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Nassim Taleb is prime example of an IYI himself. He is often so busy denouncing what he perceives to be ivory tower intellectuals that he sweeps aside everything academia has ever created. Sure, some of it is not useful in the trading pit, but IMO in his hate of academia he is throwing away the baby with the bath water.
>TL,DR: If you want to get a nice, family friendly, comfortable urban environments -check the former USSR and the other Eastern Block countries.

I was in St. Petersburg, Russia a decade ago, and the parts of the city I saw that were built in the Soviet era looked anything but friendly and comfortable.
Silicon Beach refers to the Westside of LA. Most tech in LA is located on the west: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Beach
Points 5 & 6 are basically requests for change management (https://www.enterpriseready.io/features/change-management) features. This is SOOOO often overlooked by SaaS vendors.
When you know you will need directions, you can also look them up on desktop using generic origin/destination cities and emailing them to yourself on a non-Gmail email account.
I agree with a lot of what this says... this one in particular:

> Lack of PDF invoices

Seriously!?! Your target market is business they need receipts. I even have one service I have considered dropping because they have no receipts at all.
It wouldn't be that big of an act. Even smart people can be naturally inarticulate. And a big part of the reason he was perceived as being dumb wasn't even him saying stupid things, it was just him saying things in a way that was stereotypically associated with lack of intelligence.
I never claimed to be a member, let alone some sort of representative, I'm not nearly nice enough. It was more of a "leave those nice people alone with your trolling" than a "leave us alone".

Surprising is, that no one seems to have a problem with the technical side of what I posted. Just the fact I said a bad word. To wit, I have news for you, the guy who runs linux swears all the time at all kinds of people. I wouldn't touch the stuff if I were you.

Also still waiting to hear how a disk image looses a package when placed in a VM.
They registered with the nearest cell towers, and ask them to watch signal strength so they can make handover work. This is coarse location information (since the company that runs the cell towers knows where their own cell towers, and uses your current tower registration to figure out which cell tower to send a call to), and can be made a little more fine-grained if you use signal strength from the various towers and triangulate. This does not involve the Global Positioning System or other satellite-based positioning systems at all.

If it does not do this, it is not a cellular phone. There are other types of portable phones that don't work this way, like cordless landline phones (the base doesn't know where it is, just that it's plugged into a phone jack) or satellite phones. But the "cellular" part refers specifically to dividing up the terrain into cells, finding which cell the phone is in, and assigning it to a tower based on that determination.

(This is all pretty irrelevant to the point I was making above that cellular network operators can easily choose not to use the location information or signal strength information for anything other than routing calls, and that deciding that they can just use the information however they want would be creepy.)
>a government controlled entirely by the President's party

Not quite. They cannot easily get by a filibuster.
> The economic consensus on this topic was achieved long ago. Its a political issue , not an economic one.

Shamefully true, and now it has been exacerbated several fold by subsidizing single family homeownership for several decades.
Some details and screenshots: https://github.com/dailyprog/dailyprog.github.io/blob/master...
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I'm not sure if I would buy this conclusion without more data - it's quite possible that higher-IQ types are in qualitatively different roles than lower-IQ types in the same study. This would be very difficult to control for because if you do control such that you're comparing two individuals who are in similar roles but different IQ, you're then implicitly selecting for people who have other compensating characteristics.
Reconstructing an image using Meltdown vulnerability
Soon, Cars in Denmark Will Only Be Taxed at 100% (2017)
The smallest file we've gotten so far is 116 bytes. I went over it here https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7fn87w/rust_wa...
No, it’s generally considered to be the area west of the 405 from north of LAX to the Santa Monica mountains. Hundreds of tech companies, especially startups. (I work at one of them.)
Exactly. But only in the case that the vendor already has the channels to turn user data into profit at the scale of Google. Very few other vendors could probably.

Mining your input and serving it to millions scales really well. As long as they can do enough to keep the majority of their users happy enough to continue using the product it is most likely more profitable to get the data than sell the devices given the market for android phones and the position they are in.
I occasionally contribute to a fairly large home automation project named Home Assistant (https://home-assistant.io/)

They have an all in one operating system perconfigured for a raspberry pi or intel nuc dubbed "hass.io" that uses ResinOS under the covers:

https://home-assistant.io/hassio/

https://resinos.io/

Under the covers, ResinOS is a minimal Yocto embedded linux + docker + some ota stuff. Consider looking into that before building your own.
Yeah, I definitely don't. But I think a persistent "auto-play" toggle (default "off") is ok.
BART never solved the last-mile problem before ridesharing. The nearest station is a 10-minute walk to a 20-minute bus ride after a 30-minute wait. And that's a pretty direct 4 mile trip, from most locations it'd be worse. Driving myself isn't even an option unless I get there before dawn because BART can't keep up with demand for parking.
On modern phones, you are unlikely to observe any power savings by turning off GPS or "location services".

The GPS is only going to use significant battery power when it is acquiring or actively calculating fixes. No device or OS vendor would ship software that burns the GPS at all times--your device's battery wouldn't last more than a few hours.

The grandparent is totally incorrect about the GPS being the biggest battery hog on the device. Not even close, unless you are, 24 hours a day, navigating or running some other application that requires continuous (1 second duty cycle) GPS fixes. Even then, your backlight is likely consuming an order of magnitude more power.
Isn't that the same argument regarding ripping music CDs? If I pay for the musicians, manufacturing and distribution costs to put a CD in stores, etc.

Although, I think you're framing it wrong, you're not obligated to give the content, someone is just choosing to consume it in a way you hadn't intended.
According to the article, they are using NC24 VMS, which have 4 K80s attached. So yes, I would assume they are using GPUs.

Check out https://github.com/google/kubeflow if you are interested in doing the same.

(Disclaimer: I work for GCP doing K8s stuff, I know GKE clusters support GPUs and Kubeflow, not 100% sure if AKS supports it or if you need to set up your own cluster like OpenAI did.)
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They actively prompt users to review their privacy settings.

And yet I've found with multiple Android updates on multiple devices, they can reset things like Location Services back to "On/Fine" and othere things like enable NFC without telling you that it's happened.
When you say there aren't enough tech opportunities, what cities is this relative to?
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First, there will never be another "Silicon Valley". It's one of a kind.

Second, categorizing Seattle or LA as some kind of "up and coming" business area is disingenuous. Seattle has always had Microsoft, now also Amazon, and I'm sure many companies spun off from former employees of those.

LA is the second biggest city in the US, with all kinds of businesses and industries there. It's not trying to be the "Next Silicon Valley", it has it's own firmly established identity.
Shenzhen IO has these operations. They deliberately do not help. :)
Cloud uses clients, not peers, so those apps can be much more lightweight. I have tested down to 128M per Clojure (JVM) client, which is an order of magnitude less mem than a typical peer.
Think about it this way: if you already own a car, why would you use ridesharing? Taking a uber instead of public transit because you're late, or because it's faster than taking 2 buses to some one-off destination, however, seems entirely reasonable.
Question is why do we need a leader we relate to? We're not living in tribes any longer. The president of a country isn't likely to sit down and have a beer with us.
Many non-technical types just have the store staffer walk through those steps, and others aren't likely to understand the implications of those settings.
The API would be granted access by one of the parties.

So if the business runs the API, they’d use the business’s keys to read messages.

You wouldn’t need WhatsApp to have access even then.
That's incorrect about the Constitution. While it does not lay down specifics, it does give Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce. Known as the Commerce Clause, it's Article I, Section 8, Clause 3: "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;"
I'm not surprised at all that someone on HN replies to a positive story about some open-source product with unrelated bug complaints, then implies the bugs are due to malice on the part of the developers.
Actually, it's not clear if boom and busts are "a thing" in free markets. We've had far worse booms and busts, and at a higher pace, ever since the Federal Reserve was created and has artificially modified the interest rate.

The Fed lowers the interest rate because they have an incentive for the economy to perform well, because they want to look good (Alan Greenspan admitted he kept interest rates lower longer than he thought necessary because he wanted to retire on a high economy). This makes money cheap, so to speak, which creates incentive for everyone to borrow. Individually, this makes sense, but together, this ends in 2009-style.

On top of that, many monopolies are created via regulations and laws.

The fact that you're not even able to discuss these concepts or to realize that economists are incentivized to believe exactly the opposite of what I've said, because they financially benefit as central planners, mean that you are anti-intellectual, not the OP.
This creep factor was the main reason why I got another IPhone. As a developer I'd much prefer an Android (hating the Apple Store but thats another story), however as a user Android was a total no-go.
Title should be updated to reflect sign-up required.

Anything else I could say about their tactics would be less than charitable.
next step a stable coin based on collateralized cats.
He didn’t say they could. But tracks built today can be used forever, because wheel-on-rail technology has a hard limit at Mach 0.5 and we’ll never have faster trains than we have today.
If you've paid for using the music surely it's morally better to just torrent the tracks: It must be far less wasteful in energy and time. No one is suddenly going to get a copy tortuously that wouldn't have obtained one before.
::Are they actively sabotaging the Open Document Foundation, or is it just really difficult to achieve?

The former is a more likely scenario
> I'd also dispute that "the cheapest flight always wins", otherwise every flight would be run by a low-cost carrier.

For many popular routes the low-cost carriers would love to participate but can't, as there are no slots available. The incumbents get a major advantage for the fact they've been there long enough.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_slot
And that's kind of scary. I don't want some average Joe I can relate to being the most powerful person in the world. I want someone smarter than me with a lot of solid political experience who knows how to navigate issues while being pragmatic enough to get stuff done. Being president of the US isn't like being a plumber.
And I tried to turn the creepy Google Maps prompts off but could not. Why should these be opt-out —- should others be tricked into sacrificing their privacy for your convenience?
Overwhelmingly it's just regular users posting things they found interesting. Reposts are ok if a story is good and it hasn't gotten attention yet: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

What you're talking about exists, but as far as we know it has little impact on the site.
There are a number of disciplines involved.

Engineers at the foundry will range from those focused keeping the equipment aligned to produce functional structures on/in silicon over time, to engineers that design standard libraries of components to work at a given 'process' (the steps in going from wafer to chip for a given set of parameters/attributes).

The structures in silicon (or other semiconductor material) are the transistors mainly. These are created by embedding impurities in geographic locations and patterns in the silicon that change it's conductive properties. Embedding these impurities is called doping.

The structures on top of the silicon are conductors and insulators used for interconnecting all the transistors.

There will be engineers at the foundry (or a company that works with that foundry) that take a "netlist" from the customer and convert that into files that can be used by mask company to make masks for the layers of conductors and insulators the lay on top of the transistors, and also the patterns for doping the silicon.

Engineers at "tool vendors" will build software that takes a high level description of the desired functionality of the chip and turn it into the netlist that foundry engineers can use. The netlist is a decomposition of the high level description (such as x <= a * b) into the components in the "standard library" for that foundry. This library will contain basic components like AND gates and OR gates, but also more complicated things like IO pads and RAMs, and things like multipliers.

Then you have design and verification engineers at a given company that wants to build a chip. These tend to stay at the higher level, working in VHDL, Verilog, and SystemVerilog. Which are all pretty archaic by software language standards. And what is considered high level in this arena is about the C language level or below. So not so high from a software point of view.

I just spat this out off the top of my head, so apologies if I made mistakes.
That certainly used to be the case, but look at something like QML for Qt, and it's typically far more declarative and succinct than (most) HTML, eg: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qmlfirststeps.html

I'm not a frontend whiz by any means, but I've always found the widget-centric (GUI) approach fit my mental model better than the HTML centric one.

SPA architectures help, but I find most HTML designers tend to prefer raw HTML to any composed/widget approaches.

CSS (as a concept) is actually quite great, which is why you've seen the older GUI approaches adopt it. Qt itself is also leading more towards a reactive approach where you interact with an abstract data model, and the UI reflects the updates.
Such services won't realistically be a desktop app, since that pretty much requires them to give away their service and "secret sauce" in a way that's infinitely reusable / copyable for anyone who cares enough to extract it.

The usual situation for services like this is that it either runs on their servers, or you're willing a to pay sufficiently large amount to make it worth the full standard enterprise B2B sales process, a negotiated contract incl NDAs and liability and for them to do an on-site installation. So if you're a big organization that wants to care about trade secrets or classified information, then it can be arranged, but it's not manageable for individual consumers or small businesses.
An old theory of quantized gravity is gaining new life
> That's just evidence the southern states suck as business locations

New York and San Francisco didn't do anything to be New York and San Francisco. Their market power is the product of happenstance. In any event, that's irrelevant. If you're Acer, you can't pursue the same business model that works for Apple. All you can do is internalize reality and do the best you can for your stakeholders with what you've got to work with.
I tried on a larger color picture that was taken with a low quality phone camera and received entirely unimpressive results. It was hard to tell if anything had even been done.
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Fair point....
To be fair, the drivers are employees in a few countries nowadays :P
I'm guessing this will be a significant issue because of travel to/from Seattle. With 5+ hour flight times and a 3 hour timezone shift it will be nearly impossible to get from Seattle to the southeast on the day of a meeting, whereas you can be in Nashville by 2PM.
How you define intelligence? The person who knows their audience and speaks in a way that connects with them is more intelligent than one who does not. And this is not measured by an IQ test.
What license allows home users to use a virtualized MS Windows, do they allow it?
Here's a Docker tutorial I wrote targeted at beginners: https://docker-curriculum.com/
Agreed, which is why cities should ensure a certain level of population density around retail.
I think he meant Microsoft...
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> Every single admonishment was against regulations

Every single admonishment was against particular kinds of regulations. It's not at all clear that these amount to an argument against all regulation. In fact that strikes me as a very odd generalization... like saying "Java sucks so let's do away with software".
> That's like saying a transistor radio needs to know where broadcast antennas are, which is obviously absurd.

Cellphones are called cell phones because they divide the world into location-based cells which determine which antenna your phone talks to. At the very least, the telephone company knows which cell you are located in to communicate with you.
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d'oh! I'll leave my comment up as a warning to others to reread carefully before getting annoyed.
People are still hyped about Deep Learning, I think.
I’ll second these wishes. It’s actually a huge pain to hunt for the invoices/receipts every month for number of services. With the email option they could go directly to accountant.

Not sure how it's in US, but in those few European countries I'm familiar with you need a proper receipt (showing what was bought, VAT etc) for bookkeeping. Credit card statement is not enough.
Most of apartments that late USSR built would rank as "projects" in the USA. Yes there's less crime because their mixed occupants usually have work and life, but they're far from comfortable.

Most of NYC's homes are suburbia or town houses I guess (over tunnel and bridge) which for all of their shortcomings provide much better quality of life.
If you've been on HN for any extended period of time, this should not come as a surprise to you.
Snap lays off two dozen employees
Or, perhaps Putin is the wisest leader of all?
Great self-awareness he displays there
Or it could mean more cosmopolitan dwellers who understand living in a connected, diverse world that's always changing better than your average rural dweller.
Aside: Isn't Moore's Law dead, as strictly defined? We've been at ~.25TB to 1TB phones for a few years now.
Well, yeah, users typically don't care much about the code of something they use at all. Not that it should be otherwise but it's not exactly a new sentiment.
Because the post I'm replying to made the same equation, referring to "strict control" and naming places under such rule. In a discussion about what to do about US suburbs I don't think El Salvador, a poor country whose civil war ended in 1992, is even the least bit relevant.
The first thing I do when hitting a YouTube URL is stop the video. Then I'll either run youtube-dl on the URL, or just paste it straight into a proper video player (VLC).
The fact that there were shortage of basic necessities in its last years of its existence. The fact that the majority of its exports were oil and gas based, like those of a petro state.

This comic describes it very well: https://goo.gl/GAn5fi
The irony I've found is that when you cut water usage, the water company will INCREASE your fees because they're not making enough money. They tell us to save water, and then turn around and charge us more for using less, it's very angering.
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The idea of versioned configuration is in part a result of gui-driven configuration. If you can configure via text file, then configuration can be versioned via standard version control mechanisms. Otherwise, you're going to wind up with something half-assed.

I had a lot of insight when I started using Concourse CI. All CI workflows in Concourse are straight-up yaml files - no gui anything. This is such a different experience from almost entirely gui-driven systems like Jenkins.
As an urban dweller (nyc) who would love to see fewer autos on the road, I view this as a positive development.

But I can't help but wonder if there is an automakers lobby in Denmark. If so, why wouldn't they oppose/ shutdown such a measure?

I can only imagine the insane backlash a similar ruling would have in the US, in spite of the long term benefits to society from having fewer cars.

[edit: should have read the article in full before commenting-- I see now it is about _lowering_ the tax rate]
It's not a full OTA solution, but fwup (https://github.com/fhunleth/fwup) handles the packaging and application of Linux firmware update images quite well. Apache licensed, supports A/B updates (see tomc1985's comment), Ed25519 digital signature verification, and u-boot support.
I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon has accounts with every major airline. If Amazon wants a daily flight between Seattle and wherever, I'd imagine that some airlines would trip over themselves. I think flights are among the easiest issues to fix.
(1) We still get "it doesn't work on upstart based Ubuntu" questions. Lots of these are still in use.

(2) "When they package it" is when exactly? Our software is GPL and has existed for years and it's not in Debian, EPEL, or Fedora.

We've tried to work with distributions to get our software in there. The experience is worse than the Apple Store, and that's saying something.

I've been a Linux user since 1993 so I know all about the Linux community and how these things work. The processes in place made sense in 1998 but they have not scaled.
Hitler put himself into a situation where the best option, in his opinion, was to blow his own brains out. So he's not winning any awards for being brilliant. Perhaps being a good demagogue has more to do with luck and circumstance than it does with skill and intelligence? Maybe that's why it's not so common?

Intelligence means achieving your goals on purpose. It is something that can be taught and reproduced in others. You can't just wait for entropy to spontaneously arrange for your success and claim to be a genius, even if it works the one time you try it.