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> Why all the praise when the goal will look nothing like it looks now

Because the media machine needs to keep spinning. Rather than give a balanced statement now, which takes more effort to put together, it's easier to post "Wow, this is amazing" now and then "Wow, that was disappointing" later, and then get double the hits.

Relevant: https://medium.com/backchannel/how-the-tech-press-forces-a-n...
Google is “Partially dangerous”
I think only the slightly sociopathic/psychopathic feel completely confident in making certain kinds of "organizational" decisions.

So, if you feel like an imposter, it's ok, all it implies is that you're not (at least) slightly sociopathic/psychopathic.
"Like" is not an acknowledgement. "Like" means you like something.

(Not saying that favs worked as acks either, I used them as bookmarks.)
> We are still far away from having computer's truly be able to learn on their own, without having a human optimizing the responses.

Could say the same about humans, though. We can't truly learn on our own without having others calibrating the process, or otherwise things set up by others.
b/c they aren't doing a job?
While property ownership is open to anyone, property management is hard and not everyone's cup of tea.
That's a good point; some "high standards" could simply be mismatches between personal priorities.

> But perhaps I misunderstand what you mean by high standard? Work hours, properly formatted commit messages? Code documentation?

For me, personally, it's thoroughness and attention to detail -- for example, seeing that someone's cleaned a bathroom but didn't bother picking up the seat and cleaning the bowl/underside of the seat.
Maybe I'm weird, but for me none of this (touchscreens too) is "magical", and all of this is "interesting" and then "obvious" when I learn/figure out how they do it. Maybe that's why some people are afraid - because it's more magic to them?

> And please - like Google cares that you ordered that book from Amazon. Until they do.

Well, if Google starts caring that I ordered a book from Amazon (more than they already do - Google Now shows me info on my purchases, including delivery time), then they'll do what exactly? Tell their self-driving cars to kill me because I didn't use Google Play?

Google so far has a stellar history of being helpful, pro-user, quite often pro-bono at it. Please apply these levels of scrutiny to someone else first, like every other SV startup running on the investor-storytime model.
Bigoted Christians aren't a straw-man, and for you to think so must require some seriously rose-tinted glasses.

The fact that homosexuality (to carry on from the grandparent comment) was so recently a punishable offense even in the US, let alone the rest of the world, should be pretty airtight evidence against that being a straw-man.
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I think twitter will have to eventually add something else that caters to the "bookmark" concept without positive or negative feelings clouding the act.
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I am a very happy user of Phoenix myself, and also a MMO game programmer, and unfortunately I can say with confidence that you won't implement a real-time MMO FPS on top of Phoenix channels any soon.

Not because of Phoenix itself, but because all modern lag-compensating techniques rely on specific properties of UDP that are not implementable over TCP (and thus not over Websockets or HTTP long poll, which are the currently supported Phoenix Channel transports).

Not to diminish the value of Phoenix: the framework is really pleasant to use both on dev side and ops side. And you could use it today to implement the server-side of most games, even some "massive multiplayer" ones, as long as latency is not your primary concern.
Okay, how about this: Ownership of any property or asset can only last a maximum of 50 years. After this point ownership will either revert back to the commons or can be repurchased at current market rates.
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Google and Facebook own all of us Android users
Ask HN: Looking for a technical interview coach
I'm an iOS engineer. I have a great portfolio but I'm lacking in knowledge on data structures and algorithms. Are there interview coaches available for hire to help bootstrap my skills? What about online?
Utilities are mostly free to build nuclear power plants. They don't because a) they can afford the construction cost, and b) they can't afford the insurance cost. So the nuclear industry says "no problem, we'll just ask the government to subsidize the construction cost and pass laws to shield you from liability". But they are finding that the "public risk - private profit" paradigm doesn't sell so well anymore for some reason.
Surveillance bill to include internet records storage
Ah, that is a very different situation than I believed you were discussing. In which case...sure, that sounds logical. If you already have a good architecture and a very large, complex app, of course it's going to work better to keep the architecture you have than switching to the sort of naive React design that you'd normally find in a TodoMVC example project. :)

(...of course, that doesn't really tell you much about React; seems like all you really learned is that badly architected apps perform badly. Not sure that one needed much testing. And of course, your initial comment seemed to be making a very different claim.)
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I don't disagree with this, but the wells are sunk and producing. We should definitely not continue with hydraulic fracturing; in the interim, existing natural gas supplies can make up the reduction from nuclear's decline until solar and wind overtake both.
> Why wouldn't you be able to treat them as identical?

If a given machine can have arbitrary software installed on it, then that machine can behave differently than other machines in the fleet.

If all machines in your fleet can only install and/or run software signed with the company key, then the company can ensure that the software load for all machines remains the same and -thus- all machines behave identically.

> How would being able to change the sync/verification server make Chromebooks vulnerable...

If the software repo and/or verification server can be changed by a third party, and the trusted keys installed in the machine can be changed, then it's trivial to pwn such a machine. If only the servers can be changed, then it requires loss of control of one's signing keys to pwn such a machine. [0]

[0] Or -obviously- a sufficiently bad privilege escalation bug can pwn such a machine.
I can't take anyone who promote JavaScript over any real programming language seriously.

first, people build transpiler so that they can build and maintain large codebase without losing sanity.

Then you have react that come with this great idea, immutability, so that they can have saner codebase.

Much of what happen is due to the language deficiency. Which is why some would have gone and consider language like Go.
I'm not sure I understand your point. Are you saying meth is "not that bad"? If so then you and I must be reading different newspapers and watching different TV channels.
Well, you can start with all of the things that Objective C has that Swift does not that are likely to cause bugs.

For example, static analysis returns nothing where it did something before. Not calling super.viewWillAppear() in a subclass does not raise the appropriate warning in Swift.
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If there's anything anthropology has taught us, it's that the claim "X is a universal symbol that resonates across languages, cultures, and time zones" is almost certainly not the case. There are languages without nouns, languages with only two colors, languages with no tenses to differentiate time, etc.

Maybe twitter meant "it's a universal symbol that resonates across cultures which derive from the european middle ages"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_(symbol)
Are we sure that this should not be Carbon Monoxide rather then Carbon Dioxide. CO2 is the ideal result of complete combustion of a hydrocarbon. The only way it can be too high is if the engine is burning more fuel then it should be. Are they cheating on their CAFE standards? Usually tail-pipe emissions are checked for unburnt hydrocarbons, oxides of nitrogen, and carbon monoxide.
This sounds really exciting; I'll definitely try it. I loved (and bought) EV: Nova, and have been pining for something similar (an open-world, multiple-storyline, space opera/trading/2D-adventure game).

I tried playing X2 and X3 for a while, and they gave me some of that open-world space trading experience I was looking for, but I never got into them as intensely as I did with Nova. Maybe they were a bit too serious?

Anyway, thanks!
Somebody really needs to place an order for some of this stuff and see what happens.
Way back in the late 80's/early 90's I visited the USS Intrepid, a WW II carrier converted into a floating museum in Manhattan (to those in NYC: if it's still there it's well worth the visit).

Anyway, one of the (many) things that really impressed me was how easy it was to move the multi-ton antiaircraft gun turrets with just a hand wheel. Mechanical advantage FTW!
Nobody told me I was smart. Nobody had to.

Class was boring, but I got straight As. It was excruciating listening to other kids try to ask and answer questions because every goddamned thing they struggled with was so fucking easy. It was fucking horrible. It didn't change, all the way through high school.

Then I went to university, and I had a lifetime first: kids who knew things I didn't. Kids who corrected me on mistakes... and they were right. Kids who were as smart, or smarter than me.

For the first time in my life, getting graded on a curve meant I had to fucking work instead of just doing nothing and then blowing the curve for everyone else.

I desperately wish I'd had that experience at a younger age. It would've been awesome. But I didn't.

Gifted classes would've been great, but my school didn't have much of that.

The thing you're failing to understand is that the problem isn't that the kids are told they're smart. It's that they're actually smart. Not telling them doesn't change shit.
Apple phones definitely do seem to have a longer lifespan, I agree that quality being the cornerstone of their branding provides a very strong incentive for them to do this, with other manufacturers (my experience is mostly with Samsung) seeming to take a more it'll be fine, after 2 years the S(current+2) will be out and they'll want that anyway because it will be far better hardware type approach. It's one of the reasons I'm now strongly considering switching over to the iPhone after my current Samsung S4 finally dies (it's still just about crawling along with some problems after about 28 months since I bought it)
Ask HN: WHy did you break mobile browsing?
Reading comments is impossible without constantly swishing the page left and right just to read the long lines of text.

Please undo this change, or fix it so we can read comments on our phones the way God intended.

Sheesh.
There's a handful of conspiracy theorists who think SELinux is an NSA backdoor. That's my only guess.
I want to see it for Phrygian Gates
It might be related to Crosswalk[1], their mobile webview implementation.

[1]: https://crosswalk-project.org/
Having awesome oil revenues probably helps.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_harmfulness

Notice that heroin is the worst, both personally and socially. This is well established. Also, I would not use popular media as the basis for any sound argument. :(

Herion junkies lead a functional life including work and family? Seriously, what the fuck?! Cite just one source that heroin addiction is controllable because the addict uses "clean" heroin. Heroin addiction is the problem, not the adulterants, so purity is unimportant.

Wow. :(

Edit: This is the first time I wished I could downvote. lol. "Clean" heroin...
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Imagine, you roll up to the fulfillment center yourself. You laugh to yourself that its basically a Walmart.
[on-topic, but somewhat identifying comment removed] I didn't realize I was actually properly unhellbanned. I prefer the echo. :/
Modern cranes look under-engineered precisely because they are properly engineered.

We have the ability today to do much better structural analysis than in the 19 century so a device can be built with much less material than required then. We can build a mechanism with just enough material to provide a known 10x safety factor. Back then they had no choice but to overbuild to be sure that there was adequate margin.
Actually, central banks in both the US and Europe have very little control over the money supply.

The money created by central banks only accounts for about 3% of the monetary base, the remaining 97% of money that circulates in the economy is created by private banks, lending money out of thin air. Therefore money supply is actually dictated by how confident private banks are to lend to the public. A central bank can try to incentivize lending by lowering interest rates, but in the end it's private banks who choose whether to lend or not (in Europe it didn't work so well..).

It's still a pretty fucked up system either way. I think more people should work on the issue of money supply, it's probably the single most important problem in any economy.
Building a new content strategy from the ground up is damn hard
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might be related. a lot of money has flooded into canada because of the chinese. see: real estate.
That volume subcommand is critical to any description of Docker as "production ready". Docker defaults to leaving volumes "dangling" on the filesystem and there was previously no supported way to remove them. Really glad to see this make it in.
Digital signage would also produce some level of shopping anxiety as it could lead to situations where customers saw prices of books change automatically while on the shelves.
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Web Payments Working Group at W3C aims to streamline online checkout
Thing is to reduce the electrical output of a reactor, you can either reduce the thermal output, but then the entire reactor core needs to cool, or you have to reduce the efficiency of the electricity generation. In the first case we are talking about a timescale of days and in the second case you are burning fuel for nothing. So NPRs are not designed to do much of the second.
Anyone else remember using ResEdit on original Escape Velocity plugins? Probably my first introduction to hexadecimal as a kid, heh. Loved the game (and meta game of discovering how to tweak things myself) and excited to try this out.
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:-)

My answer to this on Quora (among other answers):

https://www.quora.com/Programming-Interviews/I-want-to-find-...
True, that's why I qualified it as an opinion - it's just a hunch of mine.
There are only a few currencies (USD and maybe Euro) that circulate outside of the issuing country on a significant scale, but even for the USD the amount of cash outside of the country is puny compared to the worldwide dollar holdings. So strictly speaking money never leaves. It is easier to get the concept right to instead say that you now prefer to use the USD as the accounting unit for your assets.

EDIT: To clarify: "cash" refers to paper currency and coins; "dollar holdings" refers to dollar denominated assets.
I'm there right now and loving it!!! It's fun scanning the books and seeing the price be so much cheaper than the suggested retail. The selection is massively more interesting and less stale than other bookstores. Also very seattle oriented.
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That's not the context that everyone else is referring to. They are referring to this:

"[NERD NOTE: A terawatt is a trillion watts. The entire planet’s electrical consumption is right around 5 terawatt-hours. One TWh (terawatt-hour) is a constant flow of a trillion watts of electricity for a period of one hour.]"

The argument others are making (which I think is correct) is that it is meaningless to say "The entire planet’s electrical consumption is right around 5 terawatt-hours" without specifying a time frame over which that consumption occurs.
The more you think about it, both the indie book store owner and Amazon would have no incentive to participate. The indie book owner wouldn't want to give away 20% of gross sales to survive, because there isn't much there to begin with.

If Amazon books takes off, maybe they franchise it out and allow personal branding of some kind.
Opensource Android App about Face Recognition on GitHub:HowOld
seems like spam, would flag if I could.
It doesn't matter if using meth will 100% guarantee that someone's life is ruined, people still need to have that freedom. Because denying it actually leads to worse outcomes, and worse negative externalities.
This can be overcome (at least on my Nexus 6) by zooming out. Unfortunately it appears that you have to zoom out every time you enter the comment section.
> I'm yet to hear a reason for why I, as an user, should like to have a TC platform.

When you are in control of the trusted keys loaded in your machine, this allows you -the computer user- to defend against several classes of attacks, including many Evil Maid attacks.

Many Linux distros and most open source security software projects sign their releases for a really good reason.

"Trusted Computing" takes this a step further by pushing this signature verification into a tamper-resistant part of the computer, and verifying everything on the system, including (on some systems) the bootloader and the UEFI firmware.

It's only when the end-user doesn't have control of the trusted keys loaded into his computer that TC becomes something that can be used for great evil.
I ran 5 calendars simultaneously recently to choose a preferred option.

I went with Google calendar with Outlook a close second (also tried sunrise, cal and Business calendar). I quite liked Outlook and would have gone with it as my joint mail/calendar but found it would slow down and crash with larger mail accounts.

Whatever you like its quite a good option to install several and use them side-by-side to get a feel what you like. I did the same with mail clients too and ended up with Nine, again Outlook being a close second.
Opensource Android App about Map on GitHub:BaiduMap-TrafficAssistant
On a Mac, Safari converts the postscript to a PDF on the fly when you click on the postscript link in the article.
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I thought I have read that with CompStat, precincts also started fudging what crimes they were writing up. Major offenses were getting written up by police as smaller offenses to "cook the books".
I've sometimes wondered what would happen if a very careful and serious look were taken at what biological systems do for homeostasis. We might still be at the point where we don't feel--don't recognize the value yet--that we can spare the cycles, since in some sense you get parallelism for free in bio.
I agree that seems like too many people working on it. I think brooks law would start to dominate.
Flagged. This should be n 'show' if someone wants to promote or get comments.
This is a very good point, but I have a counterpoint: I suffered through a year with the 6 before downgrading to the 5S last month. My only regret? Waiting so long to ditch the 6.
Extrapolating from Buffet's advice, the thing to do when others are uncertain and don't know what's going would be to be extremely certain and know precisely what's going on!

Accomplishing this is left as an exercise for the reader.
I've actually seen your posts before and know about your service. I'd love to check it out but, I'm out of state :-( I'm honestly surprised there isn't a service where I can just do a google hangout with someone to help get me up to speed.
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That doesn't load either.
> China has a huge problem, however, in that property was bought already with upfront taxes and the assumption of no property taxes. Introducing a property tax now is going to make those people mad, understandably.

Why would you assume economic rules would never change? Just because there is no tax today does not mean there's no tax tomorrow. If anything, you should aways be assuming taxes will be higher in the future.
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> just a string-based templating system

Not sure what you mean. Pollen is derived from Racket's text-based DSL, Scribble. Like Scribble, Pollen lets you embed Racket-style S-expressions in your documents. Moreover, Pollen documents compile into X-expressions (= the Racket equivalent of SXML).
I think the best way to search for a subject for papers is to build a mapping between subjects and people/ conferences and incorporate that to searching.
Sure, I've heard of all of those things. What do they have to do with your claim?

You claimed that "a few tons" of uranium or plutonium, dispersed, could "kill the population of a continent".

Sorry, that's nonsense.

Have you heard of arithmetic? Try doing some. Start by figuring out how many tonnes of air there are over North America, then figure out what concentration of plutonium would result from dispersing a "few tonnes" in that volume of air.

Hint: Not nearly enough to kill everyone on the continent. Likely not even enough to make the cancer rate go up by any measurable amount.

Here, I'll even help you out a little. North America covers about 25 million square kilometers, or 25 trillion square meters, and there are roughly 10,000 kg of air over every square meter at standard air pressure, so we're looking at about 2.5x10^17 kg of air, or 2.5x10^14 metric tonnes of air. Plug in whatever number you like for a "few" tonnes of radioactive material and figure out what concentration will result.
I think his point is that (a) it's hard to say meth is that much worse than other hard drugs like heroin or crack, and (b) over-the-counter meth that's of a guaranteed potency and without adulterants might not be as harmful to the user as the bluish, vinegar-smelling stuff your second cousin Skeeter cooks up.
Neither is the person who modded this down, apparently. :-)
What mechanism are you talking about? The eurozone had low interest rates and no QE -- pretty much the epitome of "hands off".
Load following is a technical issues--nukes are limited in the amount they can load-follow. But winds cannot load follow at all and solar can help some, but doesn't necessarily help cover peak daily load. For example, yesterday in California the system peak load was at 5:49 pm, but solar PV peak was at 9:44 am. data: http://content.caiso.com/green/renewrpt/20151102_DailyRenewa...

Nukes aren't great for load following, but they can load follow some--which is better than wind and solar. To really load follow, you need hydro or nat gas turbines (though nat gas combined cycle can load follow).
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> but no one wants to live near it

Source? Can I buy a house near a nuclear plant for 50% off? If so I'm down. I'll even increase my "risks" by buying a Ferrari with the savings I made off the irrational fools :)
If I change RMB to USD and then buy a house in the states, the money has left. If I just leave it in a bank in China, you are technically correct. If I transfer the money to a US account, China now has to transfer some of its dollar reserves to that bank.

No one is changing RMB to USD and just keeping that in China, you don't even get interest on that.
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