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Dear Sir, SEEKING YOUR IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE. Please permit me to make your acquaintance in so informal a manner. This is necessitated by my urgent need to reach a dependable and trust wordy foreign partner. This request may seem strange and unsolicited but I will crave your indulgence and pray that you view it seriously. My name is. DAN PATRICK of the Democratic Republic of Congo and One of the close aides to the former President of the Democratic Republic of Congo LAURENT KABILA of blessed memory, may his soul rest in peace. Due to the military campaign of LAURENT KABILA to force out the rebels in my country, I and some of my colleagues were instructed by Late President Kabila to go abroad to purchase arms and ammunition worth of Twenty Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars only (US$20,500,000.00) to fight the rebel group. But when President Kabila was killed in a bloody shoot-out by one of his aide a day before we were schedule to travel out of Congo, We immediately decided to divert the fund into a private security company here in Congo for safe keeping. The security of the said amount is presently being threatened here following the arrest and seizure of properties of Col.Rasheidi Karesava (One of the aides to Laurent Kabila) a tribesman, and some other Military Personnel from our same tribe, by the new President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the son of late President Laurent Kabila, Joseph Kabila. In view of this, we need a reliable and trustworthy foreign partner who can assist us to move this money out of my country as the beneficiary. WE have sufficient ''CONTACTS'' to move the fund under Diplomatic Cover to a security company in the Europe in your name. This is to ensure that the Diplomatic Baggage is marked ''CONFIDENTIAL'' and it will not pass through normal custom/airport screening and clearance. Our inability to move this money out of Congo all This while lies on our lack of trust on our supposed good friends (western countries) who suddenly became hostile to those of us who worked with the late President Kabila, immediately after his son took office. Though we have neither seen nor met each other, the information we gathered from an associate who has worked in your country has encouraged and convinced us that with your sincere assistance, this transaction will be properly handled with modesty and honesty to a huge success within two weeks. The said money is a state fund and therefore requires a total confidentiality. Thus, if you are willing to assist us move this fund out of Congo, you can contact me through my email address above with your telephone, fax number and personal information to enable us discuss the modalities and what will be your share (percentage) for assisting us. I must use this opportunity and medium to implore You to exercise the utmost indulgence to keep this Matter extraordinarily confidential, Whatever your Decision, while I await your prompt response. NOTE: FOR CONFIDENTIALITY, I WILL ADVISE YOU REPLY ME ON MY ALTERNATIVE EMAIL BOX ...Thank you and God Bless. Best Regards, MR DAN PATRICK.
If uber can figure out which burner phones are used by cops, global adversaries aren't going to have trouble with it.
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Sure, but say I come up with a novel idea. I run that idea past another lead as a sanity check, but I do most of the work myself. At one large company we were at the point where if the patent folk came around again it was our plan to milk the process. (Especially after we worked for three years on what was supposed to be a common data format for interchange between manufacturers, OEMs and customers and some halfwit thought it would be a great idea to patent the whole thing at the end. Asshole. We became highly motivated to publish our docs to start the patent clock ticking and eventually got the whole idea canned.)

In a world where the company is going to patent my work no matter what my opinion is,, 'collaborating' with people I didn't really need to collaborate with is a net positive for me.

One, I can let them make or review draft documents so that I'm not the one doing all of the bullshit paperwork. If they participate in the vetting and documentation process (especially the 'arguing with the patent attorneys' over scope and wording), then they legitimately collaborated on the patent. We extract more dollars from the bounty system and we make frivolous patents slightly more expensive.

Then when one of those two people think up an idea on their own, why not put me on it, especially if I offer the same kind of help?
> almost certainly decrease the quality of output

I think this is a dubious statement. The bifurcation of American society, with increasing concentration of wealth in cities, and increasingly desolate rural areas, has only accelerated in recent years.

The fact is that most in demand knowledge workers want to live in central urban areas. You say you can have commute "only 20 mins longer than your average Long Island commuter" - does that mean your door-to-door time is over an hour each way? No thank you, I'd much rather live in a small apartment with a 15 minute walkable commute.
Please recommend Silent Circle's Blackphone. We need to promote phones that secure the second operating system in every phone (BaseBand radio processors). We need to encourage open source and security hardened by people dedicated to make it completely secure.

https://www.silentcircle.com/products-and-solutions/devices/
I don't know for sure why it works that way.

My guess would be that it is because each country has its own rules about how VAT works for for things sold to buyers in their country. Each country would like to fully apply its rules to all purchases by its residents, but they recognize that it would be unwieldy and expensive for sellers to have to deal with minutia of the VAT rules of a couple dozen different countries.

VAT MOSS is a compromise that simplifies the rules, so that a seller selling into several foreign EU countries only has to deal with one unified set of rules through the VAT system. Instead of having to know details of the tax law of several countries, the seller only need to know the VAT rate for each. That's much easier to deal with.

I'd guess that they don't apply VAT MOSS to sales by domestic sellers to domestic buyers because they consider their own tax rules superior to the rules under VAT MOSS.
Suppose you train a neural net on cat pictures to classify the breed of cat. We desire the property that if we were to feed in a picture of a horse instead of a cat, we could somehow measure how good the network's parameters are for classifying this particular image. This is uncertainty estimation, and Yarin's blog post + thesis provides an elegant way to compute this, which get nearly for free from the existing model.

Concretely, if you are trying to train a neural net to forecast stock prices or drive a car safely, not only do you want to have predictions, but you want to estimate some measure of how confident your model is of that prediction. This is eminently useful for models that lean towards the "black-box" spectrum, such as deep neural nets.

Note that parameter uncertainty and risk estimation are quite different, which are addressed in this preliminary work http://bayesiandeeplearning.org/papers/BDL_4.pdf
One of the advantages is that you can install Linux on it. Generally, it is much easier to install Linux on a regular PC than on Apple hardware.
You can't answer this sort of question by testing it in a C compiler.

It might help but you'll often be compiling "undefined behavior" and getting results that you can't rely on.

What would help settle this definitively is researching "sequence points" in the C standard.
I'm not saying those things aren't valuable... just more expensive!
Heh, as I tweeted a couple years ago[0]:

> Ah, APL/J/K. Time for my annual crisis of thinking everything I've ever learned about programming is wrong...

Seriously, as I'm watching this video it's equal parts fascinating, confusing, and frightening.

The world of these array languages is so foreign to my day-to-day web development work that I'm not sure what to make of it. I'm impressed that you can accomplish so much in so little space, but I have a few questions as it relates to how I work:

1. How understandable is the code if you come back to it months later? Is it "write once" or are you able to pick it up again easily?

2. Have you worked on this or other code with collaborators? How well can someone else pick up the code and start contributing?

3. It seems APL is well-suited for GPU programming like you're doing here, but do you think it's more broadly applicable? Do you think all software should be written with it, including say web development and the like?

[0]https://twitter.com/losvedir/status/636034419359289344
Print the walls and let this guy to do the rest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_Uoq6JYKbw
It seems like Kansas ought to be a much bigger tech-hub for startups (along with other central-US states) because everything is cheaper and you can get reasonable latency to both coasts without having a presence on both coasts. What's holding them back is probably more cultural/political than anything else.
Pre-built walls are commonly used in tract houses.
Fruit of the forbidden tree. It's inadmissible in court.
Apparently you've avoided one of the greatest joys of open source... forks.

I worked for 7 years on an open source project with hundreds of people subscribed. My most trusted maintainer started a drumbeat about project goals that ended up causing two forks, decimating the user community, and destroying a lot of potential. Even more interesting is that all I ever seem to get, if I get mentioned at all, is negative press. But, as John Gorka once said, "What matters most is what you do for free".

As for the worry about combining open source and money... forget it. William Stein, lead developer of Sage, built Sage using grant funds and graduate students. Unfortunately the grant money dried up and the students graduated. He has since taken a leave of absence and started a company in the hope of keeping the project alive. Wish him luck.

I've looked for funding from a number of different sources, government, industry, and a separate business, all without success. I spent an average of $3,000 per year for the last 16 years, all out of personal funds. That's assuming my time is $0/hour.

Rest assured, mixing open source and money is the least of your worries.

So why do open source programming? Real musicians MUST make music, in spite of poverty wages. It's not what they DO, it's what they ARE. Similarly, I'm a programmer... it is what I am, not what I do.
How so?

In general if a criminal goes free despite having evidence against him just because the evidence was not obtained legally ... it sounds rather wrong to me.
touch screen, convertibles, pens, price, performance, and better battery life (if comparing to the most recent macbook generation)
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KVM has KSM, so there is definitely the possibility of having say, 150x 1GB VMs on a 128GB physical RAM server; possibly much more than that depending how much KVM/KSM has improved since I last looked at it.
An excellent question. Certainly switching from argparse to Fire will usually only save you some small amount of code.

But if your code is changing, that's when you'll start to see larger time savings. With Fire, your CLI will stay up to date without you having to update any parsing code.
Given that you are in Australia, I suggest that you look at Forager Funds Management. I think they provide a reasonable way to enter the stock market.
And there's also the shorter transit time from Earth. Really, there are a lot of good reasons to think about establishing a settlement on the Moon before Mars. But I still think that trying to terraform the Mooon is a bit unreasonable.

And yes, L1 is unstable. But the lower bound on how little fuel you have to spend staying at the Mars-Sun L1 is much, much smaller than the Moon-Sun L1. I'd guess 10 m/s of delta-v every year for the Mars/Sun one and 10,000 m/s every year for the Moon/Sun.
Who could possibly do their job like that?
But with this technology it seems like it would be straightforward to build a slightly larger, more practical house. Though I agree, I think building a house with at least one actual bedroom would have made a better demo.
> Can you give a reason why Enter to open a file is ideal

Lol. 10/10 troll.
I would bet big bux this is just a marketing story for someone's new app. It's an interesting angle to get new users.
Not even as a side project or something though, running on some old hardware you were never going to use again? I guess this whole thread is about working environments and precisely not what we play around with in our spare time though.

To be honest, I hadn't really given much thought to my OS for even longer before I decided to go looking myself, I'm glad I picked that fight though. Granted, 8 years ago I was 15, digging in to the guts of an OS for the first time is very different from focusing your time to build what needs building :)
"For the last few days, CNN has been promoting an episode of Believer with the title “City of the Dead,” and showing footage of corpses being burnt on the banks of the River Ganga."

"Ganga" means something very different to English-language readers.
> There is nothing more shallow and empty an explanation than "God did it",

I agree. But the kinds of questions atheists ask is quite arrogant and self-righteous and can never be uptaken by theists as they are implicitly in denial and always in contention of how to prove the existence of no miracles. What propels a theist to ask challenging questions is to actively find the miracles of God in the smallest of things, to look deeper than ever before, to find more, to learn more, with wonder and astonishment. I can challenge you that had theists never existed, science would never have existed, because refuting a theist is science's primary and only motive.

> it's just the normal functioning of biology

No wonder and no astonishment in biology? An utter simplification and discount of what it took to get here? No observation of balance and order? What will it take for you to see a miracle: an abnormality, a repetitively unpredictable action (like sailing stones), chaos?

I bet you that had great structures the likes of what you see today were placed on earth before humanity, many would still want to make excuses of how it got there, as opposed to giving credit to who put it there. People see only what they want to see.
Great, but that's an artifact of living in the SF bubble which isn't anything like the rest of the planet. That is not the current engineering market, that's the current SF market. And asking you to demonstrate your skills isn't disrespecting you, you work in an industry that doesn't have a professional certification which means it's loaded with people trying to fake it for the big paycheck; due to that, it's perfectly reasonable for companies to ask for proof of skills. If that makes you feel disrespected, you aren't in touch which what it takes to run a business.
That would encourage police to gather evidence illegally all the time, because it works. Which is consider a worse state of affairs than guilty people going free.

Just imagine undercover police walking into every home that left their door unlocked and having a snoop around. They could do that and get some convictions out of it.
This is moderately terrifying too:

> Over 54 days in January and February, I tested the safety of Plusfour by consuming it regularly.
Not to mention it gets special treatment as a program and the behavior of it in the task bar is weird and non-intuitive for inexperienced users.
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There is probably no better hardware and platform security team in the world than the one that works at Apple (and no software platform security team in the world better than the one employed by Google).

Pretty much the only thing Silent Circle has going for it is a commitment to open source. All else being equal, open source is better than closed source. But all else is nowhere close to equal in this case.

I recommend against Silent Circle's phone.
Wait, that's not how Koreans think? Then explain how they're good at math.
There's an awful lot of settings in but actually, being on the preview version, you notice things move to the new settings app with every update. Also links to the control panel pop up in the settings app and the search finds the correct setting usually. They get better.
It's missing high performance graphics drivers in the form of either openGL or Metal.

It's missing proper support for eGPU cards, which is currently the only way to add a high performance GPU to any currently produced Mac.

Blender, for instance, can't even make use of th GPU in my MacBook Pro because the openCL support in macOS is not good enough.
I was under the impression that Windows 10 is quite decent except for the specific issues I mentioned.

As for BeOS I really liked it. It was very stable and fast if the hardware you had was supported[1]. It had great multi-CPU support, came with a BASH shell, and also BeFS - which with its support for arbitrary user defined metadata, which made things like email and music queries very interesting.

The downside of BeOS was that it didn't attract any big third party apps and that it was a single user operating system.

[1] I ran BeOS on a Gateway Performance 450 with the following (from memory) specs: 450mhz Pentium 3, 384MB of RAM, a nVidia TNT graphics card, and a Promise Ultra 66 IDE card. I eventually moved away from it when I upgraded to a Pentium 4 computer with RD-RAM.
For all the reasons you mention, I think it's a fabulous article for HN. What it needs is more critical and analytical comments like yours![1]

I would go as far as to say that this is exactly the kind of poor understanding of the scientific process that allows for many consumers to be fleeced by loosely scientific marketing, especially in the categories of supplements and other OTC health products, many of which exist only because of placebo effects.

That sounds about right. But since considering that such marketing is legal, calling attention to the issues in public may be a better choice than hoping the problem will go away if ignored.

Over 54 days in January and February, I tested the safety of Plusfour by consuming it regularly.

While I applaud the author's adherence to legal ethics and willingness to be his own test subject[2], knowing that he's one of the founders of Soylent does concern me about his possible priorities regarding product safety.

[1] This comes across sounding too negative toward the author of the blog post. Writing up his experiences is a great way to start the conversation, and I thank him for this.

[2] JBS Haldane's article "On Being One's Own Rabbit" has always stuck with me: http://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20160325 (p. 71)
You'll love this.

I pasted the hello world text to google translate and it did translate it to something VERY WEIRD :)

"I'm not sure what to do, but I do not know what to do. I do not know what to do."

Sounds like the AI behind the translate engine[1] got a bit depressed :)

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/magazine/the-great-ai-awa...
Regarding vacancy statistics, you will probably find this very interesting (it is an annual assessment of vacant dwellings in Melbourne, Australia):

https://www.prosper.org.au/2015/12/09/speculative-vacancies-...
I'm a complete a noob to APL (I come from web development and ops), but reading the Wikipedia there is a section that says:

The following expression finds all prime numbers from 1 to R. In both time and space, the calculation complexity is O(R^2).

(~R∊R∘.×R)/R←1↓ιR

How? What? I feel stupid now. ;-)
Lots of executives and lay people that value privacy. I've met many. In this scenario, the journalist really just needs to be able to receive the call. The need for the OPSEC is mostly on the person leaking stories. They can do less if they don't mind consequences, though.
I think the general idea to terraform in a reasonable time is to nuke the poles to release CO2.
Wow. I wanna see them move a piano next.
Boston is actually trying to solve this. They are redirecting the money they spend on homeless shelters towards paying rent for the homeless in otherwise vacant properties and providing lawyers for the owners in case the tenants cause any problems.
Yes, but is a reversal really a bad thing? Magnetic field reversals don't seem to be a serious threat–there's no evidence of mass extinctions caused by them.
There are lots of studies where they found that the first kid was not the biological offspring of the husband at the time.
Civic engagement in Japanese agriculture was a challenge for rural communities when I was living in Japan, this village's activity seems similar to 4H clubs in the US.
> My experience is that it will be fundamentally harder to read. Not just harder, but that it will get progressively harder to read the more familiar you are with the language, relative to the other notation.

This fits my experience, and I've brought up that point many times here. There's a trade-off languages make in accessibility that often reduces usability for experts. If everyone is already an expert, or there's some other compelling reason people will use your language (e.g. C and UNIX), then you can get away with being less accessible (and C isn't accessible, it just seems that way to some because we all either learn it or some language that shares many features with it).

On one end of the spectrum, you have BASIC/Visual Basic, where learning the basics is easy and accomplishing simple things is simple, but accomplishing hard things is hampered by some of those same features that promote accessibility, and experts feel constrained. Adoption is high though, because people feel productive quickly.

On the other end of the spectrum, you have APL and it's ilk, which are fairly inaccessible to novices and require a lot of time to become fluent in. After you've spent that time, easy things are easy, and hard things are also relatively easy (within bounds of the domain you are targeting).

I come to this from Perl, which is interesting in that it's actually situated on both ends of the spectrum. It's got a very accessible syntax (except for a few well known warts) that makes people familiar with Algol like languages able to use it for simple things easily, and without grasping some of the fundamental aspects of the language (context). Unfortunately, without continuing to learn those fundamental Perl concepts, they will run up against what seem like very odd and annoying design choices which cause friction. That's not to explain away all Perl's design problems, because there are a few, but fundamentally what I see is a lot of people that really haven't spent the time to really understand the language, and so speak from a place of misunderstanding.

This has actually always made me want to learn APL. I'm interested in learning languages that have a somewhat high learning curve, to see how well it pays of in the end. I suspect it pays off quite well.
The prosecutors said they may file charges later (according to the article).

They may just want to keep from revealing the details as long as possible -- but could re-file the same charges years later, right before the Statute of Limitations.
> That completely destroys universality.

You're right. Also this is terrible for both the creators and the consumers since it promotes anticompetitive behavior by giant distributors. Here is a great interview with Doctorow on why DRM is a terrible idea, he uses publishing as an example but the idea applies to other creative branches - https://youtu.be/ZXu-_LBrf24?t=1800
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