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Every time I read an ever more ridiculous "present continues into the future, unchanged, unlimited" claiming ever more billions of Africans, I think to myself a quote right out of this article “I couldn’t feed more children,”.

What I'm not sure is why. My guess is its financial propaganda such that if you assume food, jobs, energy, and economic activity will magically fall from heaven, then a company selling housewares would logically expect tripling the population would result in triple revenue leading to more than triple profits. That sounds like nice clickbait, and the bar rises every time clickbait is published, so I'm not surprised the bar right now is 4 billion africans. I'm sure to keep the financial press happy it'll be up to 8, maybe 10 billion by the end of next year.

Reality of course, with declining energy supplies and declining raw material and declining farmland, and increased lethality of weapons, is the 3rd world is going to take a bigger hit than the rest of the planet, so there's likely to be a modest population decline via the traditional unpleasant to think about methods.

There's a tragedy of the commons effect where on a societal level if at the gut level you know declines are coming, you're better off if everyone has fewer kids, but on an individual level both you AND all your other kids are better off if you have a larger family unit.
I love the idea, but sadly I'm reminded of existence of sales and marketing. They'll game the shit out of that index, just like they do with everything else that matters.
I could try that. But I think I eventually want something more flexible. For example, when listening to a song, I want the system to automatically pick songs that are similar to that song. Or I'd like to pick songs based on instruments used, tempo, origin, language, genre, etc.
Or as an alternative, they can invert! It really does save a lot of money.
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I cancelled all TV from my FiOS bill last month and I couldn't be happier. $175 was being flushed down the toilet every month.

The biggest thing, that no news article really captures, is that even if you sign up for a $50/mo TV package, the actual price is closer to $100/mo when you include taxes, fees, DVR rentals (!), etc. No thank you!

Like another commenter said, I think a hurdle for the average person is living without TV shows on a fixed schedule. Most people are used to leaving the TV on, or mindlessly flipping channels until anything satisfies you. I could not hope more to move away from that world, and I think that people are finally starting to do that.
according to John Martinis, the quantum computing era is coming, but it is a slow and gradual process like most research
>> We reduced the number of UwS warnings that users see via AdWords by 95%, compared to last year. Even prior to last year, less than 1% of UwS downloads were due to AdWords.

That 95% drop is great! That 1% number must still be quite a large number though, ~1% of the ads they show must be well into the millions?
Is it possible to connect to a remote server? Didn't find anything in the docs.
Why? Its not really warranted by the article
That's probably why the comment above that pointed it out called it a "minor error."
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Its just game theory more or less...
Then why do you use their services? You know certain companies provide a free service because they can serve ads alongside with the service and this is how they operate. You chose to use their business, but to obstruct their business model intentionally. This is hypocrisy at its finest.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not mad at all. Well, a little bit, but for a totally different reason. Advertising is not going anywhere. In fact, it will grow incredibly in the coming years. And the actions and attitude of people like you will make it way more invasive and amoral than it currently is.

Congratulations on running adblock. You stuck it to the man!
Here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10698317

and also more importantly here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10707442

TL;DR: Google researchers demonstrated that DWAVE2X quantum annealing against one classical (i.e. normal computer) algorithm (on one CPU core) - simulated annealing, was asymptotically (i.e. more than just by constant factor) better, but was not against another classical algorithm quantum monte carlo (QMC) that is, the difference was constant. In fact, it was 10^8 times faster and that is generating all the hype.

Now, it was mentioned in the paper that Selby algorithm on classical computer would actually produce better results than DWAVE2X but it was not compared against it (maybe because it would minuscule the amazing 10^8 times difference).

Also it is worth mentioning that special solutions in silicon (ASIC) are demonstrated to produce about 10^6 faster results compared against the same algorithm on a single CPU core (it does not follow that such speed up is possible for every classical solution).
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I often see this sentiment; does anybody actually have anything to back it up? The underlying thought seems to be that TV packages must be more profitable for multichannel operators than Internet. Is that true? Your cable operator has to split the TV bill with content providers. Comcast acts as ESPN's bill collector (good deal for ESPN, they don't get the hatred from the rising bills.) With Internet there is no bill to split. I once read that Internet is more profitable for Comcast than TV.
Windows will not boot in UEFI mode if the partition table is of MBR kind. One must manually enable the BIOS legacy mode, hence the comment on modern Windows systems (younger than 4 years, say).
Not just messy, sometimes no one really knows what the rules are since you are trying to reconcile two completely different tax codes.
Oberon-2 had runtime-checking of pointers: It could check the validity of a pointer and immediately panic rather than return garbage or crash with a page fault. Similarly with arrays.

Wirth did some nice things with type safety, of course (I've always liked his type-safe set/range types), but he never was much into type systems. For example, his set and range types were hardwired into the language; you couldn't build a set-like type yourself, or build something that acted as a range, or overload any of the standard function such as inc() or min(), or indeed any type coercion. With the exception of Oberon-2's (limited and highly Go-like) notion of abstract classes, nothing was polymorphic, every type was only "itself" and their purpose was always entirely about holding data. This is what I mean by his type systems always being "simple". He was attacking practical engineering problems, not type-theory problems.

Go is exactly the same. Swift isn't; it has generics and sum types and protocols and OO and pattern matching and lambdas and a bunch of other stuff that Wirth would probably find too complex (his last few languages tended towards mercilessly removing features).

I don't disagree that Wirth's languages are more advanced than C, though!
> Like another commenter said, I think a hurdle for the average person is living without TV shows on a fixed schedule.

The biggest hurdle is sports. Being a sports fan and a cord-cutter at the same time is really hard. Even if you subscribe to every pro sports digital package (which aren't cheap, by the way) you still miss out on all of the nationally televisions games, the blacked out local games, and all of the commentary surrounding sports.

Sadly this one is much harder to fix than movies. You can't just build a Netflix for sports because the broadcast rights are too expensive.
> you can't modify that software

That's offtopic. Some random website does not have the right to force me to run any particular software simply because I requested a page.

> EULA

...is not a contract! (in most cases)

> forcing you to load those websites

Nobody is, and I never claimed anything like that.

> proper offer

I'm saying that publishers don't get to simply invent new law. Contracts have hundreds of years of history, and they require certain elements to be present.

> Infringing on the publisher's rights

No rights are being infringed. You are simply refusing to understand that their rights end after they hand over the content... unless they have a contract that says otherwise. Sorry, but just because you don't like the doctrine of first sale and wish it didn't exist doesn't mean you get to make up "rights".

If I write a creative work, I have the right to not give or sell you a copy, and I have a temporary monopoly granted by the government that gives me the right to decide who can reproduce my work. I absolutely do not have the right to decide what you do with that work (besides making copies) once I hand it to you.

The self-entitlement is on the part of the publishers who want to invent a new right that covers use.

Note that publishers can try to detect adblocking all they want, and use any results of that detection (or lack of results) when they decide if they want to send me anything. The catch is that there is no guarantee that their request that I run a particular script, or that I even have a Javascript environment to run that script in the manner they are expecting. I suggest that it may be a bad idea to base your business model on an unreliable source.

As for "justifiable" - the advertising industry and the publishers that involve themselves with the ad industry are not exactly standing on moral high ground. If they don't like the hard line some of us are taking regarding ads, they should consider why we are doing so. Tracking is a malicious attack. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
It does that as well, and calls it "radios" for a given artist or song.
Top software engineers, especially in the field of machine learning and AI in general.
I believe the new Chromecast Audio is the cheapest solution here.. They have even added support for setting up zones. But if you insist on using iTunes i guess it's not an option for you.
Given that the situation was not ideal, what can we do to improve it? From the captain's point of view, he should learn to accept answers from less assertive people. From Linda's point of view, though, wishing that the captain would accept her answers is pointless. The only course of action available to her, if she wants to change things, is to be more assertive herself — Don't hope for change in others, effect change yourself.
Most western nations impose age limits on drinking and the purchase of cigarettes as well as limit advertising targeted at children. If it's addictive and potentially habit-forming, it should be regulated.
I've been TV free for about 10 years now (although I subscribe to Eurosport). I now find it strange when I go to someone's house and the TV is blaring away. The ads are just the worst, almost physically painful to experience.

I don't think it's too hyperbolic, even if it's a bit of a cliche, to liken TV to other addictive things. It's just too stimulating. Walk into a bar with a TV and you kind of find yourself watching it for no good reason. Watching a sport you don't like, with teams you don't support with the sounds off.
It works even when you know about it.

I only buy nurofen because it works for me better than the generic. There is no reason for that, I know there is no reason for that, I know I'm an idiot overpaying, I don't have pride or anything, I would be glad to have the generic work as well and I try from time to time. But it does not matter, I'm conditioned and I fear that the cost of unconditioning me would make Nurofen works like the generic rather than the other way around.
> I think the larger lesson here is that confidence is a good thing, but relying on it solely can fail miserably as a substitute for having actual knowledge about something.

That's exactly what the article is saying, if you follow it to the end: "What matters is that one's confidence be properly calibrated - neither too high, not too low. Very few of us achieve this."

The point is that without proper confidence, there's no chance of success. With proper confidence, there's at least a chance.

Hence the parallel to the "faint heart never won fair lady" aphorism: you're never guaranteed success in love without confidence, but you're guaranteed a shot you never otherwise would have had.
You seem to have a strange sense of morality. Looks like good marketing to me.
And what people will be blamed when the eventual famine comes?
"because the broadcast rights are too expensive"

They're in a bubble right now, and there is commentary in the sportsball press about what, for example, the NBA as a corporation will do when the bubble pops. Other than go bankrupt and emerge on the other side with the same people doing the same thing. Its a pretty serious concern for them.
There also a big difference between Magic cards and the Valve items -- Valve items are only cosmetic, while Magic cards derive their high value because they can make your deck stronger.
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Thank you, for your efforts, but there's still a long way to go.

I occasionally need to tell non-technical users to install WinSCP. Assume someone told you to download the software from the following page: http://i.imgur.com/1HoyMWz.png Where is the ad, and where is the download link?

It's better than last time I looked, since the ad is no longer a big green button labelled "download", but it is still misleading.
Simple material strength is not the only consideration. I'm not saying ULT4 rope would have been better in this case, but it is worth noting that ULT4 comprises strands which are not round and are arranged in a special pattern which among other things widens the contact patch with drums, sheaves, etc.

I'd like to see the design of the block with sheave that the rope came out of. Some designs have the rope quite captive, while in others it's easy for the rope to come out (sometimes intentionally).

The point is, there is a lot going on when you see one of these shows--it is truly "high performance."
> cheap hardware that would barely run the stock JVM

I run two stock JVM instances and Redis on a $10 DO VPS that serves ~700k pageviews per day

> arbitrarily ignoring whole classes of apps or languages because of some outdated bias (that i bet you just accepted from others and never tested yourself)

hmm
I can't give you data for US, but at the telcos I worked for, TV was the ONLY profitable part of the package. Internet and phone subscriptions were barely covering the operations (partly due to usage of obsolete copper technologies instead of fiber).

They were all scared to death of becoming a dumb pipe and are hedging their bets on selling content.
There are quite a few articles about the report ([0] for one of many of them) -- the lobbying efforts themselves are not generally made public anyway, but heathrow hasn't been particularly subtle about it -- It's at least the third or perhaps fourth 'consultation' on the subject. When it get refused, they just try again a bit later.

However there are concerted efforts to buy/silence the people most affected -- there's a proposal to buy houses are significantly over the market price for example for people 'most affected' -- however there is no mention of the millions of others in a circle of 15+ miles that are also affected.... let alone the fact they can't just collectively say 'no' like you'd expect in a democracy, for example.

[0] http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ad2918a4-6972-11e4-9f65-00144feabd...

Disclaimer: Beside the fact that I'm affected by this particular topic, I'm not an expert on it. The industry lobbying applies to many other topics tho, like planning permissions etc.
It's possible to get sports. Basically you buy a non-US version of a sports package like NFL GamePass and then stream the content through your phone. You can get any game without blackouts.

You'll need a VPN connection to a foreign country, and you may also need to get an app (eg NFL GamePass or NHL) from a foreign App Store. Android is easier I hear.
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I love his books. If you have any interest in math or its history, you will be rewarded by picking up one of his books.
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Juggling uniforms and buffers is something that will get messy fast unless you take the time to organize it early on. I wrote my own preprocessor that can dynamically bake values into the actual shader code (by injecting text and recompiling the shader during run time) - which is useful for putting in values that are determined by the CPU but more or less constant through the life of the program (the preprocessor allows other neat tricks like automatically binding a slider to a variable to test a range of values for that variable). This also saves time where possible by minimizing CPU-GPU communication. During one test I did (which certainly is not conclusive) I noticed uniform buffers performed slower than using normal uniforms - not in uploading the uniforms but rather reading them in the code. This may have been due to needing to compute an extra offset or something.
The unanswered question is, whether this always works with any metric that works with Dijkstra.

And the answer, I guess, is no. Dijkstra works with negative edge weights (although no negative loops). This doesn't translate to string. Also there are some other restrictions like that any edge is always symmetric where with Dijkstra it needn't be. A>B (3) and A<B (5) would be the lower for both with regards of the physics.

Edit: But it seems like for undirected graphs, the edge weights are always positive and by definition symmetric which is sufficient that string-dijkstra works.
We are not limited to run AMD64 cores. We can also have GPU cores and when some problems are really important to solve, we can run them on FPGA or create an ASIC for it.

Also we can expect that there would be computing centers what resources the mere mortals can access as a service as they can access the resources of the computer clusters today.

Very likely universities fill have their own quantum computers. Bigger ones first, then smaller ones.

I think that the situation is not that depressing but it definitely will create some disparity in the beginning.
I was reminded of that incident as well.

I think it's also worth noting that this was an illegal use of the DMCA. I'm of the mind that there should be liability for claimants knowingly misusing the DMCA to censor others.
Earlier Spotify desktop client was a state of art. 2 megabytes, every function works seamlessly.

It's developed by the same author of original uTorrent, Ludvig Strigeu.

Nowadays, Spotify kinda bloats with cef and funny feeling HTML5 UI.

Trivia: Ludvig Strigeus also developed Spotiamp http://news.spotify.com/us/2013/12/20/spotiamp-long-live-the...
The answer to "what's the best language?" should not be "language X", but "what are you making?"

Once you've defined the requirements, restrictions, and personal abilities, only then you can have a meaningful discussion on what the "best" language is - and even then there is more than one answer.
> I also see all kinds of other applications and the amazing way the Windows ecosystem just absolutely hums when setup and managed professionally

I think most of what you're seeing comes down to this: Windows works great if you have a healthy budget, a high-quality IT team and, critically, a strong sense of mission about making users productive.

Unfortunately, the average Windows user is lucky to have one of those three be true. The normal experience is indifference/incompetence, being forced to use enterprise software which has been in development for decades without once having a usability audit, arbitrary impediments being excused as security requirements, etc. In many cases, using a Mac or Linux box was popular because it was the de facto way to opt-out from the centralized muddle and, later, the rise of iOS meant that those IT departments were told to make their systems work with the CEO's new pride and joy rather than trying to customize it into uselessness.
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For those feeling confused: this is not the only book called Fermat's Last Theorem.

• Harold Edwards, Fermat's Last Theorem, 1977

• Simon Singh, Fermat's Last Theorem, 1997

(There may be others.)
Being on the false positive end of this system, it's incredibly frustrating having my site repeatedly flagged and not being able to do anything about it. There doesn't appear to be any way to contact a human except through the "Search Console" where the UI doesn't tell me what it thinks the problem is (http://i.imgur.com/LWrBINe.png), and Google's safe browsing list is the only thing that thinks there's a problem (100% clean on virustotal).
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Hi Hacker News Community,

My name is Julian and I'm the founder (non-technical) of Saveryday. Saveryday is a new marketplace that is gamifying retail. The way it works is that Saverydayers (aka users) spin a discount wheel and whatever discount the wheel lands on that's the discount the Saverydayer gets. However, if the Saverydayer is not satisfied with their discount they can pay a $1 to buy another spin but will lose their previous discount. They can buy as many spins as they would like but have to pay $1 for each spin. That is pretty much how Saveryday works. So this is my first startup ever and I'm really excited about it. However, I do know that there will be many challenges presented along this journey. I know that there are many intelligent people and successful founders in this community so I was wondering if anyone would be willing to offer any advice in general or how they overcame the challenges presented on their journey. I would really appreciate it. Also, In case anyone was wondering I am from Miami, FL. I always love meeting new people so if you're interested in chatting you can email me at jserna@saveryday.co. I look forward to reading all of your advice.

Thank You,
Julian
Nothing in the article mentions religion, and almost 50%+ of it discusses the very significant impact of a multitude of contraception education and resources, by various organizations around the world.
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Often the problem is that they do not have the talent to manage money. Giving them livestock causes them to work for rewards. Its easier for them to learn. There is a commitment required. Also people are willing to help them, in their learning. If they show willingness to earn rather than beg, people are more apt to help. Still, there needs to be an evaluation into the charter of the recipient. Some could sell the livestock and buy booze.
The difference is that in the US, if it was a picture he took himself, he was the actual owner of the copyright. The complaint was in the wrong if they simply confused their image with his.

It is unfair, but based on the inequality of legal resources, not because some third party owns a copyright on a picture that you take yourself.
I agree with your larger lesson, but it's worth noting that you don't get feedback about your answers being right or not until the end when no further answers are required, so the captain did not have empirical evidence of Linda's correctness. He will next time, however. :)
Or maybe they decided the math works out?