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There's only one real question that needs to be answered.

Is Ford willing to spend $150k/year to $200k/year for a large number of senior level developers to build out and train staff for the next 10 years to build a thriving tech culture from within the company?

And will these higher-paid staff members have real power and control within the company, such that they feel that they are doing useful and fulfilling work?

If so, then yes, Ford (or anyone else really) can become a Tech Company. Money and power, that's all developers want for the most part.

Give them money but without power to pursue interesting problems... then its going to be harder to recruit. Give them power without money, and it will be possible to get college kids maybe, but probably not the senior developers needed to bootstrap a culture from the ground up.
Apple has an API

https://affiliate.itunes.apple.com/resources/documentation/i...
How important do you think illustrations are to this kind of text game? I would think omitting illustrations would free up a lot more time for expanding and improving the prose.
.cx? (Christmas Island), which is a Australian territory? Maybe your right. I think .io is especially egregious because of history of Chagossian people.
Damn, good on him!
If I have something in my dropbox sync folder, and then open it with a viewer or editor that creates other files beside the original in the same directory (eg. temp files, working backups, etc.), then that is a possible use for a .ignore.
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I don't know about successful - Docker still has to prove that it can build a large sustainable business. Obviously I am bullish on the opportunity :)

I definitely was a complete outsider when I moved to Silicon Valley: first generation immigrant, with no affiliations or credentials whatsoever, no traction, and a lot of personal debt. If YC hadn't taken a chance on us and written that $17,000 check, we probably would have never made it this far. And I had it easy compared to other outsiders: I had US citizenship, my english doesn't betray I'm a foreigner, and of course I'm a white male.
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No it's just that we are part of a delicately tuned system that balanced itself over millions of years. And we have the tendency to try poorly thought short term solutions that destroy everything. It's not like we don't have an entire history of screw ups to teach us. We should know better by now.
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I HAVE malaria. Right now.

I'm not.
So if repatriated, the money disappears? It’s not reinvested in Apple or other companies, put in the bank to be loaned out to other businesses, nor spent on goods and services?

Cause all three of those things create jobs.
Can confirm, VS Code's completion is okay-ish. You will get appropriate docstrings and autocompletion when it works, but it definitely has a long way to go.
Took morphine for a back injury, I just got sleepy but still had the pain.

Took Percocet after a shoulder surgery, I just slept through the pain. I also understand now why people get addicted.

I get raging migraines, Excedrine is the only thing that works for that.

True story, when my daughter was in the hospital (cancer) we overheard a nurse and doctor discussing what to give a child (also with cancer) for tooth pain... "morphine". The nurse was like "for a tooth? can't we tell the mother to give him Tylenol?"

Also, true story Tylenol is not "formulaic" (I may be saying that wrong) at many hospitals. Meaning THEY DON'T KEEP IT IN THE PHARMACY (the one that fills orders for internal use). I was very surprised to learn this.
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GNOME3 was mostly controversial for the "old timers" and were upset that gnome turned around 180 degrees (it would be like if lxqt were to make their next release look like ... Gnome3). Same thing with systemd.
What are some resources that help you increase you thinking skills?
legally you can write a check on anything: post-it note, napkin, etc.
The parent post is not implying that companies adopt Tensorflow themselves and solve this problem. The post is implying that a competitor come in to the market using the newer, better technology, and replace them with a better product (with an API, documentation, etc).

This issue here is that industries become stagnant when it appears difficult/costly to introduce a new product in that market. You usually need significant a technical and/or social change to occur before incumbents can be displaced. In this case, it was a technical change.

The other part of the issue is that investors want "0 to 1" ideas to invest in, and founders often chase those ideas. In reality, we need more "1.0 to 1.5" products, especially in crowded markets.
Yeah, I think it's an interesting thought experiment for what would happen if billionaires never died and the same person who made the money in the first place was allowed to manage it in perpetuity. Would the same skills that put them on top of the heap in the first place keep them there? Or would they get rusty and decline, even without the specter of death?

I'm more inclined towards the second, simply because even if the rich don't change, the world around them does. Joy's Law: "No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else." In my view, most of the rich got there because they had mental models that were particularly well-adapted to the times they lived in, and life circumstances that let them capitalize on the opportunities that this let them see before anyone else.

I've noticed that even in my relatively short life (I'm mid-30s), a lot of my mental models have already become outdated. When I started my career, desktop apps reigned supreme, you shouldn't even bother competing with Microsoft, and the richness and responsiveness of your UI determined how many customers you got (well, that and having a Windows version that was all of those things). By the time I graduated from college, this mental model was already out-of-date - and the people who recognized it was out-of-date, Larry Page and Mark Zuckerburg and Jeff Bezos, are now literally among the richest people on Earth.

I can only imagine how out-of-date someone's mental model would be after 1000 years of being on top of the world. Could you imagine putting Charlemagne into the modern world? He'd be dumber than the most idiotic teenager.
Well, let's clean up the energy grid and stop blaming consumers?
Yes, because C++ isn't good enough to handle complex projects that require performance AND safety, few bugs. Like the whole F-35 platform. Hardly old and rotting. If you know what you're doing you can write safe and performant code using this language. I'll let you know though, it's a trick not that many people know how to perform, and it's not a fault of the language, but bias and misconception. But sure, for the next JSF program, let's just try something new and immature.

It's weird how people can't fathom that we're not all using their favorite language for real-time, safety-critical systems. Don't you think it's with good reason? That, in billion-dollar projects, all options have been considered? Everyone is using C and C++ for this purpose. From BAE to JPL.
> Learning Python in 1997 was quite the watershed event for me. It was wonderful – like having the Lisp of my earliest years back, but with good libraries! And a full POSIX binding! And an object system that didn’t suck!

… I don't think ESR gets CLOS. It's an object system which doesn't suck, and is far more capable than Python's.
People had to start writing down stuff at some point.
Yeah but to be fair, I don't want to be selected for death.

If natural selection was at play, I should have died when I was 12 without my appendectomy.

Human are all about saying not today to the God of death. For them self.

So I just wish we continued this "not today" things, but with a broader perspective including not sawing the tree branch we are sitting on. Like destroying the entire ecosystem with our brilliant ideas.
Yes, absolutely.

May we be so lucky as to have those problems instead of _millions of people dying every year._
Don't forget about the educational market. ChromeOS is very popular in schools because of how locked down it is, and computer labs in schools are one of the few environments where multi-user desktops thrive.
Well not necessarily. You can also have a stat run system that can have the same intensive problem. I don't know how Britain handles these things.

It really just depends on the individual institutional setup, and it depends on the culture of the doctors.
Do we still engage in these big projects? For example, around 1900 the flow of the Chicago River was reversed. I can't imagine a project like that happening today.
Spot-on. I'm working on this myself after making a significant move to a big city from the mid-west. Never having started from a zero friend base is tough. While our culture doesn't always make it easy to make new friends, it's also very permissive about breaking molds. I'm constantly going to different meetups and group events and trying to say 'Yes' to every invite. Even other new people to the city aren't doing this but I don't get ostracized for being different. Occasionally people are even willing to tag along.
That kinda makes me feel better to know that.
I get fiorecet for migraines after the doctor tried me out on a few other preventative medications which either didn't work or had side effects like making me as sleepy as taking two Benadryl.

There as needed and I can go months between refilling the script sometimes but it's still for headaches
>>> What everyone else.

> Me and the other person who replied to you. "The US is also exceptional in how bad its bad schools are, this drags our averages down. While it's a tragedy for the kids who are not being served, it's a distortion to say all US schools are bad when most are not."

You really think this is not true elsewhere? Inequality doesn't exist in other countries? Do you really think medians are unheard of for scientists and they didn't take that into account? Please.

>>> The US is not particularly diverse in the world.

> I'm sorry I can no longer take you seriously.

You know there's studies ranking countries based on diversity right? You want me to Google them for you?

Oh wait, you probably think they're missing something clearly obvious like not knowing what a median is again.

>>> And again, how do you compare "diverse" data sets like kids literally being able to read?

> An average is nearly useless if you don't know the distribution. Rankings based on averages are meaningless.

Great if you think that. Show me a better way to compare countries when it comes to reading skills.

>>> Why are you commenting?
> Because of this

You just said you don't believe the study is relevant. So why do you care what it says.

>>>Oh come on, every study puts the US in a mediocre position in education within the OECD. That's not a debate.

> Because it is debatable.

It's really not and it's the best we have.

> Using PISA rankings to say that the US is in a mediocre position in education is very controversial.

Again, it's really not. Haven't seen any counter studies, happy to see them.

Not saying there's no criticisms obviously.

> The US goes WAY up in the ranks when those things are taken into account.

Go on then, show the studies, I'm willing to change my mind.
It really depends. Higher order debugging is more of an art than reality, so if the mapping logic is tricky, I would definitely convert a map into a loop just so I had better access to debugging. It should never be “use map whenever possible.” Also, if you drift out of well known functional origami to more niche uses of function arguments, well, there be the dragons.
That's my problem with the "Linux desktop" - you want to know what's a "Linux desktop"? Its Android.

Oh wait, you want a Gnu (or more general, a POSIX) Desktop for the masses?

None of the "masses" need it and they _won't_ need it. What I want is the nice niche desktop for nerds.
IRS goes after Coinbase to look for tax evaders
Hi chronic,

We now know that all comms implant to C2 are TLS with a unique (fake) certificate tree. They use unique, single use domains for operations. I don't believe there was enough information in vault 7 to identify IOC's that could be used for behavioural analysis.
We also now know that the C2 fronting servers negotiate 'Client Cert optional', which is a fairly unique configuration item.

The git repo contains 3 binary builds of the client/server malware. I think this is more important for detection than their docs.

Regardless, its all public domain now.
Exactly.

Energy for gold mines, armourded trucks, petrol moving it all around the world, printing synthetics and chemicals, 24/7 always on ATMS all over the world.

Bitcoin mining allows me to send money to my family halfway across the world, nearly instantly, without a bank.
I agree, more or less, but I believe that the "We can't possibly predict the effects of this therefore we can't take the risk" argument demands more urgent opposition. I argue that we can predict the effects. They're tiny even in absolute terms, and the uncertainty is well-understood and also small. And in relative terms - These small risks and effects are weighed against a half-million lives per year. I'd be willing to release kudzu or rabbits to save that many lives; eliminating mosquitoes has such insignificant risk relative to its benefit that that risk doesn't even register. Do it now.
I disagree with your propaganda take on this because after i read this i finally understood the tax shelter piece (but maybe i'm naive). I do agree with everything else you said though.

If I couple this with Warren Buffet recently advising that the Dow will go to 1 million in 100 yrs [0], I can read between the lines (as you always need to with Warren) that big money already knows it can keep its big money for a very long time. Getting value consolidated into a) a few really large companies; in b) preferably the US; c) quickly; seems to be the bet.

I also agree that jobs is the target here. Special dividends and buybacks will be the way to extract this money back to the US economy (unless your a foreign rich investor who already sees this and starts pulling money out of oil and into the US - still a win for the US?). And then we get some more case studies in whether trickle-down works or not. If it does, we've created a (more?) solid small business climate, where theoretically more innovation and growth comes in. (?) If it doesn't, well, we'll continue to see the middle class disappear.

At least that's what i think i see, but who knows on timeline and i'm not a finance guy. All I know is that this current tax plan puts about $60/month back in my pocket using my 2016 numbers, so if i invest that $60 into AAPL i'm most likely going to have more than $60*12 at the end of the year.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=buffet+dow+10k - and thats 1000000 in points, not dollars... (!)
I am also wondering how mosquito populations are affected by increasing human populations. I can imagine with a lot of left out garbage collecting standing water plus being a food source could have given mosquitoes a unnatural advantage.
I suspect that what you have seen were all forgeries of temporary non-machine-readable IDs, ie. ID-2 format laminated cardstock, instead of ID-1 (credit card size) plastic (smart) card, which are good enough to cross land borders, for getting beer at bar or for cursory inspection by police, Such IDs are usually insufficient to open bank account (and generally rejected by anyone who cares, including many parts of government) or air travel.

Edit: or given the thread context you mean forgeries of the same level as US driver licenses for under age drinking, which is quite possible, but such forgery is readily distinguishable by anyone who has actually seen real EU ID card.
I'd love to see a system that worked on handwriting. With all the image recognition progress in the last few years, I never see a mention of recognizing handwriting.
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They don’t have free reign to report income where they want, everything has to be justifiable to accountants and tax auditors.

The US already taxes corporate worldwide income. Eliminating the deferral would cause every US multinational corporation to move its parent company overseas. The tax advantages would be humongous.

The US already has the worst corporate income tax structure, not only one of the highest rates, but also taxing worldwide income. We should be making it better to attract more capital/jobs, not worse.
> I never understood why (...)

scarcity of available domain names under the major tlds, imo.
If nearly all of your users believe that your product delivers X, when it actually delivers Y, then your product is still broken.
Yes. That is very much a problem.

But its not a problem with capitalism, it just depends on what your legal rights are. Any institutional setup could have the same problem.

'Dreamlands' addressed the same problem.
While opioid abuse is rising, yes even in Germany, situations are not really comparable. In the US 20.5 Million people have a substance abuse disorder. Of which 2M have a problem involving prescription pain relievers, and roughly 600k people are addicted to Heroin. [0] For Germany data on this matter is generally less available, but reports range from 1.5M to 1.9M users of prescription drugs for Germany, that number includes sleep-aids and Benzos as well though. Zolpidem based drugs actually make up for 3/4 of German prescription drug abuse. [1] The official drug report mentions 160k high-risk opioid users and 77k in substitution programmes. [2] (That's actually far far less than the 1/90 rate you report for your city. Talking about uninformed...)
Also for comparison of the problem, let's look at the death rates in the US [3] and Germany [2]: 33k vs 1.2k now in relation to the population (age 15-64):

US: 0.000160 %

Germany: 0.0000226415 %

US death rate is 7 times higher than the German, while population is only 4 times bigger.
That said, a look at the opioid users in Germany (160k) and US (2M+600k) is way clearer. We are talking about 16 times the abuse rate in the US compared to Germany. So yeah, Germany doesn't have an opioid problem, compared to the US.

So while Germany has heroin addicts, the US actually has a drug addict training program running. In the US there are 290M opioid prescriptions per year. [4]
And while Germany doesn't have those outstanding numbers, Big Pharma is pushing for change in Germany [5 (German)]

[0]: https://www.asam.org/docs/default-source/advocacy/opioid-add...

[1]: http://www.dw.com/en/medication-abuse-a-growing-concern-in-g...

[2]: http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/system/files/publications/4528/T...

[3]: https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/index.html

[4]: https://addiction.surgeongeneral.gov/surgeon-generals-report...

[5]: http://www.spiegel.de/gesundheit/diagnose/oxycodon-fentanyl-...
I mean I'm sure all that stuff is going on somewhere, but, irrational as it may be, as long as I personally haven't encountered it I don't feel compelled to take any particular countermeasures.
Yes, I think it would make a really great plot for a Black Mirror episode!
We are working on a low latency, high frame rate, interactive video streaming platform. We built our own networking protocol for this and thought we'd share some of the decisions we made and where it's going. What ideas do you have for us?
had a similar interaction after an appendectomy, except the nurse asked me if I was an addict after i said I didn't want opiates.
That's interesting. Can you share the source of that information? I was trying to understand that but somehow I did not manage to find anything online.
Why did you quote a comment made 10 minutes before yours?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15665273
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$60m in personal wealth is objectively a lot of money, especially if all you had to do was inherit it.
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IIRC, Evernote will index—though not transcribe—handwritten text.
When’s the last time anyone died of smallpox? As a species, we seem demonstrably better off for having arrogantly removed it from the planet.
Ugh. This really worries me - not because I’m afraid of driverless cars but because this is the kind of “news” headline that will get anti-driverless car jerks all up in a righteous tizzy.

Title should be NO_TITLE because “doofus driving truck backs into something” isn’t news.
Every time I've looked for one in NYC, there are none around within 5 miles.
I know, I'm trying to understand what studies contradict PISA and why is it faulty.
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Smallpox was made extinct (aside from samples in labs) and as far a I know there haven't been any problems from that.
Actually, technically it uses Javascript since that’s what Typescript compiles to and since Typescript is a superset of Javascript...all Javascript is Typescript. xD
> Some will point out (and some have!) that I could have quite easily saved myself a lot of time, hassle, and lost earnings at this point by just quietly holding on to the extra Switch and saying nothing to Nintendo about it. It certainly would have saved me a lot of stress, but it was morally not something I’d ever consider.

There is no room for morals/ethics when dealing with faceless mega-companies.

You are not dealing with an individual here. Which individual would demand you to be home all day waiting for the courier for a mistake they made?

What I would do is store the parcel away unopened for a few months to a year. If in the mean time somebody asks it back, they can have it, otherwise it would go to the trash.
this is the one thing that you focused on in my post?

15/hour is still ridiculously low compared to other software dev work.
Love the down votes, but I'd love more to see an example where this is not the case?
No, what workers hate is when they have to learn something new for no reason. If you give them something new that actually improves their lives, makes it easier for them to do their jobs, they'll embrace it (usually).

That doesn't happen often, because employers and decision makers rarely look at things from the perspective of the employee, preferring instead to make their own jobs easier at the expense of others.
Lots of reasons they haven't been wiped off the map.

1. Full page OCR is trivial these days. Anyone who's just doing full-page OCR has no business using one of these commercial offerings. The commercial stuff is really for extraction of structured info from unstructured and semi-structured documents. ABBYY and Nuance are the only ones with products that can handle it. There are alternatives for simple capture tasks (like DocParser), but not for complex ones.

2. ABBYY and Nuance have a lot of IP in the space on lock.

3. The market for complex data extraction (at least the kind of stuff I do) may not actually be big enough for smaller players to bother pursuing (most new players are going after tasks of intermediate difficulty, like invoice and receipt capture).

4. There's still a need for on-prem style solutions for people doing huge volumes (hundreds of thousands of pages a year), whereas most of the new market entrants are cloud only.

5. I haven't used Nuance's stuff much but ABBYY's products are actually incredibly robust under the hood-- stuff you wouldn't want to build yourself unless you absolutely had to. FlexiCapture will do 95%+ accuracy out of the box (on a character by character basis) with no human verification.
Why do you have such a persecution complex about this? You make fine points but your attitude is pretty off-putting, man.
Going to planio.com redirects to plan.io, so whatever they had to say about moving from .io to .com can't be worth reading.
Except this proposal is widely accepted in the scientific community with hundreds of ecological studies behind it, where as the Four Pests was just speculation by a guy who likely never studied any modern biology.