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I agree that corporations behave rationally avoiding tax. I agree it's the government's (global gov not just US) fault. I agree it's a complex problem because it probably needs a global, not local/nation level solution. But yes basically those tax avoidance tricks loopholes should be closed.

I disagree that a welfare state is unsustainable. I think it's not and if anything, seems most of the thinking of the future once automation and ML take over most of the world is that some type of UBI will be necessary. I don't know the exact form but I agree. The brutal increase in productivity and value added by technology will have to be offset with a redistribution of that wealth if we want a functioning society. We might start now and fix the welfare state.
Why would the drivers be different?
There's nothing special about GPU hardware that magically handles vectorization for you. A fragment shader, for instance, is a small program that runs in parallel across all the pixels in a fragment. That turns out to be a great interface for doing graphics, but the hardware doesn't really care about it. It's simply up to the driver to compute where the fragment boundaries are and to program set up the corresponding inputs to the shader cores.

This actually gives you less control over the hardware, in exchange for an easier programming model. The problem is that it's a domain-specific solution; if you're not rasterizing polygons then it doesn't do you much good; you'll have to break the problem up into parallelizable domains yourself, or find a library that does it for you. (That's all a graphics driver is, in the end. It's just a library that helps you access a complicated piece of hardware without having to know too many details about it.
> Results from the six-month Japanese clinical trial — in which 137 patients were randomized to receive either Radicava or placebo

Giving placebo to ALS patients? How is that allowed ? They should be able to tell already what is the course of a typical ALS patient without using such methods. For cancer drugs there are no placebo used since there is extensive survival data available to prove whether or not a drug actually makes any difference.
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It seems you're confusing what's undoubtedly an art, to come up with a good idea, with the mechanics of being a startup, the latter being a more-repeatable motion, that is well-described in the literature that I believe people here are referring to. Of course there's also plenty of testimony on what were bad startup ideas, but obviously it'll be up to the entrepreneurs in question to come up with their own brilliant startup ideas.
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Hi, thanks for including Neocities on the list!

Just finished a cli this week, haven't announced it yet: gem install neocities
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> it reduces the startup time and memory footprint of the JVM

How so? There is additional machinery needed to be started, the module system, and additional checks needed to be performed (module access) and additional metadata to be kept at runtime (module metadata). How is that helping startup time and and footprint? If anything that should make it worse.

Class loading has been lazy since day one, so if you don't use CORBA then CORBA classes are not loaded. This has been the case since Java 1.0.

JVM startup time is actually pretty good. If your application takes seconds to start that's because your startup code takes seconds to run. Jigsaw isn't going to help you there.
It always pains me when I see people use "cat" left and right, even when they don't need it.

This makes for good reading: http://porkmail.org/era/unix/award.html
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With Couchbase Mobile, we shy away from the "realtime" claim, because it's vague. (Ask a high-frequency trader how they define realtime...) Having said that, we have customers that are very happy with the response times. Always been open-source. Check our blogs for steps to get everything set up front to back to develop on one machine.
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This is only true if a one-off sale of the cure is significantly more profitable than a reliable income stream from products that help manage the disease without curing it.

For that to be true the cure would have to be more expensive than management by at least an order of magnitude - assuming monthly refills for management and an annual reporting cycle - but still not so expensive that it became unaffordable.
The alternative reading of that is that the rich can afford to lose more.

I'd note that the OP lost all their gains and ended up breaking even - and that was with their father stopping them shorting.

If they had been short they could easily have been ruined.

Asking people to have a $25K buffer before they start gambling isn't entirely an unjustifiable idea.
>Another major blow will be to services such as Pirate Bay and Kodi.

For anyone unfamiliar, KODI is an excellent, open source media center program available on most major platforms. It started as a homebrew project (called XBMC) on the original Xbox game console. The name has become synonymous with piracy to some because there are popular 3rd party add-ons which allow streaming of potentially copyrighted media via links to files on cloud hosted file storage services. Depending on a user's jurisdiction, these files may be illegal to stream without appropriate permission.
This is also shown when one of the dock workers from season 2 re-appears as homeless person in season 5 (I think).
> Because the entirety of all youtube comments' value can only be measured in what worse things they authors were prevented from doing while commenting there.

This says more about your sampling bias than youtube itself.

And the fact you are posting this says more about the magnitude of your political bias (its exact direction being yet tbd) than anything you read. I'm not sure if you realize how many nuts really say what they believe and believe what they say.
Twitter has this thing called "moments" for combining multiple tweets and avoiding what this person has done.

I guess he's only an IT security analyst so perhaps isn't up to speed.

https://support.twitter.com/articles/20174961#
Rather uncharitable, no? The Atlantic doesn't bombard visitor with ads; they are considerate in maintaining the user experience. If people are reluctant to take a paid subscription, and consider Adblocking as righteous, how many options are left for publishers to monetise?
You're in luck - you don't even need wine for either of those games since they're Linux-native.
Ah fair enough, in that case I'd agree, but it didn't appear to be what he was saying in the comment I responded to. I've got going on 10 years of HFT experience as a Software Eng / Systems monkey and try to at least set the record straight. If you don't understand simple HFT economics such as Maker/Taker rebates, you have absolutely no business whatsoever commenting on market making firms, especially Virtu, which is fundamentally (until they close their KCG acquisition and do execution for more banks at least) a very large and very sophisticated Designated Market Maker.

I'm only responding to you, because you're my fav HN personality and tend to have a lot of interesting things to say at ChiSec :)
Alt ` (backtick) switches between Windows in the same app for me - maybe not ideal but might help.
Yeah let's get some AI in there to help out, maybe building the front end in react native will solve some problems no one though of. We could get the data with graphql to solve some issues.
The problem is that you sidestep the obvious issue as if it doesn't exist. Money represents economic activity.

Healthcare and elderly care currently consumes 20% of all economic activity. That is what's unsustainable. This is out of the question towards the future, since those people do not contribute 20% of GDP in the first place (and they'd need to contribute almost 40% to justify that).

I guess the question I'm asking is simple: you want to increase this expenditure ... ok. What do you drop ? Please pick other parts of the economy that we can just drop ...

Please don't just handwave "just automate it and save 50%" but ...
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Can someone provide links to examples of companies withholding cures in exchange for profit? If not, the idea of this is nothing but conspiratorial.

If it's true, though, it's worth knowing.
>Not everyone likes to have their (door) keys hanging off their notebooks all day.

As if a whole phone is better... That's not a requirement with a yubikey anyway. Mine hangs on a lanyard on a dust plug. Many people have yubikey nanos and basically leave them plugged in their laptop all the time.

>I was talking about the free beer kind of free, but it's not accurate to say YubiKey is all free (libre)

Kryptonite is not libre. It's not even free. It's all rights reserved.

https://github.com/kryptco/kryptonite-ios/blob/master/LICENS...

Yubico piv tool is 2 clause BSD, which is GPL compatible.

>Personally, I'm fine with closed-source security products.

So is RMS, assuming device software is fixed. See his comments on microwave ovens. Yubikey fits this description. Firmware is not updatable, for better security. Anyone who is trying to make a controversy out of what yubico is doing is either more extreme than RMS, dumb, or a competitor.
First, these things are not easily exchangeable. Yes, it is important researching for cures as well as for treatments in the absence of "cures". But with diseases, which are caused by bad habits mainly, a device like the Apple Watch can be part of the cure, if it helps preventing the disease. And, of course, as long as we don't know how to cure, we should at least optimize the treatments.
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1) Duh. Doesn't stop companies like Microsoft and YouTube saying "we've solved the copyright problem!" though.

2) This pex thing you've linked doesn't seem to cover the use-case I had in mind. I'm working on an analysis of XYZ Hollywood movie with a number of people working remotely (for argument's sake, with the consent of the publisher). I stick it in my OneDrive and share a link to them and they download it.

MS blocks it because I'm "sharing copyrighted materials" and they don't have the context in which I'm doing it legally.
There is a great job that you might be interested in that would be easy to obtain as well as provide opportunities for travel, free accommodation, and give you free time to work on programming, read, or whatever you want. You could stay in BC or move anywhere in the world -- get a job at a hostel.

You don't need any special skills to get a job at a hostel. I think that it would be much more beneficial for personal development than serving coffee or flipping burgers. It's very good for interpersonal and intercultural communication skills. Depending on which shift you work, you could still get in a full day of coding on side projects on some days.

I worked in that industry and was even able to get a European work visa based on it (along with the technical skills). Send me a message if the idea interests you. (@joshhostels on Twitter)
Many people chain ps and grep... pgrep does that
It really won't. The fact is that even with an ebike, your effective radius is maybe fifteen miles in one day, which will take 45 minutes to an hour to cycle. Most people in the USA who need cars simply need transportation that is powered for longer and gives much longer of a range.

It also needs to be operated in many types of weather conditions, like snow, and often needs to cary four passengers or merchandise that takes up the same amount of room. One that isn't vulnerable to theft or stripping.

Also, for the price of a good one, you could get a gas powered moped or 50cc scooter, and watch your range extend dramatically with instant "recharging."
Here in Germany the Dexcom G4 system with Animas Vibe insulin pump became fully covered by the health insurance last November and a couple of weeks ago I got my system working. It is a pretty amazing improvement to my life: both the pump and CGM.

The G4 transmitter has a 2.4 GHz radio and I built an extra device with Wixel and Bluetooth to transfer the data so my Android phone so xDrip+ and my Android watch can display the glucose values real time. It works so great that my A1c levels been going down from over 7% to 5-6%.

If you are in Europe and have a Type 1 Diabetes, you should ask your doctor about your options.
Most people until now were stuck with Java 6 on Android. It's a HUGE jump from there :)
With modern hard disks, no. They work in sectors.
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After reading my comments from earlier today - I didn't intend to sound so critical. On the contrary, I'm fucking impressed. Halfway through the video I was thinking to myself, damn I know UC cog/neuro PIs that would be embarrassed to share current project notes with this artist Guy Ben-Ary.

I went from 'this should be amusing', to 'omg this musician is really about to demo training dissociated neural cultures to synthesize Tchaikovsky'. Even though it didn't remotely turn out that way, I probably will reach out to him (there are a few off-the-rack methods for marshalling neural activity, which may lead to more interesting outputs than stochastic crackling). Though I suspect you're absolutely right - he achieved his primary goal of creating "noise-art".

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an aside on the modern academic musical vanguard. I recently attended an event put on by UCSD music department grads; not what I expected. I'm going in thinking - sweet, these doctoral students def were first-chair musicians in HS, classically trained since birth, playing in chamber quartets on the weekend; now they're all probably exploring their talents composing electronic and synthesized music, maybe (hopefully) some rock elements. It's gunna be great! ... The first act was essentially some kid rolling an empty Coca-Cola bottle (with a tiny microphone inside) between his foot and a slab of concrete for about 8 minutes, backed by the faint whirls and chortles of children whispering. So, just a heads-up on that front for anyone missing it.

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edit: oh and I forgot to mention, there's something to be said about the coolness factor of jamming-out on stage with a neural network that used to be your skin cells.
That's 1 item[ * ]. I'd still like to see your definitive step-by-step instructions for turning off all telemetry and privacy-invasive connections in Windows 10 -- which is what the OP was attempting to do.

[ * ] How do you know that it even works? Plenty of times I've followed instructions from Microsoft's TechNet that didn't solve the problem it purported to solve.

And by the way, that's a helluva lot of steps to disable IPv6. Multiply that by a hundred other things you need to do, and probably a hundred you don't know about, and changes that get undone by updates, and you have a nightmare trying to create a privacy-respecting Windows 10.
Kotlin was supported way before this announcement. Scala, Clojure, etc. worked to some extent as well. This is more of a political thing.
> The first section in the README is called "Design goals", with 13 items. None of them is "data integrity", and none of them even talks about validating the data or handling any failures aside from power loss.

Fair enough.
First I read the title as "Ford is replacing CEO with self-driving car"

Too bad this isn't true ;)
I think it's actually Herc who lectures them which is kind of ironic as he is one of the more...simple police men ("I say we f__k them up - the western district way"), but even he learned a thing or two about making big cases intelligently during the detail.
The Atlantic is willing to provide their content on terms of subscription or viewing ads. Your parent chooses not to accept those terms and not view their content. 'ryandrake isn't expressing an expectation that the Atlantic provide content without ads and without a subscription and is willing to not have access to the Atlantic content. This seems completely reasonable and fair to me.
The two indices and the permutation operations are very reminiscent of RC4.
It is not fair for everyone. But this is an artificial, unneeded hoop that could be easily removed. If we set it at $25,000, does that prevent "unsophisticated people take their life's savings on a margin call"?
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You're having trouble creating/contributing back because you're not sure what other people need from you (when you find them, it'll be like someone opened your faucet for creativity). Try doing a sales safari※ for an audience you want to help and see what happens.

Find people with expensive problems† and help them solve those problems with your words, a software product, or consulting.

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Its depressingly popular in the US for small & mid-size retailers and businesses. NCR, Loc, IT Retail, et all are built for Windows, and in the pharmacy arena you've got major companies like CVS using stuff from companies like Integra (not the telecom company, the pharmacy one) that thinks moving to SQL Server 2008 and C# with a full rewrite is the route to go for their major PCI compliant products.

It confounds me that locking yourself into a shrinking platform is what these players choose to do. Walmart doesn't use Windows in PCI related situations, nor do the big boys, all are on SLES running a POS atop that.

If your gonna do a rewrite, why lock yourself into one OS and into one database? Database connectors are a thing, and they aren't hard to use...
"Ford is replacing CEO with self-driving car..." IMHO would be a perfect April 1st headline))
I've never heard of successful vaccine companies going bankrupt.

But vaccines are an exception in medicine. Serious conditions rarely have magic bullet cures.

E.g. "cancer" isn't one condition, it's a set of loosely related problems. It's very unlikely indeed there will ever be "a cure for cancer", but not at all unlikely that specific cancers will become much more treatable.

That doesn't stop companies promising to develop magic bullet cures - or magic bullet anything - and getting huge interest from investors. (See also Theranos, etc.)
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They have already increased taxes, and are planning to almost double to VAT in a few years time. The problem with taxes is that you have very quick diminishing returns and take a dent at consumption very quickly.

As for bankruptcy, not going to happen in Japan since the local banks own the debt and declaring bankruptcy would make the banking system in Japan crash, leading to unknown consequences. I think they rather want to keep it under control as long as they can, while they are progressively getting their backs against the wall.
To some extent, the outgoing CEO is taking the fall for a nationwide slump in auto sales, which affects all auto companies.

I think this change is mainly window dressing: the outgoing CEO was committed to self-driving car research, as is the new guy. The fundamentals of the company are unlikely to change.

I suspect that the stock would go up in the short term if Ford started putting more money into SUVs and crossovers, at the expense of the company's long-term success. If Ford's investors believe that self-driving cars (or at least, semi-autonomous cars) are the future, they should be willing to put up with a low stock price over the next few years.
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This is spot on from my experience.
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Man if you learn one new technology a decade you're ahead of Alan Kay. I don't need to hear any more stories about PARC or Smalltalk. They were both wonderful, I am certain. We thank you for your service. Enjoy that Turing award, you earned it.
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> US Corporate profits are about 1.6 trillion, total national budget is 3.8 trillion.

Yeah, and military spending is at 600 billion dollars a year. Don't you think that ought to be cut first instead of starting to attack profits from companies? Profitable companies reinvest their gains back into the market anyway, which is essential for a functioning economy. Military spending is almost pure loss in comparison.
Be sure to be in a stable mental state when you watch this.
If you have an insulin pump (best if it's an older one, since newer ones are harder to hack) you should look into OpenAPS (open artificial pancreas system) https://openaps.org/. People have code/schematics available to build a closed loop system between CGM<>insulin pump which automatically adjusts the dosage based on glucose levels and keeps you in range better than even the best attempts at manual dosages. Seems like you've already done half the work, which is connecting the CGM to a device you can run custom code on.

Medtronic just came out with their first closed loop system (https://www.medtronicdiabetes.com/products/minimed-670g-insu...), but OpenAPS has been around for years, and not sure how Medtronic will go about getting the 670 approved in Germany.
Exactly the same reaction arc that I followed. Now Season 2 gives me the shivers. Also makes me very very sad... Frank Sobotka was beautifully played.
^ *psychological warfare, more like.
I can't speak to the Dubai comparison, but Seattle is bringing 10,000 apartments online this year.

http://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/seattles-re...
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do
watch -t -n 1 "factor \$(date +%s)"
done
Little Snitch is a popular bit of software on the Mac, and pretty much everyone who uses thst goes through the first week of googling "so what's this weird background process do?"
Are you going to support dropbox syncing/android client?
One note: I believe `shred` won't work as expected on a journaling file system like ext4.
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