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Perhaps this younger generation really is the worst younger generation ever, but your comments in this thread fuming about it are still lowering the quality of discussion here below acceptable. Please don't do that on HN. If you comment on a common rage inducer, make sure you have something new and interesting to say, and are not just venting with clichés.

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Apples and oranges.

Apple Pay has no fee to the user or the company receiving the money, it's paid by the bank and is EXTREMELY small. Normal credit card fees still apply, but those don't go to Apple. For all intents and purposes it is a single bank transaction almost like any other. Apple has almost no part in it except helping verify security.

In-app purchases are different. Apple takes a cut because Apple provides a real service. They host the app, they do the billing, they do the collections, they do the license tracking. They handle taxes in all sorts of countries in different states. They make sure their store complies with all local laws. They handle security and try to stop piracy. In short, they're providing a lot of services.
thx @rahul, going for hacker market is a good move, be watching it.
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It is true in our overspecialized food production system, especially when byproducts like manure aren't counted as output.

In smaller, more diverse farms, animals contribute to the overall output because they improve land that is fallow, turn waste into food and manure and provide food that complements plants effectively in our diet.

We have the technology to farm this way, at scale, but it is politically infeasible and there won't be any demand for it until the specialized products of our current system become much more expensive.
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How is that going to work? I thought 5GHz had really poor penetration and attenuation. Will it trash wifi performance?
How so? They could drop an executable named "configure" in the tarball. I don't think they would, but they're not really limited by the format.
But not nearly proportional to the ratios of energy/land/water consumption between vegetarian (or say chicken/fish) based food items and beef.

E.g., what's the difference in price between a burger made from ground beef vs a similar sandwich with grilled chicken?
The usual distinction is "to route" rhymes with "to doubt" and the word "route" is pronounced like "root". Some people also use the verb pronunciation for the noun as well.
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This isn't original research anymore, since there's a Hacker News source. You can link to this thread as proof.
That distinction exists only in your own mind, and likely not even there.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/route

Contrast http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/legiti... , which correctly notes that the adjective and verb are pronounced differently.
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If you imagine it as a logical statement, represented physically in writing: P <=> ~P

Then, I think it is clear the statement is not true. NP is trivially definitionally not equivalent (equal) to P.
There's a big difference between "slowly modified from something that works while keeping tests and web compat passing" and "written from scratch".
You also dig Lodash v4's FP modules

https://github.com/lodash/lodash/wiki/FP-Guide
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Chromium doesn't have multithreaded layout, and restyle/layout/painting runs on the DOM ("main") thread.

Retrofitting multithreaded, off-main-thread restyle/layout/painting onto an existing engine is an enormous undertaking, almost on the level of rewriting from scratch. This is much of the reason why Servo's rendering is from scratch, in fact.
Sounds like it's pretty much the same as the 4 weeks of fasting into Easter, Lent, which is also based on the lunar calendar. I guess that's where ramadom comes from too, and I hear that one comes from the jewish religion, to remember the flight out of Egypt, away from their religion and slavery. So maybe your prophet got it from the jews. Basically when I was a kid the family would spend pretty much the entire afternoon being together, working on the food for the evening, which was usually delicious because of that. Many days there was church, and church activities. The school would help out with the fast.

I don't agree with you at all that it increases your energy. And yeah it came with lots of completely ridiculous rules, like anything religious. If I was a muslim, with that many rules that onerous, I'd refuse to do it just for that reason alone. Such rules only serve to prove someone else's power over you and nothing more. There is no use or purpose other than that. At one point I actually thought different, and so I simply tested it. Nothing, of course, as there is no God that is so extremely petty and meddling as that.
I'm happy to write code on a computer. Whiteboarding is a cultural artifact.
Are you an academic? Because peer review is almost always (at least in CS) blind, with authors anonymous to the reviewers.
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I'm not talking about malfeasance and corruption. I'm talking about embarrassment and enablement of dubious practices. FOIA should rightly make that painful.
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That's really weird, thanks for helping to debug.
Sorry but that's bunkum. There are many examples in history of cultures embracing diversity and prospering.
I've heard about this incident first hand from old timers out in DV, having gone for years myself.

The warning at the start of the piece, maybe merited, feels a bit over the top.

The story itself is quite intriguing.
Exactly. It's analogous to the difference between big bang integration and continuous integration. The lesson there is: if something hurts, do it more often. Little steps let you know exactly what changed when something breaks.
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Is there a slack/channel to just shoot the shit with people in the industry someone can recommend? I sometimes find myself bored and curious what interesting minds are out there online..
You should do it on your blog.
Spanish dev here. I created with some friends the most active Maker group in Spain [1]. We won contests like Hyperloop's, NASA's SpaceApps (once winners, twice finalists), making robot competitions [2], teaching to everyone, etc. A couple of days ago we were talking about who would continue it, since ALL of us are leaving the country for different reasons.

So I can say that I know what it means that skilled workers are leaving first hand. Now I reverse the question, why would we stay? Spain has some great things, such as weather, food and party, but it's horrible in any tech-related industry.

For instance, I did a couple of internships to help with my University credits and earn some money. I got paid per month almost the same that I'm getting paid now every couple of days working as an US contractor. Not only that, now I'm doing things that I really love, challenging but rewarding, collaborating with the best people I know and living wherever I want. We made https://www.angularattack.com/ , now we're launching a new one way better (not yet public though) and I'm helping doing two websites for two of the biggest Venture Capital firms in USA.

Now tell me, why should I go back to working 9-5 for some company that doesn't care at all about developers and treat us as code monkeys, for peanuts and in horrible conditions? I had a horrible chair for example but there was "no budget" for a better one.

It's a pity because the country gets worse, but it's also good since the hard working Spaniards get the best -- even if it has to be outside. I am lucky I can visit my sister in UK and my friends in Japan, Sweden, Germany and USA :)

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You cannot manage any relation database with this, it is a database itself. You can't query MySQL using the psql tool either.

The advantage of Tutorial D is that it is closer to relational algebra than SQL is. Which means that it probably doesn't have any null or three-valued logic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(data_language_specification...
It spent many hours on the front page. In fact I think we might have marked it as extra substantive, since Aline Lerner is one of very few writers to consistently have new and interesting things to say about these well-worn topics.
Honestly, this is what got me most excited about NixOS. I mean, the underlying technology is spiffy, of course, but the real key is that it lets you configure everything declaratively while keeping track of different versions and actively pushes you in that direction. Doing things the "right" way is also the path of least resistance.

Sometimes this is a bit annoying when you just want something to work but can't just hack it because the system files are hidden all over the place and papered over with symlinks, but in the long run it means your system configuration is way easier to maintain.
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We don't use the kernel TCP implementation because we decided to rethink the entire networking stack (from DNS to TCP/HTTP/TLS) as it applies to native mobile apps. So we wrote this whole stack but using UDP instead of TCP, and of course implemented entirely in userspace both on client side and server side

Today's mobile app ecosystem has the amazing advantage of rapidly updating binary apps running on a billion devices. This allows us to ship new client side code (with app updates) to millions of devices every few days. It's the first time in computing history that such rapid iteration on network protocols has been possible and the only way to take advantage is to ditch the kernel and ship your code with the app.

EDIT: I wrote a thing about it in much more detail than the space here will afford : http://www.infoworld.com/article/3016733/application-develop...
As well it should, because it's a poor-quality media follow-up report (sometimes known as copycats, or less kindly as blogspam) on a high-quality original article that appeared here and was thoroughly discussed yesterday.
I don't think there is such a thing as a 10x programmer if we're just talking about implementation. Where there is easily a 10x factor or more is making the right architectural decisions up front. An experienced dev can avoid making mistakes that can doom a project right out of the gate.
I have never seen a probabilistic approach to FLT but there is a branch of math called Probabilistic Number Theory

https://people.math.ethz.ch/~kowalski/probabilistic-number-t...

I am also not 100% sure Feynman wrote something like this. However the 2014 Fields Medal was awarded to Manjul Bhargava for studying random elliptic curves.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20140812-the-musical-magical-...
Sure it would, Intel just needed to EOL x86.

Everyone would be forced just to switch architecture, they would not have any other option if they wanted to stay on Windows, lets say.

Of course this wasn't at all possible, given that there were companies like AMD and VIA producing x86 chips as well, thus making way for an escape route in such scenario.
He who has a GPS can go down the cliff?
Apparently he had dandruff. They found his head and shoulders by the side of the road.
Same shit in Italy and the Netherlands. I get with very low offers, recruiters are shocked that I bill $100-150 per hour.
Considering the weekend content of HN, I'd bet that there's been a conversation over that segment at some point.
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On my Mac they look the same. https://www.evernote.com/l/AAG4fivAqoxHTb61wKDTesbMbR-OWtXd3...
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This is very interesting work, as many weather conditions still pose big challenges for autonomous vehicles.

I am curious about how practical it will be to maintain data for all roadways. Though deep sub-surface features may be stable over time, it would seem the actual roadway markings may change requiring careful updating.
I do speak Portuguese, and a bit of French. I still have no idea how "tooth" become singular in that phrase.
There is a wide range of people on HN. This community is not defined by its worst actors—who inevitably appear in any place on the internet where the doors are left open, as ours are.

Rather, it's defined by an overwhelmingly decent majority of participants, whom you're not welcome to slander here.

I notice that of all of you complaining about how racist that comment was, not one of you bothered to flag it. If you won't even do that much to help the community, in my view you forfeit the right to complain about it.
Actually I think that my experience in Spain has set me back as I asked for way lower compensation than I realize now that I could be earning as it just seemed crazy. I remember when they asked me about "what is your hourly rate?" the first time, I said a number while shaking as it was beyond my dreams and now I realize it's totally pennies compared to the money they are probably making out of my work. Now I know for the future though (:
It depends. If they expect psudocode then I have no problem with that (just writing down the steps of the solution). If they expect doing some 100% implementation of a large project in Java, I'd say no thanks.
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Completely agree. "I'll be honest" is right up there with "I'm not a racist, but..." in the list of phrases that always self-negate.
... And then find your way to search icon, click x to clear current query, hit microphone icon to say song name? By this point I've probably killed 9 people on the road while driving.

Compare this with "hey Siri play bob Dylan's blowing in the wind" and it working just with this
Which ones? Sounds like a myth.
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Translating back to Portuguese could be "alum mau arranjo é melhor que um processo".

Which can be translated to "
Translating back to Portuguese could be "um mau arranjo é melhor que um processo".

Which can be translated to "a bad deal is still better than a lawsuit".

Oh so Portuguese...
In Portugal you hardly get more than 1500€ after taxes, unless you are very very lucky.
Why even bother to learn programming if you can't use it to automate common tasks?
That's how GM did automatic driving for Firebird II and III in the 1960s.

Volvo's solution for snow is to drive magnets in the form of nails into the pavement along lane centerlines. They suggest that this can provide guidance for snowplows as well as assist autonomous vehicles.

Lane marking in areas of heavy snow is hard. Some areas put up plastic posts along the roadside. Japan puts up arrows hanging over the road in parts of Hokkaido.
One time while walking back from a bar in my mid 20s I ran across a street in front of a police cruiser as the light was yellow and they exerted their power by hassling me and telling my friends to watch out for me. This was Fullerton, CA and I am a short white guy with a shaved head. You may think they were watching out for me but there was significant belligerence.

The point is they enforce whatever, whenever. There are far too many laws and they are very unevenly enforced.
That's pretty nice. It's become more and more irritating to program Intel's vector hacks, and presumably they will soon give us kilobit-long registers and vector operations upon those, which isn't going to make the instruction coding any more compact.
The Burning Man GSM base station writeup was a fun read: http://openbts.sourceforge.net/FieldTest/
>This is a mediocrazy

That's an absolutely lovely, totally brilliant and apt term, that is unfortunately perhaps over-the-top in a way that will turn people off. I'm vaguely asking permission to steal it.
I hope he was well paid by somebody who doesn't like clearing houses to write that, as it appears to be the sheerest nonsense. Clearing houses are useful, and they have worked very well in futures markets for the last 100 years. Why I'm supposed to be safer because "big banks trading with each other ... and topology" remains unstated in any convincing way.

I mean, despite the author's having worked on the street, he apparently never heard of correlation matrices.
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Maybe https://wakatime.com would provide more motivation than RescueTime since it's specific to programming and design (with a Sketch plugin).
I guess one difference between heating and cooling is that heating can be very, very efficient by just burning whatever. With cooling you're burning whatever, and then turning that into electricity at about 60% efficiency (at best) then losing some efficiency through transmission and then some more turning that electricity back into mechanical energy.

I'm not saying it's a wash by any stretch of the imagination.
FF and Chrome look the same to me as well. Safari looks different.
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Blacks aren't poor because of some external injustice. They're poor because, as a group, their culture and low average IQ leave them poorly equipped for modern economic life.

That's not to say they don't deserve help, but that help should be brought in the context of a hard-nosed understanding of the real reasons for their situation. The path of idealism and wishful thinking has been tried for 50 years, and nothing has improved - not even a little.

The real crime would be continuing with a fantasy viewpoint that has been so thoroughly proven not to work. "The definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over expecting a different result." Blacks are suffering and dying every day because people like you refuse to help them as what they are and insist on maintaing the comforting egalitarian delusion.

There are no segregation laws, and systemic separation of rich and poor affects races equally once you control for wealth.
It is easy to address your objection. On a uniform distribution on [n] := {0, 1, 2, ...n}, P(X=42)->0 as n->infty. This is similar to Feynmann's argument.
I don't think this is true in general (though it might be so in the field you are working in). I've received many constructive comments from colleagues, and this has often lead to subsequent collaboration.
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