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It will never get there. Not just because the OOXML spec is a behemoth but because MS has every incentive to not let it get there. They have the most popular document format in the world which is open enough to avoid legal trouble but unwieldy enough to ensure that people have to buy MS if they want to use it.
Browsers now have the native Web Crypto API which makes doing fully P2P end to end encrypted decentralized applications possible.

For instance, here is a demo of a social network dApp I built that is running a distributed correctness test across many real world devices that are updating character-by-character in realtime: https://youtu.be/C3akdQJs55E (fully P2P and encrypted!)

I know blockstack has been pushing this but they still require their own browser. Meanwhile you can build apps like above as easily as 40 lines of code and a few minutes, check out this interactive coding tutorial: https://scrimba.com/c/c2gBgt4
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Solving big problems works better when you can solve the small problems they're composed of. First figure out how to catch, kill, or deter a mouse and then expand the solution to the rest of the house.

You're way to focused on the concept of elasticity. There's a lot more to figure out before that's the immediate problem.
You're in luck!

http://www.earwolf.com/episode/hello-from-the-magic-tavern-p...
Yes, and introducing bugs is not the only issue at stake.

Imagine malware that could react differently when a debugger is attached.
Animals that have to be euthenised for one reason or another cannot, and nor should they enter the food chain for humans, cats, dog, or otherwise. Firstly, there are the drugs they use to humanely put down the patient which would be toxic to down stream consumers of the meat products, and secondly there maybe concerns about zoonosis.
> has very strong incentives to maintain your privacy

> their incentives aren't really aligned with yours

No, they have a very strong incentive to appear to maintain your privacy. And that's only temporary.

Don't fall for any company saying that they're doing something in the user's interests. They aren't. Companies exist to make profits, if for a brief period of time that means helping users in some way, it's only a coincidence, and you're being fooled by it.

Take a look at China, Apple didn't even blink before deciding to hand over all data to the Chinese government.

I trust companies, because I know exactly what matters for them: profits. I trust them to follow profits and act on their best interest.
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> Underdog cities could and should compete by improving their offering for everyone

That's not necessarily true. A city may not want everyone, or they may particularly want Amazon. Competition is competing, one part of which is incentives to localize in an area. Since so many places want an HQ2, it is Amazon's market not that of the cities.

Cities can rail against having to compete in a competition, but those cities likely will not win the competition.
Every being with a consciousness must have feelings. Otherwise the consciousness wouldn't know what to do.
> Think about it--if a user receives a bunch of fake friend requests, it's a bad experience.

Except that Facebook knows who is real and who fake. Just like my mail provider knows who sends spam and who doesn't.

Facebook can display ads to fake users and still make the campaigner pay for the impression, or make a group pay for reaching more users, fakes included.

Facebook can easily filter requests from fake profiles, so no, fake users do not necessary worsen the experience for real ones.
At my liberal arts college, that "tradition" stuck around longer than other places in what I imagine is at some level a statement of reverence.
> NCC-1701-C Enterprise - I had received the space ship's floor plans

There were Enterprise-C floorplans? While I never had any of them, I think I've seen them for the original, the -A version (or the similar TWOK refit, not sure), and the -D, but -C is kind of surprising, given its limited on-screen time.
Why can't we respect human dignity like those communists who murdered and starved tens of millions of people, ruined economies, and consigned countless people to oppression and deprivation?
> removing such content could possibly be a violation of the First Amendment

No, it couldn't. Websites have the right to remove any content from their websites for any reason. They are not bound by said law.
Ah yes, the standard nitpicky dismissive HN comment makes its appearance.
You can opt out of Google ad targeting and general tracking for free

https://myaccount.google.com/u/1/privacy
Dude nobody in this whole post is saying the federal government shouldn't do anything. Read these threads again.
When I manually update my site, that just means I add a file to the git-repository with today's date. Once I commit and push that a Makefile rebuilds my (static) site.

I don't personally use IPFS, but I imagine if I did then I'd have a script to change DNS, or update the hash IPFS uses. I see from other replies that updating the "most recent" version of a site is simple enough that it shouldn't be a problem in practice.
You’ve never driven any of these cars, have you?
We're talking about completely different things. My comment was a follow on to this:

>Many of the deficiencies there are standard contract terms that were probably missing.

Lawyers exist to make sure you don't sign a contract that is missing standard contract terms.
I was under the impression that pedals negated the need for that classification. Wasn’t that the reason for existence of mopeds?
I have found that fuzzy logic control has proven to be useful for non-linear and multi-order systems in the past.

The first time I build a fuzzy logic controller for an industrial plant optimisation I was very surprised at performance vs complexity and how imprecise the characterisations can be and still get very good results.
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agree, 20 cities is a lot. i could be wrong, but who really expects LA to make it?
I don't want all my eggs in one basket. I don't mind using search and email, but I disable all the analytics and tracking. Basically, if I'm on a Google site, that's fine; if I'm elsewhere on the web, it's not. Similarly for Firefox on Android, to the extent I'm able.

I block everything to do with Facebook every which way on my primary browser.
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I think by limiting the speed they get around this.
We are starting to see that trend on GUI frameworks and game engines.

C++ is still there, doing what it does best, driving pixels around with maximum performance.

But the upper layer, exposed to app developers and game designers, is done in another language.
I love the idea of integrating the lock so that it needs to be attached to an existing bike rack. Lime bike and Ofo have infiltrated Dallas, and their bikes are somewhat of an eyesore, especially as they are strewn everywhere.

It'll be interesting to see how they enforce the location requirement. i.e. will you be charged if it's stolen because you didnt lock it on a rack? Will they have a known database of every "suitable" bike rack and "nudge" patrons towards them if they lock outside those regions?
My city has ridiculously low property taxes. I still pay the same amount I would because supply and demand determines prices, it's just that money goes to rentier landlords or to an investment portfolio's CDO via a mortgage instead of to schools and public services.

The reason your condo was relatively cheap is because your city has high property taxes.
It's frustrating when information disappears from the web. I suspect things like this and the Internet Archive will become very useful for historians as time goes on.
We've already seen increased independent sector provision.

Drug and alcohol services got taken out of the NHS and given to public health. Local authorities had to run competitive tendering. Some of them sent the work back to NHS providers, but many are now provided by community interest companies like Change Grow Live, or private for profit providers like Priory Group.

At the moment one third of patients detained under section of the mental health act are in independent sector hospitals.

We have organisations like LivewellSW (they're very good) providing healthcare across a large region.

People don't really understand how far along we are with privatisation.
Generally you lie in the water in a wetsuit for buoyancy. The spotter holds on to you to make sure you don't float out to sea (in our case). They also check on you by prompting you to give an "okay" indication (by lifting a finger every 30 seconds or so).

One danger of being under water is that you can pass out even after you've taken a breath of fresh air, so the spotter also is there to make sure you are good in the few seconds after you come up.
yes, DDG has been nothing bu bliss lately. I did 99% of my master thesis research on there. And the other 1% I went to google for usually didn't turn up anything useful either.
One of Tumblr's differentiators is allowing adult content. It's very hard to find places friendly to that when you're looking to distribute your artwork and get a following going.

Thankfully more and more websites are based out of other countries now and don't need to swim in the puritan current of the US.
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severe restrictions on who can get access to my data

Are you sure about this, or are you limiting "who" to people you already know and/or regularly interact with?
Click on the location icon in top navigation bar, type in "Seattle", select it and then navigate back to the page. You'll now be able to see the contents.
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>Right now the html / presentation story for Jupyter notebooks is awful.

How so?

Ive found it pretty straightforward to convert matplotlib plots to gif/mp4 for presentation (note: this can be done automatically within the notebook), and plotly is pretty good for truly interactive stuff.
Economics is how we allocate scarce resources. Outside the economy is where people go when their theory needs to ignore how shit works.
Jhipster is a great tool for generating starter Spring Boot projects. Here is a recent Pluralsight course that will walk you through using it https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/scaffolding-spring-boot-...
I'm not sure if you really can. Yes, I know you can opt out of the more open parts of it, like the web history they show you, but I'm skeptical that they aren't still doing stuff behind the scenes.
> I prefer companies whose products and services I pay for directly.

Then pay for it, stop using free services.

> I don't think corp gsuite lets you opt out of ad targeting and general tracking (I could be wrong).

AFAIK it doesn't use any info from the services you pay for to target you.

But remember, ads on websites aren't a form of paying for Google's services, but for the website content.

Do you read Ars Technica? Instead of seeing the ads you just subscribe to them. Read news online freely? Stop and pay for a few newspapers and only read them.

People knowingly choose free services that come with the tradeoff of ad targeting. That's how those services are paid. Using those services is your choice.
I have mentioned sent it out to people I know and will be posting it elsewhere as well.
Cpp was my first language. It seems like I choose languages based upon the project, and it along with Java or JS or python tend to be what's needed for my interests. I guess to me it is simply a tool. So if some killer tech preferred D, then I would pick it up probably. I do avoid many Cpp features, I am just working with a subset usually, for better or worse.
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I worked with a customer that was using .NET for DNA sequencing.

Not sure what tricks they pulled off regarding unsafe code and parallelism, but it was fully done in C#.
E-bikes in Canada don't require a license and are not classified as "motor vehicles". Only real requirement for the rider is to be 16+. More info over here:

http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/driver/electric-bicycles.sh...
Yeah, but if you're an entity with infinite money, and derive great benefits from using it, it seems reasonable to toss them a few dollars. Not even just to be nice, but to ensure it continues to grow so you can keep milking it later.
It's a bit on the slower side, but when riding in the city I rarely end up hitting above 15 mph unless I'm going downhill, in which case the electric assist limit wouldn't kick in.
My son and his girlfriend (now wife) worked over-winter in Yellowstone for Xanterra after college and they really enjoyed the experience.
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In California at least, a pedal-assisted electric bike that can reach 28 MPH (a type 3 bike) doesn't require a license.
The record is held by the first homo sapiens who asphyxiated. Tens of thousands of years and counting!
I found the source for a "standard library" for this project, but nothing for the project itself. Anyone have any pointers?
>Given their self-inflicted XHR debacle that dethroned Office,

Do you mean how Google used XHR (ajax) for Google Docs to dethrone Microsoft Office? Or something else I'm missing?
I think your unnecessarily caustic words are reason enough for your downvotes. That kind of language isn't really welcome in ycombinator. This isn't Reddit: there's an expectation for a higher-class of discussion.

With that being said: the 17.12 update, aka Adrenaline December 2017, on Windows, broke DirectX9 and also broke a few OpenGL games. AMD suffered a major PR hit over the winter-break when a few forum moderators said things they shouldn't have said about this issue (which was eventually fixed when the executives returned to work after the New Year and performed PR Damage Control). So there's a lot of latent anger in the gamer community around AMD Drivers right now.

With that said: it isn't too difficult to roll back to an earlier update in these cases, but AMD did release a DirectX9 fix by the next month (January 2018). The OpenGL issues seem to still be a known issue, and that's why a number of people are remaining on 17.7.
> In a library, sure. In application code, no.

It has been a long time since I worked on an application so trivial that parts of it weren't broken out into separate libraries. Most often, those libraries end up being maintained by people other than their users, and the users always end up using the library in unexpected ways or contexts so these protective measures always become necessary.

Perhaps more to the point, I don't think there should even be multiple constructors each called in different situations that it takes several pages to describe. This complexity mostly exists because the people who defined C++ don't seem to understand the significance of value vs. reference semantics, as the OP also noted. Move semantics and rvalue references represent a tacit omission that the previous semantics were broken, but they just introduce even more non-intuitive syntax and another few pages to describe what happens in which situations. That's exactly the kind of spurious complexity that makes compiler writers want to go on killing sprees and folks like me want to avoid the whole morass.
Its interesting you'd say that, considering that facebook publishes an estimate of the percentage of fake accounts in its quarterly public filing.

Disclaimer - I work for facebook.
> It's likely their lawyers told them to stop talking, and that we don't know the full story here

Any defense attorney will give him this advice. My guess is the investigation into this is not looking to discover the truth, it's looking for someone to blame. And the lower they are on the totem pole, the better.

If the investigation is an impartial arbiter only concerned with truth and justice, then the guy should cooperate. In the real world, it's probably a kangaroo court that will forget all exculpatory statements and amplify all damaging ones. So if he tells the investigators:

"Yeah, I clicked on it, but the message told me it was not a drill, and my manager never advised me there was an ongoing exercise"

Then the prosecutor will tell the court: "During questioning he confessed to clicking the button. It's an open-and-shut case, send him to jail!"
with adblocker, I find the page uses 100% cpu and if I open multiple tabs to articles, my computer drags to a halt. No other site I use is this bad.
I rode a Jump bike to work today. It's a magical experience.

Just as I struggle a bit to get up a hill, the bike's pedal assist kicks in and helps me out. Ditto for when I'm stopped at a red light and need to get riding fast.

The best part of these bikes are the fact that when I get to my destination, I can lock them up to the closest pole or bike rack and just go.
Ofo and Mobike bikes use locks that block the wheel's rotation and can thus be parked anywhere.

Seems like forcing to use an existing bike rack would be a non-starter, since the whole point of dockless bike sharing is that you can just leave the bike in front of your destination regardless of what is there.

The "eyesore" factor is a trivial downside compared to the massive convenience of just being able to park the bike anywhere.
OK, so you didn't consult some resource online and see what the series B or whatever round was and use a formula based on what the raise was to derive the valuation?

I see people throw these "valuation based on the last round" and I'm always interested at how they arrive at these numbers. Is there no rule of thumb then?
Philosophy is not an empirical science.
Well, Skyrim is from late 2011, so I'm not sure it's necessarily a good indicator that a modern game system processor is up to snuff. Doom is considerably more recent, but then again, I'd be willing to bet Carmack's legacy at Id is strong, and there's lots of people there that could (and possibly did) tweak the engine for good performance given the Switch's limitations. Actually, I think they demoed Rage on mobile, so they probably already had it highly optimized for ARM.

That said, I love the switch, and BotW has quickly become one of my all time favorite games. My only problem is resisting the urge to kick the kids off the switch so I can play. ;)
> Moreover, removing such content could possibly be a violation of the First Amendment.

Only if it was done by the government. If it was done by the platform, it would be an exercise of first amendment rights.
I think it is worse than that because the screen shot originated with the Hawaii state government, but it turns out to be not genuine, AND they took no steps to debunk the resulting widely circulated stories that bad UI had been the root cause.

http://www.ajc.com/news/national/photo-hawaii-missile-warnin...
Maybe if you can find a good one, but I've given up on them. Frankly, most (for candidate and company) are horrible and should've been fired years ago.

One exception to my experiences was a guy working internally at Google in Switzerland that I had contact with, who hands down was great.
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> "How this relates to Hacker news? I believe it should be Techne focused and not Epistme focused."

The HN guidelines are pretty clear on what is considered on-topic:

> "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Also from the guidelines:

> "Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."

> "If you think a submission or comment is inappropriate for HN, you can flag or downvote."
Hey HN,

I’ve been working on Polly Podcast for a few months and I’m excited to share it with the community. I made this so that I could listen to articles while at work or during my commute.

Once I got into building the platform I found this incredible voice synthesis community in NYC, which led me to Recess Labs[0], which is where I am now while I work on building my own voice model based on the recent Tacotron 2 paper[1].

Would love feedback and I’m happy to answer any questions or talk about voice-tech.

[0] http://www.recesslabs.com/
[1] https://research.googleblog.com/2017/12/tacotron-2-generatin...
We have to be careful about botshaming people who have too many fake followers: it's pretty easy to buy your enemy a bunch of fake followers just to discredit them.

Fun story, years ago in my office, before buying followers was well known, folks would prank each other by buying fake followers for our co-workers. They'd wake up and be so happy and surprised and then have to spend the weekend manually blocking each one.

At the time it seemed pretty harmless, but now it is definitely a threat to someone's credibility.
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14.5 MPH is not slow in a city. Anything faster starts to feel a little unsafe IMHO.
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You don't find it ironic in that you're judging people for what they find enjoyable and arguing it misses the point of doing something for enjoyment? I receive immense pleasure and enjoyment in improving at things -- something I assume is probably an evolutionary imperative. Bettering ourselves is fun. Competing is fun. Bettering ourselves while competing is absurdly fun.
ipywidgets for creating interactive html widges & dashboards and Plotly, Bokeh, and nvd3 are 3 examples for visualaition that integrates Python with JS libraries.

Of course JS gives you full flexibility for talking to the DOM and graphics APIs, but web apps are not the main focus of data science. The web is just one possible means to presentation or collaboration.
I never said AAC is worst, but AAC 96Kbps cant beat MP3 128Kbps in majority of cases.
Is that script on github? Interested to take a look...
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"Facebook can easily filter requests from fake profiles"
"Except that Facebook knows who is real and who fake."

You say that so definitively. Have you worked on a product with millions of new users a week? It's an extremely hard, constantly shifting problem.

"Facebook can display ads to fake users and still make the campaigner pay for the impression"

Facebook's entire business relies on user and advertise trust. Why would they sacrifice that for some short term growth that would inevitably kill the business by eroding trust?
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In general, this is not true.
White as in not black. Not as in red-haired blue-eyed WASPs.

Of course it can have "brown skin". Egyptians, Tunisians, and co, including people in Souther Spain, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, the Middle East, and so, had, and still have brown skin, but are not black like e.g. Ethiopians (which ancients also describe), nor are depicted as such.