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>Windows machine to develop for Windows

There are so many ways to develop Windows apps on OSX (unless I'm misreading, which I might be because this point is so blatantly wrong)

>Oculus Rift to develop Oculus Rift software

You can download the SDK without the Rift, you just can't test how it will work on a rift without... a rift

>You don't have to buy a Linux machine to write code for Android but if you don't have a computer at all then you have to buy one

I mean... you're not wrong but the point is you can buy any computer you want, not some overpriced, under-powered laptop with an apple on the lid
Does it have push on iPhone and Android?
I recognize both your tone and your sarcasm tag, but having more closed source and proprietary technology actually would reduce the risk of government snooping, at least once there's enough of it. Paying smart, educated people to do this stuff is only feasible because it scales, and it only scales because there's so much standardization. It's the same concept as "Macs don't get viruses" (at least back in the early 2000s when their market share was much smaller.)
Good point and very similar case (though in an entirely different category of "damage caused", plus there seemed to be a prior offense).
Queue lots of bots at the same time, the ones that pop simultaneously will be in the same game.
Please resist commenting about commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

(I hope this doesn't of overflow HN's stack.)
have you read other quotes about the moon landing? in terms of pretentiousness this is rather mild, he didn't even try to speak for "mankind" or "all the people on this earth".
Defenders? More like, "it's lame to see the attackers still haven't found a way to explain themselves in a credible manner, and are still excusing it with the same smear."

You are projecting. The evil you're looking for, it's in you.
So I spawned a virtual server and I am downloading some courses I wanted to take.

What a shame. Farewell, free learning.
I switched to Safari 2 months ago for the same reasons as you did. Definitely feels better speed-wise. Also with iCloud keychain I decreased 1Password usage.

For development though, I still can't get use to Safari's developer tools.
Yes but you use more manganese or cobalt or w/e based on the chemistry of your battery than Lithium.
Oddly enough if Tesla is going to buy mines for batteries Lithium most likely is not going to be their first buy.
I don't know exactly what chemistry Tesla is going to end up using but if it's LCO/NMC which is 60%/20% cobalt they probably want to find a source of cobalt before lithium.
If they are going to sploosh on super fancy NCA batteries (unlikely since they only do about 500 cycles, LCO and NMC are the most likely chem for EV's) which are only 9% cobalt that still probably makes sense since the world production of cobalt is about 10 times smaller than the production of Lithium.
Hybrids purchased in California have a 10 year traction battery warranty, so the replacement cost is zero.
This speech has a lot of valid points with which I mostly agree but it seems to argue for unquestioned acceptance of the current conclusions of mainstream science. Although it's very much in mode right now, this has been proven repeatedly to be a bad idea. Unless you believe that we now finally have everything right you only have to look at history to see that consensus among scientists has been repeatedly incorrect.

I don't make this argument to justify bad science or to argue for even less well supported conclusions. We don't know the answer to some questions and logically, some of the questions which we think we know the answer to, we do not. Therefore it is wise to remain skeptical while stamping out pseudoscience.
m - km, fix the units
Ask HN: What would you do if you have 60k € to spend?
So I just turned 30 years old and I have 60k € on my bank account (basically those are my savings from the last 5 years), but I think it’s really stupid not to invest my money in something. So I’m hardly thinking to buy an apartment near to the company I work at (Erlangen, Germany); Actually I found a good but also really expensive (~3200€ per m2) one, which I have to decide if I want to take it at the end of next week.

So my question is, what would you do if you have the money, would you prefer to invest in something else? Take in mind that I don’t have nothing else just a “secure” job earning ~36000 € netto per year, I also don’t pay to much for rent, and the chance to build a family in the next 7 years it’s very likely.

Would you buy the apartment?
There have been aliens -- and they don't care about us.

To assume that a collection of beings which have obtained the ability to travel amongst the stars would focus their attention on a single species on a single planet is fundamentally selfish.

What resources does our earth contain that are not (more easily) obtainable elsewhere? If Drake's equation "holds", then what novelty do _we_ provide?
I've had the same experience playing on both US and EU, the chat gets very little use.
That's a much more reasonable argument. It's also likely the real reason there's no cross-development support.

It does open another thread of discussion, though: as far as I'm aware, there's no proven correlation between buying a Mac and caring about the quality of your iOS product.

I could just as well say that companies that want to tick a box for their sub-par apps farm invest in several platforms much more easily than starting devs who can't afford multiple setups and pride themselves in craftsmanship.

Which one is closer to reality or has the bigger impact, I have no idea.
As a C++ enthusiast, I wouldn't use the words "throw knowledge". All the concepts you can find in Rust are almost matching one to one to a C++14 equivalent (albeit pattern matching for instance). The difference being the enforcement of these good practices by the compiler. It would most likely take me 2 days to read the latest rust doc and 1 month of practice to be proficient.

Thing is, it's a bit like switching from Python 2 to Python 3. Why would I move to this new environment where I would need to recode everything from scratch? Python 3 will take decades to overthrow its predecessor, how long will it be for Rust? Will it ever succeed? Will the C++ committee react and borrow some of Rust awesomeness? Can I find co-workers willing to learn Rust?
"In other words, given what we now know about the number and orbital positions of the galaxy’s planets, the degree of pessimism required to doubt the existence, at some point in time, of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization borders on the irrational."

This is terribly silly. It reminds me of the Onion talks:

"Step 1: Devise an idea to create a car that runs on compost. Step 2: Create the car. We’ve already completed Step 1. We’re half way there."

Increased certainty on three of the seven factors is irrelevant, because 99% of the uncertainty is concentrated in the other four. Specifically, the odds of abiogenesis are ~1/2^n, where n is the complexity in bits of the smallest self-replicator. n is bounded below by ~100 or so (or it would have happened in a lab somewhere), and is bounded above by ~1 million (the smallest existing bacteria), so we know it's somewhere in there. But where? We have only the vaguest guesses.

"Specifically, unless the probability for evolving a civilization on a habitable-zone planet is less than one in 10 billion trillion, then we are not the first."

"One in 10 billion trillion" sounds like a very large number, and it's put in italics for emphasis, but in information-theoretic terms it's tiny. log2(10^22) is just 73 bits. If all that we know about a number is that it's somewhere between a hundred and a million, saying that X would imply it's higher than 73 (well technically 73 + log2(#incidences of molecular combination), so probably a few hundred) is not a disproof of X, nor really even much evidence against X.
Given the context, though, parent's comment is reasonable. The isolationist drive that would bring iphone manufacturing and all the associated mining back to the US would go hand-in-hand with a very isolationist economy, in which we'd presumably not be able to get anything from other countries.

The thought exercise of in-sourcing everything that ever contributed to anything that eventually goes into a phone helps to point out how the idea of disentangling ourselves from the global market is absurd.
Here is a video of a similar crash, probably not driving as fast but still doesn't look very dramatic too me. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KqIZiASGa0g
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Once you have successfully locked the consumer (rather: society) into your product portfolio and therefor are taking control away from the consumer, once you have sufficiently monopolized your market(s), you can afford behavior like Google's, because you simply get away with it.
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That's ridiculous.

Sure, somebody who doesn't have an iPhone and yet wants to develop apps for the iPhone is likely to treat iOS as a second class citizen.

But you are saying that if somebody bought the iPhone on launch date, and has upgraded to every new model as soon as it came out, and is obsessed with all things iOS....then he is still gonna treat iOS as a second-class citizen because he doesn't own a OSX and a Mac, which are different hardware and a different OS from the device he wants to make an app for??

That's crazy.
Binary html is not an executable nor a program, it is just data, here it would be the dom tree, compiled, not using text data all over.

> I don't see how compiling to binary would change that.

The solution is forcing a stricter version of the language. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4dYwEyjZcY
Well this is a weirdly US-centric view.. You seem to assume that all people not living in the US are actually just waiting to emigrate their. I'm quite happy in Spain, thanks!
> a probability for civilizations to form of one in 10 billion per planet was considered highly pessimistic

I think people underestimate how low probabilities can really be. According to wiki the shortest self-replicating RNA is 165-bases long. Even if you convert all observable universe in RNA this is still not enough for this RNA to form by chance (4^165 is much larger than number of atoms in observable universe).
> also suspicious that none of the complainers went to law enforcement.

People who have been raped don't go to police because the world is full of stupid cunts who do stupid shit like putting the word "rape" in quotes to try to deny that rape happens as often as it does; and then spread lies and fud about what rape victims should have done while being raped ("Why didn't you fight back?"); or what rape victims should have done after they had been raped ("Why didn't they go to the police?"). Those people will also say that any rape accusation that doesn't result in a conviction is a false allegation, and that the rape didn't happen, and that the victim lied about it.
This is ridiculous. The energy consumed by an average road car to move 1 human 1 mile is far less than that of an F1 car, by a huge margin.
It's all relative
The strange life of Q-tips
THIS! it seems like everyone simply assumes that current stock value = cash value. if it was true, than the offer would be $325m in stock OR in cash. but not even Elon think that offered stocks are worth $325m
That doesn't make it any easier to run free software on your router.
Why is it legal to sell goods that are made with labor that would be illegal in the country of sale?

If the US and Europe required that as part of the certification process for sale the labor also had to be certified, it would make their economies more competitive while simultaneously raising quality of life abroad. It seems like an obvious win, even for a corporate congress, so i don't understand why it hasn't happened.
The article is too damning of DSGE models.

DSGE modeling accuracy is comparable to the vector atoregression with just tiny amount of parameters. They are used because they clearly capture something from the dynamics of the economy.

From two models with equal accuracy, the one with smaller amount of parameters is usually better.
I have had an extensive 10+ email personal correspondence with Stillman about patents. Tl;dr He's very much for patents that aren't software patents.
The dates were from MSFT and Wikipedia, I was 1 year old then so I would have to take your word for it.
People on twitter suggest the reason could be a feature of a Python library: https://twitter.com/TvdW/status/741481798014664704

Assignment is interpreted as add-to-the-list operator.
You got the units of the borehole wrong, it's in meters not kilometers.
Truth be told, the question here is: "Is the class of errors that is prevented by Rust natively also prevented by MISRA?"

My take is that while there is some overlap, MISRA is unable to guarantee anything, while Rust is able to guarantee certain things that C can't. (that's from my limited understanding of Rust, I haven't futzed with it yet)
If I was a prof, I'd have every one of my lectures recorded and put online for free. I wish I had recorded the lectures I attended in college. Not recalling the lectures means the notes I took in class don't make much sense.

Heck, I record all of the presentations I do, and they get posted for free on the intarnets. I put a fair amount of work into them - why hide them?
There are certain brain structures (or lack of structures) that are shared by the vast majority of people who would be roundly classified as sociopaths by psychiatrists. The presence of the markers in non-sociopaths is relatively rare, though it nonetheless suggests there's an important environmental dimension. There's an article online by a researcher who studied psychopathy through neuroimaging and discovered he possessed this neural marker.

Classic sociopathy is lumped in with other personality disorders in the DSM, and at the margins there's a large group where there's wide disagreement about classification. But regarding the classic sociopath studied by Hare and others, AFAIU the majority of psychiatrists can spot those a mile away. And DSM or no DSM, most psychiatrists see them as a distinct group. But such people have no reason to seek psychiatric help for their condition, and because it's not susceptible to any kind of treatment in the traditional sense, there's little reason for these people to interact with the medical community the way other categories of "abnormal" people do. So that limits how much scholarship and research that will occur, especially considering that most sociopaths are non-violent. And while a large portion of violent criminals seem to be sociopathic (less or more depending on how you define it, but nonetheless significant), the direct cause of the violence seems related to other mental issues--sociopathy just merely removes one of the natural inhibitors of violent behavior.
I would sell everything in Holland and move to Thailand. I would by a nice serviced condo in the Jomtien area for about 25.000 EUR. The remainder I would use to live here for at least 2 year and work on my own ideas (apps). If I would make money with these apps, would continue, otherwise would maybe freelance or do remote work on the side, save some money before working again on my own ideas.

I think a 25.000 EUR appartement in Pattaya should still be easy to rent out in the high season.
> I'm really confused by this data. How could the average cost of the most expensive model be less than the cost of the most expensive brand?

It's because the brand estimates are not based on actual costs, but only on oil changes:

“In order to estimate annual maintenance costs, we found the amount spent on every two oil changes (as oil changes are generally done every six months).”

Yet the actual oil change intervals for at least BMW, Mercedes, Audi, and Volvo are between once a year and once every two years, or after between 7500 and 15000 miles, depending on the brand and model.
In case you want to download as may courses as possible before they fade away, here are some notes.

Please forgive me some mistakes, I wrote this a bit in a hurry.

===========================

1) Spawn a virtual server on DigitalOcean.

I am using the 40$/month in order to have 40GB of space, but my plan is
to shut it down in a day or two.

The advantage is to have storage space AND super-fast connection.

If you don't want to spend money, here is my referral code:

https://m.do.co/c/867be540644c

This will give you 10$ credit for free.

2) Install screen, python-virtualenv, python3, python3-pip

3) edit ~/.bash_aliases:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

alias download="./coursera-dl -u <<username>> -p <<password>>"
alias download_preview="./coursera-dl -b -u <<username>> -p <<password>>"

4) Install coursera-dl: see https://github.com/coursera-dl/coursera-dl#alternative-insta...

name the virtualenv "coursera", and place it in the root home directory

5) patch to use python3:

* pip3 install -r requirements.txt
* patch coursera/coursera.dl:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

Becomes:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

6) Edit ~/.bashrc

Add this lines at the end of the file:

cd coursera
source bin/activate
cd coursera

=======================

The setup process is done. Here is how to use it:

1) Start a screen session: `screen -S coursera`

download_preview compilers-004

you can download more courses in parallel by creating another window (C-a c) and typing donwload_preview $coursename.
Tucson, AZ. Home of the International Dark-Sky Association, The University Of Arizona and it's Mirror Lab. Wrapped by ~9k mountains on 3 sides (Lemmon, Rincon, and Wrightson). We have damn good thunderstorms too.

https://vimeo.com/107450172

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVS5DekZ7VQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3glyRZLZAR0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41gM6lwAOo4
Ford didn't take money from that program either.
> It's a little misleading, especially since there's a lot more going on in Picasso than geometric shapes and crazy colors.

> Then again I might take things too seriously.

if anything, too many people in this thread don't seem to be taking cubism and Picasso's style seriously either (signature faces? what ..?)

of course a deeplearning net can't actually do cubism.

if someone wrote a program to generate blocks of primary colours in pleasing ratios, really cleverly, it may look like Mondriaan to someone that has seen a couple of Mondriaan paintings. but everybody who knows what Mondriaan was trying to do, will instantly know that there's really no way today's computers could really perform the same process.
I'm more interested in the content of the linked article than whether it offends someone's sensitivities. Bloomberg articles linked here tend to be interesting and of good quality.
The device does not use a typical consumer LED lamp.

The efficiency of its LED lamp is about 210 lm/W whereas for an average consumer lamp it is less than 100 lm/W.

More important is that the brightness of this LED is just 16 lumens compared to 400 lumens for the average consumer lamp.

The device itself only generates 0.075W. This is well within your potential energy calculations.

While this is not the same level of brightness that westerners are used to, it is sufficient for reading and other activities.

The device has an extension point to attach a cable to task-specific spotlights, used for reading for example. Or to power a radio.

Tech Specs: http://gravitylight.org/techspecs
Toyota Hilux is the "AK-47" of military vehicles.
No they have not been any aliens until proven so...

Science requires a theory and experimental validation.

The existence of aliens has been postulated by a crazy monk that also invented the concept of monads. It is much more metaphysics (religious thinking) than physics.

It strikes me as odd that most of flawed science is coming with the same flaws as religious thinking.
No, jQuery did not invent the concept of fading in. It doesn't even have a unique implementation of it, it just does a few CSS changes that you can easily do without jQuery to get the exact same result.

This is as ridiculous as having a "addition" module in jQuery and saying that people who do addition in JavaScript are just reinventing jQuery.

Wrapping jQuery around something simple (like fading in) does not make it into jQuery. If anything this just demonstrates who incredibly unknowledgeable people are about where jQuery ends and JavaScript begins.
In terms of it being a startlingly large group implicated in wrongdoing, I agree. However, I would argue that this intended harassment of an elected representative by a self-protecting bureaucracy is more heinous than the corrupt waste of money (and accompanied sharing of classified ships' schedules.) Maybe that's because I see the greatest threats to the US being internal rather than external. In both cases they should be punished harshly (and I'm satisfied to say that Navy careers are being ended quickly, with accompanying UCMJ sentencing), but one of these is the janitor who steals office supplies, while the other is the janitor who finds an unlocked computer and looks for incriminating emails for later blackmail.

Also, there was a short HN discussion of Fat Leonard recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11792183
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Well, we've certainly drilled more than 12 meters. :-P (Note the decimal point: 12.262km; I just converted to km to keep it consistent with the other measurements I cited)

Could be confusing if you're used to the inverse comma/period from what we use in the US (comma=thousands, period=decimal).
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Having weight in front of you will help to push away the object you are colliding with, rather than having the same weight under you or behind you. That inertial energy is not relevant to what enters the cabin.
Byte-Monkey: Fault injection for the JVM
For people who want an alternative view on this problem: http://biologydirect.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1745...
A reminder: If you got a copy of this e-mail (as I did), please don't repost it -- or if you do, don't include the e-mail addresses.
That's not true. I think Elon thinks that $325m cash is worth less because he thinks the stock is going to go up, however he needs any cash he can get to grow the company. As a growing company you need cash to grow and must give up stock to do so
How is this enabled though? Sounds like ILO/DRAC/etc., if a bit more capable. But if it's not turned on, is it that big of a deal?

If we assume Intel is malicious, they hardly need a platform like ME to do harm. And isn't this kind of stuff only available on the more expensive systems? Because they include this to sell to enterprise help desks, right?

I dislike articles that seem set to spin something. At least explain the plausible or documented reasons, then show why it's bad.
Well, you should be able to recoup those $1300 you spent on the Macs pretty easily if you do professional iOS development.

And if you're not in for the money but just as a hobby: don't develop for the iPhone then if you don't like the costs. (Even though $1300 over 5 or 6 years is a pretty cheap hobby in my books).
> There's an article online by a researcher who studied psychopathy through neuroimaging and discovered he possessed this neural marker.

You are referring to James Fallon, of TED Talk fame, and his science is not sound: http://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/pseud...

> the majority of psychiatrists can spot those a mile away. And DSM or no DSM, most psychiatrists see them as a distinct group

That's impossible to know for sure. If you don't have reliable diagnostic criteria (and the ability to thoroughly examine the subject), these people can't test their belief that someone is a psychopath. It's just not science.
Nice one! Will try that.
I'm an avid F1 follower and not a fan of electric cars but this article is so poor it's unbelievable.

Let's compare worst case scenario for what we don't like and ignore all inconvenient facts for what we like.

Lazy