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> plus their business model of charging for access to map updates

Not sure what you are talking about, but I am not prompted to pay for updates. In fact, I'm installing some updates and new maps right now. Even the 'live' feature works. I am using the f-droid version of the app though, so maybe that's the difference?
Came here to check if this bothered others as much as me. Not disappointed. Considering how strongly other arms of google get Ipv6, this is one of the saddest failures they have.
I, too, read the article incorrectly the first time round. What it's saying is that for an EPYC CPU, performance under systemd is _better_. For a Xeon CPU, performance under systemd is _worse_.

So, the EPYC's architectural differences won't explain why an EPYC CPU runs slower under systemd, because it's the opposite.
> The bus it self is a double wagon (with an accordion connection), it fits maybe (beware I'm pulling this figure from thin air) 50 people.

Are there places that don’t call these a ‘bendy bus’? They are missing out on a great name.
Yes please! I love my fiber, but being stuck with this interminable box as the first hop is driving me crazy. And performance drops significantly with pass-through mode.
That's because it is cheaper to acquire land than build underground parking. I live in a city that has gone through that transformation. Big parking were converted into malls/supermarkets with multi-floor parking.

Parking areas were also built with underground parking buildings. But that's only because land become scare and so it was expensive to have a non-underground parking.
Google Chrome is multiprocess.
He's the north coast synthesis guy? I just tried his modules yesterday, and now I'm reading an old article by him. Small world!
“Excellent—another sucker had bought into blaming the distribution mechanism rather than the group directing it for the message we pay for it to transmit!”

— the capitalist class
I'm sure it's possible to detect if it's fixed in hardware and disable the additional software protection
I keep notes of tasks, problems, solutions, caveats, and references. This makes for a highly searchable and understandable knowledge base. Anything beyond that proves to have little utility in the long-term.
When running Percona under systemd the EPYC system was getting 24% _more_ throughput.
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I cannot change my attitude otherwise I would never get anything done. The only principle that I hold dear, and the only way I can truly be fair is that if I am actually wrong I will change my mind. I would not be so rough on Julia if it didn't present itself as a direct competitor to Spiral. Since it presents itself as a numerical computation language capable of replacing C++ and dominating machine learning and GPU programming I will hold it to the same standard I would take Spiral.

Any numerical computation language should have tensors generic in dimension, layout and type. That is the point I am trying to hammer home. If you think that Julia's tensors are better than PyTorch's and feel that my equal treatment of them is unfair - I honestly feel that is the wrong way to think about this. Rather than fighting to be the king of a very small hill, it would be better to try climbing a much larger mountain instead. Look inward and be unhappy at what the language has now.

Envy Spiral's wonderful tensors. Wouldn't Julia be a much better language if it had its inlining guarantees? And maybe add to that the intensional polymorphism that would allow it to implement them.

Why if that happened, I'd lose my reason for working on the language and have to do something else like study reinforcement learning for example. How horrible would that be? :)
They charge $9, which is basically just covering server resources.

I haven't done it in quite some time, but if that is overly burdensome, it is also possible to avoid needing access to their servers by building a map file yourself.
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This isn't a generic, its highly specific.
That doesn't sound all that different from requirements in CA, save the special license plate tags.
I sit at the table after dinner and find myself from time to time taking nuts or raisins out of the dish and eating them. My dinner properly is over, and in the heat of the conversation I am hardly aware of what I do; but the perception of the fruit, and the fleeting notion that I may eat it, seem fatally to bring the act about.

Here's the way I'd have written it:

I sit at the table after dinner and find myself from time to time taking nuts or raisins out of the dish and eating them. My dinner properly is over and in the heat of the conversation I am hardly aware of what I do. But the perception of the fruit and the fleeting notion that I may eat it, seem fatally to bring the act about.

Maybe Perl is like English... TMTOWTDI
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"Affordable education is probably a big part of how they do this."

Either the community/state pays for it, or the student.

Someone has to.

In the case of Norway, it's you and I, i.e. Oil.

Do you know Kuwaitis go to school for free as well eh?

Norway's sovereign wealth fund is about 8% the size of the US economy, and also the size of the entire Canadian economy.

So it's hard to make comparisons with Norway on anything.
Seems like a useful term to know. Too bad the wikipedia article is too dense to understand.
I disagree. I’m looking to recommend that a company I consult for hire an agency specifically and solely for their facebook advertising talents.
I think it's unfair to characterize him as one thing or another. Being overly negative is part of the same star worship culture as being always positive.

On the positive side. Tesla has made a revolutionary 'skateboard' (the electric + driving part of the car) and SpaceX is revolution is lifting technology. He has been also phenomenal marketing guy.

On the negative side, He has fumbling in the mass market car parts and it seems that he has become worrying distracted+stressed. He starts feuds and fucks up basic PR for no reason.

It should not be surprising that he buys politicians just like everyone else. He is not your friend.
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> 2.) A lot of employees live 1+ hour away. The bus doesn't work in these situations.

I live in large dense city in the US (Los Angeles). I live a 15-20 minute car ride from work. The city is going to be doing some construction on my route and have asked the businesses to encourage their employees to take public transit, walk, bike, etc. during the construction. I looked into taking the bus, which for the first time in my life, is a reasonable walk from my home. It would increase my commute time (one way) from 20 minutes to 50 minutes! Sorry, but I don't have an extra hour I can take out of my day for that. It would be better to just work from home, but my employer won't let me do that for the duration of the construction which is supposed to last a year or two.

EDIT: For about a month, my office was at the Santa Monica end of the train. (Like literally right next to the train stop.) Sadly it no longer is. Even then, a coworker decided to take the train once from his place in Pasadena. His normally 45-60 minute commute increased to an hour and 50 minutes taking public transport. Sorry, but he'll just drive instead.
A computer currently doesn't think though as there is no existing general AI. The question becomes what is easier to automate using standard techniques? Groundbreaking discoveries probably won't be automated until you have a general AI. A neural network isn't going to come up with warp drive. Computers already can make really good art.
Many countries have such socialist systems and are very poor.

To cherry pick literally the most successful of such systems is not representative. (Though you could still be essentially correct)

Also, Americans, on average, a much richer in the end.

The American problem could have to do with 'longer lifespan' meaning 'longer in school' meaning 'longer in debt with higher salaries afterwards' , i.e. the 'higher highs' and 'lower lows' exposing a social problem that was not apparent before.

I agree it's an issue though.
This is silly. If an app like Transmission expects end users to modify a config file locally as the means to add customized settings, that’s a seriously bad design. Why not provide documentation about command-line arguments or ENV variables it would look for for end user customizeability. A settings file where you need to know the meaning as you read the file is among the worst ways to solve it.
It helps that you do not have a real left-of-center party to begin with.
Modern advertising is based on psychology. It works surprisingly well even when people try to resist it.
This is the same where I live but I think it’s a little misleading. Public transport doesn’t have to be faster or more comfortable to be better than taking a car. Cars are a pain in other ways (maintenance, insurance, up front cost, you can’t park right at your destination, you can’t read etc while commuting etc) and so individual journeys don’t have to be faster to be ‘better’ than taking the car.
Wow, that is pricey. $399 is pretty steep, it seems. How has it helped you? And do you think the price was worth it?
I still follow it almost daily, "grew" up on it and if it would disappear I would feel sad for it.
I always find interesting to read comments from people who actually lived in the former eastern block countries, like the DDR. Most of what you can read about socialism in english-speaking communities like this one comes only from people who knew about socialism from television or films.
I think that greatly depends upon the demographics. Here in India, Apple sucks in customer care. Amazon is ok, not too good. The number of counterfeit products I've received is baffling.
It's being actively worked on in Firefox. See e.g. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform....
I guess the answer might be to take the largest 2D sofa and just extrude it upwards 1, so that it fills the height of the corridor.
Actually, I did read the article, and I was talking about this: A second Taiwanese study looked at more than 8,000 people who had been recently diagnosed with HSV–1. Over the next decade, those people were 2.5 times more likely to develop dementia than uninfected peers. But again, that risk fell by 80 percent among those who had been treated with anti-herpes drugs.
> Overall, the US is about average diversity compared to other countries.

I don't think that's accurate. Europe is almost entirely European, Asia is almost entirely Asian, Africa is almost entirely African. Even Wisconsin at 86.5% white is less white than most European countries. And Milwaukee itself is 40% black and 17.3% Latino.

The countries that come anywhere close to the US on diversity are predominantly the other countries in the Americas.
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“most laws in the US are now enacted on a federal level”

That’s simply not factually true.
Firefox is definitely working on this in Project Fission. Bringing down memory per process is crucial and a big focus right now. (I think getting resource sharing down to a science will also be important.)

I'm a fan of Firefox but admit Chrome has an advantage in this situation, while Firefox has had the advantage of resource sharing within the process to keep memory down. Last estimate I saw suggested over a year for it to arrive.

As an illustration of how this approach affects the landscape for all browsers, TechCrunch regularly loads 30 origins on a single page.
This is wildly inaccurate.

Most of the challenge when building a Dapp is figuring out how to build infrastructure around Ethereum and dealing with the fact that ETH is incredibly fucking slow for the time being...

Whoever wrote this is either an idiot, on the Consensys Kool-aid pay roll or just finished blowing some marketing moron like Jeremy Gardner...
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I dislike AirBnB on many levels, second-most to Uber: Its a mechanism which marginalizes tenants and maximises profits in property rental to the detriment of neighbours and people just trying to find homes. But this story, of being excluded by the parent company, for un-reversable, un-appealable reasons "because you signed a contract and we don't have to" really is the icing on the cake.

The extent of "yea, if google want to make you rue the day" comments also rings true to me. I'm concerned about my exposure of risk:consequence here, not because I think I have done anything to warrant it, but because successfully reversing arbitrary acts in these situations is so fraught.

Basically, its a guilty-until-possibly-accepted-but-not-acknowledged-as-innocent-and-no-recompense world.
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I've been using Evernote but I'm tired of the 2 device limit; suggestions for alternatives? Thanks!
I think this is funny.

Well done.
I think the weakest part of OSM apps is search. When I type in an address into Google it will most of the time find what I am looking for whereas in OSM apps I have to go through country, state, city, zip code and whatever. The maps themselves are excellent.
Your version has a run-on sentence (two independent clauses joined by a bare conjunction without a conversation comma), but, yes, substituting a full stop for the semicolon joining independent clauses is acceptable (the difference is in degree of implied attachment between the independent clauses, so it's not strictly equivalent, but neither is definitively superior.)
> Firefox uses just as much memory.

This depends strongly on how many tabs you normally have open. At higher numbers Firefox tends to do much better.
I don't think we're at the point where degrees are required for everything, but we are at the point where they are required for almost all decent jobs that lead to decent lifestyles, especially in the US. We've been at this point for decades. This is the major point of contention in the US and around the world. In the US specifically, Americans want a good life without working for the education it requires. Most other cultures readily see that this is impossible today. That's why you get so many immigrants focusing on education and so many Americans focusing, I kid you not, on anti intellectualism and hate for learning. These ideas then transform into hate for immigrants because "they're taking our jobs" when in reality, the Americans claiming that don't have the mental capacity to even reach such a conclusion because they have trouble even graduating from our high schools, high schools that are some of the most dumbed down on earth. Talk about entitlement. Yes, this was possible in America in the sixties and seventies, but the world has changed and Americans haven't kept up. I'm certain this situation is playing itself out in plenty of other places in the world, but it's especially egregious here because of our high tech economy. I see this disparity between the educated and non educated, between urban and rural people as the core of much domestic and international conflict in the world this past a hundred years or so, a conflict that seems to have no easy solutions or simple answers.
duplicate, please check before submitting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17526695

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17524534

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17527447
I'm a big supporter of open mapping data and initiatives. I hope companies continue to contribute to the datasets, vs keeping higher quality data within silos.

I registered the domain thislocation.com a while back. Through some other work I'm doing, I'm hoping to release a platform and datasets that allow you to build/upload/download arbitrary metadata schemas that you can attach to a location (coordinate/POI etc).

The data will be freely available to other platforms, OSM compatible as much as possible. The goal is to pull up a location and there could be hundreds of interactive datasets about it specifically or nearby. Anything from a live audio recording of a space, to drone footage, lidar/radar captures.

The project started when capturing lidar & precision gps data recently, and not having an easy, agnostic platform to just upload and allow it to work easily. The goal is to understand common data patterns so the App will just consume where it can, or allow extension via custom schemas where needed. Everything now seems to be poorly design UI's, corporate desktop software, or if it is a modern online platform, it's too specific to a particular vertical.

I don't really feel like the layers/photos etc experience of google earth are really the best way to explore mapping data, as well as displaying thousands of markers. We are trying for different approaches based on the types of media.

A user can keep their data private, or share it publicly but it will be just like opening Google maps online, typing in an address etc, then toggling datasets in a modern, beautiful way that just works. hiding the map when needed, activating different pages when more appropriate. Everything defined in JSON Schema etc, no new standards or KML/XML, maybe compatible exports if needed.

Apologies for the long pitch, just wanted to share about this side project, and love for open mapping data.
Here’s a thought: in a Federal Republic, perhaps most issues that are heavily affected by population imbalances shouldn’t fall under the scope of Federal legislation.
biggest discussion ended up here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17526695
This proves America is not a democracy
duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17526695

also some here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17524534
I mean, all you’re saying here is that there are disadvantages to being male / masculinized. All you’re doing by signing up for TRT is signing up for the longevity of the average man vs. the longevity of the average woman or eunuch.

Are you suggesting that everyone who naturally produces testosterone (i.e. is on a constant dose of “endogenous anabolic androgenic steroids”) would be better off if they stopped doing so? If not, then there’s got to be a genetic profile + dose level at which the advantages of TRT outweigh the costs.
This caste system is naturally what happens with a huge influx of money into a constrained job and housing market. If there was way more low cost housing, more people outside of the Inner and Outer Parties could make their own sort of life in the interstices, engaging in commerce and creating in those interstices. With the constrained housing market, the interstices disappear, and the economic entities in the markets created by them either disappear or adjust to serve the Inner and Outer parties.

Add into that, a culture of conformity of thought and ideology in the Inner and Outer parties, and the analogy with the two models is complete. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent -- Wherein 1980's America managed to produce an analog of Pravda-esque propaganda, but without sending people to Gulags, without airbrushing photos, and without outright censorship. Instead, the mechanisms are technically "Free Market." Now 2018 San Francisco is inventing another analogue through free market mechanisms.
...sigh...

I don't want the ability to accept a Pull request.

I want three of the five owners of this repo to have to accept it.

I propose that Github automate taking the votes, and taking the action if the vote passes. And preventing the action unless the vote happens.

That way I can trust that nothing happens without the proper procedures.

Your comparison is absurd.
Have a look at the female doctors too, I think they are in on it as well. How deep does this go?
duplicate, please check before submitting:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17526695

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17524534

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17527447
All political parties in the US are basically communist
How do both of these compare to the long-term effects of an early-life hysterectomy?
Another piece would be slowly filling out everything possible that could document a specific location, from the soil, asphalt type/quality, temperature, smell/sound, haze in the air, scientific measurements, video/drone/lidar. Until all checkboxes are completed/amassed.
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I subscribe, therefore I am?
SELinux. With SELinux you can set the permissions on these files so that only specific programs have access to them.
Yes.

With the current limited technology? No.
No more that I would want to be mummified in ancient egypt, even if it was the top-of-the-line technology back then.
““You lose the GPS signal and guess what you lose? You lose banking.”
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No... the Intel conveyor belt of improvement has been stagnant for 5 years. You actually have to be careful to not buy slower computers when you refresh these days.

Now Windows 10 is driving an upgrade cycle by arbitrarily dropping support for old stuff and shipping every 6 months. Microsoft will continue to squeeze until people leave the platform.
I presume the GP was being sarcastic and referred to Clinton vs Sanders.
I don't really understand the approach to names which takes them and translates them: Pen-Y-Bont and Bridge-end are translations, but the name is one or the other. Transliteration seems fine to me, Caerdydd <=> Cardiff, but we shouldn't say it's "name" in English is Diffcastle (or perhaps Taffcastle if you take an etymological approach).

/rant
Please keep political battle off HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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This is a non sequitur. One can lose by not appearing, by violating rules, by exposing yourself to the spectators, etc. Because the solution space for “win-losing” is infinite, there is no game, hence no winning or losing.
I have the mindset now that when I want something that I would otherwise look on Amazon for, I search for a specialty online retailer who will (of necessity) beat Amazon and local businesses in all respects, from reliability to selection. For instance, if I want chocolate, there is a site devoted to chocolate. If I want car parts & accessories, there are sites specializing in that. If I want computer cables, there is a site specializing in those. It's a given that everybody has to compete with Amazon, so non-Amazon retailers, if they're well established, tend to be really good in their niche. I think this is actually an overlooked positive externality of Amazon's dominance.
+1 Here maps (it's the old Nokia maps, now under Daimler and others).

Probably the best UX of any map apps and some great sounding voices.
> The throughly modern American asks "Why would you need to be in physical proximity to someone anyway unless it was necessary for work? That's so creepy!".

If that’s the case then I disavow all things “modern.” Nothing exciting to me at all about putting up walls between me and the people I actually see in person.

Maybe this is why I deleted my facebook a few years back, call when a few texts become a back and forth conversation, push for meet ups, and don’t use Tinder. I really don’t want to live in a world where the majority of our human-to-human communications is tapping on glass.
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