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> This could be a copy-paste of rants I have written. I think marketing has ruined pretty much everything. Everything has a subscription now, and it's in the cloud.

Well, shrink-wrapped software only needed to be purchased once to have something, and it was amenable to piracy. It also didn't let companies collect, expropriate, and sell off your private data. Hell, once upon a time, people even wanted to take EULA provisions to court as illegitimate, since you couldn't use a product you'd already paid for if you didn't "agree" to a post-purchase "contract".

Something had to be done to make profits sustainable!
Money is a social construct and that’s why you should run a #Bitcoin full-node
Sure, and SSI/disability benefits play an enormous role here, too. But that actually bolsters my point, which is that homelessness isn't a routine outcome in the United States. A lot has to go wrong before you get there.

When you talk about poor people in the abstract, it's easy to contrive scenarios in which somebody loses their job at the gas station and is forced into homelessness. But in actual real life, that's rarely how it plays out.
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Also I feel like these are all things Google is already really good at. They already do most of these with Maps/Waze.
Off topic, but years ago a friend of mine participated in a jury research program around tobacco. He learned a lot of weird and fascinating stuff there. One thing he said was that cigarettes et. al. were "the only product which, when used as directed, will kill you." He also said that they had apparently come up with a strain of tobacco that wasn't addictive but didn't bring it to market.
I investigated targeting individual Uber drivers for street view mapping. Problem is that Uber drivers circle around the same area a lot, so it is not optimal to use professional 360 set. On the other hand, there is no good consumer grade camera for 360 street view mapping yet, although it keeps getting better.
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great! all you have to do is play 10,000 hours to be on par with just about anyone else on the network or face being grieved during a "4v4 newb" match where most of them are nowhere near newb
> But the truth is that taking money out of revenue collection is the exact same thing as writing a check.

Pot, meet kettle. If this is the case, and if it's true that there's lots of "Rube Golderbian" infrastructure at play, why not implemented this policy -- in the short term with a long-term phase out -- as a direct budget cut to the NSF? As opposed to a 20% tax hike on people making 30k? The end effect on the national budget would be the same, without introducing lots a huge budgetary refactoring project.

> a) Change the absurd "we charge you tuition and then waive it" system.

But as a software person (?), you must understand that "ok make this big change to this complex system" isn't always a reasonable request given a 1 year timeframe.

In particular, I'm going to go out on a limb and conjecture that your edit is probably the only thing people actually care about. Everything else is missing the forest for the trees.
Now that .Net is cross platform, I've been switching everything over to C#. Besides the fact that it's compiled, Visual Studio is a dream to work with.
OsmAnd is pretty good for measurements and stuff.

http://osmand.net/
> I would hate to stand in Zuckerberg’s shoes here. It seems like they will lose this fight, no matter what. The solution might be more political than technical; that is, to teach people to be skeptical and use proper judgement when reading news articles.

He could just hire more and better people to do the moderation (or handle appeals). I kinda feel companies like Facebook take the attitude that things aren't worth doing unless they can be automated by an algorithm.
About to build a flying wing around a cc3d, hoping for similar results.
Rich property owners (or those looking to become rich from high-value property) would counter with concerns about their property value being destroyed, but personally I am satisfied with this as it is an indirect means of progressive taxation.

Wrenching the general populace above bottom-barrel poverty was done on the back of twentieth-century prosperity (ie: progressive taxation) but there is no such progressive taxation scheme for property tax (ie: property taxes are exceedingly complicated and many deductions are available). It is only prudent that other (new and exotic) means of wealth redistribution are attempted.
Yes, but true scientists usually apply the scientific method, not drug-induced psychosis, in their quest for truth.

Edit: for people who flagged the parent comment, this is an interesting read http://lesswrong.com/lw/mm/the_fallacy_of_gray/
Apple Pay Cash launches in beta, letting you send and receive cash in Messages
By combining SDC with electric I think the cost of owning a car could be lowered significantly.
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> Developer time has outstripped hardware costs, and somehow an hour of developer time is worth the same as wasting a million hours of the users' time

Key point here. It's hard to get the biz guys and product managers to agree with spending developer hours on performance improvements, because it's hard to measure the effect it has on business metrics. Does making your application take 750ms to launch rather than 8 seconds really bring in more sales? Who knows? Nobody tries to measure it either, so we'll never fix the problem.

Feature cram, on the other hand, is easier to justify, which is why every application eventually ends up with a plug-in interface, theme-able, skin-able, able to read E-mail, and able to interact with Facebook and Twitter.
Uber’s new cultural norms
Parity Multisig hack: A newbie accidentally pushing a red button
Techmeme summary: Dara Khosrowshahi / LinkedIn: Uber CEO announces new “Cultural Norms” for company after employee input: celebrate differences, “do the right thing”, “act like owners”, “make big bold bets”
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Completely disabling animations would break many apps, because a lot is going on in completion blocks of animations. Setting animation durations to a very low value would work though (that’s also what you have to do for UI tests).
I know on microcontrollers, if you want to reduce jitter (by sometimes up to a magnitude), you disable USB. Ive noticed my interrupt loops on ARMs go way down when the micro doesn't have to service USB.

But then you have to use an STLink to upload programs.
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Paradise Papers: Dear Tim Cook
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Relevant in what way? You were discussing alleged spend by Russian companies interfering with the election. You didn't specify that the spend specifically needed to be on mass media.

Paying for campaign staff, ad buys, etc. with dark money isn't a new thing. I don't see why that'd be out of the realm of possibility for the Trump campaign when "normal" campaigns get caught spending dark money.
I own a business in the Midwest. So, yes, I absolutely would.
I use the following metaphor: software is like a narrow path high up on the arete of a mountain, with thousand-foot drops on either side. Your goal is to walk down that path.

If everything goes well (all the input is as expected), you'll walk the path straight and reach your goal.

Bad software (most of it, honestly) has no guardrails: do something wrong, take one step to the side, and you fall crashing off the narrow path. Robust software has guardrails, handles all the error conditions, to make sure you stay on the path (or at least return to the start).

Most software is tested against expected input. It's already a lot of work to get things working for the expected case, it's usually enough to stop there. Make the path, expect smart hikers, omit guardrails. This is why stuff still works: most of the time, things go as expected.

It is a huge investment to test against all error conditions. I only know of the Space Shuttle that had the robustness requirements to shoulder the cost of implementing that. As I recall, their conventional productivity metrics were abysmal (<1 LoC/day/engineer?), but it was robust.

I've worked on High-Availability equipment. The software quality wasn't better than elsewhere, but the recovery mechanisms were much better. For example, all mission-critical data was mirrored to redundant HW/SW, and there was a standby system ready to pick up whenever the active copy crashed... which wasn't too often, but it happened. This is similar to Netflix' "Chaos Monkey" approach to software design.
> Valve had moderate success, then had a unicorn (HalfLife) which made them a lot of money.

ftfy

Did they actually do anything since then? They have other people on Steam doing the creative work for them.
Ask HN: What online sales sites do you use to sell your digital products?
Interested to hear what your experience has been with such sites, in terms of convenience (for both seller and buyer), features, plans, payment facilities (for both seller and buyer), integrations with other online services, etc.
Interesting point. A lot of these practices can in fact be backed up by stories, and maybe that's a good idea.
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Wow this comment is getting a lot of downvotes. I'm curious what I said that offended.
More interesting, the impact it'll have on parking, especially on busier areas.
I don't see why we couldn't directly provide pure pharmaceutical grade narcotics to addicts for them to consume in safety, as part of a compulsory programme to attempt to cure the addiction. Eventually I hope we will come up with a drug to reset the brain, but in the meantime I wish we could have an outbreak of maturity and recognise and treat the addiction in a sensible way, rather than contiuining with the obviously failed war on drugs and all the bad things that flow from it. Imagine if we destroyed a massive part of global organised crime's income at stroke.
Yes, but it takes longer to break them. Don't wait, revoke your keys and replace hardware or generate in software. It only affects RSA though so if you used ECC you're safe.
I suspect the extra fidelity won't have much payoff for high dimensions considering the large cognitive overhead required for a person to make sense of it. Even a six dimensional approximation of a 1,000 dimensional space is quite crude, and we're pretty confused by spaces larger than three.
IBM Touts Blockchain to Track Pot Industry from ‘Seed to Sale’
I don't get it. Is your premise is that every person making minimum should be able to live anywhere they want in the US, and if they can't the government is responsible?
Ask HN: What is your favorite place to find work?
Do you have a favorite job board?
Hard to put down a security deposit on a new place when you're completely broke.
No, it is an idea. The NIST standard is new enough that I wouldn't expect anything yet. Going to court takes years.IF they settle out of court they probably make not talking a part of the settlement.
Fortunately we still have a choice. That's also one of the main reason I'm always using command line if it makes sense. In most cases you get instant or near-instant results. Our lives are too precious to waste them on sitting by the computer and waiting for the results - only because some people decided we should do it this way, and other people followed, and still other people had to implement it, dealing with mediocre infrastructure and additional complexity, usually with mixed results.

Nobody will steal this freedom of choice from me.
>But that is a massive difference from traditional manufacturing and many assembly plants.

Where do people get this stuff from? Have you ever been in a modern manufacturing facility?
From the article:

> Chris Shively, an Anaheim resident and server at Blue Bayou restaurant in Disneyland, drives by the Mickey & Friends garage each day knowing that city tax dollars are paying for the facility.

> “It’s a company — they have their own best interests,” he said. “But it is definitely something where the company, Disney, got a great deal — a deal that we are paying for. Absolutely frustrating.”
> just dump all the code into one giant file

Sounds too scary.

I am facing the same problem of too many global declarations all thrown into a global soup during build time when all js files are concatenated.

I am looking for a safe and methodological method.
By safe I mean a method that a robot can understand. If you leave room for thinking then people start making mistakes.

It's hard enough to get the green light for starting such project. If you start breaking stuff as well, you're going to burn the credit for refactor real quick
> Paul's system has no way of addressing this other than "trust the central authority to process transactions in the order they receive them". Thanks, pal, that's called e-cash, and was invented by David Chaum in 1983.

Flatly wrong. Decentralized consensus is not a necessity to create trustless operation. Monitoring service operation via a secure ledger provides trustless operation. As I said, the point of PoW is to provide strict transactional consistency in a decentralized network. You're just describing that process mechanically.
> You are not entitled to the work of others

I think you missed the point, or I didn't convey it correctly.

I am not talking from the point of view of a third party, but rather that of the author of the original software.

If somebody uses my software and improves it, then it’s only fair that I get to see the changes.

That’s why AGPL 3 is the license of choice for my code.
Hi Chris, firstly thanks for all the work you've done publishing brilliant articles on supervised and unsupervised methods and visualisation on your old blog and now in Distill.

This question isn't about feature visualisation, but I though I'd take the chance to ask you, what do you think of Hinton's latest paper and his move away from neural network architectures?
You can sue anyone for anything. Winning is different matter. Even if you can't win though, the cost of defending a trial is expensive.
Smart Ring: Mobile on-body devices can be controlled using a tiny sensor
This is still the best VR solution to running and walking, and it's already shipped.

http://www.virtuix.com/

I just don't understand why they seem to no longer sell to consumers though.

I'm not sure I get Jamie's project.
Not the OP, but you could replace Kickstarter with a smart contract. The smart contract would refund you if the project is not funded by the deadline.

What the smart contract can't do is ensure that the funded project actually delivers on its promises. But neither can Kickstarter...
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Right, I wrote a script to find contracts with the matching code. See web3.eth.getCode.
Not really true from my experience. For example, here's a Markdown library written in Kotlin that you can use with a plain Java interface: https://github.com/valich/intellij-markdown
But if they said to transfer uranium to Minnesota instead, maybe it's still lizardoids and they just have space ship landed in Minnesota. And if they said to ship cornflakes and not uranium, maybe they know how to make nukes from cornflakes. With enough imagination, it is not possible to refute literally anything. Any action can be proof of any connection, if you're willing to accept conjecture and "well, it doesn't prove X is false therefore X is true".
> I believe Chrome on mobile is the default (only?) browser.

It's default on a lot of Android phones, but far from the only one available. I use Firefox on mine. Opting to use a non-Chrome browser on an Android phone is about as technical as using a non-Microsoft browser under Windows.
Better to let them live on the street then?
I made a similar point on a different article about housing prices in Seattle, and just like you, I was down-voted into oblivion for apparently challenging whatever preconceived notions people have.

Yes, the root problem is population growth. Yes, any organism will continue to reproduce until the population size is constrained by sufficient 'poverty.' The difference is that we are running out of land / unable to keep up with building shelters, rather than running out of food as was common for the rest of history.

Does this mean there are not solutions we should try to enact? E.g. less restrictive zoning? No, of course we should be fighting the problem and realizing there are things we can do in the short term. But, until we get into space and are able to create resources/shelter at an exponential rate faster than potential population explosion, this is not a problem that one "solves" -- only delays/pacifies.
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> Obviously there will be repercussions for accidents, but we don't know what they are or how it will play out.

The top-level comment was just asking if we could work out how this might look beforehand.
Self driving (and taxis) cars can reduce traffic, because commuters can combine them with mass transit (e.g. trains).

If a commuter travels more than 2 legs in a day, it's very likely that mass transit will not cover one of the legs and he will take his car.
As many have said here before, it really depends on the use case. Many have cars customized for various activities. They also essentially use their cars as mobile storage lockers--especially parents with children. The way some people use vehicles in a handful of dense cities is utterly unrepresentative of how most people use their cars and trucks. To the degree that vehicle depreciation is more miles-based than time-based, it's not even clear how much driving up utilization past a certain base usage really helps financially.
There is value in a blockchain beyond a ledger of currency, and some of that value still remains when using a centralized service.

Specifically, if you want to offer a service where you can guarantee non-repudiation a centralized blockchain is a great solution. By non-repudiation, in the scenario of a double-spend whomever signed both transactions is 'on the hook' for both. This doesn't work for currency but works for systems where it is sufficient to prove your servicer screwed you over.
Actually I appreciate the defense, but that's not what I'm claiming. I'm claiming that decentralized consensus gives only a minor gain over a single node maintaining a well-monitored blockchain. Single nodes don't have the problems of uncertain ordering or conflict resolution because they can provide strict consensus.
At a lower level, this is the game everyone who participates in "access journalism" is playing. Journalists and publications build relationships with sources and report stories keeping one eye on the writing/impact/truthfulness and another on the long term relationship with the sources.

That's the implied norm of institution (business/government) relationships with the media - we maintain relationships, you write about us and some stories will be critique us so we'll soft cut your access off for a little bit but not explicitly and then we'll let you in again.

An example would the one you yourself made. Journalists join the White House press corps, and over time get access to various West Wing staffers to write stores.

(if you're wondering whether this mechanism contributes to status quo bias and protection of established interests you're headed in the right direction :) )

Access journalism is distinct from investigative journalism which is what we're seeing here. Investigative journalism assumes journalistic independence and a more adversarial relationship with the institution being documented. What we hope to see after an expose like this is the institution coming to terms with its behavior and in response to public outcry, tempering the things that were revealed.

The problem of course is that institutional power in the United States, especially that of large corporations, is so large that they respond to this kind of journalism with aggression.

I don't know whether Disney will suffer for making that choice, but I hope that they do.
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Giving addicts money to buy drugs will simply push up the price of drugs.

UBI would instead need to give everyone above the drinking age something like a monthly ration of 2 ounces cannabis, 2 psychedelic doses of a regionally appropriate entheogen, and 750 mL neutral grain spirits, all from local production facilities. If they want more, or better quality stuff, they'll just have to spend their pocket money on it, or get a QA job in the industry.

Also, giving the actual drugs out can influence the market, such that people may be encouraged to use drugs that are more socially manageable--in contrast to opioids. Honestly, I'd rather hand out free weed than free alcohol, but you just know the agricultural lobby will heavily influence the composition of the UBI goods ration. If they can make your fuel 10% ethanol, they can certainly convince the government to distribute some of that distilled corn alcohol for human consumption.
Maybe someone will one-up and do some with a tread made of ball bearings.
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This is one of the many reasons why the kernel should have been written in Rust.
Wonderful. Thank you for the information. I look forward to investing into Ethereum if they get it all together. Do you feel like geopolitics will affect the network's latency?
They don’t meet the explicitly stated $1 goal
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TBH, your objection seems like something that anyone would think of in ten minutes of considering pitfalls. To think that no one at Waymo (or Cruise, or Lyft, etc.) has considered it, you must have a very dim view of their competence.
A lot. Just take a look at the desktop switching animation in OS X that's been there now for years. I bring that up anytime anyone tries to suggest Apple has decent design sense. No sane UI designer would put something like that in without the possibility of disabling it (like their other shitty animations). To be clear, any UI designer who hasn't understood the absolute fact that after a hundred or a thousand times, any animation becomes despised by a large fraction of one's user base shouldn't be working in this field. A lot of these unqualified people also apparently make a lot of videogames with un-skippable cut scenes. Same idea. Same stupidity and lack of any forethought whatsoever about the user's experience. It's almost like they're making this software with only the manufacturer's goals of looking 'shiny', 'sleek', or whatever dumb adjective of the day people who don't understand tech use to describe it. Oh, wait a second ...
This is an important general consideration. I designed a class of drone/robot I call "gun-hunter": They detect humans holding guns and destroy the forearm.

Now immediately you have to solve "How do you NOT attack LEOs?" Because of course the obvious thing for the badguys to do would be to impersonate LEOs well enough to fool the robots. (This also applies to signals guns might emit to say they're legit/friendly.)

The solution I came up with was that no one should use guns in the presence of active gun-hunters. After all, why would the police need guns if the crooks can't use them?
Sure but polite is often not profitable. Instead make your licenses line up with your wishes. It's another way of saying, "Hey you didn't say you needed it".