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Ask HN: How can SaaS companies avoid a future war with their competition?
Drones, supercomputers and sonar deployed against floods – The Denver Post
Luxembourg and Switzerland have really hit the jackpot.
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It's accurate but misleading when the training for general aviation costs a significant fraction of the car in question in 1 on 1 training alone. That Tesla is using a term easily misinterpreted by anyone who hasn't read an avionics manual stinks real bad.
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Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe PayPal micropayments requires the customer to have a PayPal account linked to their bank account (ACH). So, considerably less convenient than using a card.
You just bought 1000 litres of milk
Kind of, but I guess the other solutions are slightly better at accomodating services that are more than a single binary. I think static binaries really should be evaluated again as they seem to be written off by most big players. Though Go(lang) has preferred static linking which has been something that seem to have been appreciated.
I tend to just use the Dell XPS with Ubuntu preinstalled: hardware-related things really do just work.

For everything else I have Emacs :-)
To put it another way, it's odd that the "you" in the headline promises to talk about the average reader's situation but then they talk about what's happening in China.
Well, I just saw that 'Super Meat Boy Forever' is going to be released soon on the Epic store, but not until 2020 on Steam.

Also after Epic bought 'Rocket League' and removed it - for new buyers - from Steam, I'm starting to loose a bit of sympathy for Epic.

After all, Epic and Valve are both making a huge amount of money, so there
doesn't seem that much of a need for such aggressive strategies.
The headline asks: Are the hyper-specialist shops of Berlin the future of retail?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

No. The Internet is.
Hardware support has also been amazing over the years, as far back as the original Nexus 7 (2012) to replacing a broken Nexus 5X in Ireland last year. Probably the best customer service I've encountered from any company that I can think of.
The idea that the driver didn't know he was supposed to have his hands on the wheel while using autopilot seems ridiculous. Anyone who has used autopilot knows that failure to keep the hands on the wheel results in a warning.

We do know he received warnings. And we can strongly infer that he knew how to actively avoid receiving warnings. Therefore I can't possibly fathom how Tesla could be responsible for a "failure to warn".
It is true that, as Fisher points out, with enough samples you are almost guaranteed to reject the null hypothesis. That's why we tell students to consider both p values (which you could think of as a form of quality control on the dataset) and variance explained. Loftus and Loftus make the point nicely: p tells you if you have enough samples and any effect to consider, variance explained tells you if it's worth pursuing. Both are useful guides to a thoughtful analysis. In addition, I'd make a case for thinking about the scientific significance and importance of the hypothesis and the Bayesian prior. And to put a positive spin on this, given how easy it is to get small p values, big ones are pretty much a red flag to stop the analysis and go and do something more productive instead.
Couldn't you make an argument that the point H0 has use when you are testing whether two populations are identical? i.e. it's probably true that \mu is very close to 0 if it is the difference in heights of men from Nebraska vs men from Iowa.
The problem we have right now is that:

1. laying cables wouldn't work because there are a great many historic towns and cities (eg Amsterdam) and digging up cobble streets to lay cables for self-driving vehicles simple isn't going happen when those cities have so many bigger problems for autonomous cars such as trams, cycle paths, pedestrian zones and tourists what will just walk out in front of everyone in an unpredictable haze.

2. you have districts that are so under funded that the roads aren't even maintained in their current state.

3. So lets say you scape redeveloping the roads and have radio sensors on lap posts - then you have the problem that many rural areas in even richer countries like the UK don't even have street lamps. And what about countries like Australia and America that can have long stretches for tens or even hundreds of miles without a single house, let alone street lights to put sensors on.

I agree with you that normally this kind of problem requires a technical approach but the problem we have is that redeveloping our roads would be such a monumental overhaul that it would actually be a bigger job than developing the AI to handle our existing infrastructure. Plus redeveloping our roads only solves part of the problem - you still have the issue of other cars on the road, pedestrians, cyclists, unexpected hazards like fallen trees, etc. You could fix other vehicles on the road by allowing all vehicles to communicated with each other - like a mesh network - but then you have the problem of doing that securely (so you couldn't just "virtually ram" another car off the road by telling it there's an obstruction that doesn't exist) and you again have the problem that it would be more expensive and take longer to retrofit every single vehicle with that tech than it would be to write AI. And you still wouldn't have addressed the problem of kids, animals and fallen trees.

AI might seem like a naff workaround and maybe if / when we colonise a new planet then we might be able to build roads with sensors inside tubes that restrict access (I guess a little like an underground rail network) but for the time being AI is our best bet for autonomous vehicles.
You shouldn't read this here then: http://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/
> Doesn't that mean Linux is entirely broken? Isn't the whole point of OSes that things that used to work, keep working?

"Broken" is a strong word. "Different" might be more fitting.

While I don't think anyone in the world of Linux and Linux-distros work with the explicit aim of breaking compatibility, you have to realize that Linux and most Linux-distros are built entirely around open-source software.

Most users install software via a distro-provided package-manager which fetches binaries from a repo. These binaries have been built from source, by the distro-vendor, specifically for that distro.

That means Linux compatibility traditionally has been more about source-level and compile-time compatibility more so than 100% uncompromised binary compatibility. If a change breaks binary compatibility, but the distro/system as a whole still builds fine, that's still compatible in most day-to-day scenarios of a common Linux end-user.

And unconstrained by having to maintain strict binary compatibility, it also allows developers to clean up historical garbage and technical debt they otherwise couldn't.

This approach obviously has both drawbacks and advantages, but calling it "broken" seems unfair, overly opinionated and really just wrong.
While maybe not exactly impossible that would require some insane UV laser power from a satellite.
> Presumably those killed refused to give up ownership to the state?

Those killed were killed not because they refused to give ownership (the communists usually just sent people to uranium mines in that case, or later to prison), but because they were undesirable.
I know a 'pharmaceutical representative'. She is little more than a corporate prostitute - and I mean that sincerely.

She is paid to take doctors on dinner dates, woo them and give them 'free samples', and ensure that they promote her product over all the others. She's admitted to me that she regularly has sex with her clients - and that she's a part of a larger team that covers the entire German market.

Its such a normal, accepted practice, that my surprise at her frank attitude about it was met with a "well, duh, how do you think we stay relevant in such a competitive market?" response ..
No data to back that claim up. From my POV Steam still was seen as a burden in 2008 and wasn’t nearly as popular as today, pirating was still easier. I bought the game on steam around 2011/12.
This is a chicken and egg problem - if there is no "new paradigm" hardware no one will create software for this new thing while when there is no software for that new hardware no one has incentives to buy that hardware.
This is the situation somewhat similar to multi-core CPU adoption - this was delayed at least by a decade in consumer computing for that reason. There were even motherboards supporting dual CPU targeted at consumer market (in Celeron/PIII era) but they were never popular outside a niche group of enthusiasts.
I came up with a clever solution to the Prop 13 problem: tax the sale of that property with all of the previous savings if they ever sell it for a profit. So sure, you can stay in the house you grew up in, but if you're thinking you can get that million+ dollar pay-day because the land under your tear-down is now worth a boat load...

It might make it sting a bit less buying a single-family home in San Jose for 1.5mil and knowing that you're paying 10x the tax of your next-door neighbors.
> A massive subset of Firefox devs are Linux users.

No, they are not. A massive subset of Firefox devs are Apple users. For Linux, the occasional Redhat or SuSE dev does the most-needed fixing.

> Those features are missing largely because they are hard to implement reliably on Linux and customers (who are largely not Linux users) won't feel the impact.

Neither of these are true. It does make easier rationalizing Linux mistreatment, though.

If there was no impact, the equivalent functionality would not be needed to be implemented under other OS-es either. You have bugzilla full of feedback, that it does have an impact.

It also makes Linux itself look worse, compared to other systems.

> There are often flags you can set to try and use them on Linux, YMMV.

I know, that you can force OMTC, for example. I've been doing that for years, with zero bugs. Why can't Mozilla do that by default? They haven't reviewed the situation for years, that's how much they care.

Also, for example, the EGL situation (needed for Wayland, obviously Wayland apps cannot use GLX without X11) was purely Firefox problem, not the driver stack one. (Worked on by Redhat dev).

> If you try doing much hardware graphics (let alone game development) for Linux end-users you'll understand why features like OMTP or OMTC are late to ship on that platform, if ever.

Mesa is one of best of breed drivers, especially compared to some drivers you can find on other platforms. See here: https://code.blender.org/2019/04/supported-gpus-in-blender-2... for what Blender devs think about the driver situation.

> Even on Windows some new stuff like WebRender has to be manually opted in on specific driver versions and architectures one at a time, because it turns out video drivers are really bad and if you ship early your app will crash.

I'm fine with incremental enablement. I'm not fine with the enablement never arriving.

And again; the original post was about the irony of the situation Firefox itself finds themselves in; exactly the same excuses are used against them.
Neither are gdocs and firefox.
When I researched this concept previously I did come across Idris but I did not actually study it much.

I will do that now, thank you for reminding me of it again!
I have little Linux experience, so pardon me for asking silly questions. Doesn't Linux then choose a weird place to put the border between "OS" and "userspace"? If, say, an opengl library or an ssl library installed by the distribution breaks backward compat with earlier versions, how is that not the OS breaking backward compat? Sure, if a user hand-installs some new library version, globally in the system, --force, y y y, then I get it. Things will break. But that's not what's going on, right?

It feels a bit weird to see the kernel folks put so much effort into "never breaking userland" only to have the distributions throw that all away with a "yolo, the new libyadayada is 1% faster and who cares about old programs!" kind of attitude. Is that really how this works? Or am I just misunderstanding some nuance? I'm not trying to be critical on anyone btw, I'm just trying to understand what's going on :-)
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short answer: yes
If intelligent aliens get to our planet and have any kind of aggressive intentions no amount of spending would save us. It means they already have capabilities far beyond what we could achieve in a generation and proved them by just getting to us.
We can certainly send someone to Mars. But doing so is "of course a social question" ... and you haven't answered the question of why must do it now.

You've used the same rhetorical constructions that I've read in books written before I was born. They also argued that then was the time. Why were they wrong, and you are right?

Oh, and those proposing undersea cities made many of the same arguments.

I'll point out that "living in 'unlivable' locations on Earth" can be done with neolithic technology, so that's a rather odd one to list. Crossing the ocean by boat" through stages was something the ancient Polynesians did without metal.

And 'breaking the sound barrier in human flight' hasn't yet proven to be economically feasible for general passenger services.

As for "more subjective than a technical one" ... there's a major problem of how to create a self-sustaining ecosystem, much less one where the people who live in it have enough time to train the next generation to run the ecosystem.
And what happened with the man stealing the mail ? My father had video footage of someone stealing and the police couldn’t be bothered to find the person
I wonder if something came of your footage
OK, I stand corrected then. OMTC can be forced, too. Other mentioned features are not available, and there are more, than just the ones mentioned.
Recommeding Google Analytics isn't really great. Google already has enough data and you shouldn't sell your visitors data to Google just because they offer "ananlytics for free". Thanks to UBlock Origin Google Analytics get's blocked by my Firefox.

Because I wasn't happy with any already existing analytics, also Fathom because they use cookies and I wanted to avoid this, I build my own KISS statistics tool called KISSS or kis3 using Go. It has minimal functionality, is easy to run everywhere and requires minimal resources. See https://kis3.dev
Nearly a half century since publication of the seminal paper which easily describes this phenomenon without resort to bias against women. :(

> The research paper by Bickel et al. concluded that women tended to apply to competitive departments with low rates of admission even among qualified applicants (such as in the English Department), whereas men tended to apply to less-competitive departments with high rates of admission among the qualified applicants (such as in engineering and chemistry).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox#UC_Berkele...

Not that bias doesn't exist, but it's ridiculous we still immediately assume that's the underlying problem, or at least that it could be remediated by treating it as a case of simple bias.

And in these cases Simpson's paradox is also an example of comparative advantage, so it's doubly disappointing that scholars are missing the forest for the trees. In 2019 this type of phenomenon shouldn't even be counter-intuitive; not for anyone who made it past the first couple years of college.

An astute observer in 1975 could have predicted that women would eventually outnumber men in law and medical programs. This has indeed come to pass, which makes the notion that engineering programs are peculiarly biased against women awkward as you'd have to argue that law and medical programs were less biased in the intervening 40+ years than modern engineering programs. I'd like to see someone try to make that argument; pretty sure any women who made it through those gauntlets during the 70s and 80s would roll their eyes.

Which, again, isn't to say there isn't bias, just that it's unlikely to be the dominant factor in the disparity. And if it's not the dominant factor, you're not going to get very far by treating it as such.
This, moreso, seems to emphasize how much partisanship has gripped everybody. For instance homelessness is substantially down across the US. [1] But of course certain areas, especially in California and New York, do not follow this trend. And so for people in these regions and especially in certain areas of them, homelessness is very much an issue, aggregate stats notwithstanding.

Imagine having the same interview, except now have an advocate for focusing on homelessness as an issue and a journalist who keeps interjecting 'but homelessness across the country is down!' Now furthermore, have somebody go and insert laugh tracks when the homeless advocate speaks. People would react to it entirely differently even though it's the exact same logic, just with the issue being discussed swapped. I think this is mostly reflective of partisanship, as it emphasizes that the logic itself is not what people are mocking.

Increasingly often we mock or support logic based not on the soundness of said logic, but whether it affirms or challenges our views and values.

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But more on topic I completely agree that the media holds some responsibility (I imagine many people even outside of New York and California believe that homelessness is on the rise, contrary to the data) but there's also the very real issue that aggregate stats do not necessarily represent local conditions. There are also a couple of other factors to consider.

People are much more influenced by relatively recent changes rather than changes that happened decades ago. For instance the violent crime rate has been increasing recently. That it's far below the levels of the 90s is probably not much comfort for those in areas where it's increasing. Another issue that increases in population can see a rate decrease, but the number of incidents increase or remain stable. If the population increases 10% and the murder rate declines 1% you'd see an increase in the number of murders happening. That it's at a lower per capita rate is, once again, probably not very comforting to those in the area.

[1] - https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homeless...
There seems to be a missing question in the FAQ: Why is Fortran worth saving? What are the advantages of writing code in Fortran? Why not just allow the ports to C++ to happen?

There might well be good answers to these; but it seems that if you want to make Fortran cool again, you have to provide a vision for what makes it special.
Perhaps you should have considered not having a child if you can’t give them a free life. Not everyone has to have a child; Everyone has to guard the liberty.
Not only does the car provide repeated warnings, we can pretty clearly infer that—like anyone who has used Autopilot—he had become reasonably proficient at avoiding the warnings. So not only was he warned, he was actively working to avoid those warnings.

(Edit: to those voting me down, please contribute your objections to the discussion.)
> Y'all

Instant throwback to 1997's Redneck Rampage game about US hillbillys..
Or, you know, it might be that Alzheimer's has an autoimmune factor contributing to it... :-)
It’s propaganda 101, destabilize regimes and states by instilling fear in the population and mistrust of institutions. The fact it’s also profitable is a happy coincidence.

At the very least, the perception of rampant crime is a problem for local politicians; they’re seen as incompetent and not doing their jobs. The worst? See fascists regimes of ww2.

I own and pay a monthly monitoring fee for a home security system, not because I value the things in my house, but out fear some nut job would try to harm my family. This is not rational, the odds are near zero, and it wouldn’t stop a determined attacker anyway, but it is a deterrent. And I don’t want to kill anyone, even if it is often “justified” (castle doctrine). There’s definitly money in fear.
There Actually *Is* Sound in Outer Space
Lot of HTML/js stuff never worked in Firefox either. For example, Youtube uses polymer, which uses web components v0 if available. Firefox never implemented that.

On the other hand, the above mentioned features could work, if Firefox would implement them, as they did for other platforms. Other applications on Linux are able to use the needed APIs available, why Firefox is not?
"Major" products. Haven't seen the source code for Windows or Office anywhere yet.
It largely worked until it was dismantled. It is only 17 years because the market largely doesn’t exists. There are maybe a couple of hundred rent controlled apartments being distributed each year in central Stockholm. Which isn’t unique, many countries don’t have a rent controlled market at all.

What is pretty unique is the 100 year mortgages with no default.
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