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You're very arogant in your stance so no amount of chipping away at your ego will help. I get that single-platform developers (those not targeting N platforms with one codebase) don't get the idea of cross-platform DX and what design and tech choices make it sustainable in the long run.
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Isn't that kind of the point of hiring an expert?

If you knew the provenance of an item, what it was worth, and how it was obtained, why waste money on hiring an expert?
You have a solid start of an idea. You just need to flesh out the rest of the canvas: https://www.creatlr.com/template/UOLHsfqGrLzugzVVttoi1e/busi...
Don't be silly. Only poor, dark-skinned people get convicted of inadvertently supporting terrorism. Good White Christians make honest mistakes.
I built http://start9.io three years ago - the idea was to somehow manage to show video game publishers that a 'professional' vintage gaming platform was something that could attract users. I wanted it to be the Netflix of the retrogaming.

Unfortunately, I never managed to find cofounders that were as much motivated as I was - each one I worked with was working on it as a hobby more than anything else, and I usually had to tell them what to do, which was exhausting considering I was the only developer to develop such a big beast. Adding marketing on top of that was just too much. We still applied to Y Combinator with the last cofounder I worked with, but he wasn't really ready to move to another continent for the project and quickly started looking for excuses to drop it. He got one when we ended up not being selected :) We're still friends, but I learned that it's hard finding people to build things.

I'm still extremely proud of this project, tho. Both technically and humanly, I learnt so many things! And the project is still running without needing much maintenance, so I guess it's still a success in some way. Plus, it helped me to find jobs, since people are usually a bit impressed when you can explain to them in interview how gameboys work under the hood ... :)
Being in the Startup Trough of Sorrow
This device works on the CAN bus, where you can actually issue commands, not just listen. So this is a bad idea in that sense.
But I think that if you see a complex equation, you should be able to roughly imagine it in your head. Working only with symbols won't get you there.

You're wrong. To take a real example, visualize G_{\mu \nu }+\Lambda g_{\mu \nu }={8\pi G \over c^{4}}T_{\mu \nu }. I dare you. That's Einstein's field equations for General Relativity. I don't visualize a system of 2nd order partial differential equations involving many dimensions at each point in a 4-dimensional coordinate system. Do you?

Furthermore people differ on how visual they are. If you're someone who has to visualize things to understand them, you're hardly alone. Lots of people are like that. But then again there are people like me whose thinking is almost entirely non-visual. If I'm dealing with something abstract, not only do I not think visually, but a purely visual explanation doesn't really help me much.
This is false, mail and chat apps work fine with multiple hybrid app frameworks. I've created plenty of hybrid apps that have 100s of items in lists, this is what ListViews are designed for. There's no limitation inherent to hybrid apps that prevents holding 1000s of objects in memory. This also works fine on mobile web if it's designed right.

If the mobile client can't handle 100,000 messages (probably more an issue of bandwidth or latency than local memory), then page them from the server. That's where serverside becomes relevant, at huge scale.

I'm not sure you understand how architecture of a mail or chat app would work.
> Is this true? My impression is that many of the problems in regards to young people having trouble in the labor market have to do with the fact that for the most part they are more free than their parents to pursue their interests rather than "survival".

I live in one of the world's richer countries (The Netherlands) and anecdotally I'd say it's both true and not true.

It's true in the sense that most people I know in the 20-35 range, usually non-STEM university bachelor's and sometimes master's, struggle to get by.

They live in shared flats (kamers, WG's), often spend a sizable chunk of their time doing menial jobs to survive, and I'd say many of them manage on a student-level income (which I'd say is quite a bit below median income, possibly poverty-level). There's often quite a bit of depression or general malaise about this situation, as they'd prefer to work full-time, make a little more money, have a little more stability and have some sense of progress (whether in the sense of meaning or promotion), and in some cases would like to have children but feel they are not stable enough to start a family. I'd say this is significantly worse than at least the past generation (or two?).

On the other hand, some of this seems to be by choice: they'd rather 'organically' operate in survival mode over just taking a job that, after a year or so of menial and pointless busywork, possibly but not certainly provides a promotion to something more meaningful. They go for a 10 euro Spotify and a 10 euro Netflix account, and a shared flat in the city, over a more financially prudent non-city, non-mass-and-convenient-entertainment situation in part by choice: how would they really know if this makes them happier than, say, a more rural alternative?

Some of the latter could just be a case of 'making the best of a shitty deal', but I get the impression that, at least for this generation, it's to a significant degree ideological.

Ultimately all that only makes the whole situation seem worse to me, on balance.

Things are generally shitty for young people, even if you account for 'shifts in thinking' (that confuse the older generations), but somehow there's little collective action to make things better. If you want to change things, the 'accepted' avenues are self-employment or starting/joining a startup, completely disregarding civil society or political activism, and, to a degree, the idea of doing something collectively rather than following only the exact and singular configuration of your particular self.
Yes if you buy a $1 million diamond at a yard sale for $5 you may go to jail for being the dumbest person on earth.
Well it's not quite the same with AWS if you start making use of any of their facilities past straight EC2 instances.

AWS provides a number of SAAS offerings which, if you make use of them, tie you to Amazon specifically, as opposed to an IAAS offering which is likely to be more easily portable to another provider.
Feedback: bad name, but VERY bad homepage. Nobody wants to ready paragraphs to understand what a product does. SHOW US the product.

The basic pitch you described here sounds good, but compare your homepage with others in a related space: https://youcanbook.me/ or calendly.com/ or https://clarity.fm/
I did mention in my post that the separate lexing step is not strictly necessary. I was just pointing out that a lexer follows the definition of "quintessential" more than parser does.

That paper is very recent. It sounds like it is still doing both steps just concurrently and with feedback. It isn't skipping the lexing step altogether. The benefit of separation is decreased code complexity and easier debugging.
I built http://greetingbin.com as a platform for uploading images of greeting cards along with some metadata to the cloud. Then you could throw the card out and still have a digital copy of it. Needless to say, I have no users. Granted, I didn't do any marketing, but I realized that in actuality I never used the product myself, so why would anyone else use it?
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I'm with my sibling commenter impendia (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14719497), and am also a math professor.

My way of saying it is that it's great if you get help from any source you can, but it's way too easy to get something that seems helpful (because it makes short-term goals easier to achieve) while being damaging in the long run. It's fantastic if you had the personal discipline to use a solution manual to deepen your understanding, but there are lots of students who will use the solution manual as a copybook—the material in it going, as the saying goes, from page to pen without passing through brain on the way. Since I, as a teacher, don't have a ready way at the beginning of the semester to distinguish the students with your discipline from those without, I'm just going to discourage everyone from using solution manuals—but, as long as your homework solutions aren't copied from it, I don't care much if you go against that advice.
Aw, man, not a day goes by that someone doesn't recommend or discuss the elisp intro in #emacs. It's sad to hear that we lost the original author.

RIP Bob. I only knew you through your writing and your contributions to software freedom.
Are you asking because you have a large number of hosts and can't check them all manually? (Edit: Because the obvious answer is to use your browser or a tool such as SSL Labs or Hardenize to see who issued the certificate.) Out of curiosity, how many hosts are you looking after?
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Comma.ai's autonomous driving software implements the main control loop in Python. It's full of memory allocations. The project is far from serious engineering.
Oh, Adam Curtis is great. Bitter Lake and Hypernormalization are also well worth a watch. Didn't see this but I look forward to it!
My (not GP) issue with him comes from all his whining over the NHTSA stuff. You can't talk about how easy the problem is and how much better you are, and then fold when safety regulators show up. That to me says that he may be incredible at building things, but doesn't know how to take it the last mile. Sure, you can argue against the regulation, but I for one think that self driving cars should have strict safety regulation. And from what I read they weren't asking anything crazy of him that they wouldn't of anyone else.
Why not do an ICO?
And why not eliminate it, if it's bad? That way we can pay people to dig with spoons instead of expensive backhoes.

Seriously, though, to answer the question: there's a point where a raise in the minimum wage will stop being helpful, and everyone who supports the minimum wage understands this.
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> "I think that if you see a complex equation, you should be able to roughly imagine it in your head."

This breaks down in many cases. What if your equation involves complex numbers for each component? What if it's an eight dimensional space or perhaps a multi-hundred dimensional space for recommender system?

At some point, you have to be comfortable with more abstract representations.
3 years back I wanted to do something similar with a different approach. Instead of sending opengl commands, I chose to encode the Qt ui into video streams (also with a platform plugin, so no code change from the Qt developer side) and use either webrtc or mediasource api. I prototyped this, but I was unsure about the business value of it.

At the time, what I wanted to do is an app store that is across browsers and platforms.
There are alternatives, certainly. And lisp style languages are especially easy to parse without a lexer. I was just taking issue to the term "quintessential" being used. In a classical sense, the lexer comes first.
Agreed. The tactics they've sunk to in order to try grab attention are borderline signs over general descent toward turning into a pile of mess that something will soon replace.
The nice thing about Torque and an OBD-II dongle is the fact that it can help you diagnose those "random" issues that only happen occasionally.

You set up Torque into logging mode, clear your codes, turn on the GPS and mapping, and drive away. When your car does "that thing" take a note of the time, then when you get home, go back thru the logs around that time mark, and take a look at all the sensor data, plus any thrown codes. If you know your car, and understand what is going on, it can help you to narrow down the diagnosis.

While a regular code reader (or getting the codes read) will help you by giving you the codes, being able to get the codes, timestamped in a log along with sensor data can go much farther in telling you where a particular problem lies.

While there are other code readers out there that will do this logging and tracking too, they typically cost hundreds or thousands of dollars - well out of the price range of most home mechanics.

There are many other things that Torque can do or be used for (for instance, virtual gauges are a nice feature - you can set up an Android tablet with a cluster of them giving you much more feedback than you can get from your regular dash instrument cluster, and it's cheaper and easier than setting up a bunch of physical gauges on a stock vehicle).
However, it's still Real Stupid.
This is blatant bait-and-switch hidden marketing for Snapchat, correct? Wouldn't expect them to stoop to this level.
I've been locked out of my AWS account for almost 3 years now. I have 2FA enabled, tied to a phone number I no longer have access to.

I receive two emails per month. One invoice, for $0.80 (I cannot remember what is running on there, but I guess it must be something). One threatening, "Your AWS Account is about to be suspended". I've been "about to be suspended" for the entire 3 years.

I want to pay the bill, I can't log in.

I emailed, I phoned. Eventually I spoke to somebody, who told me the only way I could access my account was to fill in "some paperwork"[1]. They emailed that to me. It has to be notarized. I called again, they absolutely will not accept this if it is not notarized.

I've explained to them that all I want to do is pay the ~$30 in bills I've accrued for 3 years. I don't mind if I never get access to the account - let me pay the bill and shut the account down, they won't have it. I don't have any free notary access, and I'm not willing to pay more than the AWS bill amount just to be able to pay the bill. I've explained that to them, and they don't seem to care about that either, they'd rather not have the bill payed and continue piling it up.

[1] https://s3.amazonaws.com/AWSCS_CustomerForms/IdentityVerific...
The real winner in the race to mandate OBD-II monitoring is the auto insurance industry.

Sure, you could install Hotz's dongle, give Hotz your data, earn "comma points", feel like you are helping to train self driving cars, and trade these comma points for - what exactly? a comma plushie? - while Hotz turns around and sells your data to insurance companies.

Or you could get a free OBD dongle directly from your current insurance company [1] and watch your rates go up/down depending on how safe of a driver you are.

Ultimately, Comma.ai needs to find an automotive partner. It will be nearly impossible for the company to beat Google, Uber, and (presumably) Apple, who all have strong partnerships with auto OEMs, in quality or quantity of driving data without direct integration and extensive testing on vehicles designed for autonomous driving. Not to mention Tesla, which is an OEM itself, and can design in data collection/processing for self driving vehicles from the ground up.

[1] https://jalopnik.com/progressive-insurances-driver-tracking-...
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His storytelling method usually creates an idea of us vs them and its very black and white on who is causing the problem and the people being exploited. For example the combination of disciples of Ayn Rand and 60s counterculture group seems painted too broad of a brush. I think the group was bigger than those two groups and there were many more shades of grey instead of black and white.
Alexa isn't really a chat bot. You issue commands to her. She does an amazing job at it. Seriously, the voice recognition is truly great. But you are still issuing a command.

You've just learned the language she speaks.
This looks like the dongle Automatic [1] sells. That's just a data logger; it doesn't do anything except record.

[1] https://www.automatic.com/
> These PostgreSQL features are relatively recent. The jsonb column type dates back to 9.4, which was released in Dec 2014, less than three years ago. MongoDB had been around for well over five years by that point.

It's much much harder to design a reliable engine than a new datatype.

> There are few applications that need distributed scalability beyond what PostgreSQL can provide, but I'd argue that it's not uncommon to have problems with Oracle scalability, if you don't have deep pockets for licensing.

Yes they are, but chances are you don't have that need. You're not Google or Facebook.

You also picked up a really bad database to talk about scalability[1]

[1] https://www.datastax.com/wp-content/themes/datastax-2014-08/...
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Nope. Those still work the way OP described, if my recent experience is anything to go by. Not sure if @jeff reads all the emails... but he may have assitants that do and send those out, and track them?

The managers in the escalation chain might tend to panic when the "?" comes about like the OP claims going by the # of emails and phone-calls I recieved from them.
I built an ad arbitrage site around shitty 50 slide slideshows. Drove traffic with Facebook paid and monitized with AdSense. Cleared $2k the first week and then basically got crushed by Google smart pricing.
Error: Yes, it should be 310^80. I think my brain was half-writing the dimension and half-writing the more useful view of (R^3)^10^80. Thanks for catching that.

As for your analogy, I don't quite follow. The actual physical model is that of the oscillators, more or less. The wave is the mathematical abstraction that does allow us to replace it with a function. In terms of information, the wave has more detail, but it is abstracted into a nice form. I think we agree on this.

But the quantum wave function is serving a different role. The water wave is something that varies over the 2d space. As we look at different values, we change the x and y coordinates to see the new values. In that sense, it is 2d.

For the quantum wave function, if we keep all but one of the 10^80 particles in the same exact position, but we vary the position of that one particle, we do get different values of the wave function and it does matter to all the particles as it will affect the gradient vector defining the velocity vector of each of the particles. The change is not localized to just the one particle that is changing, but impacts all particles.

Of course, most of the time, practically speaking, changes by one particle will not make a difference, but situations such as present in Bell's Theorem and quantum computing are exceptions to this.

Fundamentally, the current state of all the particles is needed to be known in order to know what part of the wave function is needed. That is the sense in which the dimension is not 3, but 310^80.
Whilst this is more about AWS accounts, the ability of Amazon (and other cloud providers) to lock you out of an account with very limited recourse does present some other problems.

I've got quite a few ebooks I've bought via Amazon Kindle. If amazon one day decided to delete/lock my account, I would lose access to all that content which I had "bought".

The more data people store in various cloud providers systems, the more the need for some kind of recovery mechanism / dispute resolution process becomes apparent.

Whilst its relatively easy, in many cases, for more technical users to ensure they have backups of data that they control, less technical users could have a lot of their information tied up in these systems, and loss of it could be quite bad for them.
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Qt is commonly used for control UIs (also in industrial devices not running on a standard control system), so this would make remote control far easier to develop and deploy [1]. Essentially, yes, "per-app RDP".

[1] It removes the need to develop a remote API/RPC interface, the need to make the app so modular that you can detach its UI completely, the need to built, test and distribute desktop releases etc.. It is also easier for the customers, "set password on device, put IP address in browser, done", and likely requires less support. It probably also works much better for use on tablets (which is becoming very common in many industries, well, at least where the work environments aren't too dirty); industrial control UIs have used touch input for a long time, and tend to use screens with sizes comparable to a tablet.
>> What if the site is genuinely useful, though?

I'm perfectly fine with that. Serious Eats uses affiliate links (and also has other advertising on their site). I have a ton of respect for the work it takes to do what they do.

What I'm not okay with is someone building tons of Wordpress sites and filling them with stock photos of food and recipes they found online, and linking to Amazon.
I'd never have guess there were actual effecting commands.. hmm
> They chose to represent all offset in terms of UTF-16

Wow, yeah, that's pretty terrible.
Standing on the shoulders of giants :)

gg and pinhole made this easy to write. The globe package really just deals with mapping (lat, lng) space to cartestian coordinates (and also includes some land/country datasets).
> Math and programming are a bit different though - to my knowledge in math you're not dealing with malicious users trying to give you incorrect input in hopes of exploiting bugs in your algorithm.

But in fact you are! Actually it's even worse; in programming, you are just up against the ingenuity of actual human (or at least humanly programmed) users, whereas, in mathematics, you are up against the whole of 'reality' (in a Platonic sense). A whole tower of consequences will be built upon one mathematician's work, and, even if no human can spot the flaw in that work, if it is there then 'reality' will find it, and somewhere in the chain of consequences there will be an error that will bring the whole thing crashing down.
He managed to do 20% and spins it as 70% claiming he'll be at 100% before everybody else.

It worked for Cruise. Got them a billion dollars and a seat on GM's board.
I know. I'm wondering if I'm white and rich enough to avoid consequences for having "giving money to terrorist organizations" in my browser history.