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That's a good point, but it's also a hen and egg problem. If the platform isn't that widespread you might be hesitant to support it. (assuming it's not actually super easy to port over Android apps as suggested).

While Windows phone definitely was a very different platform from both IOS and Android, it was still amazing how shoddy some major players' apps ran on it. Stability, performance and features were often lacking. The tools, documentation and lack of sample code was definitely to blame, but even then you still need to learn a new platform.
Just because you design a city in a bike-friendly way does not mean you have to get rid of cars.

Amsterdam is a perfect example of this: cars have not been completely eliminated, just de-emphasized. Making cars a nice to have instead of a need to have.
No, the other vendors gave feedback and objected to it: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/30/mozilla_web_packagi...
Actually not so much any more. So-called third world countries have moved decisively in the first-world direction for a century. Of course there's still rationed health care and narrow food choices. But easily-treatable diseases? Starvation? More rare by the year.
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It's an electoral college system. By this logic, the US president is elected by only 538 "people".
This has been my experience as well. It's either retirees or stay at home moms/dads that drive the buses part time. They may not be purely volunteer (no pay), but it's definitely a part time job. Couple of hours in the morning and afternoon.

Also, it seems to be mostly in rural areas. Some drivers keep the buses at home during the school year. And, these are large, full size buses. If you live in a medium sized or large city, it's probably different.
I believe dual-licensed or freemium models aren't after contributions so much as they want to use OSS as a marketing instrument, or for being even considered. This is also the main criticism - that they use OSS networking effects to pull a bait-and-switch strategy. OTOH, the alternatives come with their own problems: that their incentive isn't aligned with their customer's. For example, Red Hat, easily the biggest and most successful OSS company (or at least it used to be before the IBM buyout), thrived on releasing a Linux which is (intentionally?) such a complex beast that you'll need a support contract anyway.
I actually somehow expect everyone on HN to be a software developer/enterpreneur/anything-else-tech-related

Am I wrong with my assumption?
Here is one option: https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/where-can-i-get-elevation-data?qt-...
On iOS you can already do it. Apple has added a way to sell in-app purchases that cost 0. Your application can use such a purchase to unlock features, and then re-lock them when your trial period expires. The purchase manifest guarantees the timestamps and that it was made only once. The user would then have to buy a "real" in-app purchase to unlock the features.
"for a while"

You mean until May of 2019?

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Azure-Active-Director...
Various note, Todo, photo and video apps, banking apps, Imgur, Reddit, Dropbox and others, Outlook/Gmail, eBay. Besides the big ones, there's so many smaller ones that will not be available.

Why get a Huawei when there's Sony, Samsung, LG, and more with the same hardware (still amazed at the A50 - previous gen top end specs at a third of the price) and the familiar and useful software. IIRC Huawei isn't even that friendly to custom ROMs nowadays, even Sony has a free unlock program.
i've solved a couple of sticky problems by giving up, shutting the computer, and taking the dogs for a long walk hah.
Some channels are just like that. If you have a question, usually you just ask and wait a while until someone gets around to answer it or have a conversation with you about it.

Checking my IRC client since yesterday, there's at least 500 new messages in almost all channels I've joined. Some more popular channels like #linux have constant conversations going.
I don't know how things were done in the US. But I get the impression that the educational authorities are keen on automated multiple-choice tests. At school I failed pretty comprehensively at the 'standard' testing until the dyslexia was taken into account (although I don't recall more than a tiny handful of automated tests).

From my dim memory (over a decade ago), my own dyslexia diagnosis was a few hours long, included a variety of tests, both hand-writing, physical, an interview etc. That would he hugely expensive to do for every child.
It can locally, but not economically in a huge country like the US. Electrified rail is a lot more maintinence.

For long distance travel were going to be using fossil fuel for a long time, at least until batteries double or so in density.
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> People needs to know Hong Kong is not China.

Hong Kong is not China the same way Hawaii is not US (hint: they both are).
>The problem is not the algorithm. The problem is the masses that believe everything they watch without questioning it.

I see your point, and I agree about all those sociological problems you point out.

However, that does not mean "the algorithm" (or tech in general) is blameless. People and societies have had these weaknesses for millennia. Technology should work to help us _overcome our weaknesses_ as a society. Instead, tech that ends up favoring flat-earth or extreme political hate videos _preys upon our weaknesses_ for a profit.

The recommendation system is probably entirely "neutral" in a sense that it doesn't pick "sides" itself, sure. But that isn't nearly good enough. We should strive for something much better.
There's a famous Zen koan which applies here, I think:

“Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.
After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.”
uuencode still holds a special place in my heart.
never heard of that. At least in California there are strict requirements and qualifications to be able to transport children on a school bus
It was just pandering to national pride

Doing that still works ya know
They are environmentally efficient, see the link I posted. They're one of the most fuel efficient means of transport
I make a few thousound more currently as a software dev. Work for government in a poor, red state. Luckily, however my office conditions aren't nearly what the parent comment described.
Late to the party but `pip-tools` also has a flag for its `pip-compile` flag: `--generate-hashes`. It generates SHA256 hashes that `pip install` checks.
> You don't actually have to be with the people you're attracted to

For that matter, you don't have to be with anybody at all, which may be why you see women rather be alone than follow parent's suggestion!
False dichotomy. "Struggling with meeting people" is not synomyous with "unusual". There may be unusual people that struggle with things that seem completely natural to you.
He presumably had communication with his lawyers. If he wanted info to get out it would have been easy.
3.2km isn’t that much, I had from age 10 on a 4.5km way to school, and we all would just cycle there, even during storms or with snow, or in 41°C heat, all year.
No, the people being talked about go out of their way not to pay taxes. They will pressure the local government to rezone the properties to get away with not paying taxes. Billionaires paying taxes. Lol.
Government incentives and fleet standards.
Still doesn’t anwser the question. Seems like once you dissolve the entity the new owners could kick you out of the house
>The 'hypersane' are those among us who have realized, for better or for worse, that the traditional things that most in a society strive for - material wealth, social status, conformity to social structures, etc. - aren't really the keys to happiness and that when you "awaken" (and become hypersane, I suppose) you realize that along with those things come stress, anxiety, the rat race, and, well, a pretty boring existence.

"Society is wrong and bad and you should stick it to the man and do things the way you want" is not a particularly clever or original point. Next to every single teenager thinks themselves very bright for thinking something along those lines. They later figure out life is a lot more complicated than that.
Or an arbitrary number of characters. If you know the additional six alphanumeric characters added, that's another 14 million combinations to test.

Or 2FA, or ....
NYT could have saved lots of words.

"China is bad. Hong Kong should be free."

Removing nuance is fun.
I wish there were more :(
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Maybe Fiji or Puerto Rico would be better examples?
It's quite useful if you want to see if your seeded RNG matches a high quality pRNG.
>Presenting facts: reality in my country tells that universal maternity and paternity leaves are the most abused systems and tax payers are not happy with this.

googling "canada paternity maternity leave abuse" gets no matching hits. show me

>The low income people have a huge number of children (2 sisters with 33 kids in total were most discussed) just to live on taxpayers money, they never worked between childbirths.

average number of children in canada in 2011 was less than 2.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-630-x/11-630-x2014002...

how many standard deviations away from that mean is ~16 children? so you're talking about decrying a social policy that overwhelmingly improves outcomes for women, children, and communities

https://www.milbank.org/wp-content/uploads/mq/volume-96/sept...

because some poor person somewhere once had a bunch of kids.

these are distorted facts (or what we in /my/ country, like to call fake news).
> protest is their right

> act against peaceful protest

But violent protest is not a right. With Molotov cocktails being thrown around and lasers used to burn the polices' eyes, it's not "peaceful protest" anymore.

However, I'd like to point out that the shutdown of the airport is how the protest should look like. People being peaceful, so no one's getting hurt and there's no police showing up.
> when you give away something completely for free, people aren’t that motivated to pay for it.

I created gitingore.io about 8 years ago and it's almost at 5000 stars. I had nearly 100k MAU's and that was still not enough to survive. My customers included developers form top tech startups and major companies in the world but the product was free. I ended up selling it so I can re-focus on something more valuable.
I'm not sure how applicable it would be. Taiwan does have a military that would resist and Hong Kong doesn't.
It's not that Google never supported Windows Phone. They actively harmed the platform by heavily restricting 3rd party apps.
Why even make an article about it? Further, gone are the days, it seems, that people like Ted Bundy could commit atrocious acts of violence and we could get insight on their actions. Seems now that it's more about eluding to the circumstances around these people rather than getting any clear perspectives.
The only thing worse for an authoritarian regime than making a show of force and following up on it is to make the show of force and not follow up on it.
If he was reticent about Tesla, he was more at ease discussing his interest in young women. He said that criminalizing sex with teenage girls was a cultural aberration and that at times in history it was perfectly acceptable. He pointed out that homosexuality had long been considered a crime and was still punishable by death in some parts of the world.

An interesting peek into Epstein's mind. It can be hard to imagine how someone like Epstein sees himself but I guess this is about what you'd expect.
The way you're phrasing this may be misleading.

The strength of a password / passphrase increases with the power of 2 raised to the bits of entropy.

That's an exponential proportion, rather than a linear one. But a proportion all the same.

Example:

Given mixed-case alphanumeric (62 characters) and an 8-character password length, the number of combinations is:

62^8 = 218,340,105,584,896 (keyspace -- 218 quadrillion)
l(62^8)/l(2) = 47.6 (bits of entropy)

A 10 character password (if randomly chosen from the same character set) has 10^17 possibly combinations (about 4,000x more), and 59.4 bits of entropy, 11.8 bits more. 2^11 = 2048.
Your entire premise is fallacious. It's responding to someone complaining about an injustice by saying there are starving children in Africa. Your situation sounds awful and if you are that miserable I would be happy to help with anyone that I know that has open positions, depending on your concentration. That being said, saying things like: "Sure, sexism and racial discrimination is bad bad bad, but this happens at the vast majority of employers." is not acceptable in my opinion. It's defeatist and dismissive. No one should just accept an injustice because it happens everywhere. That's simply not how civilization should work.

The main point of this meandering article that I'm gathering, and that's being kind since it's basically a 'book' about notable events at Google over the past few years, is the erosion of communication and transparency between the upper echelons of Google and the lower level employees. The amount of doxxing in particular really scared me.
The very people who are in charge of the mainland have a lot of money that they want to either park in the west or hedge against the house of cards that they are building. There is currently only one route for this money to go and rolling in the tanks will inconvenience way too many powerful people.
In Somerville, it's hard to be more than a mile from the school. Cambridge, on the other hand, does run busses. It is true that the tech companies for the most part don't run private shuttles, MIT and Harvard do, though less for commuting than just connecting separated parts of their campuses.
I wish every game depicting the real world contribute to a common 3D world repository. And maybe allow crowd sourcing that repository too. Imagine what we would get to play in flight simulators or driving simulators with such a repository.
There's some kind of lesson here.

99% of other companies, especially big companies, do way less than Google to accommodate social justice activists. Yet they seem to be least happy at Google.

Buddha was onto something about human nature.
Or the national rate is far from uniform. Google tells me the Ohio State rate is 27.1 percent. I wonder what it's like in neighboring counties, or for people in the same area who get a different judge.
Undefined start or end time with a limit on driving duration is not trivial.

Well, routing school buses is already less than trivial. You have pickup & delivery. So there's a precedence constraint to orders. Child won't be kept for hours in the bus, so the bus has to make several trips to school. Limiting the time between delivery of the child and the pickup is already less than trivial.

Just to know if route is feasible (all constraints satisfied) given a list of child pickups, child dropoffs and time limit between pickup and dropoff is nontrivial and can mess up the optimization.

Adding school shifts to the equation, minimizing number of vehicles and a bunch of other constraints might make the optimization just too slow or too constrained for an algorithm that was working incredible without all those constraints.
A lot of people bemoan that companies make hiring based on people's repos (and how it may be unfair for some demographics, types of character, focus, etc).

But (having a few non-forked repos with >200 stars, one >1k stars) it seems that it does not matter much. Basically, works as any volunteering work.

For bigger companies, it seemed that there was zero care if I have any GitHub project. (Typically there was not a single question relevant to these project.)
Yeah thanks for the clarification.
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If the article is too long to read, watch this video instead:
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I believe because there are products created for developers. They are the primary target audience.
This applies to the product I'm working on.
Sorry, hunter-gatherer never supported a civilization. It took big Ag to feed a city full of people.

The back-to-nature theme is fine for privileged landowning educated people. But the vast majority of everybody everywhere is dependent on the local grocery.
There's homeless people on HN. I've seen them post their stories before. There's all types.
Ha! I worked for a healthcare company in an office with a couple hundred developers... And yep, at one point, we had a shit on the walls issue...

I dont know if notices went up telling people not to do it though! I could never work out if it was intentional or some people just don't know how to shit???

I dont understand it either...

On the current office it's a piss on the floor issue, no urinals in the men's toilet and apparently some guys can't consistently hit the toilet with their piss!
Such things change by the day, you have to understand that. The PRC government does not publish a exhaustive list of what's being banned at the moment.

It wouldn't surprise me either, that the decision was made not by Xi, but by someone who wanted to appease him or the part or whatever.
You'll find people who regularly use public transit in many European cities complaining about their transit systems too. Boston isn't great, especially in the winter. (I used to have to use it on a regular basis.) But if I'm being fair Boston isn't "notoriously bad" unless you're setting the bar at the level of a relative handful of world cities.
I don't understand your objection. Are you claiming there's a hidden third side to the dispute? Or that the controversy is fabricated and there is, in fact, only one side?

It seems clear to me that there are indeed exactly "two sides." It is also clear that their relationship is now more contentious, and less symbiotic. What exactly is your disagreement with those propositions?
Sometime before the merger, they were both great companies that did innovative and high-quality things. It's sad they apparently went through some rough times for a while.
Can you expand on the last sentence? I don't understand how it connects with the rest.
Yes. Our population densities are lower, school distances are often not walkable reasonably, and schools being public they want to ensure that their students are not impeded from getting to the classroom for any factors related to logistics, income, etc.

Often times these are part-time positions. Set block of hours twice a day. Drivers can take on additional duties or other jobs. The buses themselves are either owned by a transportation company that can also hire them out on weekends or making additional money on field trips / sports transportation.

My kids are fortunate enough to be able to walk to their school - there are sidewalks and it's only a half mile away, but many other students have a longer walk, no sidewalks, or other impediments that leads them to prefer a bus. Kids could take public transit, but typically this is not a great solution in most places, and it doesn't deliver you to a school directly. The latter factor helps with truancy, security, and a number of other things. There's a cost to it, but it is a norm.

It would be straightforward for a school district to agree to change the policy or reduce bus service for cost reasons if public transit and things like walking, biking were preferred options. These are typically the norm for private schools.
Based on this article, there is absolutely no way to distinguish "Hypersanity" from just plain old insanity.

Rationality is systematized winning. Unless your actions are benefitting yourself in some significant way, you cannot be considered rational.

However, you cannot determine a person's inner drivers from the outside. Therefore, you cannot tell, based purely on their actions, whether they are winning (where winning is defined purely based on the individual's value system). Therefore, it is impossible to tell if an individual is "hypersane" or insane.

The whole concept is meaningless and sounds like something people would think is "very deep" while stoned.
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Hubba bubba. This is maybe not the article to read if you want to learn how to implement randomness correctly. There's... many things wrong with it.

Of course randomA is terrible, you're modding it with 16! It's never going to have a period longer than 16 like that! Same with randomB, just with a slightly larger number. Both of these are just bog-standard linear congruential generators. LCGs are pretty bad for anything "serious", but for picking Tetris pieces they're fine, and they're easy to implent (or at least I thought they were, but then you see an article like this where one of them has period 16...). I don't immediately recognie randomC(), but it also looks terrible. Just shifting some bits around and adding a counter. At least it has some internal state so it it's not stupidly periodic.

I haven't read up on what's the issue with V8's Math.random(), but I would have to imagine it's superior to all these three. I'm also sure there's plenty of excellent randomness libraries (and plenty of terrible ones) on NPM.

Also, this kind of visual inspection will weed out truly garbage PRNGs, but it's not a good test in general. Testing for pseudo-randomness is hard, and best left to people who know what they are doing.

Also also: for Tetris, you shouldn't just pick pieces at random, that's not how Tetris works nowadays. Tetris works by putting all 7 pieces in a bag, and then pulling them out at random. When the bag is empty, you fill it again with the seven pieces and start over. More info here: [0]. If you're new to programming, implementing the 7-bag system properly is a good little challenge, you'll get to learn all about the Fisher-Yates shuffle [1].

[0]: https://tetris.fandom.com/wiki/Random_Generator

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%E2%80%93Yates_shuffle
How is this different than Adobe Shadow?
I guess it makes sense to be a product for one-man show, but hard to productize ( read: doesn't move the needle ) for a big company.
My father was a school bus driver. The pickup and drop off routes were often 3 hours each, as they were mandated by local law to provide service to the whole country.

Kindergarten is just half a day in many places, so the middle of the day would be another 3 hours to shift those around.

There were also many field trips, sporting events, and other miscellaneous calls for transport throughout the day and into the evenings, as well as some weekends.

Much of all of this would vary quite a bit depending on a particular town’s location, population needs, layout, etc. but I just wanted to say that although it’s a relatively chill job and there is indeed often a lot of downtime, it’s not like bus drivers universally work 1 hr in the morning, 1 hr in the afternoon, and then just bum around all day.
RNGs are like crypto: don't roll your own! There's some really deep number theory behind many of them. Every RNG I've seen lets you control the seed, so I'm not sure what he gains by writing his own.
Somehow I doubt the KLA was on Iran and Saudi's top friends list
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