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nulagrithom, I sent your feedback to the product team that owns that documentation. Their response is below. Could you please let me know more details about the issue you are running into?

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> Put out comprehensive documentation _on the indexable Internet_ and not in PDFs

But IBM does do exactly this--and more than a lot of companies!

For example, IBM Knowledge Center [1] houses the documentation for over 3000 IBM products and services, and offers up more than 13M english pages--without a sign-in even, and we translate our official content into over 30 languages.

IBM KC is very well indexed by Google, too (we take pains to make that happen).

We also offer custom search and links to more freely available IBM documentation. Our Cloud development docs--Bluemix docs, are also quite public, though some, it's true, are behind a cloud product sign-in.

Redbooks, too, are available in HTML, not just PDF. They can be found on the web and are indexed by Google too, as are articles from developerWorks and Technotes from Support.

So I really don't understand the complaint about our documentation. Almost none of it is behind a sign-in, let alone a for pay firewall, and almost all of it is freely available to anyone, not just our customers.

Hope this helps!

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[1] ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter
Calling them "indistinguishable" is the kind of "welp!" hyperbole that excuses — no, encourages — the slide you bemoan.

If that's what HN is, congratulations: You just helped make it that way a little bit more.
Depending on the state, the truck owner's insurance is going to be paying. It falls under the same laws for construction vehicles hauling dirt that drop a rock on your windshield.
Have used Linode for ~7 years and I cannot imagine another provider.

Their range of offerings is unparalleled and their support is phenomenal. Yes there have been a few glitches in the road but I've never seen the same experience elsewhere.
Huge fans of Veeva! We feature them in another post:

https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/15/overdosing-on-vc-lessons-f...

I tried to keep the focus on companies that went for long stretches before they raised capital, but Veeva raised so little they probably merit inclusion.
>I've always thought it was funny how people are perfectly fine saying height is genetic but saying intelligence is genetic is unthinkable.

Or behavior, and then purchase a specific dog because of that breed's selected behavioral characteristics.
> It's hard to be sympathetic to Mr. Dimon.

Do you mind rephrasing your thoughts? Maybe I'm misunderstanding something.

Yes, banks got bailouts. I didn't like them at the time and I don't like them in retrospect.

But it's not necessarily true that all the regulations are fine because banks had bailouts.

And I'm not willing to grant that regulations are fine just because banks and bankers are one-percenters and unsympathetic.
Favorite line "... the software development process is exploratory by nature."

I always say the customer/client does not have requirements, they have problems. You will not discover all the requirements until you start solving some of the problems and providing solutions. Only then will they say "oh but...." and drop more requirements on you that they didn't think of up front.

Back to that quote. It's not that software development is exploratory in itself. It's that the development is intertwined with an exploration of the problem being solved.
We use Clojure and ClojureScript heavily at Peerspace. Best tool for the job for scaling without adding too much complexity.
Now it is wrapped in "SmartCloud" instead. I am not sure if that is an improvement.
Not generally, no, although I am reminded of a style of melted-cheese-coated sandwiches called "melts".
Zoho Corporation, founded in 1996 with over 4500 employees - completely bootstrapped and profitable :)

(disclaimer: I work for Zoho)
Ordinarily technical companies are well-differentiated which means they are not commodities that you can interchange precisely - unlike rice or wheat. So while it is not sensible to state "(biggest wheat importer) can't decide how much wheat should cost" since their options are probably within a very narrow limit where asking for just 15% more would cause their sales to drop to 0 and asking for 15% less would let them capture 50%+ of the market - but at a loss for them - the same is rarely true in the technical industry, which has high margins and high differentiation.

So for these reasons, Facebook's pricing choices are complicated and the free market does not clearly prescribe their pricing strategy in the way you suggest.
Exactly. It's a highly competitive world & it's hard to imagine how long we can continue with "1970s" style government: a decade to approve new bridges, out of control public unions, confiscatory tax rates, NYC subway costs $2B per mile, F-35 now $406B, and so forth. It feels as though the gears, laden with barnacles, are grinding, grinding, grinding to an eventual halt.

At one point in this exchange the reporter says:

"So are you expressing frustration with President Trump?"

Jamie replies:

"No, I am expressing frustration with you!"
At the behest of the banks, who were looking to repackage product.
Clause in free WiFi contract obliges thousands to clean music festival toilets
But circumstantial evidence is to show cause or motive in these cases. Correlation niether proves cause or motive. It is my understanding that, in the case of a person vs corporation, correlation is all that is needed. This is not proof.
You know the fun thing about computers and digitization? You can write software to export its data in a way that can be reprinted onto physical paper. I'm not sure if libraries do that, and I'm sure they wouldn't reprint each and every line on separate cards and store them in massive tombs still, but in theory they could have a hardcopy in a few massive binders somewhere. Of course it'll be out of date the instant it's printed, but that's true of old card catalogs too.
a bird in hand is worth two in the bush
> deplorable actions humans do.

So when do we rename 'kill'?
Walmart’s innovation center launches global VR competition
This will go perfect with my own chrestomathy!
Who is MOC? Who is Dan Gackle? What I'm reading here is you are angry but there isn't a back story. You created a new account just for venting so while accusing others by name you want to stay anonymous.
No one's going to "just pay" any amount of taxes, they have to be forced. No matter what else you think about taxes, that's how they work. Paying taxes is always painful; not paying is made to be more painful, at least for some of us.
Since the tapes were damaged by "moderate to severe mould," it likely would have taken a non insignificant amount of work to convert them to digital format. NASA doesn't want to waste it's engineers' time - this seems more like work for a historical society or organization
Huh! That's a really fascinating library. My gut instinct is still that it would be a heavy lift, though. Without the Canvas API in the middle you'd need to reimplement pixel by pixel drawing of different shape/curves (PngPong literally only draws squares and copies sections of other images) anti-aliasing, etc. etc.

It would be a fascinating thing to work on, but the OffscreenCanvas API is coming to Chrome[1], so I suspect it would end up being a lot of work that would be obselete after not all that much time.

[1] https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5424182347169792
I switched to fedora for similar reasons, still has version upgrades but more frequent and dnf in practice makes it pretty painless.
>> What concentration camps reveal is that modern people are squeamish about killing.

Well, there's a difference between exterminating a foreign and/or conquered city-state, and isolating/quarantining undesirable sub-groups from within a larger civilization (often for reasons that are more ideological than political). What the Mongols, Romans, Assyrians, etc., did was less like isolating an ethnic sub-group and more like inflicting punishment upon a city-state for not paying tribute. (Also, I think the Assyrians would also export the population of a city-state and resettle them elsewhere, to remove their national identity, just as often as they would kill and/or skin-alive everyone in a targeted city-state.)

It's probably worth noting that what happened recently to the Yazidis in North Iraq was closer to what used to happen in antiquity.
Ask HN: Wide Spread shadowbans on Twitter effect you?
Among the few people I interact with regularly twitter has shadow banned nearly all. I use a small private account so my interaction with the _outside world_ is fairly limited. Yet this seems to be trend.

I was also hit with a password reset.

Anyone else notice this?
Data analytics from Prime day 2017, Product Ideas compiled
If you all did split and there was a dispute between you too, the government (courts) are still how things would get settled, no? Marriage I believe is just a form of contract. I believe you can write you own binding legal marriage contract that can specify whatever you would like. As a nonreligious married person, that's what I consider marriage to be. A legal framework for deciding these things. Not having one just means things won't be well defined, but the adjudication process is still similar it seems to me.
Not my circus and not my monkeys, but how long did you work for IBM?

Your blog post is short on actual dates (a time frame)

Best of luck
Up looks interesting but it supports only AWS while this is multicloud
Speaking of which... if you speak portuguese you might want to try "Funções ZZ" (funcoeszz.net).

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I don't think the original post claimed that "regulations are fine because the banks had bailouts." On the contrary, they were pointing out that banks complaining about regulations was clearly self-serving and we probably should keep that in mind.

I do think that if we would like to avoid bailing more banks out in the future, some changes need to be made in the way that banks conduct business. To my mind, regulation seems the most straightforward path to this goal.
It's always hilarious to listen to a Harvard billionaire banker tell us what he thinks would be good for "average Americans". Let me go find some cake to eat.
Shouldn't the pattern be:

1. Contact service you want result from

2. If 1 fails, THEN contact Google

3. if 2 fails, internet is down, otherwise, service is down
There's an entire subdivision in Sterling Heights with several Tolkienesque road names.

https://www.crossing.us/intersections/lorien/elrond
I wasn't arguing the opposite -- that people have some kind of duty to have kids. I was simply pointing out that there exists a complete void in secular philosophy and culture when it comes to this aspect of human existence.

Many people turn to religion when they have kids for this reason. There's just nobody else in society and culture that acknowledges the importance of this aspect of human existence or provides any social framework for it.

Another hypothesis I have is that there exists some kind of deep cognitive link between the emotional basis of religion and the emotional basis of parenting and fertility. "God the father," etc. When I hear God spoken of it is generally as a kind of idealized parent. Most religions seem to have a strong fertility cult aspect.

Secular philosophy refuses to touch this. Maybe this comes from its general phobia of anything emotional, aesthetic, or "spooky." Secular philosophy has a similar reluctance to touch things like "consciousness," which gives us the bizarre spectacle of conscious beings experiencing themselves proclaiming that consciousness does not exist.

Of course religion has its own denialisms and refuses to look at certain things. When we decide that we believe in a philosophical framework, generally we start discarding anything that doesn't fit neatly into it. This IMHO humanity's greatest cognitive weakness. Finding a way to short circuit this would be a path to super-intelligence.
IMHO, quote the authentic language and a translation is the best you can do.

FWIW, I actually less trust a translated version from main stream media outlets, which 1) unlikely to report this type of narrative; 2) highly likely to cut out of context and interpret creatively.
> The veterinarians I've seen are booked from dawn to dusk, so "too many clients" is their issue. Why advertise when you are already booked solid.

Websites aren't just advertising, though. They can also reduce support costs by providing info effectively. If people can reliably get lots of relevant info from your website (hours, directions, prices, policies) that should reduce the workload on the secretary/admin. People who can't easily find what they need online have to call and talk to someone about it, which means your phones are busy, which makes it harder to deal effectively with incoming customers.

(that said, I suppose it's conceivable yelp/google maps/whatever is already adequately providing the low-hanging fruit)
The future is coming.
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
I can't believe there's still not an equivalent in the Bay Area
Maybe it was supposed to be "melded with"? It's apparently hard to remove.
>Men do a lot more than just make babies, so why then would their productivity disappear if they cant make babies anymore.

Because if you're not passing on your genes, who cares. One of the best historical indicators of more violence or unrest in a society is a gender imbalance. Idle males who don't/can't find a partner end up acting out. If you're talking about men higher up the IQ or socioeconomic ladder, then sure they might find happiness or value in life outside of marriage/child-rearing. We encourage people to put off children at our own risk.

Edit: This is the paper [1]. The finding: "Gender is a well-established individual-level correlate of crime, and especially violent crime (50). It is a consistent finding across cultures that an overwhelming percentage of violent crime is perpetrated by young, unmarried, low-status males (50–52)."

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1569153/
Hmm, I've just scanned through this, but it seems this gets the concept of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) completely wrong.

The nice part of SGD is that you can backpropagate even functions that are not differentiable.

This is totally missed here.
Agreed. I learned a lot there.
Thanks for the references. It looks like "gradual typing" is about trying to retrofit types to dynamic languages. That is certainly harder than
starting with a statically-typed system and adding dynamic types (my preference). The latter clearly works, as evidenced by e.g. C# and Dart 2.

> With this restriction, you cannot assign an accurate static type to a function with a dynamically typed implementation, which means that you can't use dynamically typed libraries from inside statically typed code.

It depends what you mean by an accurate type. A accurate type for adapting your example would be to expose Variant -> Variant as Int -> Maybe Int, thus capturing the partiality. I concede that Int -> Maybe Int cannot be used in a function that expects Int -> Int, but that is how it should be! An untyped language cannot provide me with a function of Int -> Int.
Can you provide your reasoning? I assume that the subscriptions continue to fund software developers working on the product.
The idea in itself is not "new", pneumatic formwork (to cast concrete) has been largely used in the past, to build (mainly) waterpipes/aqueducts, but also for civil buildings, As an example this company was established in 1956:
http://www.socapsrl.com/about/

And - igloo like - reinforced concrete "thin" structures for domes were largely used since the '60's:

https://www.architectural-review.com/rethink/viewpoints/skil...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binishell

And of course building "arch" tunnels in snow is common enough, and used - as an example - to build (each year) "ice hotels":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_hotel

It is the mix of the two that might be interesting because of the reduced amount of materials that can be tranported in remote north (or south).
That seems like a good hybrid model
I was so focused on the aspect of misogyny that I didn't realize how ableist this term is.
Net neutrality is a scam. Stop pushing this liberal agenda. Because the internet in the 90s and 00s was such a failure without net neutrality. Watch the YT video of the FCC chairman explaining the truth behind net neutrality. Just look at reddit for an example. A bunch of bot subs pushing net neutrality while they actively censor, shadow ban, and allow brigading to subs they don't agree with. Net neutrality for me but not for thee
Apparantly FCC had to throttle their commenting system.

> IMPORTANT NOTE: these numbers STILL represent only a portion of the final totals, and due to the massive numbers, comments and emails will be delivered over several days.

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2017-07-13-update-his...
Why did you choose Swarm/Ethereum as opposed to IPFS?
Great little summary. It's a shame the author didn't get to / have space for the discussion of refugee camps, which are structurally little different from the german internal camps of the eRly 1930s or the DP camps at the end of WWII.

The nature of the Nazi/Soviet/cpc/nk camps provides "air cover" for the widespread and more pervasive networks of camps still in use around the world.
The case of Adobe is interesting. I think the move to a subscription model has been a hostile move for customers. The second you stop paying for the software, you lose the ability to open your old files.

This has allowed smaller software applications such as Sketch, The Affinity Suite and Capture One to grab marketshare. I think Sketch’s current business model is perfect. Customers pay for a year of updates. If a customer decides not to upgrade, they stay at the same version as when their license expires.

I’m certain Adobe has made a good amount of money in the short term, but they've forfeited a monopoly. I’m more skeptical about their long-term business.

EDIT: Updated for clarity.
>Even a linear extrapolation lands in 3 million units

That's the thing. You really can't even extrapolate these sales in a linear fashion. There was a massive pent up demand for these devices, and the market is reaching saturation very quickly.

I wont argue that perhaps 3 million units of the major 3 headsets have been manufactured and sold to various outlets already. But what matters for developers is the install base of actual users. The latest numbers for SteamVR show an install base of ~220,000 users [0]. The biggest breakout hit game of 2016, Raw Data, has a current ownership number of ~90,000 users, with an average total play time of 2 hours. [1].

I'm not trying to be pessimistic, but the numbers simply wont be there to support large scale development of games until the install base increases at least 10x, which I do not see happening with this gen of hardware. A lot of this comes down simply to price.

[0] http://steamspy.com/app/250820

[1] https://steamspy.com/app/436320
The $60 above doesn't include bandwidth from either my transit provider or Imgix, you can purchase a CDN separately.

Imgix is 8c/GB which is certainly competitive but by no means unique. CloudFront is only $0.005 more expensive on the higest tier and gets as low as $0.02 on the lowsest. A cheaper CDN like CDN77 starts at $0.049/GB and goes as low as $0.007/GB.
Economics says that demand is a consumer's desire and willingness to pay a price for a specific good or service. Offering a job at a price below what someone is willing to do it for is not demand at all. It has no impact on price, which is a function of supply and demand.

The mistake the article makes is counting these jobs as demand, when they really are not demanding labour. They are no more jobs than me asking you to come clean my house for free. It's a serious offer: I will be quite happy to come have you clean my house for free. But, for all meaningful purposes of the phrase, I don't think anyone considers that a real job.
Show HN: Flash your keyboard lights to the beat of your music
There was an announcement last year that AMD FirePro™ S9300 x2 were coming to Google cloud. Any reason why those have not hit general release yet? I have some OpenCL workloads that I could put to good use on those.
Less and less people get to own more and more of the company, until it's completely self owned and the board won't answer to anybody anymore?

Funny thing is, it may work better than the current conflict of interest company boards have.
People are paid based on their productivity. If the farmer can get $10 of crop per hour, he will pay up to $10 an hour for the worker. If he can't find anyone for that price, he'll let the crops rot because he would be losing money. Sure, he could be letting them rot to make a point but it's costing him money and such ideological decisions are not very savvy business practices. Also a lone farmer making this point is unlikely to have a major impact so I doubt he would be willing to sacrifice money for practically nothing
Are your indicators perhaps proxies for the cost/availability of basic foodstuffs?
MeWe builds a bridge between government and business
Lime and Ash
>Is the implication here that this is not already the case? I think you are marginalizing the many variable preferences that people have when choosing partners. There is no general set of optimal human traits.

Marriage limits a man to one women, IVF would allow one man to impregnate essentially infinite women and other factors like personality wouldn't factor into the OPs nearly anonymous genetic propositioning.

>This is very perplexing. Men do a lot more than just make babies, so why then would their productivity disappear if they cant make babies anymore. "Uh, hey ma,n we cant have kids anymore so lets go rioting?"

Yes, look into the studies on young men in the US and Japan who are coasting because they see no reason to work hard. They have video games and are happy. The alternative to apathy is violence. Neither is good for society, apathy leads to lack of progress and violence destroys society

https://qz.com/186066/this-lost-generation-of-young-men-is-t...
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