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I'm sorry, I don't mean to be uncivil but I just straight up do not believe you (about people wanting to go to jail.) I was homeless for nearly five years, I've met a lot of homeless people, I've never ever encountered anyone who wanted to go to jail, "nice" or otherwise. Even the crazy folks would rather be crazy free. I guess it's possible that everybody who really wanted to be in jail found a way to get there leaving only the really committed "drug addicts and drunks" out on the street?

In any event, you are right about one thing:

> The homeless aren't prosecuted for sleeping outside. They're prosecuted for public indecency (i.e., exposing their privates to passersby and children), drug use, threats, physical violence, public intoxication.

If you're not a mess most folks are actually pretty decent about cutting you some slack, I can tell you that from personal experience. Also, if you do encounter Mrs. Grundy, imagine that call to the police, "He's sleeping!" It lacks urgency. (Unless you're sleeping in a stupid place, like an upscale neighborhood.)

It's like you say. There's a place a few blocks from my house where some people have been sleeping occasionally, and it would be fine but they are starting to leave trash and stuff. That's what's going to cause problems, not the actual camping.
I wouldn't necessarily believe it, I've seen many posts on multiple boards on 4chan wherein people claim to make Terry impersonation accounts on HN specifically to troll
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That mademe laugh, but true.
I don't remember if it was 1/3 or 2/3 (a lot anyways) of motorcycle accidents were caused by another car driver, and mostly due that they didn't see the motorcycle so a high-visibility jacket (yellow/orange with reflective stripes) is a must imho.
He's always been one of the best arguments for enabling `showdead`. His posts were frequently incoherent, but they deserved to be seen.
I loved go from 1.3 onwards, and it still has a special place in my heart. But ultimately a failed attempt at writing a heavy numeric/scientific app in Go soured me on the lack of generics. the overhead of needing to re-implement functions in order to avoid casts was way to much to bear in one app, and projects such as gonum suffer either due to an over-reliance on interface or the requirement to constantly re-implement functions to deal with the change in type signature between int, float, and their associated sizes.
Combine that with the cost of even applying (having to travel to DC, etc), time away from family/friends and the low wages... easy to see how this would only attract a small dedicated set of people.

Not going to lie though, it would be really interesting to do a tour just to see how it all works.
I have, albeit on /g/ which is actually quasi-regulated. I'm still not convinced that people understand what they're doing. It doesn't make it right, but I don't think a lot of people grasp that what they're doing has a real impact on a real person with a real life on the other side of the screen. They think it's just a sick role-playing game, and they play the role, and they forget that it isn't just a game.
Partially scratching my own itch but fundamentally, we do believe that data scientists and data engineers have other valuable activities to handle. Building APIs and thinking about scaling it shouldn't be one of them.

Lots more features to come such as AB model testing, performance tracking, version control, testing, etc. but we're starting off with a simple model to API use case.

Currently, Python and R will be supported with the intention to introduce other data science friendly languages.

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Tesla has maybe sold 200,000 cars world-wide over the course of 15 years, by its own estimate. GM sold close to 4 times that many vehicles in the US alone in Q2 of 2018.
Teslas are rare.

https://www.gm.com/investors/sales/us-sales-production.html
On a different topic, is it your impression that other political parties are better at email security than the Democrats? If so, why is that? If not, why is the media focus on Democrats?
I've been following the recent death/hoax of Terry Davis very closely.

As far as I can tell it is so far unconfirmed by any reliable sources. But from what I've gathered it unfortunately seems likely that Terry has passed away. The prominent theory is that he was a victim of an accident involving a train in the Dalles, Oregon.

http://www.thedalleschronicle.com/news/2018/jan/03/local-man...

https://i.imgur.com/b1EEp2T.png

This has supposedly been confirmed by family members but everything I've heard is from unscrupulous sources.
Keep in mind that insurance costs vary extremely widely state to state (i.e., market to market, to the parent poster's point). Different states have different risk profiles but more importantly, widely different insurance regulations.
Why Mac? Like many, many devs: (1) acceptable font rendering, unlike Windows, (2) compatible with Adobe CS unlike Linux, and (3) it's a *nix, allowing me to develop stuff that will run on linux cloud instances.
I fondly remember Evernote talking about being a company that lives around for a hundred years. It had really great leadership, smart staff, a desire to be as independent as possible, keep data as belonging to the user as much as possible, and away from subpoena, and then a vision to help people become more productive.

Sometime later the vision floundered and staff became bored. Lots of people left for something more exciting. And the product went through its dark period.

Now the flaws are too many to mention and too well known too repeat but my question remains the same: what is there to do as a company that it makes sense to last a hundred years independently?

No. More than that. How can a company become so important just by collecting thoughts and memories?

FB survived because they had complete open access to how users were using the product. And they pivoted from their earlier promises.

Evernote stayed loyal. They suffered.
I never understand why there's this thinking that more education "should" lead to a higher salary. It's not borne out by either theory or practice. I've heard several PhD's complain that they don't earn as much as someone with not degree at all. Is it something that PhD candidates tell themselves to get through the misery?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17911377 and marked it off-topic.
That’s not what geggam is saying. The underlying philosophy of the Bill of Rights as stated by the founders/framers is that the rights are “natural” rights which all are imbued at birth, and that the rights listed are not exhaustive but merely representative. In fact, the founders were wary of a Bill of Rights specifically because by enumerating some of them the list might be seen as complete.

But the notion is that governments do not “grant” these rights, and likewise government can never infringe upon god given rights.
One of the demos at Build was Azure Stack running on oil rigs, so you're not far off
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The passage about implanting human organoids into primates reminded me of this YA scifi novel called Eva that I read as a kid. Girl in a car accident gets her brain transplanted into a chimpanzee. I really loved it. And a great book to develop your kid’s interspecies empathy!
Cost of living is not much better but I'm personally partial to Boston and you can get houses in the surrounding bedroom communities for not too bad. If you don't mind going North of Boston, southern New Hampshire has a lot to offer but the tech scene is still pretty small.
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Last time I used linux, it didn't do font rendering that well either.

Mac also lets you choose arbitrary resolution scaling. And it's damn near perfect.
This method won't work for most 'after the event' scenarios, such as the San Bernadino case, because the subjects are often deceased, and so unlikely to be updating the software on their phones or computers, so it can only possibly apply "upon suspicion". ie. pre-crime...

This opens up questions as to how someone becomes 'suspicious' if their communication is already encrypted. And if they're already a person of interest, how many myriad other ways do they have of surveilling them or checking out their activities? Terrorist attacks require non-electronic items that have to be purchased, stored, and constructed in non-electronic places. There are existing ways to surveil people, under warrant. GPS trackers, phone records, bank statements, listening devices, watching devices, IMSI catchers, metadata (which Australia has legislated must be kept by ISP's for a couple of years).

This new legislation feels like a LOT of effort for a very small percentage return over and above those things I've already listed, especially considering:

- How long would it take to develop and deploy a targetted version of a program?

- What's the likelihood of the target updating their program during the useful window of time?

- Is this timeframe going to be of use to law enforcement?

- If the timeframe is justified, what's the time limit? Is 'suspect' going to have their comms intercepted for the foreseeable future? At what point is the well deemed to be dry?

- At what point does warranted surveillance become government harassment?

What this looks like from the outside is more psychology than technology:

- Hey Terrorists, we can do these things so, you know, re-think your life's direction

- Chilling effects: encourage paranoia, discourage dissent, even discourage disagreement
Dorms are interesting because the colleges really do have to compete with the outside real estate market (including, in some schools more than others, the student's room at their parent's house) and with each other. We've all heard stories of crumbling dorms in decades past, but it wasn't too long ago that boarding houses and cold water flats (i.e., apartments with no hot water) were reasonably common.

If potential students come to visit a college and the dorms notably look bad, they might get a bad impression of the school, even subconsciously and end up going somewhere else. And if too many students decide to live off campus, it messes with student activities and general sense of school pride (which also messes with future alumni donations) and with the school's bottom line.
If you work for AirBnb your bad software is definitely changing lives and putting people in danger. Software doesn't have to be embedded to materially affect someone's life.
I assume you're posting this to show that Kay "doesn't get it"?

The more I learn about cutting-edge technologies of the 60s, 70s and 80s, the more I'm convinced that he's entirely correct about the web and mobile. Most developers today are obsessed with tooling and features. Almost no one seems to care whether those tools and features have some kind of fundamentally valid idea behind them.

Just look at the proliferation of HTTP security headers for a clear-cut example of how this works out in the long run.
So what can we, as citizens, do to get the watered-down, "compromise" version of the bill that's still much worse than current laws, but a bit better than this travesty?
> it's just a day job which helps them provide for themselves

Is there something wrong with that?

The idea that you need to super passionate for your job and practically live and breath it seems to be a fairly common attitude around HN and the tech community in general.

For me software engineering is just a job. I enjoy my work, sure, but I wouldn't do it if I wasn't getting paid. Most people in the world have a similar attitude to their work. I don't think the secretary in my office goes home and makes spreadsheets and types word documents. My friend who's a plumber doesn't go home and stick pipes together for fun.

I think that the difference is that in the West, we have more options for careers that offer a comfortable life. Trades pay well in the West, my tradie mates here in Australia make as much as I do, or even more. This isn't the case in the developing world, where there is a stark difference between white collar and blue collar wages.
Yes, there are definitely different weights for threads based on multiple factors such as flags, certain domains/topics, and manual intervention by the mods.
Just wait till you see the lack of job security in the sales department of any company in any industry.

Typically you'll have a few managers and a few reps who are friends of the owners and are therefore politically protected.

The rest of sales force are either extremely underpaid and do grunt work, or are fired quite quickly for literally no reason other than "it's not working out".
Evernote U-turned pretty quickly from the commitment they made just last year to not taking VC money: https://venturebeat.com/2017/02/13/never-say-never-evernote-...
Why would Apple provide Ubuntu when it already has a complete BSD environment and things like Homebrew to add even more tools should you need them?

It's ridiculous that grandma's MacBook Air has better command-line tools than a typical developer's high-end Windows Professional workstation.
Most modern things don't ever "turn off".
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Thanks. Not really, I just look at the IPv4 implementation, it's easily to search for csum or chksum or checksum in codebases.
Eva (novel)
Since WWII the UK is definitely the junior power.
That's true, pretty easy to do once you look in the "net" or "inet" or "netinet" folders and then look for ipv4.
Shouldn't the fact that they're a bunch of random people make it easier to separate work from personal communications?
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I mostly use Evernote to save/tag interesting articles for later reference (it sure beats trying to re-find stuff via google). Any good cross-platform replacements for this use case? Especially ones that run as a desktop app and/or are self hosted? I want a solution I can stick with.
My longhair friends and I were targeted now and again, back in the 60s-70s. For a while, I carried a folding buck knife. But then we all started doing Aikido, which was much better overall. Because defense mostly ends up being verbal, flowing around conflict.
When I look at the all the flashy stuff Apple is planning on jamming into MacOS and iOS this fall, I expect the same will happen with my UX on those platforms. Who needs these features?
I read something about how the european temp is based on different testing, under the arm rather than under the tounge.

My dog's vet has a very cool toy. IR temp through the eye. Temp of the optic nerves, close to the brain.
Geez, that's disturbing. To think Xournal does it more or less for gratis & libre!
Considering a whole Smalltalk VM is smaller than a lot of hero images on websites, I get the feeling that Kay is correct. I would imagine a containerized / sandboxed environment would have developed. I cannot see how it could be worse than today.
(I have used both Zoom and Hangouts. These views are my own, and do not necessarily represent those of my employer.)

Zoom,

1. Needs better call quality. The audio is often … difficult … particularly if both ends are speaking or if one end has too much ambient noise. (That is, it seems like local noise degrades the incoming signal. (To me, it feels like it believes us to be talking, and essentially mutes the incoming signal so as to not cause a feedback loop; but then we can't hear the incoming. IDK.)

2. Numeric meeting IDs are a terrible, horrible UX coming from Hangouts. Joining meeting "foo" vs. joining meeting 904-857-597. (When calendar integration works, it's nice, but sometimes you need to convey a meeting ID over your voice to another human, and "foo" is just so much easier.)
I use Zotero for the same purpose and it's been great so far: https://www.zotero.org/
I'd like them to do that too. It's a chicken/egg/bootstrapping problem. You don't get a community of developers without HW, and you don't get a useful HW running OSS OS/userspace without the community.

OTOH, I think they'll have trouble attracting that much of a community to sustain the project if they just throw out such an expensive initially useless hardware out there.

But at least people will have something to play with. Better than promisses and sorrys.
The standard political nomenclature is "bundler", but I don't think I've ever witnessed a bundler describing himself as such. They prefer euphemism.
the bill is so brazen, I keep wondering if they mean for it to not pass. Like they put it out there just to appease some organisation that they are 'at least trying'. Hopefully it doesn't backfire a'la Brexit
> At Day 100, Qian’s minibrains resemble a portion of the pre­natal brain in the second trimester of pregnancy.

OMG they are juggling nitroglycerin. I think that it's only ignorance that has kept people from their pitchforks and torches so far.

Not that I'm against this mad science. The first thing, the first thing, I thought of when I first read about these things was: DALEKS! Put these in a roomba with some sensors and a death ray and they're Daleks.
I get the feeling it slips off the front page by the time folks have read the whole thing.
... which is what makes it appropriate! Pragmatism FTW.
Supposedly you could play video games on one of Nvidia's more recent data center products:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/hgx/

It shows up to the host computer as one really big GPU. Of course, you're going to get worse performance than just a single Titan V because it can handle any game already and there's inevitably going to be latency added by doing work over NVLink/NVSwitch. Those massive GPU products are targeted toward offline rendering or machine learning applications, not so much realtime simulation.
If you have a clean driving record Progressive is great. My wife got rear ended, wasn't even her fault, and Progressive quickly became more expensive than many alternatives. I'm guessing they get such good rates by heavily penalizing people with a greater risk profile (which is fine I might add, even tho it sucks for me :-) )
That's a bit snarky. Most of it was written as non-fiction. Your descendant will be denouncing a 21st C physics book on HN as fiction in 500 years time. I guess you haven't read, for example, Proverbs (just a load of great proverbs) or Ecclesiastes (very dark view of life - nihilistic, sceptical, world-weary) - they're great stuff. (disclosure: total atheist)
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Its a little deeper than that:

Never underestimate how willing other people are to spend money on things that you consider frivolous.

The trap is to accidentally consider your values as universals. You haven't known obsession until you've hung out with some model railroad guys.
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For me, with Nationwide, same comprehensive coverage on both cars (every 6 months):

2005 Mercedes E320 CDI: $572.40
2018 Tesla Model 3 Long Range: $641.76

The collision part of that is $230.70 for the Tesla and $185.72 for the Mercedes.

Anybody want to buy a 2005 Mercedes?
I was specifically responding to this:

I'm not arguing that it's fine to imprison people just because they'd be better off-you're the one saying that.

When in fact he’s been saying just that, repeatedly and vociferously. At this point though I’m not seeing a lot of gold at the end of this rainbow, just more hypocrisy and questionable claims, so I’m out.
Every day, for almost 20 years now
This is an example of why I say use the right tool for the right job. Go is not the best language for scientific computing. Depending on the math involved you should likely be looking at Fortran or Python, which will most likely use Fortran or C under the hood. Go is best suited for small application or microservices, or as glue code for services.
You don't have to rely on just your car.

Think cattle, not pets.
For example, from the article:

> According to Facebook’s policy, it does not allow ads promoting sales of firearms, silencers, other weapons like knives and fireworks, and ads promoting the brandishing of firearms.

Guns are not only legal, but Constitutionally protected. What explanation for banning them other than pushing a Democratic pro-gun-control agenda? Imagine the furor if Facebook banned ads for contraception or abortion services.
Part of the troubled aspect of his mind is that he was spouting all this hate. You can t pick and choose the parts of someone you like if you are actually going to respect them.

He made and OS that was far beyond an average person. He also spouted hatefull messages constantly. It's a package deal
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I always thought Evernote was just a more updated version of Treepad.

Treepad was a way of making all these labeled leafs of notes and organize it hierarchically. But it ended up being really annoying to manage. It was easy to add notes but easier to never look at them again, rendering them useless. Search or typical tag-based approaches wouldn't solve these problems. I always thought it would require something innovative, perhaps a more atomic line-based input that self organizes as a large list.

I'm not sure Evernote ever really came up with a more innovative solution than an upgraded treepad + cloud + search + tags ?
It's inappropriate, but all I can think of is the Ginger Rodgers, Fred Astaire comment: http://www.reelclassics.com/Actresses/Ginger/ginger-article2...
Pay for their lodging and food, as long as they never leave the building, and force them to be very close roommates with gang members?

Basically the question is: what do you do with a crazy person, or someone who has relegated themselves to squalor?

The answer for both is that we continue to try to rehabilitate. That means not just throwing them in a hole. A simple example would be to take the money we spend on incarcerating them and spend it on multifaceted programs.

Prison should not be a panacea. Reminder: the US incarcerates more people than the next two biggest encarcerating countries combined, even though our population is 1/5th the size. Either our people are the scum of the earth, or we just find locking people up an acceptable solution to most problems.