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Ah, sorry for all those typos, it's really hard to re-read a thing in this tiny 'Reply' window. I promise I'll write a comment like this in separate editor next time.
It really doesn't in regards to land in modern society, though. Ownership of land is quite literally a deed on file with the government.

Feudal society, maybe.
Wells Fargo double charged everyone on their bill pays today
Happened everyone today. If you have a bill payment which paid yesterday, processed today and will be sent tomorrow, I'd say go check your account. Mine and my wife's account along with a lot of people got double charged today. We've called the customer service and they've said that everyone was charged double and they are fixing it.

Well, this sounds like wells fargo played with our money overnight and giving them back to us.

What are your thoughts?
They who? I work in aerospace and while I have heard many proposals (most 20-40 years from commercial production) for improving efficiency, including hybrid electric systems, I have never once seen anyone propose an electric commercial passenger aircraft.
They would still have to pay those loans back out of their US income (or any income repatriated). Bankruptcy would be weird, in that case.
I did not notice the price. Wow, totally agree about $80 being way too much. Plastic or some other more durable material would be a big improvement to justify the cost.

Edit: It looks like they're providing templates to make these yourself too. [0] So, the $70/$80 can be considered more cardboard + software to interact with it. From that perspective, I don't think this is too bad of a deal. For something innovative like this, I personally think it's work the price of a game ($60) and then the other $20 is for cardboard, but you can just make more if it breaks.

[0] http://fr.ign.com/nintendo-labo-nintendo-switch/33103/news/n...
According to https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption, Bitcoin is currently at 42 TWh. That's over 20 million tonnes of CO2.

If we assume energy costs to produce annual supply of new banknotes and coins in entire world is at 1 TWh. You see how insane energy consumption of Bitcoin really is.

And that's comparing an entire money supply of the world to single cryptocurrency.

Banks cannot be part of the equation as the need for banks would not cease if the world would switch to Bitcoin or similar.
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Ten years ago I read that it was a net loss everywhere except Brazil (tons of sun plus water -> sugar cane). Subsidies makes it work.

I don’t know if that’s still true and as to Brazil, that land could be used for something else.
US corporations are citizens except that they just can't vote... but they can contribute unlimited campaign contributions.
Ask HN: What are your favorite books?
Except maybe the $64B doesn't need to be spent at all and can be returned to the taxpayers. The point OP was making is that it's unnecessary to build HSR because there's an existing company (several actually) that provides the same service at a fraction of the price, at no cost to the taxpayer.
We're going to have autonomous cars that can drive SF-LA long before we have high-speed rail. Self-driving cars from the big players are planned for the 2020-2021 model years.
Tim Cook: users will be able to turn off iPhone battery performance throttling
Thank you northern neighbors for standing this way.
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Just a correction: you are writing code with visual programming, its just visual code instead of textual code. You haven't gotten rid of code.

VPLs are great for people who aren't programmers and don't wan to be programmers; e.g. Facebook designers using Quartz Composer or Orgami, game designers using Unreal blueprints, Blender, and so on.
I don't know Angular too well, but React is really just a templating system. It doesn't add much more complexity than any templating system, including those you would necessarily have on the backend in a multi-page app.
A $1000 bonus, after taxes, is not a $1000 bonus. While an extra ~$700 might be a nice windfall for someone making minimum wage, it's hardly a life-changing event that will have an durable impact in their life.

What companies are doing is exactly what they were expected to do: make some "feel good" moves for a bit to validate the tax plan as a "resounding success" until the midterm elections, then do whatever they want. I've seen these incredible displays of "corporate goodwill" after tax breaks like this to know they are always temporary and self-serving (I grew up in a country where these "booms" happened like clockwork every 8 or so years.)
That seems like a very negative way to approach benchmarks. It could also be a PR boon--out of nowhere, the company could get positive attention for someone else doing work on the company's behalf. Assuming the technology is performance competitive. (But I don't know if it is or isn't--I've not seen any benchmarks).
Have you considered using Hashicorp Vault [1] or sops [2]?

[1] https://www.vaultproject.io/

[2] https://github.com/mozilla/sops/
The IRS really does not like that. I believe it's in litigation. Still if a citizen is subject to a tax on the difference between foreign taxes paid and US taxes owed, a corporation should be as well.
Rapeseed?
I don't know how many people did but in the seventies there were a lot of people who had seen the birth of the airplane to the landing on the moon. With people believing in exponential progress of technology amd things like Orion an NSWR I suspect a lot of people rid assume interstellar travel was right around the corner.
It depends on whether you think the government should have that money.
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Visual programming is also very popular among engineers. All kinds of test, automation, are monitoring systems are built using LabVIEW.
Heating your house using a normal furnace is wasteful when you could be securing bitcoin or folding@home for science research, but we ignore this huge energy cost so there's really no reason to rant about bitcoin.

Luckily there's at least a few businesses and such experimenting on putting miners and servers etc in people's houses and running them hard all winter.
You want to check out Touch designer. It can do a lot, you including midi, and is made to work in real time.
Alternate headline: Trump policies take American companies closer to the globalized ideal they always envisioned, by making the American market just another market they are not tied in any significant way to. $29 billion is spit in the bucket of the deficit created by this bill, and Apple is the biggest market cap company in the world, with the biggest overseas reserves.
I’m going to guess the one way price when completed is going to be more than an airline flight.
Tools I use for my Master’s thesis
$1.5 trillion - $29bn... yeah, still not seeing the "positive effect" in the long term.
It uses Google Blockly internally: https://github.com/Microsoft/pxt/tree/master/pxtblocks
I think you're conflating React with other complexities. React doesn't require 900 npm dependencies.
What problem domains do you think are the best targets for this way of programming?
Good point. Classical training aims to make the player as invisible as possible-- jazz training (one hopes, anyway)aims to train a player to value and enhance their personal idiosyncracies. It is difficult for a classically trained player to value all sound as texture and color and to feel free to play with less than "perfectly efficient" technique. A jazz player is making something of their own- while a classical player aims to channel the composer more-- and then make their own bold statement on whatever they are playing. It is unfortunate that classical evolved that way- to value a kind of technical arms race-- and then jazz education began to follow that too-- and as someone who switched, I can say that it was a difficult transition- my brain certainly felt like it had to change first before I could physically do the playing on call.
> But the real reason for prison is sequestration. That's it. Just taking the people most likely to be dangerous, based on their own actions, and minimizing future risk.

This is completely at odds with the long sentences meted out for possession of small quantities of drugs in the United States. Whom, exactly, are pot users dangerous to? How is paying to keep them in prison for 10+ years in any way practical?
I don't agree. If sexism refers to the negative issues only then what is the word for the positive issues of dividing people up by sex?
>> You think that, just because you are interested in tech, every other woman
must also be.

You keep assigning motives and thoughts to me, even though I made it clear
that I find it unpleasant and asked you to stop it. I clarified that my
original comment was not addressing criticism to you personally and that the
use of word "you" did not mean you personally, either. I don't see what I did
to justify your confrontational tone, other than disagree with your
interpretation of some data.

As to the rest of your comment:

>> Most women just have no interest in a technical career. Be that (software)
engineers, mechanics or truck drivers. It is a choice they made based on their
interests (you can prove that yourself by just asking random women on the
street) and it is on you to accept that you are part of a minority and that
isn't going to change.

I'm not as uncommon as you think. I'm originally from Greece,
where it is quite common for women to follow careers in technology and the
sciences. It is not common in the UK where I live, but that suggests some sort
of cultural bias. Additionally, I've worked with several female
developers from India over the years and they also don't think it's uncommon, or that
it's a job that's not suited for women- quite the contrary; they see it as
"office work" which is definitely better for women than manual work.

But let's stick to women in the US and the UK, which I'm guessing you're more
familiar with. The point remains that observing that "women are not
interested in technology" does not explain why they are not interested in
technology. Which means it doesn't explain why women are not pursuing careers
in technology, either.

This has nothing to do with subjective or objective analysis. Data alone does
not explain anything. It does not have exegetic power, one would say. So the
observation that "women are not interested in technology" does not explain
anything not because I don't want it to, but because it can't.

Theories do have exegetic power. But observations alone do not constitute a
theory.
They're franchised. You didn't hire "these guys", you hired one of their franchisees. I'm sure the company would love to know about your experience.
The converse is also true.
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This reminded me, I keep wondering why the tamarind fruit has been left out of Western cuisine. You find trace amounts in Worcestershire sauce and the occasional Indian dish and you can get tamarind juice/candy at some Mexican places if you know what to look for, but by and large it's unheard of and unobtainable. Pity, too, it's got such a nice texture and flavor when prepared correctly.

I know tamarind trees aren't native to the Western hemisphere, but that hasn't ever stopped us before.
> They break middle mouse button (or Ctrl-Click or whatever your favourite "open link in new tab" shortcut is on your Apple computer), at the same time break browser history, and at the same time make you wait for any single interaction you're doing (show spinning wheel for 6 seconds before opening a confirmation modal)

> [...]

> No need to shovel 7MB of JavaScript to the user.

Well that's exactly the problem. Someone thinks they don't need all the "dead weight" of something like angular that solves every one of these problems and instead they do a half-assed version where it's all broken.
Elastic Beanstalk requires more devops type stuff then lambda.
I can't find the study right now, but recently saw data suggesting that the cost of money handling is still several times cheaper on a per dollar basis than electronic transactions.

If a business accepts any cash at all, the marginal cost of another cash transaction is really low. By your own antidote, your store still saw the value of accepting cash transactions, yeah?
Absolutely. If you add decent insurance to income taxes as a basic cost of living, it's cheaper in Canada. I moved to Canada from California and even before becoming a permanent resident I needed to use the health service as a family member was sick. I will be forever grateful for the excellent service and zero cost at point of use even for my family as (tax paying) temporary workers. I'm now raising Canadian kids to do their part to pay back the system that saved their mother's life.
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The idea is the switch to proof of stake will likely fix this particular problem if it works.
Testing is a fine idea, but I don't really believe in TDD for most projects.
This article is based on some incredibly bad estimates, and reaches an outrageously large conclusion.

Let us assume that 100% of all mining rewards go to electricity (and none to buying mining equipment, paying employees, servers, or networking), and let us further assume the electricity costs $0.01 / KWhr, which is cheaper than one can buy basically anywhere.

From flippening.watch, BTC paid miners $20,797,200 yesterday, for 2,079,720,000 KWHrs. This translates to approximately 87 GW of electricity, 24/7. 87 GW is approximately the output of the 21 Palo Verde nuclear plants in Arizona, which according to the US Energy Information Administration, can output up to 3937 MW. https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=104&t=3

In other words, Bitcoin is a drop in the bucket. Let's put this myth of massive energy usage to rest, and at the cost of being too snarky, and let us ask our journalists to learn basic math.

edit - I made a math mistake, which I have corrected. The overall point, while I was off by several orders of magnitude, however, holds.

edit 2 - I retract the entire comment. It appears the article is true, and that, ironically, I made the same mistake I accused the journalist of. I'm going to leave the comment up for posterity, but I retract it.
The whole point is that earned income should not have to be repatriated to be taxed. If I as a citizen have a bank account in Switzerland that accepts my foreign income then I pay tax on that money in the year it was earned. The exact same rules should apply. Just because the bank account is outside of the US should not make a difference.
> US corporations are citizens

No they're not. You're confusing the already commonly-confused concept of legal personhood with citizenship.

> but they can contribute unlimited campaign contributions

Citizens United ruled that actual human beings had the right to make unlimited campaign contributions and that the right to do so could not be rescinded just because those flesh-and-blood individuals decided to pool their money into a corporation. People have the right to organize for political action and congress cannot take that away.
I see, I wasn't aware that it is normal. Agree about history, politics and human genetics (not Finland though!). I was thinking more about geography and non-human biogeography, which support north-eastern.
So we're going to spend $66 billion on something that primarily benefits higher income people just for the indirect benefits it might have for local transit?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trump-admin-moves-bar-hai...

Well? Justify this.
Most likely they will buy back stock or issue dividends. They have to do what the majority of shareholders want with the money. If they don't they will be sued.
Try dividing it by 50: every state could get two of these projects with half a trillion left over for DC and the territories. That’s even before you factor in that California’s population and economy would merit a larger chunk than, say, South Dakota.

Seems like a better deal than paying to destabilize a region and create a lot of long-term enemies.
I actually have worked with lots of customers in deploying ML. This was my perspective. Thanks for sharing your perspective at Google.
for the same logic the researcher is another hyperparameter

(I know you are right, but so many people here think AutoML is exactly the same that the HPO they were doing since long time ago)
Regarding drugs, the purpose is to redistribute taxpayer money to police and prisons.
Almost all of this is true with single page apps, though. The only added complexity is you have to maintain a frontend state cache (e.g. Redux).
Well, apple did supposedly say it was 'not appropriate.' So what do you think apple would consider to be 'not appropriate'? I'd guess things like extreme violence, nudity, promotion of racism.
I'll add a high-assurance implementation from Galois to that which is probably not constant time. Their blog and Github has quite a few useful tools.

https://galois.com/blog/2013/09/high-assurance-base64/

Also, anyone wanting constant time implementation might just run a verified implementation through something like FaCT or Jasmin:

https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~dstefan/pubs/cauligi:2017:fact.pdf

https://acmccs.github.io/papers/p1807-almeidaA.pdf
They did since the 80s and continue to do so for all their European revenues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement

A huge part of their $250B stash have never been taxed at all.
Judging from the Japanese HSR experience, that's also the distance range at which HSR door-to-door is faster. SF to LA is juuuust outside of that distance range, sadly.
High electricity consumption is the trade bitcoin made in its design for a stable money supply, it's not an inherent problem with cryptocurrency.
A good rule-of-thumb might be that if your results show that you able to consistently compress supposedly random data to less than the size required for just the random binary bits, you should either recheck your numbers, verify your random number generator, or quickly file for a patent!
Expect more of this as society continues to devalue degrees that don't tie directly into a lucrative professional career. College is expensive, with tuitions not anchored by a limited credit market. People will rationally turn away from fields of study that won't let them escape from their unforgivable debt.
Well that just seems cruel and arbitrary.
At the moment I'm too swamped with other things to give this the dedicated look it deserves, but I'm going to try and get a couple of my staff to give it a look-see. We do lots of data processing tasks in different domains and often need to figure out and then establish long processing pipelines quickly.

One of the problems I think with these kinds of languages is that the dev environment and the run-time environment end up being the same. Which means that users of the pipeline also need to have the entire dev environment installed which rarely makes sense. (I don't know if that's true here, but it's something to think about). This compounds with the vendors of these tools are often stuck back in old business models and want thousands (or tens of thousands in some cases) of dollars for each license, even if all a user is doing is running a model somebody else built. It would be like requiring everybody who wants to run software on Windows needs to buy and install the entire Microsoft Visual Software development suites.

I really agree with #3, often these tools come with some kind of palette of modules that you wire together and making new modules is a huge pain or impossible. It looks like Luna is taking a very different approach. I think figuring out how to integrate the dataflow models into some kind of repository of library of models and provide some kind of change control is going to be really important as well as my experience is that these models usually end up being treated like Microsoft Excel documents and just emailed around and dying on people's hard drives.
Wrap a head of garlic in aluminum foil and stick in the oven for a while and I'll eat it by itself (or maybe spread on bread with a dash of salt).

Garlic is delicious.
It would taste like reconstituted onion powder.

I'm not a food scientist, but one could say something like:

Intact alliums have no pungency, since the volatile products are only released following the interaction of the enzyme, alliinase, with the S-alk(en)ylcysteine sulfoxide (alliin, I) which occurs when tissue is damaged or disrupted (Figure 1). The initial products of this enzymic hydrolysis are ammonia, pyruvate, and an alk(en)ylthiosulphinate (allicin, II). The latter, which possesses odor characteristics typical of the freshly cut tissue, can undergo further nonenzymic reactions to yield a variety of compounds, including thiosulfinate [III] and di- and trisulfides [IV]. These compounds have slightly differing flavors and odors, and may impart a cooked note to steam-distilled onion or leek oils.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B012227055...
> Look at the route California's HSR takes [1]. That's a map drawn for short-term political gains, not long-term utility.

It did feel like this to me at the time (and was widely discussed as such) but having used the HSR Japan and Germany I reflected and realized they really helped the smaller cities to thrive. Tying Fresno and Bakersfield into the economies of LA and the Bay Area will be great for all concerned, relieving pressure on the megalopolises and expanding he economic opportunities of the Central Valley.
It costs us 5-7x as much as Europe per mile to build rail: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subw.... That article addresses tunnels, but there is no reason to expect it would be different for above ground rail. Indeed, it could be worse. The eminent domain and environmental review problems that plague our system are worse for an above ground project.
"An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth" by Chris Hadfield.

I've read many books on self-improvement, software, and start-ups, but nothing left an impression like this one.
My understanding is Google’s support philosophy is the same as everything else: only do things that scale massively; as 1-to-1 support can’t scale, it isn’t included except for services where it’s required to be successful.
One of the sad parts of this story is that, in order to sabotage the HSR, Republicans wound up sabotaging the federal share of Caltrain electrification, even though electrification is good on its own merits.
I have this weird feeling that before we have many of them in mass production, we'll have a single car that fits this description.
Lots of languages have fantastic compile speed, they've just decided to have their compilers do a lot more work.

You can argue that fast compilation IS a feature and that new language options should be evaluated, but it's unfair to say it's "not a priority" even for languages like Scala.
Yes. The C lib will be compiled into wasm. You can use the wasm-compiled code in a browser through JS wrappers. So you can say importing C lib on JS client side anyway.

Note that wasm's main objective is to run non-JS code on browsers, not for a faster JS.

Here is the best overview and tutorial I've ever seen in HN , if you are interested:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15958827
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