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Money is not the same thing as power, although power usually makes money abundant. Billionaires have in many ways much less power than even a relatively minor government official or regulator.

Zuckerberg learned this the hard way when he spaffed $100 million on New York schools and ended up with zero measurable difference in outcomes.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mark-zuckerbergs-100-million-...

$100 million down the drain, largely because - guess what - the politics of Newark were totally unaffected by all this money. Zuck wanted a new teachers contract that linked pay to performance to be a part of the reform, and $50m of the $100m was devoted to achieving this outcome. It was meant to be used for teacher bonuses and so on. But only the state legislature could make real change there, and they didn't. Instead the contract was renegotiated with seniority protections intact because the union refused to budge on it, and the local government rolled over. The district also spent huge sums of money on "consultants" making $1000/day - $20m of it went down that rabbit hole.

In the end Zuck discovered that you can't solve political problems with money, no matter how much you throw around. Trump beat Clinton despite spending 50% as much, even though Obama had been warning after Citizens United that it represented a "serious harm to democracy". People tend to over-estimate the impact money can have on society.
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Certain people.
Definitely not "trolling".

That's maybe a bit too theoretical of a question, but let's say a person's bounds are his body. In order to protect bodies, we have constructed this idea of "countries" and "borders".

If a foreign body crosses a border and takes from another country and harms its locals, whether with a gun or with a piece of paper, isn't that bad?
The problem with San Francisco is that it's pathologically unable to build apartment buildings.
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On the topic of messaging, GitLab acquired Gitter about a year ago:

https://about.gitlab.com/2017/03/15/gitter-acquisition/

Edit: I first said "not too long ago" then realized it was just about a year ago.. Where is time going!?
Their open source offering is so great that I'll gladly accept that they're trying to hook customers this way.

Like the other guy said: If you don't like them adding exclusive extra features, pay them for what they're already offering.
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Absolutely, and as a US citizen and resident, your country does a huge amount to benefit and protect you.

That's quite different from saying that the whole country should participate in parochial isolationism because some individuals cannot do what they want.

There's little evidence that, in the medium to long term, that approach does benefit and protect its citizens. History has tended to show the opposite.
"Apple has a long history of developing components and engineering solutions in-house before seeding that information to manufacturing partners in Asia."
https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/03/19/apple-developing-...
I can't speak for the OP, but doesn't companies blatantly and intentionally break the law all the time?
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It is hard to see what is happening behind the scenes. Such a mega corp needs top officials with good political connections around the globe and wide range of network with corporations at such size. Such relationship is the scarcity, not the character business or industry vision.
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It's not just use of the word "usury". It's the combination of the money lenders theme (or they run the banking system) with they run the media and they're taking over the world.
Unlike most people, I am not against mega rich in general, or asume, that they are all evil. But what just came to my mind with this sentence:

".. and Henry Ford ruthlessly made fortunes and then established foundations to enlighten the masses and ensure world peace long after their death. "

... is how it is meant regarding Ford. Enlightening the masses about the jews evil conspiracy and ensuring world peace by helping nazi domination?
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But that wouldn't be an issue if you could just commute from somewhere else.
>You won't see any improvements from AVs until human drivers are banned

Automatically re-routing traffic when the roads start being congested already works before that and it'll help a lot.
Mind, the trickest part of dealing with pre-4.0 is mounting the file system, assuming the OS was placed onto NTFS rather than FAT.

A couple of times I've tried mounting an NT 3.51 disk in a modern Windows 7 system and while it works (you can read from and write to it fine,) once you even mount it, NT 3.51 will never boot from that disk again. It hangs during the blue NTLDR stage.

I'm not sure what would ever possess anyone to think it a good idea to write to a filesystem immediately upon mounting it, but Windows 7 does something to old NTFS volumes which renders them incompatible with NT 3.x.
I've used libpcap in the past, and it's been rather nice.

https://www.tcpdump.org/pcap.html

It abstracts all the hard work, gives you a handle that you can poll on, and then handles giving you a stream of packets to process.
It's been in beta since Feb 2015, and now is up to version 0.9.9.13.5. So looks like they're in no hurry to 1.0 yet :)
>> So what’s the problem with that?

To clarify, my comment above was primarily meant to point out that the behaviour we're discussing is not something unique to the Japanese. I felt it was a bit unfair to single them out for having a culture that continuously reminds people of being foreign, when everybody else does it also (well- as far as I can tell). I didn't say whether I thought it's a problem or not.

So- is it? I guess that will depend a lot on the situation, won't it? For myself I've been in both kinds of situations, where it was a problem and where it wasn't. Say, when I first moved here I worked menial jobs and the people I worked with tended to not care much about social niceties (although there may have been other reasons I attracted the wrong kind of attention, by some). Nowadays, I'm a PhD researcher, so it would be a really big surprise if someone brought up the fact I'm not from around here as a disadvantage; most people I work with are not, anyway.

It's just that, there are situations were anything that singles you out can spell trouble- and being foreign singles you out. In such situations, you have to tread carefully in a way that locals don't.

To be perfectly clear, I personally take things in my stride and I generally fare very well. But not everyone is the same as me, neither have I always been as confident and self-assured as I am now. The target is, I think, to have an environment (a society, if you will) that accommodates all kinds of people, those who aren't bothered as well as those who might be.

__________

Edit: "neither have I always been as confident and self-assured as I am now". Actually, now that I think of it, I always have. I'm a tough cookie :)
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There need to be better parking solutions for any of that to actually happen.
> you need to go up and down (and hope that there's no problem with elevator).

For the last 7 years I've been only living on the 7th and 8th floor, I think only twice I had problems with the elevator.

> also means smaller living space

I'm very fine with that, I don't need huge spaces to live all of by myself (or with my wife + kids). As a matter of fact I have several coffee shops on a 10-minute walk radius, there's where I also spend most of my free time.

> You say that nature is too far, but if you have nice garden you can have nature one step away (also, there should be more parks, regardless of if it's suburbia or a city, but it's cheaper to have a park in suburbia).

I don't have that much spare time, and as such I don't have time for gardening (plus, I don't like it). On top of that, "raw" nature beats "gardened" nature by several orders of magnitude. I want my kids to be able to wander by themselves in wild-ish forests just outside the city (as I used to do as a kid, while I was living in an communist apartment building), I don't want them to enjoy the sort of "manicured" nature that the suburbia promotes.
The point is that the Bay Area is essentially the unique place where you have to work if you want to work in the consumer tech industry on things that make newspaper headlines. The point is that if people could work on that in more places, the problem of wanting to commute to a specific area wouldn't exist.
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> porn does not add anything productive to the society.

Disagree.

Plenty of people enjoy porn healthily, married couples included.
Well, it really depends what do you mean by "something more complex". I remember when the author of rather non-trivial tool used by many of HN users went on Twitter rant because he could not invert a binary tree and failed a whiteboard interview https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9695102
To me, and possibly most CS freshmen, this task would be a piece of cake, yet I think Max is a better programmer than most of us - a.k.a. rockstar developer.
Is human reaction time is the only reason for enforcing safe driving distance?

Even if AI increases to great levels, inertia still would exist. A large truck cannot stop in inches when traveling at 100 mph.
We shouldn’t blame autonomous vehicles. Unaffordable housing is causing sprawl.
I've found that even for unix-unix, samba is just more reliable with more reasonable error behaviour.
SpaceX cost about 1 billion dollars over 10 years. NASA provided ~500 million as part of launch contracts.

NASA's budget is ~18 billion a year. So out of 180 billion dollars they would have needed to devote ~500 million and then just fund it themselves.

So it's not really a money issue.
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Impressive although reading that they used 448 cores on super-expensive Intel lab machines takes the edge off a little
If all this data just fits in memory then what is surprising about the speed?
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Why are you comparing to a derelict housing block in Russia and cramped living in Kowloon? There is plenty of high-density housing in western cities as well, and it looks nothing like the pictures. How's this, for example:
https://www.google.de/maps/@48.1220008,11.5526623,358a,35y,4... It has:

- much higher density than any suburb
- a subway stop and multiple bus stops
- a bunch of restaurants and bars
- a supermarket and another one just on the other side of the train tracks
- multiple childcares
- schools in close vicinity

And it's accessible to pedestrians and cyclists.
"When you deliver response time that drops down to about a quarter of a second, results seem to be instantaneous to users."

I don't think everybody agrees with this statement.
I haven't looked for obvious reasons but back in the day people were saying that there was already child porn embedded in bitcoin: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=671894.0

Which is why child porn is one of the Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse: terrorists, pedophiles, drug dealers, and money launderers.

That we are trying to apply flesh space laws to bits just goes to show how stupid we still are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime

Until we change the laws we have to meet the needs of digital computers instead of the printing press we will have these ridiculous ways of attacking useful new technology.
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It only has to stop as quickly as the truck in front.
Ford may have had bad political views, but the Ford foundation has had a huge effect on the world, especially during the cold war.

https://www.fordfoundation.org/
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While that may be true, it's also passing the buck since there are a lot of economically productive cities where commuting is practical and rents are cheap.
I'm not really sure they're so walkable. You can probably walk your local borough, dissected by highways and rail. There's not much happening on it, and it quickly becomes repetitive. This unless you live in urban core, which is contiguous but expensive so that it needs the outskirts to maintain its buzz.
>> There's a reason Canadians emphasize diversity over assimilation, because complete assimilation is impossible.

Well yes- unless we become like the Borg, innit.
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I agree with you. You have to log in to every single website for the 'personalization sake'. I hate personalization and the login.
Ok, if we stick to your definition of algorithm that it actually makes much more sense.
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Not sure what countries have to do with it. If someone takes something, that is rightfully yours, by force or other means then that's morally (and probably legally) wrong. It doesn't matter if they crossed borders or not.

But it's not clear that that's happening. In your OP, no-one has taken anything from you. They just haven't given you something that you feel you deserved but they, presumably, didn't.

You seem to be making the assertion that you've been unfairly treated, and that may be the case, I have no idea. But if you think that it's primarily down to foreign labour then the evidence is against you. There are a lot of US citizens employed in software development in the US. Much more than there are foreign nationals.
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Google has done this kind of ranking adjustment for _years_. It's necessary in order to make sure the search results are relevant rather than hundreds of pages of SEO spam.
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You ignore that those advantages require the density of housing provided by the kind of building described by paganel. You can't have low-density housing surrounded by lots of cafés and supermarkets, the economics just don't work out.
I hope you don't reboot Emacs on every config change?

M-x eval-region, M-x eval-last-sexp and M-x eval-buffer are your friends. Emacs is, as suits a Lisp system, strongly runtime-modifiable. It even has its own REPL - M-x ielm.
I've found these documents:

- https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/109616#files-area

- https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/64ad/643e8084486ca7d3312ed4...
Foundations like the Bill Gates Foundation will invest in other companies to increase their return on investment even when those companies can be detrimental to the cause they are supporting. Here is an example from Durban where the Gates foundation was working to improve sanitation but Gates had invested in oil companies contributing to the problem. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/26/resident...
(1) I don't know if this is what they're thinking, but not all single instructions that operate on "multiple data" are vector operations... e.g. I wouldn't call summing all items in an __m128 to be a vectorized operation. Similarly I suppose not all vectorized operations are SIMD, since they might just use normal (SISD) instructions on entire arrays. But again, I'm not sure this is really what they mean; it wouldn't seem to be a very useful distinction to make.
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i am using org-wiki on emacs. Quiver looks comfy but mac only. https://caiorss.github.io/org-wiki/
"begging the question" is also commonly used to mean: to raise a point for debate.
> I am having difficulty believing that someone wouldn't know how variables are scoped/refernced in function calls like the one you showed in the second example.

I strongly believe it, in fact, just as I'm writing this I'm not sure what a language like PHP would print out in that example (maybe the latest versions do the "right" thing, but back in PHP3 and PHP4 times variable scoping was a mess).
Christchurch also gets very bad trade winds from the North West, the difference being the ample flat land they have allows for a runway to accomodate this. Spring/Summer seasons see a fair amount of use of the N/W runway at Christchurch international.

Wellington is just a badly placed airport.

Just as an FYI, going off the pictures from their website I'd place the test flights ~20km from Methven from the scenery in the background.
Yes. Unless the underlying reactor/scheduler is multithreaded but that's… uncommon, as async code tends not to consider thread-safety.

It certainly isn't the case for nodejs.

One could wonder whether that's an issue when IO are fairly short & strongly interspersed with code being run though, the overhead of switching tasks could be higher than the IO you're synchronising. I guess whether this is a good idea would strongly depend on how you're using sqlite (aka do you tend to make lots of very simple requests with small output or a smaller number of more complex ones).
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Honest question, when's the last time you had to do that.

Second honest question, did you have to do that, or did you do that because it was Not Invented Here?

Virtually no-one in our industry needs to write algos regularly. If you are, that probably means you're a bad programmer suffering from NIH syndrome. Or you're one of a tiny group who actually need to because you're doing something cutting edge.
That's how people end up seeing the victors. No matter what they do.

Take Bill Gates. 20 years ago he was evil incarnate, his company caught in lying, cheating, corrupting. Now his PR team made sure he is regarded as one of the good ones. For the last few years, you saw post in HN, reddit, imgurs, all singing the goodness of his heart. And then comments followed.

No matter how many article you had decades ago stating all the wrong MS did, it's all water under the bridge. No ones remember. Clean slate.

Now people are even saying that Bush Jr. was "not so bad".

In 10 years, people will say Trump was ok.
There was a tweet [1] from Vitalik Buterin on this exact topic. He was arguing that „possession“ (as in data on the blockchain) does not impose risks on others. Tweet was removed quickly.

[1] https://steemit.com/ethereum/@titusfrost/ethereum-s-vitalik-...
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I have no need to legalize child porn just because you think it's necessary for "computers".
This question implies a complexity of solutions and tradeoffs that I’m not ready to explain right now. In short: in node - yes, but this also simplifies everything by an order of magnitude until you’re too busy in sqlite. Node is not actually complex or well-designed [imo]. Other approaches could smoothen delays to ~zero. Other languages could even get rid of callbacks and promises.
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But the truck in front busted a tire... Now what? If the distance between vehicles is 1cm,then literally thousands of vehicles will crash.

The AVs could offer some advantages (ie cheap car sharing via resource pooling, reduced parking space requirements in urban centers) but safety or speed aren't part of the deal. AI isn't superhuman and AVs aren't able to brake the rules of physics.
npm does support "scoped packages"[1], since 2015. More projects are starting to use them, e.g. Angular publishes packages like @angular/core, @angular/forms, etc.

[1] https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/scope
I like gitlab, but a mixed open source / closed source product is always going to be a challenge in terms of hearts and minds. Take this quote from the article.

> The other way to look at it is that this is pretty advanced stuff, and frankly, it doesn’t deserve to be, free, open source.

So is all the stuff that gitlab builds on, like git, or ruby, or linux, that's all pretty advanced stuff I'd say.
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Ask HN: How to find remote contract work?
I've looked at sites like RemoteOK.io or "who's hiring" threads, but my impression is that most of those companies are looking for remote employees.

Whereas I am looking for contract work - paid by the hour, 3-6 month assignments.

It's a subtle difference, and I'm sure there is some overlap. However, I'd like to find a more direct source of pure contracts, since that's what I'm looking for here

For on site contracts, there are many "brokers" in my country offering contracts with clients. Is there something like that for remote?

Other ideas for finding remote contract work?

FWIW, my target rate is $80-120/h
The amount of vehicles a road can handle before becoming congested is dependent on the safe distance needed between cars at a particular speed, the reaction time of drivers, and the consistency and coordination of driving styles.

You forgot the most important factor: the exits. If the exits are congested because capacity is lower near the destination, there's nothing you can do in the road.

And most jams are caused exactly by this.
Been saying this myself for a while now and reporting Pintrest links when I can be bothered. Complete abuse of the system to use it as the top of their funnel and as usual people who advocate the service don't even realise it's doing this awful behaviour.
Our society have failed if we need to wait for people accumulate a lot of riches no matter the consequences so that eventually they may decide, once they had had and done everything they want, to invest it back in a cause they deem worthy.
I haven't read the original paper (yet), but something doesn't sit right with the work, if the way it is portrayed is indeed faithful to it and I'm not missing something important.

- It looks like the work of the data scientists will be limited to the extent of the modeling already done by recursive conditional parameter aggregation. (edit: So why not just ship that model and adapt it instead of using it to generate data?)

- Its "validation" appears to be doubly proxied - i.e. the normal performance measures we use are themselves a proxy, and now we're comparing those against these performance measures derived from models built out of the data generated by these models. I'm not inclined to trust a validation that is so removed.

Any one who can explain this well?
You could even have an automatic valve on every line.
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after which the AVs can all drive at 100 mph and inches apart from each other

Except... it's likely that people won't own AVs of their own, so we'll be captive passengers inside a corporation's AV. That's a prime advertising opportunity. Why have an AV that gets people from A to B as quickly as possible when you can go at 55mph without needing to change the law and get double the time with the passenger?