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> Efficient-market hypothesis (EMH) is a theory in financial economics that states that an asset's prices fully reflect all available information.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient-market_hypothesis)

So, if buggy-whip manufacturing is really such a terrible business that everyone can tell will go under in a few years, their shares will already trade low.

For today's care manufacturers, the jury is still out and they can still pay quite a few dividends even when in decline. Hence their reasonable non-zero share price.

> I don't think that term means what you think it means.

Please re-evaluate.
At first I thought this was silly. But on reflection, it seems like a great idea - why not make your solar grid more attractive? Imagine flying over that happy panda and the free publicity for solar energy. You'd probably never notice a rectangular grid, but this sounds like the kind of thing the pilot would tell you to look at.

Australia should build a kangaroo shaped one. Or, even better, a koala!
There are more similar start ups: http://www.wefuel.com
Skype update disliked by users
He's scaling images down, not up. Think taking an uploaded smartphone picture (multiple megapixels) and scaling it down to thumbnail-sized images for various screens.
The biggest change which would have made this much easier in my mind is adding port numbers to DNS. Instead of having HTTP at port 80, have the port number for HTTP returned as part of the DNS query. You can allocate a block of ports to each tenant on a host and let them use them as they see fit, you don't need to use the low ports for anything.
NTFS has all the advanced folder and file features like Junction Points and Hard Links.

> The FCU includes a huge revamp of OneDrive's functionality to make the use of local and remotely stored files virtually seamless.

I'm assuming it makes heavy use of that.
1-800-got-junk?
Great articular...
But, forgetting the (apparently GBs) of size, isn't this really what docker and such like are trying to achieve? (maybe I'm missing something). Especially when it comes to only storing a single instance of the base image if all 50+ users are sharing the same image? So it will only store the differences in each container.
It sorts out your network issues, user can be root in the container and bind to whatever port they like and IP addresses are assigned to each container...
What other overheads are there? (this is a rhetorical question - you seem much more knowledgeable than myself)
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The interior of the Model 3 (and even the Model S) aren't anywhere near the interior of a luxury car. They are closer to the interior of upper trim Mazda or Honda. Also the V6 Accord is a family car and can do 0-60 in 5.6s.

Edit: I will say 5.6s is pretty darn quick. I would consider anything quicker than ~7s to be more a fun thing to have than a practical, neccessary acceleration.
Perfect for soldering.
The nice thing SoundCloud has is white-label releases
An Eight-ball is an eighth of an ounce, and it's still one of the most popular ways of asking for coke. It's not really dying out as much as you say.
I think sick days are generally a good idea as they encourage people that are sick not to come in, thus helping stem epidemics. If they're regular time off, people come in sick to save them up.

You might try to make a distinction between contagious and non-contagious diseases, but it'd probably be unwise as often people don't know if they are contagious or not, and anyway encouraging healing isn't a terrible idea even if they aren't.

That said, you shouldn't be cheap on the vacation days either.
Ain't no way I'm listening to mixes on YT when they put brickwall-compressed ads cutting in on un-normalized audio every 10 minutes. It's a non-starter; when I see those little yellow dots I hit the back button.
I understand. It appears that constructing the problem this way is a very unfair way to measure if this idea works compared to other reinforcement learning approaches. If you can simulate the system perfectly you can always just simulate k steps for all possible inputs and pick the one that works best.
It really is bad government. The city council should make a tender and have the local utility come and collect big items for free. That's how it works in the European city I come from. And the utility taxes are all but high.
Jamie Zawinski was just complaining about the lack of options in this market on his DNALounge blog last week.
No need for a button -- add pressure sensors inside the trash can and it can signal the garbage person for you.
I'm referring to posts like this: https://entropicai.blogspot.fr/2017/06/openai-first-record.h...
It's not just because of hype that teams choose Mongo.
The flexibility of a schemaless db is pretty helpful in a startup scenario, where the requirements drastically change all the time.

Yes, migrations work for RDBMS too, but with Mongo you only write migrations for data changes, not schema changes - which means a lot less migrations.

The option of having documents with embedded objects/lists makes it a pretty natural mapping to Domain Driven Design concepts, like aggregate roots + aggregates. One might even argue that while following DDD, it's preferable to handle most rules at the application layer and use the database simply as a performant, low-maintenance storage service. I know some folks here might view this approach as a sin, but it works pretty well too, especially for smaller teams without a dedicated DBA.

Maybe it's just me that haven't ran large enough systems to find the kind of issues with mongo that people always rant about, idk. Honest question: considering all these advantages above (from a developer's point of view), are there good reasons for choosing something like PostgreSQL over Mongo for typical business apps?
This goes hand in hand with the US assesment that the UK military is useful to the states only for its nuclear deterrent, intelligence and special forces. Bond being the latter.
Wouldn't it be better if we were allowed to interact voluntarily? Pay for what we wanted and used, and support people and causes through charity instead of under duress?
Never played it, but from looking at the box of talking to the inventor it was just that The set of letters included regex operators and those The set of letters included regex operators and those you could put on the board as well. Meaning other people could use him as well To make words.
And identity politics and constantly reminding white people how bad they are, are of interest to this mythical 45 year old man (god forbid it be a woman)?

Sorry, the Dems (and I was one) have really lost their way. Anything that might force them to get their shit together is good, as far as I'm concerned.
Yes and no. My garbage company will only pick up anything that fits in our issued garbage bins. We can make an appointment for larger items, like an old couch, picked up for an extra fee. But in that case there isn't much difference except the Uber for garbage would be faster/easier to use. In addition as others have pointed out, businesses usually have to set up their own contracts.
I'd be amazed of it wasn't at least five-9s, Facebook has 2B users.
Looks like it'll use DNS-based verification, so it should work regardless of webserver/OS
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I think we have here an example of Poe's law.
I think most people would be surprised to learn what their city actually provides.

For example, my waste service will drop off a dumpster for your use for up to a week. They'll do that, for free, twice a year. I've never seen anyone else on my street use this service, but I have several times.

They'll also do electronic recycling (call and they'll tell you when they can pick it up) and the same for massive piles of lawn clippings. I also make use of the lawn clippings pick up yearly, when I'm doing major work on the yard.
Yearly contracts with a price set based upon an audit of the waste a business produces. Doesn't sound very "Uber" like.
While that is likely true, the ROI as much faster with a 15/hr min wage. Ensuring that more and more companies automate at a faster rate, when we as a society have done nothing to address the problem this creates.

We (society) are increasing the minimum wage with out figuring out what to do with all the unemployable people that do not have the education, experience, or in some cases the talent to command a wage that high. The belief is that companies will just "eat" the added costs because they are simply greedy today and can "afford" to pay more, these types of robots prove this will not be the result and what will be the result is massive unemployment
Missouri to prohibit cities from creating their own minimum wage
Is there someone I can email instead?

I currently don't have a LinkedIn account and haven't seen the need for one since it's not required for any other application I've submitted (and haven't had the need for it in the past). I would argue that in programming/development, having an updated Github account is significantly more useful than a LinkedIn account since a LinkedIn page is kind of just a souped up resume, from my understanding anyway.
It's losing some popularity now that companies like Arri are making better cameras, but that's been an industry leader for years... Any DP would be insulted by the accusation that RED is a "vanity brand."
Having developers spend more time "in-helmet" will help them make more compelling VR experiences. It's obvious from the state of experiences that most devs aren't spending all day in VR, the way someone might spend all day in League or WoW or EvE. Hopefully this will fix that.

I'm excited to get home and try this.
I guess at-home refuelling is a nice benefit of an electric car.
It was a fun read, and there is a clever thought there which I'll get to in a minute. But first ...

The author gets a lot wrong, it isn't uncommon because most software people see a "server" as a set of numbers "A" bytes of memory, "B" bytes of disk space, and "C" hertz of clock speed.

Computers aren't numbers of course, they are systems, and the systems are a collection of moving parts that are connected by linkages which constrain and amplify the various parts. In system design there is a concept of 'balance' which discusses how the linkages enable and constrain such that an understanding of the amount of "work" that can be done by the system is understood.

There is a great example in the article comparing a Raspberry Pi to a Sparcstation 10. Most of the software the author used "back in the day" is still around in one form or another, and a RasPi is cheap, so its easy to create modest recreation of the environment from that time and to build simulated users who can access the "server". Just two or three users and the Pi will "choke". Understanding how a system with so many "bigger" numbers is less capable of doing the same "work" as one with much smaller numbers is a useful exercise to run if you are into systems analysis. The system the Pi was designed to run, and the one for which it is fairly well balanced is a smartphone. Something the SPARC 10 would truly suck at.

The clever idea however is making networking resources just another resource like disks. Interestingly enough, with IPV6 that is much easier than it was before (to the point about how things were done before in networking, vs now). It is straight forward to create a model of network interfaces that is equivalent to serial lines. Have the kernel get set an IPV6 subnet with a block of 32K addresses and let your user program open /dev/net/<1> through <32766> because its IP each "net" device comes with its own set of port numbers etc. IPC is just networking and a cleverly coded kernel running on a machine with a 64 bit virtual address space would do direct data placement. No need to do even any page table mashing.
Yes, for the general problem you want dependent types (or similar).

There are middle grounds, of course: you can let the compiler figure out on its own what it can, and let it insert runtime checks for the other cases.

And add some way for the programmer to declare that eg "warn me if this can't be optimized" or "trust me, this is safe" or even "here's a proof for you".

But in any case, dependent types are possible---undecidability is not a hard barrier here.
Do you want to live next to the guy who either cannot or is unwilling to pay? Nobody else does either.
I work at acompany where we usually work as team for several customers. They all have problems that need to be solved. We have an intact team witch broad knowledge and specialized expertise with each team member.
Some times we work closely with other "natuve" workers, sometimes on our own.
For each project one at our side is responsible for project management and communication.
Doing this we are able to do multiple projects simultaniously as we work from remote and meet with skype or whatever. If needed we do onsite workshops.
Some customers disn't know that model and had been skeptic about it, but the most are happy because they are wery flexible, for example if the project will be paused for a short while.
Too many options! Give me 3 things to pick from, I'll debate for a while, go with one and after awhile feeling it's less than adequate, I'll start looking at the other two.

Give me many more options, as the internet does, it gets much worse.

If only we knew exactly what we wanted to study and there was one good option/path for it
For residential there's already companies like Junk King, 1-800=Got-Junk and the like. I moved twice in the last seven months and made use of a pickup service like this each time. Admittedly they might not be available in the moment but I had no problem with next day service.
Thank-you for your reply.

I was glad to see that somebody understood the point I was trying to make, and expanded upon it.
Time to kick your current waste management provider... TO THE CURB.
I guess because it's quite silly, grossly imprecise and click-bait-y.
It is not an issue that anyone but a highly capable adversary could exploit. As the post says, you have to assume that all internet traffic is being collected. Thus disclosure does not harm anyone and instead allows users to protect themselves.
This is what SRV records were (largely) created for. There have been a couple of attempts at making this a reality:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-andrews-http-srv-01
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jennings-http-srv-05

Unfortunately, HTTP is just too widespread of a protocol - you would end up having to listen for legacy clients on 80/443 forever, making it a nonstarter.
There was abuse of the "unlimited storage", by the data hoarder subreddit. This gives yopu an idea of how much they stretch the definition of "unlimited":https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/5s7q04/i_hit_a...
Filld customers pay the lowest price of the three gas stations closest to their location plus a small delivery fee.

For example, if the three gas stations closest to you charge $2.62, $2.55 and $2.67 per gallon, you will pay $2.55. We purchase this pricing data from the Oil Price Indexing Service (OPIS), and we update it regularly.

How do they make money? I wonder how high the delivery fee is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record

SRV solves this problem nicely, unfortunately SRV support for HTTP 2.0 was rejected.
I use pocket casts on mobile and soundcloud on the desktop. Soundcloud's better for discovery and it lets me listen without going through a subscription workflow.
What else would you expect from Microsoft?

Last, I don't know, four releases of Windows were comically bad. This is when you no longer swear but just laugh in amazement.

I would argue that from their last 6 releases (starting with Windows ME) they only had one success, that is, Windows XP, and even that one they had to rethink with SP2.

(Just bought my wife a Windows 10 laptop... Sigh...)
For a client of mine: couple of large DB instances + some smaller, several EC2, several TB in S3, Elasticsearch and elasticache + some misc bits. Was coming in around $2000/mo before we snagged some free credits. A good 50%+ was RDS costs though.
Where do I find GPUCC so that I can install it?
This work was already done in other "Unix" environments like Solaris and BSD (zones and jails)

My personal favorite is SmartOS (based on illumos) it runs zones on bare metal and even has support for running Linux containers (docker)! It does this by wrapping the Linux syscall APIs and translating them. Magic stuff!

Launch a Linux native container and run 'ps' and you will only see processes that you own!

reference: https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Home
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I'm surprised there was no mention of Stelarc's Third Hand project from the 80's/90's: http://stelarc.org/?catID=20265
Never work for a Christian (or Muslim etc) company?
I'm not familiar with these works. Reading...

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Okay, I don't really understand what they're doing, so, my guess is that they have a component that predicts future states of the game, and they use something inspired by fractals to determine which future states to sample. Then, they're either using the score as the metric for the "value" of that future state (in which case it's not CEF), or they're ignoring the score and measuring something corresponding to entropy (or future-possibilies-remaining since it's pacman), and then they are using CEF.

It's like Data playing that weird chess game; the CEF aspect doesn't help you play any better, but it gives you a different win condition that turns out to "win" better than directly trying to win.

If, that is, my bad understanding is in any way accurate.
This makes me wonder, do they have data on how many users are saving onedrive files on FAT? Is that info they could pull? I don't see why not...
> having a major engineering challenge due to the existing gravity?

Rotating a habitat is a hard problem in space or on a planet. But, Mars's is gravity would make the problem easier not harder. The atmosphere might be a problem, scale might be a problem etc etc, but gravity is not. Further, there may be little need for 24/7 1g, perhaps a tiny room to work out in is enough, perhaps you should sleep in 1g or perhaps 1/3 is enough for sleep etc.

But, again gravity is not the problem. And yes such a massive fundamental failure in understanding is a clear sign of incompetence.
WebTorrent: Bringing BitTorrent to the Web (Demuxed Ep. #5)
Fair point. Counterpoint: in the sense that it is dis-ease (the absence of feeling well and easy going) it may still be a sufficient reason to take a day off work.
Airbrushed? Tons of it in use there. And in the '80s in general.
We switched several projects to Lightsail and saved a ton of money immediately, so i don't have old figures, but it's roughly around $600/mo today. A couple of other projects we have on hosted services could be moved to AWS that would probably add about $400 on to our bill. Lightsail has saved us a ridiculous amount of money, honestly, at the cost of having to do slightly more complex sysops.

The biggest thing that would eat up cost if we put it on AWS would be our ELK stack. We have on-metal infrastructure with tons of spare capacity that would probably run us about $2.5k/mo on AWS and just under double that on Elastic (but then we'd get X-Pack for free).

Yeah. Logging and monitoring are totally the most expensive part of our infrastructure.
> Remixing is not covered by fair use :/

Well, that's good to know and also super shitty. I guess like many other services, once they got the attention of the recording industry it was only a matter of time until they were forced into a licensing agreement.
ic - I thought it was just the usual image-downsample-and-upload thing you see everywhere.

even so, if the service is hosting your images in multiple resolutions you could do it all client side at upload time. they'd be trading bandwidth for cpu time.
Well, yeh... I would normally like this kind of correction, but I don't get annoyed by them - otherwise I'd be annoyed after everything I read :)
I have a CS education, but have no real experience. So now, as a biomedical researcher, trying to rapidly prototype for medical devices and developing software is extremely daunting. I don't think these prideful people understand just how far a formal background can go to speed up the process when things get more complex.
This can't be. OneDrive loves me!

I know because it keeps starting up whenever I transfer files from a Centos Samba share despite every restraining order I've tried to issue.

Of course only the Group Policy editor can stop it and that did't come with the forced Windows 10 Home edition update shoved up my hard drive.

So now, in a complete turning of the tables, I'll have to wait for it to start up and then it will tell me to go f*ck myself.
Well, ports are just files and have a owner, group and permissions. As simple as that.
How did TCP/IP win?
West Wing wasn't propaganda, it was a liberal circlejerk, Aaron Sorkin's fantasy that for its first five seasons was an excellent show.

It's politics romanticized by people who aren't politicians.
>how to categorize teams and/or individuals

+ web design team name

| team member name | Role |

--

team member 1 - developer

team member 2 - creative director

team member 3 - designer

team member 4 - designer

team member 5 - production artist
I've been in that same situation.

I've made friends from co-working spaces and surprisingly a few friends from going to a few off the beaten track meetup(.com)'s

Best advice is to just put yourself out there and remind yourself that good friendships take a while.
It's illegal to dump trash in someone else's dumpster without permission, for one.
They're not paying the gas station price. They're likely paying bulk prices then just using the local prices as your price.

Edit: $3 for delivery generally and they're using F250 trucks. Call it 1.5t in the bed or about 400 gallons plus tank. They probably have a contract with the local bulk terminal so if you're paying 2.55, they might be paying 30% (no idea what this margin is) less or so. @400 us-gal if they make 30% on the gas plus $3 per 15gal tank, revenue would be in the $380/load range for an average of 26 tanks of gas per load.

Edit2: regarding the loss leader strategy, they still have to truck the gas to the station which adds overhead. By going direct to customer (again, assuming they're loading at the bulk terminal) they remove a couple middlemen who's position they then take.
Sure, but if this is "uber for garbage", then wouldn't the equivalent to existing services be yellow taxi?
Yeah, but that's the thing: these days, tons of sites that do nothing but display some info are horrifically bloated and slow to load, and full of Javascript, just to show a little bit of text.
Thanks for updating your post.

> History is about people making decisions. It wouldn't make sense to write about the history of nations without naming any names, and I think it wouldn't make sense here, either.

Historians usually do quite a bit more research, including talking to participants. Much more context would be required before zeroing in on one person and saying it's his fault. Was there discussion beforehand? Why has no one changed it thus far? All you did was post to a noisy mailing list from which you expected no reply, then assumed that it was solely the committer's decision.

> I don't (and wouldn't) call Hamano any names, call doubt on his character, or even question his intelligence or competence.

But that's done implicitly when you tie his reputation up so thoroughly with choices that you wrote an entire essay disparaging. The damage is magnified when he's not given a real opportunity to explain himself. Although you stated in another comment you've now emailed him directly, which is a good call.
I imagine JSON serialisation overhead is pretty small when compared to parsing/typechecking a Rust program, which is probably what the Rust Language Server has to do whenever anything changes..

Not to mention that a lot of people capable of writing the tooling would struggle to export a C API. I write Scala in my day job and it would take me a while to learn how to do that - and I've done some programming in C/C++ before.