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Conspiracy theories assume meticulous and detailed planning. Real path to authoritarian government goes to opportunism and being combative in very straightforward way. Personality and temperament create implicit strategy that can bee seen.

The question is not if Trump is authoritarian or not, he is. The question is how far he gan get.

Germans provide good history lesson: http://www.zeit.de/wissen/geschichte/2017-02/adolf-hitler-ch...

edit: in response of calling Trump Hitler I quote Garry Kasparov:

>Putin isn't Hitler!' 'Trump isn't Hitler!' Wow, congratulations! You have failed the most basic lesson of learning from history in order not to repeat it!
I wrote about this fallacy extensively in Winter is Coming and elsewhere, but am happy to recap it here. Of course Putin isn't Hitler, and Donald Trump isn't even Putin—no matter how much he would like to be. The point is that no one is making comparisons to the monster Adolf Hitler became in the 1940s. But in the 20s, even for most of the 30s, Hitler wasn't Hitler either! There could be no more important lesson to understand than how a race-baiting demagogue came to power in an educated and liberal country like Germany and how he transformed that nation into a fascist death machine capable of World
War and unimaginable acts.
The story I read about this announcement said that Kalanick called and spoke with Trump about this. I imagine that he could have walked back on it had Trump's reaction given him hope.
Do you find going to bed at 930pm hurts your social life?

That is by far the largest thing keeping me from the "early to bed, early to rise" lifestyle. I like going out with people, or generally engaging with others at night.
None of that is 1/10th as complex as the virt extensions, IOMMU/ATS, etc, etc, etc, Stuff that is common on high end processors these days. If you think x86 is complex, I suggest that you look at aarch64, the smmu, gicv3, etc docs.

Plus, x86-64 basically disables both the things you list. Not that it matters because what is a flat fs/gs/etc register when there is another whole level of page tables for the hypervisor. AKA, you do the translation and store it in a TLB. If you really want to compare this, time how long a modern x86 takes on TLB misses, or for that matter how fast its TLBs are. I think you fill find that they are industry leading...

Same basic thing for the x87, its likely mostly powered down, and when active is probably feeding micro-ops through a SSE functional unit....

So the original posters comment is likely correct, and that has been known for a decade+. X86 if anything has a few accidental advantages, and the idea that its somehow "worse" than the alternatives are provably wrong.
I think this is a very bad development. Trump was previously exposed to a lot of intelligent people - Thiel, Kalanick, Musk, etc. In our quest for ideological purity, we are driving all the people who can provide Trump with good advice to stay away from him.

Trump is hardly an ideologue on this matter:

Trump: “When someone is going to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, Stanford, all the greats and then they graduate, we throw them out of the country, and they can’t get back in, I think that’s terrible, We have to be careful of that, Steve. You know, we have to keep our talented people in this country.”

Bannon: “When two-thirds or three-quarters of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia, I think...A country is more than an economy. We’re a civic society.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steve-bannon-disgusted-a...

Guess what - now Trump has one fewer voice telling him to be inclusive. Bannon is still advising Trump to double down on nationalism.

Realistically, we can have two presidencies: the Bannon presidency or the Thiel presidency. The odds of a Bannon presidency just went up.
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It's a large Python/Django codebase, with good code standards and architecture (a lot of the edX engineers come from MIT). You would work on different clients contracts using the platform. The clients list/references include Harvard, edX themselves, the French government, and various startups & universities currently running their own instances, or looking to create one. Tasks are varied, from developing developing core platform features, custom exercises and tools for specific courses (XBlocks), customizing and deploying instances, working on both client/server sides, etc.

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No one wanted to "side with Al Quaeda" - that sounds like alternative facts to me. Syria is a complete and total mess without much in the way of identifiable "good guys".

The other issues are things people can certainly disagree on without calling one another 'goons'.
thank you for this comment.
Which people and brands have you seen stop using Snapchat in favor of Instagram? Since you said you've seen a lot I'm expecting a list of at least 10. Thanks.
The fewer sane people who will work with him, the harder it is to maintain the fiction that the way he's behaving is within any normal frame of reference. It's a cumulative effect.

Spare me the talk of "hysteria" when he spent the entire election fear-mongering the rubes. The "angry mob" is the people who elected him.
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Development specialized on the free software project Open edX, used by many universities and companies to run online courses. See edx.org, stanford.edu or fun-mooc.fr for examples of Open edX instances. We are a team of ten developers, working remotely from Europe, North America, Asia, Russia & Australia. The company is not affiliated with edX, but contributing and working with them on various projects. This is a full time position, were you would be able to work remotely from where you want, as long as you have a good internet connexion. : )

It's a large Python/Django codebase, with good code standards and architecture (a lot of the edX engineers come from MIT). You would work on different clients contracts using the platform. The clients list/references include Harvard, edX themselves, the French government, and various startups & universities currently running their own instances, or looking to create one. Tasks are varied, from developing developing core platform features, custom exercises and tools for specific courses (XBlocks), customizing and deploying instances, working on both client/server sides, etc.

Most of your work is published as free software (Open edX is released under the AGPL license, which requires clients to release modifications under the same license), and you would also contribute to the free software project, pushing some of your developments upstream through pull requests, contributing features, documentation or help on mailing-lists.

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"On the day Trump was inaugurated, China’s military warned that war between the two countries was a real possibility."

The tone of the article and the quotes make this sound like this is a new scenario. It isn't. It stretches before Threat Vector (Tom Clancy novel) [0], before the 90's pull out by USN in the Phillipines. [1] There is a long history of rivalry in this region where cultures bump into each other. [2]

Reference

[0] http://www.tomclancy.com/book_display.php?isbn13=97804252623...

[1] https://www.sofmag.com/the-south-china-sea-standoff/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracel_Islands#Historical_per...
"At arm's length" means that the two parties are impersonal business acquaintances. They treat each other just like they would treat anyone else with the same amount of goods to sell or money to spend.

When you sell a car to your nephew for $1, that is not an "arm's length" trade. In some situations, a trade that is not "at arm's length" may be taxed on an independently assessed value, rather than the actual purchase price.

In most places in the US, arm's length is literally the distance you stand from someone when closing a business deal. You can't shake hands from further away, and you can't hug each other without getting closer.

OP might have meant something along the lines of "keep your friends close, and your enemies closer." Or you can't be heard if you aren't even there to speak. I'm not sure if there's another idiom that would be more precise without also being less concise, but "arm's length" is probably not the best phrasing.
Because he is not the most likable CEO and not everyone is looking for a payday.

I am merely pointing out that his security costs are negligible to him/Snap Inc based on their valuation.
I respect what they have been able to achieve given their situation (geographic location, limited resources, small population).

As I said in the beginning, I am completely against the illegal settlements, the blockade of Gaza, and other similar issues. I regard my fellow Palestinians as brothers and sisters. That doesn't mean that I cannot respect what Israel has been able to build.
I'm most of the time using Linux but Windows 10 is quite fast and usable if you are willing to do the dance to check all privacy settings and clean the Start Menu of the spam.

I don't use an online id for logging in and use this tool to fix privacy settings: https://modzero.github.io/fix-windows-privacy/ (read the fine print, it's quite invasive!) there are powershell scripts for cleaning the start menu - I don't have a link handy, sorry.

After doing this it's a great system! Even Edge is somewhat usable if you install uBlock Origin (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/ublock-origin/9nblgg...)

However most regular users are stuck with the shiny and annonying defaults that make you feel you handed over your machine to Microsoft to show you annoying ads.
Additionally, the requirement for being able to sell a business friendly license, seems to imply that any community code contributions must now assign copyright of the contribution to the project owner (CLA?). Otherwise, wouldn't you then have features locked to the EUPL version? (presumably...I am not familiar with the EUPL at all though)
Your pension funds at work, people.
Progressives have always been unhappy with things like warrantless spying, the no fly list, using drones to bomb weddings and funerals because someone on a 'kill list' is a relative. Progressives have been deeply disappointed with Obama for continuing these policies. And have warned that normalizing these policies is handing the next administration a loaded gun. In that we think the wannabe 'centrist' and 'corporate' democratic party leaders are fools.

Generally conservatives appear to only get upset when it's a nominal Democrat wielding these powers. And switch to total support once a Republican is in office.
Not all (I'd actually venture out to say most) people important to Uber (customers!) think like you do.

Look into the #deleteUber campaign and the subsequent rise of Lyft usage. I was pretty disappointed to see the same reactionary protesters you talk about, not doing due research. But they have the capacity to hurt Uber very much.

So being bent to them is actually the better move if you ask me. If he would've stayed, sadly most would see it as a choice of siding with Trump administration, and Uber or Kalanick can't really afford another anti-Uber hashtag movement.
No idea what it's worth, I just disagree that their ads are less valuable than other types.
With H.264 decoders being shipped in pretty much anything with a screen these days, that format is usually significantly more power efficient and easier to decode.

It's not the cheapest to encode, but even a baseline H.264 low cpu use profile will beat MPEG-1 or MJPEG anyday anytime on bandwidth and quality.
There are a lot of laws and regulations around advertising stock for sale to the general public (as opposed to qualified private investors).

Companies have to be very conservative but thorough in the "Risk Factors" section, or get sued by investors claiming to have been misled later.

For example some of Google's Risk Factors from 2004:

> New technologies could block our ads, which would harm our business.

> We generate our revenue almost entirely from advertising, and the reduction in spending by or loss of advertisers could seriously harm our business.

> We are susceptible to index spammers who could harm the integrity of our web search results.
And Facebook spends $5mn on security for its CEO and $1m for its CFO.

http://nypost.com/2016/04/28/facebook-has-spent-14-5m-on-zuc...
And the reason he hasn't made money off it in the last 5-6 years has nothing to do with the license -- it is because sending emails from an API is a very saturated market. From custom remailer apis to built-in provide-your-own-SMTP-server options there are plenty of ways to send email from code and most of them are cheap to free.
In math we have lots of journals devoted to recreational and more elementary problems. There is a lot of low hanging fruit out there.

For instance, compute the fibbonacci numbers modulo the square of a prime and compare to modulo a prime. Are there numbers where the first zero appears at the same point? We don't know.

I'm not saying the problem is easy. I'm saying one can make some progress without much theory.
Bloody Hell Snapchat Is Losing a Ton of Money
This is very interesting. I run https://www.gitignore.io and this post highlights a lot of interesting things about git-scm.

1. GitHub is footing the bill — I'm paying for gitignore.io (although it's only costing me the annual domain)

2. The site uses 3 Dynos — Currently gitignore.io uses 1 Dyno on the free tier and I've recently moved the backend from Node to Swift to double / triple network performance based on my preliminary testing. I don't know why the site needs 3 Dynos because like the OP mentioned, it's a static site. I also use Cloudflare as a CDN which could dramatically improve git-scm's caching layer. It's not that helpful for me as most of my requests are dynamically created, but for a static site, it would drastically reduce Dyno traffic.

3. Access to Heroku seems to be an issue — I ran into the same problem and I'm finishing up a full continuous integration process to build and test my site on Travis. I basically want to approve a pull request and have the site fully tested though my Heroku pipeline, then have the PR landed in production.

4. Traffic - I don't know how many users he's got but I'm seeing about 60,000 MAU's and about 750,000 requests a month.

* Jason Long helped design my site and logo as well.
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I must be missing the relevance of how this is related to hacker news, mods asleep again? We need another detox, the political (non technical) content has been off the hook lately.
If your modem/router is old it might be holding you back. When I updated ours two years ago I was stunned by the improvement.
In that time period, the biggest change has been CNN making a dramatic move to the left. They went from near the center to being out with MSNBC, which was already well to the left and moving left.

With that, we lost the closest thing we had to unbiased mainstream media. It's pretty disturbing that Fox is now the least biased.

I miss the old CNN. :-(
Are you serious? Once in a while he says something close to a Democratic idea, like his quotes on universal healthcare, but you should pay more attention to his actions. He has not taken a single action so far that has anything to do with the Democratic party, and nearly all of his promises are either vaguely Republican, or too nonsensical to fit with either party.
Snaps are apps in a container.
Why bother with docker containers to run services while you can install everything together on a single computer? Each docker replicates the same rooted again and again.

Just like docker, snaps make sense even if there is some duplication of the libraries. Other benefits outweigh the extra size.
Most people between the ages of 10-30 have been conditioned to pull out their phone during the slightest feeling of boredom, awkwardness, loneliness, or of course notification noise / buzz. It then becomes a question of which App gets opened first which usually is decided by the amount of 'reward' generated by the action.

I can only speak to my demo, but the order is usually:

Tier 1:

* Text messaging

* Snapchat

Tier 1.5:

* Tinder

* Mobile games (only applies to a subset of users 'gamers')

Tier 2:

* Facebook

* Instagram

Tier 3:

* Browser

* Mobile games (most people)

* Other

You'll notice personal communications falls above content sharing. Snapchat is a definitive type of personal communication and is pretty firmly planted (IMO).
As for my guess - is it true raising money is way harder than it should be, given your numbers? (And huge market.)

Or did you not have too much trouble and got fair valuations, terms, could close quickly etc?

(If you don't mind sharing.)
"Literally referring to something by its given name" is like calling an API, not copying an API. Oracle didn't sue Google for writing software that merely called the Java APIs, or writing software that included information about the APIs. If you wrote out a prose description of each Java class, each method, and the types and order of each parameter, that would not be copyright infringement, even under the Federal Circuit's definition.
Maybe, maybe not. There is something potentially obsessive about walling up and maintain a Ferrari like that. :)
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I'm not saying he can be reasoned with. Just that it's better to keep talking, regardless of the result. With talk, there is hope. When we turn our backs on our fellow Americans, there is only alienation and hatred, and all the dysfunction that brings with it.
I agree with this analysis.

Let's presume that Mr. Kalanick feels the way that I think most of us do, which is different from how Mr. Trump feels.

Staying on the council will give the appearance of endorsement. That's a negative for him (and Uber, probably). That could be counterbalanced by his ability to affect change. And if Mr. Trump had given him the impression that he could influence his behavior in any way, perhaps he would have accepted the negative in exchange for a chance at the positive. I simply doubt that Mr. Trump gave him any reason to think he would have any real influence. Therefore, quitting expeditiously is a rational move.
Because supply is influenced by price.

The supply of gold is huge if I am willing to pay above market rates. If I want a conductive metal I am going to chose something other than gold in the vast majority of cases because of price. In the case of gold the price is based on both demand and resource extraction costs.

Moving to the workforce, students pick jobs in part because of what they will pay. Over time this feedback loop combines with demand and other factors to set a clearing price for the industry. If a job pays less than 100k that's a very big sign that people are choosing to do something else because of pay not the jobs inherent difficulties.

Now what happens if you try and subsidize an industry with H1B's. Let's say you add 50% as many H1B as people working in the field for a huge effect. Well in the short term wages fall and people either find something else, but more importantly students study something else. Fast forward 20 years, the market price is a little lower but not by that much even though lots of H1B's are now doing that job' you still need to entice a lot of US workers. Meanwhile close to 1:1 with those H1B's, US students have moved into other fields.

Thus, unless you are going to have most people in an industry be H1B's trying to help out an industry shortfall with some H1B quota is not that useful and simply subsidizes an industry for minimal benefit.

PS: Even defining things based on job is tricky. I need a Doctor what's the price for that, type: surgeon, type of surgeon: cosmetic. Now a hospital that can fill out generalist one level up can get a discount. Even industry gets tricky as a school may need a doctor for example.
the only challenge here is that upstream senders will block when your channel(s) are full. This is not inherently bad, but if you have a circular dependency, you can deadlock because queues (channels) are bounded and may fill up. There are solutions to that too, but you have to build that in
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"The launch of Spectacles, which has not generated significant revenue for us, is a good example. There is no guarantee that investing in new lines of business, new products, and other initiatives will succeed. If we do not successfully develop new approaches to monetization, we may not be able to maintain or grow our revenue as anticipated or recover any associated development costs, and our business could be seriously harmed."

I don't think anyone expected Spectacles to be a cash cow, but I still would have expected a more positive outlook on them.
Not only engaging with that ad, but you can literally observe them have fun / smile because of it.
Also, the motivation seems to be a desire for building a bigger community which gives back its improvements. ZeroMQ for example sticks to LGPL for the very reason - they believe that it is easier to build a community and discourage "dark forks" when software is licensed under GPL-like license. (See http://zeromq.org/area:faq#toc4).
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What about broken hips?
Keep in mind that Google Cloud is much larger than App Engine.
why on earth wouldn't you?

It all comes down to why he wants to talk to me. Is it because he's interested in listening to what to have to say and take my advice under consideration or does he just want to use my 'fame' and my name to add legitimacy to the the actions he would have taken anyway.
i doubt it would involve hundreds of millions let alone billions in hardware costs.
Is transfer learning really not widely known by people doing AI? In my field, computer vision, it is used by most of the papers in the past three years in CVPR, etc. All of the students that take either my deep learning or my computer vision courses have to do assignments on transfer learning with deep neural networks.
There was a very strong filter. It used to be very difficult to get into university before they expanded tremendously from the 70s to now. You needed excellent grades. Now good grades are enough to get a spot somewhere.
It's like "hash" and "hashtag" all over again. sobs