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The Trump bit is relevant how?
What I find most remarkable is that they are still using Win32!
No one is complaining about the tweets that aren't interesting. Obama tweeted too.
True, nothing is perfect anyway but by being illegal means it can be enforced and punished. More information available also mean law enforcement can be more effective.

Being paranoid about privacy is not perfect too, it has trade off aswell.
"Approximately 50% of computers are in On mode for 4 to 5 hours or less."

https://ees.lbl.gov/sites/all/files/computers_lbnl_report_v4.pdf

I wouldn't have guessed.
Plus codes is exactly what you are suggesting. Plus codes are generated from lat/long.
It's more about logistics.

If the firstborn is a girl, the parents might try to have more kids until they have a boy. And if their family registry already says they have a kid, they might run into some bureaucratic issues that might prevent them from having more kids.

If their firstborn is a boy, they will just register him. And if they choose to have more kids after that, be it a girl or a boy, they are forced to leave them off the family registry. In this case, since they already have a son, they might not be too worried about running into issues.
There is a a better and a lot more consistent explanation. Government involvement. Wherever government puts its dirty fingers, efficiency sinks and prices skyrocket.
You're forgetting about the upcoming Q3 report that is about to be published.
What if I live on the third floor, apartment 3A?
Perhaps if great interactive development and debugging tools were more pervasive, there would be less demand for lots of tests written at the same time as the actual function.

(The fine-grained "unit" stuff, anyway. System/integration tests come with different trade-offs).
And yet, they do have it ;)
I would add the question, do we always need the level of complexity or advanced technology for a given problem?

When would it be good enough to have a simpler or less complex solution and why are we sometimes biased against that?

There’s also a weird sliding window that follows technological advancement and generations - what was complex for one often becomes more simple to the next. With such a rate of technological change and high levels of complexity, this is partly why some get left behind or can’t keep up. But it seems like sometimes we also ignore the simple solution in hand in deference to constant futurism.
Not sure what you mean by "constant rate of change"? https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-growth looks to me to a noisy overlay of https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi.
After switching back to Firefox quantum 4 months ago I find the Google Maps web UI slows down to an unusable experience. Since then, I have been using the Bing Maps web UI. Who would have thought there is a day MS product is triumphant over a Google one. A new life cycle has just begun I am aware.
To some extent I think people just underestimate what education costs. Sweden pays ~€40k to educate an engineer (5 year, B.Sc + M.Sc). On top of that there is another ~€20k in student benefits to the student and ~€40k in a government backed student loan (for books and living costs).
> Why is US GDP growth so weirdly constant?

i'm not sure about this but i get the impression that semilog plots of exponentially growing things often look deceptively linear, and hence that the best-fit exponential curve often looks like a better fit than it is.

The claim here is that the actual rate-of-growth has been constant over time. What is shown is a graph of GDP growth with an exponential curve overlayed whose rate-of-growth parameter has been fit to the data. But perhaps if you had stopped the analysis at different times in the past, you would have gotten similarly linear-looking graphs, but with very different best-fit rate-of-growth parameters. What i might like to see instead is a graph showing, for each year in the past, the value of the best-fit rate-of-growth parameter if you looked only at a fixed-sized moving window of data ending at that year. If the size of the moving window is '1 year', it is no surprise that GDP is all over the map. But even when the window is 10 years, charts of GDP growth per decade (from a google image search) show more substantial variation:

http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/GDP-per-cap-by-dec.jpg
http://www.massline.org/Dictionary/Photos/G/GDP-US-Cumulativ...

I expect that the variation would be even more pronounced if you made a chart that showed, for each year, the growth over the preceding 10-year window, instead of those bar charts which only have one bar every 10 years. Also, even 10 years is too short; what i'd really like to see is charts of average GDP growth over 30 years, but i don't have time to compute that.

In addition, there is some evidence that very high rates of GDP growth are only possible when a country is less wealthy/developed (see eg figure 4.4 from https://www.econ.nyu.edu/user/debraj/Courses/GrDev17Warwick/... ; note that it appears to be possible for less wealthy/developed countries to have either low or high GDP growth, whereas wealthy/developed countries appear to only be capable of low GDP growth; this could be explained by a 'diminishing returns' argument). If true, this would imply that over very long timescales, the rate of growth would decrease.

My "analysis" here is rather hacky -- what is the proper statistical way to analyze this? What is the proper statistical test to see if long-term growth rates are constant?
Rocket Internet is the opposite of innovation.

If anything, the success of Rocket Internet proves the point that Germany is not good at startups.
I really liked "I'll sleep when i'm dead", the Steve Aoki documentary : https://www.netflix.com/title/80118930
This is a place where having an awareness of what is important at your job can help. You described a process of adding features and fixing bugs. If you ever want to achieve balance, understanding the value of a feature so that you can determine what actually needs your time is important. Then, it's not about quantity of your time and effort that matters, but how much value you are adding.
"UWP is great if you are exclusively deploying to brand new Windows 10 Embedded devices. (I think this is now called "Windows IoT Core" or something similar). That's what I've been using it for, and that's worked well. It carries a nice side benefit that our sales team all has Windows 10 Pro laptops, and UWP 'just works' there too for sales demos, presentations, and such."

This would be a great thing for us. But we already have a huge investment into WPF. How do we get this to UWP?
yet another MGRS
SoftBank’s $100B Vision Fund Is Run by These 10 Men
Most of the things you mention also apply to The Netherlands, except for possibly the tax-free computer scheme (not sure about that one). As far as I can tell we're not really all that note-worthy startup-wise. Assuming that's true, any ideas what might be the differentiating factor?

From what I understand, both Holland and Sweden are culturally similar enough that I can't immediately think of other factors that make 'us' more hostile to startups.
Why rewrite a massive code base that works in WPF? That would have been a mistake.
Want to optimize your credits score- we can do that for you- for a share!
Not free https://rl3.zorallabs.com/wiki/RL3_License
There was a very interesting article a few years ago (I've tried to find it several times but cannot) that tried to explain at least some of this. The one factor they circled in on is that the US government stopped enjoying their own experts. Instead even publishing project requirements for different construction companies to bid on have to be outsourced. This causes mainly to problems: if you get the contract for writing the spec you cannot bid on the project. So many big and competent players will avoid writing the spec. The other issue is that the project is lacking holistic oversight by someone who understands what's going on and had incentive to keep cost down. Because nobody has a actual career as a construction expert with the government we see the government putting people in charge of these projects who worked at the contracting company the previous day.
They had a few examples of the same construction company finishing projects pretty much on time and budget in other countries but going over a lot in similar projects in the US.
There are other ways of making sure the student understood the concept. Recently I played the game 'The Witness'. The whole game is about learning new puzzle rules, and yet there is not a single dialog within the game or even text explaining those rules.

I am not saying that their technique is the most efficient (e.g., adding hints would undoubtedly increase the efficiency, but also ruin the game experience), just that there are other methods of making sure a student understands a concept. You don't necessarily need the one-on-one conversations. Those conversations are mostly useful to round up incomplete teaching material (again, I am not saying that creating perfect teaching material is easy).
See "What about floor numbers and apartment numbers?" in their FAQ: https://plus.codes/faq
This will sound horrible but is it rational? E.g. say you are building a huge hospital and due to the above it will take 4 years longer at 2x the cost so basically you could loose X lives due to hospital not being there and due to increased cost of care.
Still waiting on an AirDrop client for non-Apple products. It works really well and is pretty convenient. Maybe this paper will help.
In the HN people always complain that geocode systems are hard to remember and/or write and praise "readable" or "memorable" systems like what3words. I'm of course a strong opponent to what3words for various grounds, but more importantly geocode systems do not necessarily have to be human-friendly.

I think geocodes should be compared to ZIP codes, not something else. They both mainly act as a machine-readable version of (approximated or more accurate) human-readable addresses. No one complain about ZIP (or ZIP+4) codes being numeral. They do not, nor can't, replace human-readable addresses---even the most accurate geocodes will require a room number or a PO box number to be the true replacement (unless you are comfortable about calculating three-dimensional WGS 84 coordinates with 10cm accuracy and forcing poor post carriers to resolve them :-). They might have to be verbally communicated for the short period of time, so shorter, verbally distinguishable, verifiable codes do help, but that's not the biggest concern.

If we already have ZIP codes, why do we need another system(s)? It certainly helps that:

- Geocodes can be automatically generated from (now universal) WGS 84 coordinates.

- Geocodes, once their algorithm is fixed, never change.

- Many geocodes offer a trade-off between the length and accuracy. Moreover, this trade-off is generally predictable.

- Some geocodes can be shortened and accurately recovered with the context (country or city).

In this regard, after having seen a lot of alternatives, I do think plus codes are close to being optimal. But it should be mentioned that their applications are always limited to what ZIP codes and human-readable addresses can't and geocodes can. (Mongol Post's adoption of what3words is special because there is no permanent human-readable addresses for many mobile settlements. But what3words is not superior to other geocodes in this particular application.)
Why is this better than geohash?
I think you are trying too hard to defend Musk. There is (to me) an immeasurable difference between "shove it up your ass" (which is telling Musk to do something), and "you are a paedophile" (which is saying the diver is a something, for which in almost every country in the world you would go to prison for). He then repeated the accusation, repeatedly, saying he is sure it is true.

The guy is now suing Musk, which really is (in my opinion) his only choice, as otherwise many people might assume the accusation is true (as Musk is so sure, and even asked why he wasn't being sued as a response)
You make a reasonable point, health and safety bullshit can go too far at times, but equally exploitation often goes further - in that the effort to save/pockets costs shadows the good will. Very difficult to quantify
Caldera – Ready to run boilerplate service generation in Go
Well look on imgur, they fill the holes with cats and dogs. Noahs ark with loony toons seems to be more social acceptable then having a normal family these days.
Futility Closet podcast Ep 218 had a section on plus codes this/last week, including what3words and parodies like what 2 numbers - Lat, Lon! They have the full list of links.

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2018/09/24/podcast-episode-21...
unlikely, it's independent work that may contain some copyrighted designs but not anything copied directly of the original film, so the content-id won't detect it. star trek fan films also stay on.

you just can't/shouldn't monetize it because that would motivate the owners of the original film to stop you.

greetings, eMBee.
Out of curiousity, how would you solve that? Seems unavoidable to me.
The biggest hurdle is regulatory. There are a number of legal barriers to direct primary care, and the laws vary state to state. Most private practitioners don’t have the choice to start a direct primary care practice because their state laws classify the model as insurance. This makes “scalable” DPC hard to achieve unless these laws change.

The other barrier is the supply of primary care doctors in the first place. There simply aren’t enough primary care doctors to make DPC an efficient scaled model. Family medicine is sadly the lowest paid field in medicine; while DPC can lead to higher salaries for current practitioners, it won’t solve the supply problem in the short term.
well I'm from germany but zalando grew so big in europe (too big I think actually).
I mean they have such an aggressive marketing, even in southern regions from europe, I've seen some zalando stuff even in spain (Costa Brava, maybe because some parts there are "germanized").
remember WinJS, another vapourware
> If you accept that advertising is necessary to some business models, I hope to see publishers move ads back to the server

The problem is the big guys can do this easily, but e.g. someone running a blog cannot easily serve ads from the server.

Ad networks are about ad auction and showing the highest paying available ads for a site. Client side ad solutions makes this easy for the little guy, because ad selection is done on the client by the ad network.

The big players (facebook, etc.) can easily alter their methods or require subscription if necessary. It's not so easy for the little guy, so a change of the current model without offering a similarly effective alternative is going to kill many little sites, blogs, forums, while the big players will keep thriving regardless.
Their claimed solution when I read about this the last time was that similar words are designed to be very far off in order to make them obviously wrong, and showing similar addresses as a "did you mean" when you search for one. The FAQ entry is incredibly hard to find but it exists:
https://support.what3words.com/hc/en-us/articles/203066992-W...
https://support.what3words.com/hc/en-us/articles/207065359-W...

On their map, you have to accept their non-GDPR-compliant cookie "consent" form in order to get access to the real interface, otherwise the cookie notice covers it.

Also, they have country-specific word lists. On one hand, that's nice because locals will be able to use it even if they're not familiar with the latin alphabet/the English language, on the other hand, it means you may be asked to search for misant.habiter.jaloux instead, at which point a plus code may become preferable.

Their algorithm also seems to be incredibly complex, requiring a 20 MB library (likely wordlists + workarounds to make offensive codes less likely). Their web site does not explain how it works, and varies between claims that the words were assigned randomly and claims that they weren't (shorter words in more populated areas, similar words far apart).

However, they've alleviated all need to discuss their technical benefits with their restrictive licensing approach, which guarantees that they will be unsuccessful while preventing anyone else from building a different approach based on words (both because it would create confusion and due to fear that they'll start costly lawsuits/claims).
Not according to experts in electronic voting system security.
Please don't do this because the guidelines ask you not to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
About 5/6 years ago, a team of 2 South Africans got an idea, and called it Waytag, the # for locations. The idea was that you tag a location with whatever you want, e.g. bob.home, and anyone looking for it would use !bob.home.

They had grand ambitions of licensing it to Google and the like. They patented it in a few countries (though there was prior art).

Suffice to say, though they got a few companies involved, the idea fizzled into dust. I think in addition to bad implementation, the idea of license fees probably put people off using the system.

I'm also aware of W3W, as there's been some discussion about it here in HN. I've seen +codes for a while on Google, but I've never needed to use them, as they look unfriendly to the mind. I personally think they're not as memorable as W3W, but if they are made/kept as an open standard, maybe they'll take off.

Part of the problem is that many people who could benefit from codes in lieu of an address (I'm thinking informal settlements where there are no formal street names), might not directly be in reach of a mechanism to generate or use these codes.
They made everyone regenerate their private keys on the card recently during a short window, and those who missed it (like me) ended up with a fancy piece of paper with their name on it. Oh joy.

Just when I'd decided to use my e-Residency for something, it becomes worthless.

They're asking me to reapply for a new ID document and pay the fee all over again. I'd honestly do it, but then they can't hand it over to me in Pakistan and I'm not flying out of the country just to grab an e-Residency card when my previous one hasn't even expired yet.

I guess I'm still a bit sour over this.
We had a similar phenomenon in the US, with the "frontier" territories being among the first places to allow women to vote (at the local level), years before US Constitution was ammended to make it nation-wide.

https://constitutioncenter.org/timeline/html/cw08_12159.html
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Estonia had excellent digital governance before the blockchain fad so they'll handle it pretty much just fine.
Win32 probably is just WinAPI, not necessarily 32-bit application.
Every time Ford and Kavanaugh dodged a question, in one chart
That's basically what plus codes do, plus some tricks (choosing the alphabet to make them unlikely to spell words to avoid offensive words, different algorithm for the last character, ...)
Nice, I really wish this protocol would be available for Android as the number of applications would be immense (Apple's Multipeer Connectivity Framework).

But it looks like Apple will deprecate this sooner or later, since they have joined The Thread Group [1]

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2018/08/07/apple-thread-group-smar...
What are some good resources for HardCaml?
Yes, but refcounting is there because it is impossible to build a proper GC in portable C.
Problem was not security flaw.

Problem was that Gemalto did not tell Estonia that there is security flaw.

That led to rush security fix which could have been worked on for months before not do it in weeks.
Running Websites on a Docker Cluster Using Rancher
Ask HN: Where can I find an original and professional template for my CV?
I often have to modify and update my CV or change the style.

Which template do you usually use? Are there any free original and professional templates? Thanks, HN.

PS: Any format is ok (.doc, .docx, .pages, .psd)
Gemalto issues all of Sweden's forms of state ID right now, the NSA must be laughing.
Meta: I think the genius of GitHub was showing the README.md, nicely formatted, front-and-center. (I find it baffling that they crop it on mobile, in favor of "Pulse" and "Notifications" and other junk I've never once wanted.) Today even when projects have proper webpages, we link to the GitHub page, because the README has more/better/easier-to-digest information.

The Dafny webpage at microsoft.com appears to have some formatting errors (perhaps auto-converted from some other format, with no proofreading), and I can't tell if it's been updated at all in the past 10 years.

Similarly, I think Wikipedia and StackOverflow are much more likely than the average webpage to be able to provide me the information I want, with no fuss. HN is the most usable forum, followed by (old) Reddit.

As developers and designers, we say we want more features and flexibility. As users, we eschew any webpages that use this flexibility. We just want plain webpages with information. Webpages which are a trivial pretty-printing of some plain text (wiki/markdown) are by far my favorites.
You're an outlier.
What is up with that logo?
I don't even know how to use UWP. I'm learning Rust and writing some applications using WinAPI is my plan. WinAPI usage seems to be fairly straightforward. But I have no idea how to write UWP application with Rust.
When we're calling a cab/uber/whatever to go home from a party for multiple people, each person will get dropped off in a different place, and the one who ordered the ride may not be the furthest destination and last one off.
It uses VINs registered by Tesla themselves now, weighted with a few other factors according to @tsrandall on Twitter.
Not Franco-Dutch as stated in the article?
I really don’t see Thread as being in the same ballpark as AWDL - they have very different goals and use cases.
doesn't it also help get around already congested routes?
Melbourne Zoo cuts fruit from animal diets due to high sugar content
What an utter waste of money.
I am trying to see how the procedural model generation of this paper stacks up against Rosetta [1], which I intermittently use with Racket [2] to do procedural geometry generation for computational design, sculptural, architectural, game dev, and other endeavors. It seems lengthier, but more diverse in its iterations.

I am hoping to leverage my early C programming with newly-found Terra, and Lua to allow me to move across legacy low-level, meta-programmable low-level, and scripting for the many things I play around with, even creating DSLs. I've used Grasshopper in Rhino, and others, but I like staying away from having an AutoCAD or Rhino license, and just use code. I need to make another backend target for Rosetta other than OpenGL. FreeCAD [3] is my current target, so I can create some type of geometry for the CAD folk, and 3D printing. I really like Lisp, so Racket and Rosetta tick a box for that, but I am now thinking I can use Terra/Lua/Fennel [4] for a toolchain. It's easy to hook into FreeCAD's API using C++ or Python, which is uses and has a terminal for in the GUI. Maybe Fennel terminal in FreeCAD?

[1] http://web.ist.utl.pt/antonio.menezes.leitao/Rosetta/tutoria...
[2] racket-lang.org
[3] https://www.freecadweb.org
[4] https://fennel-lang.org
It is modern but the metro is just 1.5 lines and the new ring line takes forever to build. Some of the other extensions are only planned to open by 2024. So it is quite glacial.
It’s sad that you can’t opt out and just pay for coffee. If it were just an option it would be fine, but this is the only way.