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I doubt most people even know that there are different versions. (I didn't!)
Most of the money is from Amazon. Then I think I got like $60 from Newegg (via CJ) because 1-2 of my posts mention computer components where the prices are better on Newegg.
Yikes! How in the world did I lose 2 of my 3 karma points on this?! Somebody please explain and upvote? Linux user since the 90s but totally new to Hacker News. I'm good with constructive criticism, opinions, etc. but not a fan of downvotes without explanation.
> Obviously this needs to be properly disclosed, but the result is very different from an advertorial, i.e.: _actual_ expert commentary on a well-researched piece.

No. If an advertiser is paying to publish it, it's an advertorial, full stop. Why would they pay to produce and publish an actual quality article that doesn't push an agenda in some non-journalistic way? It's literally the job of advertisers to push an agenda.
If simpler is better, then why not Redo over Make?

https://redo.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Network Rail which is an arm's length arm of the Department of Transport, and they own the tracks. [1]

The the passenger service are sold off as franchises, which are are bid for by various companies.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Rail
I'm just kidding, man. Why can't anybody take a joke? Why be so uptight all the time?
Here is an example of a false fact-check by Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mississippi-fractions/

This is intentional. Click the "More information about this page" at the bottom of the article and you will be directed here, where they explain it: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/false-authority/

In a nutshell, Snopes wants you to stop assuming things that you read online are true because of who's telling you. This includes Snopes.
Take a look at Meson, too.
Anyone tried ext3 or 4 on Windows?
>What's a good counterexample?

The SEP article linked by the sibling comment outlines astrology as an example of bad science and a review of articles one year in Nature is good science being rejected by Popper's criterion. It's rather absurd (and a comment to how far HN reads into things) that my comment is at -1 votes.
What is asserted without evidence ("most shares of stock in general, are owned by the wealthy") can be dismissed without evidence.

If you count "has a retirement account (pension or 401k)" as "upper echelon", then sure, stocks are owned by the upper echelon, but there's a goalpost move in there.

Are low-paid employees and unemployed also buying iPhones? Likely, but what fraction of the sales base is that? And how valuable is an iPhone to a user, especially a poor user who doesn't have any other computer or Internet access? $500 a year (plus more if you can't get by on free wifi) is a screaming deal for what you get for getting telecom/Internet-enabled, even though I'd still recommend a $50-$100/yr phone.
Anyone know if there is a way to remove yourself from being shared with 3rd parties?
Good Makefiles (2018)
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I'm in a similar situation, and it occurs to me that this is a good question. For our thing, part of the answer is that the code itself is all Open Source, which partly mitigates the "bus factor" risk, in that they could always pay somebody else to stand up an environment running the system, or do it themselves.

If you don't want to make things OSS, you could engage with a 3rd party "code escrow" firm that would maintain the code securely and only release it to the customer in defined circumstances (eg, if you die, or the company closes down, etc.)

One other might be partnering with a VAR outfit or an outsourced help-desk/support firm to provide services and support that are independent of your physical presence.
Indeed. Not that I plan on being involved in any such crimes (necessary disclaimer?) but a family member of mine submitted their DNA to one of these services. Now it's irrelevant whether I submit mine or not because it's as good as in there anyway. Feels real good having your rights signed away by someone else...
Most 100% code coverage unit tests break liskov substitution / interface boundaries.

But I have seen how really deep unit tests enable rapid deployment of code to prod since it produces high likelihood of correctness.

However, refactoring and the LoC bloat is also gigantic.

And we still needed integration tests, and forget about unit tests if there is a lot of network boundaries and concurrency. It might help, but it starts to fail quickly. The facades/mocks just assume too much.

If you are in java, for god's sake use Spock/groovy even if your mainline code is java.
Glad you enjoyed it! I plan to write one every year.
What resurgence? From a consumer point of view, MS is all but gone to the corporate pastures where Oracle feeds.
WSL came out of Project Astoria.
That is until something you're doing becomes undesirable or threatening to the natural order and then it'll stop being paradise and become a hell you can't outrun.

Of course... that's always a risk. The government could turn the military machine on its own people and you'd end up there anyway.

We can live in fear, or we can cross that bridge if and when we come to it.
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I don't think the FSF is currently selling physical copies of the Make manual.
> Apple spent $3 Billion on Beats, it remains to be seen if they'll make that up in profit.

Apple made $17.5B in revenue in FY18 in "Other Products". A sizable chunk of that is bound to be headphone revenue (and homepod may also have profited from the Beats acquisition).

Given the healthy margins that Apple tends to have across all its products, it seems plausible that even under quite conservative assumptions Apple easily made a billion or so in profit from that segment. And that's not even counting Apple Music.

https://s22.q4cdn.com/396847794/files/doc_financials/quarter...

Disclaimer: Working for Apple in a non-fiscal, non-Beats related role.
Books didn't keep track of you. A few transistors couldn't come close to approximate thinking. Nuclear bombs were a weapon of the last resort and may only end humanity, not enslave them.

But now our technology is becoming an approximation of the human mind. Our sensors are ever present, there is not even the illusion of privacy. Our algorithms get better everyday on predicting who you are and what you want, just by the friends you keep.
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We are hiring for many different roles. We are building a digital-first financial services company on blockchain infrastructure.
CRC Polynomial Zoo
"Until he died" being a year, days before his parole, lest anyone think the US government sentences people to life in prison for quackery.

I think this is underappreciated ethical dilemma, rather like Typhoid Mary. I don't think that Wilhelm Reich thought of himself as a quack, or a fraud - he was more of a kind of technological mystic. While he himself was doubtless earnest, this kind of thing really is memetically dangerous - Scientology, for example, is a deliberate and successful attempt to weaponize it. Even now, people do crazy things like "seed" areas with "orgonite" to dispel "negative energy" - that is, they litter the ground with bits of metal encased with resin. A whole religion of woo, just from a few years of exposure to Reich's ideas.

So what is one to do with someone who is earnestly good-intentioned, highly charismatic, and completely stark-raving mad?
"complex fingerprinting methods" sounds spooky, but in 2018 that's just a pug and play library, equivalent to cookies.
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Its IPR and technology are still alive
Selection of CRC and Checksum Algorithms to Ensure Critical Data Integrity [pdf]
Haha. I'd never send my DNA away. But then I have to hope that one of my cousins and distant half-siblings does. Well, in the EU privacy laws might hold up a few more year but we're all doomed.
It is simple in essence yes, but it's more than a one page app. Theres a lot more that went into building that app!

Definitely am looking into Django as well. I built stuff with it in the past and am trying to figure out which one of the two to pick for this.

Thanks for the advice!
Do I understand your comment to mean that Amazon has terrible documentation around AWS? Because if that's the case, I'm truly curious what documentation you find terrible. It can be confusing at times for me, but from my experience, that's mostly due to the fact that there's so many different options for some things.
What rights? Surely if you have rights to your DNA, then your family member has rights to their DNA. It’s just an unfortunate consequence of how DNA works.
> A society without serial rapist killers or my family?

That's the 'think of the children' argument. If that is the choice then why not full GPS surveillance or always on video cameras? The problem is that the DNA test is not 100% and will end up snaring a bunch of innocent people in a dragnet.
According to whom and on what basis? Their standards for publication seem to be low, AFAICT [1] [2].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/10/business/buzzfeed-donald-...

[2] https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/01/20/the-liber...
I'm looking forward to an RV that will drive me around SV while I sleep to avoid insane housing costs.
I have 3 years experience with native iOS/tvOS. Where I lack in deep technical knowledge I make up for it with my experience managing the entire application development life-cycle of multiple products. I am looking for a role where I can up my technical skills by receiving senior mentorship and by simply working with new people on new projects. I am a dual citizen (US/Canada).

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The whole story is weird given the fact that they are both 5 eyes
Enterprises that are on Win10 are likely to use LTSB anyway, rendering this moot.
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100% code coverage is a breadth-first metric, and generally sacrifices in depth-first testing (especially of the "core loop" as in 80% of the time is spent in 20% of the code is sacrificed).

The decidability/halting problem hints that perfect testing is an impossibility for systems of any complexity, as in not just too big of a big-O... it's flat out not possible on a turing machine of any power.

That doesn't mean give up all testing, but there is a LOT of dogma in testing philosophy.
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Hey, guys and gals I'm an ML Engineer at Studitemps in Germany. We're looking for a senior level Frontend Engineer, from one engineer to another, I'll keep it short and sweet.

Benefits:

1. Great work-life balance (seriously)

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Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've done it a lot, and we ban accounts that do that.

In addition to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, you might find these links helpful for getting an idea of the spirit of this site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/trolls.html
I don't get why this is downvoted. I have the "spy on me all the time" stuff left on and I've found Google maps Autocomplete hilariously awful. Like, when I submit and get locations back it's generally okay, but the Autocomplete suggestions are just insane.

Like, they know exactly where I am all the time, why are they Autocompleting locations that are nowhere near me or any of my typical destinations?
Keep the karma points at 666 for humorous effect please.
Not a taxi but maybe your neighbors Mercedes will pick you up after it dropped him off.
At least you aren't getting stories about Walmart workers having to pee into bottles like Amazon workers.
It is most definitely easier for the FBI to get data from a private company than from California.
I thought it was interesting that people might have been prosecuted for accidentally exceeding the pseudoephedrine purchase limits, so I tracked down the case that the article mentions and pulled it from PACER, both the complaint and the sentencing memorandum.

This may be an "exception that proves the rule", since William Fousse, the guy who got prosecuted, was addicted to pseudoephedrine and was buying large amounts of it, so large that the investigating officers found it implausible that he'd be personally consuming it (it turns out, he was; he was doing a see-saw thing where he'd get drunk and then use the pseudoephedrine to come up from it to get work done). He was buying from multiple pharmacies, apparently to avoid the limit.

This is not a case that makes me alarmed for my own safety when going to buy a 40-pack of sudafed, though I'm receptive to the argument that prosecution for an actual sudafed addiction was not the intent of the law and should not have been prosecuted in the first place.
Another example of Google not even trying to give the account holder an option to pause tracking is the purchase/order-linking feature for purchases history. They scan the users Gmail account for orders/receipts and quietly storing that information into the purchases history as can be seen by going to https://myaccount.google.com/purchases.

Instead of giving the account holder an option to delete this history, their helper section vaguely mentions you can go to Gmail and "manage" the corresponding message. https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/7673989
there is no big bang that was just an extrapolation there is the gradual condensation of matter into energetic plateaus of stable states. this is why there are 3 versions of the subatomic particles, there is too much energetic content for any thing lower than elementally pure matter, and not enough energy for things like higgs bosons to exist beyond localized high energy frames of reference.

also the speed of light is not an intrinsic process of photons, it is an intrinsic process of space it self.

matter creates a localized distortion /read energetic content or quantum wave function for a feymanian model/ this wave can not propagate or oscillate at a rate faster than the /speed of light/
Most of the time, it's much better than the airport. 90% of the time, Amtrak is downright civilized.

However, as I found out the hard way, actually having your compartment raided by the DEA is much worse than going through the TSA line.

You're in your little (previously cozy) compartment with the door blocked by DEA agents. It's just you and your family. They're barking orders and demanding to search things. They're saying that you can be removed from the train if you don't comply. They're smacking your camera out of your hands and telling you to stop recording. They're telling you that if you don't submit to a complete search, they'll bring a dog who might bite your child.

To be clear: they literally did all of those things in my case.

What do you do?

In my case, I held firm and told them that I wasn't going to answer any questions or consent to any searches, and after an absolutely terrifying 10 minutes, during which they repeatedly threatened violence against myself and my partner while our 3.5-year old wailed in terror, they finally went away.

I suspect that if I had consented to a search, they'd have stolen cash from my wallet (as has been reported by several other passengers, as you can see from the links below) or worse, planted drugs in an effort to increase their numbers and justify seizing other items.

Refusing to consent to a search is the obvious best thing to do in this scenario.

But it's not easy, and definitely far worse than any TSA experience I've had, which includes being singled out for "enhanced" pat-down and questioning.

I mean, it's the fucking DEA. Even the modicum of professionalism that you have with the TSA is gone.

> can't even take a bottle of water with you.

I typically bring an empty mason jar through security and then fill it at a water fountain.
It seems that most commenters here didn't read the article. The root of the problem is that the cost to use space in the street is zero everywhere, while the cost to park off the street is (to some degree, usually) driven by demand. That is, high demand areas (downtown, near retail, etc.) have high parking fees buy they have NO fees to use the street. This doesn't make any sense, and it sets up an incentive to cruise over parking. This incentive exists today even without autonomous cars, the only difference is that "cruising" with a human driver always has the additional cost of a humans time.

The fix presented in the article is properly pricing the use of the street.
Microsoft Research, Immunomics | Seattle, WA | Full-Time, Onsite | https://aka.ms/immunomics

Position:
Senior Software Engineer (Data)

Overview:
The Immunomics team at Microsoft Research is working to decode the human immune system to better understand and diagnose disease. Our effort is called The Antigen Map Project and we're partnering with computational biologists and immunologists to combine best-in-breed biotech and machine learning techniques to tackle big problems.

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Can confirm. Microsoft Speech API of ~2007 with little training worked very well for me, even across the room on a crappy microphone I hand-soldered to a 2m cable. If that worked fully off-line without a big performance penalty on mid-end 2007 hardware, it surely can work now.