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> I’m surprised anyone does business in China when you know 10-15 years later they will have copied your business.

The Chinese market is huge - many executive types seemingly fall victim to hubris quite often - and this is no exception. That's the most charitable explanation possible.

The less charitable and more realistic way this happened in my opinion? No executive cares about 10-15 years from now. At most they are looking a couple years down the road for bonuses.
Even when compared against Amiga toolkits and Win16, Xlib with Athena or Motif were anything but pleasant.

X Windows is the main reason of "The Year of Desktop Linux" failure.

It is quite telling that ChromeOS and Android have ditched it.

Also the only UNIX that was actually a pleasure to code for was NeXTSTEP, guess what, it also didn't care for X Windows other than compatibility purposes.
Right, but recording transactions is the easy part; you can even take the schema from their docs, create a few DB tables from it, and just push to a local DB.

The reason to use a real accounting system is for the extra features (mainly reports), but I don't see them in this API, so you'd still need to export your data to one of those systems. So I'm struggling to see the advantage of pushing data to their service rather than to a local DB.
"We substituted some guessed numbers for our own" isn't so much a "reasonable claim" as a thought experiment.

Even accepting their numbers, it's hardly "dissolved".

> When we update this prior in light of the Fermi observation, we find a substantial probability that we are alone in our galaxy, and perhaps even in our observable universe (53%–99.6% and 39%–85% respectively).
this one offers no real data behind the so-called weighted tariff. US and China clearly import different products from each other, different categories of product might have different tariff on each side. Also when China joined WTO they may be agreed to impose some kind of "extra" tariff because it is viewed as developing country
A famous experiment was when Yahoo (I think) released a dump of anonymised search queries, however, they had a user identifier for each query so it was simple enough to combine the queries and find the person.
You did reply to the "go at night" comment.

I don't know. I mean, even if you went "at night" -- aka directly away from the Sun, always keeping the Earth in between -- you'd never get near the Sun. Unless you set out to circumnavigate the Universe. And in any case, once you got farther than the Moon's orbit, it wouldn't be night anymore, because you'd see the Sun.

So OK, approach the Sun edge-on. So is this a riff on flat-Earthers? I suppose that they might also have the Sun being flat. I can't quite imagine the geometry.
Hey, I've got an answer from 6 years ago on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3808787

Notice my observation:
"Consider that the US economy is $15 trillion. The US handbag market is bigger than DARPA's budget."
On Doctors, Mechanics, and Computer Specialists: The Economics of Credence Goods [pdf]
One person per lane is generally guaranteed only in competition. You can get your own lane if your pool is lightly loaded but by no means would your lane be off limits to others, normally.

It's crowded when you're finger tips to toes or you smash into the oncoming swimmer off the wall (the ones following you) which is typically the mistake of the one turning and not the oncoming swimmer but not always. You try to stick to lanes moving at your preferred pace. It's a little like driving - sometimes you get your own lane and sometimes you don't.

You haz kwestuns we haz anserz
As a general rule, if the data can be used to identify some users, it falls under the GDPR. From Article 4(1):

> ‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;
Mapbox also offers geocoding and navigation, which are quite a bit more difficult than just setting up a server that can host OSM tiles. Obviously, if all you need are maps, that's fine. But if you need maps with search, which I suspect most people do, rolling your own is tougher (though projects like pelias are pretty good).
> When you download future biographies of, say, Leonard Cohen or Justin Trudeau, with one tap you’ll be able to watch a concert version of “Hallelujah” or the filial eulogy to Trudeau père.

This has been the promise of the web since the beginning. I'm willing to bet that by 2047, this still isn't a thing (using the beginning of the WWW and then going forward that many years).

> Plenty of tomorrow’s biographers will bypass print altogether.

The death of paper has been predicted many times. We use more paper now than we did then.

> Podcasts and YouTube biopics free their creators from the constraints of linear chronology in a way that is harder to achieve with the written word.

A. No, it's not really harder. And B. the biopic has existed for as long as films and it has not killed the written biography.

> Charlotte Gray (charlottegray.ca) is a historian whose latest book is The Promise of Canada: 150 Years—People and Ideas That Have Shaped Our Country.

And she promotes her own book. Which I find ironic given the article about how books are done. Why not a podcast or YouTube series that can free her from the constraints of the written word? Basically she wrote a biography of Canada.
It's an archaeological dig as such it is done under special circumstances. Basically the permit is granted before the dig is started and it will list the conditions that apply to that dig if they are not already regulated as standard by a law.

If you dig on your own private property and find such artifacts you are most likely required to stop. Most countries consider historical artifacts to be owned by the state (just like natural resources) and the special conditions mentioned above will apply.
Yes. I've tried VSCode. It's better than atom, but I still prefer vim (neovim specifically) by a large margin.
I remember it happening to me in some public pools but never in the ocean.

I've also done some high intensity training outside of water without the same lung issues. I'll get out of breath after running for a while, but the pool related issue is every time I breathe in deep to expand my lungs, it would feel very strange and hurt. It would last even an hour after leaving the pool area.
Python extension for VS Code provides both MS Language Server and Jedi based intellisense. Default is actually Jedi as LS is in preview.
That's only one side story in US, all the arguments are for political or diplomatic goal. It's like a kid lost a game would claim unfairness ignoring all the established rules, just because he's not happy.
> I just want to know how worried I need to be about my own gaming PC at the moment.

Not sure if you play on Linux at all, but a good way to start is to run Steam in firejail. It isolates that environment from the rest of the OS.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firejail
Uber drivers “employees” for unemployment purposes, NY labor board says
This seems like a good place to mention the existence of skeptics.stackexchange.com
I've had to do that to almost every iPhone I've used except the previous 6 I had.

I'm not sure why I went through them quickly. I started to use the software home button right away on the 6 and it's still kickin. The 6 Plus I didn't do it to misses a click every so often.
JSON is significantly superior to XML for one simple reason: edge-labeled graphs are isomorphic with common programming language data structures and node-labeled trees are not.

I've not used binding annotations when working with server-side JSON in Ruby or Python, and there's little need to do it in Java unless you want a mechanized description of your API data structures to do other things with, like documentation or tool-driven schema validation.

HATEOS is nuts for an API layer. It forces an overly chatty API because you need to navigate a graph to perform actions, rather than looking up paths in docs - but the paths don't go away, they just move from being path templates to resources to being path of navigation through a series of responses. The essential complexity is constant, and the need for hard-coding endpoint knowledge into the API client hasn't gone away, it just moved.

HATEOS makes some sense for user interaction, but even then it works poorly for people who fork their navigation: open up several child pages for a list of items, add each to the basket, then go to the checkout. Do they all go in the same basket, or do you have several different baskets depending on the path of navigation? HATEOS will guide you to the latter, because hypertext drives the state, rather than some hidden state. HATEOS works much better in a read-only context, where you're e.g. sorting and filtering through a list. Actions, less so.
I wouldn't trust these numbers too much. Pretty sure Windows XP usage remains far more than 3% in India and China.
I assume the methane would be the fuel, not the byproduct.
How Some Ventures Continually Stay Ahead of the Crowd
This article and some of the comments in here come off as extremely entitled to me. My background is I grew up in the suburbs away from any major city (closest city <200k people) and now I live walking distance to work in a major city. I still have a car, but I don't need it, and some of my coworkers don't have cars.

The author never shows anything but correlation between transportation method and demographics. It's much more likely that wealth determines your proximity to work / transportation method than vice versa.

This whole article just seems like a thinly veiled "I ride a bike to work and I hate cars -- they probably all voted for Trump cause they're poor and uneducated. Why don't they just get rich and smart and then they can walk to work and we don't need cars anymore and we can all live next to parks?"

> “But it is increasingly clear that in addition to wasted time and productivity, reduced quality of life, and even fatalities, the automobile takes another toll. It may be that cars are not only the chief destroyer of our communities, but are tearing at the nation’s political and social fabric.”

I posit that cars allowed population expansion because resources across a larger area became accessible and that we would have less people in existence if Fordism never happened. So blaming that innovation for wealth inequality is like blaming mass food production for wealth inequality. Why doesn’t everyone just have their own garden with chickens and quinoa? Why would anyone ever eat fast food? Why would anyone eat processed foods?

> “The car and car-dominated infrastructure propelled suburbanization and white flight. They split our society into white, affluent suburbs and poor black and minority cities.”  What? I’m pretty sure cities are segregated also, sometimes intentionally in history. This comes off as a pretty weak argument, but I could be convinced with more evidence.
>The problem is, those trips can't be made by train.

Transcontinental flights (one side of the continent to the other, see [1]) can usually be taken by train. You probably mean intercontinental flights.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcontinental_airspeed_reco...
And if I share an opinion that's not the norm, I'm an "evil russian".
Newer Tesla batteries contain Cuban cobalt, likely illegal under US sanctions
The WASM spec was developed with formal verification in mind, and the core specification, interpreter and type checker had mechanized safety proofs very early on [1]. This is backwards from how most bytecodes were designed, so that's very promising. Note also that the specification is an explicitly single-pass type checking, which is very efficient.

The difficulty of full safety verification on the JVM is well studied [2]. The security-focused Joe-E language actually decompiles JVM bytecodes back to Java to avoid the many full abstraction failures that have been documented.

The CLR is a little better on the safety record, but the verification costs can be even higher because the CLR supports various pointer types. Proper verification requires control-flow analysis, but instead they partition the bytecode into safe/unsafe variants and only the safe variant is "verifiable". IIRC, WASM doesn't have this limitation.

[1] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~caw77/papers/mechanising-and-verif...

[2] http://www-master.ufr-info-p6.jussieu.fr/2005/IMG/pdf/leroy-...
>Also, this isn’t the first time Google is doing this bait and switch.

It isn't a bait and switch. It's introductory pricing. They attracted developers and businesses to a product people essentially weren't using, they let people work with it at or near a loss and now that they have a customer base they are trying to make it profitable.

Yes, they'll lose some of their users that want a free ride. They'll also retain many users that will happily pay under the new pricing scheme because they recognize the value add and find it to be a worthy business expense.

It's no different than companies like MailChimp offering free-for-so-many-subscriber pricing and then requiring you to pay once you reach a threshold they've determined makes you a billable customer. Or a company like Evernote allowing you to save so much data (what a map tile is) and use so many devices a month for free before requiring you to subscribe at one of the paid tiers. Or a company like Pushbullet allowing you to mirror so many SMS messages a month before charging.

If you can't easily handle the pricing change, then you are probably wasting your time using it in the first place and need to discontinue using maps anyway or reassess your own business model.
It's not really the same force! And it's very easy to observe that they're not the same by looking at city, county and state boundaries in the US. The governments of those jurisdictions don't require "citizenship", they simply assume jurisdiction over whoever is physically within their boundaries at any given moment. (And yet they still enforce property laws!) Nations could very conceivably operate the same way in the future.
Innovation doesn't work like that.

I normally think about it like this:

Government research:

Money spent here is the most abstract as it doesn't define a problem before it tries to solve it but rather looks for things we don't understand yet.

Military research:

The point of this research is maintaining power which means researching whatever might give you the upper hand. This is why AI is added to the research now. Whoever is furthest have the upper hand. Because getting the upper hand with regards to physical power can be a lot of things, whoever wants to be in power have to invest in a broad spectrum of areas.

Product/market research:

Solving problems perceptually or real, defined by the market itself or creating new markets but often using knowledge from what was created by governments and millitary (or ex. space travel). These are often accidental and byproducts.

Now here is the problem.

Just because you can define a market or a problem doesn't mean you can find a market for it. You have to find the customers who benefit from and who can pay.

If you took the money away from the millitary and gave it to solve "humanities problems" you would run the risk of loosing the monopoly of power because the problems of the humanity is not the same as those of the individual nation states.
Three Steps to Search Privately with Search Encrypt
>It’s very clear you think money is the primary shaper of societies.

Not OP but this doesn’t sound like what they are saying.

I think they are just saying that socialism/communism is a form of economy, not a form of leadership. A socialist society can theoretically have any structure of government. The socialist part is the design of the economy.

And I’m pretty sure they’re correct.
The AI in Civ 6 is kind of a mess, I have civs on the other side of the globe I've never interacted with more than a scout passing by once dozens of turns before just declare war on me. Then nothing happened for 3 dozen turns because they couldn't reach me and they sued for peace. That happened multiple times.
Well, Schengen grants me freedom of movement to roam to France and live there! So that middle ground does exist.

We are just slowly working toward more homogeneous soceties among which freedom of movement can be allowed - but currently, if we eliminate all borders tomorrow, it would be quite chaotic. What we first need to address are the struggles that make millions of people want to leave their home country, so they can be happy there, and there is no mass exodus from anywhere.
I think we can also say that SSL is "application level". I mean, the network isn't secure, so the application (ie. a web browser) must do something to encrypt data in transit.
Did you make a typo? US salaries in 1972 were way more than $800.
MS language server is not based on Jedi. It is based on Python Tools for Visual Studio. Core components were ported to .NET Core so it runs on all platforms. The core engine is not just for IntelliSense, it is capable of many more functions.
> I gave you several ways it could be done

Sorry, you'll have to refresh my memory.
"I got 5 passports, I'm never going to jail" ~Jay-Z
So you're upset that Google hasn't been charging a lot more all along?
Exploring .NET Core platform intrinsics: Part 4 – Alignment and pipelining
Once the DLL is released. Modders can't make proper mods until they release the DLL. Civ 4, was released immediately and had an amazing mod community. Civ 5 was delayed release, and the modding community got into a groove afterwards for some amazing mods.

Civ 6, who knows. The longer they wait, they more they have to rely on their game to drive play. And the AI for example, is a trainwreck that needs help
Ye-es... but I'd argue that's not the proposition of the video. The claim is "I made an iPhone for $300", but the reality id more like "I made an iPhone for $300 of useful spend, $700 of wasted spend and $20,000 worth of my time".

The watcher might be tempted to take away "I can make an iPhone for $300," but actually it's more like "I can make an iPhone for $300 and ~$5,000 of my time".

Obviously the "$5,000 worth of my time" is actually the fun part fro some viewers. If you're the right kind of maker it might even be worth $5,000 to you.
Gobetween: Modern Load Balancer for the Cloud Era
We aren’t talking about a little unknown poorly funded startup. We are talking about Google.

Even on the other end of the scale,I subscribe to Backblaze and Evernote.
It's helpful to think about market share per "competitor", not number of competitors:

"However, from a regulatory view, monopoly power exists when a single firm controls 25% or more of a particular market. For example, De Beers is known to have a monopoly in the diamond industry."

https://www.intelligenteconomist.com/monopoly-market-structu...
Great link. Thanks!
Internet Privacy Guide – Hackernoon
That would be considered PII at the healthcare organization I work for.
A brief history of text-based games and open source
Just to answer your question properly, I don't think you need to reinstall your PC to get rid of it. Most games are now removing it through an update.

There's a thread on Reddit that collates which games are still using Red Shell and which have removed it: https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/8pud8b/psa_red_shell...

I think you can just uninstall the ones that aren't planning to remove it yet.

Also, you can opt-out from RedShell's website. Although it doesn't seem straight forward to me: https://redshell.io/optout
>> How long would it take a "unified bloc" to agree on doing anything?

This is why most of the time the US does things unilaterally. Whether its militarily, economically or otherwise. We ask other countries if they want to stop China from laying huge tariffs on their products and they say, "Yes, for sure!" Then we say, "Okay, let's all impose tariffs on their imports and fight back!" and suddenly all those countries who were on board to do something suddenly get cold feet and don't want to get sucked into a trade war or deal with the short term consequences of standing up to them.

Also, these trade wars with China have been off and on since the 1970's if not earlier.
It is more about modding outside of the general player base that already played, and dropped it.

The sustained users are ones that have good mods that improve the AI, and other aspects of the game. Civ 6 hasn't released the DLL, so us as modders, are in a holding pattern. Most of the major modders have quit (as have I) until the DLL is released.

As an AI modder, I just can't improve the AI without the DLL.
I like StumpWM. It's a tiling window manager, which I've come to consider vital (I'll never go back to overlapping windows if I can help it). It's also written in Common Lisp, which is a powerful dynamic programming language. I like that I can easily extend my window manager on the fly (I've even been thinking of implementing a terminal within StumpWM, so I can get rid of my current terminal).

It's a little annoying that a lot of stuff assumes GNOME or KDE, but I'm able to get by.

I've heard good things about i3, dwm & exwm. The latter is written in elisp, of all things!
When Is Haskell More Useful Than R or Python in Data Science?
Because the people who work in the heath industry understand all usually all it takes is a name and some tiny fact like your adresss to unmask the dataset after the fact.
From the article (emphasis added):

"Which maps should we investigate deeper?

Some options we could reject quickly for various reasons. OpenStreetMap is not supposed to be directly used by commercial sites. Apple Maps, even though we wouldn't mind having Apple logo on our site somewhere, was just released as beta and requires Apple developer account to test properly."
How is IP handled in this situation? Especially given the recent discussion [1] on HN about how the recently announced DeepMind Patent Portfolio could be a problem, how is it that state employees (Washington, California) are "co-employed" by an organization to do _exactly_ the research that their home universities work on ? Who owns the IP in this case? Are these sorts of agreements FOIA-able?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17266951
> Someone began impersonating me using my full name on blogger

There are a lot of people in the world so the odds of someone having the same full name as anyone else isn't that low. Was this person impersonating you specifically beyond claiming that they have the same name?
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From what I've seen (MS folks can correct me here), language services are part of a much larger effort at Microsoft led by Anders Heijsberg (Delphi, C#) called Roslyn [1], which decouples code analysis from IDEs and provides things like refactoring, autocomplete, find-all-references, Intellisense, etc. as services.

This means the compiler is now an abstracted platform that editors can get services from (CompilerAndCodeAnalysis-as-a-service?). Anders talks about the motivation for doing that here [2].

It's a pretty exciting idea. This might mean I would some day be able to use Vim and get IDE-like functionality.

[1] Roslyn https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/wiki/Roslyn-Overview
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSdV1M7n4gQ
To all the lovers of OneNote: doesn't it bother you that printing the notes / pages (physically, or to PDF file) provides a sub-par experience? Writing notes in OneNote is great, including managing them... unless you want to print a page to share the notes to someone via another medium. Than it just annoys me, and I wished that I'd started in Dropbox Paper or Google Docs.