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"Fortunes might be saved by discounting the manufacture of musical instruments and by closing the art galleries, but no one thinks of suggesting such a procedure."

My city's public art gallery (UK) has stopped putting on exhibitions, the council plan to close the last of the libraries and the gallery with it ...
My biggest feature request is better search workflow (perhaps like Vim, instead of having to press F3) and ability to filtering/grep the list of processes when searching.

I am installing version 2.0 on my laptop to see if search has changed.
So the point is that it isn't graphic, but text only. Nothing to do with recording. Which is a big point... Snapchat can erase images, it doesn't matter. People can still capture them in other ways.
i want to take my upvote away from this. seeing the title, i foolishly thought that the conference already took place, and just clicked before reading and seeing that the title is a lie. :/
Multiple experiments wouldn't help very much, because it will be a new source each time. When two black holes merge, it is only during the final few seconds that very large gravitational waves are emitted.
The observation I would make is that even if you are a genius at designing and writing software it does not imply that your gifts extend to other domains - even if they appear to be very closely aligned.
"programing languages"
I agree with everything you've said. I would like to see something a little better than C for a standardized approach to heterogeneous computing that lends itself to elegant datastructures AND massive concurrency across GPUs and CPUs.

Hardware will continue to evolve and since things can't stay the same and just get faster, things are going to get weirder. With that will come similarly weird low level APIs and c style language implementations (cuda, opencl, vulkan, spirv)
If you report on current events, you're a reporter. Regardless, the substantive portion of the statement is 'jumps the gun for ad revenue'.
Scarily, I have single, hand-written source files that would barely fit onto a 3.5" disk.
Really? We could live without your non-reply.
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I'm no expert, but wouldn't you need an extremely long baseline to triangulate on distant stars? I mean, too long to fit on planet earth?
I haven't used it for personal finance, but ledger would probably cover your needs, and works from the CLI. You can keep your plain-text ledger file in version control etc. also.

- http://ledger-cli.org/

(There's also hledger that has a few extra features, but is largely compatible with ledger).
In my "big corporate job" of a few years back I introduced a policy of doing due diligence on suppliers who were writing applications for the company - was amazed to find that some people not only don't use version control systems but can argue with a straight face that they are a bad idea.
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tl;dr 1) The choice of digital protocol for PSTN was sub-optimal; 2) landline phones are installed in areas which tend to be quiet and private; 3) the author likes holding a receiver handset, and doesn't consider modern smartphones or earbuds as good replacements.

None of these are really issues.

1) The author invokes the old myth that "digital audio must be sampled, therefore it's lower quality", whilst conveniently ignoring the facts that a) that sampling can be performed to any degree of precision you like and b) those samples can be reproduced exactly at the other end, unlike analogue signals which constantly degrade. Saying that the digital protocol is "permanent" is basically a lie; the fact it's digital, and being consumed by general purpose computers, means it is far easier to upgrade, provide capability-discovery, compress, tunnel through older protocols, etc. than the analogue protocols the author is implicitly comparing to.

2) Mobile phones are mobile. They can be moved to quiet and private locations. The author laments the loss of landline telephones installed in booths, at restaurants, etc. whilst ignoring how much it cost to install and maintain them. If a business/organisation were to spend money on providing customer phone service, it would make more sense to install a cellular repeater than a bank of landlines.

3) Many handsets are available for use with smartphones.

I think the only problems with mobile phones compared to landlines are social. For example, if a landline isn't answered then the owner might be out; if a mobile isn't answered then the owner doesn't like you; if a mobile goes to voicemail faster than normal, then the owner must have pressed the reject button; etc. These just depend on expectations: if you jump through hoops to be available for calls and answer them as quickly as possible, no matter the inconvenience or situation, then you're setting a high bar for yourself. On the other hand, if you only use a phone when it's convenient, and have it switched off or rejecting calls the rest of the time, then nobody can make those social inferences.
a) He says just that, three paragraphs before he uses the shorthand "shakes" - which is in quotes, indicating the inaccuracy of the usage.
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The standard for physics reporting on things like this is "five sigma" or that the test statistic in their hypothesis test must be greater than 5. Since this is a one-tailed test, this corresponds to a p-value smaller than 0.00000029, so the chances of being wrong are about 1 in 3.5 million. This isn't a "confidence interval" like you were asking about, but I think that it answers what you meant to ask. Let me know if you wanted something else.
This is in fact a profound question.

The physics of electricity propagation in a powerline circuit is fundamentally the same as the propagation of FM radio waves, or even the beam from a flashlight. All of these examples involve electromagnetic energy propagating at the speed of light. So why do we need wires for powerlines, but not for propagating radio signals or light beams?

The principle is that light (in a vacuum at least) travels at a constant but non-infinite velocity, c. Hence, the electrical wiggle received at an observer's location now i.e; (x,t), has been caused by some earlier wiggle conducted by the source (x',t') such that the t-t'=(x-x')/c. We should expect that the effect of this 'time delay' is more profound if the source is wiggling faster in time.

A more specific way to state this is that the electromagnetic power radiated into free space by a dipole increases as the square of the dipole moment and the fourth power of the frequency. Now compare a powerline (60 cycles/sec), with FM radio (100 Million cycles/sec), and with the light from a flashlight (500 Trillion cycles/sec). That's why even atomic dipoles can produce intense visible light, while it would take a very very large dipole to radiate a similar intensity at 60 cycles.

Feynman Lectures Vol.II is absolutely the best reference to learn this stuff.

That is not to say that a bird needs to make contact with two wires on a utility line, in order to suffer harm. If the line voltage is high enough (e.g; 110,000 Volts, as in high-tension power transmission), an electrical corona would form around the line from electrostatic effects. The corona is actually ionized air indicating the high electrostatic field strengths in the region, it can emit a bluish glow and growl at 60 cycles. Birds can no doubt sense this corona & stay away.
OpenGL, really? The graphics API that is to terribly unsuited to modern hardware that it spawned several replacement APIs (Apple Metal, Khronos Vulkan, DirectX 12, …) and that has been more in the way of than helping programmers for at least a decade before?

OpenGL is the perfect caution tale on what not to do when trying to make a hardware acceleration API.
What makes that tedious? And can't it be fixed?
It's the other way round. The money for this kind of tech mostly comes from the defence sector. I'm cool with that, but let's not kid ourselves: the reasons these things exist is that they are weapons.
See Moscow State University's recent codec comparison which uses various metrics to measure codec performance: http://compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/hevc_2015/

Another interesting site is the Daala development team's https://arewecompressedyet.com which tracks Daala's in-development progress against other codecs.
The pictured parabola antenna likely has a gain around +20dB. Would that change your calculation?
You see, I decided to give W10 a try and I actually think it is a decent upgrade. I would go further and ask for ways to gain further control over W10. I've blocked most of Microsoft communication via Firewall but you never know what the company will push with their updates.

As for your update curator I'd say there's a market for a software to deal with unwanted changes or useless updates. My two cents.

Finally there's always Linux. It's getting more and more attractive with Microsoft getting more and more obnoxious.
But what we know of their space program indicates that yes, they were cutting corners and reducing safety margins, they still used unmanned flights with dolls and animal flights. So, they were not willing to just shoot up a couple of guys and see who makes it down alive.
Consistent look is great. Lets me get on with reading the content, which is the important part.

There's no excuse for breaking existing links though, particularly for a blog as popular as this one.
OK. So there is no executive function advantage. But so far no one has seen a disadvantage either. Right? Since no one would argue that knowing an extra language is not useful, I wonder why this "bitterness" matters.
Perhaps you're referring to Linuxbrew - "a fork of Homebrew, the Mac OS package manager, for Linux."

It exposes the same repository as its OSX counterpart, with linux-flavoured customisations where necessary.

From feature list at http://linuxbrew.sh/

- Can install software to a home directory and so does not require sudo

- Install software not packaged by the native distribution

- Install up-to-date versions of software when the native distribution is old

- Use the same package manager to manage both your Mac and Linux machines
I would love to see what Linus thinks about this post today.
I was just thinking that using braille characters would fill more area on the screen. In particular, | characters look very thin. A bunch of widely spaced green bars |||| is functional but not very appealing.
First thing I did when I saw the news was take Opera and drag it to the trash bin. I barely used and never really liked their browser after the Chromium switch anyways.
I just did DD somewhere and the CEO said with a straight face that 'testing is old fashioned' in response to me flagging their test procedures as inadequate. Some of the stuff you come across just borders on the incredible.

Fortunately most companies have their stuff in order.
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perhaps folks will now take 'intelligent' NICs more seriously than "we tried offloading once and it went poorly so thanks but no thanks"
You probably could, though I suspect you might need to re-tune between notes.

If you have an old CRT, you might be able to achieve a similar effect with Tempest for Eliza[1].

[1] http://www.erikyyy.de/tempest/
You are a very skeptical, no BS, tough nut to crack kind
of guy. Good! I like that! HN,
the Internet, the world needs much more of
that. Such high standards make at least
some of HN a crown jewel of the Internet
place.

Still, back to common, ordinary, reality,
Sir Rees does have a lot of credibility.
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To name a few counter-examples: solar panels, wind turbines, MRI, artificial hearts, defibrillator, antibiotics, vaccines, refrigerator, lightbulb, the list goes on. I wouldn't say people should stop making new things, but some things are obviously going to be weaponized and that shouldn't be taken lightly or worse ignored.
We did have a salesperson at one company who complained about us testing stuff as "all it did was find bugs". I think he thought that testing actually created bugs and that if you didn't test the product it wouldn't have any bugs.
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I thought guids weren't based on MAC addresses anymore.
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http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2011/09/21/10214..., from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3022224, redirects to the right page. Which links are broken?
Without the ability to test though they will still have to do a bunch of work in order to be able to use a new release. Possibly the release breaks their backend but nobody will know until google tries to use it.
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Also, RF energy is more damaging to tissues that lack blood flow to control heat. Like eyeballs, and testicles.
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>this guide translates well to writing tweets

I thought it would, so I read this guide (for the first time) after doing find-replace in the source code of Telegram, Telegraph, telegram, and telegraph with Tweet, Tweet, tweet, and tweet respectively. The guide does NOT translate well to writing tweets! At all. It's fine grammatically, but the whole guide becomes nonsense. The specific advice on writing, e.g. "20th" as "twentieth" (because the former was counted as two words and the latter as one) does not translate at all. What it says about billing is nonsense. What it says about delivery is nonsense. What it says about customs and how tweets are used is nonsense. The whole guide becomes nonsense.

you would think it would still have excellent parts - but not really.
How exactly is "speed of light" defined when the spacetime is moving in the precisely the region in which we are trying to measure the speed of light?
This LANai v11 RISC chip seems to be the successor of the LANai v7 and LANai v9 chips described here: https://www.myricom.com/scs/myrinet/...ogramming.html
for which the gcc toolchain already exists: https://github.com/myri
Porting this to LLVM makes more sense.

Nothing too interesting, as it doesn't use IBM's 7nm or Intel's 10nm chip tech.
Just a simple but parallel high-speed network chip, as used in the Myrinet network cards. The old ones ran with 33MHz but very low latency.

Really exciting would be the Power8 based on IBM's new 7nm, which would finally blow away Intel advantages on an fully open (and unbackdoored) design.
> I feel really sorry for the scientists who've spent decades working on this as part of a global collaboration to now have LIGO take all of the credit for this discovery.

You might as well say the same thing about CERN and the Higgs. That's how credit for discoveries works. You can't just give it to "the whole scientific community" so you pick the most specific attribution that makes sense.
Interesting how few are using Twitter advertising, I assume they all have twitter accounts and would otherwise be active there.
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Why not look at product review ratings or narrow down the product based on the features you want? Is it that you don't know what features are important? I'm interested because I also do work with product search
Data science? You mean math?
Anecdotal evidence suggests to me that this is actually all too common. When I describe my primary and secondary schools (1970-1974, Park Senior High, etc., Swindon) where challenging teachers with difficult questions and alternative methods simply prompted the teachers to either gently shoot down your naive idea or return the challenge with something a bit more difficult I am often told "That's how it worked at your school, the rest of us didn't have it so good."
That's a good idea with the private beta. Yet, even with a small amount of people we can do our service of connecting already - it's more manual work though for now.

Yes, we're working on it to get creative with that challenge, like with all the other challenges ;)

Thanks a lot for your words, jakejake. Very much appreciated! :)
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I think articles coming out ahead of the announcement, explaining to the general public what the announcement means is actually really helpful. Then more people who might be interested can turn in to the announcement itself.
There may be an interesting lesson buried here. What if there is efficiency to be gained from drastically reducing the clock rate of processors while at the same time increasing the number of interconnects? A bit like an ultra low power version of the connection machines.
Would the rotation of the earth give some clues? Eg, the detectors are rotating, so the strength of the signal will change over time, assuming the signal lasts long enough.
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They aren't, but they were when this original "bug" in drivers was fixed.
Thanks sharemywin, I'll work on my mental block. I like your advice and will aim for this 1% and make them strong ambassadors. gracias :)
I think it's up to us to begin to make that change in our work environments. I've made it a point to be a bit more vocal with new devs whenever I can about the reality of impostor syndrome and that it's 100% normal. Use your experience as a way to guide new hires on your company and slowly, change will come
"Does it come in black?"
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11053525
Hemingway was taught how to write telegrams properly during his time at the Kansas City Star calling proper ones "without fat, nothing but blood and bones and muscle. It's a new language." It's almost certain this training as a teenager greatly influenced his prose style later.
But was it due to ESR's ramblings or due to patches overflowing his inbox capacity?

Personally, for years I had been completely ignoring everybody who framed something as "a better alternative to talent" (wtf?) or said the magic words "you are smarter than me". They correlated too well with "stupid ideas I knew (or quickly checked) to be wrong".

Nowadays I'm trying to fish for useful information even in messages which push my bullshit-o-meter out of scale, but it takes work.

If you want to maximize your chance of being treated seriously, stick to constructive arguments about the problem at hand, not some generic unfalsifiable wisdom.
I agree. It's just the click-baiting that irks me.
It's just a little point of interest. I don't often think about my life intersecting with the nation off of Brazil, yet I use htop every day. Now I'll probably cast my mind to a Brazilian rainforest when I do. Just makes the world a slightly more interesting place.
The guy who spent his whole life in the public sector has ideas about your business model.
None of this was inevitable: chipmakers deliberately chose to stay on the Moore's law track. At every stage, software developers came up with applications that strained the capabilities of existing chips; consumers asked more of their devices; and manufacturers rushed to meet that demand with next-generation chips.

Moore's law is stated in terms of a doubling of lowest cost transistors you can fit on a wafer, and results in massive yield gains if you shrink an existing design when moving from node to node (the "tick" in Intel's tick-tock cycle). So whatever customers want, you'll still move to the next node if the economics allow you to deliver the same at a lower cost. This is one of the things that drives game console economics, mid-life refreshes which allow delivering the same capabilities with cheaper and fewer chips (fewer decreases other manufacturing costs).

The heat problem and related end of "free" speed increases is due to the failure of Dennard scaling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling) after a good 30 year run.

Every time the scale is halved, manufacturers need a whole new generation of ever more precise photolithography machines. Building a new fab line today requires an investment typically measured in many billions of dollars — something only a handful of companies can afford.

Ignoring the far out scaling limits, this is what I would have focused on. As far as I can tell, the biggest issue right now is the skyrocketing costs of lithography due to the multiple masks required for multiple patterning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_patterning).

If, and it's a big if (see Intel continuing to push out they date they plan to adopt it), when EUV lithography become practical that should change this very recent economic issue, substituting manufacturing costs in buying and running $$$ EUV machines for many fewer masks required for each design, lowering non-recurring engineering (NRE) expenses.

That could return a lot of the game to what it was like for a long time, albeit with only a very few foundries being able to afford these machines. The first generation the leading company in the Netherlands is trying is pretty insane in how they generate the light, by exciting tin vapor (!), imagine the inherent contamination potential for both the focusing optics and the wafer....

One other detail: to the extent a lot of companies start focusing on the economic ~22nm or so node that's just before costs skyrocket, we may be seeing some serious economies of scale as people focus on aspects other than the design shrink. Sure, you'd like smaller nodes, especially for lowest power applications, note how Intel is leading with mobile SKUs for it's newest smaller node chips, but that node is perfectly fine for a whole lot of things. Another economic factor to focus on, not everyone is an Intel, nVidia, Apple etc. that needs cutting edge nodes.
Yes, looks like I was misinformed there. While there are no more feature updates, security issues will continue to be released for about another year. (If I'm piecing the information here together correctly https://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplatform/whitepapers/roadm... https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/release-note/release-no...)
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This is just a throw, I've not tried. But Bokeh creates Canvas. There is a Canvas 2 SVG https://github.com/gliffy/canvas2svg JavaScript library already made.
Unfortunately, no. The signal only lasts for a few seconds, not long enough for the Earth to rotate any significant amount.
This is kinda the same thing as the himbu experiments - about how language and cultural taxonomy cause us to bucket things and then compare them on higher order dimensions.

With practice, you can turn this mechanism off and with sufficient focus and sincerity of purpose, see things without such taxonomy.

The extension of this exercise is when you are able to reconstitute things in different ways without necessarily any known categorical words.

De then re pattern things.
yeah but who'd want to drive it on an actual road...?
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It's deforming (stretching) not translation (moving).
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