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Kudos Project raises $6M with an ICO, aims to eliminate tipping
Keep an eye on power. ARM, in general, has a useful-work-per-watt number that is very hard for x86 to hit. If useful-work-per-rack-slot is equal, and the power is lower, ARM has a good way to attack the rack.
Flagging this article because you disagree with the data presented or its conclusion seems to violate the spirit of Hacker News.
> Flexibility is great, but if anything the lesson mongo taught us over the past few years is that stability and safety are more important, and will cause you less of a headache in the long term.

It sounds like you don't really need clarification, that you've learned the same lessons I have, but that you're just prioritizing differently and explicitly choosing "stability and safety" over flexibility (adaptability/agility).

I go the other way. The biggest software costs in my experience are wanting to pivot on this or that business idea/requirement but being severely hindered[1] due to some unnecessary data taxonomization decisions that are so woven into the code (via ADTs/entity types) presumably for "safety" or "stability".

By locking things down with ADTs and type taxonomies you most certainly get stability, I won't argue with that. But that stability by definition is rigidity. I want things to be dynamic. I want to be able to readily change my code assets because in most business operations the future demands that.

Do you get "safety" with this stability as well? Probably, perhaps - but this would warrant a whole conversation about what is safety.

In a dynamic/agile business environment, I personally will give up a little bit of safety for agility and dynamism. Because having an easily-fixable bug show up in production is far less costly to me than being paralyzed by an increasingly rigid/"stable" system that is hard to modify for future purposes. And even if I'm truly worried about bug volume, I can decouple that concern with the code agility concern. That is, I don't have to weave my bug mitigation concern into my codebase via hard type taxonomies. I can use other measures like code reviews, QA & testing, etc. and turn the knob up or down on these as a I see fit.

The systems that weave all these concerns together in my experience always become harder and harder to bring new capability into. This is and should be no surprise, though. The world does not fit neatly into static, hard-line taxonomies. Our OCD minds would love it if it they did and people really try to make it fit into that (hence all the ADT hoopla we see everywhere) -- but in my experience the world always finds creative ways to frustrate our taxonomies...and systems that predicate themselves on a taxonomy always get frustrated by that.

[1] Severely hindered means that something that should take very little time with very little impact on your app suite and very little coordination across the codebase(s) and team(s) instead requires all of these things.
Still over the limit by about 70mi, friend.

And you cut out the second largest city in the state, to do so.
It's a thing that stupid people and conspiracy theorists believe. Living away from the coasts has nothing to do with it and it's quite frankly insulting to even insensate that being a reason people believe such malarkey.
You could always try something simpler like mobx.
This is a pretty big gamble right? I mean if they buy a billion dollars worth of high end cars and regulation or tech fails to remove the driver from the equation then they just have a much more expensive fleet than the competition?

I’m calling it: the “autonomous fleet” will be manned and the drivers will be doing telemarketing calls or similar 95% of the time, and only drive when the AI can’t.
Yup. Perhaps the github links can be updated to reflect this awesomeness?
> And given how bad people drive even with rainstorms, I'd put the money on the computers.

In the long term, yes, definitely. And I am looking forward to the day.

But it is going to be a while, and it is going to be a while longer until all the politicians and insurance companies are convinced of that, too.
Link to the paper: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2387687
> Benford's law does not apply to unary systems such as tally marks.
> Does that mean Benford doesn't work for counting things like votes or people?

Follow the links in the bit you quoted. It means numbers that are represented in a particular way, not those that represent the number of a particular thing.
L train -> 2,3 train -> Penn Station -> Newark in 15 minutes. This is where the plethora of apps out there really help if you're not intimately familiar with these options.

Also, people should not be afraid of the connecting M60 bus when taking the subway en route to LaGuardia.
This is great - cool idea. I'll register as this is something I really care about and this saves me research and time. It also helps me consider which meals I'd like to make.

I'd be willing to pay a small monthly fee for this data being curated for me when you get the database a bit more fleshed out.
When I hear someone say "I'm going to leave the country because of taxes" I say, don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.
> In a sandbox even I, as the owner of the computer, can't let them out of. That's not cool.

If you want unsandboxed extensions, you can install Nightly or Dev Edition and flip the extensions.legacy.preference. The basic problem with providing a simpler escape hatch on release Firefox is that if you compare the number of users who are equipped to make an informed choice about allowing extension X arbitrary access to browser internals versus the number of users who will be tricked into letting malware do terrible things, the second number is multiple orders of magnitude larger than the first. I understand why folks are unsatisfied with the "use Nightly or Dev Edition with the preference flipped" solution but I am certain that it is the least bad option.
The American Civil War suggests the opposite may be true when the "your" in "your government" starts to become unpacked. "All civil wars are bad" produces logical contradictions such as both the rise and the fall of the Soviet Union were bad.
Oh wow, you've got issues! I don't really have any advise for you, but I definitely feel better about myself now :)

So, thanks for that, and good luck!
I’ve been using Chrome since the very first release, and yet never knew about your point #2. Thank you for sharing!
Probably won't happen but has Canada been completely ruled out?
This site has recipes like that. Most of them have 5 or less ingredients and take less than 30 minutes http://thestonesoup.com/blog/start-here/
Imagine for instance, the abundance of food based on the landscape in civilizations thousands of years ago. High abundance of animals to eat led to different natural selection than low abundance (which in some ways forces things like agriculture). These things matter, why are we turning a blind eye and screaming bloody myrfer at the truth?
I think you're lucky a fax was not involved.
The market is defined by the regulatory environment. Without a regulatory environment, markets couldn't exist.

Imagine a market where property ownership wasn't enforced!
Only ideologues like to pretend that this enforcement should come at no cost.
DJB's approach to the problem:

"Nowadays I am much more insistent on programming language support for smaller-scale partitioning, sane bounds checking, automatic updates of “summary” variables (e.g., “the number of nonzero elements of this array”), etc. By “sane bounds checking” I don’t mean what people normally mean by “bounds checking,” namely raising an exception if an index is out of range; what I mean is automatic array extension on writes, and automatic zero-fill on reads. (Out of memory? See Section 4.2.) Doing the same work by hand is silly"[0]

[0] https://cr.yp.to/qmail/qmailsec-20071101.pdf
I think it depends on what your DPI is set to. The resolution itself doesn’t necessarily mean much, but typically 3k+ resolutions are accompanied with > 96dpi configurations.
Last December I started getting interested in "hardware stuff", and so I bought myself an Arduino, and started experimenting with it. Very quickly I moved over to using the ESP8266 chip, which is typically packaged in a small board with a bunch of breakout pins, just like the Arduino.

The advantage of the ESP8266 chip, and the various packaged versions of it, is that it can be programmed via the same Arduino IDE, but it has on-board wifi-support.

The board that I'm mostly using these days has 4Mb flash, and can easily be used to serve static & dynamic content from that space. The board I use is approximately 3cm x 4cm:

https://wiki.wemos.cc/products:d1:d1_mini

That's not the smallest, and it wouldn't cope with SMTP-handling, but sending simple/static HTML/CSS/JS and processing HTTP POST submissions is entirely within its capabilities - and it'll only cost you €3 or so.
To find new, interesting, and possibly tasty things.
The inertia of the atmosphere. The inertia of the helicopter probably wouldn't be enough to fly in the 1000mph winds if the atmosphere wasn't moving with the earth.
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Funds with international investors often incorporate in a place like the Caymans. If the fund was incorporated in the US, a UK investor "deal with" US+UK tax, even if they don't visit or do business in the US.
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I enjoyed these, http://philosophybites.com/hobbes/
Cheers, that's very interesting! I didn't realise there would be a difference in efficiency of that much.
Hidden behind a paywall, is it possible to get a mirror? I'm curious to see if it will be self-drive or assisted driving. Volvo thinks they can create the tech and mass produce 24,000 in the next 2 years, so how's their progress so far?
When you open or stat a directory that doesn't exist, try to checkout that path, if that fails, return an ENOENT error?
Indeed, the signal metric is important. Queue depths or time from queue insert to removal work fairly well as it directly relates to the tasks performed.
> the fact that a deal with IBM meant they had "won it"

The IBM deal meant that DOS was going to be the Operating System for IBM's Personal Computer and became the de facto OS for all IBM PC clones. That was the deal that made Microsoft and shaped the tech industry for a generation. Indeed they won it.
I was trying to show extremities of India. 2500 per head is not really much if some drinks are added. I am glad that you did not go all the way to politician Raj Babbar who claimed for 10 INR you can get a full meal any where in India.
> I think this is true in the small.
> once you're working on a larger codebase

I won't hold my breath waiting for large projects coming out of Haskell.

If anything, boring and ad-hoc seem to win in the "large codebase" space. It's enough to look at all the projects that have come out (and keep coming out) of Java, and at the projects that are now coming out of Go and Rust. And then at the barren wasteland that is Haskell (or other languages so proud of their monads).

> they can be used for all of those examples and more

There's a probably a reason hardly anyone uses them as a language-level feature.
The left's nuclear problem
I imagine that’s the upstream :)

My situation is the opposite: workstation with a 10gbe connection the the corporate lan but upstream is capped to 2gbe.
The Most Important Rule in UX Design That Everyone Breaks
The strongest KASLR, ever?
It's an oft-cited paradox of consumer choice that people don't value things they didn't pay for. By making them pay a token amount, it gives them skin in the game. Similar to "suggested donation" at museums that are already full funded.
Oh I know that. I meant as a "how the role have reversed".

I could see in today's world how if Watson was picked as Windows' assistant instead of Cortana, news articles would talk about how IBM had "won it" with that project.
Never raise money before launching a product
I don’t know. I can see it being a feature both ways. As always, the balance between usability and security.

Keep in mind the algorithms for session management are complicated and a session might persist past when you thought it would.
This is a good book. Note that it's mostly concerned with (software implementation of) arbitrary-precision arithmetic; which is just one branch of computer arithmetic.
Amazon launches a cloud service for US intelligence agencies
A positive account of property rights
Windows ain't done 'til Lotus won't run! Just a little "friendly competition" in the words of 1985 NYT.
"barrier"?
I thought I would take a moment to sum up my thoughts on this sub-thread (from the comment I first replied to, downwards).

What I did wrong:

Fell back on a snide remark, when it would have been much more productive to properly explain myself to begin with.

The points I failed miserably to make:

- The commenter (jansho) talked about comments AND newspaper columns that they had read, then proceeded to list a number of quotes with no references.

- When asked for references, it transpired that they were mostly talking about the comments section of a newspaper website.

- I don't believe that it is fair/accurate to conflate opinions in the comments section of a website, with the website itself.

- It is not unreasonable to request some reference links to back up a blanket statement that goes on to includes quotes.

jansho:
"it’s pretty prevalent to associate minorities with a host of problems and crimes such as grooming and vandalism. The Rochdale story is absolutely disgraceful, but the comments and newspaper columns that I read scared me too"

- It is not unreasonable to want more than a single author of opinion pieces (i.e. Katie Hopkins, who I agree is a pretty disgusting individual) to back up the suggestion that this is a wide spread problem with newspaper articles.

My origin comment should not be interpreted as disagreement with the point being made. But if we are arguing with people who make blanket generalizations and statements, then we must try hard not to fall into that same trap, and to hold ourselves to a higher standard. This is the trap that I believe I and jansho fell into.

I wrote this reply to try to improve my own argument and to organise my thoughts on the subject more clearly - I don't expect anyone to read it, but if you have, I would like to hear your thoughts.
Google even does scummy bundling of chrome with popular downloads. I don't understand how people don't have problem with that.
I'm very familiar with NYC's options and with LHR. You compare JFK with LHR, not EWR or LGA (I suppose you'd compare EWR to Gatwick and LGA to City). To get to any reasonable business destination in London (City) area, you take Heathrow Express and then transfer to at least 1 or more tube. That is directly analogous to taking the AirTrain to an express train. When I leave my office on 59th & Lex, I walk to the 53rd street subway station and I'm at Terminal 8 in JFK in exactly 50 minutes, consistently. How is that any worse than LHR?

Just like when you're booking a ticket to/from "London", you don't pick Luton if you really mean Heathrow. If my destination was Williamsburg I would pick LGA if at all possible, otherwise JFK. Picking EWR and having to go across the city is not a good plan to start with.
OK, got you. Thanks. Follow up q- in that case what's wrong with sterilization? The dirt should still have b12 I think?

What about the bacteria though? Not a good idea?
At the bottom of the post is a link to volume 1 of a book about Apple Operating Systems, which presumably includes information about this new version of their operating system.
I've used it. It appears to have been designed more as a front end to the "online services" of the day, with presets for the big ones like CompuServe, rather than a generic RS232 terminal emulator program. The fact that it fared poorly on the VAX at work, or warez BBSes, may have doomed it.
> Next step: steer users to where they can get the produce.

This is very location specific to NYC but I've always used this site to get local farmer's market info: http://www.whatisfresh.com/
A good read. I believe the basics (internet, email, connectivity) of IT infrastructure should be a cost center, development of tools that assist the company in accomplishing their goals should not be.
This is pretty neat! I'm honestly surprised they didn't stagger this update with a new tiered availability pricing, kind of like the discounted S3 option for reduced redundancy.
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Sorry, that’s not making sense. In the MVC I am used to there’s only one controller active at one time and that controller owns the entire screen.
Factoid has two almost opposite meanings

1. an insignificant or trivial fact.

2. something fictitious or unsubstantiated that is presented as fact, devised especially to gain publicity and accepted because of constant repetition.
If it's as bad as it sounds, Saudi prayers for an economy after oil have just been answered.
You understood me absolutely correctly. I was talking about how to implement this rule globally. Now no one forbids me to do this within the family.
Baltimore, Detroit, and Newark, NJ are examples of cities that have essentially collapsed. Each of them were once prosperous and orderly places. And they're now third world tier.

In most cases the collapse occurred thanks to race riots that led to max exodus of productive citizens.
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I think you're confusing national politics and local politics. DeBlasio has been Mayor for 4 years. The prior 20 years worth of mayors were Republican^. The Governors of New York have been 12 years rep, 12 years dem in that same time period.

^ Bloomberg flipped around parties for convenience of elections. In regards to this topic he would be on the conservative side given that he was constantly butting heads with the transit unions.
Why do you say that? I don't see how that follows from beat's comment...
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I assume that you are not a foreign worker. For us,

>I wouldn't take a high-stress poor quality job even if it paid really well

isn't really an option when doing so risks upending our lives. Even if we don't plan to stay here permanently (I don't), the risk of having the application denied creates an enormous pressure for us to maximize the salary number.

Another angle that is overlooked is that the H1B program isn't just for tech and finance people. I have friends in the creative industry who are on H1B too, and their salary is never as high as ours. In that sense, abolishing the lottery and prioritizing by salary would absolutely deny them any chance of working in the US. Now, if you take the absolutist position that the H1B program is only there to fill positions that are not filled by Americans, then perhaps you'd be OK with that scenario, but I think the diversity (in terms of industry and skillsets, not demographics) provided by the lottery scheme is an important benefit of the program.
Thank you both for your replies!
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That's a problem with mobile games.

$10 for a mobile game is perceived as expensive. Many people say "I don't pay $15 for a mobile game", even if they are ready to pay $30 for the exact same game on a game console or PC. And if you look at Steam and the Android Play Store, you will often notice that the the mobile version of a game is often much cheaper, even though they are not significantly different.

Upfront payment simply doesn't work on mobile. Looking at the "most profitable" apps on the Play Store, the first non-free app is ranked 78th.
Both actually. Even with yarn and lock files, npm servers can (and eventually will) pull a rug from under you.

I have already been in a situation where a dependency version that I was locked to was simply removed from the official registry.

The right solution is to have your own registry or backup the archives of dependencies that you are using.

I think it is better to commit the archives rather than the whole node_modules as it does not produce a mess.
Congress party cannot do such things. Congress is ruling Punjab. Number of people having food in langar run by Sikhs is not common in Karnataka anyway. So canteen as anti-sikh symbol is not possible.
You may be able to submit your purchase receipt and get some partial reimbursement for it as an out of network expense.
The XC90 comes with a pretty good LKAS and ACC system, having recently test driven every car in that class, I can say it's the best one for under $60k (Highlander is pretty good too). But there's no way that Uber is going to be using the stock system for self-driving.
Andy Pavlo never ceases to amaze me! I'm adding this to my must watch list.
I agree. But for powers from 1 to 50 those same percentages are 30, 20, 10, 10, 10, 8, 2, 10, 0. In particular there is only one power of 2 in this range starting in 7 and none that ends in 9. This might make someone doing hand computation suspicious. (But really you can't tell much from such a small sample.)
Except that the whole point of Hobbes's sovereign is that there can be only one, because in his system divided sovereignty leads to anarchy. So any other entity that looks capable of sharing aspects of sovereignty with government is anathema to Hobbes - even if that entity also 'keeps the peace.'
The Europe vs US road/rail infrastructure debate is misinformed, woefully tired, and generally meaningless.

It's all state by state, or country by country anyway, and when we are specifically talking subways, it's city by city. It's at the city level that the debate leaves out of consideration the one city that is orders of magnitude above and beyond any other city in the world in terms of complexity and operational performance: Tokyo.

Forget the NY Subway, forget London's Tube, forget the Paris Metro or the Berlin U-Bahn, or the Hong Kong MRT for that matter... Everyone's attention should be focused on really understanding the Tokyo system and how it works.

NYC has 25 services over 20+- lines (depending on how you count.) That doesn't include PATH nor does it include Airtrain or any of the commuter lines that connect to the system and are part of the greater transit network.

Tokyo, when you really look at the whole interconnected system of rapid transit, and not the small part that is arbitrary, and IMHO incorrectly, called the "subway," (referring to the Tokyo Metro and Toei lines generally situated within the Yamanote circle,) you have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of services over hundreds and hundreds of lines...

The fact that all of these lines run on time to the second, with well maintained trains, with well maintained stations, with clear and up-to-date communications, with service focused on the passenger... Tokyo should be the model for the world.
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I wouldn't say that escaping from tech is really difficult or uncommon - it's more realistic to say that tech has a relatively good balance of money earned for the time spent working. A lot of other fields have the same or a lot more work for less pay, in addition to externalities (e.g. workplace injuries for jobs with a physical labour component).

Personally, I started in tech (infosec), and I currently own a food truck.
At least for Android development it will be quite an improvement.

Google made their Java fork, for Java 7 and 8 they only cherry picked features, even after migrating to OpenJDK.

The newly introduced bytecodes are not supported and the situation will only get worse with Java 9 and the new OpenJDK release schedule.

Specially given the lack of updates across the Android eco-system.

So only something like Kotlin allows to enjoy modern JVM languages while targeting Android.
In fact powers of any integer don't have a Benford-style distribution of their last digits, since those digits will repeat periodicially. For example powers of 2 end in 2, 4, 8, 6, 2, 4, 8, 6, ...