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Maybe?

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It's not impossible; you could e.g. profile a real client's timing and introduce delays into the headless version. It's not zero work, but it's very much not impossible if you're sufficiently motivated.

Especially recently with e.g. https://hackaday.com/2018/01/06/lowering-javascript-timer-re... , high-precision timers in JS might not be available for all clients for reasons other than ~"they're headless and trying to scrape my site".
Who says the market is the best way to zone areas? How would you feel if you owned a house and someone opened a pig farm next door?
> complex risk management application for investment banks ... details of what it should do

As someone who works on risk and regulatory management software for investments banks: often they don't know exactly what they want it to do. Well, they know what they want it to do right now, vaguely, but what detail beyond the vague that they give will differ from what they'll want next time you meet with them.

Our lives would be much easier without users!
I don't know about US cities, but in Dublin, a lot of supermarkets would be the ground floor of offices or apartments in built-up areas. Very big supermarkets would be dedicated buildings (or in a shopping centre), but you can get a fair bit on the ground floor of an apartment block.

Obviously, a lot of people who live in cities don't have cars (and in many cases, even if they do have cars, won't want to use them regularly, due to the traffic), so having many smallish supermarkets works better than a few big remote ones. I don't drive, but my 25 minute walk home from work brings me past one medium-sized supermarket and two small ones. If I want a big supermarket I take a tram.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatpak
That's why I hope they don't go to the obvious cities that already have high rents (New York, Austin, Chicago). They could make an enormous, positive impact on many smaller cities, or could do damage to already expensive ones.
Note that I said "open source AI" with the implication that how it works is transparent, and how it is trained is transparent and verifiable.

There is simply no skirting around the fact that our brains are not equipped to deal with the astounding volumes of information being jammed through our every sense every minute of the day.
Not a hard decision at all. There are very few apps you cannot already purchase for the iPhone or cannot write yourself with a free developer profile.
> I'm curious, how?

As 1/3 - exactly as it's on your screen. All rational numbers can be represented exactly.
When you say "don't live in cities", you mean "live outside of city centers", right? Because the overwhelming majority of Americans live in major metro areas.
I dunno.

Given that The West adopted private capitalism whereas the Warsaw Pact adopted state capitalism:

This article's interpretation of Adam's warnings about the failings of both the merchants (chartered monopolists) and politicians directing allocation of resources, against the interests of the citizenry, is spot on.

I took the comparison of Thatcher and Stalin to be more about their top-down efforts to remake society based on some unattainable ideal, vs something about economics.
I was intrigued when I started reading this article, but then it just ended without really delivering anything. I think this could be summarized as: "I once heard about how having a centralized currency helped prevent bad things. Bitcoin is decentralized."

I was actually interested to hear a perspective of how a hypothetical centralized cryptocurrency might be superior, but the author just kind of offered an allusion and nothing else.
Ideological flamewar isn't allowed here regardless of how wrong someone else is. Same for personal attacks. We ban accounts that do these things.

Fortunately, from your recent history it looks like you don't have a habit of doing this on HN, but would you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of this site to heart? The idea is something like this: If you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do.
The issue with utopian settings for me is... where's the conflict?
The Democrats controlled all 3 branches for less than a year, and they chose to pursue healthcare reform. After that Republican leaders admitted in public that their #1 priority was preventing Democrats from passing any further substantial legislation whatsoever in a bid to make them look ineffectual.

If you want to criticize Democrats, they did choose to expand Medicaid and Medicare without a more comprehensive long-term financing plan. OTOH, unlike the GOP tax reform, these expansions were at least nominally revenue neutral thanks to some targeted tax increases, the insurance mandate, etc. Democrats may spend but they _tax_ and spend, which is better than spending or (as Republicans do) cut taxes and spend.

Republicans could come to the table and attempt to compromise with Democrats. Democrats would want to expand benefits. Republicans would like to cut them, at the very least, if not eliminate benefits or privatize the entire program. But compromise theoretically could be fairly easy. But Republicans are committed to a nihilistic "starve the beast" strategy. That's the crux of the problem. Republican ideology has become so extreme that compromise is literally anathema. It's no coincidence that old-school Republicans have been bowing out left-and-right.

I see similar trends happening on the left with an insistence on single-payer healthcare, but it's early and not even remotely comparable to where Republican politics is at.
It's true that the quantum state can only be observed once, but at the end of the observation the resolved state exists classically in the phase of the resonating elements. Also, the input vector continues to be there. Leaking either is a leak.
Racism is still alive in the south, though, even if it's not as bad as people from more liberal areas think.

However, I can certainly tell you that as a gay man, I do not expect that I will feel comfortable living in any southern state during my lifetime. I lasted 3 years in Raleigh before I had to get out (and that was long before the bathroom bill).
I was just marveling at how well Wine+Linux works with my old music and audio hardware. A lot of my old gear hasn't had functional Windows drivers since XP...but, Linux picks it right up. And, a few days ago I thought, "What the heck, let's see if the sysex editor/librarian for this old beast will work in Wine?" And, it did! It saw that the driver wasn't the official driver from the manufacturer (since it was the ALSA driver) when starting and it warned about it, but it still worked, and still detected the device and loaded up all the patches and such.

Historically for these abandoned devices, I'd just use MIDI for communicating with it; since MIDI hasn't changed in decades, it all continues to work just fine (in Windows and Linux). But, it's certainly convenient to just plugin the synth itself via USB and have it all Just Work.

But, yeah, to speak to your point: There are mountains of old software (and hardware!) that won't work on Windows anymore, but will run fine on Linux with Wine. That's pretty amazing to me. I couldn't believe how smooth it all was; I remember spelunking docs for hours to figure out how to make things work. Now, I just run the installer (or just run "wine app.exe") and there it is. I'm sure there are exceptions, but damned if I'm not still impressed.

I rarely consider any program important enough to reboot to use it, since I'm most comfortable and productive in Linux, and Wine becoming so good over the past few years makes it even less of an issue. I still keep a Windows partition on my laptop, Just In Case, but I haven't needed it in months.
> without the problems of trying to get US visas

This assumes that politicians eager to get Amazon are not able to speed up and fix that process which they certainly would be motivated to do. [1]

[1] This is not 'your shitty startup with 10 employees'. It's Amazon and the brass ring.
I think that would be too incendiary a hedge. They have much more to lose than gain.
What controls does an iPhone give me that I do not get on Android?

Google gives me a dashboard with everything laid out they track and not aware of anything like that from Apple?

I am probably unusual as love the data as need to refer to it to remember stuff for expense reports and such. We also have Google homes in our house and GW and I carry a pixel 2 XL and an iPhone but feel like Google is properly giving me a choice.

Btw, it is next to impossible to cancel our cable but Google procatively gives me a link to what they track and make it very easy to delete if I desire.
I remember during school showing my Math teacher (who was a big Ultima gamer but also played Neopets) how I set up a fake neopets shop that prompted you for login. <form action="mailto:xxxxxx"> When you submitted the login form it sent the form inputs in an email to a hotmail address :D. One of my first experiences with HTML. I had no idea there were so many shared Neopets experiences in this community.
For a solution to be a solution, it has to work, right? I would argue that there are a great number of proposals in humanities and social sciences, but the fact that we are still plagued by war & depression means that the proposals either didn't work or cannot be implemented for whatever reason(s).
though I otherwise agree with your points, a minor nitpick:

Lack of self-identification with the term doesn't necessarily matter. The terms "mercantilism" and "capitalism" were popularized by their critics (Smith, Marx) without anyone calling themselves a "mercantilist" etc.

Otherwise, yea "neoliberal" just seems to mean "the parts of more or less mainstream economics that I am feeling cranky about at the moment and would feel validated if it were reified into a bogeyman that we should all be outraged at."
Serious question: is 200 top level CS grads really all that significant? Seems like a pretty small number, given what is possible at larger state schools.
This is most likely fake IT news. The site is hosted on a Raspberry Pi. Here's u/kawaiineko5 's analysis on it:

* Domain registered only 8 days after meltdownattack.com yet is "based on the work highlighted by Meltdown and Spectre". Hardly seems like enough time to have come up with something significant enough to give a name to.
Goes out of its way to copy the font used by meltdownattack.com and advertises itself with the names of meltdown and spectre, and their CVE IDs without listing its own. Given what they said it should have its own CVE IDs reserved by now. Just looks like a cheap grab for attention as it is.

* Unlike meltdown: Where are the mysterious Linux patches being speculated about if it's going to be announced when "operating system vendors have prepared patches." Is it so early that noone's begun work on it? Did noone invite Linux to the party?

* If it's actually important enough to be under "embargo", why are they hinting details on a public website about it at all?

* Its current icon[1] is a really cheaply made recolour of the Intel logo. Worst of any "hip and cool vulnerabilities with a name, logo and a website" yet, if real. Seems like the kind of thing I'd expect someone who doesn't understand meltdown/spectre to create because they saw people shitting on Intel, and definitely not the creation of someone who is supposedly working with chip manufacturers and following "embargos".

* Also apparently there's a second icon[2] based on the solaris logo. If one vulnerability is intel-related (i.e. a general purpose attack) and the other is solaris-related (i.e. a specific attack on solaris), why would they be bundled together? It's either inconsistent or the logos have nothing to do with the vulnerabilities which would make even less sense.

[1] https://skyfallattack.com/android-chrome-512x512.png

[2] https://solaceattack.com/android-chrome-512x512.png
Well, that is the thing right?

People historically went to work in any number of unethical organisations, including industrialised mass murder, human experiments, knowingly poisoning or defrauding people..the list is endless, and it was just any other job to them.

The structure of an organisation means nobody feels individual ethical responsibility, they are just doing their job after all.

In fact, I would say most corporate employees feel like that about the large anonymous bureaucracies they work in, but there is still a good number of people for whom this is unacceptable, the type that ends up saying no to hush money, the type that whisteb-lowers, the type that ends up being shot for part of a resistance against a dictatorship, and so on.

People again and again do this even though it often has terrible consequences for their personal fate, and I think this is the exact same kind of person who does not want to hire or work with the other type, the one that just does their job.
Try imagining William Shatner shouting it.
Linux now supports Tableau Server
All the passive techniques are much harder to reasons about, but much easier to match. You just look at the complete request/response headers, make sure you match them, and have some good sources to request from.

Much harder is stuff like Distil's script injection, where they transparently inject script tags that do fingerprinting, and they obfuscate the code that does so annoyingly (it's not really hard to reverse, just time consuming and and annoying). They pair this with being a bit more user friendly by redirecting you to a CAPTCHA page if your fingerprinting hits some threshold which if you answer redirects you to the page you wanted, so users experience and inconvenience if there's a false positive, but still get access to what they wanted.

I was able to get around most of the passive fairly easily with Perl and LWP, and even the active stuff and CAPTCHA redirects (cookie_jar all serialized to DB so I could store request and represent it to a user to answer), but once they started tweaking their fingerprint script ever couple months/weeks that's when the equation shifted. Distil, as a solutions provider, gets to amortize their changes across all their customers, while I would have to spend the time de-obfuscating it. They could just assign a person to change it once a week and they would effectively halve my time to get any real work done, so without a collective effort of some sorts to combat them, I saw the writing on the wall. :/

The sad thing is that when we moved to API access, their APIs are hampered to the degree that it actually takes two orders of magnitude more requests each minute for a fraction of the accuracy (I was able to query changes over the last couple minutes previously, and now I have to query the entire item set of a subset of all containers, when there are tens of thousands of containers). :/ Lose lose, since our use case isn't even the main reason the site wanted to block scrapers.
Interactive GPU Programming, Part 1: Hello CUDA
Relocations mainly. If you have two cars with any value left in them and are moving cross-country, there are better uses of time and money than selling/rebuying or flying back and forth and driving the same distance twice just to move your cars.
I've just been looking through the app, it doesn't really describe that well what the "points" system even earns you, for your contributions.

The help page has this vague statement saying "Those points lead to higher levels of the program, as well as benefits like early access to Google features and special perks from partners"

Obviously covering their backs because "special perks from partners" could mean anything
I'm not worried that much about software bias - I feel that a lot of good could be achieved with software clear enough for all sides to accept it represents their interest in an ok-ish way.

What I'm worried about is this: technology has always been a force multiplier for those who wield it. For now it's us (maybe in the future it will be a superintelligent AI, maybe not). Even if we manage to write a pretty unbiased governing software, how are we going to ensure that it isn't subtly manipulated by some interested party? And can we ensure that while also making the system extensible, so that it can cope with the demands caused by the impact of ever-progressing technology on our societies? It seems to me that the two goals - a system above humans and a system that can evolve with us - are fundamentally incompatible.
A very bad awful way to ask for help with your startup
The feminists and left leaning people should be outraged that women earn more tips than men, surely this is a result of systemic sexism.
I'd be completely fine with all that even if it was turned on by default and if there was a simple off button. The point of the author of the article is that it is a permanent struggle with privacy settings. It's the same on Windows 10. There are like 30 registry entries one needs to change to turn off the spying, and they keep adding more. Like the author, this is a game I just have no appetite playing.
I'd like to hear from anyone that is using snaps. I'm currently using Ubuntu 17.10 and have heard of them but haven't noticed them anywhere. Is it something I should consider using? Generally happy with slack in the browser currently.
Hawaii emergency agency password in photo sparks security criticism
Many real numbers have an infinite number of digits
> having once been a youth

Do you have any sources?
Ask HN: How to scope a bespoke CRM project?
UK SME Company I work at is looking to commission a custom CRM that meets are needs.

It's all in my head! How do I get it out?

Is there any guidance / manual on how to describe to programmers what we want?

How does one put on paper specifications?

Want to KISS but even so somewhat complicated given sector.

(separate note - Do I insist also on html/js/php which I'm competent in order to keep tabs? Or best to leave to what they are more competent in.)
Partly because most of the builders went under during & after the great recession. They don't quite need decades to come back, but it definitely leaves a ripple.
> Google didn't just look at the fact that you were searching for tents online to serve you that ad. They looked at how old you are, what time of day you are most susceptible to clicking on ads, who your friends are and what they like, your address, your preferred colors and letters... It's possible that they figured out you just broke up with your SO and use shopping as a coping skill, so it was time to pull out the big guns. Google probably doesn't even understand exactly why they served that to you. And that's a problem.

These things are not true. Your point is true, but google doesn't do things like look at your specific address, preferred colors, etc. You can't be mad at them when you don't really know what they do, and embellish what actually happens.

> Google serves me ads and tracks my behavior even if I never use a Google product

You can opt out of all behavior based advertiser very easily: http://optout.networkadvertising.org and http://optout.aboutads.info/#!/
eul.im is a closed-source commercial lightweight chat client launched 6 months ago; the author spent a few months advertising on related discussions until snagging a bit of critical feedback. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=eul.im&sort=byDate&type=commen... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15597468 (apparently it still downloads a 180MB embedded browser https://github.com/eul-im/eul/issues/60)

There is also https://github.com/bkanber/Slackadaisical (no development since initial October appearance) CLI and:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15597508 >nikisweeting: https://github.com/saenzramiro/rambox [...]
https://github.com/meetfranz/franz [...]
share one Electron instance for all your chat services
Echo all of the resources jkuria posted, plus 'Influence' is a must read.

I'll be releasing a Sales 101 online course soon that's aimed at developers shortly if you're interested.
That quote might be true for large corporations, but I'm not seeing obvious examples (from the article or elsewhere) where this is clearly true for start-ups.
Look for Pontevedra, Spain.
> This leaves those preferring density at a relative disadvantage.

100% agree. I much prefer to live in a dense, urban, walkable area, but most built environments that satisfy these criteria violate modern zoning regulations.

So, the USA's supply of pleasant, dense environments is dwindling because every time an olde/walkable area revitalizes enough to attract new development, that new development must comply with modern zoning, and kills the thing that that makes the area attractive.

It's thoroughly frustrating.
IIRC the Civilization series of games uses a professional wine-based wrapper for macOS as well.
I don't think that's very realistic in many cases - they could sell the land for a lot more money for housing.

But in any event: a few hard-core libertarians would like to completely throw out zoning, but most people just want to bring it back in line with things that are actual nuisances - or bring back actual nuisance laws in some cases.

We've gone from legit things like trying to keep factories away from houses and schools to people losing their marbles about a duplex being built in their neighborhood. It's gone way too far.

As to why markets are generally a good way of solving complex problems with lots of moving parts, I did mention that in the article.
> Unrelated: it's unclear to me how self-driving cars can help pollution.

Well, d--b said "both noise and air". Drivers can contribute a fair amount of noise in busy cities when they get irate and lay on the horn...
"Citizens are extremely wary of the government to do it right." - I don't think citizens have much say in the matter...

- it's worth noting that along with data and talent, there is money - China's dedicated 150 billion USD to AI as part of it's 5 year plan. Meanwhile the US is considering cutting scientific research funding by as much as 15% as part of 2018 budget
> who reads that without thinking of irrational numbers?

Not directly related to the article, but many [1] irrational numbers (π for example, or sqrt(2)) can be represented in a computer in their entirety, i.e. "accurate to the last digit." Not all digits are stored at once in RAM, of course, but you can obtain an arbitrary digit (given sufficient time). That's precisely how computable numbers are defined (first by Turing in his 1936 paper that first defined the notion of computation, and was called On Computable Numbers, where the "numbers" in the title refer to real numbers, including irrational ones).

[1]: Relative to the irrational numbers that "we know", not to all uncountable ones, of course.
> often to no benefit of the local population

Not true. My first thought when hearing that a town not far from where I am made the 20 list was 'where can I buy property so that I can rent it to others that come as a result of the economic development and new desirability of the area'. Property values will increase and property tax will go up vacancies will be reduced.

This would not happen for a smaller company that nobody cares about either.

This is perhaps similar (not for sure but could be) to when Disney decided to locate in Orlando Florida and bought up land in secret but also cut many deals to allow them benefits that others do not get.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reedy_Creek_Improvement_Distri...
No contest. I'm a big fan of Robert Caro. Wish I'd read more about politics (and biographies of the players) before I got involved.
Getting a new route or two added is a lot easier than finding a good location to build. Especially with Delta expanding its Seattle presence so much.