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Agree - lack of apps is of no concern to me, I have barely anything installed. Big part of reason I'm still here, Start still makes the experience for me too
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If my cable box loses power then it loses all its channel guide data, and it takes maybe 15 minutes to reload.

It really seems unbelievable. Why isn't the data stored on the local disk? How much data could that be and why does it take more than 10 seconds to download? On my box, it is all text.
Yea, it depends on what you're up to. Post setup, when you're just doing DSP or something you're not going to need much at all but we spin boards pretty frequently due to our contract cycle.

I've gone the same direction with my home setup. "hacked" Rigol DS1054Z + power supply and anti static mat. It's not as nice as my Tek at work but it'll do most of what I want. I usually just borrow the saleae from work if I need one and I have a little bus pirate that's occasionally indispensable for SPI/serial/I2c stuff
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Exactly. I'm not going to cancel my Prime membership, but I do make it a habit of buying certain products on other sites now.

Another pet peeve: product descriptions are frequently insufficient to inform a purchase decision. I recently had to resort to using jet.com for some under-the-sofa storage boxes and amazon just did not have sufficient product description detail to make me confident in the purchase.

I am assuming they now this and figure that the costs of fixing this problem outweigh the benefits they'll experience from fixing it.
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If I recall correctly, the linear search approach is based on constant time range minimal query on the suffix array. That feels rather likely to also be worse in real life applications.

Heck, as far as I can tell, this approach is just another way of storing a tree.
Wouldn't most tech guys be able to support a family working for any of the local web developers, app developers or IT departments of non tech companies that you find all over Florida, New Zealand and most of the Western world? In urban areas of Florida and New Zealand you will find these jobs everywhere within a 5 mile radius. Maybe not always so interesting or well paying as some jobs in IT corporations, but good to have as a plan b. $50,000 in Fort Lauderdale is as good as $120,000 in the valley.
My kids are teenagers now, so the flow of glitter and glue art has slowed considerably.

There was no rigid routine. Things would go in a pile and periodically the pile would go to the recycling bin.
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Yup, we won't be able to keep shrinking MOSFETs forever. There's like to be an interregnum of some sort before a new computing substrate is developed that give us substantially faster gates. And possibly fewer but higher frequency gates at first, which would be interesting.

In the mean time we might see a new golden age of computer architecture where the only way to increase performance is to question assumptions about how we design computers.
And customers generally have no idea about the boxes' power consumption.
It is a burning platform - but it hasn't yet burnt down. Can't speak of 640 and WiFi calling not a concern to me personally, but I do agree that lack of devices is a problem - my biggest request is a compelling device to replace my 1520, because right now I see nothing to justify further investment in the platform. This from a fan who still wants to support, but increasingly feels it's not feasible to do so.
There are a lot of people who shoot down science questions. In my experience, my questions have frequently (!) yielded results different from the normal. Now, as an adult entering middle agedness, I think less of such people and actively disassociate myself from them.
NYC's vibrancy is largely a product of its environment, not proof of a better city. In the US, but for a few cities that mostly defeated planners'attempts to suburbanize them (NYC included), all our towns and cities are largely shit. The better ones have a couple of blocks of places worth being, but those are mostly choked in webs of car-dominated hellscape. If you want to go to a place that's decent, for most people, you have to drive. So why not drive into NYC and make a weekend of it? This NYC is very crowded because it's a shining beacon in a pile of disasters.

By comparison, every place you can reach within an hour or two of Paris probably is a place worth being. (This was my experience in Madrid, and I'm extrapolating here for Paris.) That's a lot less pressure forcing people into the city center, because people can enjoy themselves much closer to where they live.

You take 24 hour Apple stores as a sign of vibrancy. I'd sooner look at the density of independent bakeries.

As to your subway comment, your conclusion is absurd. It seems likely to me that the savings from having fewer redundant tracks (which would be needed to facilitate maintenance in a 24 hour system) would more than offset the small demand for middle-of-the-night trips that can't wait until the next morning.
There's another lab that was successful in a somewhat similar manner, a way larger scale, but still great results.

I recently bought a book on the Philips Natlab, same idea as Xerox PARC. They invented the optical drive (cd's), the wafersteppers that bootstrapped ASML, the company behind the machines that create chips and some other inventions that I can't find right now.

I have more details in the Natlab book which I have at home, if you're (or anyone else is..) interested.
Darwinism seems to apply also on the development of urban identity and there wasn't yet enough time/pressures for these urban fabrics to keep up with the 'old world'.

That's why I would never expat outside Europe. It feels like a downgrade.
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> (although to be clear, shyness and introversion are absolutely not the same thing)

Yes! I am a bit time introvert, I can appear shy due to anxiety and my introversion but I'm not shy. I talk to strangers all the time without trouble. I am perfectly willing to stand in front of people and act a fool (do tech talks). I'm not all that shy, but I need my me time, like 70% of my waking hours needs to be alone time.
I think each issue will have a theme.
I used to work in EdTech. One of the most common issues school admins told me face to face was how big tech corps were storing all of the students data with merely a promise to not exploit it. Its one ofnthe few great advertising opportunities that are left and companies are itching to get to it.
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We got close to trending on HackerNews yesterday when this happened.

Suddenly every visitor was reporting alert dialogs saying they had a virus and our votes dropped off a cliff.

Last time I ever go against my gut and semi-trust anything.
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When they won't let me come in the US at the border after visiting a different country, not watching the new will be very helpful indeed
The DUI commute.
Intercepting new Image().src requests
Speaking as someone with experience with Unity3D and not Godot:

Unity3D's design is not very good. It is a popular system, you can find a lot of hacks online for getting common things done, but overall the thing is a garbage heap of unorganized and poorly documented features.

The ability to work with source control is a joke. I'm sorry, you can't do professional grade software development without source control. You really shouldn't be doing hobby grade development without it either. But Unity makes you jump through several hoops to get source control working correctly and reliably.

They have an asset store that almost looks like a package manager, but isn't, leaving you to have to check all of your plugins into your repository rather than redeploy out of the central store.

Patch-point releases frequently introduce breaking changes. And their project format is locked to prevent you from opening a project that had just been opened in a newer version than the one you have. Yes, opening a project in Unity writes changes to disk. Wouldn't be so bad of a problem if your project could easily and trivially be added to source control and you could just reset the changes, but see above.

It makes doing basic physics very easy to do, but the quality of the physics is not very good. Even their heavy number crunching "continuous dynamic" mode suffers from terrible warp-through problems.

It's still, after all this time, not available for working on Linux. You can build games that run on Linux, but you can't do the work on Linux.

The export to WebGL feature is another joke. An empty project ends up dumping around 50MB of code out. That's before you even get to any game code or assets. They compile your C# code to CIL with Mono, then that gets converted to C++ with IL2CPP, then that gets converted to ASM.js with Emscripten. It's an absurd Rube Goldberg machine of a process that it's no wonder people thing WebGL sucks, if all they have to go by is Unity projects.

It bombs you out to Visual Studio for editing code, but it's still not compatible with any version of .NET post 2.0. You can't import DLLs without hacking the *.csproj file by hand.

I'm sure I could come up with some more gripes if I thought about it for a while, but I don't want to be here all day.
Yeah, that's why I said "probably". I wonder if it's a net gain or loss in the game of 'drop a rock on Europa'. At this point, I'm leaning toward 'gain'.
New Zealand, Australia and Canada
are nowadays the primary destination for skilled worker immigrants

They are the future ...

Europe and USA will have to rely on in house minds .. which I believe will bring more equilibrium to this world

USA, Europe and Japan are not going anywhere I am not predicting their demise .. just that CANZAU will be the beacon
It seems like an systolic array architecture using Forth processors as the processing nodes. Good for some things like neural networks like Google is doing with their own chips. There is also Parallela which was on Kickstarter. But I'm not sure if Moore is doing anything fundamentally new unless their compiler can automatically convert a conventional program into systolic array form?
Oh, I never knew that shy people bottle up so much repressed animosity towards the 'extroverts'. Whole thread is filled with wild generalizations about vapid, hollow, loud 'normies'. This is a bit ridiculous, come on - we should strive for a level of discourse that goes beyond 4chan-like lamentation about alpha-males taking all the good things for themselves.
Bret Victor (worrydream.com) is a PI at HARC, having seen his previous demos, I'm very optimistic about HARC's future.
There's something uniquely satisfying about writing code in a limited environment like the C64. No libraries or operating systems -- just you and the hardware!
Could anyone recommend a better one?

No sarcasm intended, this is an important issue.
Although I wonder how much self-censorship that encourages. Whether or not to put a TODO in your code is a judgement call. If you tell some developers that admitting to a TODO means that they can't submit, they might not admit to them as often.

It's a bit case-by-case, but I think I'd rather encourage contributors to admit to the lacks in their code and accept them - but get them to commit to follow ups that will fix the problems.
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EventMobi, Guidebook, QuickMobile - they are mobile apps. We are more on the backend/logistics side. We work with few mobile app providers. We come before that (Event pages, marketing, registration ticketing workflows etc). All data flows to other mobile apps, CRMs, Marketing automation engine seamlessly via APIs or webhooks or native integration.

Cvent is on the enterprise and on the expensive side. We are gearing for Midsize that needs flexible event pages and flexible workflows.

Basically, what Shopify did for e-commerce we are trying to do for event ticketing. Instead of a cookie cutter site, our platform allows you to customize everything based on your needs including URLs, look and feel, workflows etc.

Hope this helps.
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Ahhh, so it's PR for people who only look at the title. Thank you; I totally missed that, but you're quite right about it. (This from the guy who misses important information in emails because why would I read the subject line if I'm reading the whole message?)
Thats a better definition. But still vague, as "not having to work" to have enough money is relative, as the standard becomes higher.

And even with 900000$ you can pretty much live like a king in a 3. world country for a long time.
If you like the sound of NZ but don't want to commit to such a big move, come check out British Columbia. We're like NZ lite. :)
> Consulting companies and CEOs try to one-up each other, perhaps unconsciously, who can come up with and then own the coolest new term.

This is an interesting example of a euphemistic treadmill. Corporate-speak has to change because each cool new term (e.g. downsizing) eventually gets poisoned by what it actually describes.

For a dysphemistic treadmill: "bleeding edge" was originally satire about the pain of being "past the cutting edge", but it gets used sincerely to describe new projects and even advertise startups. At this point it's so unremarkable that Programming Sucks had to use "hemorrhaging edge" to get the same effect.
> Yes, studied and defined by those who later created a big slavesystem. And I read them, but don't like or agree to their definitions, nor alternatives.

This is just plain misleading.
Marxism/Leninism is not the only school of thought against capitalism, or that distinguishes between proletariat and capitalist class in the capitalist systems.

And I would argue that

1. the "slavesystems" you're talking about (I guess you refer to soviet russia, china and other similar dictatorships) never applyed the Marx theory, but they rather implemented a state capitalism system (IMHO because the idea of dictatorship of proletariat as a means to reach communism is plain stupid).

2. even considering those cases, which I agree were fundamentally flawed and unjust, there's still debate about whether they caused more or less death and suffering than capitalism.
I think this answer [0] on Quora gives a good summary of the main points in that regard.

[0] https://www.quora.com/What-has-killed-more-people-communism-...
> slavically

Nit, but you probably meant "slavishly" (even given that the author is Polish)
Gosh, this is an interesting thread...

Request: can you give an AMA on how one actually proposes/gets funding from darpa or at least an ELI5 on the topic...

What sort of idea should one have where you say to yourself "gee, I should hit up darpa with this!"
More interesting question - since bureaucratic style is meant to shield blame, i.e. to put the situation into words such that the primary actors are put in a semantic position outside the scope of direct blame, then do the people who write in that style start thinking in it, and then do they stop being able to perceive themselves as the direct cause of events, to some extent? Language shapes thought to some extent, so if you use blameless language, do you start thinking of yourself as not responsible for anything?
That, plus a layer of "everyone knows the shitty thing I mean when I say this, time to update". Hence "firing" becomes "downsizing" becomes "rightsizing".
> Single thread performance of processors has not increased very much in the recent years, while the core count continued to grow

Frequencies have not increased much, but performance certainly has. Better single-core performance at the same frequency is the main advantage Intel CPUs currently have over AMD ones.
GP said relocate to middle America.
Maybe if you're coding the algorithm for when to deploy airbags or something similarly life-protecting - but many of us are just coding todo list web sites and the next social media app.

As much of a rule-follower as I am... I think that if I always had to code for the eventual lawsuit, I'd quit coding.
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That isn't working for me. Neighbors down the street afraid of ICE raids after the last one hit our city, all anyone wants to talk about is WWIII brewing in Syria.
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I don't think you're allowed to pose the dolphin question. If we assume that dolphins and humans have a common ancestor and that the dolphin branch ever had a need for using tools to sustain their species, over time enough random permutations of specific genes would have selected those dolphins which had appendages capable of aiding in the use of tools. As it turns out, they did not need to have hand like appendages to survive and thus apes have hands and ocean mammals do not.

Given the constraints (earth located in our universe) of the probability space of physical interactions which produce life, I believe that our current state is the only possible state.
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I too am considering a move to NZ for family reasons, and visited Auckland last month. It truly is a spectacular city framed by an amazing harbor, but it's not without some faults. My thoughts on the cons you raise based on conversations I had with a few locals:

> housing prices are extremely high. I don't understand that, there is plenty of space everywhere (maybe except Wellington) and somehow they manage to not use this advantage..

Yes, it really is crazy particularly when you look at prices relative to salaries. As I understand it, the primary driver is everyone wants to live in Auckland as that's where most of the higher paying jobs are located which is driving up prices. Also, given the city is on an isthmus, the main space is really North and South of the city which increases commute times on already clogged highways.

> housing quality is really poor (comparing to Europe)

This is slowly changing as proper insulation becomes a requirement, but compared to Europe and US houses the quality is incredibly poor.

> prices are generally quite high

For consumer goods, absolutely. Also dining out seemed expensive, but supermarket costs seemed pretty reasonable given the quality of the food.

>internet connectivity feels like we're 10 years back

I was pleasantly surprised by this. I was regularly getting 50-100 down where I stayed, and it appears the government has made ultra-fast broadband a national priority so it should hopefully continue to improve over the next decade. One thing people warned me though is don't expect anything to happen quickly in NZ.

>outside of Wellington and Auckland, I didn't feel like there were any interesting opportunities in IT

Have you looked at Christchurch? Apparently the government is incentivizing companies to build there with the goal of making it the high tech capital of the South Island. I believe Vodafone has some pretty impressive plans for the city.

>food quality is good, but eating habits don't seem to follow. Obesity seems to be a huge problem there (we have kids so will need to pay double attention to that). We were pretty much shocked because we naively thought that in such a beautiful and clean country everybody is running / biking all the time.

I believe this is largely driven by income inequality, much like here in the US. While the food really is phenomenal quality, families at the lower end of the socio-economic ladder are often priced out of the market and default to unhealthy options as a matter of necessity. Also, it was explained to me that a lot of Maori and Polynesian recipes are very fatty which is why they tend to be over-represented in obesity statistics.

Overall my impression after visiting is that it's a great country, but it's not perfect. Prices are higher (due to it's isolation) and salaries are lower, but people tend to worry less about materialistic things and "getting ahead". There seems to be more of a relaxed mood to everything and as my wife contemplate where we want to raise our kids that is hugely appealing.
This is yet another example of a need for some level of a bill of rights for our online lives/information.

Something that guarantee's proper and fair usage, with privacy. The decision making of which I'm sure would be a long and deep debate.

If someone stuck an rfid tag in your ear, and tracked where you moved and what you did, I would expect some compensation for that information. Yet we get cookies attached to our browsers, we are profiled and tagged to watch everything that we do online.

The de-regulation of the consumer information protection is important in that it is bringing attention to a bigger issue. The ISP's just want to do the same thing other companies have been doing all along.
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This is an interesting theory. Perhaps you could expand on it and form a new social science called "Cosmic Sociology".
Brexit is worse for Britain than IS.

IS's ability to project power adds up to a week or two's car accidents. It's insignificant.
Can you imagine what humanity would achieve if we stopped developing pointless or redundant new database engines?
Political press releases are fantastic for this. "If by whiskey" has become infamous, but the actual technique can still be made quite subtle. Similarly, "neither confirm nor deny" is a trope, but it was originally a lesson in avoiding giving away negative information.
I'm working on one. I am waiting for a PR to land and a release to get generated for a bug that I found.

If the master pod in a StatefulSet is deleted, and kubernetes sets up a new one too fast, it currently keeps the master lock and failover never happens (it also tries to bootstrap from itself).

Once those land I'll work on a writeup of that setup

I've got a few Postgres instances running as single node Deployments and StatefulSets right now that backup and restore using pghoard for simple services that I've documented here http://alexkerney.com/2016/10/pghoard-kubernetes.html I do need to add a note about using livenessprobes to make sure the restore completed successfully. Sometimes these pods are cycled every day as half my K8S cluster is preemptable.
New Zealand isn't cheaper. If you compare it to SF and NY, yes it will look cheaper. But otherwise its costlier for some people(immigrants) who wish to come in.

Financially, its not important what you earn, its important how much can you keep/save.

From a financial perspective - NZ salaries are relatively lower compared to its costs of living. A well paid tech guy from India would save a lot more in SF than they can ever do in NZ. For talented senior developers in India, they lose financially by going to NZ. And lack of (job) options is quite visible.

From a non-financial perspective - NZ is one of the best countries to live in. But just that is not going to bring you the top-tech-talent.
My proposal is basically that the proto-organism has to learn to eat before it can do anything else. The processes that you have described could still have important roles to play.
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They're both hard to build, but require different skillsets. Moreover, game engines are often customized in unhygienic ways by folks early in their career. Maybe it's better these inexperienced folks run into the problems with their own unmaintainable code firsthand before they take on world-critical problems.
I have "scratched a childhood itch" in a very satisfying way, by writing a super minimal C=64 Tetris clone, using the Kickass assembler:

https://github.com/cjauvin/tetris-464
Likewise. It's hard to justify moving back when you look at housing costs (especially if you live somewhere with low cost of living and high wages).
One of the things that strikes me as so crazy we don't have this here in the US, is the UN considers it a basic human right[1].

[1] http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/