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> They have no clue how to sell to enterprises, and because of that they are falling behind AWS and Microsoft in the cloud market.

One could argue the same about AWS for a long time. They’re still lumpy depending on the region. Google has gotten way better in this regard, and are hiring like mad. I wouldn’t presume the above is true any longer.

Microsoft on the other hand can sell, but Azure is flaky.

Google’s main limitation is they don’t have the breadth of offerings of AWS or Azure. That will change with time...
This is the real problem. Philosophers can’t prove their own existence to themselves, how can they be expected to prove anything else?
The money will come from whoever takes the other side of the trade. It's worth a million if there are buyers willing to pay for that much Bitcoin.

For what it's worth, I glanced at a chart and GDAX alone seems to have done 300 million in trades over the last 24 hours.

Seems like a lot? I'm wondering who is still buying Bitcoin on the way down. Or is it all day-trading?
Debian's kernel is deblobbed and contains only free software. If you can find an example contrary to this, it is a bug.

The poster on the thread you linked is making the argument that free software shouldn't be looking for non-free firmware, even when it isn't installed. That's... interesting and not something I've ever heard complained about.

The FSF doesn't endorse Debian because of the non-free repository which, while not officially a part of Debian, they consider a Debian. If you install only the "main" repository you will get only free software. The default install only contains the "main" repository.
What are Scala's memory issues?
Saying the video is a fake is not a defense to defamation. The false claim is putting the person's image in the deep fake in the first place. It is a well-settled point of law that a statement after the tortious act doesn't undo the tort; at best it might mitigate damages if the statement provably reduces the harm to the victim.
When the EU decided that Apple had not paid enough tax to Ireland, they made Ireland collect the extra tax. Giving tax discounts to favoured corporations is anti-social, and has long been punished at an international level (e.g. via countervailing duties). The amount of double-think required to accept it at a domestic level is astounding.
I would like to see some numbers in support of their core argument- “incentives do not alter business location decisions as much as is often claimed and are less important than more fundamental location factors." Bentonville, Arkansas is a great counterexample to this notion. Take a look at their economy over years after Walmart set up their headquarters there.

From wikipedia:
"The Northwest Arkansas economy was historically based upon agriculture and poultry. In recent decades, NWA has seen rapid growth and diversification of its economy based upon the three Fortune 500 companies based there, Walmart, Tyson Foods, and J.B. Hunt, while also seeing a growing University of Arkansas and cultural amenities sector. Although impacted by the Great Recession, NWA's economy fared better than most peer metropolitan areas, the state of Arkansas and the United States overall. Between 2007 and 2013, the region saw unemployment rates significantly below those of peer regions and the national average; while also seeing a 1% net growth of jobs. The NWA gross domestic product grew 7.0% over the aforementioned time period, and bankruptcies, building permits and per capita incomes are returning to pre-Recession rates.[23]

The professional, education and health care sectors of the Northwest Arkansas economy have been growing steadily since 2007. Between 2007 and 2013, the region has seen a growth of 8,300 jobs in the region, with 6,100 added in education and health professions and 4,300 jobs added in the leisure and hospitality jobs related to the region's cultural amenities.[23] "
Yep, totally agree. People should have control over their likeness, in a common sense way.
>We have no reliable evidence regarding what proportion of Roman Britain was "black". We have good historical evidence that there were Romans present in Britain who we'd these days describe as black (e.g. an Ethiopian soldier garrisoning Hadrian's wall).

Ethiopians were black. The majority in ancient Rome were not like that, not even the majority of people in the northern Africa countries.
Hey Mate,
Just be yourself and own being yourself. In my opinion people if your a good person, enjoyable to work with, and mean well you will rise to the top no matter what. Some people use excuses as crutch for being shitty people. You got this. Good Luck.
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The Story of Self-Repairing Control Systems [pdf]
I am currently taking the course and I can tell you that for 50.00 it is well worth it. I have been in IT Support for 20+ years and can tell you that it is constantly changing and although I have a degree I did not learn the majority of the knowledge I have from college. We have had interns and hires that have certifications out the wazoo and 4-year degrees but do not know how to change a toner cartridge or could not describe how DNS and the internet works. I was super excited when the course went over DNS. Before I started this course about 3 weeks ago I was showing an employee how DNS works for an issue he ran into. I also like how the course went over Linux and windows, mac, etc. The course was not one sided like a lot, of courses, focusing specifically on the vendor. I also like how they have labs that have interaction. Any good training should have actual labs with hands-on experience. I personally think we have too many people that memorize brain dumps to pass but could not do the hands-on work. I did not run into a formatting issue with the things not matching up on the labs so I cannot attest to that. I do remember that they specifically say please take this on a desktop or laptop. It said something about not taking them on mobile devices or tablets. I also saw that sometimes when you put in an answer that if you left a hyphenated word out or only put the first part of the word it would now except the answer. That being said you can review the material as many times as you want and you can also retake the quizzes and assignments so there should be no reason for you to not pass unless you're just lazy. That being said, the course does not go over everything and nor should it. It is an entry-level course for 50.00 that you can do on your on time to further your education and career. Back in the day, CompTIA used to cost 50.00 but now it is 410.00. Most of the vendors have gouged on pricing in the last 20-30 years. Hats off to Google for trying to make a difference and not trying to charge people a gazillion dollars for it.
They don't re-charge the car mid-race (and never have); they simply change between two cars, and that's what they're getting rid of.
Believe it or not, Debian unstable just got it this morning.

Boy, it's fast. I open a document, and it's there in less than a second. Very impressed. Like with Firefox, I'm starting to see the backend work.
>whereas the whole northern Africa was full of white populations

Citation very much needed.
> involving someone in a sexual situation without their consent

That's rather a broad definition of "involving someone in a sexual situation". I think it's amoral too, but I don't think it's a sexual consent issue. My intuition is that it has more to do with inauthenticity and coopting a person's likeness, their public reputation. You could do the same sort of thing to have people endorse political candidates or products against their will.
Google and Facebook are watching our every move online
Chrome OS Tablet from Acer: Display Details
Descartes would like to have a word with you :)
Hopefully one day we can see a 24-Hours with all electric vehicles and no recharges. Theoretically possible today with nuclear power, but you know, not that.
Many things need a precise time reference, which nowadays often comes from the GPS satellites. AFAIK, the 3G and 4G cell phone standards need precise timing to work correctly. Which means that "without cell phone reception" is a bit of an exageration; there's always the older 2G GSM standard. Same with the Internet, some networks might need precise timing to work correctly.
I read a very convincing article on how it will most likely be near D.C.

https://slate.com/business/2018/01/amazon-is-totally-putting...
Spanish has two words for free: libre and gratis. Libre means freedom and gratis means at no cost. English is confusing because we use the same word for both meanings.

Also, Beer is free at my house. Come over anytime!
I would have loved something like this while learning to program as well. I mean ... the Ruby REPL was fun, but this sort of thing is just so much more tactile and visual.

We haven't had time to produce as many demo notebooks as we might have liked, but these notebooks really aren't D3-specific in the slightest. They're a reactive flavor of JavaScript, and anything that produces a value or can be rendered to the DOM will work.

For example, here are a whole mess of Plotly charts: https://beta.observablehq.com/@jashkenas/plotly-js

Here are some (wild) WebGL, Three.js and regl sketches: https://beta.observablehq.com/collection/webgl

And here are some simple native inputs you can use to control your sketches: https://beta.observablehq.com/@jashkenas/inputs

Remember — a "slider" here isn't anything special. It's just a chunk of DOM that produces a number as a value. It can be replaced with anything else you can imagine that produces a number as a value. There's no API there ;)
Yeah, but bodywork "much more stylised than before" will please advertisers, not aerodynamicists. And sound which will irritate your pets still remains.
IMHO the biggest issue for some of the smaller cities is attracting talent. Good luck getting top notch twenty-something engineers to move to Indy when all of their buddies are in SF, NYC, Boston, etc. Guess I'll eat my words if HQ2 ends up being in the midwest, but this seems like an insurmountable hurdle for the little guys.
Thanks! I updated my question
This article is complete fluff, does anyone have sources of books or studies (or even better blog posts) on the topic of city subsidies? There are a lot of comments on here saying this is illegal, but it's not at all clear to me why this is a bad idea.

Here in SF, as I understand it there were a lot of tax subsidies to bring Twitter and other companies here into the city. Now the city is booming, and although that has caused other problems like strain on infrastructure and housing, these are solvable problems. They seem like much better problems to have than a failing economy. (Not to mention, they have much deeper causes as well that should have been addressed regardless, it's just that now it's become quite urgent).

As another data point, there was a good Freakonomics podcast recently with the governor of Rhode Island, and she basically claimed that tax incentives to bring companies like GE into the state (in addition to other programs like job training) were responsible for the economic turn-around they've seen. Over the past few years they've gone from having one of the worst unemployment rates to somewhere around average for the country.

Rather than knee-jerk oppose this competition, it seems like we should move the conversation to "Okay, you're offering these tax incentives for Amazon. Now you need to commit to building enough housing to meet their projected job growth at HQ2 over the next decade, as well as a public transportation plan to keep up with it."
> I'm not a huge fan of The Verge and Vox, but this is clearly amoral - I'm not sure any reasonable argument could be made for involving someone in a sexual situation without their consent.

Do you really mean "amoral" or did you intend to use "immoral" instead?
There should really be an Attenborough version of Finding Nemo where his mate switches genders and fornicates with his daughters, like any self-respecting clownfish would do.
I think we're on the same page.

My point: a business without actual products people want to use is not viable (contrary to what some appear to think), but a business without profitability is not viable, either.

(you're right, Uber has a slick product, though arguably because they subsidise it.)
iPaaS as the future abstraction layer for Customer Experience
> Worse, they divert funds that could be put to better use underwriting public services such as schools, housing programs, job training, and transportation, which are more effective ways to spur economic development.

This group of economists just claimed the government can grow better than Amazon. This isn't some random company or a football stadium that produces very little; this is one of the best performing, highest growth companies ever created. I'd give the kitchen sink away to get a FAANG company in my district if I were in charge.

This is a group of almost entirely liberal economist who've never seen a tax they didn't like. Claiming the government can grow better than Amazon, and I wonder where is the proof of this?
And yet, that is sometimes not enough.
A good friend showed his obviously infected foot to a doctor who dismissed the circular rash left from a tick as a localized infection. Fast forward one year and my friend was having major health issues and difficulty making it through the work day. Eventually, it was the worrisome neuropathy in his arms that motivated him to get a full blood test which revealed... it was Lyme disease after all. And bonus! with a year's worth of disease development, a much harder infection to get rid of.
Speculating, as is true for everyone on this thread unless your name is Jeff Bezos.
Agreement with who?
|Greedy realtors

Wouldn't this apply to anyone who wants this in their town?

Greedy people who want more money in their paychecks. Greedy cities who want a larger tax base. Greedy local business who want to benefit from consumers with more money.

If you dig deep enough, everybody is "greedy."

In this case, if a realtor's incentive is aligned with the city and its people, isn't it a good thing they are lobbying for the HQ to be in their city?
If you want to be super technical about it, processing data and releasing revenge porn are both still a matter of copying bits.

Releasing new bits would be invasion of privacy and defamation.

"Processing" existing bits would be defamation, appropriation, and possibly invasion of privacy based on the resulting images, though the IOP claims would likely be add-on claims to a defamation or appropriation action.

Either way, it's a tort.
I see. So if they can disconnect you from everybody else (for example, if they control the internet connection you're connected to), you have no way of telling whether they're replaying IPNS records to you.

The traditional internet solves the problem of not being able to trust your internet connection (say, in a coffee shop) with public key infrastructure so that the most a rogue internet provider can do is DoS you (they can't get a certificate for google.com and TLS is protected against replay attacks), so this sounds like a downgrade in actual security.
https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-google.en.html comes to mind.
What are you even talking about? Bitcoin is super liquid with high trading volumes. You can literally convert 100 Bitcoin to $1,000,000 USD in seconds, 24/7, anywhere in the world, without moving the market very much.
No one can win anything since life is a losing battle. I am still going to call out the FSF when they make critical or hypocritical compromises, in the case of pushing, making exceptions for, promoting or explaining away non-libre software in the case of components that can easily be changed. I know lots of people don't support them because, in their view, they don't make any/enough compromises (that is the OSI / Linux Foundation's job). I would like to live in a world where we have full control over the tools that we use and making compromises won't get us there.

We still continue to lose control of our tools because of the compromises we make or because some of us are tone deaf to the fact we need control over the various components in our computers (my favorite arguments : it's too complicated, not smart enough, because reasons...). The reason we are here is because not enough people care until it is too late, infrastructure fails, a new trendy security issue has been named or we find out that component X is running software that does something we don't like. The first step is education and getting enough people demanding hardware/software that makes no compromises on user control and freedom.
Almost nothing in autosport has good longevity.
basically if you have a bunch of code blocks that depend on each others' results - you don't have to remember which ones to update if you changed one, it will update automatically.

especially useful with data visualization/exploration, but also helps a lot if you have a complex sequence where it's easy to get lost and forget to recompute something. there's a youtube link in the comments here which explains a lot.
*if properly lubricated
100%. The fact that whole foods HQ is here is icing on the cake.

There's land near the domain that's effectively reserved for it.
I know why Debian isn't endorsed by the fsf (and I'm ambivalent about that, for what it's worth).

But the post I linked to makes an interesting point abuot why ConnochaetOS is not endorsed while the same reasoning was not applied for PureOS.
what is so bad about governments competing with each other for citizens and corporations?

gov competition is a good thing.
just noticed that the go implementation you linked to [https://github.com/maackle/ssb-igo] is actually "the game of Go on ssb"
Yes, sorry for the confusion. On mobile the final sentence in the quote looked like it actually belonged to notacoward.

My comment was aimed at notacoward.
That's up to Sapphire, why they did it (probably for overclocking).

The reference design (including the LC version) and some other designs, like Asus Strix, require only 2 8-pin power connectors.
This. I've stopped applying to companies directly because it takes too much of my time and the response rate is too low. With a recruiter I'm pretty much guaranteed at least the first round of interviews with just a 15 minute phone call.

I imagine it's gotten to that point for a lot of job seekers.
Making It Personal
> We're talking about New York State, not New York City.

That's pretty hard to infer given the context, since the MTA is controlled by both the city and the state.

> but he is right that most districts aren't at all competitive

This is also true of say, Georgia. You can see for example that no one even ran against Buddy Carter in 2016 [1]. Most districts, period, aren't really that competitive.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%27s_1st_congressional_...
Hi HN, after about 5 years teaching myself to program and starting then not finishing projects for some reason or the other, this is my first web app that has made it into production. I'l love any feedback you all may have.
Not sure this fully backs the statistic above, but a detailed USDA report:

https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/74672/60298_ei...

It doesn't clearly state how many farmers lease land, but 39% of acreage is rented.

The 98% statistic appears in the follwing item, but concerns white vs black land ownership, not rental vs. ownership:

https://inequality.org/research/owns-land/
OK. I take back my smirking.
Is there truly a meaningful difference between tokens and blockchains though? Sure, the token is running one level up in the architecture hierarchy, using a blockchain or maybe even another token as its settlement layer, but from a user's perspective it doesn't act any differently. It's kind of like how, as a user, I don't know or care whether the HN webserver my browser is talking to right now is running in a VM or on bare metal.

The actual use properties of tokens/coins/blockchains aren't any different.
Nice! My opinion is that philosophy is the undervalued discipline in American life today.

To back that up: I would rather work with a philosopher than an arbitrary "other degree" holder outside of the Math/CS preference. Particularly as the person grows in seniority, the education becomes more and more useful.
PostgreSQL's Powerful New Join Type: Lateral
Also UT providing a pipeline of top CS talent and a healthy tech scene locally compared to a lot of the other final cities.
I agree with you only for places like Silicon Valley. It can totally be automated. You'd hear the exact same speech if you were to apply at 5 different companies at the same time. You would go through the exact same process, you would be treated exactly like any other candidate, forget about customized experience, your past projects are completely obsolete here it's all about the pen, a whiteboard and a lot of repetitive immature college-like questions. So, simply replace the name of the company, rinse and repeat.

On top of that, from my linkedin I see the same recruiters moving around from one company to another every 1-2 years. You may find yourself talking to the same recruiter from company A now that you're applying at company B.

I don't know outside of SV if recruiters sound like a broken record too...
At the 2017 Mexico GP, Niko Hulkenberg was told to exit the car because it wasn't safe. He stood out on the nose of the car and jumped off using a specific protocol.

There's also an indication for corner workers that alerts them to the unsafe condition.

https://twitter.com/F1/status/924723086875938817
I hope you'll reconsider this position. Its not a zero-sum game. More economic development doesn't come at the expense of infrastructure/public services. Economic development is what funds those things. The economics involved here are well understood. Lack of schools and infrastructure exists because there isn't enough money or political will, and adding economic development doesn't exacerbate that. Its meant to be a solution for the problems you're concerned about.
> It is a well-settled point of law that a statement after the tortious act doesn't undo the tort

What if the statement or image was labeled as a fake from its inception, not just "after the fact"?

By your logic, this statement is defamatory/libel:

"This statement is false: Barack Obama killed a man just to watch him die and also cheats at cards."
> I'm not a huge fan of The Verge and Vox, but this is clearly amoral

I think you mean “immoral” (which you use in your added material at the end.) “Amoral” is usually used of a person rather than an act, but it means “not concerned with morality” rather than “contrary to morality”. If it were to make any sense applied to an act, it would designate an act with no (positive or negative) moral status in itself, which doesn't seem to be your claim here.