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This is the paradox of software development - to do things the easiest and most simple way you need higher order understanding of the entire ecosystem.

"starter" "simple" "easy" "minimal" don't mean the same thing depending on the context.

"minimal" can require alot of stuff when you are building a "minimal" application that includes data access, styling, configuration, modular organisation, internationalisation, build tools etc etc
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> They dislike point blank denial of facts such as that of human-caused climate change perpetuated mostly by conservative think tanks and consumed by an undereducated population of people who legitimately don't know better.

The left disregards science when it suits their politics as well, e.g. IQ - https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/645301814955388930

Regarding the opposites-list - just because someone doesn't consider himself an "ingenious, deep thinker" doesn't mean he thinks he's a dumb, shallow thinker. It's all relative - who or what are you comparing yourself to? Compared to Steven Pinker, I'm a dumb, shallow thinker. Compared to the average American, I'm probably ingenious, a deep thinker. The statement as given is not quantifiable on a 1-5 scale.
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Yes, you can set an arbitrary point as the pickup address on Uber for iOS without Location Services.
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I don't know your familiarity with the Bible, but there's nothing in it that tells us to not seek knowledge, there is nothing in it that tells us never to question creation. The way I look at it: If a God did indeed create us, and intended us to be his savage servants for life, he wouldn't have created us with a mind capable of excelling beyond that state.

I don't want to get into a huge theological thing, my policy on this is always the same: You do you, I'll do me, and we'll get along fine. If we get to a point where we can find out what the afterlife is, if it exists, then we can re-evaluate beliefs at that point, but I don't think we're anywhere close to that, so until then I'll keep my faith and all I ask is the respect that anyone else would deserve.
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The divisions here run along the class and cultural heritage lines. You live and work mostly with your peers, but interact with people from outside your groups a lot. The population density is much higher in UK (and Europe in general), and we have a lot of migration, so it is difficult to construct a boogeyman out of a whole cloth.

I would think that people feel that the way outgroups go about their lives is bonkers, but that most of the ingroup people are crazy in their own right.
Startups are cool because there are fewer people who get in the way. And, at larger companies, they actually pay people to get in the way.
IRC?
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Even if it was $200, you get about as much mileage out of a single-machine license for Windows as you would out of, say, a hard drive or a video card, and you don't see anyone complaining about having to pay for those. I think people even understand that most of the price for those items goes toward paying employees and keeping the lights on, not physically building the device. What gives, people? What gives?
> The problem is really that we live in a culture that does not value education very highly, nor does it enable good forms of it for the majority of our nation.
> Pardon me if a few of those don't seem obviously better to more than just liberals than their alternatives. I know a lot of conservatives who would be exceptionally proud to call themselves inventive, sophisticated, deep thinkers with passions in art and literature.

You may think it obviously better, but the question is about "openness to new experiences." I.e., if you think if yourself as an ingenious, deep thinker, but prefer only 'sophisticated art, music and literature' I see someone whose ego won't allow for new experiences.
Woah. I opened the bug request (https://bugs.launchpad.net/duplicity/+bug/1498877) for Duplicity. It's so cool to see that y'all must've noticed. I'm definitely hoping to do what I can to help drive your presence on Linux!
Fandoy war? This basic privacy/security feature has been in iOS since forever. It is as common sense as you can get. Not having it is actually outright hostile towards users. I've used both Android and iOS for some time and I can tell you without a shadow of doubt that iOS is far superior.

In the meantime... talk to me when Android gets this basic feature in 6.0.
You know, I was actually the same way and instantly started searching for ways to disable it to no avail (aside from a simple setTimeout grease monkey script). After I've had it for awhile, I've come to actually enjoy it because a lot of times I've been on the verge of passing out while watching TV, wishing I could turn it off without moving and breaking out of my close-to-falling-asleep state.
I believe the number is somewhat less than 99 percent. If you are referring to the Cook study, the study borders on fraudulent, to be kind. Hard to type using my phone, I have a couple of posts from 70 days or so ago explaining my problem with that study.

No one really knows how big that consensus is, or what the consensus even is. Too much noise in the way.
Sounds like a joke.
Now, that's a very valid criticism. I don't care about his personality, but testing the car on live roads is asinine. And, this journalist jumps in and excitedly plays up how he was afraid for his life, etc.

Yeah, instead of going after the sensationalism, how about you discourage him from endangering the lives of others who weren't given the opportunity to make such a stupid decision?
That's a very motivated Xbox player to do any of that.
No, you'll be down voted for being pretentious. This is a lazy, "I'm so superior hahaha look at how great I am" comment.

You're being this guy.

http://www.theonion.com/article/area-man-constantly-mentioni...
I'm glad someone caught it. :)
That's why App Review exists – Apple could theoretically only give this ability to select apps that apply for it. They do this currently with "Network Extensions", for the ability to write a custom VPN plugin because it involves giving a third party app access to all network traffic from the device. There are always good compromises to solve these problems when you maintain 100% control over your software.
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As a matter of fact, a leading philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn would agree with that. He talks about science progressing by way of paradigm, and graduate programs a way to induct people into a paradigm.

The book is called The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Very interesting read.
Absurd. Codes are as error prone as the humans that write them. You entrust your life with other drivers every time you get on the road.

I would take the hacker culture of Google or Apple over drunk brosefs driving from one bar to another on a Saturday night every time.

In fact I hope for the day that driving on public roads would become illegal by humans.
As far as I understand it, always fetching HEAD was the default because Go was developed with Google's giant monorepo full of vendored dependencies in mind, where doing this is both safe and sane.

FWIW, I've been using Go 1.5's vendoring alongside govendor and it seems pretty nice. While this situation is a bit of a disappointment given the generally awesome tooling in Go, it's hopefully something that will be resolved soon.
We're talking about driving here; we already move fast and break things, that's the problem. Google's koala cars move slow and have a foam front end.
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And, yet, she still makes more money than in her home country.
TypeScript is awesome, and using the same code client and server is also a great benefit. However, I would like to inject a little bit of skepticism. JavaScript is not the most popular language. TIOBE, for example, ranks it #8. It's a great language for you, but last time I checked, the Java and Ruby shops were still hiring. And it's a bad sign when your community isolates itself by creating its own jargon, like "isomorphic". "Isomorphic" means that something has the same shape, but the term we're really looking for is "portable", "runtime agnostic", "environment agnostic", or something like that. Java called it "write once, run anywhere" and it's clear that the terminology used here is more driven by marketing than by actual technology.

But don't take it personally. HN truly has hate for every language (name a language it doesn't hate!), and the internet supports sharing your hatred with others more than it supports sharing love.

You've found a system that earns you money by writing software, and that itself earns you some respect here.
I did some preliminary testing on this a few months ago, which we might pick up again someday and try to publish as a short paper. I haven't looked closely yet at what the author did, and I've forgotten some details of what I did, but I can speak generally to our implementation comparing branching and branchless.

For repeated lookups, the first couple levels will all be hit in L1 cache regardless of which way the comparison goes. The branch prediction penalty is about 15 cycles, and the L1 access is about 5. The next level might be in L2 at 12 cycles, then the next few levels are in L3, with a ~40 cycle access time, then RAM with 100+ cycles of access. The last few accesses will be within the same 64B cacheline (128B with buddy prefetch), and thus will be in L1 after the first access.

The branchless conditional move approach has a data dependency, while the branching "if" approach is a control dependency. Modern processors "run ahead" with speculative execution past control dependencies (executing the instructions for one branch but not retiring them), while the conditional moves are issued but cannot be executed until the corresponding comparison has been made.

Because of speculative execution, the branching approach effectively has a 50% accurate automatic prefetcher that runs several iterations ahead. The math works out so that for some access patterns this can be a significant advantage. The speed gap can be closed (and if I remember correctly, reversed) by adding explicit prefetch instructions to branchless approach. The branching approach can also benefit from judicious use of prefetch, so that each branch fetches acts as a prefetch for the opposite branch, which makes for faster recover after a branch prediction error.

As the author concluded, we also found that a batch approach could be beneficial. You can mitigate latency from RAM (and even from L3) if you can arrange to have about 10 outstanding requests at a time. For a single core, batch and prefetch approaches had similar top speeds. For multicore (untested) presumably the excessive memory bandwidth of the "wrong" prefetches would give the advantage to batch. Similar to the author's experience on Broadwell, we found that on Haswell the SIMD gather had minimal advantage over repeated scalar loads. We have a Skylake machine coming soon, and are hoping the hardware gather approach might finally take the lead.
Doesn't solve warmth.
> Similar to the author's experience on Broadwell, we found that on Haswell the SIMD gather had minimal advantage over repeated scalar loads.

I've read that VPGATHERDD is microcoded to N separate loads on Haswell, unfortunately.
> "Me -> 0-18 Kansas. 18-35 Colorado. 35-42 NYC and Aspen. There are friendly people everywhere. There are assholes everywhere. The notion middle America has disdain for culture and intellectual achievement is two parts in conflict:"

Please point out to me where I said that middle America has no culture and we're all friendly, and that the coasts are nothing but cultured snobs.

While you're doing that, look up the definition of "flyover states" and tell me what it says and why I probably brought it up.
What effective alternative would workers in this situation have to improve working conditions other than striking?
This is why we need to decentralize the CA function. Let's Encrypt is a good start.

I can't get over how awful it is that in the year 2015 practically every website in the world is secured by paying gobs of money to a member of some shadowy cabal of random companies that are in every browser's default trust list because somebody knew somebody who knew somebody who worked at Netscape in 1995.
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I really like his 4 stage definition of self driving car. I don't really care about the fully autonomous like the google car. I've driven the adaptive cruise control VW in europe and that was an amazing experience. The only thing missing was lane control which this guy has done. Personally, where self driving really shines is long trips on the highway. All I really want is smarter cruise control that can stay on one lane and not bump into anything, and ideally send an alarm if it thinks it needs help.
Honest people don't make typos that pass the checksum based on my experience at $DayJob.
Yeah, I know the rationale behind why index funds exist. The majority of my wealth is in them, after all.

The parent poster, however, is asking "What's the catch? Where's the trade-off to investing in index funds, and what sort of new systemic risks does widespread adoption of them bring to the financial system?" He's right to ask that: there is always a catch, because the financial system is about distributing & incentivizing the wealth of society and doesn't directly produce any wealth itself.

I'm saying that the catch is in diminishing returns from the index itself. A well-subscribed index fund, by definition, will always give you the median return of the market it tracks. I'm saying that the effect of large amounts of capital pouring into index funds is that the mean and median returns will diverge. Market inefficiencies become more prevalent as fewer eyes are on each business; as a result, people who successfully exploit them become richer than they would otherwise. Wealth becomes increasingly more concentrated in the few people that actively invest (usually with insider information) and do so successfully. Passive investors continue to make the median return, but the median return falls further behind the mean return.

We're seeing exactly this phenomena right now. I haven't seen anyone else who has explicitly linked it to the rise of index funds & passive investing, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's related.
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It's a custom on HN. Look what happened when DropBox was announced on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
The people who mindlessly click 'Yes' are generally the ones who don't care about the privacy implications of enabling such things though. I know I care, and I have uninstalled several apps after they've started asking for ridiculous permissions to enable non-essential features that I don't care about.
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Does anyone know why people write sentences like this?

> Pinterest found AMP pages load four times faster and use eight times less data than traditional mobile-optimized pages.

Does "Eight times less data" seem insane to anyone else? Shouldn't it be "one eighth the data" or "twelve and a half percent of the data"

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, because I always see things written like the article and it seems to make ~zero~ sense.
I think you have a good point about the generally-accepted ranges for sea level rise being smaller than the figure Wanless mentions.

The thing that has people worried is that the mass losses from glaciers are large, not well-accounted for, and they could accelerate. (The sea level rise from volume increases due to temperature rise of the oceans are much smaller and much easier to account for.)

Looking carefully at the IPCC summary (your [2]), it seems that 1m is the current top of the likely range for rise by 2100, even including possible loss of Greenland and the Antarctic glaciers.

Here's a sample of the reactions to a recent, high-profile paper that put forward a 3m rise by 2100: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/07/150721-james-hans...
You don't say which phone, but this behavior sounds like Samsung Smart Pause[0]. It's possible that it was not related to the app/ad vendor.

[0] http://www.samsung.com/uk/support/skp/faq/1053479
Excellent question, goes straight to the heart of it.

Does a public declaration of strong allegiance to religious views say something actionable about a person or not?

Do people feel that strong religious beliefs are a direct threat to themselves and their loved ones? Or is it just something a person "carries in their head", harmlessly, and acting on the perceived dangers would be bigotry, as dragonwriter says?

Is pre-emptive (verbal) defence against ideologies and memes ever justified?

I submit that the answer is usually determined by economy in the end, not by philosophising. Is it more cost-efficient to do indiscriminate public shaming of certain ideologies, or is it cheaper to defer punishment to a concrete person after having observed concrete damage? Note "damage" can mean different things to different people (money lost, limbs lost, emotional anguish...).

In genetic evolution, the answer turned out to be clearly "discriminate!". Organisms take strong, immediate reactions based on observable surface characteristics of the other party (the phenotype), without performing deep analysis of its particular gene combination or its mutations, or waiting for their concrete manifestation in action.
Obviously you were downvoted for making a point.

My personal intellectual growth was stunted for quite a long time because so much of the opposition were so dismissive and egotistical about things that were discussed. They were obviously right, I was obviously backward and they never felt the need to explain any of it because obviously a dumb, backward redneck would NEVER understand these complex thoughts.

When you engage in a discussion, you can either pursue the enhancement of your ego, or pursue the conversion of the opponent, and you can never do both. The vast majority of people go for the former.
OK, but binary search shouldn't have predictable patterns? So in a classic example, if the search isn't "obvious" 50% of the time we'd have an "unconditional" MOV, removing dependencies but also 50% of the time we'd have wrongly predicted branch. Maybe the testing was on a too obvious example?
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I think assuming the OC is a Nazi goes a bit far...

But to your point - yes of course it's ok to disassociate with someone who is advocating violence or National Socialism, because it can reasonably be inferred that said person isn't rational, or has a twisted sense of morality than makes associating with them damaging to yourself. However, I'm assuming that's not the case here - it had come in vogue in SWJ and intellectual circles to immediately disregard anyone who has an incorrect opinion. Vote republican? You obviously are a terrible human being. Fall in line with the Democrats except you think abortion is wrong? Kill yourself.
You've missed the point of what I'm saying. I'm suggesting that minimum wage increases aren't detrimental on their own, they're detrimental when combined with reduced competition. A minimum wage increase in an area with strong competition for consumers is likely to be a net win.
Can someone with knowledge answer questions about the current state of autonomous cars:

1) What do these cars do in ambiguous driving environments: construction zones, poorly/under relined lanes, freshly paved roads, hazards, dark/rainy roads where camera images are useless, etc.

2) How do these cars handle system failure while driving? Blown tire, engine failure, etc.

3) Is there "Moral Decision Engine" code in current generation cars? E.g. person runs out in front of an autonomous car, the car chooses to spare the person by veering off and hitting some inanimate object. I can imagine a class of accidents in traditional hands-on cars where a driver hurts himself in order to avoid harming a pedestrian. Is such moral logic hard wired into autonomous cars?
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>Politics are people's private business

What twisted hoops did you have to jump through to say something like that? "Private politics" is not politics. It makes no sense to say something like that. Politics is explicitly about interacting with other people in a non-private way.
"I've used both Android and iOS for some time and I can tell you without a shadow of doubt that iOS is far superior."

Nope, no fanboying here, move along folks.
I'm just wondering what did you do with the money? This was a solid source of income for someone that age, did it make any massive changes or just increased your quality of life?
I call it "the super computer in my pocket", but that label doesn't seem to be catching on.
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I used to work at Subway ~10 years ago and a deaf couple would always come in and order with their sidekicks. They would even tell us jokes! Thanks for digging up that memory for me :)
If they brought it up in an interview at all, that means that it was part of their decision. The way he portraits the line of questioning, his having quite narrowly dissenting opinions (that is to say, any own opinions at all) was a dealbreaker.
Chapter 14 is twenty-four carat gold. Would love to see optimize.com as a dedicated site with Rosetta Code-style ports of optimization recipes across languages, platforms ;)

Quick link to grab all five manuals:

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The fundamental problem is that iceberg collapse usually follows an exponential model, but as with all exponential formulas, a small change in the constants yields humongous differences in the long run.
Imagine the day an AI vehicle causes an accident that otherwise would not have happened.

Even if AI cars are statistically better than humans on average, it's an issue of control. It's true that most accidents are avoidable and caused by human error, but most people are (perhaps overly) confident in their own ability to drive safely (this is also why people text and drive).