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I work at a major community development charity in Canada with 100+ branches across the country. Almost every day, I have to log into Google My Business to reject the "user-suggested edits" made to a particular location's phone number or street address. Half the time, it seems Google auto-approves these user edits, so we get complaints from clients who used the Google info and showed up when the office was closed.

Almost all the time, people will see the address/number listed on Google's search engine snippet, which is larger, has an image and is much more conspicuous than anything else on the screen. They'll make their plans around that, instead of clicking on the #1 search result, which is our website showing the official hours.

It's incredibly irresponsible for Google to let any Tom Dick and Harry make changes to this type of information, and then display it to the world without posting so much as a disclaimer to users to verify with the actual site.
> Real time access to laws as they are drafted is a Really Bad Idea. Good ideas need time to incubate.

Good point, but if they used a distributed version control system, lawmakers could have any number of private repositories on which to craft laws before they're merged to the public master repo.

(I wouldn't expect lawmakers themselves to use git, of course; their staff would do this for them.)
> When assembled precisely, analog computers can be much more accurate than digital computers on these types of questions.

Stopped reading here... whoever wrote the article is missing some critical pieces of the theory of how computers work or what computers are, as well as some basic understanding of how materials work. Mechanical computers are made with parts that have some finite tolerance in their manufacture as well as some measurable amount of flexibility in their parts and connections. Increasing the accuracy of analog computers requires developing new manufacturing techniques to reduce this error. On the other hand, making a digital computer more accurate just requires some extra memory and CPU time.

These analog machines are beautiful computers... but they are not more accurate than digital computers.
I've seen a few airlines have grids where the outbound and return flights are shown on each access, which I think is great. I'm thinking of Air New Zealand as the last airline I saw it so maybe it benefits from a smaller network as you say.
How many times in your life have you had to use a charge back? I never have.
What the toll will be after we except it. Are you armed and ready?
You can't present facts to people if they aren't paying attention. This deck is merely to get attention. The numbers come afterwards.
Last time I worked at a place that could swipe credit cards, we would get charged one fee for regular cards, and another, much higher fee if it was a rewards card.

(This was back when non-rewards cards were the regular variety, so I'm assuming things have changed since then.)
You can walk up the river to the NW and technically get into the US but still be stopped by the border fence/wall...
Very, very useful. Thank you for sharing this!
They absolutely can and absolutely did back in the day. Now it’s even easier because you can load apps on to your own device for free via Xcode.

Anyone who claims Apple prevented side loading clearly never bothered to research that claim.
It really depends on the organization: the Holy Grail is to have a well developed Sales Support function that prepares decks for sales people from a data source which is pre-approved (some investment banks have that, it's awesome) so that the Sales people can focus 100% on doing their thing.

In smaller, scrappier companies or just in less "sexy" industries, sales people are known to prepare their own decks and whether prior approval is sought is really to the mercy of the individual's integrity and savvy.
To be fair, or charitable maybe. If this buzzword catches on, it's always nice to have names for things other people understand.

Half of the good brought to the world by various movements like XP, scrum etc, is that they popularized a nomenclature for ... stuff. Most of the this we knew before, but even between programmers it was hard sometimes to explain to another what you meant. Between the design patterns and other lingo now rooted in industry, we can discuss things more easily.
Material implication has its advantages, but it does sometimes lead to errors. That said, there are ways to reduce the problem.

One error is that sometimes people use material implication inside of for-all, and forget that if the antecedent is always false than the entire expression is always true. I specifically created a quantifier called allsome that counters that problem:
https://dwheeler.com/essays/allsome.html

Another problem is using material implication inside there is quantifier. That is almost always a mistake, as usually and is meant instead. However, that is pretty easy to detect automatically. Both Why3 and SPARK already attack that.
How to implement have_many/belong_to RSpec matchers
This was one of my headaches while studying any type of logic - material implication properties just sound weird and don't model what I call implication in my brain. IMO the only case when we can say anything about two unrelated propositions in general, is when T -> F yields F; the rest should be either undefined or defined based on their relationship/context (something like what relevance logic tries to do).
1. What are the costs of your solution? Who's running the nodes, how much does it cost? Gas? Give me some numbers please.

2. Scaling. Current state - it doesn't scale. My own opinion is it will never scale, centralised systems will always be much more performant.

3. Not really. The only difference is Bitcoin is very volatile and most people are expecting it will rise in value so they are not spending, you are right. But as a payment system integration wise it would be the same as your proposed solution, some mobile app and scanning of QR codes.

Finally, give me a single reason why it would be better than current system (as I believe the answer to 1. it's not cheaper, it's actually more expensive as centralised system). And that was the only reason you have given. Is there anything else than theoretically lower fees (which I don't believe would be the case).
You can pry my Google Nexus 7 (2013) with the nice 1920x1200 screen out of my cold, Marshmallowy hands. It will be a sad day when that thing dies.
I was pretty happy with Windows 7.
Yes, I had exactly this on my mind. DOS era.
i always feel these questions are answered to best effort of a person just starting out in the field of os / bare metal programming. there is a whole plethora of information missing in this post crucial to x86/64 early development which will get new programmers of this type into trouble if they don't become aware of it.

i'd be careful following such advices. for example this person isn't aware you really need to build a cross toolchain for your OS to compile to your target. on 64-bit there's some more things to take into account about compilers (red-zone?). even if you go all assembly your assembler will probably be an optimising one and shoot you in the back on more than one occasion! Thats just the tool-chain surface issues (deeper ones ignored... like file formats..? binary is fun, but good luck scaling that up to a complex project... bios can't load you up that high in memory and limited amounts...)

Next you get to things omitted which on baremetal would cause problems, like no mention of power management and such topics. or even assumptions that your code is loaded at 0x0000:0x7c00 while it could be loaded at that address but via a different CS value, completely screwing you over if you don't flush it immediately on your mbr...

Take an example of opengl tutorials. people tell you to write your first polygon because they just managed to do so. They forget to mention to throttle the loop, so you burn out your VGA card rendering 10000000000fps of 1 triangle.... good job!

this tutorials are kind of like that. fun to put into qemu which is sort of 'safe' learning and get acquainted but really doesn't do what it says on the box.

I'm not against these type of tutorials, i like that more people become interested in this, but really take some time and state the scope of the offered information properly. like this is a bit of clickbait / misinformation which is a shame
I actually don't think these numbers are important for Udacity, or for people taking the courses. What is important is that people are afforded the opportunity.

It isn't Udadity's responsibility to force people through a system. Rather, they set a bar (payment) for some resources and then allow anyone who wants to use their material to do so.

This isn't a classical university/college setup, where success of the institution is marked by how many people graduate.

I'm not quite sure how we could evaluate their system, though, as these kinds of large-scale course offerings with low barriers to entry are a newish phenomena.
Yeah, but then maybe India will counter-balance that. From what I've heard, their ethical code will be against any such modifications.
According to the OED[0], "treatable" is a boolean that means "able to be cured". "Very" is superfluous here - something is able to be cured or not, I'm not sure what room there is for degree. As far as I know, there is no cure for HIV (but I'd be happy to learn otherwise).

So unless "very treatable" is medical jargon with a different meaning from the how the laity use it, calling HIV "very treatable" does seem to be a stretch.

0 - https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/treatable
>> How is it that HN readers always heavily promote OCaml related threads ?

Because functional is still the flavor of the decade.
Somewhat related, Giulio Tononi on his theory of consciousness and why computers can't have consciousness.

https://youtu.be/eskWYOH-Oxs?t=270

Starts at 4:34
How Different Types of Coffee Drinks Impact Your Body and Brain
How about unstable apis to anything outside the kernel[1].

Or, more personal, on this laptop I get shorter battery life (I have it plugged in most of the time so it's tolerable), sometimes it doesn't wake up so I have to always shut it down (tolerable) and bluetooth headset doesn't work (I use wired ones, so tolerable again).

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PmHRSeA2c8&t=5m40s
If you’re asking about the degree of difference Ashkrnazim have ~25% of science Nobel prizes having never been more than 1% of global population. That’s one group that’s highly over represented in intellectual achievement. For a more prosaic example look at the list of US spelling bee finalists or national science foundation merit scholarship finalists. There will be a great deal more Asian names than their share of the US population.

As to evolution and its necessary precursors it’s all in Darwin, or shorter on the Wikipedia page for evolution.
Slightly tangential, but in fact all flight reservations through a travel agency are initially made without payment. The entire process is quite complex, due to compatibility with processes and systems that were built in the 70s... The flow is to create the booking (and hence receive a record locator or PNR), and then to attach a form of payment. If the payment matches the cost, it is then possible to request ticketing, at which point a ticket number will be generated, which is the "real" confirmation
Current state of EKS
I recommend this book n which this method is described and explained. Also F#.

https://pragprog.com/book/swdddf/domain-modeling-made-functi...
Great project and all, and definitely something fun to work on, but this is a pretty questionable application for IOT (don't wish to discourage).

What's the key metric here? The chicken coop opens and closes at the appropriate time of the day? How does IOT help solve that objective? There's some great parallels here to an MVP in the software world.

As for my two cents, an alternative and more robust solution, could be put together with something like an aliexpress ambient light switch, limit switches, a recycled car battery, a trickle charge solar panel, and some relay logic.
There are polite ways to correct someone's spelling.
Roman Dodecahedron
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Skyscanner has this. You don't even need to specify a city:

These are the results for 'cheapest month' and 'everywhere' from DC

https://www.skyscanner.com/transport/flights-from/wasa/?adul...
Storing the length is somewhat secure, as GSuite does it so administrators can audit who has strong passwords https://judge.sh/j0mMsLU.png
> storing passwords in plain text is equivalent to building cars with defective breaks

This strikes me as hyperbole. Storing passwords in plaintext is a serious security issue, to the point of gross negligence - but the potential harm isn't even in the same ballpark. If your password is compromised and you have poor security practices, you could lose access to online services and perhaps even suffer significant financial loss. If your brakes fail you stand a good chance of death or serious injury.
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Well, yes and no. We each have 3.2 billion bases and about roughly 100 mutations each, over 100 billion people who've ever lived. That's about 3000 mutations per base pair, so if the eternal-youth mutation was indeed a single base-pair swap away, thousands of people would already have been born with it. Of those, we could expect some decent fraction to have had children. Given that eternal youth confers a staggering reproductive advantage, and we don't have it, it's safe to say that if it exists at all, it's more than a base-pair swap away.
America had that chance but Bernie was stabbed in the back. Maybe AOC can deliver.
Right, but "inept in their ability control costs" is irrelevant: the price they ask is for the brand, not for the costs of producing anything.
Pretty sure hiv can infect on other pathways besides CCR5. It’s just not as common. Some of the antivirals block the CCR5 pathways and HIV can mutate to render them ineffective.
This is really a minimal translator from s-exprs to assembly. Which is still an interesting project.

To be a lisp, you need to be able to declare and call functions, and construct and manipulate lists. Once you have that, you can then manipulate the code itself since s-exprs are just lists of a certain construction.
People with HIV just have to pop a couple pills a day now to take their viral loads to literally undetectable levels. With treatment, people with HIV can expect to live normal lives, and be healthy and active. It's also almost impossible to transmit HIV with such low viral loads.
What you find to be reasonable is not necessarily what others find to be reasonable. For a comparison: I find @danharaj's comment to be very reasonable.
I think part of the problem is that whales use Apple.

Despite having 80+% of the market mobile market share, most of these customers are low spending people looking for vfm phones and good enough free apps. Apple is the one that captures the top 5% of customers who spend on subscription services and expensive apps.

This gives the false appearance of Android being piracy heaven. Because, why else would a 4 times bigger consumer base generate a smaller revenue.
I agree, but I will still argue that people making the PDF download point are often conflating points 1 and 2.
superpower where there are zero children playgrounds even in capital and you can't let your child outside because of toxic air, okay...

glad i moved away from such superpower paradise and my child suffered there only for one year
If you're on modern treatments life expectancy is near that of a non-HIV person.

The biggest problem is modern medicines aren't available to everyone across the world. So it's still a much more serious problem in developing nations.
I'll point you to what happened to MG Rover. Company went bankrupt, a Chinese company bought the assets, and now they make and sell cars in the UK.
Drawing information can help you remember it better than writing it down
Maybe this will annoy some people but as someone who lives in the GTA, this attitude just sounds like you are saying your investment portfolio is more important than the thousands of people losing their jobs just before christmas.

I know there are big important things to discuss here (such as the bailout that we all know isn't being paid back and overall manufacturing) but my first emotional response is a certain finger pointed in your general direction.
Good point.

But is storing a plaintext password, even on the client, good practice? E.g. in a browser that uses a cookie with something like a session ID to make sure you're logged-in... is storing a plaintext password in localStorage considered a valid security practice? I would have assumed not, although it's certainly not close to as bad as storing it on the server...
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It's are great game, I have even considered buying a Switch to play it on the go, since my PS Vita is no longer receiving such treats :(
A reservation that is not paid is not ticketed. A reservation that is not ticketed is not 100% guaranteed

But I agree that this is till a problem for airline inventory management, and an online travel agency should definitely not be opening this feature to the general public!

There are several usecases that require unpaid reservations, the most common one nowadays is corporate travel, when you need to integrate approval flows - the approval step will be between the reservation and the ticketing.

Like just about every industry, there is a world of complexity hidden underneath the surface :)
Spotify has its own no-purchase equivalent, the free version of Spotify.
It's great that DC is making their latest laws available to everyone, however it's a little scary that the commits aren't signed, meaning that anyone who gained access to the github repo could forge them (and do more than fixing typos).

Hopefully DC (and others) will look at doing GPG signatures[0,1] so that they don't have to trust github's authentication as much. Github has a nice GUI that reflects signatures with the "Verified" tag, which you can see at[2].

0: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Signing-Your-Work

1: https://help.github.com/articles/signing-commits/

2: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-doc/commits/master
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Most people have a very simplistic view of the GM bailout, it was not like the bailout of the banks. GM was allowed to fail, shareholders and senior creditors took a loss in favor of unsecured creditors (Union Pensions were stuffed with GM funny-money bonds). The feds completely disregarded the law and simply did what they thought was politically expedient (bailing out the unions).

What should have happened: GM Fails, GM assets inevitably acquired by someone else. Business involves risk, taxpayers shouldn't subsidize that risk.
Possibly load would in fact go down. Current DNS requests over UDP can (and frequently are) spoofed because there is no way of validating the sender is who they say they are.

With DNSoverHTTPS, the sender must be able to receive replies at their IP address, so cannot spoof who they are easily, closing off a lot of avenues for DoS attecks on your and other peoples recursive resolvers.
>How about unstable apis to anything outside the kernel

Oh yes, the classic usability problem for the Average User, how could I forget /s

>on this laptop I get shorter battery life
>bluetooth headset doesn't work

Better points. I also have had issues with bluetooth audio on Linux. Battery life less so.
I really wish it were possible to do this kind of thing on smartphones. Unfortunately, odds are that anything you try will quickly brick it, and best-case scenario you can restore it using something like the low-level Broadcom interface
Extreme weather disasters are worsening in the United States
> The biggest impediment I see is that these language communities are more concerned about the abstract mathematical properties of the language and things like tooling get neglected

Is it really so. I am only asking. A mathematical model allows deeper insight on structure (backed by hundreds of years of prior mathematical thought), and we then sugar it appropriately for users. Just like civil engineers who learn Strength of Materials etc mathematically before they design the bridges we drive over daily.

Tooling is one of my gripes also. There was a time decades ago when I couldn't go beyond compiling the simple hello world example. This has gotten much better after many years. Same with Haskell. Is this due to difficulties in getting the necessary financial support.
A trend rarely happens on only one side of the demand-supply axis. There is definitely a trend towards subscriptions, especially for SMBs, but enterprise and individuals as well.

It's so much easier to pay a monthly or yearly fee then up front, especially for companies - both in terms of cashflow , accounting practices and stability.

Some companies has gone that route that have customers on both sides of the aisle - adobe is one of them. Their choice alienated some part of their customers, but be sure that many others were glad for the change - probably big companies with shifting employee roster, or those who upgraded frequently.
We've been using https://adorstore.com for years for our turkeys.
> Do we really want the government to have that much say in whether businesses live or die?

I would say "no", but you have to understand that's coming from the perspective of an anarchist.

Rationally, this power pales in comparison to the others that governments already possess. If a state wants a business to fail, it will fail. GDPR has zero impact whatsoever on that.
you are very optimistic about status of India with 20 years behind China
wouldn't have anything to do with supply and demand?

Say more workers coming to the area and/or more workers being trained in technologies skills.

Not say that's the case just it's a possibility.
Maybe they meant contemporary digital computers?

Although you're right, the claim that

> Because they use physical rather than digital inputs and outputs, they can represent curves and other geometric elements of calculations with an infinite level of resolution

is obviously bullshit, although the article does point this out:

> (though the precision of those calculations is based on how well their parts are machined, and loss from friction and slippage).
Your Spotify example is a good argument FOR Apple's model. In that case, consumers have a choice to either a) purchase a Spotify subscription via the web app, or b) purchase the subscription in app -- at a higher cost.

Some consumers still choose to purchase in app- for a variety of reasons: ease of use, speed, accessibility, streamlined with the rest of their Apple purchases, who knows. People choosing to overpay for Spotify shows the Apple ecosystem and model provides value to at least some consumers. Whether it is worth 30% is a different question.
Good write-up -- is there a link to the actual deck?
The bitcoin supply is increasing, at high, but shrinking rates, however its purchasing power is still increasing despite that inflation.

This suggests that demand for bitcoin is exceeding the supply rate.

If the demand continues, and the supply rate of bitcoin will be almost exhausted in a couple of decades, then the value of bitcoin will likely rise in response.

This is of course, ignoring that volume of bitcoin in circulation is actually shrinking with time[1], because people are hodling rather than trading it. Evidence that Gresham's Law is playing out as usual.

[1]: Age of bitcoin UTXOs is increasing over time. https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1000/1*JopnHwBLMAOn-i2v4...
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