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I would say map quality for someone living outside of the "bubble", map quality goes as follows:

TomTom then Google Maps then literally anything else, then Apple Maps at the very end. It's hilarious how empty Apple Maps are, and considering that until very recently they were the only option for Apple CarPlay for navigation, that was extremely bad. Seriously, it was so bad that I would consider my car's built-in, shitty 5-year old sat nav system over using Apple Maps, it's that bad. Google Maps is still lacking in many many aspects(it has no idea which streets are one way, has no idea about no-left/right turn signs, it still connects roads on the map which are not connected in reality, its database of POI is lackluster at best - TomTom doesn't seem to have any of those issues), but god, Apple Maps outside of US is just bad.
All the front end devs are trying to protect their jobs hehe...
This one for example: https://www.patreon.com/YandereDev
Used to profit $5000 one year ago.
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I agree. This is a pointless level of detail that provides almost no advantage to the user.
At the risk of being too opinionated, PlusCal is a needless and unproductive diversion. The TLA language and source file structure is mostly standard mathematical notation, using
ascii characters. Most people will be familiar already with that mathematical notation before any exposure to TLA. And I wouldn't be able to recommend that people learn just another novel representation for something already known. Learning PlusCal to reason about logical propositions strikes me
as comparable to learning an XML notation for manipulating formulas in differential calculus. Yes, we are developers; yes, we are used to XML and, still, ... I don't see how it improves upon writing math.

Mathematical notation is a concise, time tested language for enhancing thought. People should use that to their advantage. As an added advantage, unlike PlusCal, facility in the language of propositional logic generalizes widely to other tools used in formal methods, as well as other technical fields.
How come, they don't seem to resolve to anything? I tried both via my browser and curl.

I can see the records and if i curl the ip-address for the dk-records I only get a nginx 301 redirect loop to the http-s version which serves a certificate for https://eksempel.dk.

Similar exprience with ai, curling the ip seems to point to a http://offshore.ai page.

Is the top level A-records used for some other protocol? Do they server any purpose?
Kind of unrelated, but I remember reading this interview with President Obama and being really impressed with how much he seemed to know about AI:

https://www.wired.com/2016/10/president-obama-mit-joi-ito-in...
It really is easy, comparatively speaking with the current Shenzhen ecosystem.

The problem with Amazon is exactly the same as Microsoft had in the 90s. They have no taste, and not in a small way but very big ways.
I run a scan on these once every few months : https://captnemo.in/blog/2018/06/02/google-tld-no-more-a-rec...
Why did this article get so high up? I was going to respond to it, but everyone here already told why this all is poorly written with no/poor foundations. So wondering who upvotes this kind of stuff.
Living in rural areas isn't a right but a privilege. It is economically and environmentally inefficient.

Rural areas should be designated for food production and tourism.
There also seem to be TPA3250 based amps all over Ali Express: https://de.aliexpress.com/item/NFJ-FXAUDIO-FX502S-PRO-HIFI-2...
It's still there, being used and is popular.

However no one sells training, fads, marketing, conferences, buyouts, ideologies or frameworks based around it though so there's not a lot of fanfare.
Smart decision from China perspective, they can't be reliant on something potentially so crucial with western technologies.

But I can't help but think how it will be used for monitoring of lives of everybody. You do one misstep, government will know about it. Effectively no privacy. Compared to what it may be (and probably will), current state of China is a hippie paradise.
How could I embed a knowledge/assumption in deep learning neurons? In high level programming language, it would be easy, but tweaking the neurons parameter to embed that knowledge? Sounds more difficult than writing machine code.
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That is not a regular salary in the Netherlands, they are just being cheap. My first job paid 40k, in a cheaper city, 10 years ago without a university degree.

Tax brackets are progressive, with 35k you pay about 20% income tax. Expats get a 30% income tax discount for 5 years.

While salaries are low, it does have some advantages to live here. Strong employee protection (you can't get fired for example), paid leave (minimum is 20 days + public holidays), you don't work more than 40h/week, cheap healthcare, good infrastructure and public transport, paid sick/disability, unemployment benefit, welfare, state pension, etc.

It is hard to compare employment salaries. I think it makes more sense to compare freelance wages as they don't have those benefits. Freelance engineers make about 80~100 euro/hour and get some tax discount.
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The story (skip this paragraph if you don't like stories in your job posts): I founded and continue to run this startup. Most of the team works from our office in South Africa. However, 6 months ago I moved to Singapore for work / personal reasons. I used to be quite averse to the idea of remote workers, but seeing as just about everyone will now be remote from my perspective, I decided it's a good time to start focusing on hiring for remote work. We’ve hired 3 remote developers so far and it’s been a great experience!

SimplePay is online payroll software for South Africa, Ireland, Singapore and Hong Kong. Our software lets thousands of small business owners (and their accountants) run their payrolls without headaches, so they can focus on the challenge of building their businesses.

Do you believe most SPAs are a pile of steaming crap, but wouldn't mind digging into Vue.js for pages that will benefit from the increased interactivity? Do you laugh when people give up the power of PostgreSQL in favour of data stores that don't offer any benefits for their use case? If so, you may fit in well with our mindset. The work will include: Doing direct integrations with banks that offer good APIs; Expanding our API for other systems to integrate with us; Adding new features; Optimising for performance; Integrating with government systems; Squashing bugs; Eventually, the opportunity to do some mobile development (maybe using Flutter).

Experience: Due to our full pipeline, we can only hire developers who have a few years of Rails experience at this time, or polyglots who at least know Ruby. Previous experience with remote work would be a bonus - we need people who understand the challenges and can share what they've learnt.

Location: Most of the team is in GMT+2, and I'll be in GMT+8 going forward. So anything from GMT+0 to GMT+8 should be OK, unless you keep unusual working hours.

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Last time I checked the creator of VueJS is making some money from Patreon. But his monthly Patreon revenue is less than what a typical freelance software dev makes and he's the creator of the second most popular frontend JS framework, so I don't see that much potential for making a living on Patreon from niche mac apps.

If your app is adding value I would keep charging real money for it. Maybe check out a software subscription model for support and updates.

I like what Jetbrains is doing for their IDE's where you pay a fee for a specific version and 1 year support & updates. After that 1 year you can continue using the same version, or pay again to get another year of updates and support.
Few things in the world scare me more than the idea of Xi Jinping with control over semiautonomous flying robocops.

Other people worry about climate change. Some religious nutcases worry about paperclip maximizers and basilisks. I worry about Robocop.
Ask HN: I built a small software dev agency, what should I do next?
Reaching out to the HN community to get some fresh perspectives. Over the past several years of my life I've built a software development agency with $XX,XXX monthly revenue in a very "boring" industry -- it mainly boils down to building WordPress themes and plugins. (I don't find this boring, but it's not some hot sexy speculative thing that the media is gushing over and VCs are throwing money at.)

We have a couple people on payroll and three long-term anchor clients who pay the bills.

It all began with a few years of grit, pain and poverty grinding out projects on Elance -- an experience I'm reluctant to repeat (and which might be even harder these days).

But when I started looking at ways we could grow I realized I didn't know the first thing about marketing, sales and outreach. I thought a productized, done-for-you small business website might be easier to sell than our current service (easy to paint a value proposition, thousands of small business starting up all the time), and we got started on that, but I realized pretty quickly I don't know how to sell that, either.

What should I do next? Figure out how to market this product? Find a sales guy/cofounder who can help? Start from scratch because it's a bad idea? Turn my attention back to our corporate retainer business and figure out how to get more of those?
/r/churning and /r/awardtravel
You can also create a public-private key pair using JavaScript. Only problem is that when you go to another site, it wont let you identify yourself using the public key you generated on another site. And the browser won't answer the challenge automatically. Lets say we make a browser plugin, as a proof of concept. Then when it has "product market fit" browsers can make it a built in functionality. It will however be hard to ask a user to install a plugin, just to signup/identify to your site/app.
If they want to increase adoption, they really need to make this stuff easier to install. I mean zero friction. Either pip, or an Ubuntu PPA that "just works".

Caffe2 install page:
"We only support Anaconda packages at the moment. If you do not wish to use Anaconda, then you must build Caffe2 from source."
=> We are a company with a 400B+ market cap but are too lazy to support more than one installation configuration. Good luck dealing with dependency hell, poor ML grad student researcher.

MXnet install page:
"You can either upgrade your CUDA install or install the MXNet package that supports your CUDA version."
=> We welcome you with open arms regardless of your configuration! No matter your configuration we have an pre-built package for you!
How could you rely on SNI for filtering? How did you know they weren't just domain fronting? Or was it about blocking access to regular sites?
Initiative Q (5 invites left)
Initiative Q is an attempt by ex-PayPal guys to create a new payment system instead of credit cards that were designed in the 1950s. The system uses its own currency, the Q, and to get people to start using the system once it's ready they are allocating Qs for free to people that sign up now (the amount drops as more people join - so better to join early). Signing up is free and they only ask for your name and an email address. There's nothing to lose but if this payment system becomes a world leading payment method your Qs can be worth a lot. If you missed getting bitcoin seven years ago, you wouldn't want to miss this.

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This link will stop working once I’m out of invites. Let me know after you registered, because I need to verify you on my end.
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Congratulations.

Please don't sell out to IBM in the future.
From my experience Apple Maps quality depends on local providers. Maps are really good in Japan or China and terrible in Thailand or many other places.
I tried both in Chrome in Android and they are working fine for me.
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Oh yes I am sure the Republican government will act in the best interest of consumers any time now... AT&T is well aware who runs the FCC at this moment. They bought and payed for it after all.
I think car navigation and looking at the map are different ux activities though. When you're navigating a car, the street names may not be useful, but when you're walking with a map you can certainly compare what's on your display and what's on the sign (whether it's Latin, Greek, or in hieroglyphs) without knowing how to pronounce it.
These discussions reminds me how Nazis had their own physics…
We've had some really interesting use cases... lots of users using it as way to learn english or similar.

Also... https://twitter.com/FarzaTV/status/1057726550722850816
Can't the buses be tailored to the expected traffic ?

For instance having it be closer to a taxi service with small vehicles when there's low usage and only run big buses on commuting hours or other high usage time, for instance.

Cost and environment impact are legitimate questions, I think there are decent solutions.
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Fellow Parisian here. I used to carry a beautiful laguiole but I can't anymore.

With these terror attacks you are searched whenever you enter a big shop/mall/whatever so it's less practical.
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> Perhaps there’s a bug in iOS that causes crashes when it gets faulty data from the gyro? But the bug impacted Apple Watches, too—and they run WatchOS.

Technically, watchOS is iOS
Actually it raises an important point I hadn't thought about. By moving the transport protocol from layer 4 to layer 5, google is taking it off the hand of the OS. I understand why they do it (easier than to get all 3 or 4 major OS to implement it), but there is another cost in term of inter-operability. It means that every software consuming QUIC needs to have its own implementation of the protocol. It means every language in which you write that software needs to have libraries available implementing QUIC, or that the libraries you consume must themselves have a QUIC implementation. That's introducing a non insignificant inefficiency if QUIC becomes prevalent.
The $5 is OK but a month to decide is too short. Plus I would rather see what am I paying for before I decide. At the moment Flickr isn't much of use to me.
I have done enterprise stuff for about 20 years too. On the web side I discovered smartclient.com in 2008 and haven’t looked back. And yes I’ve had the IE11 on Citrix experience also :(

It’s an SPA, fantastic documentation, customers love it, and there’s an LGPL version of it.

My point is not to get you to use it - it is more that SPAs can work and work well in enterprise settings and for both dev teams and users.

PS: testing it with selenium is really easy - there’s a piece in the docs on how to do it :)
Yes, I was thinking about this blog post yesterday, wondering how I could find it.
Perhaps my favourite read of the year.
Around the world the ongoing barrage of anti-Chinese (and anti-Russian) propaganda coming from the US the last decade is increasingly seen for what it is: the death spasms of a dying empire.

Saudi Arabia is genociding Yemen with US weapons, dismembering journalists at its embassy, almost boasting about it, but noo, they're our friends! Never sanction those guys, we love our head chopper friends! Boo China, boo Russia.

It's pathetic, really.
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Fantastic article (the gifs could be slower).

In general the article is very critical of Apple new maps, but at one point it seems to commend them for removing roads that are no longer there:

> Notice how many of Parkfield’s roads disappear on Apple’s new map. When Apple’s vans visited, they likely saw nothing but empty fields here those roads were supposed to be (...) TomTom’s database somehow has roads from Parkfield’s boomtown days—roads that have been gone for more than 75 years. No wonder why Apple removed them.

I've never been to Parkfield but I don't think removing old roads is a good idea.

In the forests near Paris where I live, there are roads that were built 350 years ago and that ceased to be real "roads" about 150 years ago. Yet they are still passable by foot or on a mountain bike.

Some maps have them (usually, Google maps have them all) and that helps a lot when planning a bike trip for example. Some maps don't, and once you're in the middle of the forest those maps tell you there's literally no way out, which is ridiculous.
Yup, and when your kids will go to uni you'll be paying 2.000 euro/year for TU Delft instead of 40.000 for MIT.
The idea seems nice, but:

> You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.
KISS is one way of putting it. But another way is XP (eXtreem Programming) which suggests YAGNI so we don't have to pitch an entire system in 5 years because it takes just one person about 5 years to build it.
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Broken down as in standing still?

'Cause that could be quite the difference - Greyhound bus on the side of the road, because the brakes are shot.

No-name bus merrily running down the road, the brakes are shot.
Maybe use a VPN? The issue is clearly with indonesian ISPs.
Human beings are explorers. It'd be sad for us to not explore whats out there. To explore whats out there, given our limited life spans it makes sense to have bases in space and mars seems like a good start. As a Engineer it seems logical to have redundancy for our civilization.

Its not about being humanish. Sure there are other problems to solve, but there are 7 billion people on Earth and people might have a different calling. We can handle different problems concurrently.
That's news to me, I've never heard of a widespread use of middleboxes for blocking ads. Which boxes are these and how did you know that there are a lot of them deployed?
Well, it turns out, they are using microexpressions - and nothing else:

The IBORDERCTRL system has been set up so that travellers will use an online application to upload pictures of their passport, visa and proof of funds, then use a webcam to answer questions from a computer-animated border guard, personalised to the traveller’s gender, ethnicity and language. The unique approach to ‘deception detection’ analyses the micro-expressions of travellers to figure out if the interviewee is lying.

From the Commision's website, posted here by another user:

http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?artid...
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Because we expect Keyboard to last. Even the crappy ones that doesn't feel good with typing should last 5+ years with less than 1% repair rate. The newest Apple keyboard had close to 3% repair rate, and we had expect it to be less than 0.1% from Apple. That is a 30+ times difference.
They were on the moon in 9 years and we have had fifty years since. Peter Thiel, would call the lunar mission a part of our "Deterministic Optimisim". If you assume humans keep progressing,after a certain point we should be able to colonize different plants. Its not about if its about when.
They could have combined their similar goals and pooled their money.
That seems fairly interesting.
I had never heard about this befoere. Now I have:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physik
I think it only mentions ICA/NMF to say that they generally aren't applied to time-domain signals, which are not non-negative and have phase as a confounding factor.

Here's another intriguing (very different) recent paper on time-domain source separation: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.12679
Max 8 released, adding support for Node.js
While iPhone sales remain stagnant, Apple services hit $10B in revenue
For those who don't know a wonderful resource for this is https://www.manager-tools.com/
I should have been clear. I am not overly attached to Mars, I just want to help in space exploration and space colonization seems like a fine idea but again what you suggested are probably the only options.
New side-channel vulnerability on Intel CPUs with SMT/Hyper-Threading
The thing is, most users won't look for that. I like what Android does, where if you switch on a VPN or install an extra CA, you get a "your network use may be being monitored". That should appear in the browser.