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Canonical didn't just get criticized for the Amazon search integration: a bunch of users jumped ship to other distros, especially Mint (which is basically Ubuntu + other DEs on top).

There's a good and simple lesson here: if you don't like a company's behavior, you need to be willing to jump ship. If you're not, then your complaints are futile and useless. Why should the company listen to you if you're not going to abandon them?
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Is this something in your head, or do you have evidence that any of this is true?

Because it sounds like you're inventing it as you go along.
Nietzsche definitely gets a bad rep as well (his sister was the anti-Semite, for one, not him), and some of his fans definitely mutated his beliefs into something far more sinister.

My point is more like, the misanthropic aspects of a figure show through in both their philosophy and their personal life. There's definitely other examples- look at Lovecraft. I just think it's an interesting pattern.
As I've learned while participating in these discussions is that all of this is HIGHLY localized. The issues you have with taxis and/or Uber will not make sense in other places with different regulations, better apps, etc.

Almost every regular/licensed taxi I take here, the driver has Uber/Lyft/99Taxi app running simultaneously so they can reach more clients. In that case, it's the same quality of service as before (which is just fine where I live, so Uber/Lyft aren't disrupting anything here).
The parent was talking about premium reliability, not all kinds of premium.

The issue is a premium that people can't notice for many years. Apple's phones are not premium in a reliability sense, so are not a good example.

Selling reliability can be a serious problem when nobody will know what's reliable for sure without waiting several years. There's some tricks, like offering a warranty and heavily marketing the reliability, but the consumer still has to reason about the chances the vendor will still exist and be solvent, whether the warranty will be annoying to cash, how honest the vendor will be about allowing claims, etc. Until a company has been around long enough to have a reputation, it can't really get out of that
I have to agree. That amount of money could have greatly helped a majority of the black historic colleges that so badly need the money. Of course if you think that is bad someone recently just gave $400 million (more covered here: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/06/05/400-million-g...).

Even Gates gave $15 million circa 1996. This is was of course before he went into full philanthropy mode [1]. I'm sure he wouldn't do that now.

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/30/us/gates-of-microsoft-give...
Insurance companies making profit doesn't mean they are a bad deal. It is usually worthwhile to trade a small predictable loss for a guarantee that you won't suffer a large unexpected loss. Even if you are wealthy enough to self-insure, it can make sense to buy insurance if they profit you can make by investing that money will outweigh the cost of insurance.

The problem is that the mantra of "maximize shareholder value" often causes insurance companies to engage in practices that are immoral or even illegal. I think the insurance industry in the US is in serious need of a major regulatory overhaul. Perhaps all insurance companies should be forced to operate as nonprofits. Maybe the federal government should start using its enormous wealth of faith and credit to provide competitively-priced, no-bullshit insurance.
> How long before there's an uber-Uber that just sends your request to all the dispatch services and the first one that shows up gets your fare?

There already is an app for this, with over a billion existing users: Google Maps.

If you search for directions in London, there's a "ride hire" tab next to public transport. It gives you price estimates for Uber, London official taxis, and Hailo - all booked with a button from Google Maps, never having to open the Uber/Taxi/Hailo app.
That will only give you the appearance of fitness, not the effect of it. You'll still be huffing and puffing as you climb the flights of stairs to the office the day the elevator breaks, though being lighter through liposuction will help reduce the difficulty of the task.
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I know this is a day old, but...

I'm not sure that's true. Strong marketing for sure, but I think they're more akin to Apple in this regard.

Where (to use Steve Jobs' comparison) Pepsi's core competency is marketing (they rarely put out "new" products, so revenue is driven almost entirely by marketing), Nike's core competency is probably more apparel (specifically athletic) design - since, essentially, every new thing they release is a new product, and they release a lot of new things.
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The best article I've ever read about architecture and the management of IT
Note: The errors are by people and business dealings, not in decisions made by AI while analyzing health data.
Which isn't hard to replicate or improve upon. Is Uber fighting the local government in Sweden to have less regulation too? It seems that's what they are doing here (Brazil).
If you have the source, it's obviously better to use `hlatex`.

But PDF is only intended to be a terminal format. In the real world, though, it's very common for the 'terminal format' - whether a binary executable or a PDF - to be the only format available.

It would be very useful if the toolchains used to produce PDFs - whether `latex`->`dvips`->`ps2pdf` or `pdflatex`, or any of the other possibilities in the extremely complicated TeX ecosystem - did a better job of maintaining the semantic and raw-text content of the source.

I would happily increase the size of all my PDFs by a couple percent if it meant I could better extract the contents in the future. I do realize that when you multiply this few percent by many gigabytes of PDFs on archive sites and across many uploads and downloads, it becomes more important, but I would assert that it increases the value of those PDFs by more than it costs.
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hasn't this sort of practice been a common thing in Japan for centuries?
Perhaps the neoreactionaries like his attitude- an anti-democracy gadfly! so pithy!- and some of his works more than who the man was in total. I could see archconservatives idolizing Chesterton for the same reasons.
Monique.io is a monitoring system focused on high-level "metrics" (SQL results, API responses, JSON data) that are automatically parsed by AI, with alarms defined in Javascript, plus the feature to auto-create a dashboard by employing the concept of a "template tile".

We created Monique.io because we were tired of the "same old, same old" monitoring systems that didn't help much with a lot of daily tasks.

We launched Monique.io a few months ago and now bring improvements and a free plan (which we are committed to preserve; the plan does not include alarming functionality).
Of course the EU is not going to start negotiations until they've been formally told that the UK wants to start negotiations for exit.
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> you (probably) can't patent the dodo

You definitely can't patent a corgi, but they're still quite expensive. Considering that dodo breeding is probably nontrivial, they could potentially make a profit. Depends on how the genetic engineering is funded, I suppose, and how well the work they do on the dodo applies to other animals. (If it's too dodo-specific it might not be worth it, but if work can be reused then it makes their next extinct pet even more profitable per unit)
Globalization is the exploitation of the lower standard of living in other areas. The reason corporations ship jobs overseas is because it's cheap. This in no way controls inequality, and in fact makes it worse.
> Just read the Wikipedia article on the Gulf War. It's clear GH Bush pursued it to keep the oil price stable.

... Have you made any effort to try to learn foreign policy? Or are you relying only on piecemeal reading of events and your predisposed biases to determine your worldview?

Most politicians read a lot (Trump is an exception, and he's terrifying for it), and much of what they read is public policy theory books, things like Why Nations Fail or On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace. From these books, they tend to formulate their views on policy (including foreign policy) based on certain schools of thought, and you can often tell who influences these thoughts based on how they frame arguments and defenses.

The Gulf War was principally caused by Saddam Hussein reckoning he could invade Kuwait quickly enough that no one would care to try to stop him (this is what Russia more or less successfully did in Crimea). The other principal Arab states who did not like Iraq--notably Saudi Arabia and Egypt--were never particularly likely to accede to these demands. (Iraq did try to link Kuwait to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, but that was more of a stalling tactic than an actual honest effort to further that peace process, although it did incidentally do so). When Iraq began making noises about invading Saudi Arabia, that's when the US launched Desert Shield and subsequently Desert Storm.

And yet, when you listen to the testimonies of the officials who planned the war, it's clear that they hewed to a definitive Clausewitzian view of war: the planning of war needs to be shaped around the political objectives it is meant to achieve. And the political objectives they gave as their design for war was to a) remove Iraq from Kuwait and b) prevent Iraq from being able to exert regional power for 20 years. Note that oil isn't a primary objective. Of course, the Middle East being what it was, any planning of major operations in there is going to take into account near- and long-term impact on oil supplies, and it's not exactly a secret that the State Department's general grand strategy for the Middle East is "keep the oil flowing." But that doesn't mean that the only goal is keeping oil--if it were, the US would not have invaded but instead pressured Saudi Arabia to just deal with the Iraqi annexation of Kuwait (note that oil didn't stop flowing until Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait).

You also have to keep in mind that you can't stick your head in the sand, ignore the world, and expect to suffer no consequences. The current migrant crisis in Europe is entirely caused by European unwillingness to deal with the issue in Syria.
Some people also tout the benefits of mild hypothermia. I suppose any type of thermal regulation is a workout for the body.
Estonia may be a decent example here. Not every tax is low, but corporate income tax is 0% and personal income tax is a flat 20%. However lots of infrastructure upgrades have been done with EU money. So the tax is still there, just not being paid by the locals.
I thought they took the guts out and seperated the constituent parts and put back in the raw material side of the gigafactory. Or did I just make that up?
Yep. San Francisco has been utterly inundated. The last estimate I saw was ~48,000 more vehicles from the app services. Most of those are additional, because they are coming in to the city to drive (e.g., the drivers don't live here).

Important to keep in mind that that is not only a lot of cars for SF, but also that they aren't just driving a bit and parking. They're driving and driving (and driving and driving), when they're not blocking traffic picking up or dropping off.

In urban areas there are good reasons for restrictions on numbers.
> I don't understand why so many people glorify hand-written parsers. [...]

I would say because they make the easy things easier, but the hard things harder.

If one tries to do something more elaborated, like getting a data structure for the AST (most tutorials just build simple "accepters" which I find unacceptable) and passing it to different functions - which is a standard procedure in an interpreter or compiler - things are not so trivial anymore and you need to know your generator really well and hope that your use case is supported.

Another approach are parser generators like you find in functional languages, and I really like them, as you do not have to learn an additional language and they compose incredible well. They can blow-up your memory requirements but this is another story.
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To me it just sounds like you don't like the Commission much. When you say 'the EU' most of the direction is set by the elected ministers of the member states.
Not exclusively. If I want to pay someone for support for running NixOS-based servers, who do I pay? Does NixOS have a support term anywhere near Red Hat (or even Ubuntu)? What about the awkward CLI UX? What about a turn-key solution to deploy my app? These questions are reasonably well answered with Docker, less so with Nix/NixOS.

I say this as someone who really likes the ideas of Nix. In fact, I see the benefits of Docker as being solved reasonably well by Nix:

* Isolation of multiple applications on the same server are handled by NixOS containers, which use the same configuration as a NixOS system and use things like cgroups and namespaces,

* Immutable/declarative deployments (through things like docker-compose) are elegantly handled through nix-expressions,

* Multiple versions of a dependency are handled through the nix store.

I think a good measure would be to provide good tooling for generating Docker images from Nix, and this is what `guix pack` can do today. Once Nix has gotten over these pains, it can become a good developer tool, and from there, ops may choose to adopt it.
The problem with not exercising for HN-types is that your brain suffers because of it. Your cognition isn't as good as it could be and will decline faster than if you exercised. Also more likely to develop neuronal disorders later in life, and those aren't very fun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurobiological_effects_of_phy...
> And on what possible basis could anyone ever answer that question?

If you're looking for something that can be proven or disproven: not at all. But we constantly ask questions for which there isn't an objectively correct answer all the same. Any attempt to answer the question of whether something is art cannot avoid a mass of subjective elements.

> BTW, that is emphatically not the question Ebert was addressing. Ebert wrote:

That's an argument he put forward. An argument is not the same as the question it attempts to address. Right after that he writes:

"But I believe the nature of the medium prevents it from moving beyond craftsmanship to the stature of art. To my knowledge, no one in or out of the field has ever been able to cite a game worthy of comparison with the great dramatists, poets, filmmakers, novelists and composers."

The point he is making is that there are elements in art that rise beyond craftsmanship; he refers to the "soul" or "vision" of an artist elsewhere.
Gabe, Maciej and Jason Hirschhorn all have a "ill build the product i want to use every day, feedback and scaling be damned" attitude, and I love it.
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No, I prefer just to point out the hypocrisy surrounding getting acclaims for "philantrophy" in the US.

Seems like even those who have the most give out back less to others than they would have done just by the regular taxation laws, living in a typical European country.
And if I use only a bit of the GC, can I use only a bit of write barriers?

Walter Bright was right about segmented stacks, I'm tempted to think he's right about write barriers too.
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unless your budget, I suppose, is absolutely astronomical and you spend years and millions of dollars to build a brand

In which case, you'd probably be better off using your budget to purchase placement from Google[1], which causes the ratchet to tighten.

The future of Google Search looks grim and portal-like.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13915016
I too desire this, I feel guilty about it, but less so after this comment. Thank you.
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I sure hope this catches on, but we should all be aware of the hurdles:

- Little incentive for researchers to do this beyond their own good will.

- Most ML researchers are bad writers, and it's unlikely that the editing team will do the work needed (which is often a larger reorganization of a paper and ideas) to improve clarity.

- Producing great writing and clear, interactive figures, and managing an ongoing github repo require nontrivial amounts of extra time, and researchers already have strained time budgets.

- It requires you to learn git, front-end web design, random javascript libraries (I for one think d3 is a nuisance), exacerbating the time suck on tangents to research.

Maybe you could convince researchers to contribute with prizes that aligned with their university's goals. Just spitballing here, but maybe for each "top paper" award, get a team together to further clarify the ideas for a public audience, collaborate with the university and their department and some pop-science writers, and get some serious publicity beyond academic circles. If that doesn't convince a university administration that the work is worth the lower publication count, what will?

In the worst case it'll be the miserable graduate students' jobs to implement all these publication efforts, and they won't be able to spend time learning how to do research.
I had a similar experience with Super Tecmo Bowl - after recently receiving it and an emulator as a gift. The nostalgia was strong, but, in terms of game play, it really is the sweet spot between something like NFL Blitz and Madden or 2K. And, it has QB Eagles.
your car trunk maybe?
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Based on random use over the past few years.

Redshift:
Pros: Has the most adoption, so most integrations from SaaS services etc. are built with Redshift as their sink. Relatively fast and battle-tested.

Cons: In an awkward middle ground where you're responsible for a lot of operations (e.g. capacity planning, setting up indexes), but don't have a lot of visibility. Some weirdness as a result of taking PostgreSQL and making it distributed.

BigQuery:
Pros: Rich feature set. Pay-per-TB pricing. Recently released standard-ish SQL dialect. Very fast.

Cons: JDBC driver is recent and doesn't have support for e.g. CREATE TABLE AS SELECT (as of a couple of months ago) so harder to integrate with existing systems. There are ways to run out of resources (e.g. large ORDER BY results) without a good path to throw more money at the problem.

Athena:
Pros: Built off of the open-source Presto database so can use the documentation there. Pay-per-TB pricing.

Cons: Slower than the other options listed here. Very early product so lacking some in documentation and some cryptic errors. Not a lot of extensibility, but you could theoretically move to just using open-source Presto.

Haven't had a chance to evaluate Snowflake.
right, he would like a pill which does this.
It isn't even available for sale yet is it? I didn't get any impression about 0 success.

Amazon is saying 2017 (unavailable)
Chiropractic largely works because it has purged so much of its foundational ideas and is almost congruous to physiotherapy (albeit with more focus on manipulative therapy than exercise).

>That's why some alternative medicine solutions sometimes work as well and even better than modern medicine.

I can see some forms of alternative medicine being complementary (hence the name), such as meditation or yoga, but better? Could you point to some examples? Genuinely curious about this.
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It is a bit more complicated, but one scenario is obvious: you can feed a cow 10,000 calories of corn to produce roughly 2,000 calories of beef. If you simply eat the feed instead, you'd be eating calories that are 5 times more efficient.

However, beef can also be produced on marginal lands (grazing) that aren't suited to crop production. In this way, livestock can be seen as an efficient land use (caveat environmental damage from grazing, etc.). However, this does not represent much of current livestock production.
No, unless there's some subtle semantic detail about D that I am missing. This is just not how GCs work. Write barriers, yes. Write barriers that require atomic instructions every time a pointer is written, no.
It's quite ironic that he began his career at BioWare, given the current kerfuffle over Mass Effect: Andromeda animating horridly.
> Globalization is the exploitation of the lower standard of living in other areas.

Yes, I am aware that some people define it that way.
Just to be clear, are you specifically equating quality with revenue?
"Goodenough" is a very apt name for a leader in battery technology.
Well, given how many species we're already driving extinct, we had better be bloody-well prepared to resurrect some of them!
Medeco and ASSA have a good reputation. Master locks are notorious for being easy to open simply by whacking once with a normal hammer.
Well, the greyball program took some real coding and testing out to implement as it was reported. From the point of view of 'if you see one cockroach scurry on the floor, your walls infested with them' then we can make an educated assumption that there are more 'secret' projects they may be working on to further obstruct justice (highly dependent on location). The question is then: How many coders work on the core app, how many worked on the greyball section, how many worked on the self-driving cars (auto-automobile is maybe a better term for these vehicles, but not by much), how many does that leave left? Take that answer, assume that the greyball is average the number of coders on a 'secret' project (very very dubious to do this, but what other data do you have?), and then you have an estimate on the number of other 'secret' projects they have going on and what their abilities are as compared to your cadre of coders. Then try and steal them if they are doing better than your folks, now is a good time to invest in their coders before the crash and rush for them happens.
And 3rd: use forwarding pointers. Every good implementation uses #3.
One of the bloggers I follow is Tim Urban at http://waitbutwhy.com and it has four levels of posts in four distinct categories: Big, long and thorough articles; "minis" for smaller ones; "the shed" for sharing things found on the internet, humor or just whatever that don't fit; and "dinner table" for asking interesting questions frequently and receiving answers from the community.
For context, I didn't just stray onto the US Braintree site expecting UK service. I was sold to by our Paypal rep from Ireland. Braintree have a specific UK service.

" What are your support hours?
For European merchants our email and phone support is available from 11am to 11pm GMT, Monday through Friday.

Of course, we offer emergency support via email 24x7x365, and have support reps and engineers on-call at all times."

I had to get my Paypal rep to get some people high up at Paypal Europe to contact Braintree to get my emergency service.
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"Glad I speak to you! I'm doing super, and in fact I'm delighted to let you know that I have just inherited 500.000 USD from my grandfather. Now if you could help me transfer this fortune out of the country, I can share a good part of it with you."
I disagree, the advantage of Docker is that you can slap an image together by doing essentially what you were doing - running a couple of apt install commands, pip install -r requirements.txt, copy a few files and it's done. You don't need to learn a new configuration language, or package all your dependencies yourself, or try to understand a new filesystem layout when you enter a container.

I find Nix and Guix more interesting than Docker, but there's more to the latter's popularity than lack of marketing by the former.