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Creativity, as I've said above, has to do with doing things apart from the norm, doing them differently to how they are usually done or how they have been done before.

Using that definition allows a relatively objective comparison of the creativity involved in various tasks. Of course, just how much creativity is involved depends on how the person concerned actually executes a task. (It is perfectly possible to write an incredibly uncreative poem, for example.) In that sense there is some subjectivity involved, but the subjectivity depends primarily on how the subject executes his task, not how he perceives it.

Going back to the production line: production lines were invented specifically to get rid of creativity. Ford wanted to ensure that every single car coming out of his factory was identical. The production line was his way of forcing equality, sameness - thus, the production line is the very antithesis of creativity. Of course, you might find a worker here or there who will work creatively on a production line. But I dare say he won't keep his job for long...
Pretty sure that was Neil deGrasse Tyson, from a talk about UFOs and other paranormal phenomena.
I'm a customer acquisition consultant for B2B software co's, so I've been involved in a fair amount of decisions around this. Without sharing specifics, I can objectively say that requiring prospects to contact you to learn about pricing will...

1. ... Weed out non-serious prospects such as students, freelancers, small businesses, etc.

2. ... NOT deter serious prospects (enterprise users). They are used to this process and even expect it.
> Apple Pay, Force Touch, Touch ID etc.

Yes, those Apple things were first shown on an iPhone. It doesn't means that those technologies were first shown on the iPhone
Nice start, but perhaps Magic can also suggest the user's password by searching for their email address in a database of known password leaks.
Beat iPhone? Get in line bro as its a loooong line.

All my banking/credit card apps on iPhone turned into Touch ID based starting this year. Last year this time I had to go through a battle to convince my fellow corporate colleague that the Touch ID is not some scary security breach wannabe like those found in androids.

This is what apple always do and still very good at, show the world how to turn technology into improving quality of average man's life, though far less than what men have hoped and so far is the only one who has manage to pull it off.

What Microsoft, IBM have done at most to affect people's work life, but nowhere near what Apple has done.

The rest of industry would be much better off if simple watch and learn. There is this mindset that's still light year ahead from what most have perceived.
No, I'm saying the person who did the leak or placed the camera did the breach of privacy. You want to say everyone looking at is also breaching the privacy. I'd say they are simply looking at the result of a breach not committing another one.

"There's a real dichotomy between the mostly universal opinion on here that ad tracking is a terrible evil, but downloading and investigating people's private data that was illegally obtained and distributed is okay."

What differs between these two is that the ad system is the person placing the camera, watching the video and distributing. The interested person is simply watching the video. Sure that doesn't seem fair to the victim but if they are not trying to exploit the victim I don't think it's a problem.
At the risk of stating the obvious, a From or Reply-To address of something@yahoo.com doesn't necessarily mean that Yahoo had anything to do with the message.
It's somewhat ironic to say you want to avoid groupthink and then to cite Wikipedia as your source.
>i have no idea why anybody cares what this lady says

Because she's the COO of Facebook and arguably one of the smartest executives in tech.
no, but primarily from a "we already know this" point of view.
What languages do you know currently?
> piloting it in the atmosphere where they have a much greater chance of running into an angel than another aircraft en route to a planned destination

Shall we compare the number of aircraft-angel collisions to the number of aircraft-aircraft collisions?
Looking at the first benchmark in the list you gave, just in-lining eval_A in the Python code (as the Ruby code does) makes the Python code competitive with the Ruby.

As usual, don't trust the Benchmarks Game; it's not nearly well enough controlled to be a useful data point.

(I do agree with your main point, though. CPython ain't that fast.)
Compare like to like: BARF vs CIHSBA the point still rings true.
I wasn't looking at it from that perspective. I was looking at it as a rideshare service. Example: a pilot already has a flight scheduled and you can join if there is room available. Not one where they are trying to make a living off of chartering people around.

Adding humans to these existing flights does not make them more dangerous, but creating more private charter flights may very well be more dangerous. There is some good data linked above that indicates they are equally dangerous.

YMMV I guess.
> The typing is in your head, where it doesn't get in the way.

If the typing's in your head, then why not write it down for the benefit of others? and for the personal benefit of automation provided by the compiler?

The answer is that for even the most basic systems, a model of its operation cannot be retained in a single person's working memory for even a moment, nevermind the duration of a incremental refactoring. People have trouble remembering phone numbers long enough to dial them. How are you supposed to remember the complex interactions of functions, libraries, and any state that they might be managing?

This is by far the greatest fallacy and self-delusion that is propagated by scripters. Talk about an assertion with a ton of evidence against it.
I've been using Google Wallet for a long time. When Apple Pay came out, more places started providing nfc readers, which made my Google Wallet (not called Android Pay) work in more places.
Seymour Papert, in The Children's Machine:

[O]n my reckoning, the fraction of human knowledge that is in the curriculum is well under a millionth and diminishing fast. I simply cannot escape from the question: Why that millionth in particular?
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Please be VERY wary of "legal class IIIa" laser pointers purchased in the US.

A few years ago, ICE and the FDA started cracking down on the importation of high-powered laser pointers. Instead of fixing the problem, it meant that every single imported laser is marked "Class IIIa" regardless of its actual output power, since the border agents rarely (if ever) test the actual output of the devices.

I had a friend test a green laser pointer purchased online in 2010 with a "<5mW" warning label on it using a ThorLabs optical power meter. It measured 41mW. A basic diffraction grating test also revealed a massive amount of dangerous IR leakage.
Honesty? it seems pretty boring. Look at their failure-rate: http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2015/11/04/surpris...

It'd be fun if there was an actual potential to be caught. This? Not so much
Sounds like a TOS violation
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That's not half. Its square root of n.
By cutting effort in half of 2^n you get only 2^(n-1).
Hello Seb : I'll be trying this with some students when we get back. Interesting move to include some programming / making objects.
Which was what to do with what? The question was regarding the definition of IFR, and I offered a clarifying statement that IFR does not typically prohibit flight at night. In fact, the US requires that 3 of your 40 hours (for PPL) be at night.

It's literally a requirement for a basic VFR PPL.
Private transport takes up way too much space and is also inefficient. Why spend the energy and resources to build a 1-2 ton car for transporting 1-2 people? It seems like an odd idea.
> retina displays, personal assistants, fingerprint scanning, 5ghz wifi

No (Toshiba), no, no (Motorola) and no (at least there was one smartphone, Galaxy S3, that had 5GHz wifi)

Funny how then you put the disclaimer about "being commercially successful,)
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The effective number of bits of entropy are cut in half.
I understand it's not intuitive, but the statistics are clear: If you have 100 times more people on commercial flights, then the flights would have to be 100 times less likely to crash to have the same risk to each passenger.

Let's break this into two specific questions (assuming the source is correct):

1) How likely is it that a specific flight will crash?

Answer: it's more likely that a private flight will crash than a commercial flight.

2) How likely is it that I will die on a private vs commercial flight?

Answer: your likelihood of dying is the roughly the same for both private and commercial flights.
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Really great package, I depend on it heavily for my codegen package. https://github.com/clipperhouse/gen
As referenced in the paper itself, section 6.1.
Google, Ford team up to build self-driving cars
I had this happen firsthand - witnessed two cars racing on the street, one hit a light pole, the other ran off.

I even knew at the time that eye witness testimony could be unreliable. I tried to keep in mind the description of the other car as I waited for the officer - and accidentally overheard another witness describe the car. I immediately could no longer discern whether the color in my mind was the real color or a newly formed memory.

It was super frustrating ... And frightening.
Except half your list is not accurate.

High resolution displays were around long before the iPhone 4 moved from their standard resolution. "Retina" is a branded term for a high resolution display from Apple. And in the current phone space, the iPhone 6S Plus lags quite a bit behind in terms of PPI and actual native resolution.

Similar arguments can be made for fingerprint scanning, personal assistant, 5 Ghz wifi and the waterproofing.
> the Touch ID is not some scary security breach wannabe like those found in androids.

I suppose that you will provide some examples of those security breachs
It's really not, hence why we get blog posts like this one.

workitout's response is less tongue-in-cheek, if you prefer that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10767440
Well he said "in terms of the effort needed to find a pre-image". For that effort won't be half.
It's worth getting to the bottom here, but like 'jacquesm' I think you are misinterpreting the data.

And the number of deaths is about the same per passenger mile flown.

Deaths per passenger mile is indeed the relevant metric, but this is not the number which is equal. Instead, the deaths per airplane mile are about equal. Since the commercial flights tend to have many more passengers, the passenger miles denominator will be greater by this ratio.

From a passenger's perspective, commercial flights are thus safer than private planes by this same ratio. I don't think the linked article gives enough information to calculate the ratio of passenger miles for GA and commercial, but 50x seems like it would be in the ballpark.
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But how did she escape being squashed by the word bossy? Didn't that dreadful word prevent her from becoming a facebook exec?
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Another vote for CODE - very well written book that's especially great for total beginners and novices.
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Hah good point. I wonder when it will become a crime to publish/link articles like that.
Not sure how exposed you were to clever soft propaganda in those 3 weeks in China :) As a Chinese, I can tell you I don't feel any social optimism at all.

1) Much political infighting at the top

2) The richer people are moving family to Canada / US / Australia

3) Credit bubble, bad debt in banks

4) Migrant workers and women from villages are constantly getting exploited without any protection

5) Pollution

6) Food is not safe to eat. People buying baby formula from overseas

7) I can go on and on...

Technological "innovations" don't solve problems in a society where there's no trust and no fairness. Please tell where those social optimism come from?
It's amazing that we take for granted our law generation process being so broken, that our only hope at sanity is to appeal to the closest commandment from the Bill of Rights.
Only if they choose to supply that information to Gravatar in the first place. Magic is not giving people the opt-in option, it's just opting you in whether you like it or not.
Best feature suggestion ever. But what would be cool is to do that, but instead of pre-fill in their password, notify them that they are using a password that is known to have been a previously leaked password of theirs.
Wait, what? Where is this? On the homepage and on the article page, I didn't see this. Was the website "hacked"?
LOL.

the coo of an online yearbook that's pimping clicks and pageviews. how does this make someone an expert on parenting, sexual discrimination, and all things education and hiring?
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Lots of European cities built these systems after WW2. Lots of Chinese cities have been doing it since the 2000s.
Apparently it makes sense.
When I see that a city like Seattle is not able to build mass transit between west and east side, and instead is maintaining gridlocked 10 lane "free"-ways and wider bridges I find that very comical. It is one of the main reasons I feel alienated every time I visit the area.
Makes sense, but what if you want to sell to both SMB and enterprise customers?
The most glaring problem with the iPhone and other smartphones is battery life. So if you want to beat the iPhone, build a smartphone that is comparable to the iPhone but can last a week or more on battery.
That's true, but it's easy to fix by using longer hashes (e.g. SHA-512). RSA and ECC are broken beyond hope.
> though far less than what men have hoped and so far is the only one who has manage to pull it off.

That's my thought process exactly.

I'd bet on Apple, but not because Apple is so amazingly good or impeccably perfect. They're not, not by far. It's just that everybody else is so outrageously incompetently bad, it's like they're not even really trying.
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Say what you will about Dustin Curtis, but everything he makes is just so nicely designed and enjoyable to use.

I'm curious about the pricing model: $20/mo for 2,000 requests. I wonder if you still pay for the request if it returns a non 200 or if their API can't find a name.
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What if the data is wrong? What if it prefilled in a username I didn't want to choose?
Would highly recommend you to read `Traction`. Brilliant book covering this exact topic.

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Well, here's another source. Here's what the most prominent full-time pro-LENR advocate/journalist these days thinks of Rossi: http://newenergytimes.com/v2/sr/RossiECat/Andrea-Rossi-Energ...
I clicked this mainly because I had skimmed the other piece from Sandberg saying that FB didn't need the MBA to be seriously considered.

This article (title included) appears to primarily be "clickbait." I didn't find any part of the piece particularly insightful. There are links advertising their own services/pages to help people with MBAs trying to get jobs, which leads me to believe this was primarily done for traffic
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Put your stuff under the metal table. If they object, tell them to check their handbook.

They are required to let you keep your eyes on your stuff, if you request this. When someone is ready for you, you put your stuff on the belt, and then go get groped.
I was proposing restricting to manual issuance of OV certs given that automated issuance is the source of most attacks.
It's very easy to beat up on vulnerable code and say it's "bad C++", but it's also irrelevant. Of course it was bad C++: it was vulnerable code. The problem is empirical and practical. In practice, nobody has managed to scale large C++ codebases up to hundreds of developers without introducing vulnerabilities. You're essentially telling Google "just hire better programmers". That hasn't worked for decades, and it's not going to start working now.

The idea of Rust in this regard is quite simple and obvious. Instead of trying to hire better programmers, just have the computer check to make sure these vulnerabilities don't happen. In contrast to the "just hire better programmers" suggestion, which has failed again and again for decades, this works very well in practice, as memory-safe languages have shown.

At the end of the day, yes, it's theoretically possible to hire hundreds of great programmers who always write perfect C++ with no memory safety problems or undefined behavior. But in practice it never works. Google is in fact in a better position than perhaps any other organization to do this; if it could possibly work for anybody, it surely would have worked for Google!

Rust is a choice grounded in pragmatism. Memory safety enforced by the compiler is the only way that we know of to scale up programs to large codebases with hundreds of programmers without introducing mistakes. "Hire better programmers" may work in theory. In practice, it has been tried again and again and has always failed.

(Also, std::set is not memory safe. It is vulnerable to UAF due to iterator invalidation: iterate over a set and remove elements, for example.)
> In particular, they put 0…N NUL bytes at the end, but you usually want exactly one NUL byte, no more, no less.

strncpy() does that but strncat() does not.

strncat(s1,s2,size) is usually wrong for a different reason: the size argument specifies how many bytes to copy from s2 to the end of s1 (not including the trailing NULL). This means to not buffer overflow your s1 you need to call it like this

strncat(s1, s2, sizeof(s1) - strlen(s1) - 1);

...Which of course everyone forgets. strlcat() is a nice replacement because it does that calculation for you, so you can just do:

strlcat(s1, s2, sizeof(s1));

and you won't buffer overflow your s1.
To add to my other, now un-editable response: inertia may also play a role -- the existing procurement processes for the drones have already been worked out; it's probably a lot easier to make an additional order for the same product.
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There are definitely still some communist elements there, like large state owned enterprises and a very controlling/authoritarian government.

But some of the key definitions of capitalism is quite entrenched in the society:

- means of production are privately owned

- profit-motive

- market-driven economy / competition

- inequality

- minimal government interference

China definitely does not fit all the hard-core capitalism definitions, especially the minimal government interference part, but it's closer to a capitalist economy than a communist one.

Lastly, no, the state does not guarantee employment, that has not been true for at least 30 years.
Bootstrap and jquery? When was this written, five years ago?
Not another Magic!
Cool feature though :)
I have been doing a lot of thinking on burnout and mental health recently. This is the product of a lot of research into these, as well as the effects of hobbies on mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety.

It was wonderful to be able to combine sharing my miniature painting hobby and some of this thinking.

It’s especially important this time of year to be cognizant of mental health concerns. A big way to help spread this awareness is to talk and write about it.
Your comments in this thread are personally abrasive in a way that breaks the HN guidelines. We've asked you before to stop doing that. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10779867 and marked it off-topic.
<outsider's shrug> From a policy perspective it seems to be a no-brainer then to move school financing to the state level, at least for a part of the schools.
when discussing the safety of these technologies, please share citations! as i write this comment, i don't see a single reference to a published research paper in this discussion (unless i missed it).
Reading this reminds me of the controversy with the Cannae Drive
From what I've read, it seems targeted at site administrators and would not really be appropriate for end users (exposes the DB, &c). Is that correct?

I'm thinking more something like Phabricator's arcanist (but more complete).
"Around" isn't the same as "widely available and popular".

Microsoft had tablets in the 1990s, but it took the iPad to really have them catch on. Same with high-resolution screens on cellphones.
Cool idea and nice design. How do you decide where to start a bubble though, and how do you present opposing viewpoints?
Agreed - people are going to face a lot of the same issues in any state or federal government organisation in many parts of the world.

If SpaceX posts pricing publicly [1], you really have no excuse as a tiny SaaS startup.

[1]: http://www.spacex.com/about/capabilities
It says in the paper you should pin on thread per core, actually I've found no performance gain to do that. You can also overcommit a little bit (ie more threads than cores).

Also you should make sure the IRQ of the network card is pinned to one core (that's a system configuration).

But you know, if you really want performance you should go DPDK etc.
Then I hope you see the irony in your comment, and why the first reply was a little incredulous.

I'm not defending Rossi, BTW. The odds are very, very, very good that it's another scam. But it's not impossible that he's on to something and that's exactly what the article's author points to, along with lamenting how tragic it would be if cold fusion turned out to be real and we wasted 20 years not pursuing it because of the reputation trap.
What the author and other commenters are alluding to imo are niche markets at a shot of winning. Most hard working americans DONT need a 2nd phone. If you want to be a niche player then fine make an adventure phone, but no shot thats going mass market to defeat iphone. And what the author is forgetting , missing is its not just about the Iphone in regards to apple but Its the ENTIRE seamless Ecosystem. Thats why apple is winning !
> If accuracy is good why bother exposing that to the user?

That's a great point. A prior startup I worked at used a nice social referral tool, whose name slips my mind right now, but their backend would asynchronously pull Facebook, Twitter, etc. links for each of your customers. It was really convenient and worked for 80-90% from what I recall.
WHILE maintaining a good android software experience. The Z3 was an AMAZING phone. Good camera, waterproof (like take it in water waterproof), good hand-feel.. lots of stuff going for it.

Sony's layer on top of Android abortion made it a bad phone that didn't meet with much commercial success. Stock android right now is the most delightful phone OS in the world (in my opinion).. why Android phone manufacturers keep running away from it, installing bloatware, and generally missing the mark I'll never understand.
If nobody sends them money they could just print more. There is only one power company and it's owned by the state.