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> including an “algorithmic transparency requirement” that would help people understand how their data was being used and what automated decisions were then being made about them.

This needs to be required for any type of algorithmic decision making. Without algorithmic transparency ulterior motives, intentional or unintentional biases, and unnoticed mistakes are hidden from public review.

A common response is that we don't know how some types of machine learning make their decisions. I agree this is occasionally true. Find a way generate an explanation, or use a different algorithm; transparency is a critical requirement.
Not really. I'm not giving away which of these happens in which episode and a lot of the technology is recurring throughout the different stories. In most episodes the general idea of how the tech works is given away fairly early on and the real plot points are more about how it affects the characters.

In fact the parental controls idea is literally this: http://j.aufbix.org/plif/archive/wc161.gif and I'm pretty sure the soldier one was taken from an episode of Outer Limits or Twilight Zone.
Of course they are scams:

It is illegal to sell insurance by non-licensed sales people - see Zenefits. It is illegal to claim that something is insurance or describe it as insurance when it is not. If paperwork says it is "waiver" but someone who makes me sign for it says it is "insurance" they are committing a crime and if a company actively encourages such behavior the company is engaging in a criminal activity
In the famous Torvalds - Tanenbaum discussion Torvalds got it terribly wrong, but Linux was good enough to get off the ground anyway so in the longer term might made right. But a microkernel based Linux would have been a serious game changer rather than a re-run. After all we already had plenty of free Unixes back then, and the descendants of those are all still more or less alive today.

The major sticking point in that whole discussion is that Tanenbaum may have been right in principle but Minix was not a very good illustration of what a micro kernel could look like. QnX on the other hand was awesome and to this day powers a very large chunk of the embedded sphere.
I'll take a guess and say that these are all older businesses.

Businesses that started before the advent of cloud software will continue to use QuickBooks because that's what the owners know, and why fix something that isn't broken? But newer businesses that started in the last few years will be much more likely to use cloud software because it's so much more convenient.
I agree to a certain extent, but it's still a useful look at how Nim's leading web framework compares to Rust's leading web framework.

I'm not saying we should draw conclusions based on just this comparison. But it is an additional nugget of information and an invitation for others to also give Nim a try when targeting embedded systems :)
Established businesses aren't going to put their data in someone else's datacenter. Small to medium businesses perhaps, but all it takes is one downturn that tightens the purse strings, or one critical event that reveals their absolute dependence on a third party. SAAS solutions are fair weather, and while we've had a lot of good weather I don't expect them to be used for critical business functions in the long term.
I only use it because it is the best Rust experience on GNU/Linux and I am not willing to pay for CLion just for the debugger.

For everything else I do use native editors.
Even as an desktop developer, often Linux is 2% of the user base, very vocal, used to software being free, and with infinite OS variations. That's not very compelling.
This is just for this specific impact wrench. HF quality can vary a lot, but where as it used to be just crap and worse crap, there are a few very specific instances now where they actually have some gems. This impact wrench appears to be one minus some very slight concerns.
>Otherwise we’d spend every minute helping students to spot the difference and wading through misleading research.

I already spend far too much time doing this. I can't imagine how futile literature research would be without peer review. There are already enough illogical conclusions and poor study designs to wade through.
I know my comment here isn't adding much -- but that is awesome.
Over the last year, I've really changed how I think about "tech giants," their competition with other parts of the economy, and what it all means. The realization we'll see 3-5 trillion-dollar tech giants very soon triggered it.

Let's take Thiel's startup = monopoly statement seriously for a minute. He didn't mean monopoly in the traditional/legalistic sense. He meant dominating some niche, so that ordinary "margins trend towards 0" rule doesn't apply. 0-marginal costs helps. Network effects too. MSFT are a platform, distanced from market forces by network effects and lock-in. Google & Amazon are middle-men, aggregators and platforms distanced from market forces by network effects. FB is all network effects.

The reason Uber could raise so much money was because they seemed to have a good chance of "dominating" a market, and playing the middle-man between taxis and passengers everywhere, forever. A 1% chance at a one trillion dollar market cap.. that's worth ten billion.

For a chance at a piece of a thiel-monopoly on cars, investors will happily bankroll big loses. Big enough to sink competition. When you are playing for a trillion-dollar monopoly, losses don't matter.

I dunno what to think of competition like this, at scale. This is a different flavour of capitalism.

In any case, neither side wants normal, textbook laissez faire markets. One side is playing for monopoly. The other side is playing for structural stasis via legislation/regulation.
As a programmer, it’s hard not to wish we had git-for-publishing, git-for-Photoshop, git-for-homework, etc. it’s just such a powerful system! I think the steep learning curve is the reason it hasn’t already caught on beyond where it’s absolutely essential in software engineering. Maybe that means we need a more approachable git. It would also mean getting people onto the platform. Maybe a platform that already has the users could gradually introduce a version control system piece by piece.
The enterprise tooling for macOS is woefully insufficient.

Windows has provisions for performing all sorts of tasks across a fleet of desktops. I can automate deployment of a Windows desktop to the point where all you have to do is boot it up and join it to the domain (which makes it easier to hire someone to do it as well).

What's more is that these settings will work across updates. I've gotten really sick of the screwy changes Apple makes to macOS with little warning. Windows goes to great lengths to ensure backwards compatibility between major version upgrades. (For example, did you know VB6 apps still run just fine?) Also, I can get fine grained control of updates to Windows.

But maybe most importantly, I can virtualize Windows and create a virtual desktop environment. Now I can hand out toasters to users and they can just log in to their box from anywhere.

Windows is simply much better at making desktop units fungible.
Why don't we have open-source voice-assistants yet? I mean, if we can have an open-source OS (e.g. Linux), then surely we can have open-source speech recognition, right?
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Right, people buying something for $2 in rural Africa can afford to pay a $30 fee to make that transaction happen. They definitely don't use something like M-Pesa instead.
Come to Europe, Africa or Asia continents, you will see Windows laptops everywhere.

Or as alternative go to a local games developer meeting group.

There were plenty of them in San Jose at GDC, from what was shown on the live streams.
I think it is very important for everyone to keep in mind that vaping is probably safer than smoking. But it might not be, we don't know for sure. And it is certainly worse than not consuming any tobacco product. So trying to encourage active smokers to switch to vaping is probably beneficial, but increasing overall tobacco consumption rates is bad.
they can still take advantage of existing cloud technologies running on their own servers.

And guess what, the CTO and CFO and COO will very much care about licensing cost of each CPU running windows or sql server, vs FREE on Linux.
While they could be drawn similarly to how Wang tiles are drawn, they definitely lack the aperiodicity property of Wang tiles. (Eg there are tiles with all four edges the same, hence you could tile the plain with nothing but that tile.) Of course the other distinction is that you only use each tile once in Carcassonne, unlike a set of Wang tiles.
I would definitely use Spring Boot now. It definitely has parity in my view. The simplicity is there too, so for example if you still like DW metrics you can pull those in easily. You also get the other Spring things for free, like Spring Batch which I think is another good piece of software from Spring.
There are many ways to frame this current trade dispute. Sure, there is history here and more to it, but most immediately this is a retaliation.

Personally, I'm quite frustrated by Trump's fixation with the trade deficit. I wish he'd focus more on the issues with IP being stolen, bought, or semi-forced technology transfer. There are other advanced countries in the same boat as us and he has the chance to be a leader and form a coalition of ripped off economies. Instead, he focuses on the trade deficit and scares allies, existing and potential, with threats of tariffs instead of forming a united front against China's lack of respect for IP.
Xbox and PlayStation. The "problem" is that you want to game on your PC, not that there isn't another viable option.
Microsoft is squandering the decades of work humans put into drivers, an OS codebase that is unique and omnipresent, and if they can't see how useless and crap all their other services are without the conceptual core that powered their rise to sucess, then they will die.

- windows domains
- group policy
- roaming profiles
- drivers written for in-house equipment, ranging from machining to mass spectrometry, done over decades, and basically compatible back to NT 4, until M$ screws everything up...

They just don't know where their bread is buttered, and their bean counting practices are evidently obscuring it, as they keep doing stupid crap decisions like Office365.

They should stabilize and streamline what they already built...
The Microsoft of the 1990s and the “Microsoft” of today are very different.

The modern version is trying to copy closed ecosystems, instead of building on historical strengths in stable APIs, backward compatibility, diverse hardware and ISV licensing models.
I think it's more likely that there was a team or more likely several teams looking to make a name for itself, and they concluded that forcing everyone in the Windows desktop monopoly to use its stuff was the way to get that work noticed. I am sure that a bunch of the people responsible were praised as top performers and rewarded for their victory. When the original people are cycled out there is already inertia and it doesn't really occur to people that the previous blunder needs to be rolled back.
Who does this stuff even benefit? The seemingly arbitrary lines drawn between marijuana, alcohol, tobacco and other "drugs" is so weird. So much moral righteousness.
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I don’t think memory foam is ever closed cell. The open cells are necessary for the “memory” to happen.
Bar local government from implementing housing policy.
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While startup might be relatively slow, runtime performance should be very fast.
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The tobacco companies have bought into the vaping industry, along with a lot of random other corporations and small businesses.

But there's certainly NO reason to vape other than "monkey see, monkey do."
I agree with what you're saying and I think they need to keep Windows 10 around at least for a little while longer.

Everyone hates when Microsoft changes something core and foundational about Windows and thus there has been little change in certain areas of the OS for the last two decades. That build up of cruft has become untenable and Microsoft attempted to address major pain points like the Control Panel with Windows 8, then 8.1, and still in 10. The problem is that rewriting something like the Control Panel would consume 100% of developer resources for an entire OS Dev cycle. Can you imagine if Microsoft announced Windows 11 and the only difference between it and 10 was a new control panel?

Windows 10 is the perfect opportunity to start fixing cruft. It's already controversial but not universally hated, they got the majority of people to adopt it through free upgrades, and they've introduced the semi annual upgrade cycle that allows them to gradually introduce foundational changes gradually. With each release of Windows 10 they introduce a bunch of new crappy apps that are completely forgettable AND they improve a core feature silently.
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I don’t see anything in their eyes, but if it’s sadness you see I’d assume it’s from being separated from their comrades or living in confined spaces all their lives.
Anecdotal I know but my business employs 4 people and a few (including myself) are full time Linux users. I use Xero for our accounts and I'm very happy with it.
Haha. I'm living this right now, but we're getting there. We'll have a few thousand PCs on Win 10 soon and will finally deprecate IE8 for Chrome :p. I'm dead set against using iPads for anything serious although I keep losing that battle.
I don't use Kodi, I find it terrible. I use Emby. More important though, is the ffmpeg version and compile options.
Google and Privacy=Yes ... sure.
What should the vaping kids do instead of vaping?
How is Android relevant? It's not a PC OS, and doesn't seem like a real Windows alternative in the same breath as MacOS or Linux.
I don't understand what is the point of your comment, I am a physicist and I understand this paper but this does not mean that others should worry if they don't.
Why is it arbitrary? They are vastly different mind-altering affects and chemical addiction levels.
Different, but only partially. In many ways they still cling to their bad habits like lock-in and standards poisoning.

Some good exceptions exists (HTML5 and AV1), but many things are as bad as they were for a long time (Outlook, DirectX and etc.).
In a best case scenario, I'd think that sensors would have the advantage of perfect clarity on when they are working, and when they aren't. Eg, if a stretch of sensors goes bad, cars would encounter them and immediately attempt to safely stop, pull over, etc.

With this, we have AI having to predict when it does and when it doesn't know where the road is. A sensor approach could be akin to a railway, and the rails are either detected or not.

A merge of the two methods would still be needed of course, to detect obstructions in the roadway, navigate safely in the emergency event that no sensors are available, etc.

It would also be cool because we could define when and where those new roads are available. You wouldn't be able to drive AI to the Oregon Coast and have it suddenly fail on an untested cliffside. The road is either AI friendly or not.

I'm sure there's flaws in this line of thought, I'm merely speculating.
If you don't trust the tool, don't use it. The fact that '[b]ypassing censorship is a criminal activity in a number of countries' seems to be what drove the creator of this tool to its creation so I assume that he will not report you for 'bypassing censorship'. This does not mean it is impossible of course, a smart Erdolf-follower could make a similar tool (or even this one) with the purpose of catching those who try to escape censorship. In the end it comes down to trust, no matter which tool you use.
Since you mentioned Hibernate, it's been years since I had to deal with it, but the "generate bytecode for all the things" start-up time of Hibernate/JPA drove me nuts and I built Joist [1] specifically to fix/avoid it.

All of Joist's Rails-ish code generation (creating the boilerplate lazy-loaded getters/setters/collections/etc.) is done at build-time so your test-/server boot time is very quick.

[1]: http://www.joist.ws/
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> As far as stability goes, macs are top notch.

My MBP and its periodic gray screen of death begs to differ. Apple really needs to shore up its QA.
> Come on, guys, jemalloc isn't even in rust and doesn't benefit from static linkage. If you're going to distribute your own runtime (and if you're using your own heap, you're distributing your own runtime!) at least distribute it in a shared-by-default way.

Our users consistently indicate that they prefer the convenience of being able to copy all-in-one binaries from system to system to the space savings of dynamic linking. Rust used to dynamically link by default, but based on popular demand this was changed prior to 1.0.

Look at what people say they like about Go, for example. Static linking for easy deployment is high on the list.
Tanenbaum was certainly right, given the adoption of micro-kernel like architectures across the industry, specially on embedded.

Even containers are a kind of workaround for achieving the same goals.
I don't think they are all that different. They have just shifted their lock-in strategy to a different front that they didn't have access to back in the day now that their milk-cow is drying up.

Microsoft missed the mobile revolution in just about every way they could have, so now they have to make a number of forced moves.
When I quoted that argument, I was not saying it was 100% accurate; after all, I don't believe it myself. If further work comes along to prove that the collapse into the lower state is not highly probable, then the argument collapses. Again, not accepting the multiverse anyhow, that the best argument in its favor collapses would not particularly bother me.

Of course, it would not constitute evidence against, merely a lack of evidence for. Now, some people with a insufficiently deep understanding of probabilities and such will say those two things are completely different, but they aren't; lack of evidence for is indeed a form of evidence against, especially if one is actively searching for the evidence. It just isn't very strong, and it certainly isn't a proof.
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Well, I can tell you that as someone who has only driven in America that this road looks fine. Actually, it looks relatively good compared to a lot of our roads. Drive around some parts of Pennsylvania... blech. Road markings are the least worrying problem, giant potholes that will take your tire out are a much more pressing issue.
The people selling it... (often illegally) to kids, who then have trouble getting a basic education and develop habits, which are long term destructive to their ability to operate within society.
This is where Microsoft is going with Azure. Compared to other platforms, setting up a local instance of Azure is pretty painless and allows you to spin up resources locally that are identical to the Cloud.
Anecdotally the only people I know who have used Turo are young people - Turo doesn't have a you must be 25 or a young driver surcharge policy for driving if aged between 21 and 25, which is typically the case at a conventional car rental desk in the US.

Personally I would feel pretty uncomfortable if greeted by the private vehicle owner when picking up a rental (I know this doesn't apply to all vehicles on Turo) - people are often extremely attached to their personal vehicles in my experience. At least at the rental desk the staff could care less what I choose to use the rental for, or how I drive it.
Driving is work for me - I don't want to pay extra to do work. Also, a lot of the time you need to ride a bus to get between the airport and the rental car place, which is often a slower and generally worse experience that Uber or Lyft.
If it's not arbitrary, what are the criteria for legality? If there are no set criteria (whether it's amount of deaths, addictiveness or otherwise) then isn't it arbitrary by definition?

EDIT:

Regarding my comment earlier about whether or not tobacco is worse than alcohol: Looks like tobacco is actually the #1 cause of death [1]

[1] http://www.csdp.org/research/1238.pdf
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Science: journals are too expensive! they should be cheaper!

HN: Just do it yourself! It is easy! You already do the hard part! Yay!

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At the same time.

Poster: this is how you run your small db

HN: Oursource your databases! Outsource your apps! Oursource your auth! Outsource your mail! It is difficult!
Are you afraid for repercussions for writing the software and/or your statement(s) about the regime?
I think it's public commentary on the ease of consumption of these papers on HN on a wider scale than just physicists.
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My father's been smoking for over 50 years. I got him to switch to mostly vaping last year. The difference in his health has been profound. It almost eliminated his coughing, increased his ability to walk distances. His doctor was amazed at his last checkup. She said she couldn't recommend it to patients due to the uncertainties, but encouraged him to keep doing whatever it is that he's doing.

Edit: I bought him the vape after a friend that's been smoking for a long time made the switch and raved about the benefits. I don't doubt that the best course of action is to quit altogether, but a 50+ year addiction is pretty difficult to quit. It can be done but you really have to want it. I don't think my dad really wanted to quit. I know that seems silly, but given his circumstances I can understand.
Preferably just breathe normal air? As in don't replace it with any other drug.
Project Treble should help for your last point.
You're thinking about your own app servers. No one cares about the cost of Windows when you're running someone else's proprietary desktop software on it.
One of my favorite incidents and exactly what I was thinking about.
There's the risk that ecigs are an on ramp to actual cigarette smoking. That reflects my experience, first using a friends vape now and then to bumming the occasional cigarette to actual smoking. There's a symmetry we don't like to acknowledge between what makes vapes good for quitting - you can slowly ramp your nicotine - and what makes vapes good for starting. See this study: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abst...
I still have a clone of 32 bit QnX sitting on my harddrive, maybe one day I'll have enough time and energy to attempt to port it to x64 and/or Arm 64.
> In other news if I meet you in starbucks to buy a laptop from craigslist they aren't getting a cut.

Starbucks has decided that a fairly open access policy for non-customers conducting other business is a net positive for their business. Many businesses have different policies because they have different actual or perceived business dynamics. Also note that most Starbucks do place limits on this, as people who mistake them for zero-cost unlimited co-working space tend to discover.
Mid 30s adult here who used an e-cigarette for a year or two when alone in the car for funsies (flavors smell nice).

What, exactly, is the problem with kids vaping/using e-cigarettes if they don't contain a controlled substance (THC or nicotine, in these cases). We don't ban kids from consuming caffeine, so what's the problem with inert vapors? I agree that the liquid to be vaporized needs to be regulated to prevent health issues, but that's no different than the FDA regulating food safety.
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