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Definitely. I build a lot of MVPs. So I focus on "make it work, then make it work well".

Shipped code is so much more valuable than unshipped code :-)
I find it fascinating how YouTube can afford to keep storing so much data, at the rate it comes in and especially when most if it is not valuable and may only be watched a handful of times. A few years ago I looked up their profitability and came across an article claiming they were about breaking even bringing with about a billion dollars in revenue with about a billion in costs to run the service. If anyone has any recent / real insight into this I would be grateful for a link.
> Why isn't [matrix multiply] * [instead of something else]

I think you added this question after I responded, or maybe I missed it. It's a good question.

Because inner product (apl: +.×) is row-wise multiplication then column-wise summation. You can do a row-wise = then a column-wise > to see if the bottoms of a column end in a value (2>.=M).

There's also an outer-product (apl: ∘.×) which is the left-argument currying times the right row-wise.

* usually means power in APL. Not multiply. APL uses the standard × character for multiplication.

APL is designed to be read, but it's still describing numerical methods and operations as opposed to a mathematical notation which frequently hides complexity.

> in Julia, if I were to write a numerical type for galois fields (and I have), I could write compile-time optimized code for performing reed-solomon erasure coding using the builtin matrix operators - the code would be exactly the notation you see in the papers describing erasure coding.

That sounds great, but I don't understand any of that or why it's valuable.

Maybe that's because I don't typically read mathematical journals and type in the algorithm presented.

However you gave me an idea. Take a trie as a simple data structure with a great deal of literature about it. Some googling leads me here:

http://users.monash.edu/~lloyd/tildeAlgDS/Tree/Trie/

Now I can write "find" in k/q as @/ if I implement a 256-trie. Maybe the author doesn't know APLish languages and that's why they chose a poor notation. Maybe not.

But having to decode some paper like this occurs much more frequently than even wanting to implement a bunch of type code that the compiler can optimise so I can copy and paste mathematical notation.
I totally agree with this entire article, however the author may want to fix this awkward sentence: "Travis Kalanick started Uber was a hack to split a few private cars with his friends."
Yes but if I did say it like that it would've been flagged by now, instead of getting any kind of discussion or rebuttal about it, because that's how the hivemind works.

I also don't understand why is it bad faith to say or imply that racial homogeinity leads to better cohesion and in turn more safety and equality. I guess I'll never know because any kind of discussion about that is shut off for some reason.
Nope. Johnson noise is quantum mechanical (at least in significant part). If you use a good algorithm, you can sample a partial TRNG into an epsilon-perfect TRNG (as close as you'd like). Not to mention all of this is pointless since even if the noise were classical a few applications of strong hash functions (which is the normal procedure -- they're entirely practical) require would require computers using more energy than the entire universe has available you want.
Even if individual device reception isn't possible, just using these for better backhaul access like for an office building or neighborhood would still be massively disruptive.
You can map locations in generated C code to locations in some other file, too. Standard C has a pragma for it:

#line <num> "filename"

or, if the filename is the same as the previous pragma, you can omit it from the pragma:

#line <num>

This pragma is used to inform the compiler of what information it should use when displaying error messages and such. I think it's meant to be used by the C preprocessor, but the preprocessor isn't required to use it, and other programs aren't prohibited from using it.

You might wind up generating a lot of these, but they're really easy to generate as long as you preserve that information all the way through compilation (which I'd assume you'd have to do for LLVM IR regardless).
Maybe we can get a "craterside" view
I think `font-display: optional` is going to nice if sites actually use it - try to use the fancy font, but only if it's cached. Never hide the text or switch the font after rendering it.

Of course, there are going to be plenty of sites that still consider their fancy font to be more important than the actual text it's rendering...
In this case it was an actual Chinaman -- not some non-Chinese person of Asia.

And there are 3 billion people that speak English. Not all carry the same baggage the US have with respect to racial slurs.

Even if it's the same language, in other places Chinaman just means "a man from China", no slur intended or transmitted.
There are additional cases I can find, but a quick search turned this up about Kentucky doing this to the state employee health insurance fund for nearly a decade. I believe they have done this to the general pension fund as have other states.

If a state is going to have pensions they need to be independently managed and firewalled from the hands of politicians.

https://kypolicy.org/shifting-health-costs-employees-become-...

>Kentucky has shifted more of the responsibility to pay for health benefits to public sector workers in recent years and then used the savings to help fill holes in the budget. Even after these transfers from the employees’ health plan, its fund balance is continuing to grow, making it a target in the new budget. Governor Bevin’s budget plan includes transferring $500 million out of the plan in 2018 into a new “permanent fund.”

>Over a period of years, balances built up in the state’s plan as more was collected in employer and employee contributions than was paid out in claims. In recent years, the state began to transfer those monies to plug other holes in the budget. Kentucky transferred $50 million in 2009 and $93 million in 2015. For budget year 2016, the state will shift another $63.5 million from the plan to the state’s rainy day fund.
Politics and pride, mostly. It's really rare and difficult for an organization to voluntarily admit that it has no purpose anymore and dissolve itself. That's what the W3C should do, but the realities of human psychology mean that's unlikely to happen.
Backups should also be stored and encrypted using the same technique so that you can just delete the key and so access to the data isn't possible.
Creating a browser isn't the only part of mediating access to web pages. In different senses, Digicert, Comcast, Akamai, and Cisco do that as well.
You probably would never hear somebody saying "Поставь пива в холодильник." since, while a correct sentence, it would need some rare circumstances to be said. Поставь here is much more concrete than "put", it's more like "place" and I could imagine saying this only if I had been managing the fridge at some party and noticed it's running out of beer so I requested somebody to add more beer there. Much more common would be "Принеси/достань/возьми пива из холодильника" (get some beer from the fridge).
This is a feature available to enterprises in Exchange server and it works quite well, especially for messages with sensitive content.

The key difference is that emails are typically intended for those the message has been sent to and not for broad distribution - they can contain sensitive content that would cause harm if broadly distributed (e.g. server names, passwords, financial data, etc.)

Media on the other hand, is intended for broad distribution but only after you've purchased a 'license' to use it.
Also, sell a dream. See boats, vacation, music, movies
I think you should make one that reads HN comment threads and extrapolates the video aspect from there.
It's not a technical design problem. Governments will never allow a widely used anonymous digital payment system. There is absolutely not a shred of doubt in my mind about that.
Lol. Do they keep their hoarded money under a matress? If it's in a bank account it's being actively used. It actually doesn't matter whether the money is in your friend's bank account or some corporate bank account, the money is still being lent out, and used to grow capital. It's fundamental to how fractional banking works.

As for people affording to have fun, my experience is that the working class aren't using entertainment to have fun, so much as they're using it to dull the pain and tedium of a fairly shitty existence.

I tend to agree that one should tend to work to improve one's life, but never forget that actively finding content to watch is work. And having access to a large library of digital media is something no amount of money could afford 100 years ago. And lets not forget how cheap super computers are that even homeless people tend to have one in their pocket. So, yeah econonic position matters, I guess.
they have to follow code on this already...
its just another little tax of getting a place to rent or own. This should be illegal. screw them.
It does say that they are members of the W3C organization.
I find your statement true.

Per the article:

>describe themselves as content.

The trouble with the article is Japanese are notoriously not honest with their emotions.
VC from Asia is skyrocketing
I wonder how "destroyed" an email is is when the NSA/FBI wants to read it a year later. Google has no incentive to actually protect the content of "self-destructing" or any other type of emails, so it's dishonest for them to pretend to provide a private email service.
Urm, I thought MDN was based on WHATWG? (Not W3C)
You make a good point but for one wrinkle: How many politicians can admit to a mistake and actually change in response to new information? Add the characteristic of "able to make genuine compromises" into your search and it seems your results would hover around 0 every time.
I think the way it works is nice, and what you described is a good use for it. It could use some better UI to make it easier to discover. It didn't occur to me to hover over or click it because I thought it was merely an indicator.
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This is only possible if one believes in the capacity to control client security on the other side. There’s also the problem that something viewable by the recipient’s eyeballs is also photographable by the recipient’s camera.

Moreover, I worry about the new Gmail feature that undermine the open platform of email. Email is just about the last unwalled comms platform we have, and I really worry for its safety if gmail thinks it can start differentiating network effects on gmail vs network effects on email.

I switched my vanity domain over to Fastmail a while back. I haven’t had any regrets. New features like this make me even more glad.
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Seems annoying. No one would rely on this to keep actual sensitive info private, since you can just screen shot it.

On the other hand, part of the point of Gmail is that it makes your emails easily searchable, so you can quickly dig up info from old mail rather than have to make a note of said info in some sepearate program/notebook/whatever. But if emails are going to randomly be disappearing, it could really cripple that utility.
And the versions of IE in use didn’t support application/xhtml+xml anyway so you would have to switch to text/html based on the user agent string.

It was never clear what the technical benefit of this was supposed to be. I only ever saw one site whose pages served double duty as an API and UI by serving styled XML. It seemed like a challenging approach to pull off well.
In the specific case of POWER 8 and 9 the cores are seriously overprevisioned with execution resources and you really need at least 2 threads running in order to make full use of them.
Per dollar of CPU, CPU + power, CPU + motherboard, TCO?
It's similar, but it wouldn't be profitable anymore for doctors to prescribe more medicines or other treatments. Probably the doctors would need to take out insurance instead of the patients.
email was killed by spam, current email is sadly a walking zombie that's getting eaten by maggots
>W3C decided to deprecate HTML in favour of XHTML. Most of the web quickly moved to XHTML.

In some parallel universes, yes.

Even if so, there's also the fact that XHTML wasn't updated itself with features people needed.
It's just another click-bait title. "Surprisingly"? To whom? Are these the results of a study? An internet survey? Who knows, better click it!
Cancer research needs brain power.
Of course, brain power costs money.
However, funding cancer brain power by transferring brain power out of cancer seems like a broken window fallacy.
CERN participated also.
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Comments about the substance of the article aside, there's always going to be some risk of bias in AI which is why I'd argue one should never vote for an AI like this, especially if it takes the normal route of a politician and states that it's working for you.

Also, at what point does it decide to wage war or enlist a militia when the trolls dupe it into thinking it's what the majority want? Surely war has to be allowed at least somewhere in the algorithm - especially if you were implementing this at a nation level.
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> it's so beautiful because it's so standard

I think it's really the opposite, every provider tends to introduce new/unique/nonstandards but they (mostly) interact at a minimum with eachother.

Re: gmail DOT and + notation, those have been in common use on that platform for over a decade.

>I like innovation, but to innovate email wouldn't be better to innovate in a slow and consensual way using RFC after RFC, at least in the case of email?

RFC to what body? To the best of my knowledge the entire thing is just a happenstance of what happens to work in every client/server combination.
No, although they often act like they do (e.g. using images from "social media").

You can use excerpts to comment on a work (e.g. review), but that's about it.
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Years ago the nexus line from google, and later one plus phones were the best bang for low cost. The prices of both of those phones have now gone up. What do you guys think is the new nexus 5?
Me too. I recently went to YouTube to see examples of a specific type of stone fruit grafting and was not disappointed. So many great examples for such a niche thing.
Do you own property in an affected jurisdiction?

If you don't, you won't be compelled to pay. Pack up and move somewhere that's not fucked.

If, OTOH, you bought property, you took on this risk in doing so. You should have priced in the pension shortfall, and the expected future tax repercussions, when you made your purchase, and the seller should have born the cost of their jurisdiction's mismanagement in the form of a reduced property value.
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There’s a difference with power lines because it runs an AC current. The earths magnetic field is static for all intents and purposes.
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What about the requirement to run signed code from power on?
Not dumb at all, it is the big unspoken elephant in the room. It is clear that the current, and next iteritave version of autopilot, self driving, etc. are woefully behild the hype. While in theory a "perfect" ai driver is better, is it true in the chaos of real world traffic? Will drivers even want to be subject to NTSB level scrutiny when an accident happens? There are more questions than answers still.
while it might be possible for a space economy to exist I'm saying that humans will never stay in space for long periods of time - the space economy (except for the satellites and stuff we have now), will basically revolve entirely around space tourism - so all those resources and manufacturing techniques will only be valuable insofar as they support space tourism (which will only be a fraction of the overall tourism industry, i think it would even be relatively niche).

There's a lot of interesting stuff in space, for a physicist or astronomer - but they don't even need to go there themselves to learn about it.

I don't think spacex's 25 billion valuation is ridiculous at all. but if it went public it would probably get ridiculous (this wouldn't necessarily be a horrible thing, there are far greater tragedies), based on people's misunderstanding of what is technically possible in the near or medium term future, in large part thanks to disproportionate screen time anthropocentric science fiction gets.
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It wouldn't prevent humans from remembering the mails, too.

But screenshots are easily faked, and IMHO might (and should) not hold up in court. This is the equivalent of hearsay.
It is of course hard to determine what is primary motivation for any large decision. But imagine a scenario where the US GPS system was somehow banned from military use. would
it have been funded? I don't think so. And the same can be said for India and China and Europe's versions. Somewhere in the decision making is a desire to have this in case the bullets start flying - and that motivation is (IMO) sufficiently large that without it, it's dubious the decades long investments would have occurred.

No we cannot be certain, yes the peaceful benefits are many (cf US GPS) and it is of course right and proper that India takes steps she sees as necessary for her own defence.

But it is still a mixed emotion - optimism and sadness, joy and regret.

It's not an attack on the plans of nations to raise themselves up. It's just sad that humans are so brilliant and so dumb at the same time
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I feel like client-side email encryption is a missed opportunity for Apple. Easy encrypted email would fit nicely into their narrative of “we can offer privacy features that Google can’t, because we sell you stuff”
He probably knew people wouldn't engage with him in good faith.

If you look up crime statistics, there is merit to the argument of homogenous culture = less violent crime. Do you disagree?

Take US as an example. We're always described as having a high gun crime and murder rate relative to some other developed nation.

But if you control for race, those numbers drop previously when looking at whites only. Is this not a worthy fact to point out?

Interesting also that Iceland has high gun ownership rates.. And still very low violent crime.
This is going to require some careful work to avoid getting sued for capitalizing on manipulating prices with their "zestimate". Maybe Zillow is feeling confident after their legal victory https://www.reuters.com/article/us-zillow-group-lawsuit/zill...
A strong laser would probably work, (uv or near uv maybe?)

http://www.ilda.com/camera-sensor-damage.htm

I have a few crappy old cameras laying around, if I can find my purple laser pointer, I'll test and see what happens.
Pretty sure Gmail isn't being used for ad targeting anymore
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/technology/gmail-ads.h...
Yea, good point. I can imagine ways where it works out well (e.g. the insurer that found the cheap cure patents it and charges some expensive price that's still significantly cheaper than a lifetime of non-curing treatments. Everybody wins, but the insurance company that owns the cure wins the most.)
> "draconical"

That's xml error handling, following rules as written.
I dislike the confusion between “flying car” as

1) a hybrid vehicle that can both drive on ordinary roads and fly

2) an aircraft that is as easy to fly as a car (is to drive), and possibly doesn’t require a runway to operate.

The Terrafugia Transition is an example of the former, but the category has been around for a long time, though without any really convincing entries in my view. Maybe the compromises required are still too great.

Many exciting developments are happening in the latter category, specifically in the subcategory that I like to call “PEVA”, namely personal electric VTOL aircraft, for example the Volocopter. That category has arisen because of the improvements in avionics and battery tech. It’ll be exciting to watch what happens there.

I wonder whether Terrafugia’s TF-2 falls in the second category.
And the prison warden syndicates.
The tech is there, it works. The current hurdle is getting understanding between the practical limitations of modern computers, the resolutions and image characteristics of various cameras. Trying to use a 2K or 4K video stream simply overwhelms the current generation of processors in the systems 'normal' organizations can afford. Plus those video streams are often up-scaled and are lower resolution in their hardware, very wide angled, and placed poorly for FR. Basically, the tech is there, but the practical aspects of using FR with typical financial and logistical constraints is not there yet. This practical aspect is just the normal learning curve.

Facebook's FR is nowhere but FB, forget it. There is a range of false positive rates, depending upon how an FR system is employed. The best resource for the state of the art is probably this: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2017/NIST.IR.8173.pdf
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I literally just made an account today and it subscribed me to a bunch of defaults.
Then how would you explain the safety of Swiss and Japanese cities?
Yes, once you got a really terminal disease the doctor would probably drop you like a brick. But you could fix that by having a contract from the beginning that says they are still obligated to treat you. Either that, or a separate solution would be needed.
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how do we decide or quantify that certain random numbers are good or bad?

if I flip a coin? maybe that's inadequate, but can we measure how much it is failing to be random?
this is where I'm saying people are totally brainwashed into thinking the moon landing is greater than, I don't know, the development of the first compiler. The first compiler dwarfs the moon landing in terms of implications.

More recently I would put alphago beating human grandmasters at go ahead of the moon landing.

I would put crispr ahead of the moon landing.

I would put the current progress on self driving cars ahead of the moon landing.
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If China doesn't have the resources to stop all actual crime, they certainly don't have the resources to stop people from wearing makeup, sunglasses or hats.
I'm not going to argue with you, just go check Cartoon Network's media kit.
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Thanks again. Will look into those aspects.
Let's not forget the middle ground, a "pizza box" that sits on the roof and provides 1Gbps wifi connectivity to a home is something that rents for $50 a month to hundreds of millions of customers, while the $15 version - to a billion customers.