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Why aren't migrants shipped around proportionately to the various EU countries?
Isn't that up to its citizens? Was there a collective effort to get YOUR country to "politically reform"? Would you appreciate one?
Rogue Airbnb listings still exist where short-term rentals aren't allowed
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Apple has long provided free services to the people who buy Apple hardware while selling the content that they have to pay to license from other content owners (while taking a cut of the sale).

So far, I'm not seeing a change in their business model so much as im seeing a change in how much focus is placed on the profitability of the latter.

If the rumors prove true and the streaming video content they produce in house will be free to those with Apple devices, but content they license from others costs money (with Apple taking a cut), this will definitely be Apple remaining true to form.
I prefer PHP but as glue. Like my first-grade teacher taught us, a drop of glue goes a long way. Too much glue makes a mess.

Unlike many programmers, I don't pick one of the Turing-complete programming languages (PHP, Python, Ruby, Go, whatever) and try to write as much of my app as possible in it. Because they are Turing complete, you really can write everything in it. Because you can learn only so much, you are tempted to write more than you should in that language.

But like I said, PHP is just a part of my stack, and I try my best to make it one of the thinnest layers. The other parts are Postgres, Apache, and the user's browser. I try to use each of those as much as possible. The server operating system also plays a part, and I suppose my stack includes Bash.

Basically I try to do as much business logic as possible in Postgres. This leaves PHP to do little more than glue the output of Postgres to HTML templates.
Apple has almost always been a services company. It's deeply sad that its current leadership doesn't understand that. The only difference is that the service Apple used to provide was a friction-free experience on its platform.

It feels like the current Apple doesn't think of product experience as a service, with amortized costs built into the purchase price. In their eyes, at least insofar as it seems from my perspective, the relationship stops as soon as you decide to buy the product. Maybe a limited relationship exists afterward, if you buy AppleCare. But they don't seem to care one whit if the experience on their product sucks. Increasingly, Apple software argues with you instead of adopting the philosophy of "it just works."

I'm extremely unlikely to pay Apple for a content service, given its current track record of user-hostility.
"what people are asking the EPA to have done was load up vehicles with mobile emissions equipment (which is a very difficult thing to do, by the way):

No, that's incorrect in several ways.

There was/is no need for mobile equipment; simply deviating from the test regime on a stationary emissions test machine was sufficient to expose the defeat device. The defeat device worked by detecting the test conditions and defeating that detection is easy. Turning the steering wheel while testing, for example, will inhibit the VW defeat device. Simply running the test long enough (at least 26 minutes) would have exposed it with some common models.

Also, mobile testing is not 'a very difficult thing to do.'

For a time in the early 90's I was certified to perform emissions tests. At that time the actual machine fit on a wheeled cart; two men could hoist it into the rear of light pickup in a few minutes. I actually did that when we needed to move one to another site to replace another that had failed. That wasn't strictly legal (the units were certified for operation at a designated site) but the station owner didn't give a damn; he needed a temporary replacement unit and was not above fudging the paper work.

So nigh on 30 years ago any given wrench monkey with a power inverter could have operated an exhaust analyzer from a moving vehicle. Today the units are even smaller; now we have HAND HELD exhaust analyzers[1].

We've also had remote sensing emission testing equipment available for at least 10 years now. Output is detected as the vehicle drives by the unit; no need for anything on board at all.

Face it. There is simply no excuse. The regulator failed utterly. The regulator publicly admitted their failure without qualification. Your faith is misplaced and your rationalizations do not work. This is, assuming intellectual honesty, the point where you adapt your worldview, because the one you have is simply wrong.

[1] https://thecarlsoncompany.com/products/infrared-industries-h...
I don’t follow. Why are you assuming LA to NY?

If you’re in LA and want to play against someone in NY, your example makes sense, but it would be technically infeasible even without Stadia, so...

However, if you’re talking about local split-screen through Stadia, what does the RTT to NY have to do with anything?

Google/Stadia would definitely have a dedicated West coast datacenter, if not one in LA itself.

Let’s say the nearest local DC is in SF. 600 km from SF to LA converts to ~10 ms RTT.

Assuming you have a good local connection, you should be able to get ~15 ms max response time playing splitscreen against your friend at home. That sounds very reasonable to me.
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Like what? The current US position basically amounts to telling the international audience to be wary of China's payday loan scheme. Are you suggesting the US should get in the payday loan business too, as an incrementally (?) better alternative to China? Or are you suggesting there's a bipartisan majority in US Congress to hand out charity or low interest loans by increasing foreign aid?
How is it less accurate?
The US has an overwhelmingly domestic economy and export driven global infrastructure development isn't exactly an American strength. In so far as the US influences European or Asian countries it appears to be mostly by military, cultural or political means.

Up until now the US, economically, has mostly functioned as a consumer of European and Asian goods, so it is hard to imagine how they could offer an alternative to OBOR. For China it's a way to offload their export driven surplus and creating new markets, which is something that the US isn't really positioned to do.
They’re not, but they’re spectacularly good at spotting dumb errors that humans are spectacularly bad at spotting.

Me, I still haven’t got my head around how to prove something on a computer, but the principle is sound. Theoretically one could build the proof as some form of literate program.
I believe the title should be modified to indicate that this is clojurescript not clojure.
Better customer service and content management? YouTube's system for handling copyright claims is a huge mess and they don't have much incentive to fix it without a serious competitor. They've burned a lot of creators and some people would jump ship if there was a fairer alternative.

Netflix could also leverage the same strategy Hulu or the Epic Store has... pay/incentivize creators and partners for exclusivity. I hate this strategy as a consumer, but it does seem to be effective.
I reckon you're looking for https://my90stv.com/ :)
“Fuck the vessel” can be taken more than one way. But that aside, I think is is great to have something weird in a city you can go visit. Something unusual that isn’t a business or a residence or a road. I think people stuck in a city all the time are missing out on nature, but something like the Vessel is an opportubity to escape and do something pointless for a few minutes.
Their products are stagnating because they are less robust and more expensive. The value just isn't there compared to some of golden era hardware. Obviously services can help them grow, but as user of apple laptops, I've felt abandoned for quite a while now. Their growth in those fields are stagnating because their price / quality ratio has reduced significantly.
My cap is 4GB. Verizon. :(
> Germany only "forced" Greece in the sense that they didn't pay Greece's debts for them.

Germany (and France) also knowingly gave Greece lots of loans, when it was obvious to everyone that Greece will never be able to pay them all back.
Most research has focused on α-tocopherol, which is thought to displace
γ-Tocopherol. In a 2000 study of the relationship between α-tocopherol, γ-tocopherol, selenium, and prostate cancer, men in the highest fifth of the distribution for γ-tocopherol were five time less likely to develop prostate cancer than men in the lowest fifth. [1]

"Recent epidemiological and preclinical studies have indicated that γ- and δ-tocopherols may be more effective because they are more efficient traps for reactive oxygen and nitrogen species." [2]

1. https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article/92/24/2018/2633585
2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5337152/
I ride bikes but am low T. For shame.
Because (a) borders in Schengen are open so migrants who get shipped can move somewhere else without issue and (b) many EU countries have xenophobic governments at the helm which would prevent such a solution (just like they prevent being a migrant destination by treating them as inhumanly as possible).
This is how most doctors I know perceive it as well. I know quite a few doctors since I'm one myself.
Cable is a stinking pile of sog stuff. 90% of the channels are garbage and the picture quality sucks. I recently put an old-fashioned $40 antenna in my attic. It pulls in 156 channels (I’m in OC, CA about 40mi from Mt Wilson and 80mi from San Diego).

Compared with the 148 channels Spectrum provided (about 1/2 where duplicates) the quality is better on the few I watch intermittently (PBS, ABC, CBS...)

The crazy thing is my bill dropped from over $200 to $70 (for just internet).

Yea, I’m and idiot for not doing it sooner.
Ask HN: Is parallel entrepreneurship even possible?
I have bunch of ideas at production (around 5) which I'm having hard time to sacrifice one to focus on another. Spendings are not so much, perhaps 100$ per project per month. I'd like to expand the ideas, but in my gut, I feel like I'm making a wrong approach. Am I shooting my self on the feet trying to run many ideas in parallel? I truly like them all. Any related "call from experience" guidance would be helpful. Thank you.
A single person could probably run 20 machines at once. That's 800 hours of labor, at $15/hr, is $12,000.
>There's a dramatic, fundamental difference

Yes, the difference being "when it suits the US it's OK, when it suits somebody else, it's bad".
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That is what I thought of first when reading the recent article on HN about being homeless. My first though was “can’t their family come and pick them up” or even a friend.
It's a shawarma. Try to unsee.
Yup multimachine. It works fantastic. We have a netapp san https://hub.docker.com/plugins/trident But we don’t really use it except for databases
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The work reminds me of this young adult Sci-Fi story I read when I was a kid:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Stairs_(Sleator_novel...
No, it's pretty clear that a lot of reporters have compromised their ethics, or never had any. The article quotes several; it is in fact the entire point of the article. Of course you might also say that the _owners_ of the media don't care about this lack of ethics as long as they're making money. That's probably true, but it's not the same thing at all. The blame goes to the people who have no ethical standards, or who compromised them in favor of politics.
Yeah if by caused you mean could have acted more aggressively and quickly which would have reduced the depth and breadth of the recession than I've heard and agree with that.

It's just a weird use of the word caused that gives people the wrong impression a lot of the time. If I say "Fireman Rick caused that house to burn down" most people will think Fireman Rick is an arsonist and not necessarily that he didn't act swiftly and quickly to put it out. And then if you say most houses burning down were caused by firemen many people might get the wrong impression that if we got rid of the fire department less houses would burn down instead of more.

P.s. I know Milton Friedman is to blame for this terribly tortured use of the word.
Fascinating.

How does on go on to finding the next shii , telling us what will happen next with such accuracy and insight ?
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The author is an architecture critic.
Not really.

I'm Italian and, apart from political propaganda, Italy is not victim of immigration, the population balance has been negative since the 90s.

The Italian population has been constantly decreasing, even if we count in immigrants the net balance is still negative (almost -100 thousands people last year).

The effect is amplified by our own emigration: Italians have been leaving Italy at a rate of almost 200 thousands/year for the past 10 years.

In the end African development is desiderabile for Italy because it could mean more specialised work in an area very close to our borders (Italy is know for food, but we are very good at engineering), just like the old times when we built much of the Libyan infrastructures.
Security is built on layers. A WAF is just another layer.

Just like obscurity. Security is not done only through obscurity, but obscurity van increase security.
I was careful to use the word "trustworthy".

Are you saying that speed affects trustworthiness?
Article is paywalled for me, does anyone know if this was in the paper version? And if so what issue?
For your second paragraph all I could think about was how now is the time for Linux desktop. Then I realised that non-Android Linux could be good on phones too (for the problems in your first paragraph), but for some reason it didn't seem to catch on.

I say this not as a hardcore Linux fan, but as a Windows user of nearly 30 years.
> The US has an overwhelmingly domestic economy

Of the 10 of the World's most valuable companies, 8 are American. Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook didn't get there by concentrating only to American markets.
I wrote a Postgres extension to compute the mean of an array of floats. [0] I tried to avoid overflow problems by using an approach that finds the final mean for each element as it goes along. [1] But that is a lot of divisions, so there is a disappointing perf hit. (It's still a lot faster than SQL though. :-) I'd love to know if there is a faster way that is still correct. (I have some implementations for SSE2 and AVX that aren't published yet, but they still do all the divisions; what I really want is a different algorithm.)

[0] https://github.com/pjungwir/aggs_for_arrays
[1] https://github.com/pjungwir/aggs_for_arrays/blob/master/arra...
the housing market, especially in the US, is far from being capitalistic. You have all kind of weird rules, zoning laws maybe are the first culprit, and guess what is the result? You don't have enough houses, people are homeless and prices are most often ridiculous. This despite the fact that you have really a lot of land and the kind where you could build really high structures to house people.
85% of new spending at netflix is for original content. That's building a huge moat that will be hard for others to cross. I'd personally cancel our Hulu or HBO subscriptions before we touched Netflix.
True, but you can cut those numbers by ~50% and still be very comfortable in most, if not all places in the US. According to https://dqydj.com/net-worth-percentile-calculator-united-sta... there are over 3 million households with a net worth over $4.5M. Relatively speaking, that is a small number, but, collectively, the good those people could do if they came together would be immense. Of course, this will never happen.
> I think is is great to have something weird in a city you can go visit. Something unusual that isn’t a business or a residence or a road

In my experience of walking around cities I visit, you find this kind of thing just as soon as you stop(!) following your tourist map and/or blog post listing "20 best things to see in Florence/London/Paris/Berlin/$wherever".

"Weird" things are - and have always been - there just waiting to be found. We really don't need Heatherwick to build them.
Why would latency be an issue with streaming recorded video - the subject of the post?
As commented by others, this is the kind of functions for which you want to use a numerically stable algorithm.

For that you can :

- sort the numbers (clearly not the most cost effective solution but easy),

- use a high precision accumulator (which can give you an exact result if you go far enough),

- use a compensated summation (such as Kahan summation but the state of the art can do much better)

For extreme cases there are algorithms that can give you an exact result, my current favorite being Accurate Floating-Point Summation Part I: Faithful Rounding : https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228664006_Accurate_...
Ask HN: What's your favorite non-programming related use of Git?
he generated query-document features. Now he just needs to collect relevance labels for the documents, then he can learn a ranker a la LTR.
A lot of people here talk about putting your money in an index, the idea being it’ll do better than the average persons stock picks.

Owning a home is a good one, as long as you can afford the repayments and budget for times you might be out of work.

In most countries there is a big tax advantage. Some offer income tax relief, and most will be tax free gains, plus once you pay the mortgage off your savings (vs. renting) are on post tax income. Or in other words if you rent you’d need to make enough income from another asset such that after tax it would pay your rent.

Knowledge is also good. I’m learning SEO and marketing online at the moment, and that creates redundancy in that if I lose all my money I still have those skills to start again. The lottery winner with no skills doesn’t have that safety net.

There are some conservative ideas for you. There are a lot of more risky options too that involve predicting the future. Picking stocks, crypto currencies, angel investing and suchlike. Those can be good, and outliers get rich, but do it with money you can afford to lose.
How do you determine what hospitals (or city) they belonged to? Just that they were checked in there first? That they had legal residence in some city at some time?
I work at WTC and this is exactly how I feel about the area under the Oculus connecting the Brookfield Mall. It's like a scene out of Gattaca, a massive dizzyling underground mall/complex with no natural light filled with luxury shops that no one appears to actually shop at. Everyone walks through in a daze, seemingly impressed by the magnitude of the cavern but at the same I can't help to think they feel as equally empty and drained by it as me.

Developments like Hudson Yards seem to be cargo culturing culture. If we build a public arts space, offices, restaurants, shops, and a playground then surely people will arrive, right?! Feels very weird.
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Looking at the swingset photo (https://www.europol.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/eur...)

That's an interesting design of swingset; not one I've seen before.

Unlike the bog-standard swingset in the US, which is typically all steel tube, that one looks like it has extruded (aluminum?) verticals and then a tubular horizontal weldment as the top piece. Further, the horizontal looks like it was hot-dip galvanized as a finished unit. The verticals were painted before assembly, not after, because of the bare-metal bolt heads. The fasteners are presumably stainless, since I don't see any rust marks below them. It's got an interesting bearing/bushing at the top of each chain, probably to make it not squeak; that strikes me as a fairly luxe feature.

I couldn't find any similar ones searching around online, although my Google searches don't turn up many European models at all (thanks, Google).

The photo doesn't go up enough to be sure, but it looks like the top bar is an unbroken one-piece section. That would make it pretty bulky and awkward to ship. (The vertical pieces look like they come apart into about 4 ft sections, which means they were likely palletized at one point. Maybe the extrusions are not done in the same place as the rest of the manufacturing..? That's certainly plausible.)

If someone recognized the design/model, I think that would probably be a significant clue towards the photo's location; at the very least, the manufacturer would probably have a fairly good idea of where they normally sell to.
How does Nokia or OnePlus 'mistakenly' collect user data and ship it to China?
Anyone who has bought chinese goods on AliExpress will disagree :) The journey takes < 14 days (vs up to 60 by sea) and volume growth has been dramatic in the past couple years.

> Over the past five years, China’s trade in goods with countries along the Belt and Road has exceeded $5.5 trillion
156 stations with one antenna in one location, really?
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Take the marketing pitch with a grain of salt. They've been keeping track of aggregate usage data pretty much from the beginning. Also, they already have to keep track of things like which apps/music/movies you have bought for accounting purposes at the very least. For subscriptions they most likely also have to track consumption (i.e. per access data) for royalty/revenue share payments.

I remember a story from the tail end of the Jobs era when they were trying to get their ad network going that their sales force was using as a selling point to advertisers the fact that they had metrics such as how many minutes a day users spent using various apps etc. They just don't share this data outside of Apple and also (according to their public statements) don't access the private data that you create.
> luxury shops that no one appears to actually shop at

3D walk-in billboards.
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Seems to me like they'd just implement a timeout on waiting for the identification string. I don't know the SSH protocol that well, but from the article it sounds like it's easy to bypass this tarpit if you don't strictly follow the SSH standard. I doubt a timeout would have much impact when connecting to legitimate hosts since they probably respond quickly with their identification, so the fix is easy.
Article is paywalled for me. Are these streaming services going to be usable with non-Apple devices?
I suspect many of the tent and tarp folks are doing it because there’s no better alternative. If cities would just build simple housing with proper sanitation (tiny houses, SROs, whatever) to get those people off the street, I’m sure that would take care of a majority of the public sanitation issues.

Once you get someone into a home, it is vastly easier to help them stabilize their other issues (mental health and drug abuse among them). Housing first works, and it’s been proven to work time and again.
It's one of the pieces of advice you get, have a plan how to exit. He exited way before then, what Yahoo did is down to them.
the people we rely on to extinguish our flames cannot afford

What a strange example for you to use. First, firefighters in most urban areas make muchos, muchos dollars. Second, firefighter jobs are extremely desirable, for that reason and many others ("heroism", firefighter groupies, extreme lengths of downtime, early pensions, etc) Third, in poorer areas, volunteers are all-too happy to be firefighters.

As I said, strange example. Maybe you could fret about garbage collectors instead...?