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While I'm not as familiar with low-level Excel as you seem to be, I also suspect this is a rendering bug. If you type "=J64" in cell K45, that cell updates correctly with each change, so the calculation seems to be working fine. Doesn't make it less annoying though. Never had this issue in Excel for Mac 2011 BTW.
Agreed. The problem with split testing on low traffic is that you can't be sure what's causing the difference. It could be the time, location, device, etc. You need to split into cohorts of very similar users and compare their response, and you just can't do that unless you have high traffic.
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Anyone know if this would impact on NeoOffice, the Mac native port? They seem to draw code from both LibreOffice and OpenOffice.

[Side note: the way NeoOffice asks for yearly donations in order to access binary updates is very smart. Synergy also uses this method, and NeoOffice & Synergy are the first GPL projects I've regularly contributed to as a result.]
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"They also worry that it may be adulterated, given how little the substance is regulated" - so they ban it to make sure it will be adulterated? WTF
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Well, there's probably a confluence of causes:

- People got quite nervous about the risks. Sure, there were a lot of highly publicised accidents involving aircraft, but it's still a heck of a lot safer than driving a similar distance (and especially motorcycling). For some reason, the whole world has decided that flying needs to be a huge amount safer than the alternatives, and that has a huge cost.

- Terrorists. You could imagine a world where taking a flight was like taking a bus. It has certain similarities, right? But thanks to various events, everyone's got to go through the security theatre each time they're at an airport. That creates costs.

- Oil prices and environment. Just about when the Concord was getting in the air, oil prices went up. More recently, we've figured out it might not be so wise to put more CO2 in the air. Costs go up.

- Industry organisation. For some reason, a lot of countries decided they needed their own airlines. That's not necessarily economically viable, because a lot of countries are quite small. But there's a whole system of these airlines now, some subsidised, that fragment the industry. I don't know enough about whether there should be fewer airlines, but it certainly feels like it's something that is harder to evolve when various countries are propping up their local carrier.

As for the tech, why shouldn't it just progress? All those costs I've listed would suck money out of research. If things were a bit different, there'd be more people looking at making better planes.
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I noticed this difference when I moved in Australia a couple of years ago. My first guess would be that hot plates are safer than fires from a wild fire point of view (which are quite a concern in Australia), and this is now engrained in the culture. However, I could be wrong and it has always been like this. Any thoughts?
Russia does promote renewable energy and invest in it, but it may not receive much coverage in English. You can read Wikipedia article at least:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Russia

The link you've provided is an example of primitive and one-sided picture of Russia painted by some Western media, that does not even show any signs of fact-checking (interviewing few people from opposition and not asking for comments from Ministry of Environment - is that the way media work in USA or UK?). Please, note that I'm not a Putin's fan and never voted for him or his cronies. I'm writing this comment to help, because you were fed with BS and here's the advice: do not trust even well-known and respected media, when they are writing about "the rest of the world". They simply don't care to write the truth, because they will not be caught and sued.
Google already use asics http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/5/19/11716818/go...
Using a separate case still adds a lot more bulk than would be necessary if the protective layer was built into the phone itself. This is just yet another example of the unavoidable cost of modularity that people have been bringing up everywhere in this thread. And even the nicest and most expensive cases I've tried have never really been able to compare with my actual phone in terms of quality of material and design.
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Along with all the others here, I also immediately unsubscribe and get rid of products that feel like they're a bit too close for comfort. My side project is now making a lot of money, and people value tremendously not getting newsletters, or messages from John, the customer superhero. There is value in email, tremendous value, but I strongly believe that it's timing, wording and situation that will get you the most mileage here. I send one single email after about a week of no user pulse, all it says is: we still have your data, looks like you may haven't had a chance to try this yet, here's a coupon that expires today and it'll get you some extra credits (or whatever your product offers). If not interested, simply remove your account by clicking here.

No point in storing dead accounts. I don't care about a falsely inflated user base. People love that.

Also, I end the email by saying, "click reply to talk to our CEO directly and ask any questions you may have."

The last one gets a lot of conversions, and helps tremendously in figuring out what their concerns are.

This system is doing the magic for me.
Not made by the websites themselves but I think dashlane does something close to what you are asking for: https://www.dashlane.com/passwordchanger
But you don't think it's possible that all the incentives are geared towards this kind of behavior?
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Ruggedized phones exist. They look like childproof rubber bricks, but they exist.
Are you aware that in Singapur, driver less cabs are already in service? And that many of the biggies have plans for autonomous cars within a few years?
This has some advantages but there are negatives too. Do I really want Google or Facebook to get a notification every single time I log in to a service because they get an email with a "magic link"?

Google / Facebook already know enough about services used, do we really want to transfer even more information their way?

Also, another trouble with this is the loss of anonymity.

There are very few places to register an email address without an SMS number. There are few places to get an SMS without a real name and address.

Yes, I'm sure there are places to get these things for someone willing to put in a lot of effort, but for everyone else, their email provider has their SMS, their SMS provider has their name and address.

So by requiring email as authentication, essentially every online identity comes back to your real name and address through a small number of hops.

It used to be possible to spin up a TOR session and interact with real services you would otherwise use. Between the crunch on anonymous email and cloudflare's endless captchas, TOR is increasingly useless for interacting with normal services.

This is a feature, not a bug. Unfortunately it turns out that many people are abusive when anonymous and use that to their advantage so anonymity has been curbed to keep control over that problem.
Have OpenOffice actually done anything.
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It's interesting that Smart TVs seem to have two lives, the first as a Smart TV, and the later as a dumb display.

At least in some cars, you can still replace the ICE if it accomodates single or double DIN units. The newer cars with hidden "brains" and a proprietary display though, will that be the equivalent of having an 8-track player mounted under the dash in a few years?

It reminds me of a very good Mitch Hedberg quote: "An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience."
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Screen replacement, camera, DSP and audio out, radio, sensors, USB port, all could be upgradeable or at least, replaceable to fix breakage.

Yes the phone would be bigger, but I believe the main reason this has gone nowhere is that people have got used to seeing phones as replaceable units at the phone level, not at the component level, and there's more money in selling a shiny new Galaxy Over9000 than there is in selling a swap-out for a busted screen.
Actually trivalent chromium is an essential nutrient (trace amounts). Hexavalent chromium is the "bad" chromium. Chromium metal is not considered a health hazard.

Chromium salts (chromates) can cause allergic skin reactions.
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I never used it for anything with any design.
> you can go dig up your old iPhone out of the closet

Yeah, but the point is, I don't have to do that with old DOS programs. I get an emulator, whip out my old binaries, and it runs on my shiny new PC.

On iOS, strictly speaking, there is no such option -- you will have to go to a non-iOS device to run an emulator - and this assuming either Apple is still hosting iOS5 apps (which probably won't be the case for long), or I have some backup (again on non-iOS) that I can somehow leverage.

It would be very kind of Our Betters At Apple to allow some sort of iOS-on-iOS emulator, if they're at all serious with the "iPad for work" concept. Companies already struggle with Microsoft upgrade policies that are much more conservative...
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A lot of my password usage now is for apps, not web. I still know of no good way to do this with a password manager other than lots of copying and pasting, which is even more cumbersome on a phone than on a PC. I favor the apps that allow me to use TouchID.
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Apache should never have accepted this hot potato from Oracle in the first place.
Slackware Linux jumped from version 4 to version 7 so that people wouldn't think that Slackware was less up-to-date than Redhat 6.

Solaris versions went 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 7, 8... since Sun got tired of people thinking that point releases only meant minor tweaks and bug fixes.
> Disneyland is synonymous with the idea of the family vacation

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and the no-celebrities-harmed film adaptation "Vacation".
> Both weight and volume are at an extreme premium in mobile devices. All that metal/plastic going in to making the pieces modular is stealing volume and weight from the battery.

This is probably mostly right, except that the size and weight of current mobile phones is probably largely determined by display, battery and case design/protection. I'd like to see some real numbers here. My guess is that 5-10g of plastic and connectors wouldn't make much of a difference and could easily be compensated with a slightly smaller battery and screen if size/weight become an issue.

> Modularity worked in desktop PCs because they have gobs of space and an AC power connection.

Many things have changed since the 80s, modularity is now unattractive for most users.
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I didn't downvote, but it might have been the mention of using Enterprise Distribution to get around "what Apple & Google allows". Enterprise distribution isn't meant to be used that way and has the potential to get your developer account closed & blacklisted by Apple if they find out. Even worse, Apple may revoke your developer certificate so that even the software installed on user devices stops working:

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2013/07/apple-revokes-gba4ios-sig...
For once a top voted HN article is up there to be 100% criticized and fix the bad advice. Quite different from the usual norm of supportive discussion.
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I wrote a simple web app to work with last.fm's api. A little fiddly, but in essense it worked. Somewhere buried in settings were all the apps that have access to my account. I then went back to Spotify and noticed it wanted my username and password. And ever since, I just haven't been bothered. I'd rather some throwaway autogenerated app linking passwords and authenticating consistency.

Copying and pasting links isn't that hard. Go to last.fm, generate OTP token/link, paste into Spotify. Done. I should have some easy way to identify authenticated apps under my account and kick them out, or reset all.

Not all of us use Web mail. And I might not want a link automagically opened there and then, under a browser.
> stuff json into a text column

You did see the article was about JSONB, which is significantly more sophisticated than "json in a text column", yes?
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I came to the same conclusion after running small-changes A/B test.

But I think it still makes sense for smaller projects to make "big" A/B test, like testing a completely different homepage/landing page with different copy and marketing approach.

Another example of useful A/B test on small scale: for registered users, testing if an automated "support" email is helping moving customers to the next step of your funnel (A: send email B: don't send email. Measure the conversion of that specific funnel step)
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I suppose this would still be susceptible to this class of attack: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity16/technical...

Unless you're very careful about which ranges of physical memory are mapped to each VM.
Within any shipping company you usually have various container vessels which you own, then various that you charter. This allows you to be flexible. So a shipping company could hand back some chartered vessels, then buy Hanjin ones. If they buy it cheaply, the average cost per day should be lower than the charter rate.

Ideally they'd do this in a smart way. So same size vessels and just reduce cost. In practice, they'll probably buy bigger vessels than they used to have (bigger vessel has a lower cost per container, provided they're fully utilized). Then lower the rates as they notice it is difficult to fill them (no change supply/demand).

A few years ago the shipping companies idled vessels to reduce capacity (instead of lowering prices). In 2016 it seems they do both (bit of idling, but also compete on price).

Note that I didn't notice any shipping company making a profit in 2016. Average is a -5% EBIT margin ( http://www.alphaliner.com/get_public_newsletter.php?file=201... ); though this source is from May 2016.
It's a judging opinion, there's not much to rebute there.
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Is a reply really necessary. Granted, when a reply does come through (even if negative), it feels good that you've been noticed.

I'm not sure how the hiring culture has changed recently, but I remember around 8-10 years back, I'd send my resume to many companies. No reply, means they are not interested.

Same with dating :)
Ahem.

The "many countries" is just US, NZ and Australia (not UK).

The rest of the world still trusts their citizens not to eat stuff that's not good for them.
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Wonder why don't they post the conditions too? In a country where people change their cellphone numbers faster than their handkerchiefs, who would prevent them to use the services until end of 2016 (for free) and move on. There must be more to it.
Actually for many years we have told people "if you want a free alternative to MS Office use OpenOffice". And we told this to people who are not closely following tech news. It's an established brand and it's not easy to undo.
Many people will still google for openoffice. It would be helpful if they'd just get a message "OpenOffice is outdated, you can still download old versions, but you really want to get Libreoffice instead".
yes and no. Some professions have a 'salary' - as in, they get paid the same amount regardless of how much they work.

The other sorts, yes. For example, I worked in a call center. Nearly everyone started at the same rate, raises were scheduled, and everyone got the same percentage, dependent on how long you worked there. Pay was capped. The way to earn money was to have some sort of promotion or transfer.

A lot of factories are set up in the same way. It gets a little fuzzier in retail sectors. In the states, this is often (but not always) result of having a union for the employees.
Well consider it lesson learned for not just going with an iPhone in the first place
With a weak password, step 2 is redundant, even with more than the recommended rounds of bcrypt/scrypt, if your password is "123456" it's getting cracked.

verify(candidate, storedEntry) has to run in a time reasonable for a web service to handle, which means that 123456 is still going to get tried against all the accounts in a reasonable time.
Swapping out a component is vastly less complex than swapping out an entire system.

I'd love to see high-density, walkable, transitable, low-distance development in more places.

That would mean rebuilding the entire urban landscape, rewrites of layers upon layers of building codes and obligations, a writeoff of a vast amount of equity within the financial system, changing patterns of habits and desires, and more. You're involving every suburban homeowner everywhere, every city, county, state/provincial, and national government. The real estate lobby. Banks. Builders. Building suppliers. Architects.

Good luck with that.

Vs. outlawing a brush.

This is pretty much an exemplar case of the difference between simple and complex problems.
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> Are advanced users of Excel programmers?
Yes.

Edit: here's a previous discussion about a Turing Machine in excel -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6416631
The history of computers is one of higher and higher levels of integration. Single transistors -> gate ICs on wiring boards -> processor with support chipset on PCB with peripherals on daughterboards -> system-on-a-chip. Each time it's improved performance and reduced cost.

> failure to solve this engineering problem results in higher profits?

Ultimately all engineering in a capitalist business is value engineering. Cost is not something that can be removed from the metric in people's heads which they use to choose solutions.

There are only two ways I can see out of this: a move towards lease-like arrangements for phones, where the manufacturer has an incentive for something other than obsolecence; or the EU pushing WEEE harder.
Where are the people like Andrew Ng: machine learning gurus from tech giants like Fb, Amazon, Google, Baidu etc... ?
Shouldn't those guys be in the front line of such committee?
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Apple has copied more from the note series than vice versa.
> libreoffice

I hate that name. As a German I have no idea how to pronounce it and it's even harder for my non-techy friends. The name "Open office" has a very nice flow and everybody knows how to pronounce it, but "libre office"?

They should have selected an easier name for that project.
Party membership numbers are wholly irrelevant -- the number that matters is electoral support, of which Johnson/Weld has 4x that of Stein and drawn in substantial numbers from both major parties.

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Reliance has made it clear that from Jan 2017, the minimum need to pay is INR 149 per month to keep the connection Active. Everyone else is costly than them and the data speed sucks for others, as of today I don't see any reason than people won't stick to Jio for sometime.
A legal gun becomes an illegal one quite easily and without the person who owned it necessarily doing anything wrong. Does someone who has committed a crime dying make it less of a bad thing? You have mentioned gangsters in a strange way and implied some homocides are justified.
Consulate. Most Russian visas in Europe are processed by consular services, unless you need it done quick and/or from a remote place.
Interesting, and sad to see any useful substance banned by the DEA; but a ban by the DEA will not prohibit medical use of a substance.
Walking, bicycling, or public transit aren't alternatives for loading a desk and two chairs on the back seats and a couple backpacks & bags with clothes plus 50kg of hardware in the trunk... which I did just yesterday.

Cars don't exist just to transport our bodies.
Well, I do use a DE (MATE), and I think the appearance of Lumina DE is just fine. What kind of "polish" do you find missing?