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Sure, but the transport part isn't relevant to what the GP is mentioning, which is that apparently Japanese etiquette requires you to write some amazingly long E-Mail. With a calendar invite all that's abstracted away and you just get "can you make it at such-and-such date at such-and-such time? yes/no/maybe".
Berlin is more like Brooklyn than the hamptons... different notions of what is considered “belongs here” mediated by history and local culture.
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> Anyone who was not in the area will be excluded from the list, therefore letting the police know where I wasn't at the time.

No, at best this only shows that your google linked device (presumably a phone) did not have location information for that area at the specific time.

Alternatively it suggests the device could have been switched off/disconnected from the network to hide your presence - making you really a suspect of interest if your name comes into the investigation for some reason.

Dragnet approaches to law enforcement are inherently wrong. They unreasonably cast suspicion on everyone without any good basis and reverse the accepted safeguard that your guilt requires to be proven, and replace it with the idea that you require to prove your innocence.
I don't think you'll get a reply to this because this article wasn't posted to Hacker News by its original author, and I don't think the original author is participating in this comment thread at all. You might want to find a different way of contacting the author.
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A related discussion from a couple days ago is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16599802.
Plus capturing more water, diverting water, those are things that can address lack of rain. Grow crops that use less rain per produced food. There are endless things man can to do counter natural events. For us, besides all those things, don't build in flood plains, don't build in the forest that has frequent fires (probably most of them). or build houses that won't be destroyed by fires. http://abcnews.go.com/US/mans-concrete-home-survives-raging-...
Well, I'm not closing it out of spite (in fact, I'm not closing it at all, just voting to close, you need five votes to close a question). I'm closing it because there's a rule on SO that says that those kind of questions should be closed.

The point being, SO is not for opinions, and not because I say so. The rules of the site say so. And I (and others) already explained why there are such rules. So why shouldn't I vote to close a question that is patently off-topic when the site rules say I should vote to close it?

> But you admit to trying to suppress his ability to express that opinion and see no problem in doing so?

Is this a trial? I find this phrase is a bit accusatory, but maybe I'm just reading too much into it.
I’d assume even those with a generous definition are too conservative by far. We rapidly approach a future where no human will operate any heavy machine that accomplishes a discrete task. That task might be to transport goods or people across the country, to lift a steel beam into place, or to assemble ingredients into finished products. Once the cost curve flips over to the other side, the whole thing accelerates.

Even worse if the harmed group is a smaller concentrated minority; they have no legitimate recourse through democratic expression.
I find the proposed elimination of the rule requiring advertisement of the full price to be odd. Wouldn’t an honest Republican administration be in favor of price transparency as a measure that increases the efficiency of the free market?
XML-RPC also, which I rather enjoyed using ~15 years ago.
A few other taboo "bombs": water wars and climate change.

Same basic mistake, assuming nothing will change.

For example, for water wars: desalination using solar power (see Israel)

For climate change: carbon sequestring strategies or market pressures - CO2 credits, reputational risk (being "green"), ...
The article is very happy to point out that the trend changed 50 years ago. Then shown a graph with a 100 years forecast, based on that changed trend.

Sure, from now on the fertilization will play nicely along.
> I really, vehemently, disagree that recommending a completely different tool is a good answer, except in the context of having already correctly answered the actual question.

I think the trick is that sometimes this is true, and sometimes it isn't. I have seen people try to do things with tools that aren't equipped for the task at all, simply because that was all they knew. When all you have is a hammer ...

It does take, however, some effort to figure out when this is the case. Problems arise when people make a suggestion for another tool without fully understanding what the OP is trying to achieve.

Which brings me to my personal nitpick about StackOverflow: Many of the problems we are discussing right now would go away if people were better at articulating exactly what they are trying to accomplish when the draft their original questions.
Holy shit. So my paranoia about turning off Google location tracking was completely well-founded, and way more quickly than I would have hoped.

GDPR can't come soon enough...
I don't think that's quite correct, many (most?) kinds of AI achieve things which are difficult or impossible for humans to do, but that doesn't mean you can't figure out why a decision was made afterwards.

There are some scenarios where that isn't possible, but... if nobody knows why decisions impacting people's lives are made and it isn't possible to determine what they were done for, is that something we really want?
> The population of Nigeria alone is expected to be more than the entire population of Europe by 2085.

Do you think that's realistic? The population of Niger is expected to be 200 million in 2100 (20 million today)[1]. Have you seen Niger? Its a desert with little natural resources.

1. https://www.populationpyramid.net/niger/2100/

edit: I'm aware Niger and Nigeria are different countries. I'm changing the subject to Niger intentionally. 10x population growth in the Sahara desert.
>if nobody knows why decisions impacting people's lives are made and it isn't possible to determine what they were done for, is that something we really want?

We do this every day with human cognition and nobody complains.
You should use Flutter for a bit before you strongly opine how it's no different than Xamarin or whatever.

Flutter is different. There's nothing even close to it when it comes to writing mobile apps.

Flutter takes the best ideas about UI toolkits, layouts and has the benefit of really good engineers (most are Chrome/WebKit veterans) working for a really long time to make a really good implementation of those ideas.

Hot reload of code is just one feature that is absolutely unique to Flutter, at least when comparing to alternatives viable today (I'm sure are smalltalk implementation that also allowed that but no-one is using them today).

It's still a beta product so skepticism is warranted but I can see the writing on the wall. 2 years from now it'll be crushing other technologies the way React/Vue is crushing in web space because Flutter is just So Much Better.
AWS and other managed FaaS offerings allow you to go from zero to endpoint in minutes.

You can choose to deploy your own open source Faas framework (like openwhisk or open-faas) on one of these clouds, but YOU will have to:

1. Manage scaling of underling EC2s

2. Manage security patching of both the docker and underlying OS

3. Setup whole lot of configs

4 manage optimizations

With a managed FaaS you're trading ops for more dev time, but someone has to be paid for the ops - it isn't free
gRPC has significant technical advantages to SOAP/XML.

- The gRPC protocol is built on top of http2 - a protocol designed to overcome many of the shortcomings in http, primarily performance.

- protobuf is a much simpler serialization format that achieves far better performance than XML

- gRPC allows message streaming in both directions. For some use cases this is vital for achieving performance.

- there's a growing ecosystem to make it easier to work with large distributed systems. I could list a bunch, but I will just point to one: gRPC has many options for the load balancing of requests: https://grpc.io/blog/loadbalancing.

gRPC is clearly the better solution if you intend to build a large, multi-service, distributed system or want to build cloud APIs for mobile devices. And it's not just because developers hate XML.
I would also recommend the book "skunk works" written/ghost written by the head of the skunk works during f117 design.
To me, that's the opposite of lock-in. You can leave AWS because you can move away from any one service easily without affecting the others. There are even vendors who directly implement (for example) S3's API so you have almost no code to change.

Traditional vendor lock-in is when you can't move away from (e.g.) your Oracle database because you've got a dozen different applications that will need simultaneous rearchitecting if you ever want to get away from it.
> If they raise their prices, people buy less, so profits are less, so its value as investment goes down, so it gets disinvested. Where would that money go? to any company with higher returns, in this case, Google.

You're assuming that Google has higher returns. Higher margins doesn't inherently mean higher risk-adjusted returns. The higher margin company could be higher risk or have higher fixed up-front capital costs.
Its common to use informal affectionate terms in the US too.
So I cannot critize elements of a goverment style without being racist? I am not saying that "Chinese people are not creative", I am simply saying that I do not thing this style of government fosters creativity. And I am very open to that being wrong, however I would prefer (as other commenters of done well) to be shown counter examples to my belief and provided evidence. Telling my I am being racist for critizing a method of governance, of a county that the article is talking about is absurd.

There are many things that the Chinese government is fantastic at, for example energy. Their transition to green energy has been fantastic for both the industry and the planet as a whole, and I wish other governments would follow their example. If I critized the green energy policy of the American government would I then be anti-USA?

Generalizing and taking arguments to extremes is something I didn't expect on this forum and am dissapointed to have to respond to.
you arent an engineer. engineers have to be licensed and are liable if their work fails.
It's frustrating that the site markup is (almost) correct[1], because IMO the browser is in the wrong here. I think it makes more sense for the browser to copy the text as it is in the markup, because all-caps is a stylistic choice not a content choice.

I can see the argument the other way around, where the text the user selects should be the text they copy, and that makes sense. But I maintain that the same article with different stylesheets should produce the same text content on the page for the user to copy.

[1]: The markup is in something approaching title case, except that words like `with` are also capitalized. Then the element is using `text-transform: uppercase`.
I'm using grpc-web in a service that's going live soon. It works great.
Though this topic is incredibly sensitive, it needs to be considered. On a somewhat related note, boys who are prenatally exposed DES (a strong estrogen) while pregnant are significantly more likely to be transgender.

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Now sit back and think about what else people get called paranoid for.
Weather screwups can be mitigated with contingency plans.

Dealing with weather is part of the business. Airlines need to have a better way of dealing with it than keeping passengers stuck on a grounded plane for hours.
I think this is a bit of an oversimplification. The modern approach to RPC is very different than CORBA or even SOAP/XML.

CORBA was designed around the idea of distributed objects. The core idea was that you have a reference to an object but you don't know (or care) if the object lives in your address space or on a remote computer somewhere. When you make a "remote procedure call", CORBA tries to make it behave as if it were just a regular function call. The call would block the thread until it completed, and any communication errors would be marshaled into some kind of language exception.

It turns out that RPCs are different from regular function calls in a lot of ways. Trying to make them the same just makes things overall more complicated and less flexible. Also, making "remote objects" stateful creates a lot of problems for little benefit.

So XML/SOAP did away with these ideas. Instead of being designed around remote object references, it was designed around request/reply to a network endpoint. No statefulness was designed into the protocol, though of course it could be layered on top by enclosing your own data identifiers.

But SOAP was based around XML, which was never really designed to be a object serialization format. Compared to alternatives like Protocol Buffers, XML is big, slow, and not a clean mapping to the kinds of data structures you use in programming languages. Protocol Buffers are a much better match to this problem. (More at: https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/overview...)

My point is that these new technologies aren't just repeats, there are real improvements that justify inventing something new.
I notice you left out Amazon. In fact, there are a number of players to list, which is the reason the grandparent wrote 'etc..'
That point is actually covered in the article:

Merida's hair is made of 100,000 individual elements. "If you know any combinatorics, you know that if you have n objects, you have n² possible collisions," he says, or 10 billion. How can you render so many collisions quickly enough to be usable? You have to create a new spatial data structure that culls extraneous collisions without being too lossy.

So he's saying that naively with n objects there are n² possible collisions, but they have to do clever things - such as you suggest, or even cleverer - to reduce that. Already there. In the article.

But the GGP's point is that there aren't n² possible collisions, there are only n(n-1)/2 if you allow for the symmetries. But is still grows quadratically, and that's the point being made. Quadratic is too fast.
>they're still physical interactions that can be interrogated approximately the same way we interrogate how muscle fiber works or whatever

Newtonian physics fail to explain quantum phenomenon.
One thing I don't understand - if these universities are:
1. Running at a profit (growing endowments)
2. A path to the middle class

Why doesn't the government just roll the profits from the current pool of public uni's to new public uni's until prices start falling and demand is satisfied? Seems like it could only be good for society?
Those don't seem to work for all publications but a bunch of us have been posting links that do work. There's one here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16611464
Ehh. I am using the term paranioa a bit loosely. Post-snowden, it really wasn't very far fetched at all. But still upsetting.
Makes you wonder if humans do the same with their surrounding peers?
Please find me a non-alcoholic drink that tastes close to even a mediocre whisky or bourbon or rum or grappa or cognac, or any other aged spirit.
Can you elaborate on that?

I'm not sure how this is comparable.

Ireland's low tax works for Ireland because it has no competition, so it gets the "market" all to itself. If competition arrived, Ireland would have no option but to raise taxes to make it up for it - as it needs this funds. It would essentially force Ireland's hand on this issue.

On the OPEC side they have external and internal competition. Sometimes they can make it work because demand is higher than what external competition has to offer and what internal competition need, but if external competition has enough supply or internal competition need more than they are getting, it does not work anymore (and the price drops because of extra supply).
I'm sure I remember reading that fertility rates had already declined significantly before the one child policy was introduced.
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while I agree with you, you could go a little easier on OP. this is the OP's first submission. Words like "entitled" and "obnoxious" are a bit much.
Could not agree more!

helping people learn:
achievable with very high reward

Creating a catlogue of perfect questions and answers: impossible and of limited resource as every answer only caters for a specific set of back ground knowledge

And what is funny is that with option 1 done right who needs option 2? why scrabble around in the dark when i could be connected with someone who actually wants to help me.

i think that software dev is saturated with people who like to learn lots of things by themselves (excellent work, this is a form of hero), however this is not a good representation of most people. if we want IT to be more inclusive we need systems that can handle people who dont want to read several textbooks before getting some code working.
This is an interesting approach. Maybe Twitter shouldn't solve the fake accounts problem directly, maybe they should come up with an evaluation criteria and then create a market for identifying fake accounts.

If their evaluation criteria is good, they could get away with 0 cost to build the best possible system (motivated by competition on a market).
No idea if this is true, but could be for security. If you log in to Gmail in Des Moines and then an hour later from Moldavia, something might be up.
> Face it: some form of taxation was going to appear no matter what. It's inevitable.

And a retaliation from the US, via a similar trade tariff that exclusively targets EU companies, is also likely inevitable.

Lets the trade wars being. I wonder who will come out ahead.

> It also isn't a "shield from competition"

Imagine if the US added a 20 dollar champagne tax. By definition, "real" champagne can literally only come from the Provence of champagne, France. But technically the law applies to US companies, perhaps ones that own a vineyard in France.

Would you be OK with this theoretical tax? It is totally fair, and not targeted against anyone specific country!

Hopefully we will get more "fair" taxes like these in the upcoming trade wars.
It comes from Barclay's analysis (they are very bearish).

Model 3 is not small volume luxury car as previous models. They are investing wast sums for large scale production. Burning trough vast amounts of cash is OK only as long as the production volume ramp up really happens in limited time frame and quality and recall numbers are similar to Audi 4A.

Tesla must ramp up the production volume within a year or Tesla is financially in the ropes.

If Tesla pays back debt $1000 for every car it sells. It must sell 4 million cars to pay this year's projected cash burn. Tesla made a bet that it can become large car manufacturer with Model 3, there will be no second changes.
Can someone help me understand - is the non-traditionalness of these chips enabled by continued shrinking of transistors, or something else?

Are we on a new learning curve?
What about a situation where, say, 4 bank robberies happen and it is suspected to be the same person. Would it be reasonable to intersect cell phone records looking for someone who was present for all 4? Not sure if that officially counts as a dragnet if only we need result I s expected
I think he was simply bad at functional analysis compared to current understandings. The output of growth functions with multiple inputs tends to look like a logistic function when inputs change and the output shifts to a new equilibrium. The front part of a logistic function looks like an exponential function.

World population is probably ten times what it was at the time his growth model was proposed 220 years ago. That is so far below the rate that humans could multiply their numbers, that it doesn't make any sense that people have argued that we were saved by technological advances. Technology seems to change carrying capacity, then human population approaches that carrying capacity rather than catastrophically hitting a barrier and suffering famines.
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Maybe that's because it's 2 different countries and the parent comment said nothing about Niger?
I find these explorations of long-ago cuisines really fascinating (see also the Panis-Quadratus Roman bread article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15723317).

Definitely more appetizing that bringing back the original Forth on a period-correct IBM 1130.
weather is pretty repetitive and can statistically be determined.

Or you know just come up with a "plane is parked safely" rule that lets people go pee. from what I understand once the plane has rolled back, it's technically taxiing which means you have to be in your seat and belted.

As one pilot said "we're not moving faster than a city bus and we're not in traffic. Busses have people crammed and standing up to and over the yellow line. But that would be considered unsafe in a plane."

Taxiing speeds are 16 to 19 kn (wikipedia). Busses go fater than that AND accelerate (up or down) faster than a plane at those speeds.
The Philae spacecraft [1] (2014, first craft to "land" on a comet) was controlled by a couple of Harris RTX2010 CPUs, which are radiation-hardened CPUs that execute Forth words natively.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philae_(spacecraft)

[2] https://www.intersil.com/content/dam/Intersil/documents/hs-r...
Neutrinos aren't the dark matter responsible for the bullet cluster, rotation curves etc... But dark matter as a term is just a catch all for particles that don't interact with photons, hence hot (neutrinos) and cold (what we need for galaxies)
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Police have used this sort of investigative technique for ages this is just an instance of it being applied to Google and phones.

For example, Sparkfun received a subpoena[0] once and they ended up having to turn over customer details of anyone from Georgia who purchased a particular Sparkfun product that was used in some crime.

Another example, we've all seen movies or heard where someone sees a vehicle that flees the scene of the crime and they knew the make and color or the first few digits of the plate but not enough to identify the vehicle so they go and pull all DMV records matching the vague description and use those leads to narrow things down from there.

This Google thing is really the same thing in this case they have a vague description of a person and a narrow time period and area in which to search. They also are getting a warrant. Seems like an application of an old technique to modern technology.

[0] https://www.sparkfun.com/news/836
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I have never thought of myself as understanding people well, so thats no surprise. I guess what was interpreted was that I said "Chinese people are not creative", rather than the more moderate "Authoratian governments do not foster creativity as well as Democracies, and this will harm their AI research". I dislike arguments being taken to extremes, and was hoping to gain insight into what other people thought on this topic, instead of being critized for "being borderline racist". Other commentors have succesfully critized my argument, and I love being shown I am wrong. But I expected more from this forum on not taking things too far.