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Well, for neighboring countries I meant EU countries. You can have near unlimited low-qualification worker supply from your strictly speaking neighboring countries, but not necessarily world-class skilled workers, specially, if those workers willing to move from one country to another can pick options with less conditions. Also, you can have potential supply, not willing to move, just because of nationalist stuff (forced "integration") or other elements that could make a country less attractive than another.

Don't get me wrong: I would love Germany, and all EU countries getting as much talent as possible, from the internal EU area, and also from other countries as well. I'm worried about nationalism and the lack of pragmatism ruining job flexibility and business attractiveness, so European companies have such a huge handicap for competing in the international market.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilayer_perceptron
The pin gets rendered in a 3D scene, and positioned via finding the difference between your current coordinates and the pins. The building stuff is so that people cannot see a pin when there should be a building in the way. I do this by using computer vision that analyses the map imagery.
> TheDAO very explicitly states that you can't do this

It turns out the code of a smart contract doesn't override the legal system.
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More flexible than what? You can do the same in Postgres, just use a single JSON field (which lets you store any structure) and add constraints on the JSON key(s).
I'm typing this on a 925, and I'll use it for as long as it works. I've come to see the ecosystem problem as a blessing in disguise. The promise of windows phone in the early adverts was that you would get in and out quickly, and not waste time that could be spent socialising, or with family. They delivered on that, though not the way they intended. The lack of apps means I don't waste time on my phone. The latest games aren't there. Major apps are unavailable. No pinterest. No ebay app. Crappy youtube experience. These are all good things. The temptation to install timesinks is far less, because even when they are available, they're generally quite poor quality compared to the IOS or android alternatives

I have more free time because I'm on windows phone, and that's worth a lot
I didn't expect it to be a great article, it was ok, just pretty reasonable title on a scale from 1-HuffPo it was a 4 for ckickbait
Sometimes those regulations just create a _different_ "tragedy of the commons".

For example, building affordable apartments often requires finding "loopholes" and squeezing something through the regulatory process before it gets shut down.

If I may quote at length from the Seattle times[0]:

> It was the brainchild of the late Bellevue developer Jim Potter, who found a loophole in Seattle’s building regulations.

> At the time, the city allowed up to eight unrelated people to live in one “dwelling” with a shared kitchen. The code didn’t say the rooms had to be tied together as a single unit, so Potter built a cross between an apartment building and a boardinghouse, where someone could rent a sleeping room as small as 100 square feet with a private bath and share a kitchen with up to seven others renters.

> A micro-housing building spree ensued that gave Seattle more such units than any city in the country. At last count, 782 micro-housing units were cleared for occupancy in Seattle, with another 1,598 units in the pipeline. No other American city comes close.

> Once the pipeline is cleared, though, no future Potter-style hybrids will be allowed: The city changed the rules in October after neighbors railed against the projects. Congregate housing — group housing arrangements such as dorms and senior housing that use common areas — is still allowed. But in the future, micro-housing will mean efficiency apartments of at least 220 square feet, each with its own bath and kitchen.

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I'd argue that on the whole, more people are harmed by heavy-handed regulations that limit the mark

I know regulations contain more than just "affordable housing" issues, but often the impact of land use regulation is to drive up the cost of housing for everyone, which makes households more sensitive to job loss, and dependent upon a steady income.

The 2007-2008 recession could have been partially mitigated if inexpensive housing stock was available for purchase.

So, I'd argue that preventing major flooding is good, but the tools by which governments try to prevent that flooding (and other "negative externalities" cause problems more severe than they solve.)

[0] http://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/seattles-mic...
[1] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/4/20/the-high-high-...
FWIW, I'm a GED holder, but later finished college & PhD. My linkedin profile is 100% complete, and I find zero utility in the platform. You really aren't missing much there.
Same here. I only install a handful of apps in my phone, and this is one of them. One wrapping-11x11 game of "Net" is just right for my short subway commute.
> The main advantage of docker, as far as my understanding goes, is more of a prebuilt system configuration thing

I think the main advantage is that it standardizes the interface around the application image/container. This allows powerful abstractions to be written once rather than requiring a bespoke implementation for each way that the application is structured. Imagine writing the equivalent of Kubernetes around some hacked-together allows-multiple-versions-of-a-dependency solution. It would be a nightmare. But because the Docker image/container interfaces are codified, you can build powerful logic around those boundaries without needing to understand what's inside those images/containers. Dynamically shifting load, recovering from failures, automatic deployments and scaling are all much easier when you don't have to worry about what language the application is written in or how the application is structured.
The weights are also useful to build on, as an initialisation for a related task, or to look for semantic vectors without having to do the (often lengthy) training oneself.

I second your call for more publishing of trained models as well as source code and applaud the OP for doing so.

Great post.
I can't seem to find the documentary you're referring to, any pointers?
The other part of the equation is that good developers let alone good C++ developers are in very short supply in a market already dying of thirst for merely competent developers. Most large companies that need software simply will never be able to attract them, so you have to throw your net wider and accept the hegemony of Java, Python, Ruby, and Javascript.

I think labor economics fundamentally wins in the current market over any technical factors until we start approaching large scale systems by which time, ironically, the costs of high-overhead, low-LOC software infrastructure are far too great and you're like Facebook drowning in piles and piles of legacy code that people are scared to really tear apart just to save maybe 20% on the number of servers while still making hiring even harder.

Furthermore, a pet dating app founder doesn't really have any benefit picking C/C++ over Python, Node.js, etc. unless they are so under-funded they're trying to save $300 / mo on hosting costs in which case they can't even begin to think about paying someone in the first place. By the time you start hitting $2000 / mo in infrastructure costs where a solid C/C++ core on even AWS you'll likely be bringing in enough users that you could conceivably raise more funding anyway.

I'm totally a fan of writing C/C++ for modern software but if I'm in the driver's seat of a company I really can't expect to be lucky enough to find someone that knows what they're doing with modern C/C++ in that market. Heck, even in the super competitive yet lower-pay games industry most programmers aren't on C++11 or C++14 last I heard, so they'd still have to learn new stuff if I hired them for a random web start-up or big company.
Interesting to see this get traction here today, this article is for the web version which has been around for awhile.

But we did just (in March) launch this for Android:
https://blog.google/products/gmail/send-and-request-money-in... & https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/14/you-can-now-send-and-reque...
c) Support for direct debit instead of having to use PayPal when one doesn't own a credit card
Those are the ones who pay politicians to change laws for their benefit.
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I re-read and understand now. The article starts talking about "public health officials are battling to contain the disease while also trying to educate parents in the face of an organized opposition" but immediately flips to talking about the enemy.
Profit.
Edit: & security.
Exactly. The core that was open-source, but not FOSS per FSF, is a system almost no Mac user will directly use or develop apps for. The experience Mac users get is almost totally proprietary by Apple. It's not only theirs in copyright: they patent every aspect they can to sue anyone doing something similar. Samsung will happily attest to that. Mac OS is about as non-FOSS as it gets. Right up there with Windows on proprietary components, lock-in, and patent suits by owner.

At least they're doing a nice, open-source project with LLVM. I'll give them credit where it's due.
That is why I said years ago that Firefox OS should have competed against ChromeOS, not Android and iOS.
You also get worse battery life, constant updates at the most inopportune times (that you can't even control anymore), advertisements in your OS, and very sketchy security/privacy.
There is a big difference in natural sugars contained in orange juice (and I'm talking about self made orange juice here, not these boxed juices you can buy at a store) than the white, processed, probably also containing high glycose syrup -sugar you find in a coke.
Sorry for not responding more quickly. I don't have a use case at present, so probably not. Adding capabilities to NSS solved the problem I was having (if PAM authenticates a user that NSS returns ENOENT, OpenSSH refuses to permit login). I'm not opposed to it, though, and I'd be interested to hear what needs you might have.
A Chromebook isn't a locked-down computer, it's a really smart terminal. That might seem like a pedantic distinction, but it's vital if you want to use a Chromebook effectively. Once you start thinking about a Chromebook as a VT100 with bells on, it makes perfect sense. It's a very Unixy way of working. The computer is somewhere, but you don't necessarily care where. It might be a server in Google's DC, it might be an EC2 instance, it might be a Raspberry Pi hooked up to your domestic router. The device on your desk is just a gateway.
They're also a work laptop option for Google employees.
I was doing advanced Oracle DBA work.

It is awesome in a way but had some awful bugs (lost hours to installer bugs) and was topped up with dark patterns IMO (expensive features would be one click away)

Edit: and can we stop pretending that OS X is better? It is different. Some people like that. Other has just as legitimate reasons to stay away.

I spent 3 years on a Mac and went from really enthusiastic to really disappointed. I still defend others right to prefer it though and hope you'll defend my choice as well.
> A bullshit argument but one that will prevent legal coercion in states with lawmakers they're paying off.

You keep saying that but it doesn't work when the topic is an actual electable one. When people contact their representatives and say they want a certain policy or law, the rep's job is on the line.

The only reason politicians might bow to corporate pressure is they don't have harder pressure from the people on their backs.

No popular vote, no job.
I think that is another reason why some companies outsource all aspects of IT, so they can blame someone. Who cares if it takes 10x the time compared to having the skillset in house when you can just point at the 3rd party and blame them. Doesn't matter if it is the same person selecting all the 3rd party providers who continually are horrible at their jobs, we are saving money!
Sorry, that's what I meant!
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4 hours was fast, sheesh. You instatwitter generation... :)
...Hence why I've called my "feedforward artificial neural network model that maps sets of input data onto a set of appropriate outputs" builder Perceptron...
"I get that. I think the problem has more to do with the Citizens United + Speechnow court decisions [1] which decided that corporations are people, and therefore can donate as much as they like to super PACs that are not directly run by the candidate's team (as if that really matters)."

Yeah, problems like that cause it. My solution is a combination of (a) only individual voters can donate money to political campaigns, (b) it's limited to a specific amount, and (c) any law passed on behalf of a donor against the stated interests of the constituency is nullified by default. I also want to attempt to bring back nullification of these corrupt laws in federal courts, up to Supreme Court. It's a risky concept judges don't like but ideal tool to deal with laws passed by corruption. They're already supposed to fight that under checks-and-balances concept.
As one of the weird perpetually hungry, healthy appetite, fairly skinny person I've been told that peanut butter is among one of the better options for maximizing caloric intake. I should be eating nearly a cup of peanut butter per day it seems and the same calories would be in 8 smoothies or so.
I take the same approach, listing the (non technical) area of study and years of attendance. People tend to assume this resulted in a BA, which is not the intent. I've struggled with whether this is duplicitous on my part. Generally I feel that listing no education would be a lie of omission and not relay the story of my professional career properly.
If you're going to make claims like these that will raise a few eyebrows, please give some details and reasons why you think Oracle is awesome. Otherwise, your comment is fairly useless.
As counterpoint, that same $500 will get you a Chromebook that's exceptionally thin and light (0.5" thick, 2.3 lbs), has a high resolution retina display (12", 2400x1600 pixels), 10+ hours battery life, and touchscreen with pen input and Android app compatibility: http://www.samsung.com/us/computing/chromebooks/12-14/xe513c... Compared to a giant 15" clunky, hot, loud, low resolution display Windows laptop it's a night and day difference.
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What do you need an example of?

Mono-culture in SV is well known. First, it's simply not possible for poor and middle class people to live there and have any kind of normal life. Second, it's well known (often reported by the companies themselves) that most SV tech companies are dis-proportionally made up of white (and some asian) men.

The mono-culture often makes SV look out of touch with reality. Products like Juicero and Soylent, come to mind. The way Uber has handled sexual harassment claims, is another example. There are examples all over the place.
They announced that just a few weeks ago. And what they state on the site you linked to proves the parent's point about managed Postgres being hit or miss:

"This is a Beta release of Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL. This product might be changed in backward-incompatible ways and is not subject to any SLA or deprecation policy."
"When people contact their representatives and say they want a certain policy or law, the rep's job is on the line."

Hows that worked out in all the states where people griped about Internet speeds, cost, and availability but politicians passed laws for incumbents anyway? It didn't. You're talking a huge campaign of enough voters across enough districts to override what a few lobbyists do. It's asymmetrical. It might work but it usually doesn't. It's also extraordinarily difficult.

I'm for people trying it esp in rural areas. It's just that the ISP's currently outspend them on outreach and politics. Many of the areas getting hit are also already conservative where they believe business does it better. So, there's that too.
Was it intentional that the air hose spells out the initials "jm" in cursive?
https://www.designdisruptors.com/

Do note that it is sponsored by InVision, but I didn't think that detracted from the message because there was no product placement. It is also in limited showings, not online anywhere as far as I know.
The discussion continues here as well:

https://robertpaulwolff.blogspot.com/2017/04/initial-respons...
You've never been through a country scale crisis.
The early Linux movement that later became part of the Open Source movement was certainly also political. Stallman was actually one of the heroes of that movement, which he apparently didn't realize. The difference was strategy. The FSF wanted to ideologically educate and convert people while most people in the Linux movement were focused on the number of users. The more users the more influence. Facts on the ground instead of ideology. History has proven them right.
Marketing ploys aren't exactly a sign of incompetence. Probably they made those claims expecting that no one would bother checking.
If you're asking about making transfers electronically inside the US, that already exists -- the system is called ACH. You use your bank's routing number and your account number. It's not as widely adopted for things like bill payments, since the US banking system is quite antiquated (they still use checks for many payments).

If you're asking about international payments between US and EU banks, currently you do that using the SWIFT network (i.e. wires). It's $25-30 a pop. And there are significant regulatory and technical barriers to getting this cost down (see the EU's SEPA program for a regional version, and that's with a bunch of countries that have already normalized their financial regulations).
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I think that Nokia would have been better off had they devoted their resources towards the Meego OS (along with providing an easy way to use existing Symbian applications on the new platform.

I'm still using my Nokia N9 and am pretty satisfied with it. Unfortunately, there won't be any updates (and, as far as I know, I can't hey a Jolla phone here in the US).
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When you read the word "portable," you'd better believe it. The entire project is designed for elegance and simplicity, and the developer docs are a pleasure to read.

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/devel/
> I'm not quite parsing the logic of doing this.

Sounds like you parsed it just fine. It was just an error in the actual logic.
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> why not having Postgres itself serve web requests?

Good question! Why not have all the logic in the database?

The answer is, you can actually do that. And it’s popular enough that someone founded a company on that concept, although they didn’t use Postgres, but their own self-built database.

You might have heard of it: https://firebase.google.com/ (They were acquired later, and are now Google’s top database offering).
you can't be neutral on a moving train.
Inspired by: https://mobile.twitter.com/errikkxa/status/84934921200542105...

PS: it's a weekend hack; I'll optimize it for mobile soon
Eventually there will be asteroid mining, and like we already have a sense of 1 trillion dollars worth of palladium in an asteroid, there will be 1 trillion dollars worth of new gold - which did cost a lot to get. Google claims the entire mined gold in the world's history is 8 trillion, but tons (ha) have been lost over time. Anyway, you get 12.5% more in that first shipment. Maybe it will be a 100 years from now. And then we find another and so forth. Will that cause a panic? Will anyone care?
Stop thinking and do it, the worst thing that could happen is that you just learn something new. =]
"juice" may be bad (filtered water, flavoring from cologne makers, syrup), but what about whole blended fruits?
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I should've included that on my list. Social media - the modern high. Also: games!
Uhm, there will be other problems if someone nukes nyc.
Here are the changes from the changelog, looks like it's just bug fixes:

* Security fix: the Windows PuTTY binaries should no longer be vulnerable to hijacking by specially named DLLs in the same directory, even the names we missed when we thought we'd fixed this in 0.68. See vuln-indirect-dll-hijack-2.

* Windows PuTTY should work with MIT Kerberos again, after our DLL hijacking defences broke it.

* Jump lists should now appear again on the PuTTY shortcut in the Windows Start Menu.

* You can now explicitly configure SSH terminal mode settings not to be sent to the server, if your server objects to them.
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Internal monologue:

hmmmmmmm. This guy sure seems to have a ridiculously specific and detailed understanding of what it's like to be surveilled by the FBI...
You should adjust the README so it explains what this does. Even a single sentence would be nice.
> Nazi scientists were among the first to explore LSD’s psychopharmaceutical potential

I'm gonna need a source for this. My understanding is that Swiss chemist Albert Hoffmann discovered the psychedelic effect of LSD in April 1943 [1], and I think it very unlikely that the Nazis could have incorporated it into their purported mind-control experiments before the end of the war.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_LSD#.22Bicycle_Day....
> Honestly, though, I have absolutely no idea what would happen in a legal case involving 'smart contracts', as I don't think there's any precedent involving treating computer programs as contracts.

Smart contracts aren't legal contracts, though they may be evidence of the existence and content of one.

Of course, strictly speaking that's true of the written documentation of a contract, too.