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You might be misinterpreting the law. Not sure for that case, but it's pretty standard (in this part of the world) that you can't use city or state name in commercial purposes (as a part of the name of the business or a product) without entity permission.

edit: also pages/domains that could be seen as representing the city can get notices about name usage. Domains, iirc, can be claimed for this reason by city.

It's kinda common sense, using city name, for some people, might be seen as representing the city, so any posts made by the page might damage the city public image etc.

edit 2: added note about part of the world

edit 3: moving this from reply

> I live in neighboring country, when you're starting a business you can't have city or state name in business name without permission. Also using domains that have city or state name included might get you in some trouble.

> Probably more usual in this part of the world.

Adding: since both our countries still have a lot of laws from communist era, there's all kind of crazy ideas pushed through laws.
Lol. The cards are not used by companies, if the crypto market crashes a lot of single people have a lot of single cards.

How do you think this people with their cards are going to do anything else with it? There does not exist a single computing power but 1.000.000 single ones and the only reason they waste electricity is because they get money for it.
I sometimes wonder if someone has sat down and worked out that stealing from the employees in this way is actually a net positive for the firm or if one asshole just does it naturally and then it sets the rest in motion.
I'd agree with you if this was only interpretation of the law. However, the city council actually took steps to contact the administrators of various Facebook pages with the request to pay for the name.
It seems the world has gone full circle and somehow we have ended up back in an authoritarian dystopia, this time one “we” ironically built and enforced ourselves.
I think you didn't read the article. It basically the city using the same dumb line of thought as Paris copyrighting the Eiffel Tower at night.

The author shows that the city even threatened a Facebook group. So yes this is a dumb ownership claim by the city.
You are getting downvoged because op was talking about startups not public sector or corps.
I love my Roku sticks, nice work.

That said can you still push software updates without manufacturer involvement? That is “big Linux kernel bug, no need to wait for TCL/Sharp/Philips to approve or block the patches after we’ve done the QA”?

Or is it more like the (very bad) patching situation with android devices, where the hardware vendors delay or simply ignore upstream patches?
Nobody buys 24/7 gpus if they cost more than 10% of the original (before crypto crazy) price.

Undervolting or not, running your card 24/7 makes them worthless.
I (try) to make conversations with people about non-work, over chat, to see if they want to make a connection with me. Those that do, always end up being stronger work related connections.

However, the majority of people do not want to reach back, and to those people I don't press the issue with repeated attempts. I think that a lot of people are put off by small talk, or are just too busy for it; I hope with them that not having a memory of me as being annoying is the best relationship I can have.

Sometimes they will just say "Sorry I'm just really busy" - this is great information too just as a barometer. It's less often, but a poke with a joke can get you onto some side work that improves your reputation if you're able to genuinely assist someone having a bad month.

I have the option to work remotely but I take the 40 minute commute in, because I get a lot better mileage off people by reading their body language, faces, where they are looking, holding their arms, how far they stand from me, et cetera. It's like running a program with the -debug flag, for me, and remotely I have no access to it.

And I hate to say it, but I feel that you hope one level up the stack just by being present. It's almost a digital caste system. Some useless kid texting his friends in the conference room has equal clout as the seasoned principal dialed in on the phone.

Also - since we're in this thread - is it just me, or does a time delay on a conference call make the speaker seem less intelligent? I get embarrassed when I learn I am on a 1.5 second audio delay. I will often dial in over PSTN to get that second back.

I agree with OP about letting results be the message, but it is a frustrating way to communicate technical ability because there is no short term payoff. Team members that give impressive, meaningless, daily updates fall flat at the end of a development sprint during a demonstration. Make that the time for your results to speak for you to the people you want to impress, because that is the only time during the sprint that they are probably paying attention to you.

To try and round out my claims above, I've also been the person being annoyed by a chatty remote coworker. Being gracious to them in times of duress is the same game triggered by callback.
I'm not sure what you mean by pretty standard, but it's literally the opposite of pretty standard. How many little place have the city they're in in their name? I could probably find dozens for Pittsburgh without much effort.

Edit: I a actually had a company with my state's name at one point, registered in said state with no issue.
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The meat of the article comes from the fact that certain facebook pages were sent some form of 'cease and desist request' by officials of the Sarajevo city council.
Later, we learn that things got resolved for these facebook pages.

What if these requests were just a clever scammer, trying to get some money?
That seems to make more sense to me than a city council being so obtuse as to request payment for use of its name.
Reminds me of the idiocy about not being able to use the name Superbowl, because it's trademarked. Leading to all kinds of businesses referring to it in roundabout terms like "the big game"
I think there are a few viable, but expensive attack vectors that have been well known within the community for years. But one thing that's always bugged me is how many people out there seem to think that a cryptocurrency could survive being an actual target by a sufficiently powerful state. The economic damage alone just by the whisper of an actual 'war on Bitcoin' would be devastating, without anyone actually lifting a finger. Let alone putting resources into actual attacks on technical, economic, and social levels. Doesn't really matter if a few enthusiast cypherpunks around the world can keep a few nodes going and technically say 'bitcoin is not dead, see!' when the economic model and security is fundamentally based on continued demand for BTC.

I've been really interested in Bitcoin and have followed it closely since Satoshi was still active, and consider myself a pretty big fan of it in general. But the general arrogance and delusion about the reality of where real power is in the world is a bit cringeworthy. And it's always been that way in the community.

It might get interesting in the future if two or more states have competing interest in Bitcoin(or whatever). I can imagine some hypothetical situation where the US political tide turns very anti-BTC, but say China has enough money tied up in it that it's incentivized to attempt to defend it. Like say if enough people in positions of political power have significant portions of their wealth tied up in it. That's possible, I guess. Sounds messy though for something that relies on economic confidence.

Either way, so far all the luck has been on the side of Bitcoin, as really there's been little to no political pushback against the technology itself. That's pretty awesome, and it's made for a very interesting 7 years or so since BTC really woke up and people around here and elsewhere started seriously discussing it. But the political risk is very real and understated imo. The technical risk is interesting in theory for sure, but just knowing a sufficiently powerful state has the ability to attack is probably more than enough to cause massive economic damage without actually pulling any technological triggers.
True. Social networks as they are today have become rather tedious and vapid and I've largely stopped keeping up with them. Something new is needed. Maybe I'll let my subconscious chew on the problem for a while :P
> although Einstein’s theory demolished Newton’s absolute space, it gave us something else in its place—a four-dimensional structure known as spacetime—and this, Greene argues, is absolute.

And yet, it is now thought that spacetime itself can not be absolute, and must emerge from more fundamental structures, such as combinatorial geometries: https://youtu.be/qTx98PUW6lE?t=13m7s
I've been looking for the name of 'this one game' for the last few months and i would never have expected to find it on hn. i'd been disappointed it wasn't warmux but then you came around and mentioned liero. you don't know how much this was bugging me, thank you very much.
You can just name the city, you can just show the tower. You can just do things, believe it.
I think the real definition, which the author explicitly denies is "roughly human shaped". I assume that's why they referred to "arms" and "seeing" in an attempt to make their machines more robotic.

As a fan of the "How It's Made" show, I'm fascinated by the systems in factories, which could be thought of as large machines themselves, even if some of the cogs are human beings doing repetitive tasks.

Apparently though, people don't care about jobs being "stolen" by fork lift trucks or giant ovens but human shaped robots let your job get taken without even the smallest amount of rijigging and that makes the threat very real for some people.
Permissioned blockchain technology?
So that confirms what I've been thinking. I'm also thinking about removing one of the skill sets from my resume, just haven't fully decided which one :)
Knowing this level of detail was critical for the analytics and database development I've participated in.

Any time an algorithm must consult a dataset, and that data is changing rapidly, leveraging knowledge of the underlying system will give you an advantage.
Here's a very simple service that everyone would understand.

Suppose you are a customer with a connection to an exchange. You can't afford to connect to every exchange, because that would cost you a small fortune.

If you stick your order into this exchange, you might have to wait around for someone to meet your price. In fact, there might be someone willing to trade with you at your price, but you don't know it because you're on different exchanges. (Let's not get into NMS.)

An HFT with a view of the whole market would help you distribute your order to all exchanges. They do this by leaning on your order while posting everywhere else. So if someone came in and met the HFT's order in some market, the HFT would turn around and fill you immediately for a small difference, and they'd pull all the other orders when this happened.

That's a service, and you pay for it.

A lot of HFT strategies provide a service similar to this in some way.
I'm not claiming any C ability myself, but in addition to things which have already been mentioned: the old Steve Summit comp.lang.c C FAQ http://c-faq.com/ was only updated up to 2005 but is still hard to ignore.

For the Linux C interface there's https://nostarch.com/tlpi and http://www.apuebook.com/apue3e.html / http://www.unpbook.com/ , all old to different degrees. http://www.danlj.org/lad/ was great but even the second edition http://www.worldcat.org/title/linux-application-development-... is probably out of date by now. ( https://9p.io/cm/cs/upe/index.html is most certainly out of date, but more than that it's almost an anti-C-interface book by comparison to the C-API-centric view of Unix which has become prevalent since, in some part due to the popularity of K&R... https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/tpop.webpage/ and http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/ are in the same "anti-C-book" vein.)
Apple has been VERY careful about third-party apps. When you do use one, like overcast for podcasts, it could all use a template to Apple has already premade.

This all appears to be for safety/legal reasons. Many areas seem to have laws that dictate how interfaces on infotainment system to work when someone is driving. I’m guessing apple doesn’t want to give anyone control because then they might cause the system to fall out of compliance.

So even if they allowed Waze on the platform I’m not sure would look any different from Apple Maps or support any additional functionality.

This is mostly speculation based on what I’ve heard.
Ask HN: In which language should we write columnar database to rival BigQuery?
We want to write vectorized columnar database for OLAP and we want to release it under opensource license. So, far we've been using BigQuery but now we want to roll out our own. Our team has equal experience in Go, Rust, Haskell, C++, Python and Java
I've never heard of constraint programming languages before, and I kind of wish I had, because I recently had a problem where I needed to sequence a bunch of elements based on a lot of arbitrary rules. Sequencing based on one rule was easy, but applying all simultaneously was a huge PITA, and resulted in much headaches; this tool looks like it could have solved the problem quickly. Definitely putting this in my bookmark tool-set for future use.
This is an excellent idea I'm going to start telling people about.
Oh man, now I'll think twice before I try to correct someone's spelling: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/3yncb0/the_beauty_of_...
That depends on your job
I have the feeling that George RR Martin talked too much with Donald Knuth.
To put it succinctly:

1. All trading strategies profit by identifying market inefficiencies.

2. Market inefficiencies occur (in general) when the price of a security is inaccurate.

3. By correcting the inefficiency, the strategy profits consistently until there is no longer a counterparty willing to take the trade at that (inefficient) price.

This process is broadly called price discovery.
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Well, he also asked abou enterprise, but I don’t mind being downvoted. If people don’t find my response useful, then so be it.
I wish some of my remote team would read this message. Though I'm not sold on this one:

- Add screen recordings to your Merge Requests. You can use Gif tools like, LICEcap or recordit.co.

Also, that last meeting you talk about is usually called a stand-up meeting and when using Scrum project management it is supposed to be every day. I don't think I've ever heard of it being done once a week. Not that it is abad thing, I'm curious if some other companies are only doing it once a week.
I live in neighboring country, when you're starting a business you can't have city or state name in business name without permission. Also using domains that have city or state name included might get you in some trouble.

Probably more usual in this part of the world.
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If there is a real need to port your infrastructure you can do it in small steps. Using single cloud provider is also not smart. If I need to do huge data processing I will never do it with AWS although this is where the rest of the infrastructure is as Google has better solutions. Just pick whatever is best.
Hi, can you elaborate on low frequency trading? Is that day trading or it's holding positions for much longer? Any resources?
But certainly not for lack of trying.

In Sweden, it’s fast becoming nigh impossible to pay for things with cash, particularly in places like restaurants, cafés and bars. If you have a business that deals in cash, banks make it almost farcically difficult to deposit said cash into your business account.

For example, in one town the largest bank will only accept cash through a deposit machine, outdoors, for one hour during the middle of the day. Oh and you can only deposit something like $1500 per day. Your only other option is to order pickups from a security company, which will cost quite a bit more than you’ll pay for card transactions most likely.

Granted, this example is from a smaller town (aprox. 12000 inhabitants, but LOTS of tourists from abroad that tend to carry cash) but even in a place like the capital Stockholm, you’ll have very particular cash handling restrictions. Some because regulation, but most because banks don’t like to deal with cash. It’s a very real security risk and requires manual labor – both of which are costly and like any business banks like to keep costs down. Most smaller (and local) branches these days don’t deal with cash at all, or deals in very limited amounts.

If you run a small shop that deals in cash, there’s a very real possibility that you’ll have to face the question of whether to pay a lot of money for secure cash handling, or just getting a safe and hope you don’t get robbed.
Per item received. He's a receiver.

He opens boxes, scans the barcode, and puts the item into a box behind him.

15 seconds per touch is a good rate, but it's not breakneck for this work.

Without side work, you could realistically do these in 5-10 seconds.
It looks to me that Intel is getting more and more into foundry business.

To me, it looks to be a not entirely logic oriented process. Intel does not have much use for it Internally other than their so so and low volume cellular RF products and (quite good) wifi chips, that they currently fab at TSMC.

What it seem from a first look is that they want to take clients of other specialty low power/mixed 55nm/65nm node foundries.
Over here in Germany some city administrations won't do such things for money, but to make sure that this is not seen as an official page where false information is spread. Finding the right balance can be hard. I would assume it's the same over there, rather than actually trying to get money.
Thank you for spotting that!

I was so obsessed with the actual conversation that I have forgot to check other sources in the screenshot. I have pushed a change that makes those two occurrences censored.
If there is money to be made, it means that some companies or products were not priced correctly. This means that someone is getting overpaid and someone underpaid relative to their value. Traders find the fairest price for a product, just like a trader in a traditional physical marketplace.
This is a good joke, but if we extract the underlying intent - "things that may leak into being consumed by the user must be nontoxic" - it has a clear parallel in adtech.
But the maintence fee actually DOES something. It replaces parts with physical wear. It’s understandable (if expensive).

The $80/yr... turns a boolean from false to true. One that much cheaper cars give away.

How would you feel if BMW decided to start charging $80/yr for heated seats? There is absolutely no reason that should have a yearly fee attached to it.
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Lambda and dynamo are currently 600% cheaper than running our own instances. For us, we are making substantial savings. In fact, the biggest cost is not Lambda itself but dynamo because we had to create quite a few indexes. Frankly, these things can be avoided with better planning. That being said, it is still way cheaper in our case.
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Well, with enforcement of these things moving to the FTC instead of the FCC, perhaps we'll get some antitrust action on this.

The big tech monopolies were probably trying to do the right thing, but communicating privately and locking out other companies looks an awful lot like monopolists using their monopoly power to increase the reach of their monopolies.
It is hard. There are cellular automata, which are result of discrete local functions evolving in fixed space.

But what if we had something like "foam automata", discrete local functions that could alter the space they operate on? For example, if we represented the underlying space as graph, could we have functions that evolve as to change (reconnect) the edges and add/remove vertices of said graph?

Aside from 1D case, I was unable to figure out a set of rules that wouldn't quickly devolve into something that's either locally too dense or too sparse or disconnected. And making it follow some laws of conservation seems even harder.

Maybe some smarter readers of HN will figure it out, I would certainly be delighted.
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One of the things that interests me is just how much, if anything, the development of these systems can be applied elsewhere outside of finance.

Now I get some attempts to financialise other industries (usually having large social costs) but just wondered if we are seeing this creep out elsewhere (online advert auctions perhaps?)
Wow, excellent work! These are always super interesting to read.

A similar project: https://github.com/thejameskyle/the-super-tiny-compiler
Circle CI has options for private projects.
Yap they tried but it was experimental. They want something practical. Well they might have solved the problem but I kind of doubt it.

Notice that instead of a number it could be a set of random dictionary words. So instead of 123 they get "potato airplane". Now Alice and Bob start making jokes or comments about how silly that sounds and how far potato airplanes could fly etc. Now the problem of simply transcribing individual numbers got many times more complicated.
Has anyone installed Gitlab just for the CI component?
Another random google link says it could be as little as four shoulder-height areca palms: http://www.secrets-of-longevity-in-humans.com/oxygen-produci...
As someone who primarily bicycled for transportation during the years I lived in Los Angeles, it is my considered judgement that no group of drivers deserves to have to pay ridiculous fees more than those who drive BMWs. They are hands-down the most dangerous to everyone else on the street. It's just too bad these fees are going to BMW.
So, it seems knowledge of heap, stack, memory layout, address space layout, L1 / L2 caches is required.
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Wouldn’t it be simpler to ask the pages to politely put in a disclaimer saying they are not affiliated with the government rather than threatening damages or shutdown?
It doesn't, it benefits a small amount of people, with no benefit, or probably a detriment to society at large.
> What if these requests were just a clever scammer, trying to get some money?

Yeah, I thought the same at first.

However, in that same Facebook status I've quoted, the author claims that he actually went to the city government before the issue got resolved, so I took that as a verification that "Jon Doe" is actually from the city's government.

In addition to that, you can see that the Mayor's office is located at that exact address mentioned in the Facebook message to the owner of the Facebook page: http://sarajevo.ba/gradska-administracija/gradska-uprava/
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