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"Note: ...In Gutierrez’s dissemination of the transcript, he noted a sign error he made somewhere in the equation. Good luck finding it!"

Anyone see the flipped sign?
Also a Windows phone user, and I totally agree.

It's sort of amazing how nice it is to use. Super fast startup time, super fast performance, very smooth user experience. Great camera. Not many apps, but that's not a big deal for me.

I truly believe a lot of people would switch if they spent a week on one, but that is never gonna happen.
True, but with nitpick that it is the Lagrangian density so nature minimises its total over a region of 4-space.

And with the more important nitpick that this Lagrangian is a quantum operator rather than a number. In some sense nature does try to minimise it even so, but I never got an intuitive grasp on what that sense is.
Good points on the scanning display + eye tracking combo. Having a non-linear spatial resolution that can be moved would definitely be one approach to providing excellent perceived visual acuity over a super wide FOV.
But publishers have done nothing to fight back. At some point, the probably will. It's easy to bypass ad blockers if they put any effort in doing so.

Also, we will see more and more native advertising. FB is a good example but your favorite tech quy on Twitter with million followers, your favorite basketball player on Facebook - ever wondered if they get money to tweet or share things? They do... Welcome to native advertising.
Well, if we're talking about the long game, let's continue following that puck :)

As smartphones become more and more popular, they reach further and further down towards groups of people who can't afford iOS devices (unless you're counting second hand devices). I don't really see Apple's % of the market ever going up.

As the market matures and the hardware reaches "good enough" levels, the overwhelming majority of smartphones used will be the equivalent of the "beige boxes" of old (from the PC world). On top of that, the app competition is becoming so cutthroat that app prices will probably continue to go down (per app).

So, long story short: Apple will probably never enjoy a bigger share of the smartphone market than it did in the past and most of the competition will be around hardware and software with razor thin margins.

Meanwhile, more and more people from developing countries will start working in companies which use overwhelmingly... Windows desktops and associated software.

They will also use and pay for various services, some of which, as you noted, will be hosted on... Azure.

Microsoft's main cash cows will never dry up. Companies want/are willing/are able to pay for software.

I think that the longer term threat for Microsoft is Amazon, not Apple.
Aww, isn't that cute.
Like it or not, when someone is a public figure, their posts on Facebook get LOTS of views. A larger percentage of internet users ONLY read Facebook these days.

Carmack's profile has almost 10,000 followers and several hundred 'friends' each of which will have been pinged about the new post immediately. Even a popular blog won't be able to do that, that instantly. So you can see the attraction.

Also, on Facebook there is the concept of 'Notes' which are better for long form writing and display in their own large overlay div. Not sure why Carmack didn't use it.

I am not a fan of Facebook, but from a technical point of view the platform does have its merits.
There's a number of projects as part of Google X that have little to do with any of Google's core businesses. They don't really need engineers specializing in fluid mechanics outside of Google X. I interviewed for a mechanical engineering Google X position a few years back. I note that the project I interviewed for still hasn't come out of their lab yet.
A lot of times I feel like the instinctive reaction to the word losses is an image of Google stacking up a millions of dollars and burning it. That's not what happened - it went to people who used it to build things that would not have been built otherwise, in the hope that some of them might shape the future. Not really a loss to humanity.
> I'm fine with women leaving for no cause (it's her business) and also with financially supporting children (as probably most men are)

My mother's parents divorced acrimoniously.

She told me that her mother was constantly fighting to receive child support checks. They were always late, any disputes that could be raised were raised, etc.

When she went off to college, the checks were assigned to her rather than her mother. And, like magic, they arrived on time and in full, with never a word of complaint.

I think a majority of men are indeed quite willing to support their children financially, even children they don't see much. But money extracted from you by a court and handed over to your ex-wife to be spent however she sees fit is something a little different.
Why can't you?
The article displays a big equation somewhat carefully. But it doesn't have any maths.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/files/2008/07/y-combi...
Simply serve them from your own subdomain, the ad networks still do the heavy lifting, you just fiddle around with domain settings.

It's one possibility. Let's face it, ad networks have done nothing to fight back and adblock itself is really simple software based on rules that block domains and some class names in the DOM.
That's not really true. While it's true that bacteria will become vulnerable again - after dozens of years - they will adapt back to resistence far faster as well.
How does Amazon flaunt the law?
> So come on NYT spend 5 mins getting the story straight instead of writing a lazy click bait headline.

Actually, NYT has syndicated an article originally written by a reporter of the Associated Press. It says so right at the top.

http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/495d344a0d10421e9baa8ee77029...
Make Habits, Not Rules
Come and visit Copenhagen. You can see people from 6 to 90 years old riding bicycles, and younger children being carried in box bikes etc.
Yep, I used to work somewhere that offered a multi-tenant SaaS app that customers could style themselves. We needed to make sure changes we made for a new release wouldn't cause issues with their custom styles. Threw together something that use IM and WebDriver to capture images and compare them.
What so it doesn't make sense to adjust for hours worked or skills? The point here is to eliminate everything except for prejudice by employers. It doesn't address why women are less likely to work in some industries or take higher skill qualifications.
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>I don't think it's right to equate R&D spending with "losses"

Especially since they are still working on them. Can't really call them a loss if it turns into billions in the next few years.

Better to say "Alphabet spent $859M on...."
Why does Kendo (UI) make you weep?
Majority of people pay for ads if they earn more doing so. The cost of ads tells us it works for a lot of people and companies.

Maybe big brands pay over, or pay for just to be everywhere, but I wouldn't call it desperation.

Yes, Internet advertising works surprisingly well.
Why not? That's the case in the centres of many European cities.
The way it plays out with dietary issues is just one topic. I happen to be sensitive about it because I've experienced several companies treat me (and other non-meat-eating employees) pretty inconsiderately over it, and fail to address the problems at all even when asked politely.

But in a bigger sense the problem is that anytime an employee sticks up for herself or himself because they feel the company is treating them badly, they are labeled "high maintenance" as you say, or "not a team player", or in the most egregious cases, the mythical "toxic employee" -- all just code words for "why won't this person just be quiet and accept the shitty treatment like everyone else does?"

It's not high maintenance at all to stick up for yourself and be pedantic about things that really affect you and matter to you. But we're so conditioned that we have to be good little workers, displaying fealty to paternalistic companies, to whom we should be soo grateful to be so lucky as to be employed at all, that anytime someone talks plainly about the dehumanizing way the HR and managerial apparatuses are designed and made to interface with employees, then that person is treated like some kind of conspiracy theory wacko who can't just lighten up and deal with the company's bad behavior like everyone else.

If a company factors the value of a food benefit into your dollar value of total compensation (and they absolutely do and will often try to tell you that directly in negotiations when talking about salary), then you absolutely should counter them if you have a dietary preference that changes the picture.

There is nothing "high maintenance" about that whatsoever. It's simply called sticking up for yourself so you're paid fairly.

But here we are, having to argue even about whether an employee can raise the issue that that kind of benefit fails to count as actual compensation without thereby being a nutcase who is high maintenance.

This, by the way, is exactly the "red flag" kind of thing I mentioned, that the other commenter went on and on about how people won't care enough to actually think or act on it. But I mean if even just another casual observer on an HN thread is conditioned to think it's "high maintenance" then how much more will HR think so? Of course HR will think so.

Which brings me full circle back to my original comment, which is that I don't bring this stuff up in interviews even though I believe, ethically, I absolutely should -- because I try to conform and look like the no-weird-stuff "team player" just like everyone else.
Ha ha. I'm English, so I've never been entirely sure how American lobbying works, but ever since I learned of it I've thought it could be an idea to set up a website (lobby.com) where people could propose laws and people could pledge donations to get laws enacted that they like the look of. If a particular law gets enough pledges to reach a particular financial threshold then the money is deducted from the accounts and a lobbying process is started to get the law enacted.

Anyone else think this could work?

[edit: forgot a word]
>> > Specifically, don't introduce new syntax

> Hearing this in the context of Scala is hilarious[0].

I'm confused, I don't see any syntax in this link. Wrong link?

> You have to ensure that the build system, bytecode enhancer, AOP injectors all are able to cope with the new bytecode format.

If you use Scala you usually need none of them. Problem solved.
I feel like arstech way of splitting an article to two pages is also a dark pattern. Or very annoying at best.
but the same waves could be reproduced without gravity in an appropriate accelerating frame (e.g. in a rotating body at a Lagrange point) so gravity isn't _essential_, whereas it is for gravitational waves
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It won't work on Windows 7, 8. It needs Windows 10 pro or enterprise to work.
Private businesses can suppress freedom of speech because (unlike for the government) there is no law preventing them from doing so.
The author then went on to produce a WebGL version in ShaderToy: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MdX3Rr

He also wrote ShaderToy...
And once that happens people will be more inclined to move to a different service.
Wait now, hold on a minute. I'm very confused and curious how does this work?

Can I run any linux-based container on Windows?
Can I run (are there any?) windows-based containers? If so, does it work the other way around: windows container on linux host?
Does it somehow use the recently published Linux Subsystem for Windows, or is it completely different compatibility layer? If it is different, doesn't it seem like a waste of effort?
Thanks a lot! C# is definitely on our list. We want to target the most popular binding first and then add support for all major selenium bindings out there.
Right now we're targeting Chrome as we're using it most ourselves :) and as it also is the most popular browser at the moment.
Please follow us on twitter, so you're up to date on the progress. But I will certainly post here when we have a release.

Thanks again!
Appreciate you framing it in a thoughtful light.
This simply doesn't happen. People have been saying it for years, but there's zero proof. My theory is something like this. A mom and pop shop opens Yelp one day to see they have some bad reviews. Then, if around that time a Yelp sales rep happens to call to pitch some ads or "enhanced profile" (actual name of an ad product they sell which doesn't alter reviews, just makes the profile prettier), and OMG all of the sudden in their mind it's a case of "pretty good store you've got here... Would be a shame if something were to happen to it".
On Windows, Hyper-V doesn't really play nicely with laptops. If you've got it enabled and bridged to your wifi adapter, Windows 10 may think that your connection is Ethernet and turn off all bandwidth saving features. I only found out after Windows Update had exhausted my monthly LTE quota.
It's not like it's the only thing that sounds a bit too hopeful. Driving content to a light-field display at a decent frame rate and a resolution "much higher than [4375 x 2300]" is orders of magnitude beyond any mobile GPU now or within anyone's manufacturing plans.

Speculation is all that the article is, and it sounds rather like it's intended to feed the hype.
It's seriously much better to delete your social media profiles than to do this
> the average public school student in the US costs $12,000 to educate

Why does it cost $30,000 to educate a class of 30 kids for a month? The salary of the teacher should be <$5,000. Double, or triple that to include rent and other costs. It still comes out at half of $30K.
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I'm curious if you know much about jobs doing this kind of thing. I've worked a ton with Python, and know a lot about using Cython to write extension modules, wrap C++ code, etc.

I really want a job where I find performance bottlenecks in research or business analytics or financial analytics code, migrate parts to robust Cython implementations, and then build and maintain the broader Python libraries and APIs surrounding that.

But what I'm unfortunately finding is that basically nobody uses this stuff anywhere in practice. I've interviewed at a ton of places doing everything in C++ entirely, and I just see their code and I think, my god, why would anyone choose this? You can write the critical stuff in C++ just as you are, and then so easily wrap it for Python, then write the other 99% of the code in super easy, dynamic Python, even with various kinds of validating systems, or using typing and type annotations to avoid certain kinds of bugs, and just everyone's life is easier.

But they are just so entrenched in the old way of doing it that nobody is willing to try.

I've been consistently amazed at how few jobs in the monthly Who Is Hiring thread are tagged even just with NumPy. I think I've seen maybe one job in 6 months that mentions Cython, and then I found two others outside of HN and the interviews with those places didn't work out.

How to find a job doing this stuff is like my main vexing work problem at the moment. It's so useful, but it's sort of locked outside of some kind of energy barrier that quant teams seem unwilling to cross.
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The contemporary 2010 Nokia device was the N8, specs here: http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_n8-3252.php

The Finnish tech industry is still filled to the brim with ex-Nokia folk who simply do not understand what was better about the iPhone. Even today.
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Playing devil's advocate here (a little) but imagine they took a few dozen million of that and, say, improved their development tool chains for Android (which are disappointingly flaky). Or another few dozen millions and extended the security updates for Nexus phones by a couple of years. That could grow their market share of both developer mind-share and consumers.

Moonshots maybe should come once you've mastered all your core products?
> They never considered the importance off software, hardware was always number one for Nokia.

Oh, but they pretended to. Just like Samsung today.

Top management really needs to have people with deep and true understanding about software.

And perhaps top management needs also someone with a good sense about design. Many of them seem think they're Steve Jobs... Their failing tends to always be very consumer oriented (meaning they're not makers, maybe they're just using nicely designed products) and shallow understanding of the problem and especially possibility / innovation space.

Samsung, our new Nokia. I wonder if next chapters play out likewise.
Or purchase the other half of Malibu he doesn't own
It is an ethical conviction for me, based on animal rights. I do not consider it a "choice" any more than a religion is a choice. In a sense they both are, but when making the choice you absolutely do have a reasonable expectation that others will reasonably accommodate it. Though they do not literally have to, as they do with some aspects of religion, it's still a significant moral failing of the company if they don't automatically do it.
This phone-powered vision test can replace your eye doctor
This is cynnical of me, but I feel like in a way Yelp is catering to techies and others with the free speech angle, since it's kind of a very easy way to get a very large crowd on your side.

Technically speaking, you're right that the legal definition of Free Speech doesn't apply, but there's a moral principle of free speech which has been the subject of a lot of debate in recent years, with persons of varying political backgrounds and agendas arguing about whether abusive speech should be promoted as the poster-child for free speech. (though I'm hesitant to invoke any of this for fear of it exploding...stuff like the Twitter fights that people get into over things like misogyny, misandry, rape, social justice, etc)

Basically, like with a lot of topics online, there's a built in audience you gain access to if you say the right incantation; if you're not clear on what I mean, just look at any topic about the NSA or encryption on HN and look at some of the more popular comments; you'll get an idea of how by stating a stance, you can sometimes get new audiences.

The childish cynic in me thinks that this is what Yelp is doing, along with cementing their business model as free speech. Yelp has been guilty of extortion like practices in the past against businesses, and their users are equally obnoxious with restaurants at times. There was even a Southpark episode about it, so it was wide spread enough to be picked up offline. I honestly don't think Yelp really gives a rats ass about its users, it's just this sort of pro-consumer stuff is majorly beneficial to Yelp. There's no doubt in my mind that Yelp would gladly take the notice down if the price was right and the business did a bit of advertising for Yelp.

Not that I can prove that. This is all just a misanthropic rant on my part, and I am not trying to pass it off as anything else. But the point is that there's a lot more to "free speech" than the US legal definition right now.
https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2016/07/27/risc-v-on-an-fpga-pt-7...
I've strongly suspected this of corporate R&D for decades. AT&T, IBM, Xerox, Microsoft.

Now Google and Facebook.
> Moonshots maybe should come once you've mastered all your core products?

Then they'll never come.
And that men choose not to enter into that business partnership.
Yes. Thats why I have invested some of my money equal weighted in all three of them plus Apple. My thinking goes along the lines that I dont know the future, but I'm pretty sure at least a few of those companies will be a big part of it. They all have high aspirations and huge warchests. So if they dont make the future themselves, they can probably snap up any new promising technology.
https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2016/07/27/risc-v-on-an-fpga-pt-8...
And this is why established companies with unimaginative salary men who can only read the paperwork fail and nimble smaller companies can over take them even if the established companies have the market share.

Guess it's like catch up in computer games.
When automation comes and replaces us, we need to be owners of robots and AI, in other words to have some kind of capital and enjoy a revenue stream from it. If not robots, then at least we need to have land to cultivate for food. When nobody gives you a job any more, you either cultivate your own food, or associate with others to become investors in the new tech.

Those who already have capital and can invest it smartly might fare much better than those who only rely on BHI, which is at the whims of politicians. A person need not be super rich, if she can associate with other to buy land for agriculture or robots for manufacturing. Robots are analogous to land. You gotta have one or the other :-)
Your assessment is somewhat unfair and kind of misguided. The differences between math and programming are quite large. I think there are two main reasons for why we have symbols in math and more verbose expressions in programming.

1. Medium. Math is mainly done with pen/pencil on paper, or chalk on a blackboard, or marker on a whiteboard. Programming is mainly done with keyboard on a computer. Those media are quite different. In a way, it's about ease of input - it's easier to write out a longer name with keyboard than with a pen.

2. Nature of the activity. A lot of math boils down to manipulating expressions given rules. It involves a lot of scratch work with a lot of backtracking and trying new things. A lot of programming boils down to easily reading and writing code and reasoning about how things work. Imagine writing "integral from a to b of f(x) dx" or "integral(f(x), x, a, b)" by hand a hundred times vs in an IDE and you'll see what I mean.
As a straight man I say good on them.
Farewell, left versus right. The contest that matters now is open against closed
In which way in an IDE you can't start coding straight away? I always start coding straight away in Idea or Visual Studio.
Yep. Android is also becoming "another Windows" in a sense. For instance, good luck finding drivers with blobs for anything except Bionic, if open drivers aren't available.
The conservative, baseline prediction is generally "things tomorrow will be the same as today"

Note that this line of thinking means that you'd never predict the rise of exceptional giants like Google & Facebook in the first place. If your line of thinking can't entertain the creation of these companies, it's unlikely to be any good at predicting their fall either.

Can you think of a possible way Facebook could lose all their traffic in that 5 year timespan?

My point is that since we can't imagine all the possible things that can or will happen in the next 5 years, the fact that we can't think of a possible way Facebook could lose all their traffic becomes meaningless and useless as a reliable source of predictions.
> A sensible algorithm would let the platoon pass first.

You're taking an example of a sub-optimal local solution and claiming that is proof that the global solution is sub-optimal. That does not follow.

It could easily be, taking your example, that the platoon of 5 cars must stop at some future light, and the delay for 1 car is the smallest delay available for those cars. Therefore, stopping for the 1 car reduces the platoon's total travel time. As the driver, it's easy to think that was dumb because you'll never see the 15-car wait that was avoided by stopping early for 1 car.

Essentially, you are claiming that a greedy algorithm for traffic would always find the globally optimal solution (which we know is not true).