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> Why would anyone put in the effort to do the research, if they know in the best case scenario the applications would come in several hundred years?

Because they are Scientists.

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Really the point I'm making is that we should be proceeding with GE applications "as an old man crossing a river in Winter" with utmost caution and humility.

We should introduce GMOs with the greatest of reluctance, after every other avenue to achieve our goal has been ruled out, not rushing pell-mell like drunken teenagers.

I really do mean several centuries.

We have only just discovered that the oceans teem with bacteriopages, that biofilms can think, that we have an "organ" called the "microbiome" made up of cells that are genetically not us, that the physical structure of chromosomes influences the decoding of DNA, it goes on and on. New things are discovered daily.

I think we should wait until we understand before we manipulate.
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+1 on the cheap scope recommendation. Without seeing your signals, solving a problem with shoving bits around is (educated) guesswork. Nothing like struggling for days with a weird fault or corrupted xmit only to throw a scope on a bus line and see in a few seconds where the problem lies. (voice of experience speaking).

And here's the good part: These days, a basic scope is incredibly cheap!

Check ebay and/or amazon for a DSO138. It's a simple creature but ideal for a project such as a Z80. There are two variants of the DSO138 - kit form and pre-assembled. Prices are an astounding $25/$30 respectively.

Unless you just want to spend 4 hours soldering (not a bad thing), spend the extra $5 and get the prebuilt. And make sure it has the latest firmware (cleaned up some bugs, improved centering, and reduced noise).

And @mindcrime - please blog that project! I know I speak for loads of others when I say I'd love to watch your progress. I never get tired of seeing others do cool stuff I don't have time for anymore. :)
With that precedent, this easily extends to every other connected device... phones, lights, webcams, and even your Fitbit scale.

Orwell was an optimist.
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Few years ago i worked in security software company (antivirus, firewall etc). We collected almost all possible data about users. You can imagine what kind of data...system uptime, configuration, web searching history, even bank payment details.

From those days i am not surprised with this practice.
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This is obnoxious, but why do they report the percentage improvement, but not the actual yield?

If it is 35% improvement, it would be nice to know what it was an improvement on. One of the linked sources suggests that current maximums on PV efficiency are around 24% of total sun energy converted to electricity out of a maximum of 33.7%. so, if that is the case then does this get us from 24% to 32%, or very close to the maximum solar electricity extraction per area?

Please double check my math or correct me where I'm wrong, but putting everything in marginal terms is very confusing.
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This is not true. They will back you off if they detect you are playing with an advantage and betting any reasonable amount. It won't take long and they are good at figuring it out, if you as a player are maximizing the edge.
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My instinct is to say that you should allow classes as oridnary values. Many interpreted languages do this with success. For example in Python, classes are objects (which happen to be callable) and some nice simplifications derive from it.

On the other hand, Lily is a type-safe language with generics. The kinds of "metaprogramming" that you would try to do with Python classes-as-objects might be done in different ways in Lily.

More theoretically, the whole point of types (as sets) was to was to be a qualitively distinct layer of things that could not be mixed up in logically paradoxical combinations with other objects. That abstruse point of logic might or might not have practical implications for a real-world programming language.
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It just increase the effort the thieves need to invest. If all houses have alarms, it may be not worthy to rob houses which reward isn't good enough, so they would look for houses with more rewards. Of course, some thieves won't be able to learn this new technology. If all airports had good security it would be more difficult to have attacks but it isn't the case now.
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That's a nonbinding legal opinion not relevant to the case. If anything, it's an example of legal theory which to you should be irrelevant.
I think a divide between value and reference types in C# is inevitable. There are semantic differences between value and reference types in C# that I don't think you can elide in a way that's both reasonable for the tooling author and conceptually clear to the end user.
Many times folks understand that values can be nullish. Libs like Lodash treat them as empty collections to avoid repetitive nullish check scaffolding.
The blog post states that

> during each phone call, Android tries to connect to a Google server
I assume the reach of HN means more than a few people who are reading this thread are currently working with telemetry or tracking data. Yet rarely do I see any posts offering an insider's perspective of how it is used. Obviously there are privacy and ethical barriers, not to mention NDAs. But without the opposing view these discussions are always heavily slanted toward the "data collection is bad" opinion with no evidence that the data being collected is actually being used in the nefarious ways being speculated.

Who will be the Snowden of the advertising industry?
Brilliant, but it'll never be widespread enough to make a meaningful difference.

Besides, nobody comments on websites directly any more. Now it all goes to Twitter or Facebook, and they'll never implement anything like this because it'd be directly inimical to their business model.
I hope it works out for everyone but imho it is very dangerous.

If I did this and the relationship ends 20 years from now I could find myself being an old guy without any friends and then it's harder (but still possible) to find new friends. (because you get rusty when you didn't do this kind of thing for decades)

I can definitely see why some people then choose to sit in front of a TV all day, because with your friends probably also a lot of the activities and hobbies you once enjoyed are gone.
All fine, but it is left conveniently unspecified what is meant by "reduce your rights". In fact, I don't even know my rights as I was not explicitly presented them in the form of a list in the first place, making the "reduction" ambiguous.

Admittedly it is not as easy to spin this as a more explicit ToS, but I am sure that with a sufficient number of legal experts, this has considerable leeway in terms of interpretation.
That's pretty amazing.

You know, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if you're the only developer who ever created a language and whose day job is not writing code.

Hat's off to you, seriously impressive.
I donno, Lodash is missing < 90 R apis where as R is missing > 200 Lodash ones.
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Personally I am not surprised in the sense that we could anticipate the coming occurrence of Google attempting to collect data in a reasonable manner, with the definition of reasonable tracking what people's current expectations actually are. When you say, "wherever and whenever," I would be surprised if I found out that Google had put up a bunch of thermal webcams around my house and were just looking at where I was inside of the house at all times. That would fall under the definition of, "wherever and whenever they can," but I don't believe they are doing that. However, they could be...and if an article comes out showing that they do, I will be surprised by that, yes. I was surprised to learn that Google was logging on to passwordless WiFi networks through the Streetview car. If they make a similarly high jump in their spying activity according to what people think they might be doing, I will be surprised. However if they just sort of track people's normal expectations, I won't be surprised. I think Google is still abiding by their, "don't be evil," mantra still applies, but what is considered evil by the majority of Google users changes over time. Does that make sense or no?
How are smart phones harder to hack? they've been information goldmines for years. java vulnerabilities, bluetooth vulnerabilities, even vulnerabilities from the charging cable.

Are they just perceived to be less vulnerable?
As a corrolary to this, don't be negative (generally including criticism) in e-mail, and if an e-mail you get makes you angry/upset/frustrated simply wait a few hours or a day or so before replying.

I've found generally it's better to talk in person (or on the phone) first, then depending on how it goes, summarize in e-mail if necessary. Negativity in e-mail seems to come across particularly badly, and on top of that, it's easy to make assumptions (possibly without realizing you're doing it) and then type paragraphs of text based on an incorrect assumption.

I've very much internalized the idea of "e-mail is where your keystrokes go to die" and am nearly convinced e-mail should be 100% banned for all internal communications (if it's actionable, create a ticket; if it's short-term discussion, use chat or have a meeting; if it's long-term information for archival, put it in a wiki/DMS).
There is room for both, but it should be explicit in my opinion. Dart for instance has null safe operators

// not null-safe:
foo.bar.baz();

// null-safe:
foo?.bar?.baz();

If your type system also does null tracking, then you can see where you might have null values and decide to use the null-safe operators.
TechCrunch often does an excellent job of reporting, for certain kinds of tech stories. This kind of analysis isn't one of them.
Who is the bad-guy here? (Both probably, but who is the worse bad-guy?) Obviously Apple's letter makes it seem as though they are being perfectly reasonable, but neither of the articles that I read have provided much analysis.
I responded in more detail here (ended up longer than I expected): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12018169

Briefly two points:

...soy from the resulting plant caused allergic reactions in subjects allergic to brazil nuts.

Not a novel unknown allergic reaction, but still important and something that should always be evaluated during the regulatory process. GMO should definitely be regulated and reported with greater scrutiny and transparency than regular food precisely because of this potential. This was caused specifically because of the protein chosen to be introduced into the soybean to increase nutritional value.

From the other (longer) response tl;dr: This is a legitimate concern that should be included in a regulatory framework that supports safety and transparency.
Powerful refrigerant as CPU cooling
To clarify, I was not the one doing the claiming. My only point is that there is much more than meets the eyes so 12 times faster is possible. I haven't deployed Rails in a long while so I have no data from the performance perspective.
Why do "expectations" of privacy figure so prominently in this? Is it not about rights? Like as in Bill of?

If I walk down a street in a bad neighborhood, I may or may not "expect" to be mugged, but regardless of what I expect, or what anyone placing bets on me expects, I have the RIGHT not to be mugged.

Edit: In other words, mugging is a crime and unreasonable searches & seizures are crimes.

Know what else gets me about this "expectations" bit - it's ass-backwards. Like "hacking happens a lot, therefore hacking is okay." Well, armed robbery happens a lot, therefore that judge has no reasonable expectation of not being robbed at gunpoint - it's totally fine everybody!

For that matter, the child porn they're trying to stop happens a lot. If you're going to be consistent you now have to say no child has a reasonable expectation of not being exploited.

The law is not a weather vane that swings depending on whichever way people want to break it!
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A previous employer opened an offshoring centre, stuffed it with fresh grads, and 6 months later it was CMM level 5 having never shipped a single line of production code...
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Beautiful art, but it's inconceivable that this would be cost effective per unit area if it's only increasing panel efficiency by 35%

That's roughly 500Kg of water, in a glass sphere, and the whole thing would have to cost a couple hundred dollars to beat standard PV, an it STILL needs an active tracking system.
yeah, instant articles / amp kind of kill that -- also, native browser share buttons -- but a man can dream!!
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And solve one problem by implanting another?
As far as pushing the queue further out I think one solution could be a plinko style entry at the beginning of the security system. Build it so that passengers get separated and spread out. Make it out of a blast resistant material.

You could make it more complex where they are identified by cameras and biometrics and have the system channel them a secure location/blast proof holding area if they are flagged as high risk.

I think having passengers in a large mass at the beginning of security at the airport or at a stadium is a huge target and risk since what happens when a screener finds a passenger with a suicide vest. I think there should be some type of screening container that is blast resistant checking someone face to face for weapons isn't effective. No one gets paid enough for that job.

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I feel like there could be a simpler solution that requires less obligation from the government. I believe merchants are mostly prohibited from passing on credit card fees[0], or even requiring a minimum purchase[1], by credit card service providers. I think it should be made illegal to prohibit merchants from passing on fees however they see fit.

The problem with the status quo is that credit card companies, on top of already making a generous profit, provide incentives like cashback that make it foolish for consumers to not pay with a credit card. If they could pass on the fees, then 1% cashback bonuses might not look so good, and people might shift some purchases away from cards (as just one outcome). The price of the convenience of the card would also be more upfront and the consumer market could properly respond.

[0] This could vary by state, and I think there are some pending suits dealing with this issue.

[1] It's still common to see this at small businesses, but I believe technically you can report businesses that do this.
I was disappointed to see Elizabeth Warren get in on this. Music consumers aren't the little guy here, it's the songwriters etc.
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The water weight is the real issue here
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