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>There are solicitors, who provide legal advice from their offices, and there are barristers, who argue in court. Barristers get the majority of their business via solicitors, and clerks act as the crucial middlemen between the tribes—they work for and sell the services of their barristers, steering inquiring solicitors to the right man or woman.

>Clerks are by their own cheerful admission “wheeler-dealers,” what Americans might call hustlers. They take a certain pride in managing the careers of their bosses, the barristers—a breed that often combines academic brilliance with emotional fragility. Many barristers regard clerks as their pimps.

Managing relationships between lawyers? I think it seems a bit more tricky than playing Go.
This is very interesting.

So basically in digital terms it went the opposite way from HTML where everything is more relative to each other to print where everything is exact.

I wonder if there is some underlying principles hiding in this. Have to think about it some more but thank you so much for your insightful comment.
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Definition of covfefe
The placing of US military bases in Europe has not reduced the number of wars in Europe. That is directly related to the creation of the EU which was essentially set up for that specific purpose.

I'm not saying that there is no cost to US bases in Europe. They are probably expensive to maintain, but in general they are there because the US wants them there and they benefit the US more than the host nation. Same goes all over the world, Japan, the Middle East, Korea. The bases are there to give the US some influence and clout, it is force projection.

I would repeat for clarity that US bases in Europe have done nothing to prevent wars between EU nations, the credit for that goes to the EU.
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The preimage strength debacle is probably worth mentioning
Thought: what if Unicode decoding was "lossless" in the face of errors, such that the replacement characters represented the bitstring of non-decodable bytes? (E.g. 256 reserved-codepoints for each possible octet value, that render as e.g. "[FF]" in a box; and then another 255 for the set of 7-bit, 6-bit, 5-bit, etc. overhangs.)
When I read about proposed public transit projects in Boston that were never built, most of them had actually been _court mandated_ by the Big Dig mitigation lawsuits, but they still didn't get completed. Very mysterious.

To be fair about the 'single small bridge', it seems like smaller projects suffer proportionately larger delays due to being considered low priority, ridiculously lax work scheduling, etc. Although the financial scales are completely different, it takes my city (Toronto) approximately the same time to build a subway extension as to renovate the bike trail that runs near my house.
Don't think that covers it so well. The area we now call Wales was occupied by the Romans at which time the official language of the region was Latin. The Brythonic that was present across [at least Southern, ie below Scotland,] Britain clearly then adopted loanwords. However, it's hard sometimes to see if they were adopted in to the Briton's language, adopted in to English and then in to Cymraeg, or adopted in to English from Norman-French and then in to Cymraeg. The earliest non-fragmentary Cymraeg documents are from a couple of hundred years after the Norman conquest AFAIK.

Clearly it seems naively to be Indo-European, but specifying Latin origin gives a bit more nuance: it could be wrong nuance! I'm afraid I'm not learned enough to know if it's Cymraeg loaned from English via Norman-French from Latin, or if it's direct, or indeed some other more or less tortuous route.
Actually a commitment to Web standards does mean a commitment to not launching nonstandard extensions to the Web platform, usually. Many of Chrome's own Web standards people would tell you this. For PNaCl and some other features Google's official excuse was to designate them "not part of the Web platform" ... which doesn't really make sense from anyone's point of view other than Google's.

In this case, the desirability and feasibility of running C/C++ code on the Web was not something that needed to be demonstrated by enabling PNaCl for Web content. In fact, uptake of Web-PNaCl has been extremely low --- fortunately. If significant Web-PNaCl uptake had been a prerequisite for WebAssembly, then WebAssembly probably wouldn't have happened!
Build public transit, then build high density residences, then profit. This simple formula is applied extremely well in Japan.
PyPy supports Python 3, so you don't need to port it at all.
Utterly disagree.

Workday (WDAY) and Veeva (VEEV) as great examples of just recently rallied SaaS stocks.

The true value of SaaS is just unfolding, not being stuck on old versions is just now sinking in. The above companies have customers go beyond the 5 year, sometimes 10 year mark - but they're not on some outdated version, figuring out how to patch that shit up. This is a revolution in enterprise that has not fully sunken in, there are still a lot of companies out there only dipping their toes into going SaaS.

Vertical clouds such as Veeva, as in going deep into one specific target industry, are a pretty good model to follow. Customer acquisition costs are super low, there is data out there to confirm this. All a reference sell, as CIOs talk to each other in a specific industry. Build a positive reputation, the sale follows. Product leads the way, not marketing.

The moat here being super deep industry expertise and data accumulation that gets harder and harder to compete with.

There will be something after SaaS, but it will take a while and it is utterly unclear what it will be.

Mainframes - Client/Server - SaaS - ??
My guess is regulatory capture, corruption, and knock-on effects from corporations being granted the rights of people,
including money equaling free speech (see Citizens United). There's more money to be made if there are lots of different contractors and subcontractors that can all take a cut, and so the politicians are paid off through campaign contributions to allow the inefficient system to continue. Everyone involved makes lots of money, more than if they were vertically integrated and did construction efficiently, except for us taxpayers who are footing the bill, of course. It's basic rent-seeking by the construction industry.
This is neat.

Did they ever figure out why Thailand fireflies do this, instead of just how?
The answer, as you point out, is that CP violation implies T violation. Experimentally testing T violation is much, much harder, and I don't think has really been done in many systems (look at Fitch and Cronin's work for an example), but we know CP violation implies it. So it's there. Or at least, to our best knowledge, it's there -- T violation is not very well understood.
Wow, I have never seen the ACLU pizza video [0] (linked in the comments) before but it's fantastic. It hits all the points I try to explain to people about the importance of privacy in a much more succinct and clear way. I'm surprised it has so few views.

[0]: https://www.aclu.org/ordering-pizza
> It tends to break down every 3 months, at around $1000 a repair each time

That's really not good. Even BMW's are not that expensive to maintain, something is really wrong with your vehicle. Unless it's a classic and you're using it as a daily driver.
There are generally two levels of autoscaling involved with kubernetes.

Firstly, kubernetes is able to create multiple instances of your app as load increases and scale them out over all the nodes.

Secondly, the nodes your kubernetes cluster is running on can also autoscale. With terraform you can set up an AWS autoscaling group for example to automatically increase the size of your cluster as load increases.
According to
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2

There is SHA 224 which has 256 bit internal state and SHA 512/224 which has 512 bit internal state. In my previous comment, I was referring to the former.
I'm curious as to why you truly can't do it. Obviously not everyone can, but most individual cases likely can. It's more that you choose not to, which is still perfectly valid.
Seems like Japan didn't get that memo having been bombed twice.
Not here labor is almost always our largest cost by far and away. Labor costs are typically 4 or more multiples of profit for most of our work.
>hires contractors to handle classified data even though doing so makes it structurally impossible to secure classified data.

Why? Ames and Hanssen were government employees.
I suspect that part of the reason cities like San Francisco, New York, and Vancouver are so ludicrously expensive in North America are because there are far more people that hate cars than there are cities which are amenable to their preferences.

So, if a minority, then a very under-served one. Those cities are going to stay expensive unless the supply of walkable cities increases.
The article's title is a sly joke, the 'water margin' is the land of outlaws (popular in martial arts novels and films), harking back to Shui Hu Zhuan[1] which is fairly well known in English from Pearl S. Buck's translation, _All Men Are Brothers_

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin
Ask HN: I want to contribute to OSS projects, what resources should I read?
Specifically, there is a bug in Icinga2 (an open source monitoring app written in C++) to do with clustering which I'd like to at least help debug, if not resolve and help fix.

I grew up learning PHP and became a sysadmin so I've picked up, to a reasonable degree, a few scripting languages: Perl, Python and BASH (Python can be used for 'proper programming' but I just used it for simple data grinding). I'm used to writing scripts in vi, then in another terminal executing them, rinse and repeat until it works, put it under source control, done. Writing PHP/Laravel is similar - I never need to compile anything, just set the environment up, write it and refresh it until you get it right. I'm a bit of a self-taught hack-learner, so I've never done tests with deployments or so on (sorry).

I've downloaded GitHub projects (like Icinga2) and ran simple configure/make commands, but I'd like to be able to better understand what's going on. Ideally I'd like to pull the source for this project (Icinga2) down, learn how to compile and re-deploy it to a test setup easily, so I can add additional debug output at least. I know it's more work than scripting but it's something I'd love to learn as I could contribute to a few OSS projects, I learned C at university and did some C++, but it wasn't real-world use, but generally I enjoy problem solving so it'll be fun.

Looking for any blogs or resources around contributing to OSS, how to write tests, local test/debug setup for a C++ project like Icinga2, and anything else that might be relevant - any advice appreciated.
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Ah, I just did Google on it, and lo and behold:

"... While it is true that various factors contributed to phenomenal growth of the suburbs between 1945 and 1960, historians have thus far paid little attention to policymakers' fears of atomic attack as a significant factor in population dispersal. ..."

The Reduction of Urban Vulnerability: Revisiting 1950s American Suburbanization as Civil Defence K. Tobin, Pages 1-32 | Published online: 06 Sep 2010

I work in tech/finance. I am old enough to remember that, after the 9/11 attack in 2001, banks were required to set up their datacenter/DR sites at least 50 miles away from their main offices to avoid a complete wipe-out in case of nuke attack.
These are all great points. In some cases, ballot initiatives offer some hope. Check out Represent.US - they're using ballot initiatives to push for things voters support but elected leaders often don't.
AFAIK the main missing feature in WebAssembly that PNaCl had is shared-memory multithreading and that is implemented and waiting on spec finalization to ship. What else is there?
Yeah, that's in the same vein as to what I was trying to get at. Being fired because you refuse to do stupid make-work is certainly less psychologically damaging than being fired because you were no good at your real work.
> NPM is quite basic, it pretty much just downloads tarballs recursively from a webserver according to some version spec

This is about as valuable as "Rails is a webserver that responds to some HTTP verbs". Common.js isn't even a part of npm (the correct capitalization) or node.
> The Ethereum devs have had one mantra from the start: code is law.

Oh great, now I can actually say something to my ethereum loving brother in law, btw do you have a source for this? Because when I try to search for any resource on the internet from before 2016 where Ethereum developers said that "code is law" I can't find it.
Shakey: From  Conception to History [pdf]
Could you comment(or provide a link) on why SHR is more difficult for formal analysis than ROT?
No. It doesn't matter how "rich" or "powerful" you are, that does NOT give anyone else the right to decide if you're out or not. Thiel being who he is doesn't complicate things in the slightest.
My sense is that ecology tends to have more on spatial covariance (along with epidemiology), psychology on building scales out of latent factor models, and economics on temporal covariance.

(although there is substantial overlap between the three)
Apple has always refined things that are almost working but clunky and awkward to use. Mp3 players were terrible for non-nerds for example. Browsing the web on a palm pilot sucked. Apple's problem now is that their competitors are building pretty good stuff. Echo is a great combination of hardware and software. Surface laptops and tablets are quality.

VR/AR is an area where everything is clunky and awkward to use and Apple could probably build something really amazing here but the market size is tiny and the use cases are outside of apples wheelhouse (industrial applications and gaming right now).
How would you have them decide who is allowed to deviate from the documented RFP process and by how much?

Also not checking all the boxes during the RFP process sends a signal about your ability to do so once the work is awarded.
> Like a windstorm that can tip their spacecraft and knocks a radar dish into the protagonist.

This is literally one of the two cases in which Andy explicitly said he used artistic license and departed from realism. The other one being super-efficient radiation shielding on Hermes which he didn't in any way explain in the book.
This is pretty much the norm in orher places such as China and Japan.

New developments havebeen getting more sprawl in China though, as cars have become more popular.
Why does invertibility matter? AND and OR are not invertible, but they are used?
Yeah those three movies are not the same when it comes to the hacking.
Oh, had forgotten "ip dip" which we called as "ip, dip, dog shit" but definitely with a different second line, same last line. I recall the 'naughty boy' teaching it to us, it wasn't common aside from that.

I've heard as an adult "Ip, dip, sky blue; nanny sitting on the loo; dropping bombs, singing songs; out goes you".
Yeah, it should only be bugs that cause subdependency versions to not match the shrinkwrap. Your question seemed valid. I can only guess others have run into similar issues as me and hadn't known if they were fixed.
Since you're "coming from the Python world" you have a good case-study in how a bunch of things outside of language design are crucial. Python has essentially won the race to be the next major language among scientists and that's tied up with a virtuous circle of libraries for, e.g., numerics, statistics, data viz, machine learning, and even within many scientific disciplines (e.g., astronomy). The virtuous circle also includes learning resources (books, Websites, conferences) and the ability to have someone check / talk over your code.

For what it's worth, F# is trying to get that same virtuous circle rolling, but there are a few areas (cross-platform dataviz, interactive notebooks) where F# just doesn't have quite as good a story as Python.
I suspect it helps avoid being eaten. Anything trying to eat them is presented with too many bright spots to track, then nothing to see.
Yes. If there were a way to short Uber, there would be a big short position. There is for Twitter.
They're all going to the same place, but all coming from different areas. Arranging for them to get to a common point to even board the public transportation you're offering would require them to take a car, since density makes and sheer time makes it prohibitively expensive. If buses did stop in convenient locations for the widely dispersed people in small towns, it'd take hours before they'd even approach their destination after having spent half the day just picking up people from all over.

The only way to fix the problem is to encourage people to move out of the suburbs and small towns and live in denser regions.
That was one of the two things the author used artistic license on, the other one being unrealistically good radiation shielding on Hermes. The movie took at least one other liberty with science - they explicitly decided to ignore lower martian gravity, as they would make shots much more difficult/expensive, for (in their opinion) little added value.
It was my mistaken understanding, that another poster cleared up.

I thought that because H1-B VISAs tethered one to their employer, then your situation was understood to be impermanent since if you lost your job and didn't quickly find another then you would have to leave the country.

This seems onerous compared to a green card.
OCB does the same thing, without a sponge construction.
I can't help but wonder how the author would respond to having zero men awaiting her swipe.
The article doesn't mention SpaceX, I wonder what's the difference in energy and cost for launching (and landing) the relative stage 1s. Does anyone have an idea on that?
I'm ESL and learning Spanish as the third language, also studied some French in school. Spanish grammar is extremely logical compared to English, French or Russian.
I'm not American, sadly. I'm from Ontario. You're right, it's not literally impossible but it's way more effort and time than it would be worth.
Nothing changes until we can reduce money's influence over the election process. Until then, any special interest with deep enough pockets can and will have US taxpayers over a barrel.
Bonuses are an absolutely standard part of comp at the tech giants and unicorns (Uber, AirBnB, etc.) There's a minimum yearly bonus you can expect to get (10-20% depending on where you're at) which increases with performance.

Elsewhere it's not common at all - you might get a small bonus if you're outstanding, but it's not to be expected.
... if you use full-width SHA-2 256 or SHA-2 512. If you have enough design freedom to choose SHA-3, just use SHA-2 512/256.
Reminded me of another phenomenon, the one occurring to metronomes on the same surface: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v5eBf2KwF8
The core premise is false. The world is becoming less unequal, not more. Technology is assisting that. That trend has been - aggressively - ongoing for decades. The world is the most equal it has been in recorded history, almost entirely thanks to the rapid spread of technology that began in the developed world and was quickly adopted down the chain economically. The Gates Foundation expends a fair bit of effort every year trying to correct this line of ignorance, it appears to not be making a dent in the problem.
Simply can't believe this has only 3 points! Great find ibra!
I'm confused as to what this thing can accomplish. It can probably fly very high, but I assume it can't fly very fast (relative to orbital speed), and I thought the overwhelming majority of the delta-V to get something into orbit was for forward momentum and that just launching from higher up wouldn't help much.

Clearly there's something I'm missing here (or they wouldn't have built it), can anyone fill me in?
The app can still use environment variables and be completely independent (12 factor), but the Dockerfile/Kubernetes config still needs to provide those things, so there is a clear distinction between ops and dev, they're just more mingled than previously.
The problem, for me, is that Siri is just really dumb in comparison to Alexa and Google Assistant. And those aren't that smart yet either.
Y'know, it's weird. I was just reading an article about how our economy is investing strangely little amounts of capital in innovation, R&D, etc etc. Instead, employment is fairly healthy and productivity increases are starting to be eclipsed by wage growth. What is going on?[1]

I think that the author's most powerful point is his final one: "The U.S. economy’s creative-destruction engine is broken." People aren't moving around to where the jobs are as much as they used to. They're not moving between jobs as much as they used to. They're not creating many new businesses, and they're certainly not creating new industries.

Technology holds so much promise, but there's an extremely severe dearth of capital. And I say that at a time when investors are supposedly looking high and low for places to invest their money.

Well, I say that this is what happens when you consolidate too much; there's nothing left to invest in, and no way for new players to enter unless one of the bloated, festering incumbent market-shoggoths finally bites it. That's where we're headed if we don't start to break up our economy's local behemoths. Or at least if we don't start empowering individuals more. If people made enough money and had the legal freedom to pursue their dreams in their off hours, more of them would probably be inclined to do so.

[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/so-wher...
That's what a hacker has always been -- even the 'h4x0r' definition. There is a necessary component of deviance and anti-authority in the word that nearly everyone seems to have forgotten about.

If you're making computers do something they're not supposed to be doing, you're hacking. The "entrepreneur hacking away at his business" definition hearkens back to the word they use for a bad writer: a "hack".
How does NLP have anything to do with microphones?

Siri's problem isn't speech to text -- try the dictation button on the iOS keyboard sometime. It's perfect.

Siri's problem is that it's very limited.
They especially don't show long travel times, but in the books travel is usually counted in weeks or months. Also, in the books they usually travel at ~0.3g for the sake of Martians and the Belters, who are mostly not comfortable with Earth's 1G.

(This is not merely a detail, it's one of the core plot points of The Expanse, as tolerance to gravity is what makes Martians and Belters almost a different species from Earthers; the former can not live on Earth, and so they don't care much about it.)
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Incorrect. Police asked Amazon for a murder suspect's Alexa history, and Amazon initially refused until the suspect/customer gave permission. It is yet to be proven if anything was recorded without the wakeword.
Anyone have experience with AWS ECS and Kubernetes? How do they compare?
Well, that's not actually true, you can run everything on one server and then unbundle them as you need.

A lot of startups could run on a single $20 virtual server for their first few years if they so desired.
All we know is that the recordings were requested by the prosecution; we have no idea what, if anything, is included in them. In particular, we do NOT know if anything other than the wake word, followed by a few seconds of query, is included. Everything else we've learned, including Amazon's own statements on what is recorded and transmitted, suggests that nothing else is included.