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Not only is it missing a lot of features, many of the features it has implemented are buggy to the point of being unusable. Try speeding up an HTML5 video for a quick example of something people often do that is not implemented correctly in Safari.
Why not make it a traditional SAAS application that charges $10/month?
It took a lot of work for the author to draft this. Would it kill you to compensate them for it?
I think gp is referring to the ongoing effort to keep an app up, running, and secure; not any feature of the platform.

You can of course buy Rails LTS (though from a quick glance the pricing can be very expensive if you have eg a deploy per tenant rather than multitenant). But gems move on from your version, apis change underneath you, etc.

Keeping a moderately complex rails using say 100 gems with okta + google SSO and various other integrations up and running on a permanent basis can easily consume 1/2 a ft engineer.

So if you're in possession of an app that earns say $150k/year, you have to decide if you want to put that half eng year in or if there are more productive ways to spend your time.

This is even more painful if you bet on, for example, a javascript framework that fell out of fashion.
Isn't it nice how we can have TV shows that point out the problems in the US while also being filmed, financed and distributed within the US. John Oliver would have been deported if he did the same in China.
It seems like you undermined your own point here.
You can also just configure the client to point to a single db node and have an applicative monitoring based update to the db connection string upon failover. Then you're not actually dependent on your client loadbanacing logic. It's very robust and if you follow CQRS also highly available.
I mean mobile software has had a lot more motivation to be efficient due to battery usage. Additionally it's a lot newer than most desktop browsers so it can learn from older mistakes. Firefox's recent work has effectively shown what rewriting browser components can do for performance.
I was reading that it is up to the discretion of companies like Facebook as to how they compute the median. So Facebook can decide to include stock options and projections of their future value when computing the median. I suspect that they fudged their numbers in an effort to make their executive pay look reasonable relative to the employee pay.
I also use Gentoo and the packaged Chromium and have zero issues with YouTube and Amazon videos.
> This is stuff everyone learned in the 90s bubble.

This is stuff every generation learns during every major recession. During the boom times, when business is good, the company treats its employees well and everyone thinks the company will always take care of them. Recession hits and reality smacks you right across the face.
Bighead is a clueless bumbling startup guy with no experience. Hooli is massive company like Google. In the show, they give the incompetent guy control of the entire research department.
Personally I think all exams or any academic assessment should be open book/whatever. Entire class should be allowed to find solutions together with whatever means possible and there should not be time limit.
Freemasons, Shriners, Oddfellows, etc. They're all kind of the same.
When I first started consulting, I had an idea of specializing in automating business processes. It was something I had done before, and I really enjoyed it. However I ran into the problem of those that understood the potential had already employed a few full time devs, and those that didn't, also did not understand the potential. I reasoned that people who needed automation were hiring tons of people. So I searched job ads that looked close to what I thought an ideal customer might be as a way to generate leads.

It turned out to be a fairly low quality way to find leads. Random cold calling would have probably netted me the same conversion rate.
I feel like there’s so much to say about this comment, that I don’t even know where to start.

So firstly I agree, $40 seems like a lot. I personally couldn’t justify it at the moment. Particularly when the reproduction cost is nearly zero.

But $40 also doesn’t seem like a lot to pay for a book that will probably not sell more than a few thousand copies. Most likely revenue generated won’t fully cover the time and effort required to create such a book.

But... the author is also a professor at MIT. I feel like if this work wasn’t somewhat publicly funded, it really should have been.

In the end, I’m left morally confused. But it feels like something is wrong in the world when a book like this is available only to a select few, when for the same capital outlay it could be available to everybody.
As an aside, it's great that Duane Bibby is still providing the art for these. Without him, nothing would be the same.
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> I've always adapted a policy of using my real name as a moniker on social sites.

That's a terrible policy. Anyone can create a username as you then and post offensive things and you'd be screwed.
The best code to delete is when someone was cargo cult programming and put code in that doesn’t do anything or is completely unnecessary in some way.
I tried the compilers course on Coursera a few years back and that was used there as well. Probably still is
I don't understand the whole monetize XYZ, shouldn't we all be designing(making) things that help or solve problems to make others lives easier and therefore built into the project is $omething valuable for your time and ingenuity?

If it helps people then let them try it and pay what they want for it, which tells you how much you're helping based on how much they are paying.
Maybe you'll have more success with this idea than I have (way too many other things in the way sadly): something that may be fairly nontrivial but very cool to solve would be breaking words down into syllables, identifying the syllable boundaries in the speech (... xD), and then synchronizing the display on each syllable as it's presented.

How are you synchronizing to each word?

I wonder if Google would consider expanding their TTS a bit to provide syllable data and other rich breakdown information.

I like the waveform, btw.
there are facts and there are "facts". If most cheaters are Chinese it does not then follow that most Chinese people are cheaters - this is the fine line between discussing a cultural phenomenon and racism.

eg. it's ok to discuss violence in Black communities and cheating in Asia, but it would be racist to assert that because you are Black/Asian/White you are more predisposed to violence/cheating/racism
Maybe they don’t want the opportunity to leave their home, family, friends, language and culture. Maybe they’d prefer that their country actually worked.

The fact that the Home Office don’t keep track of emigration, immigration or net migration does not mean no one else does.
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Not really. It's as simple as hosting some scripts or using a CDN for a local proxy. Plenty of publishers are already doing this.

If reputation was really that important, these sites wouldn't have put up these low-quality ad networks in the first place. It's not like they didnt know what was running.
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i am enjoying it much more than sql server
I'm always wondering if this is actually a fallacy.

You buy theater tickets. I say, "give them to me." If you don't, is it because you want to see the play, or the sunk cost fallacy? Does the fact that it is icy out and dangerous make a difference?
Thanks! But have you had issues with any other videos (or anything else besides lack of Google integration/auto-updates for that matter)?
I don't know the underlying engine for Julia, but I suspect where there's a will, there's a way. Have you considered either writing it yourself or sponsoring someone to work on it?
I wrote this [0] little quick and dirty snippet to enable a Google Sheet as a JSON data source via GET requests.
Unfortunately Google App Scripts only accept GET and POST requests [1] so it wouldn't be semantically RESTful, but adding update and delete features in the script are trivial if you send an action param along with your POST.

Using that data source snippet I wrote a 'static' CMS that pulls the JSON data from sheets in the workbook and then compiles and deploys a Jekyll site. I've been enthusiastically replacing WordPress sites with this wherever possible when clients only need data to change and don't require actual page editing (this system is perfect for restaurants - think menu changes). The "deploy" event is a little convoluted since I wanted to control what happens and when it happens, but it is all kicked off by submitting a Google Form which is attached to the Sheet.

The script as-is returns one object per row but converting it to key/value responses is also pretty easy. If Office365 has an equivalent to Google App Scripts that can publish a script as a web app, I'd love to hear about it.

[0] https://gist.github.com/chrsstrm/3fb0ce6820acecf62c5490d220d...

[1] https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/web
Curious to see if the emphasis on parallelism will affect Citus Data's business model?
Am I being down voted for not providing proof or something?

Okay then:

Waymo - https://waymo.com/

Verily - https://debug.com/

Loon - https://loon.co/

Dandelion - https://dandelionenergy.com/

Wing - https://x.company/wing/

Chronicle - https://chronicle.security/

And this is literally off the top of my head. All six of these companies have been spun out from projects working within X, so I don't see how you can say with a straight face that Google isn't reinvesting huge amounts of capital into innovation and technology. No other company currently exists which is as diversified in its efforts or as willing to take risks as Alphabet is.
1 Resist that gnawing urge to add just one little new feature. Instead, go rewrite that secret little mess you know is there but are afraid to look at again.

2 If your little new feature causes you to consider modifying the database, GOTO 1.
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I'm actually kinda upset at firefox, because I wanted to switch, but when I tried the syncing (from one firefox instance to another) it didn't seem to work for like 90% of my bookmarks, history, passwords so I kinda gave up.
And yet again this only makes the duopoly of Facebook and Google trackers even stronger. There cookies will never be removed, while every other network that offers potential competition suffers.

It's rather interesting how these browser makers consistently ignore any cooperation with the industry and keep making naive mistakes.

Here's a simple answer that would solve everything: all browsers offer a single anonymous Advertiser ID that is randomly generated and available to any JS via API. It can be regenerated anytime and limited to per-domain.

Instantly that would remove 90% of the pixels and improve performance everywhere, make recommendations more accurate for those who care, make it simple to opt-in or out of preferences, and would prevent this continuous arms-race.
I'm allergic to these anti-partisanship missives that keep being voted up.

As Martin Luther King put it,

> "First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."

We live in a time of bitter struggle. I may scrupulously avoid partisan statements on HN, but elsewhere, damned if I am going to fight with anything less than all I have.
>racist to assert that because you are Black/Asian/White you are more predisposed to violence/cheating/racism

The fact that a conclusion is racist does not mean it is factually incorrect.

This isn't about what is "OK", this is about what is true.
What software have you yourself paid for? Try making that. If you don't pay for software, what would entice you to pay? If you don't know you need to do market research into what other people do pay for...
That was a terrific read, thank you. Interesting to see that Megler is now Dr. Megler at AWS.
Oh, nice! I failed to discover "containers" when I searched for "firefox profiles"; maybe someone should add a link from https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-... and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Mul... ...
Its just compression and information theory.
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Not just that, github is abused in china now, you pay and they will set up a repo for you, star it for you, so you can show your potential employer "your" github repo, it's a business operation now.

There is another group of people that will take the phone interview and the remote online coding test for you until you get an onsite interview, since not all phone interview has video chat. That too helped quite some to get accepted into good companies eventually.
Maybe this is of interest:
https://jamesaltucher.com/2014/05/the-ultimate-guide-for-bec...
So, like group projects?
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I can't go into depth on our models or data sets, because this is a cat and mouse game between creation/detection. We create deepfakes using all known tools, currently non-public methods as well as our own methods.
I think the point is that they did what's commonly done in real world machine learning. It's no surprise that it's flawed - but that flawed stuff is actually being used all over the place.
Congratulations. You just described the capabilities of ANY SQL database.

But again there are capabilities that exist only in InfluxDB because all it does is time series data. It's not multi-purpose. Which again is why you see it all over the place in the metrics/monitoring ecosystem but you never see PostgreSQL, MySQL etc.
Agreed. Some of these "partisan" issues are about fundamental principles. To not talk about them is to basically surrender the very basics of what I consider right and wrong.

To say “oh, that’s just partisan” is patronizing claptrap.
Either don’t apologise or don’t do it.
That's quite a leap to say that anybody who isn't partisan is "more devoted to order than justice." Frankly I find it indecent how you try to fuse your words and views with King's, unless I missed the part where he says that you must support a political party to move the needle.
Is it racism to be aware of another culture? What, exactly, makes this racist?
Conversely, almost everyone I know with at least a faint understanding of ML is entirely unsurprised about this.

Then again, my personal social bubble leans heavily liberal and hard left. And I think that has a lot more to do with it than with how much people understand ML. When you explain this sort of thing to people who have no idea about ML, in very simple terms ("we give the robot the text that humans wrote, so that it can pick up the patterns" etc), they see why it does that very quickly, as well - if their politics makes them aware of bias in general.
Encoding can work however you like. The important thing is that the output complies with the standard.

It's nice to have a reference implementation, but it's not like that's the only way it can be done.
> there are facts and there are "facts". If most cheaters are Chinese it does not then follow that most Chinese people are cheaters - this is the fine line between discussing a cultural phenomenon and racism.

Nobody asserted that. So why is racism being discussed?
I think there are two kinds of partisans. Some simply choose to join the "big tent" that is closest to their own beliefs and do so as a strategic choice. Others adopt a strongly ideological view and allow their logical mind to be overtaken by arguments that support partisan goals.

I think this is analogous to how scientists who were under theocratic rule tried hard to incorporate religious notions into their experimental findings. There is a lot of social and community pressure to go all in and devoutly believe that the people are all good and the policies all reasonable and helpful, even when many of the policies are obviously motivated predominantly by powerful interest groups.

The first kind of partisanship is fine, the second is much more akin to a religion or a clique member and is thus not as likely to act in the interest of democracy.
> I'm allergic to these anti-partisanship missives that keep being voted up.

The moderates are trying to keep the extremes in line.
I'm allergic to these sentiments that we are somehow living in dangerous and catastrophic end times, rather than a golden age of mankind. It's bizarre and fearful and, in my opinion, redirects too much energy towards torches and pitchforks rather than productive efforts.
As an American who learned German, that feels more like a technicality than a reality.
Wow. I can't imagine any (legal and moral) thing I wouldn't do for $100K. Well, maybe working for a really toxic boss, but we're talking about self-employment here.
The irrationality is assuming that you are able to be an impartial observer who can 'regularly' notice 'Chinese students sitting in the back of class openly whispering during exams' and that means that Chinese people cheat more.

We have so much evidence that these sorts of observations can so often be wrong. You are likely to not notice all the majority group people doing this, or at least not connect it as a pattern. Once you have an expectation that Chinese people are cheating, you are more likely to see innocent behavior as cheating, or even if they ARE cheating, more likely to catch them than the white guy sitting next to you also cheating (because you are paying more attention to the person you EXPECT to be cheating)

Now, of course, this could be wrong and your observations could be right. The irrationality comes in assuming you are right just because you observe something.
Yep, that's the one. "Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future!"
Unless your editor is actually a webapp itself, I don't see how that's going to tip anything over the edge in terms of practicality...

The resources consumed by any web server I can think of are entirely inconsequential.
High taxation and the perception of poor governance is a real mood killer.
The reason I am talking about AWS RDS is because most companies aren't multi-cloud. Data needs to be housed and secured within that private VPC. And so Citus Cloud is irrelevant because it is an externally housed product.

If Citus allowed their proprietary product to be run within existing clouds that could be something but it isn't. And again since it is a significant add-on i.e. beyond just a simple plugin that almost demands vendor support it is effectively a fork.
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There's an important difference between being principled and giving in to tribalistic views of us vs. them. The point of many "anti-partisan missives" is to recognize that there are many things we can—and must—work together on to be effective, and that we often limit ourselves when we stop ourselves from listening and understanding each other because of the labels we place on each other.

Yes, there are things people disagree on, but there are also many that we actually do agree on, and can work to improve if we look beyond partisanship.
Here's a 2006 TeX-user-group interview with Bibby: http://tug.org/interviews/bibby.html
"The moderates" are tired of having their nuanced opinions tied to passive enablement of the worst possible elements of modern body politic thanks to pithy, oversimplified quotes from dead philosophers making their way through social media from everyone who took polisci 101 and stopped short of 300 level inquiry.
Humans can do more than pattern-match. But they often just pattern-match anyway, because it's far easier and quicker, and doing more than that for all the brief day-to-day interactions is virtually impossible.

So at some point you need to decide when you pattern-match and accept the result for granted, and when you decide to dig into it further to understand why the pattern matched the way it did, and whether it's relevant. But that is itself a choice, and it's also going to be biased (for example, towards people you personally know, and against random strangers).
Do any of these old phones still work on modern mobile networks (even just GSM or CDMA)?

The Samsung sph-i500 was another great small phone running PalmOS that came out soon after, with a similar form factor to the Razr.
We know that won't converge, and not being able to try infinite numbers has nothing to do with it. So what you say seems to me to be, on the surface, pretty much complete nonsense. To one who is trained in mathematics, what you're saying feels very similar to people who haven't travelled much saying that the Earth is obviously flat.

With respect, this response seems needlessly harsh and supercilious. That’s the kind of stuff that discourages people from going deeper into a field. The question appears to have been asked in good faith ... why not be more charitable and constructive?

And as you probably know, it was discovered that many sequences that supposedly “won’t converge” indeed do converge under analytic continuation, there are reasonable and terribly subtle philosophical questions to ask about the validity of inductive reasoning, and there are working mathematicians who consider themselves finitists.
Personally i don't have this experience. I find 3d touch way faster than a press and hold. I use it all the time to open links in new tabs in safari, its basically a right click. Instead of "tap, wait a second, open in background" its "press in and swipe up, open in background"

Although the functionality is mostly the same, it feels so much faster to me.
Seems odd to complain about TM 'double dipping' on fees since that's how they make their money. It really doesn't matter whether it's a ticket you already bought or one that came from the box office, TM collects a fee per sale. Why would they even want to do business with resellers if they couldn't collect a fee? Hell they could probably get away with charging the seller and the buyer a hefty fee, both parties would probably pay.

It also seems weird to complain about how much money TM makes, like good on them for finding a market with people willing to pay so much.
Dead is probably too strong but it is pretty telling of Apple's internal thoughts on the feature that they would leave it off a new phone
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If you use one anonymous handle long enough, a neural net will eventually be able to connect your subconscious mannerisms to posts made by your true identity.
>I may scrupulously avoid partisan statements on HN

You're doing a rather poor job of it.

Edit: A downvote and flag in less time than it took to redirect me back to the front page.

Someone needs to take a chill pill.
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If you understand offset lithography, and ways to impose page sizes onto press sheets given a set of constraints, with the utlimate goal of minimizing expenditure - that'a a very difficutl problem to answer with real work appplications.
Nobody pays attention to that disability insurance until they’re disabled.