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Verizon and the other major US carriers stopped subsidizing phones in the past few years.

Except that Verizon just started subsidies again last month: https://www.verizonwireless.com/deals-landing/ Only they disguise it somewhat.

Not sure if that shows up properly. But in September an iPhone 6 was "worth" $650 as a trade-in. As of yesterday it was still worth $650. Today it seems to be $100 less:

Trade in and get iPhone 7 for $99.99.
Get up to $550 savings.

It's clearly a subsidy because an iPhone 6 isn't worth anywhere near $650 (or even $550) on the open market. Heck, I had an old iPhone 5C lying around that, last month, Verizon gave me $400 credit for toward an iPhone 7.

If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck ...
Yes, we know how hacker news feels about women.
Thanks!

so if i were to do further research into this, I would use the keyword "decoherence"?

also not being a physicist, could I naively think this would be a good candidate for the "theory of everything"?
I'm more used to "managed out", but same euphemism.
> pimping a minor

> run-of-the-mill prostitution charges

I sincerely fucking hope that isn't "run of the mill".

> run-of-the-mill

> adj.	Not special or outstanding; average.
At 27, I still feel old in the same regard as a lot of the ways the author is talking about. A lot of things I'm seeing reeks of being a fad. I'd rather avoid naming any technology or framework, but my instinct has been to avoid planting my seeds in soil that's churned up every 6 months and keep an eye toward that which has been solid for a decade and is likely to continue. I don't mind learning a new language -- there are a couple I'm hopeful toward and think could be long-term winners. But I'm not about to waste grey matter on things I suspect will be obsolete before I can even reach mastery.
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If an atom is .1 - .5nm. That means the transistor wires are about 2-10 atoms thick. About what Richard Feynman predicted in his "plenty of room at the bottom". This is Amazing.

Is it possible to have a cube of 1nm transistors. Like a 100 million ^ 3. The cube would have size of 10cm w.d.h.
OpenSSL after Heartbleed
I wish you would just consider a 2 clause bsd license and end all debate and worry about licensing issues. But it's your code.
A history of new things geared toward web app developers, starting with relevant popular technologies:

Late 1970s: microcomputers, explosion of BASIC and ASM development

Early 1980s: proliferation of modems, BBS's become big, Compuserve becomes big- people able to read news online and chat in real-time (but not popular like much later). software stores, software pirating, computer clubs, widespread use of Apple II's in schools. Microsoft Flight Simulator released in 1982 is first super-popular 3D simulation software.

Mid-1980s: GUIs- Macintosh 1984 based on ideas from Xerox PARC.

Late 1980s: Graphics had more colors, more resolution, faster processors. So- cooler games. File servers. 1987 GIF format, 1989 GIF format supporting animation, transparency, metadata- not that popularly used though- was a compuserve thing.

Early 1990s: Internet, realistic quality pictures, webpages/browsing, global file servers. Mosaic web browser. Most pages involved horizontal rule dividers that might be rainbow animated GIFs. Bulleted lists. Under construction GIFs were popular. Linux. JPEG format. Netscape. Blink tags.

Mid 1990s: Windows 95 (with Winsock). IE vs Netscape. IE had marquees. VBScript. (Mocha->LiveScript->)JavaScript. Applets. Shockwave. WebCrawler search. Altavista search. OOP pretty solidly how you should program now with C++ having been around for a while and Java slow but write once/run anywhere and OOP. Apache webserver. CGI: can email from webpage.

Late 1990s: ActionScript. Google search. CSS. Extreme programming. Scrum. JSP. Some using ORM via Toplink. Java session vs. entity beans. IIS. Java multithreading. Amazon gets patent for 1-click ordering. AOL instant messenger. PhP.

Early 2000s: ASP. .Net/C#. Hibernate ORM (free). Choosing between different Java container servers.

Mid 2000s: Use CSS not tables. Rails.

Late 2000s: SPA and automatic updating of content in background via Ajax. Mobile apps. Mobile web. Scala. Cloud computing start. VMs. Streaming video mature. Configuration management via Chef/Puppet.

Early 2010s: Cloud computing standard. Container virtualization. Video conferencing is normal- not just big company office thing. Orchestration of VMs more normal.

Mid 2010s: Container Quantum computing starts at a basic level (not important yet).

Note how I can't really thing of anything recently that has to do with new things in webdev.
How to choose a NoSQL database (2015)
Yeah. Sometimes I find it easier to write a program parsing log files with the line number and PID to step through.

Sometimes I think the people who have success with debuggers often must be working on a different class of problems than I am familiar with.

Numerical problems can usually be fixed with a series of targeted asserts and logs.
Funny you should mention her. I'm 100% sure that it can't be coincidence that the only "really bad CEOs" I keep hearing about on social media are Pao, Meyers and Elizabeth Holmes. But people really don't react kindly to accusations of sexism without proof.

I wonder how unlikely it is that the 90% of male CEOs in high tech are all exemplary.
Being able to place a video call from the outside world into VR is pretty amazing.

Youtube and twitch are capable of doing the conference call equivalent, streaming live video of content that doesn't actually exist, such as a video game, to a video receiving device. The ability to dynamically create live video is more than a few years old, even in live chat systems, from the capability to alter the background behind you while you video chat, to being able to wear virtual hats.

There's a lot in here that is interesting, but so much of it is a different form factor and UI/UX on technology that already exists.
Virtual reality is perhaps an unfortunate moniker, because it encourages a dichotomisation of reality into the "virtual" and "real", and conceiving of these as opposing, or at least orthogonal forces. Thought of in this way, virtual reality seems to promise a compelling-but-ultimately-empty facsimile of reality, the ultimate fulfilment of the escapist dream.

Disruptive technologies are often initially viewed from an oppositional mindset, which makes sense, because any disruptive technology will steal time away from the Old Activities that existed before the technology. People who aren't early adopters will naturally focus on the decrease in the time spent on Old Activities.

We saw this oppositional reaction when the internet gained popularity:

* People are spending so much time in cyberspace that they won't know how to effectively navigate the real world

* People are having fantasy cyber-lives instead of spending time in the Real World

* He's seeing someone he met online, he must not know how to interact with Real People

* And so on.

But social networks descended on society in an incredibly short period of time, and worked their way into the furthest corners of our lives. The oppositional mindset gave way to an integrative one, where the notion of a "CyberLife", as distinct from a "life", is simply misplaced- the internet is now simply a part of life, sans prefix and with a lowercase "l", no longer boxed up in the conceptual category of "the Cyber".

There was another motifical recurrence when smartphones entered the fray. The oppositional critiques were voluminous and eloquent:

* We're spending so much time texting we're forgetting how to speak to each other

* Every crack in every interaction is plastered over with the ritualized and mutually fraudulent "notification check", signposting the way to the unravelling of the social fabric..., etc.

* You can find the Real World up there, when you hold your head high, with dignity, and not down there, with your head bowed, staring transfixed at a shining rectangle, face ghost-like, bathed in the soft pearlescent glow of vapidity.

But at some point, the integrative mindset arrived. It's hard to maintain the oppositional mindset when you get off your Uber, arrive at a restaurant that you found on Yelp, and are chatting to your friend on WhatsApp, only to have them sit down in front of you. The handoff between "smartphone life" and "real life" is seamless. Smartphones are woven so deeply into our lives that if you ask someone how their "smartphone life" compares to their "real life", they'll just give you a strange look. Smartphones are just a part of life.

I think VR/AR could go in this direction, as just another arrow in our technological quiver. If we start looking at things like social VR, which has the potential to reshape the way we interact remotely, or how architects are today routinely using VR to demo to clients, it's not impossible to believe that the integrative mindset could eventually overcome the oppositional mindset in terms of how we think about VR.
Not sure about no one but anything with gpl in the license is surely a dead end for some of us.
It's paywalled, even though this was work done at a U.S. Government laboratory with tax funding. DOE has a 12 month "embargo" before the paper goes on line for free. There's a previous paper on line, though, which describes the process by which they get a stable one atom thick layer of molybdenum disulphide on a silicon substrate.[1] Another paper covers how they got a semiconductor junction made of molybdenum disulphide.[2] They've clearly been plugging away at this exotic area of semiconductor device physics for a while.

[1] http://www.osti.gov/pages/servlets/purl/1259305
[2] http://www.osti.gov/pages/biblio/1256052-mos2-heterojunction...
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I thought I remembered something about circuits of this size being infeasible due to electrons hopping around?
The topic of whether sharks feel pain is contested at best.
The threat of impending or active litigation will make Verizon reluctant to close a deal with Yahoo. It's new downside risk for Verizon that they have no desire to take on. Verizon may ask that Yahoo settle the lawsuit before closing the sale.

So, it may be that the lawsuit was timed to put maximum pressure on Yahoo to settle, by creating risk of jeopardizing their sale.
Looks like she really dislikes being asked to code in an interview. She just wants to have a friendly conversation. She will be a great fit for consulting firms that bill by the hour.
Move to Seattle. We are hiring at OfferUp and it's a fantastic place to work. Benefits and comp are great. Most importantly you'd be part of a fast growing, well funded startup that's transforming local commerce.
Thanks zer00eyz!
> One of the advertisers, identified only as 15-year-old "E.S.," ''was forced into prostitution at the age of 13 by her pimp," according to an affidavit filed with the complaint. She used other online advertising services until they were shut down, the court filing says, when she turned to Backpage.

This reads horribly: the feds took down multiple sites and knew about this 15-year-old, but didn't manage to reach her in the process?
Ditto on Fexprs, and PicoLisp!

Xtlang in Extempore is a whole lot of fun [1].

Echolisp has amazing built-ins and runs in the browser [2].

Gambit is great to get C code out of.

I like LFE, but I have to learn more OTP/BEAM to really use it.

Wasp Lisp is a lot of fun for me, and for playing with distributed programs.

[1] http://extempore.moso.com.au/

[2] http://www.echolalie.org/echolisp/
Ah sorry, didn't know you had to pay.

You can reach me at mail [at] yuriy [dot] me
You act as though CS knowledge is some high priesthood of supreme mathematical reasoning insulated from the internet.

As a matter of practical use, most of the time details about algorithms and data structures, from implementation through complexity analysis, can easily be regarded as "mere facts." Those times when this doesn't apply are times when somebody applying formal academic level CS is surely required, but these are far less frequent than most programming tasks require--even at Google.
Your right it's a sister of Google not a Google project, maybe a title change to "Alphabet" instead of "Google". Especially since I clicked it thinking it had something to do with code. :P
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You remind me of that old joke:

When a girl fails in math class, it's "women are bad at math".

When a guy fails, it's "John is really stupid".
" And the answer is that when you do the math, the result of taking a subset of the wave function (the mathematical operation is called a "trace") is something that looks like a classical system."

Your statement just connected to unrelated subjects in my head that might mean something. As I studied hardware, I found that underneath these nice, mathematical blocks that we build digital with are analog components that appear to operate on messy, kind-of-chaotic waves of electricity they hand-tune into the digital cells. Then, you say the clean building blocks of classical systems are composed of messy waves in quantum. Worded like that, it makes me wonder if analog vs digital could teach us something about quantum vs classical. Or some universal principle at work. Reason I wonder is some of the math keeps showing up in different disciplines.

What you think? Is my brain overreaching on this?
> there are those who believe that sex work can never truly be consensual...idealized circumstances free of such pressures, few people would choose sex work

In idealized circumstances free of economic pressures many of us would spent all day at the beach. It's great many found their dream career and are getting paid to do what they love. But for most what work is just work, a means to an end. Not sure why sex workers should be especially singled out and stigmatized. Would the janitor who cleaned the toilets in your office be doing that if they weren't getting paid to? Would you even be in said office if you weren't getting paid to be there?
I'm sure this will end well..
A lot of the comments on the post about :has complain that browsers haven't implemented it yet.

The reason it hasn't been implemented is (probably) that it's a big perf footgun (not because of laziness). It essentially doubles the amount of work you need to do in applying the cascade. I suspect some browsers implement it internally anyway, but leave it off for web content.

I don't remember the exact circumstances, but a month ago we were discussing some optimizations in Servo (which has parallel styling, making `:has` even worse), and often my thoughts would be "thank god :has doesn't exist", because it would often destroy the premise of the optimization.

I'm sure that optimizations can be done so that pages without :has are unaffected and pages with :has aren't affected as much, but how much is enough?

So I'm skeptical if it will ever make it. I'm not involved in the discussions here so I don't know what the current status is.

I mean, I've often felt the need for :has. I wish we could have it. I'm not sure if it's a good idea taking perf into consideration.
nickff's comment is some twisted libertarian rant about the airplane market that is only loosely based on reality.

For example, the FAA certifies airplanes after a mfg. tests them to certain standards - the FAA doesn't do the testing itself.

A much better case could be made about the FAA endangering safety by allowed low-cost regionals to exist in the USA, but they're not long for this world after the 1,500 hour training rule.
“..less than 20 percent female. Within a year and a half those top managers were more than 80 percent female,”

Even if they were not deliberate about it, they must have talked about how this might be perceived by employees.

As bad as this issue is, I think hiring friend/referral/former colleague, especially en mass is much bigger issue that's rarely talked about because it's not necessarily illegal.

However, I cannot overemphasize how demoralizing it is, especially when they aren't proven to be any better.
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> I can only hope one day some breakthrough in C.S. will get us past this "Cambrian Explosion" period and things will finally start to settle down.

I genuinely do feel like we're in the stone age in this industry right now. I've thought about it a lot, but of course, it's hard to really get to the good ideas when you can't hop on lot of stepping stones that will be found later and taken for granted.

I think a few things will happen. 100 or 200 years from now (if it's even appropriate to think on such a timescale!), we'll have some very large scale, stable data storage systems that people can simply rely on. A few common development paradigms will have thoroughly been cemented in our collective consciousness, and the programmers of the day will be essentially what construction workers are right now, perhaps with a bit more creativity. They'll follow plans and be put into rigid confines when programming with the system, and it'll be scalable from a development perspective.

I haven't got much further than that. It's hard to step more than a few layers deep on stuff like this. A lot of the rest of it depends on how things like AI and VR and a bunch of stuff I can barely imagine will pan out. But from a software point of view, I think we're still waiting on a bunch of 100-monkey-style revelations.
This is the first time I've heard of it and it's elegant enough that I want to start working with it.

Here's the flipside. This is way easier for me to grok than Angular but which one has way more of a presence at companies and job reqs out there? I'd probably get screened out of a lot of resume filters.
I can vouch for Intercooler. We're rewriting large parts of our app (used to be a complex flux beast) and it is now way more maintainable and indeed around 1/10th the code. We now keep most of our app state within the server, instead of spread throughout client and server.

Of course, it is not end-all-be-all: it solves simple interface problems, those that should't require 200mb of JS dependencies to solve. Once the interface gets complex enough, you should use JS. We've still got a couple of JS components though.
> “no one gives that kind of [salary/equity/vacation/benefits].”

Everything is negotiable, including when you hear things like that and "that's not our policy", etc.
If only all of this were unnecessary. Oh wait...
I've never seen an IPO underwhelm that much and have it not be a negative overhang. The financials will either support $10b, something more, or something less, in terms of exciting investors. If the financials - growth etc - are underwhelming, institutional investors are not going to magically get excited about the stock just because it comes out at $10 billion. Twitter (among others) has has been a disaster, institutions are going to be skeptical unless the numbers are extremely encouraging.
Yahoo refused to buy Google? I don't remember that.

In 2000, when Yahoo signed the deal to use Google search results, they also made an investment as well. IIRC, they sold that when Google went public. Obviously, Yahoo made a ton on that.
Others have pointed out that OStatus isn't built on XMPP, but maybe the source of your confusion is this:

OpenMicroBlogging, predecessor of OStatus and the original protocol of laconi.ca/StatusNet/GNU Social, was built on XMPP.
> Does no one see this?

I see this, for me a social network gets useless when it introduces a "curated" newsfeed. Nowadays WeChat is years ahead.
"Run-of-the-mill" in that sentence modifies "prostitution". When I read that person's sentence I think, "So, what kind of prostitution charge is average or not special? That kind." That's what they think, anyway. Whether this is true or false could be validated by seeing what kind of prostitution cases are commonly brought vs uncommonly brought.
I thought the demo was neat, but I don't quite get this -- how is looking at the cartoon avatars your friends chose possibly going to be more personal than (or even nearly as personal as) video chat, which has been freely available for years on every major platform and allows you to see your friends' actual faces with their actual facial expressions? Is it just anticipation of the avatars eventually getting replaced with a full realistic real-time 3D rendering of your body?
Where are the nutrients for plants coming from?

They say plants are grown in coconut husks instead of soil. Does the coconut husk act merely as a plant holder, or is it the one that provides the nutrients that the plant would otherwise obtain from soil (with/without fertilizer)? That part is not clear to me.

Edit: "There is no need for pesticides as seawater cleans and sterilises the air..."
What does this even mean? Do we normally use pesticides to clean and sterilize the air? Are the pests that we fight with pesticides eliminated when the enclosed air in a greenhouse is cleaned and sterilized in this manner?
You're comparing apples and oranges. The CEO of a small internet company almost certainly has a hand in everything the company does. The CEO of a large corporation has no idea what the line workers are doing.[1] If a bunch of Yahoo employees had gone off and run as sex-trafficking site off Yahoo's servers, they wouldn't go arrest Marissa Mayer. Not because "lobbying" but because that would be stupid and unreasonable.

[1] I've done internal investigations at megacorps. When something shady goes down with line employees they hire teams of lawyers just to tell management what the heck is going on inside their own company.
Monotype has published a case study too: http://www.monotype.com/resources/case-studies/more-than-800...
Also look at Alabama and Georgia (the US state, not the country), because these break in other ways.
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I did a lot of UI client/server back in the day; VB, Powerbuilder, Delphi and I remember being able to bang out an app in days. Then the web came around and turned UI development into a chore. Recently though, I started playing with Elm and it makes UI development fun again.
Traficckng, shmaficcing. For some reason, women who have no "sexual currency" of their own get very angry when men and women enter into business transactions for pleasure. It's an outgrowth of 3rd wave feminism. Expect these things to get worse under a female regime.
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An announced successor is still xkcd/927 until it actually replaces all use of the predecessors.

Case in point: pump.io is the successor of OStatus and StatusNet.
> We've reached a manpower ceiling with just two of us working on it daily so the 200k is about double what we need for a few hires that would allow us to build out the desktop experience, some general design/UI updates, get off of Parse and onto our own backend and complete two large features that will make the overall experience a more shareable and viral experience. It should also be enough to take us to our first 1mil users.

An investor would certainly prefer investing if it was the case that you were growing so fast that you couldn't handle the growth. The skeptical investor in me would ask: why can't you two get it growing faster without other people? How much longer would it take you to build these two large features with just you two? Which other things are you spending time on right now that you could stop using time for?

I feel these are valid questions given you are building a social application that makes money from advertisements, where to make large amounts of revenue requires extreme scale -- therefore why would an investor want to invest unless they believed you were excellent at growth?