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"“You wake up, get the shuttle bus, go to the bubble of campus and order food via an app when you get home. You are not a citizen, just a bizarre leach who makes money,” he explained."

I'm not sure I understand. The whole article is just describing literally anyone in any industry.

What people can't seem to grasp is that tech in SF/SV simply created a massive insular culture that doesn't contribute to the culture that was previously there. It just took over ruthlessly. All previous artistic beauty that was in SF is just gone now and replaced with tech kids that get paid a ton and would rather spend it on cryptocurrencies and music festivals than participating in the city's artistic scene.

Its no wonder at all why people don't like tech people. Its not because they get paid a ton. Its just because they get paid a ton and have no care for anything that was previously there.

But I mean, its a tiny city and the city's building regulations don't do much in the way in helping with gentrification at all. Not sure what else could have possibly happened.
> But I would wager 99% of home automation consumers won't, don't, or can't do DIY software solutions.

It's more about hardware. Good luck getting your fire insurance cover damages when your Alibaba sourced board that you operate on the mains (via Alibaba source AC/DC converter) fries your living room.

The issues with DIY here are not hard issues in themselves (grounding, heat protection/ventilation), but they require a custom casing solution which is kind of hard if you don't want to end up with weird looking industrial cases on your wall and ceiling.
I got you now. I'll definitely check it out anyway, thanks for the recommendation.
I've been running the beta, and it feels so much faster than 56. I also quite like the UI changes they made, quite minimal with everything I need still available. I think this is a great moment for people that stopped using Firefox because of performance issues to give Firefox another go.
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Probably because they were broken at some point.
Overhead didn't reduce black money, it just changed hands. From merchants to bankers and launderers.
> Which makes it harder for households to hoard money.

In other countries, we call this 'saving for retirement.'
In the way the term is used here, income equality is (the inverse of) income inequality. More equal, less equal... it's a measure, not a state.

This is like asking what does wealth look like.
The word is sexist. Would you give a technical article any time that started by the male author clearly indicating that they dismiss women's speech based on their gender?
The market as a whole is up 7%, so really they're down 10%. They lost money in a bull market
Socialism :-(
> But in the four months since it began trading on June 1, Quantopian’s traders have lost about 3%, according to people close to the matter. The S&P 500 rose 6.6% in that period.

It's still way to early to be worried about the fund but to be fair, its been a good time for most quantitative funds. And the space that I imagine Quantopian is competing in, factor based models for US Equities, is a very crowded space right now.

I'm sure having a flagship fund was an important project for the company I'm reminded of the Paul Graham story where he tells Jerry Yang his idea for selling ads and then realized when Jerry told him no that yahoo was already selling ads for more than they were worth.

I'm wondering if there is a parallel here with quantopian where they were better off letting people think that they could beat the market with a factor based model, rather than actually starting a fund and showing their users how tough it really is.

> Still, Quantopian manages about $50 million in a hedge fund, a tiny amount in that world and well below the $250 million executives anticipated at the end of this year

This might work in their favour.

The difference in the management fee doesn't translate into alot of money and its much easier to manage a sub $100 million fund than it is to run a $250 million dollar fund. Especially for one that is just starting out and doesn't appear to have found their secret sauce just yet.
I honestly doubt the use of certain words are going to limit your search results more than the way google is 'personalizing' search results by looking at your history/interests and basing it's results around that, do you have any sources for your claim?
Really depends on your lifestyle, don't you think? Plenty of people are happy with a 1 bedroom if it lets them live in the heart of a city they love. Different people have different priorities.
And if the laws aren't favorable enough, they can have the laws changed.
Self healing? How many levels do I need to gain this skill?
Large outrunner motors like Emrax aren't much heavier than typical cast alloy wheels. Assuming wheel-motor eliminates disc brake components (sounds scary, right?) assembly will probably be even lighter.

http://emrax.com/products/emrax-268/
The whole sales pitch of ETH is that the code is the contract. Thus the contract is literally the codified agreement of intent of the parties. There is no intent apart from the code.

There are no bugs. There is no theft. There are no accidents. There can be no need of a hard fork.
Are you kidding? Of course I'd rather have the service tell me directly what pizza places deliver to me. I'd need to call each one and ask individually? How on Earth is that a better service?
Anyone know why the Bordeaux Customs Accounts are in the UK National Archives?
Same here, and added the FB Purity extension on top of it. It's glorious to visit FB today and see the same 3 posts I saw yesterday (I follow a few media co's). It's slowly gotten me out of the habit of randomly checking in to see what's going on; when nothing is going on, you start forgetting to check in.
I just want a self-driving RV with 1Gbps internet.
Wealth inequality changed drastically between 1900 and now. According to the graph, in 1901, the U.K.'s top 1% controlled 73.8% of the nation's wealth. Today it's about 20%.

I wonder what factors caused that change. Wars and emigration maybe have something to do with it?
Apple is making buttload of money on hardware because it does not sell any software anymore. I mean, in the mass consumer market – and they are cutting off the Pro software (which is sad). But remember the hardware sales pay for the software, too. So basically people say Apple is making $$$ on an iPhone price minus manufacturing costs and R&D but great slice of the zillion $$$ is the software part.

Anyway, not sure who said what exaclty, but Steve Jobs repeatedly said that Apple is great because of the tight interconnection between sw and hw. So Apple is not a hw company. It is not a sw company either. They do both and the result is greater than just a combination of the two.

I see Apple, and the way they present their products supports it, as an appliance company. It's harder and harder to repair their devices and the software is more and more integrated with the hardware – examples: force touch and feedback, Touch/Face ID, all the camera magic, Apple Pay, MBP Touch Bar etc. So basically the sw and hw are more and more inseparable unless you lose "half" the features.
Exactly - and speaking of class here is further speculation on semantics of an equitable world system: as late as possible dynamic binding(real time adaptation for all actors), lexical scope (affinity groups), functions that provide utility for the masses rather than fragile hierarchies of turgid dominance(object oriented is the perfect description of our current economic and political structures. Beside how much cooler and arrogant does it sound to describe your political leaning as “functional”).
It's lost unless we change the rules of the game. If we change the rules, we can of course do anything.
I have an HTPC and I mostly just use it as a plex server, with plex player running on a roku. The Roku UI is infinitely better with a remote.

I have a mini-keyboard with touch pad, but it is still inferior to a roku remote or my harmony remote. My wife won't use it.
Yes, that's exactly why American corporations do the things they do.

It's not a legal obligation though. Shareholders could choose to have corporations managed differently. That kind of "pro-tax" activist shareholders don't exist, but it's not inconceivable that large public funds (pensions etc.) could become such.
"Some of these folks aren’t the most socially gifted people and therefore suddenly having a culture encouraging this experience for them bleeds into everything, giving them a sense of self importance and entitlement." ... ahah, there are socially awkward people in every industry, this is just blatant generalization.

But yah, Silicon Valley is becoming the next Wall Street, I can't count the number of MBA's at work anymore. I doubt things will get better with tech and cypto potentially getting bigger.
HN is no where close to Craig's List in terms of design. They are both minimal, fast and task driven, but Craig's is a work of art. HN is a roughshod hackers tool.

Frankly, it never occurred to me that Discourse could ever run w/o JS. Next time I am near my ipad, I'll definitely test it out. I'd use a combo of allow/deny. Remember when we used "gradual enhancement" ?

I think there should be a standard way for the client to request the low resource usage version of an app, the hack is say you are a phone or request the m.dot site, but it should just be in the accepts header.
Actually having 50 tabs should not be an issue RAM-wise. The problem is that chrome (and firefox quantum) open many many processes and therefore consume a lot of ram. Quantum is expected to be much better than current Chrome in Ram consumption. Because chromium allegedly opens seperate processes for each tab(?), quantum uses the same process for a couple of tabs and thus allows resource sharing.

In a single processed browser, ram is not an issue. I've been using 25+ tabs for many years, only recently in Chrome I experienced a low ram warning (i have 8GB). I switched back to firefox 56.
Over what period did you have your investment in RealtyShares?
Archiving repositories
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Considering they lag horrendously in pretty much everything else, it's a bit of a desperate ploy for attention...
This posts title, and the conversations in here, are a beautiful display of irony :) That said, that "Panther Den" patch is awesome, and led me to a description of it and some other pretty interesting defense/IT patches: http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/03files/Mission_Pa...
I agree with you, I just shortened the original title a bit but I preferred not to change it too much, even if it could be perceived as vaguely click-baity...
I think you're looking for something like the pHash[0] library. I've used it in the past for thumbnail generation and it works very well.

[0] http://phash.org
They don't store energy physically. They trap electrons. They hold a static but still electrical energy differential. "Physically" sounds like they store mechanical energy. Either way, I'd hate to get into an accident in a car with capacitors build into its structure. Smash into a wall and there would be a bit of a lighting storm. Current carbon fiber cars burn like torches. With electrical energy stored in amongst that carbon, this car might go off like a bomb.
The more interesting fact is that if Tim Cook were to pay more taxes, he'd be fired by his shareholders. CEO's of public companies are supposed to increase profitability, not decrease it.
Silicon Valley is also perceived as libertarian

Well, it used to be. I would argue that hasn't been the case for a few years now. People today who strongly associate libertarian thought with SV are living in a memory.
This is the first I've heard that Google Cloud is cheaper than doing it yourself. All of the conversations I've had (and some pricing I've seen) say otherwise. Do they actually give 85% discounts, because that's what it would take to make Google Cloud equal to the cost of running my business.
We have production IBM iSeries code (AS/400) that has (c) 1977 in a bunch of places. The platform lives...
perl5 has been stealing a bunch of stuff from perl6 and is still actively maintained and doing a major release with new features annually - also continues to Just Work with an extreme commitment to backcompat.

So I'm pretty sure he did mean perl5, and as a happy user of both perl5 and sqlite the comparison seems apt.
I mean that flat-tax rates punish the poor. One may have to miss a meal to pay their taxes. The other will have a few less bottles of champagne to purchase.

Even in your follow up post as soon as we make provisions for the reality we live in the flat tax goes back to being a progressive tax, again.

So what we really need is a simpler progressive tax rather than a gradually complex flat tax.
I think it's debatable whether being contacted for information or asked to make changes to your open source project is "working for free". It's being asked to work on open source software, there's a difference.
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> It's still a simple thing for one person to handle in a couple of days.

I don't disagree, I just think it's more effort than the 'regular function with about 30 lines of code' you first mentioned.
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In my case, it was Samsung UE46F5570.

Sure, all TVs will probably not do that, but before this one it wouldn't occur to me, that it could do that.

Lesson learned.
I live in China, and the CDN for Google Fonts (https://fonts.googleapis.com) works just fine from both my mobile and home internet connections.

The site for searching for fonts (fonts.google.com) doesn't appear to work, but that's not relevant to the self-hosting discussion.

If you also live in China, please try to load https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Rozha+One (ideally without VPN, and using your ISP's DNS server).
What do you mean by "should be"?
The thing that always bothered me about v1 was that it was fast, but in many ways not that scaleable. I really under-estimated the importance of Pickle support for instance, because I didn't appreciate that that's how multiprocessing works in Python.

You might find this method particularly useful for meeting memory constraints: https://spacy.io/api/vocab#prune_vectors . This lets you reduce a large word vectors table to a small one by remembering the nearest neighbours for the words you prune out. So if you have a rare word like 'biophysicist', you can map it to the vector for a word like 'scientist', and get a close-enough word vector for it.
I also added an amazon echo to my harmony hub, and I can use some voice commands (turn tv on/off, pause play, volume). It's a pretty good set up.
>You know, to some of us, that libertarian utopia sounds like a fucking nightmare.

Correct, nobody is obliged to help you. What a sense of entitlement!

So your only option is go ahead ask your government to arm twist rich people into funding your healthcare etc. ( and the rich includes the ones that have both legitimately and illegitimately obtained wealth).
I think that's the other way around. The fuses in that video trigger a tiny exclusive as a side effect of blowing. IIUC Tesla'a fuse blows because an explosive is triggered.
You can also go into the Customization Menu and remove the Search Bar there while keeping the search engines.
Does that mean that it can run on a Raspberry Pi?
Very difficult to judge this performance given the time frame and the strategy - not sure that comparing it to the general market makes any sense.
Why would you allow users to change their display name? It's a forum, not social media.
Unfairly competing?

Thats the weirdest example which doesnt describe India.
Two reasons: leverage and taxes.

With REITs, there is typically no leverage and the dividends are taxed as ordinary income. If you invest in real estate directly, you can borrow at low rates and the tax treatment is better through deductions, depreciation, 1031 exchange, etc.
Justice League the Parody ;)
The only way I see limiting the impact of traffic increases on self-driving cars is for municipalities to pass laws ahead of time limiting the amount of self-driving cars on the road to a specific number, much like Singapore [0] (or tie it to a percentage of the town population, say 10%)

A town could say, for instance, "we will only allow 3,000 self-driving cars to be actively driving within our borders". If transportation needs are not met, then it's time to start thinking about other improvements like walkability, biking, buses, etc. Realistically though, this would never happen in the United States. Either people would sue to get that law repealed, or every time the cap was hit those in charge would just raise it to keep their constituents happy...

Without strict agreements ahead of widespread self-driving car adoption, I think it's just going to be a free-for-all with lots of car companies freely pushing their products into towns, and the people of course are going to welcome it.

[0] http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/24/news/singapore-car-numbers-l...
It still feels like this approach runs on anecdote, and on equivocation between "techies" and "billionaire tech CEOs".

People with enormous power and wealth are frequently terrible across all industries. I'm still fairly convinced Kalanick has more in common with Weinstein and Miki Agrawal than your average trenches-level programmer, simply because power corrupts. (If tech has a singular problem, it's that startup culture means some people are in power for their whole careers.)

And at the trenches level: yeah, brilliant assholes are a thing in software. And classical music, and physics, and law, and... They're all specialized fields with noninterchangeable work, power-law payouts, and room to minimize human interaction in daily work.

I don't disagree with you that this happens in the field, and I definitely appreciate hearing from people in the field who might agree with this article. But it still feels like there's a pattern of comparing Silicon Valley to Wallstreet, while ignoring the myriad other fields with similar dynamics. That, not the existence of assholes, is the part that feels agenda-driven to me.
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Maybe. The naive approach definitely has a strong filtering effect, but there's more than one non-naive approach, though. Some of those are narrowing, and others are widening. Google seems to prefer the narrowing ones.
Cant read wsj, is there any other source? Thank you.
Lesson one: Payment processors are taxing bodies. The degree to which your society operates without cash is the degree to which your governing bodies lose all control over the supply of money in your nation. Value of your currency is handed over to payment processors who do little beside moving numbers from place to place, and charge a percentage cut of every such movement on the fictional basis of moving larger numbers somehow costing more or being a harder service to provide. Should the payment processors wish your currency to be in greater supply, they will lower their rates. Should they wish to restrict the supply of money, they will raise them. Their influence is more flexible and has many fewer restrictions than stodgy old things like 'central banks'.
For some perspective, note that many professional designers subscribe to a paid subscription model CDN like Adobe TypeKit.
I found a review of the Harmony Link because I have no idea what, exactly, it is. From what I can tell it's basically an IR blaster that can be controlled via an iPad/iPhone/Android app. There are some value-add features, like access to local TV listings from the app. It sounds like there were limitations, such as not being able to actually schedule recordings from it - in fairness, the review I found was from 2011 and firmware/app updates may have changed this.

But at it's core, the device is an IR blaster accessible over some sort of network interface. It makes no sense that this would NEED some kind of cloud service for regular operation. I can, however, see two pieces that greatly benefit from a cloud service:

1) Initial setup. There are constantly new TVs, DVD players, cable boxes, etc with their different IR codes and quirks. The cloud service would be a good way to house this database so that it can be continuously updated without needing to push a firmware and/or app update. Each firmware/app update could include a base set of IR codes, or all codes as of the time the update was built, so that you can get base functionality without needing the service. Once you've picked a set of devices it can download the codes once and not require continuous access.

2) TV listings. This seems to be one of the value-added features with the Harmony and there's no realistic way to bake this into the app or firmware. This needs to be a cloud service.

Sure, maybe the TV listings will go away, I get that. I even get that they may want to discontinue the product and no longer support the app. But that's no reason to brick a bunch of devices - just say to people "This is no longer supported, the app may stop working with future OS updates, and the TV listings are going to go away."

Ideally they'd also say "Here's our internal API guide that the hardware guys gave to the software guys, enjoy". And in a perfect world, "Here's the github link to our firmware source code that we just released under a BSD license, enjoy."
Can always learn, what not to do.
A few seconds of research suggests that it's worth investigating more (i.e., it seems like Chrome extensions might be supported without too much effort).
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This is exactly why I went with SimpleControl and an IR blaster. I saw the writing on the wall with the Harmony platform, and it really is a product that a small team can maintain. SimpleControl is far from the only app in this space, but their solution fit my use case best.
Source?

And did you mean Bold Monday? The ones who made the mono font for iA Writer?
DNT will become legally enforced in the EU soon enough.
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It is true that the Realtyshares/Fundrise/Realtymogul holdings may not be marked to market, and therefore have less apparent volatility. However, it is highly likely that if you tried to sell your holding during a market downturn you would need to take a significant discount to the face value to liquidate your position. The discount would probably be in a very similar range as the REITs at the same time. Private investments may have low apparent volatility, but more often than not, their economic volatility is actually greater than their liquid, publicly traded counterparts.
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They're not down 10% and market gains are not risk free.

Performance can really only be compared with risk free returns (ie. TIPS). Anything else and you have to look at a bunch of other factors like volatility, VAR etc.
He asked for this, ha ha
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So a digital Fed. Who says a government can't regulate the payment processor?
But the only add-ons I actually use are ad block, tab groups, and lastpass.

A half measure doesn't win me anything.

I still use Chrome on my phone, so I get tab sync back by switching, which I gave up to gain tab groups.

I buy in to Google's ecosystem with a personal account and 2 business accounts. The slight integration is nice.

I also generally prefer Chromes UI.

Again, I appreciate my use case is niche, I'm not saying Mozilla have made a mistake and should bow to my whims, I'm just saying I was on Chrome for more than half a decade, I switched to Firefox specifically for tab groups. With them seemingly going away, all things being equal I prefer Chrome.
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Yep, neural network interpretability research involves quite a bit of staring a pretty pictures. It's a difficult job, but someone has to look at all those images. :P
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