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There are a lot of burglaries in France. The recognition of license plates combined with mobile phone location information would make it possible to identify burglars and even catch them in the act. All the data are available, it would be sufficient to collect them for analysis.
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Yeah I agree. The way this thread is going you would think that all errors are easy and all you have to do is what the computer tells you and you’re done. I wish I’d known it was all that simple!
London was a net population sink until the 19th century. Its native replacement rate was dwarfed by mortality, and a constant stream of immigrants (largely from elsewhere in England) was required to sustain population.

Gregory Clark details this in his books.
Something we also take for granted in the tech world is companies running on ridiculously high net margins. Apple, for instance, makes about $400,000 in profit per employee. They could literally give every single one of their 123,000 workers a $200k raise and still be making tens of billions of dollars in profit per year. Now let's consider WalMart, the largest employer in the US and one many have chastised for poor pay. The make a bit less than $4,300 in profit per employee. And that's one of the largest companies in the world that can take advantage of economy of scale to push their profit margins as high as possible.

Most companies operate on very thin margins, made up for by scale. Selling $300 hardware for $1000 is, fortunately, an exception rather than the rule. But what this means is that unions are not going to suddenly send major benefits towards employees, because the companies simply do not have the money for these benefits. Factor in the frequently unreasonably high union fees and unions are often going to be a negative overall outcome at many companies. For instance the united autoworkers union demands 30 hours of pay, or 1.44% (which is 30/2080) of your annual pay in dues per year. So in other words workers would need to see an extra 30 hours of pay or a ~1.5% raise, just to break even.

But many people don't consider economic realities when they believe they can get more stuff. If you had a national vote on enacting a $50/hour minimum wage you'd have tens of millions people vote for it even though it would lead not only to their direct unemployment, but also throwing the entire nation into complete chaos and crashing the US and world economies as well. For instance you regularly see things like employees trying to unionize at companies that are operating in the red. What exactly do they think is going to be the outcome there?
>In general I think MOOCs are doing themselves a disservice by trying to copy college courses.

I agree completely - it seems almost 'cargo cult' - they are just copying colleges assuming it will be successful rather than examining what it was that made that work for colleges and how they can adapt it to the MOOC model.
The use of diaeresis is a stylistic quirk of the New Yorker:

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So you were referring more to a particularly weak moment of American car makers than to the strength of their Japanese counterparts at the time, makes sense that way.
I really don't understand why we don't enforce speed limits more rigorously. We have the technology to do this at basically zero cost and speeding is one of the main causes of death on the road. Especially in residential areas where pedestrians and cyclists are around even moderate speeding dramatically increases the chances of deadly accidents. Doing 30mph instead of 20mph increases the chance of death for pedestrians from 5% to 45%. [1]

[1] http://www.humantransport.org/sidewalks/SpeedKills.htm
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Yeah look, I do think you're wrong. You've given yourself a very tough set of constraints (has to compile to binaries, has to have a GC, can't be in preview, can't be under v1.0, can't have a slightly unstable API, has to have "good" libs for an arbitrary selection of tech, can't target a VM) that makes Go the only viable option - I'm questioning whether those are legitimate.

I'm not suggesting you use my personal favourite language, merely use anything but Go.
"on top of the current master" is limiting: how do you handle concurrency? I.e. two developers kicking tests on their PR on top of current master, everything green, but they merge and the result of their merge is not building (or passing tests) anymore.
The ethical implications of this road are appalling.

I read comments here on this thread and people are amazed that they will become irrelevant to next-gen super-humans. As if this the only possible outcome. What I see is that people are blind to something that will come back to bite really hard.
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Ask HN: Is hardware optimised Linux possible?
I always read about macOS running harmoniously with Apple's hardware because they are "optimised" for each other. I am not gonna lie, I don't understand how that works, but I can vouch for it. I do find that a low-end MacBook Air feels much faster than a similarly-specced machine running Windows.

Snappiness and speed, however, are not a problem with Linux. My issue with Linux is battery management. Running Linux on a laptop sucks for me.

I have tried multiple distributions on multiple devices, and the only ugly thing about these experiences was the battery life getting hit drastically. I am speaking 50% battery life here.

I want to jump on the Linux train, but I am too addicted to the battery life a MacBook offers me. I don't want to run multiple operating systems that change with context. I want to have one consistent experience regardless of the work I am doing.

Is it possible to create the same harmony that Apple makes for its hardware and software to work well together with Linux? Is it difficult in the sense that it would require a huge amount of research and development in completely new hardware? Has it been done by anyone before? Are my questions valid at all, and not just naive babbles?
We think that there is a niche for a higher performance dist FS than S3. We have integrated NVMe hardware with our HDFS implementation (HopsFS) and made its metadata layer distributed. NVMe means you can, for example, work with datasets with millions of files for deep learning - instead of having to munge them into parquet files because your FS is slowing down your machine learning pipeline.

Reference:
https://www.logicalclocks.com/millions-and-millions-of-files...

We have also redesigned the stack around our distributed metadata layer.

We are primarily targeting on-prem right now, but HopsFS would be the fastest DFS in the cloud if you ran it there today.
And please, oh please, add in an a high bar of performance. Many non-trade unions are notorious for dwindling down quality of work output.
>"(the 180% tax is absolutely real - I've paid it)"

This statement requires a bit more detail. It wasn't a flat tax rate, it was graduated, so below a certain price, there was a lower rate (105% IIRC), to incentivize smaller cheaper cars, and as a luxury tax on expensive vehicles.

As it is now, the rate is 85% below ~190K DKK and 150% of the value above that. The cutover has been steadily going up over a couple of years now.

So no, it has not ever been a flat 180%, as some people like to claim. It's still high, but there are tons of cars out there that don't hit the tax cutover point, even family cars.

Edit: And the rates are lower for motorcycles, hybrid cars and such.
Any hypothesis that only a minority of police are bad would have to explain why the good police who outnumber them don't do anything to make the public safer/protect the reputation of the police and law enforcement order generally/explain the higher arrest count of and use of violence against Blacks, etc.
You can start bisecting and then skip every commit on a feature branch that was merged in. Painful to script and I wish bisect had a --first-parent flag to do it for me
The model 3 does quite a bit better than 3 mi/kWh typically.
85% below and 150% above the cutover, since ~2015 I believe.
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The idea is heavily borrowed from Monzo. A Payment Bank in India seemed like the closest thing to what Monzo did initially. A full banking license requires 5 times more capital than a payment bank.

That is a good question. I'll see if I can still issue cards that links to one real bank account and if we can bypass being a payment bank.
Bisect on first-parent? Seems like a script exists (haven't tried): https://gist.github.com/ayust/2040290
Navigant study is a complete joke I don't know why people keep citing it. They look at factors "beyond autonomous driving"...to see who's leading autonomous driving. They look at things like who has the most "potential" and "market strategy", etc...things that have nothing to do with the actual tech. They basically go off of whoever has the best power point presentation. The fact that Tesla is last on the list should make it really obvious that the study shouldn't be taken seriously but people keep citing this
GWT all over again..they tried to kill JS with Java and failed..good luck with C#...
So I read, but that doesn't detract from his acting ability, which is presumably why his name is being used for this project.
I haven't used Excel for 10 years. I use LibreOffice Calc.

I have used it to chart data extracted from syslog, journald, dmesg. For example trouble-shooting in a Wi-Fi subsystem or boot time optimization work.

And of course all kind of project management type stuff. My job forces me to do that in Google Sheets these days. Action points, bug lists etc. are easily maintained in a spreadsheet. On one side it's a bit of a misuse of the tool, but as long they are short and simple lists with 10s and not 100s of entries it can be the most efficient solution.

The main drawback is that version history is a pain. If something goes wrong (wrong formula, wrong editing) it can be impossible to understand what happened and fix the problem afterwards.
Honest question: what is their ideological bias based on what you read in the preface?
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So basically what Gerrit offers as the "cherry-pick" submit type? You work on the master branch, then push commits as changesets to Gerrit. After review they are cherry-picked by the system onto the target (master) branch, in whatever order they happened to be reviewed. Or am I missing something?
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Limited by the birth canal.

C-sections make that limit obsolete.
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These would make excellent AMC problems. Visually pleasing diagrams, nontrivial uses of similarity, many problems having a “nice” and a “brute-force” solution–all of these fit right in.
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It won't be depressing at all, you will probably be raising that generation.

It will raise questions over whether non-upgraded humans are obsolete...
For those who also just started playing around. I just found out yesterday that you can write full blown python programs with packages and everything in http://omz-software.com/pythonista/ and trigger it from Shortcuts. That’s pretty powerful, especially if combined with Slack webhooks and other external services.
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Hmmm, merger slowdown market, employees beware of the trickery! this happens and then the mgmt thinks of redundancy to show markets how efficient they are ... is there a humane company which maybe does not pay much but secure enough and challenges us to rise together ... seems like a distant dream!
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As does HN's blanket ban on Breitbart content.
We will soon come to the point of realisation that billions of humans are superfluous, and that the lands they occupy would be better off as huge nature parks. Any critical farming or mining operations can be carried out mostly by robot labour and a few genetically uplifted human engineers.
N26 in Germany worked around the same problem by putting the customers actual accounts into an existing bank and just acted as the front-end for those accounts. They later (1-2 years after launch) got their own banking license and moved everyone’s accounts over.
The real issue I have is that speed limits are selectively and arbitrarily enforced. This basically means that most people just end up breaking the law anyways and it allows law enforcement a convenient excuse to find a reason to fault someone.
I hope it is, that's where I'd put the camera if I was in charge. Makes a lot of sense.

Only problem with that theory is that regular speed trap cameras are designed to be easily managed. Easily washed and easily replaced. So the end result is a big almost tower-like structure that in my country sometimes is empty depending on where they've deployed the actual camera, which sits inside this tower.

So placing a seemingly hidden camera inside a digital sign has some challenges. Like for example servicability and cleaning. Cars produce a lot of grit so having a large lens area that is easily cleaned actually helps.

They also work at night by using flash, which also requires some structure that might be visible.
But it's a good start - at least now everyone can see clear proof that the officer is lying. Even if he isn't charged, everyone knows there's a miscarriage of justice going on. In the past his version would be the accepted one and that would be it, no one would even write an article about it.
> the union relationship with Eastern Airline, where the union decided that it was better to eventually kill the airline in exchange for a better contract today.

Articles from the time paint a different picture. They claim it was mismanagement that caused the bankruptcy of the airline - not union intervention. See https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/20/us/eastern-airlines-broug..., https://www.jstor.org/stable/20713006?seq=1#metadata_info_ta... or https://commons.erau.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1060&co...
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>The socket activity was hit hard by Spectre/Meltdown patches

Did you even read the article?
From my perspective - as an European living in the US - the biggest difference is: guns. The likelihood that a routine traffic stop will result in a gun fight is near zero in Europe, in the US it’s... probably slightly above zero. So approaching people and cars is done with extremely high tension and high possibility for escalation.
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Feel free to point out any three Breitbart articles with any factual error, anywhere in their content (e.g. excluding the "Around the Web" clickbait links common to many mainstream sites).
Europe nobody fantasizes about roadtrips

So how do you explain the countless German and Dutch cars driving around forests of Norway and Sweden every summer?
In the end you will be getting that brain scan while you whiteboard.
> Doing 30mph instead of 20mph increases the chance of death for pedestrians from 5% to 45%.

What is this metric supposed to imply though? We obviously have roads with limits above 30mph already, so clearly decisions aren't made based on merely chance-of-death-assuming-a-collision being too high.
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What would those things be? Maybe it's a continuum but concepts are not continuous. Surely there are various degrees of OS but if it's anything that manages the "bare" hardware it's something like an OS. Arguably you could also call Xen Dom0 an operating system.
we are a lending startup in India - also a YC alumni (RedCarpetUp YC S15).

We are (now) a regulated entity with specific licenses that took us a crazy amount of time from the Reserve Bank of India.

Two things - first, the business models of payment banks is kind of unproven. Those of us who are in the fintech space in India kind of agree that the regulators kind of screwed up here. I'm hoping you have answers to that. TL;DR - a payment bank cannot lend.

Second, the regulatory structures in India are setup to look at license grants not as a consequence of capital. Even if you had a 100 million USD (and I know of specific examples here), there is very less likelihood of you getting a payment bank license unless you can prove out a gold standard team and board experience. Just to remind you, bank CEOs in India are appointed by the Reserve Bank. They are NOT appointed by founders or investors. One of the CEOs of a very large bank in India just got fired by the regulators for dancing around stockholding regulations - https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/banking/financ...

I feel there is a very low chance of you getting regulatory clearance for this. Indeed, we give out a t-shirt that says "Because, its regulatory" to fresh employees at RedCarpet ! We are tech founders, but we have spent countless hours sitting outside RBI doors trying to make case for several regulatory changes. We were one of the first to get license grants for non-standard lending risk policies to the unbanked in India (that's a billion people!).

Write to me http://scr.im/redcarpetup if you want to come work with us for a while. Maybe you will stay a while and listen to stories of regulatory pacman in India.
Staging env should be (prod - 1) version. The whole point is to test thing together with other changes. Stage-environment is created to eliminated "works on my machine" problems.
(Not arguing about benefits or usefulness of unions)

As an organization unions have the same prime directive as every other organization, survive (and grow). One of the ways of a union to survive (and grow) is to demonstrate that it takes action and to be adversarial. So many unions tend to be adversarial. In Germany in the past especially smaller unions were highly adversarial to gain ground against larger unions in the same company ("grow").
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Clever.

#3 was particularly elegant, once I saw the trick. I got x=5 for it.
It's a nice touch in some ways. Coöperate makes it obvious I am not referring to something to do with chicken coops. If I were not a native speaker of English I suspect words like that (and reëlect, etc) would be a challenge.
Yeah, I read all these comments and they miss the obvious answer.

Pitch large vcs and ask for a lot of money.

It goes against the YC grain, but it is the reason there are silicon valley vcs. It used to be that starting a company meant building chips and buildings and assembly lines, and some vcs are structured to write 30m series a, 50m total to build product, and then 50 to scale. A friend of mine is doing this in the database world right now.

If there is a 15m regulatory barrier, then your pitch is why your team is the right one to bet on, and you raise 30m. The money is out there, you can take it
This can be made easier with a secondary discardable-grade phone with the same O/S as your primary phone.

Do factory reset and cross the border. Then just sign in to your travel phone just like you did when you bought it and switched on for the first time, and it pulls all apps/messages/passwords from the cloud. You'll get at least 95% of your real phone synced to the travel phone.

Back at home, your real phone is untouched and you can just switch back to it without having to set up anything, or losing any local settings. Then stash the travel phone until the next trip.
It doesn't sometimes?
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They’re based on chance of collision with a pedistrian and, in the UK at least, on that stretch of road’s history of such incidents.

So the figure shows that if there are more pedestrians likely to get in the way of your car then you should drive more slowly if you care about not killing those people.
> Everyone benefits, the recipient of the email, the person sending the email and the business.

It is not clear to me how you benefit.

> Your highlighted text is passed from your browser to our API where the sentiment is calculated, we do not store in any way the text you highlight. [..] We have many ideas of how to push this tool forward.

You don't store my text. How about my sentiment?

rarely.io has a GDPR page (which should really be called Privacy Policy, IMHO), but shouldisendit.io - where you are offering the extension - has not.

> Get involved. Install the extension and start using it. We would love to know how you get on and any candid feedback you have

Install? No thanks. Please first get your transparency and privacy ensurances in order, is my kind (not candid) feedback to you :)
This metric is supposed to imply that "it's only ten over" is not a valid excuse to speed in residential areas. Unless you assume that 20mph limits are just there for fun and not because it's an area where it's likely that a pedestrian crosses the road unexpectedly or where you share the road with cyclists.
I don't see a problem with individuals keeping track of what vehicles or people coming into their neighborhoods or on their property. Or with remembering that for a long time.

If government needs to know, they can ask the public to check their records or get a court order if they suspect a specific route was taken during the commission of a crime.

Do I want authorities to be able to track dissidents wherever they go? No.
You can do this and expand HAProxy capabilities with LUA.
For example, authenticating via OAuth was already done by a HAProxy contributor and he detailed this here: https://bl.duesterhus.eu/20180119/
Aside from the US, the kinds of places where you'd want and be able to use this aren't the kinds of places that have fast enough internet for it to be possible.
As someone from an Eastern European country, this sounds completely messed up. I've been stopped many times by police in Poland, had many interactions with them outside of car context, and I've never had a single unpleasant interaction. The worst one I had was when the officer started asking me questions before introducing himself by full name and rank - and I refused to answer anything until he did. He grumbled a bit but he did produce the ID and badge - then I answered his questions and he let me go. But at no point ever I was worried about my safety.
It's trending in Scandinavia too.

> In Scandinavia you'd have to be genuinely paranoid to not trust the police

In Denmark, a case[1] where police forcefully escorted photographers and journalists away that were following immigrants that were walking a highway as they entered Denmark a couple of years ago, has just been settled, and the behaviour of the police were indeed unlawful.

And it's not just a fluke. It seems to be an increasing trend, unfortunately. Not blindly trusting officials is probably pretty smart.

[1]: https://politiken.dk/kultur/medier/art6740480/Politiet-måtte...
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I generally decry the filter bubble, but every time I open Youtube in an incognito tab I am utterly appalled at what merits being top of the list. I wonder in what other areas of life I'm not realizing that what's presented to me as "popular" is only "popular" for a small set of people.