Partnerships, API Integrations, Meetups, Conferences, Engineering as Marketing, Viral Design, Affiliates, PR, Newsjacking, Branson-style Stunts, User Incentives (like Paypal giving people $20 for signing up), etc...

What works depends a lot on what your price points are, what your competition is doing and your stage of growth. The worst thing is when a startup's ideal channel—and it usually is just one or maybe two channels that will work really well—happens to be one that the founders dismiss without even realizing it. In fact, a lot of technical founders would dismiss the exact kind of direct sales that worked so well for you.
I think the idea here is to find things by analyzing the pictures directly as opposed to just searching contextual data like captions and link text. No idea if Google does that or not.

Edit: Didn't know Google Photos was a thing and assumed parent meant Google Images. Carry on.
That's exactly what we need: a touch bar on the iPhone, too. /s
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Can you elaborate? (I know why not to use Vault for my banking passwords, also why to use it for the bind password for some app's LDAP auth backend)
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> Right now, we're playing through a little indie game called Tales of the Sword Coast that's kind of a re-envisioning of the Baldur's Gate games from back in the day.

"Tales of the Sword Coast" is the Baldur's Gate I expansion[0] so that can't be it, anyone knows what they're talking about here? Sword Coast Legends maybe?[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldur%27s_Gate:_Tales_of_the_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_Coast_Legends
One supposes that might seem "obnoxious", to those who were somehow psychologically committed to what... the perpetual existence of America? That ain't me. It seems unlikely that the continent will sink into the ocean anytime in the next five years, however.

Perhaps I could have been clearer, but I didn't say that Alphabet would fail anytime soon anyway. I referred rather to G's habit of discontinuing popular services.
Nice! I made a simple site a while ago that performs a similar function. [1]

The difference is that it goes by the number of upvotes rather than being curated by a person.

[1] https://hotonhn.com/
I drove one of those Renault Twizy some years ago, and I can say it is not speed-limited by any means. In fact, it has a very good acceleration and top-speed around 100 km/h (at least, as I was afraid of turning it upside down on the highway!)..
Ask HN: Any starter project templates for web app?
There was some discussions in Reddit about converting this to epub or similar.

Apparently the book is free as in beer, not free as in freedom; derivative works can't be distributed and some people argued that for a decent ebook experience you needed to make adjustments to the book. As no one wants to be challenged by Google in court, there were no volunteers last time I've checked.
I don't think you understood what GP said: he is using Google Photos, which searches his private collection. Not Google images.

I personally find Google Photos usually helpful and use it all the time to locate specific pictures. I do not caption them at all
Really off-topic, but: Are there (tech) news-sites which do not have this 10-100MB bloat with three js framweorks and gifs, ads and whatnot? I'd gladly pay for a minimalist news source...
>On Linux you just open your terminal and execute a single command.

Lmao, yes speculating that it includes that certain software package or that it's the latest version.

That burden is on the developer (if there's no maintainer) which has to waste time packaging same thing for X distros. Windows developer uploads the .exe to the web and he's done.
Of course it's damn possible to build that with $2 billion. Will it be robust as google's infrastructure? No. Will it have (unlimited) scale as Google has? No. Will it have network connectivity and geographical distribution as Google has? No.

So, if you set scope on expectations and dedicate time and resources, it's definitely possible. Reasonable? Probably not.
Haven't really touched Windows the last 5+ years but adding .NET to the mix sounds a bit complicated in relation to Bash.
Yes, I do think Google's biggest customer leaving their platform vocally would be more impactful than Google promoting/defending itself.

If Snap threatened to leave I'd wager that even the CEO of Google would get involved to keep their biggest cloud customer. Snap's revenue and brand name have enormous value to Google. There simply aren't that many $2 billion dollar cloud customers right now.
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This was really good, but one detail stood out to me: the average strategy found by a CFR converges to a Nash equilibrium strategy. For a two-player, zero-sum game, we know this is an optimal strategy.

But what about a game that's not two-player and zero-sum? Are CFRs still useful?
I'm sorry that you are being downvoted, it seems nobody on HN has any reading comprehension.
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Can anybody explain how I can get a `jump to function defintions` when working with PHP files ? (defintions might be in included files)

This is the one thing I'd really like to figure out (be it out of the box or with a plugin).
Officially? My medical opinion is that she collapsed.
Depending on what exactly you're trying to build, Rails has a neat feature for creating 'scaffolds' (templates if you will) which have simple crud operations, a model and views for displaying information. Search Rails scaffold examples. Happy hacking!
there is not a shard of morality involved in this, he's quitting because it's hurting his business...
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Does anyone else read "counterfactual regret" and think "well that pretty much sums up most of why I'm ever anxious"?
I know. But thanks for the answer. It is not what I meant, but it responds to what I wrote.

A security-solution that makes normal use impossible is not a solution. Security solutions never work if they make usability worse. SELinux goes farther, it also makes functionality worse till impossible. That is what I meant when I wrote that I don't see the point of it.

Something like that can be a good solution if you are manually hardening a specific process. As a general security solution it is completely unfit. I don't see the point of pushing it for that. Fedora should never have activated it.
Well, no one can argue that testing is imperative. It's just the numbers that SQLite exposed might suggest that their test coverage is above any reasonable limits )

> the SQLite library consists of approximately 122.9 KSLOC of C code. (KSLOC means thousands of "Source Lines Of Code" or, in other words, lines of code excluding blank lines and comments.) By comparison, the project has 745 times as much test code and test scripts - 91596.1 KSLOC.

Though again, I admire SQLite and use it my projects all the time.
I've also been struggling with this after reading a little bit about these regret minimisation models.

Can someone explain how there is any difference in these CFR model from a normal reinforcement learning algorithm where you just take your loss function as the "regret" in CFR terms?
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Yes they had to make a some very hard choice on this one. It's going to piss of a lot of people on the way. But on the long run I think it will result in a better browser. With less versatility, yes. But I got an entire OS at my disposal for advanced used, it's rather have a very good browser doing browser things.

I'll the tab group extension though. I loved it and it won't be possible with webextensions.
What are "MIDIs"? MIDI is a singular mass noun, like USB or Firewire.

The MIDI protocol is still dominant in the professional field for which it was designed: controlling electronic musical instruments.

By "MIDIs" I presume you don't mean MIDI but rather so-called "MIDI Files" (SMF) and the "General MIDI" (GM) spec. This junk was originally designed for consumer-level products like Casio keyboards. General MIDI eventually devolved into the ghetto of cell phone ringtones and other trash. But don't confuse this with MIDI proper, which is a long-lived professional specification controlling often very sophisticated (and costly) devices.

Dave Smith -- largely regarded as the founder of MIDI, lamented this recently too. See 00:25 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnemYKi8Tb4
I definitely believe this makes an impact. From a biased American perspective, if I was a non-Israeli Jew living in a country that was outside of the US, Canada or Western Europe, and I am young and seeking more opportunity, moving to Israel would look like a very attractive option. Israel is very happy to woo young, and educated minds to their country which brings in fresh perspectives, which I would assume is great for startups, especially he many that target global markets.
I'm searching for a website, where I can select what features I would like to have in my app, and select backend type (for example django) and website will generate a template backend - is it even possible?

In particular, I'm searching for django templates.
No, please.

the pound is £

# this really is hash ;)
Pretty much everything is subject to multiple taxes. For example, the money you spend after income taxes are deducted may further be taxed by the means of sales taxes. Or, the money you invest from your taxed income might be subject to capital gains taxes.
Quite a few technical challenges in this one. Not least, that microphone hole up at the top of the screen. I'm no expert, but that looks like it would be the number one source of cracked screens from the gentlest of knocks.

I'm not really a fan of concept designs for apple products, which are quite a popular past time it seems.

I don't know why the designers don't simply stand by their own work and say "this is my concept design for a phone".
Skype was developed by an outsourced team in Estonia.
I'd like to believe that that's true, but from what I've seen, it more often turns into a battle of personalities within and without the jury. "[they] look guilty!" or just thinking a person is slimy / deserving of punishment, among the less racist reasons.