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In case you're wondering, this was submitted about 3 hours ago, shot to number 1 on the front page, got flagged to death, was vouched for, but never saw the light of day again. It's here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14527753

I'd love to see the story hit the front page again.

Oh, and it's also here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14528551

Added in edit: Some people really, really think it doesn't belong, and my comments are being down-voted. Oh well.
We should buy back medallions because these vultures overpaid for them and drove medallion prices into the stratosphere because of the ability to overcharge riders they gave?

Medallions owners ripped off people in Chicago long enough. They should sow what they reaped.
>If buying a new cable means you have to drive to the store, maybe you decide you don't need it right now.

Perhaps. But it's also possible I'll go to the store and walk out with ten things I don't really need either on impulse buys or because going to the store is a hassle and I want to make sure I don't have to go back.
Is yours even correct, though? I can't prove it...
Comments like this make me really, really wish I had majored in mathematics.
I skimmed through it three times to try to understand what it tries to say and find the answer for the title. But I still feel lost. I was thinking my English reading was too poor (not my native language).
Thanks, I will add more info. Essentially, we use an API (like Plaid) to ACH transfer, then use Lob to cut paper checks and mail to landlords
My sense is that it won't really get close to meeting until dependent types are more mainstream. Idris is out there but not sure how usable it will end up being. Haskell and Dotty seem to getting closer even though I don't believe they entirely support dependent types.
The inner market is the wholesale market, where chefs and such are buying fish. The outer market is more varied. Dry goods, kitchen supply, lots of restaurants and now a fair number of stores selling tourist kitsch.

As a tourist I actually wouldn't bother getting to the market before 5am. Skip the tuna auction (there are a million videos on YouTube). The subways start running at 5, so catch one then and start with an early bite. Lots of places selling onigiri, find one. If you need caffeine, find a vending machine selling canned hot or cold coffee (often with Tommy Lee Jones staring at you) or try ordering from one of the small coffee shops in the market.

Wander the outer market—there are some interesting stores there. Head outside the market to Shin Ohashi Dori and find a food stall for breakfast. Depending on how much time you've killed, the inner market may be open or you can take a stroll over to Hama Rikyu Kien, a large garden next to the market. Head back after 10 and see the inner market. At this point it's mostly people cleaning up or taking a rest. There's still some business but it's mostly done for the day.
And LSTM stands for Long/Short Term Memory, the definition is only found about a third of the way through the article.
But where does it stop? When are people expected to assume a degree of personal responsibility? It may sound cruel, but what value to society are people who mooch off the effort of others and provide nothing of their own? There are 6 million [0] open job positions, surely a person could find something suitable in one of those, even if just a stepping stone?

Individuals and businesses extracting wealth by providing a good or service is capitalism. Yes, there are bad apples in the bunch, probably most often those at the highest income levels. But the vast majority of those who are currently taxed for the various welfare services and who would be further taxed to implement a UBI are not in that bunch. What right does a minority of society have to demand a portion of their labor?

[0]: https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2017/job-openings-rose-to-6-poi...
Patents expire after 17 years and x86 is 39 years old, so any of the original patents must have expired twice over already.

They no doubt have been filing additional patents over the years. But I'm sure MS and Qualcomm have plenty of their own patents to bargain with.

Also their warning could backfire if it gives Microsoft one more reason to finally walk away from x86 compatibility... not that this is likely to happen anytime soon.
joke's on them, they'll be surfacing into the north atlantic garbage patch.
Only if starvation is the only option to prevent it from happening.

Inclusion in Facebook's data collection is no longer realistically optional, thanks to their collection of data about non-users from friends/family, public records, data brokers, web trackers, etc.

Being subjected to the effects of Facebook on society is also not something you can opt out of.
I was thinking the same thing.

Intel is gonna get its shit pushed in one way or the other on this, and I'm gonna watch it happen with a big smile on my face.

Patents will not stop the march of progress.
Even in the uber technerd sphere, a huge amount of the services that we take for granted are done by large companies. For example, Steam is the entire reason why gaming is becoming viable on Linux. Sure, a lot of work (by large companies) has gone into the backend to make it easier to write games for more libraries, but that work wouldn't have happened if there wasn't an enormous distribution platform that sells games for Linux.
I think I may have confused it with Ireland or Northern Ireland where there's a legal mandate to keep track of it for anti-discrimination reporting.

It does seem to be conventional to include one's photograph, age, sex, marital status, children or lack thereof and place of birth on a CV in Germany. It's not clear to me if it's actually problematic to exclude those, but it's my impression that not following conventions tends to not go over especially well in Germany.
IMO breaking up Google or Amazon makes as much sense as breaking up a tumor in the body without removing any of its cells and declaring victory. Go ahead, make some arbitrary cuts between Amazon, Lab 126 and AWS. Or go split Google into Android, Search and Cloud. That's a huge buying opportunity in both cases IMO. But if you really want to talk about a current monopoly in the valley, look no further than NVIDIA's 100% ownership of the DL/ML processor space.

Even then, I consider the election of Donald Trump and the existence of his base a far greater threat to freedom than the worst of Google, Amazon, and Facebook combined.

All of these companies could be disrupted just like Google disrupted Microsoft 20 years ago and Facebook half-disrupted Google. And I have worked for multiple big corporations, I have found their culture in general to be far less "suppressing" than the startups I worked at once money got tight.

You wanna join the evil 1% in the valley? That's relatively easy. Learn how to code and ship working systems, especially big data and machine learning systems. That ability alone is worth high six-figures income to Google and Facebook (cue people insisting that's not the case because they don't make that kind of money). If you establish a reputation, you can then double or quadruple upon that. Public evidence below or just who do you think is buying all those $3-5M houses in Palo Alto and SF?

http://www.businessinsider.com/a-google-programmer-blew-off-...
> top heavy / top down control

Could you characterise what is meant by this?

I know that achieving some objective 'X' may not be amenable to regulation which says 'you must do X'; but regulation may (in some circumstances, with sufficient thought) alter the situation's dynamics such that greedy self-interest in that environment just-so-happens to coincide with causing 'X'.

What better alternatives are there to "top down control"; do you mean a "vote with your wallet" sort of 'bottom up' pressure?
I'd probably still take the Lyft. Every experience with Lyft that I've had has been good. The best I can say about my cab experiences is that they have been ok.
Addendum: I get that you can test anything by monkey patching in Python, and I definitely used to do that in setUp and tearDown.

But I guess I have stopped doing that, in favor of testing against my own interfaces, using integration tests with shell scripts, or the odd param that is only for testing. I think I just like to have some indication in the code of where I tested something, and it doesn't cost very much and doesn't come up too often.
I think because route53 is slow to update? I don't know.

I do know that AWS itself documents 60-120s for RDS. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Concep...
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It's not that new. There was a team in the 1980s called Showtime with some very masterful players. Free agency rules in the 90s actually made it easier for dominant players to switch teams. See Shaq.

What has happened is that players are basically bred from youth basketball leagues and they're healthier for longer, so you've got a number of skilled and freak athletes that can swing games. But those athletes have voluntarily chosen to form these superteams which are also a reflection of youth basketball culture.
This is the same Google which was started to commercialize the NSF-sponsored work that Larry Page and Sergei Brin did? The same one which hired many of the DARPA grand challenge winners to work on self-driving cars? The one whose AI efforts are being performed by a number of prominent researchers whose work and training was significantly supported by federal research grants?

Google is great but I see them as an example of the public / private pairing working out well and generating far more new economic value than went into that foundational spending.
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Typically, isnt the largest expense for a tech company payroll? Companies like the big 5 may be anomalies because they operate a number of their own data centers
> RFC4180 is more helpful to generate correct CSV files. It's not as useful for parsing files

You've got it all backwards.

The people writing parsers are the ones who need a language specification to decide what to parse, what to ignore, and what to consider errors.

Meanwhile, writing CSV docs is just a for loop with a printf. That's it.
China, Turkey, Russia, etc control the way the internet is seen by their populaces.

Would you enjoy your internet being controlled the same way?
Eh. You can use gdb for tracing too.

I don't see any hard in gloably DI'ed system observability.
UBI would mostly just replace existing programs, at least at the levels most people are talking about.
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> Yeah, and I bet after Borders shuts down, you'll see Amazon raise book prices sky-high!

There's some truth to that: whenever I bother to check I find that Amazon is no longer price-competitive with brick-and-mortar.

> If Uber tripled prices, a competitor would start up to cut into their market share.

...unless there's no actual profit at anything less than 3x the current prices. Isn't Uber running on a VC subsidy right now?
Planning assumes you know what you're building. Most of my career has involved dealing with others who aren't sure of what they want, and whom change their minds on a regular basis.

See also: Big Ball of Mud
http://www.laputan.org/mud/
24 billion in the bank (cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities), revenue up 2 billion ~10% from 2008. So brave [1]

And they of course started the project by hiring the DARPA grand challenge winners. Which, yes, corporations can refine original research, but it's very rare they try something new. And if they do try something new, it's incredibly vulnerable to being defunded. Google is exceptional, kinda. I hope they'll get more milage out of their special project than bell labs did.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/000119312510...

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And more to the point, the kodak example is key. Kodak made money selling film. Digital cameras were a direct threat to selling film. Google can do some interesting things, but if anything useful is a direct threat to ad revenue, it'll be killed.
I don't know, maybe something like this, degree in informatics engineering (sorry Google translate):

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pt&tl=en&js=y&prev...

Check the "Consolidation Units" and "Specialization Units" required for earning enough credits.

Also the degree is validated by the Portuguese Engineers Society.

Just one example, most Portuguese universities offer similar degrees.

I am a strong proponent of Engineering in our work and how software should be under the same quality regulations as other products in general, not only when there are human life's at stake.
Never has happened. You can be socially responsible even if it means "making less than absolutely possible."

It's idiotic to think that any C-level has to always be doing what will absolutely maximize profits. It's impossible for them to be doing that constantly, all the time.
Will do, thanks for the recommendation.
Yeah and they're less popular largely because they suck for the average consumer.

I used to work on photos. Nothing right now is as good overall -- free autobackup, search, auto creations/assistant, general usability -- and it's not really close.

Open source is particularly weak here, you think the average person wants to manage their own photo/video server? In fact just in general OSS seems to usually be weak at services because contributions aren't just fire and forget.
Pretty sure it was this acquisition.
https://news.microsoft.com/2003/02/19/microsoft-acquires-con...
You should look into TypeScript if you haven't already. It's not perfect, but I think it strikes a nice balance between those two approaches. It's my "go-to" for new frontend projects because I enjoy the compiler's flexibility in regards to type checking. I can explore alternate approaches to solving the same problem (and by proxy, tests) and gradually introduce stronger compile-time checks as the solution comes together.
don't forget to checkout xsv !
its the missing piece between standard unix tools and SQL, I love it.

https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv
Why not just wash your hands?
Link without paywell:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/why-old-...
How can I use 2fa with no stable phone number
I'm traveling the world as a digital nomad and I have become incredibly frustrated as I am locked out of many accounts I own because I no longer use the same phone number, some of which have cash balances associated with them.

It seems like these services treat your phone number as some permanent identifier which seems nonsensical to me.

The two suggestions I've heard are to use google voice or authy, both of which then rely on having a stable, and I think US based phone number, so have the same exact problem.

So is the message from every service that uses 2fa that the service isnt for you if you are moving around and don't have a stable phone number? Or is there something I'm missing here?
> Bell System ended up being heavily regulated, and it's service was second to none. It was nearly a natural monopoly because of the cost of running phone lines. If Uber ever became that, we could resolve any problems with regulation.

I think it's unlikely that the current political climate will allow such problems to be solved with regulation.
How does having struct literals help with DI? Can you give an example?
> In 2013, the European Commission fined Microsoft for giving preferential treatment to its own browser, Internet Explorer.

I don't understand why Microsoft gets fined, but Google gets a pass when they used their other products to push Chrome to a dominant position.
> Apple just reduced the price of the 13" MacBook Pro to $1299.

The 13" MBP is now $200 cheaper because Apple cut the SSD capacity in half (256GB > 128GB). If you want the same size SSD as the 2016 base model had you still have to pay $1,499.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/06/10/review-apples-new-...

Apple cut a big corner in the device's on-board storage to reduce the price to $1,299 —and we feel that it shouldn't have. If you own the 2016, you have at least 256GB of storage. We feel that the 128GB is a big step backwards for those considering the 2017 who already own a 2016.

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/06/08/2017-vs-2016-macbook-pr...

Apple refreshed its MacBook Pro lineup this week with Intel's seventh-generation Kaby Lake processors and faster standard graphics options from Intel and AMD. There's also a cheaper 13-inch MacBook Pro with function keys starting at $1,299 with 128GB storage, compared to $1,499 for the previous base model.
I think the unique article title is getting it more attention. Anyways good read for me.
Really. If you anticipate that central government and most societal structures collapse, then your money and deeds to the land become worthless. Billionaires would be holding billions of nothings. Which means they need to be going full prepper and stockpiling stuff that can be used to influence people to work for them.
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>I don't mean to sound inflammatory just focusing solely on the negative impact to mum and dad shops that Amazon can cause.

But why are you just focusing on the negative effects? If I can buy something cheaper on Amazon, it leaves me more money to spend on something else, creating jobs. The problem with this kind of thinking, pace Bastiat, is there are things you see and there are things you don't see. If you make policy based only on the things you see the effects of your policies won't be what you intended.
> And Intel's business health continues to have a strong dependence on Microsoft's business, which has to make the chip firm a little wary of taking the software company (or its customers) to court.

I mean, Apple and Samsung had a billion dollar lawsuit while Samsung chips were still in iPhones. It's certainly precedented to sue a corporation you're actively doing business with.
Calling the discipline Software "Engineering" was the worst thing that could be done, at least given the current state of the art. Because of that, people thought you should write software the way you build a bridge or a car. The waterfall method came out of that, and it took decades to realize and recover.

Software development is more reliant on discrete math (and more generally the ability to reason abstractly) than math that helps model the physical world. Hopefully, Professional Engineering bodies will one day realize this and will adapt their program accreditation criteria accordingly.
So they will ban all virtual machines which sometimes have to go for emulation, e.g. to handle XSAVE?

Scorched earth policy will likely not be defensible under fair use law. Reverse engineering for compatibility has a few precedents.
I find the number of mistakes I made scales at least linearly with the number of lines I write. Boilerplate is bad because it allows me to write more.
Could you elaborate on the zero allocation part? I made a CSV parser based on yours [0] before the 1.0.0-beta rewrite, and at the very least I have to allocate as much memory to hold a single field in the CSV (and then reuse that memory).

[0]: https://github.com/AriaFallah/csv-parser
Not quite. There's plenty of examples in nature of automatons executing simple behaviors without an overseer that lead to tremendous complexity and efficiency.

However, we only see the successful emergent phenomenon, not the failed ones. Also, to this day we can not make accurate predictions of inherently chaotic systems.

So, while a bottom up sysytem may optimize, exactly whatt it optimizes is impossible to discern.
>I did have a Facebook account for about 6 months in high school before I deleted it and I've never felt the urge to re-activate it (afaik accounts are never permanently deleted).

Yes, you can permanently delete your Facebook account

http://www.wikihow.com/Permanently-Delete-a-Facebook-Account via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1291871
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Aw man! That 1994 paper by Sakakibara is a piece of history! It concludes by
saying that it's "part of the work in the major R&D of the Fifth Generation
Computer Project conducted under the program set up by MITI" [1]. Plus, Sakakibara
is one of my grammar induction heroes :0

However- his algorithm learns CFGs from structural data, which is to say,
derivation trees (think parse trees). So it's completely irrelevant to the
example in the article, that attempts to learn a^nb^n from examples of its
derivations -which remains impossible.

As to the other paper, by Chen, Tseng and Chen, that's about learning a CFG
that reproduces the strings in a corpus- so learning a CFG of a corpus as
opposed to the grammar of a context-free language (therefore, a context-free
grammar) which, again, remains impossible.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_computer
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We'll use that to make the title more modest above.
Luckily someone has paved the path for you :)

https://functionalcs.github.io/curriculum/
Or Ansible, which (as I understand) started merely as ssh automation.

There's something to be said for simpler tools in the same space though.
Get a roaming SIM with a fixed number, just for 2FA if necessary, maybe in a dual-SIM phone.

Not that 2FA over mobile is that secure, necessarily...
> A lot of things Google does -- a lot of the things people actually like about Google -- are possible only because it's a huge monolith. Divorce the ad-making money machine, and say goodbye to all the services consumers like that are nowhere near as profitable: gmail, maps, photos, chrome, android, translate, youtube, drive, waze, where do you think the money for this stuff all comes from?

That's not true. Google is using their ad money to subsidize those services and kill off competition. If Google weren't offering ad-supported, "good enough" services then even more people would pay for the alternatives.

Even with Google's anti-competitive behavior, people still pay for Dropbox, Fastmail, SmugMug, etc.

You're also assuming people understand and accept the level of privacy invasion that goes on when they use Google services. If people knew just how much information Google collects about them, and how they use it, I don't think they would be okay with it. Of course only Google can disclose that information, and you won't.

> Of course, if you're one of the uber technerds that thinks that Google is unabashedly evil and Linux is going to take over the desktop any day now, that probably sounds great to you. I just think the average consumer would have a different take on it.

That's great. Keep "average consumers" totally in the dark about the creepy ways your company is tracking their every move online, and then portray people who don't drink the koolaid as wacky conspiracy theorists and "uber technerds".
This article is worthless
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I won't really miss any of those things when they are gone, because others will come and take their place.

> if you're one of the uber technerds that thinks that Google is unabashedly evil

as opposed to the people who worship at their altar?