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Too bad I don't have the time to read the long comment thread on there right now. Hopefully I will remember to do so after work. :)
Instances like this are really interesting to me, as it seems early on in the thread the commit the broke Photoshop was identified, yet it took them 5 years to finally commit a fix. From the outside it's easy to say the wine devs are lazy/stupid for not having fixed it right away, but I suspect there is a story buried in there that tells why it wasn't that simple.
There are many outlier things that are only of a certain value because some group of people decide that they are: art, baseball cards, collectible postage stamps, brand label clothing goods ($3,000 purses or shoes), venture capital valuations, and so on.

Why is a new Ferrari so expensive? Ferrari could manufacture a lot more cars if they wanted to. They could also charge less, their margins are tremendous. It's an obvious function of supply and demand. The price is so high because people say it's worth paying that. It's that simple. If all of their customers suddenly decided it wasn't worth paying that, Ferrari would either lower their prices or go out of business.

Even bond ratings are often open to significant subjectivism that can swing their value considerably.

If enough people decide that a Bitcoin is worth $100,000, then that is what they will be worth. That is in fact how most things in the world are valued. Bitcoin's scarcity and the fact that in the near future it will become almost impossible to mine new coins, adds to the premise.

The question is: does Bitcoin's low utility value and ease of trading in proportion to its market cap, particularly open it up to dramatic whims of the mob? Yes, which you see in its volatility. That won't change until or unless it finds greater baselining usefulness.
The SVM one is a little odd I think? Should all linear leaners (including naive Bayes, logistic regression, perceptron and SVM) - not share the same architecture in terms of nodes? As far as I understand it, the difference is rather in how the discriminator is learnt?
Landlord, utility companies, car mechanic, partner, and kids roll on the ground from the laughter as well.
Except for the "high quality coverage" (which previous poster in fact disputes), what has that to do with his argument "on a purely cartographic level" ?
> Shinkansen are very popular in Japan. I don't know how you could not call them a success story.

The Shinkansen may have some popular (profitable) lines, but it took a long time for the service to shed the lines which were built for purely political reasons under JNR. The fascist approach to building rail lines relies on hiding the true cost of rail (across private land) in subsidies and loans which are structured out of successors and written off by the government.
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I bet you also use GIMP because you never understood how Photoshop is superior, right? sigh

Open-source software is definitely inferior, why people keep ignoring this obvious fact?
Yeah - I've consulted for years for about 4 governments, going from department to department. I still think I'm far too hopeful. The whole thing is utterly corrupt, the politicians running things have utter disdain for actually running things (to the point that they have their security agents shove them aside sometimes - seen that happen). To say that the vast majority of the government - both politicians and bureaucrats - from high to low, everyone, doesn't care about running the place is a complete understatement.

And the government is so full of abuse, it's just disgusting. The thing is even "unintentionally corrupt" as I call it. Regulations that get important things done (especially where it pertains to hiring, consulting, real estate, ...) by just asking it in the right (and "published") location and person. Then, they tell this to 2-3 companies and the rest have to figure it out on their own. Then, of course, they switch to actually corrupt, and change where they need to ask a few months later.
> IMO, the lack of web client for Apple Maps makes it the worst of the bunch. Vendor lock-in is a tragedy.

Yeah, on any other OS your [1] just redirects to Google Maps:

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.1972615,5.7689729,17.5z
I'm not sure how/where you're getting "and completely free" from. Windows 10 is not legally "infinitely free."
Related to a question down below. My employer filed concurrently i140 and i485, with EAD and AP. It sounded below like once the EAD goes through I could start looking at for profit side projects or similar things? Or do I need to wait for a green card?
Find me a private hire firm, operating across the entirety of metropolitan Melbourne (Australia), with a pickup time of under 30 minutes, with a rate that is available to someone you wouldn't describe as "independently wealthy".

I'll wait.

Of course, I've tasked you with an impossibility. You're saying I should use a service that doesn't exist. The only way that services like the one we're talking about work is by having a surfeit of vehicles available, and the only service that has that in Melbourne is uber.

You can call what I was saying a "silly stance", but you're saying that from a position of ignorance.

Perhaps, for a moment, you should consider the outside perspective.

On the other hand, if you do find the service I described, please let me know. I'd like to use it.
Firefox does on Android, not on iOS.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-ons-firefox-ios
Windows 10, maybe not, but Windows Vista and XP and 2000, on the other hand...
> That's worth a lot. Worth enough to you? I don't know. Worth enough to me that I'd pay more than the going taxi rate, though.

Uber has "invested" billions of dollars (double digits) in making itself cheap. That tells me that if they were even just comparable in price to taxis, they would never be able to survive.
> It creates a healthier society in long run if people cannot spend money they don't have

Ok, now explain this:

https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-debt.htm

Denmark, Holland and Norway are nobody's idea of unhealthy societies -- and households there have well over double the debt load of US households.
AFAIK, GDPR doesn't tell you there need to be an automated way to delete the data. If people can send you a mail with the request and you manually delete it, that's also fine. So if no one will use it, you basically don't have to do anything and be compliant (to this specific GDPR rule).
Please do not point out duplicates without discussions and only a few upvotes, unless there are a ton of them. HN does allows limited duplicates.
I completely agree that The GIMP and Inkscape are not a sight on Photochop. It's quite obvious - the former are developed by volunteer hobbyists, the latter by a paid team of engineers who have focused job titles.

But that doesn't make them inferior, because user-interface consistency and ease of use are not the only metrics used in the real world to select software by.
I wish they introduced a "motorcycle" vehicle type. At least for cities, it makes a big difference in arrival time estimations.
That's exactly what's happening to me as well. I think it shows a battery percentage based on (old) current voltage which dramatically decreases with low temperature, i.e. when you pull your phone from warm pocket in cold weather.
I'm sure MS would like everyone to get their software from the Windows Store, but I've been using Windows 10 for a year and a half and I've never used the Store. Regular installers still work fine.

Android is actually more restrictive, since you can distribute software outside the Google Play Store but hardly anyone does.
Like in Paperclip Maximizer, except instead of paperclips, the universe will be tiled with humans forever clicking on ads.
Unless you're writing a programming tool it's very unlikely that most of your users are highly technical users who think like a programmer.
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I'll bite. Ignoring the obvious bait it is an interesting question.

Windows 10, by default, comes with Microsoft spyware (or settings) which one has to remove.

Running Windows 10 native isn't always possible or desirable.

You can run WINE (and CrossOver, the commercial 'version' of WINE) on any platform including Linux (e.g. Ubuntu), macOS, and [recently] ChromeOS.

Its also being used in more obscure OSes like *BSD and Illumos. And its a core part of ReactOS, which is basically a native FOSS Windows version which can run software backwards compatible.

One could even run WINE on say a Raspberry Pi, together with QEMU. Also, not every architecture has a good HVM with virtually no performance loss. Think of ARM or older Intel/AMD CPUs (if you'd reapply the cooling paste these machines could still run just as new).

Finally, if you'd run Windows 10 in a HVM you'd have a lot of additional bells and whistles. Though IIRC it is possible to just run one application in one window with say VMware or VirtualBox.
Cycling is a relatively new feature even on Google maps. I believe it appeared about three years ago?

While Apple is still playing catch-up, it appears to me that cycling, and all other features mentioned in the article, are exceptionally ameliorable to machine learning, and its advances over the last few years.

Apple being the only other company in the world with access to the wealth of position data on users' phones, and the financial muscle to purchase any satellite images they want to get their hands on, shouldn't have too much of a difficulty of replicating these.
Let's create the language of the internet
One of the biggest challenges we face today is that we all speak different languages and learning a new language is pretty hard (at least for most of us).

It’s also hard to translate existing languages accurately, because of the many different ways in which languages are structured.

My goal is to create a beautiful language that people inherently understand, is easy to convey and can be expressed easily. Rather than using a new form of letters and words, I thought of creating an alphabet of expressions based on something like “Emojis”.

Each expression can be tagged to words or word groups, and jointly these can express how we think and feel. We can all understand it and express it though our smartphones.

What do you think?
Should this be changed to the non-AMP link? https://www.reddit.com/r/litecoin/comments/7kzw6q/litecoin_p...
> ticking up like a Bitcoin price tracker

Fitting comparison - we can also expect performance degradation similar to Bitcoin's.
From my Uber conversations I was able to piece together that one of the sweetest benefits was that you could be paid instantly for your work, equivalent to cash in hand rather than waiting up to a month for a payslip.

The other was that 2-3 years ago one Uber driver claimed he was grossing up to £7000 a month working 16 hours a day 7 days a week.
Maybe you're both right? I do think there's a different type of competition here. Apple has their own mapping app as a hygiene feature of their platform, whereas Google is building out Google Maps as a platform of itself.

I'm sure Apple would love it if you used Maps so much that it created ecosystem locking, but I doubt Apple is too upset that you downloaded Google Maps on your iPhone.
What is better or worse should also include a cost/benefit analysis on the price of the product(s). That should include the cost of things like support, or the cost of in-house experts.
This seems like a very naive view to me. This attack on Wine is by extension an attack on Linux, or otherwise I don't understand it. Wine exists for convenience for Linux users to use Software that has not been made available on Linux.

Some advantages of Linux:

* Can choose from a variety of window managers to suit your needs, from windows-like (Chalet, Zorin), to developer focussed (eg i3)

* Linux is free. Windows 10 isn't, unlike you claim. Unless I'm been mislead, the Windows 10 for-free offer was simply an ugrade for existing Windows installs; not a free to all offering. It's therefore unavailable unless you've already 'bought-in' to the Microsoft ecosystem.

* Linux has had updating figured out for years and lets you update in the background. Windows still pesters you do reboot.

* Package managers are a much more efficient way to download and install software than any way I have seen on Windows.

Some disadvantages of Windows 10:

* Bundled with a lot of bloatware (from what I have seen)

* Tracking / selling user data (PII? Not sure.)

* Ads on the start menu

Plus, with the existence of Linux, at least Microsoft doesn't have a full monopoly over the PC OS market. That said, I'd rather have myself be nestled firmly in the hands of a community than a corporation.

I still wonder why Windows exists when Linux is such an excellent OS. /s
Wow! Thank you for all that. I stalked you via the data URI on your profile to get your email address, then I Googled that to find your DeviantArt, which had your location.

I'll look in the details of NSW transport when I get back to my computer. It sounds complicated, but similar to the way I derived the Kaohsiung bus network from the real-time GPS coordinates. I didn't make a map for that yet though, just KML files.
> if they were even just comparable in price to taxis, they would never be able to survive

In the quiet words of the Virgin Mary, [citation needed].

Uber has invested millions of dollars into something. One of those things is, undoubtedly, expanding. One of the facets of expanding is, undoubtedly, lowering fares.

Does this mean that an uber-like service must run at a net loss in order to provide their service? Of course not.
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User installs ”Chrome” from Windows Store, gets malware and crap. I’d bet 87% of the users would blame Google, not Microsoft.
> Other than a currency

You answered the question there is nothing more than that.

Which bring us back to the question, just because it's a currency, its a scam?
Recently, I spoke to a guy who was working in IT department of one telco company and he told me that they did analysis on which platform (Facebook Messenger, Viber, WhatsApp) is mostly used based on number of data which flew through their infrastructure.

I think regulations of big players is what small businesses and end users can profit of, definitely.
I skimmed it and saw at least two attempts that were backed out for various reasons.
Hyper-V can run a full-blown Linux kernel + OS with virtually no performance loss compared to native (on recent x86-64 hardware).

There's also Windows Subsystem for Linux. You can get a full-blown OS like Ubuntu or SuSE that way. Well, that is, sans Linux kernel and sans X11.
Every stock IPO spikes, of course this will lead to atleast a temporary price spike.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic but that's a big overstatement. There are a lot of big cities (capitals) around the globe where the cab industry is a pure scam. There's no such thing as GPS tracking, price transparency, apps and whatsoever. No wonder Uber took over.
A CEO of a publicly listed company doesn't liquidate all their shares because there might be a perceived conflict of interest. That would signal disbelief at the top and send the share price tumbling. Similarly, I struggle to see how the founder of Litecoin believes that Litecoin could be the future of money when he liquidates all his LTC. And I don't see any upside to LTC's market share after he publicly declares that he is no longer invested in Litecoin.
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It's also a vote of confidence. Many people, including me, assumed that Bitcoin Cash would rapidly become worthless and sold it off immediately. Having the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world support it means it may actually hang around for a while.
Gas: Shits out CO2 and others, short lifespan, order of minutes to respond (less if forewarned)

Hydro: Used in the UK to provide peak backup (however thats pumped storage not generation. given the droughts and irrigation usage in aus, not the best idea) requires time to warm up. Has large environmental impact unless using a natural dam (~60 seconds to respond)

pump solar: I'm assuming you mean CSP (https://www.sulzer.com/en/applications/power-generation/rene...) for the sunny parts of Aus, possibly a good choice. Not cheap though (No response time, cannot operate as a base load)

Liquid salt storage: See above, less efficient, slow response time (unknown response time. Suspect in the order of tens of minutes, as heat has to be transfered into water for steam, better as base load)

Geothermal: needs the correct rock formation (again, unknown response time, better as base load)

Large scale solar + wind: Storage is the problem. The amount of lithium required to proper storage is utterly vast. (depends very much on the storage medium and controller, also the amount of wind solar in the preceding days)

Tidal: requires the right geology, can have massive environmental impact, power comes when it wants, but is predictable.(Has some ability to provide backup outside of high/low tide. )

Decentralised x: horrifically expensive, however the cost can be passed directly to consumers. Keeping it all in sync requires decent infrastructure. (without a new and secure mechanism unlikely to provide grid backup, but could be used to dynamically cut load. )

In conclusion nuclear provide a brilliant base load, which can be used for things like charging the various storage devices, or allowing for solar to not work at night. Its relatively cheap across an entire life cycle, and surprisingly dependable. In terms of environmental impact, significantly less that the constant low-level pollutants that are emmited by coal & gas, and the environmental changes caused by hydro. Also Lithium mining has a large environmental impact too, as does PV production.
Photography laws are similar. I cannot just see you on the street, shove a camera in your face and take your portrait and then proceed to do whatever I want with the image. The resulting image is property of both the photographer and the subject. (Exceptions for people in the background of landscape/architecture etc and 'people of public interest' such as politicians.)
I had the good fortune that my high-school mathematics teacher introduced complex numbers as “compound numbers”, with two “components” that defined a point on a plane, one of which was multiplied by a “orthogonal coefficient” that just happened (fabula mirabilis!) to be the square root of minus one that so vexed us when solving certain types of quadratics.

Totally nonstandard terminology, but pedagogically very sound approach that was totally at odds with the official syllabus... she just “filled us in” with ‘synonyms’ a while later so that we would not be totally baffled when sitting our exams (the IB).

It has served me well ever since.
Conversations does optimize for ease of use versus configurability, which is great, but most people have stuff to do, and figuring out what XMPP parameters to use etc isn't in that list. That's why making something that's as simple as possible is very important.

Conversations could go even further and hide the XMPP details, connecting to (or creating an account on) a default server, and have the "advanced" settings behind a "I already have an XMPP account" link.
Wow, thanks a lot for sharing. It looks wonderful.

One thing that I am wondering is: as much reluctant as I am in using Google services, I must admit that Google Map is unbeaten -- in my own experience -- in finding the quickest route in traffic. Is there any alternative service for this purpose?
Unfortunately this can give ammunition to the anti-neutrality lobbyists. "See, everyone is doing it anyway."
and since this seems to be down, here's a mirror:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170201214420/https://law.duke....
> Nokia's Here

HERE was sold by Nokia in 2015
My anger is directed towards the press and NTSB who rush to hold engineers harmless in these accidents.

As for heart attacks, AFAIK this has been standard equipment for ages:

Locomotives have a deadman pedal that must
be constantly pressed and periodically
released to ensure the driver is still there
and awake.[1]

So, when a train is traveling at almost three times the appropriate speed, it is being done on purpose.

My argument is simple: If engineers will not be held to responsible when people die because of a speeding train, then what's the point of having an engineer?

[1]: https://www.quora.com/What-if-the-train-driver-gets-a-heart-...
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500 seems like a fairly low number to me, I'm surprised it's not more like 1000.
I live in Italy.
Can I get (legally) the works of Willa Cather and G. H. Hardy (the mathematician)?
According to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_in_public_domain
they enter the public domain in 2018 as well.
Well, he's probably wealthy beyond what he thought possible. Good time to get out of the game.
Since I'm the most clumsy person of all time, I have to add these two things to any phone. It being pretty thin, it still fits my hand pretty good.
Doesn’t seem to match what’s written here: https://www.uscis.gov/tools/glossary/country
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Regarding All of Statistics, the author states that the 'reader is assumed to know calculus and a little linear algebra'. It's a good book, though think you'd have a tough time with only 'a bit of algebra'.
The root cause is an engineer who drives the train at almost three times the speed limit --- not lack of PTC. The answer is to hold engineers accountable when they recklessly kill people.

Do you think these same engineers who flaunt speed limits now will be more or less likely to do dangerous things when there PTC? Does having PTC mean absolutely no chance of an accident when an engineer behaves recklessly?
I don't think that's how Google approaches product development. I was wondering the same, i. e. "what are building shapes actually good for". But if you look at the article's screenshots, i think the obvious answer is: they're simply more fun to look at, and maybe add a certain sense of what a neighbourhood looks like.

If this were a feature for something like drone landing, it wouldn't show up in the public rendering of maps. Google has boatloads of mapping information they don't show, such as travel times, detailed scenic values, allowed turns etc. And building shapes alone are both too little for landing a drone (it doesn't show detailed vegetation or power lines), as well as too much (you only need flat/not flat to land, not the detailed roof shape of different sections of a building).
A very reasonable comment. I can't see that as a right move in the sense the author of LTC is stating. Also, now it makes more sense to me why Satoshi is/was anon.
Sure, but what Uber offers is to make this ubiquitous and save me from having to learn the subtle variations of the local taxi markets in each place I visit.
Ah, the idiotic libertarian response. Just the other day I got a small cheque because I'm an investor in a local solar scheme.

Renewables work, have very modest maintenance requirements, and the intermittency can be managed. It's ridiculous that Australia isn't getting at least 30% of its energy from solar.
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EU should make a rule like that
When pointing out that the king is naked is considered an insult to and by the people clapping about those amazing invisible clothes, one needs to seriously examine if he or she wants to be the person clapping
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