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This article simply quotes verbatim other sources without providing much insight of its own. That's not very good.
Oh, I can understand that perspective. I do expect that the company will have fewer ardent cheerleaders in 10 years.

However, they may also have fewer ardent critics and more moderately happy customers. That seems to be a common pattern with companies like this. :)
I would definitely agree, partially. Intuitively classical physics makes sense but it was definitely helpful to me to understand the historical perspective for quantum mechanics.

Or at least is where I think the undergrad Griffiths QM book gets it wrong. If I remember correct it just starts by basically stating the Schrodinger equation and going from there. One of the most helpful lectures I had in undergrad QM was on matrix mechanics formulation. It really helped to solidify my understanding.
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The "Big Endian AMD 64 support" slide and discussion should be required viewing in a CompSci ethics class.
I would never expect even 5 minutes of internetting to fact-check my comment :) . I guess it's not especially clear and my point is more or less invalidated.
Not the OP, but I suggest state-run work-camps or mini-work-cities for the sane and able-bodied. The rest get taken to either psychiatric facilities, or to dedicated facilities for the physically-disabled.

The able-bodied and sane get put to work in work camps. It need not be back-breaking labour. It can be absolutely anything. The point behind it is to ease them back into a normal functioning life. Give them a pretend-life that is safe. A bank account with fake-money, or real-money but limit the things they can spend it on. I.e. shops at the work-camp, entertainment, furniture stores for their temporary fake living accommodation. If it's real money, tell them that they can keep it once they've demonstrated that they are ready to go back into society.

We claim to "rehabilitate" criminals, so I fail to see why we can't do something on a similar effort-level for the really needy individuals in our society. Giving them money, free-food, and packing them into people-warehouses does not really help them. It just drags the problem along.
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/classical/gravitational2.pdf
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If you plug a keyboard in your system the system doesn't take key presses from it until you've confirmed what to do with it? That's at least an unusual configuration. Otherwise it could run the malicious sequence before you had time to switch the connection to the VM.
In bird culture, this is considered a dick move.
Mail in a box makes this easy.
https://mailinabox.email/

Or something like sovereign.
https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign
Streaming is definitely more convenient, but since Netflix's streaming selection is atrocious, it's not worth my time or money.

I'd much rather put up with the minimal hassle and a bit of a wait to get a great selection of DVDs.

The "hassle" amounts to me opening up an envelope, putting the DVD in to my DVD player, putting it back in to the envelope when I'm done and throwing it in to a mailbox on my way to work.

Sure, it's not as easy as hitting play in a streaming app, but not really a big deal, either.
Are you sure? Have you tried this recently? I've been navigating without a signal and asked for the nearest gas station and it still found it for me.
I've been out of the JS world for a few years, but for a single Ajax call, why wouldn't you use XMLHttpRequest?
We've used it for simple health ping scripts before in systems where bash is the only language guaranteed to be available and compiling a binary was overkill.

I've also used it to issue Redis and other text based protocol commands without having to have a large runtime or library.

But in both those scenarios the environment was pretty restrictive.
It's really simple - how hard is the UX of my phone vs. the car's system. I've _never_ seen a builtin car version have a UX that wasn't ridiculously complex and frustrating to use.

There are two concrete, real examples, of a routing UX that anyone can just try out - just grab an android phone or an iphone and directly copy the experience. Just sit down and try the most basic goal of using a nav system - enter and address and start and do it on your car system and on either phone.

Oh, wait, differing goals. I, as a user, want a usable system. The maker of these awful nav systems have an entirely different goal. They are trying to sell an "option" upgrade to car makers who then include it in "option packages" with the car... usability is way way down the list after bells/whistles/marketing/subscription sales
Interestingly, according to this summary:

http://drivinglaws.aaa.com/tag/telematics/

there are exemptions of some kind for navigation systems in many places.

I've heard "it's not allowed by law" often, but I have yet to track down the actual law. Hopefully automakers aren't doing this based on hearsay....
Resistance heating is pretty poor compared to heat pumps.
I don't know if you've followed polling closely, but this particular poll (LAT/USC) is outside the envelope and it has attracted considerable attention because of this. See the lead sentence in: http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-poll-faq-20161006-... .

Anyway, the story turns out to be a great example about survey design tradeoffs.
> How horrible, you had to install a single app and click "Next" a few times!

If you include the "guide" that you have the scroll through and then the 5 "Accept" popups for allowing the car to connect to the phone it's like about 9 clicks. Pretty crappy UX.

But really it's the whole process of getting setup. The Android phone didn't put up a prompt when plugged in to tell you you needed to download the Android Auto app. My friend had to Google how to make this thing work.

Compare that to the CarPlay experience. Connect, click accept once in car UI and accept in iPhone to allow the car to access it. From plugin to navigating on the dash about 30 seconds.
That was a flip bit of stage-setting.

I know little about space data transmission (though I vaguely recall some good discussion around the time of the New Horizons Pluto contact), but yes, it's been a mix of analog transmissions (initially) and digital, of various descriptions. I believe there is an IP-based transmission support for the ISS, though I wouldn't swear to that.

One of the zaniest image transmission protocols was for the early Soviet lunar missions, Luna 3. Again, film cameras, an in-spacecraft photo processing lab, and a TV camera to read off the film image and transmit it back to Earth. The image quality wasn't much, but it was the first imagery of the Lunar farside ever received.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_3

A few years back there was a story of the National Geographic lunar map timed to coincide (well, a month late) with the December, 1968, Apollo 8 mission, the first manned flight around the Moon (though without a landing). This gave us the famous Earthrise photograph, and the Christmas Day broadcast from Apollo. The story of the map, and how rapidly the Lunar far side went from terra incognito (well, luna incognito) to mapped in detail was pretty staggering. I had that map as a kid, and just figured "we knew all that". Sometimes it takes growing up to see things with childlike wonder....

The story:

http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=1481

http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=1588

(Pretty sure that's made HN at some point.)
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Lots of white flight was caused by the massive urban crime wave that lasted from the 1960s to the 1990s.

The main reason we term the situation "white" flight is that the whites could afford to move out of the city, and most blacks could not. If the majority of blacks had as much money as whites, they would have moved away too.

It's telling that when this crime wave ended, whites started to move back to the cities, even though the racial composition of the cities they were moving back to was less white than it was when they left. If they left in the first place because of racial diversity, they would not have moved back -- but they did move back, and are continuing to do so.
It is a cultural problem in that people on other platforms (eg, Maven) don't choose floating dependency versions, generally.
Yeah, this is one of many reasons I'm in favor of direct cash grants rather than vouchers and dispensation of services that could be purchased more cheaply on an open market. Don't get me wrong, I'm not free market zealot, but the current housing voucher program is one of the least efficient means of housing individuals I can imagine.
Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf Resigns
On Safari, instead of using the normal "AudioContext" constructor you must create a "webkitAudioContext"- a feature detection check for this would be a nice addition.
I wouldn't call it so much proxying the DB requests through it as all the other functions do business logic, only one or two actually marshal data into and out of the datastore.

So yeah it's kind of like a proxy, but think of a monolithic application. Do you make it so every object in your application talks to the DB, or do you have a DB object, which handles the connection pooling and all of that other stuff? If you have a DB object, that becomes your DB function, and all the other functions talk to it for getting and writing data.
I agree completely with the sentiment, but I don't think that the current Section 8 program is doing a very good job accomplishing those goals. At least some landlords cater specifically to Section 8 tenants, resulting in buildings full of poor people that might as well be traditional public housing, and many other landlords refuse to accept Section 8 tenants altogether. If you really want integration you either need to give cash directly to the tenants (so that the landlords don't and can't know they are receiving a subsidy), or you need to build Singapore-style (high quality, non-means-tested) public housing. Or both. And we need to make sure that affordable housing, whether public or private, is built in places where people actually want to live and can find work, not a 45 minute drive into the suburbs where land is cheap.
> Being able to reject violence wholesale is privileged.

Ah, so not beating your wife, as discussed in the paper, is privileged? It's OK for poor people to do it?
I respectfully disagree. Your assumption about the preference being heritable is questionable.
Hah, I wonder if these are obtainable outside the country, it would be a much more impressive lawn ornament than an inflatable cartoon character!

There was a Discovery show on decoy weapons once which went into some of the amazing work to give them accurate heat signatures to add to the spectrum where they appeared legit. Given an adversary willing to kill a tank or airplane with a multi million dollar weapon, if you can can get them to waste them on a few hundred thousand dollars of fabric and paint you come out ahead.
Privacy Badger will stop that tool if you edit the settings.
I think the only way to consistently memorize an equation is to deeply understand it. Not just how to apply it, but essentially how to derive it. What motivates it. Why it must take the form that it does.

With fundamental physical equations you have to be a little hand-wavy, because they are, well, fundamental, so they can't be derived from anything else. But you can motivate the form of the Schrodinger equation from the classical wave equation. (I should note that Feynman disagrees with this claim, but you can find a nice motivation for the form in Penrose's Road to Reality.) Regardless, going through these motions will serve to embed the form of the equation in your mind.

It also helps to write the form of the equation in a number of different ways. Some may be easier to remember than others. Maxwell's equations, for instance, are pretty easy to remember if you write them in terms of the EM stress-energy tensor.
With 64GB MicroSD cards running for $20 or so are you really phone limited? How many CDs do you have? My note4 has 32GB (internal) and a 64GB microsd.
Yikes. Sounds easier just to not use Facebook.
They're the only vendor for the Mac platform and one of two competitors for mainstream desktop OSes. Tell me they don't have market power. It's just...self limited to a niche of a bigger market.
already submitted from wsj
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12696494
> how is that any different from just keying every car?

People will notice that some dude is walking around and keying cars. If you happen to come across a car owner, you might be in for some pretty violent payback (at least that's what I'd do with someone keying my car).

Dropping USB keys, on the other hand, won't cause any suspicion.
My framework looks like this: https://github.com/serprex/openEtG/blob/master/dom.js

The code that uses it looks like this: https://github.com/serprex/openEtG/blob/master/views/MainMen...

The site looks like this: http://etg.dek.im

I recently worked on a site at my job where I was able to implement it with JS + C#/OWIN, all static html, only uses toastr/jquery. Was nice they let me break away from the illusion that the choice is only between WebForms or MVC

If you ask me to compare this to Angular, I'd have to say I've never used Angular so I don't know
770 accounts?!!!

I think this whole "set up a service for everything" concept ain't workin'.

I'm trying to think how much storage just the TOS and Privacy Policies for those would run.
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Cars can generally go much faster than the maximum speed limit, so it wouldn't be the first time the car allows you to do something against the law.
PyPy is a different implementation of a python interpreter, it includes a JIT to rewrite hot code into assembler. See www.pypy.org for more info. The JIT cannot be tacked on to CPython (what you call python3) since it is part of the interpreter.
If you're making an article like this and you know about this case, the first order of business is checking for prices. It might not be too late for that.
You used the word "lazy" with regard to people who were "no-income". I showed that, in fact, most of the poor are "no-income".

Lets consider what your comment might mean under that interpretation:

If only the working poor were "high-risk desk job workers". That would indicate some free time to get into trouble! That would mean they could simply find a job instead of stretching their current ones.

That wouldn't really make much sense.

Similarly, I showed the poor are violent. That's what your comment was referring to: ...labeling the poor as desk job working, violent people.

I'm glad we could come to agreement that the poor are predominantly high-risk no-income people who are also disproportionately violent.
Don't even need to go that far. Just short all the pins and you will will kill a lot of motherboards.

My friend accidentally jammed his headphones into the front USB socket on his PC and killed the motherboard. Of course it doesn't work on all computers, my old laptop would just shut down (which is still inconvenient), and I'm not sure what would happen to my Macbook (and don't want to find out).
Even a non-bulk attack can be done pretty cheaply these days. Places like seeed will do boards for a buck a piece if your design's small enough and you get a ten pack. Doing smt work is honestly more bark than bite compared to pth; a $20 toaster oven will work Well Enough for something like this.
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Buy an old computer (or a Orange Pi or other cheap RPi clone) and plug it into that?
A much, much bigger problem in the US is that houses have trended larger, fancier, with more amenities, etc. New houses have more than doubled in size since the 1950s, while holding fewer occupants and having more amenities. They are inevitably much more expensive.

Genuinely affordable housing is in very short supply and this fact has gotten steadily worse for decades. If we built more basic, decent housing that was a reasonable size, this would solve a lot of problems for a great many Americans. But we have made it incredibly hard, if not impossible, to do this. Zoning laws, federal regulations, tax incentives and financing mechanisms have helped create a situation where those that can afford to buy a house at all are crazy to not get the largest house they can afford and, at the same time, homelessness is on the rise.

It is madness.
Well, I'm going to assume there was no actual "computer" on board...

However, a sharply focused image has more high-frequency components than a poorly focused one, so some sort of frequency discriminator (a technology from the 1920's IIRC) could possibly suffice to check and adjust focus. Remember that we've had sophisticated servomechanisms since WW2 so the feedback theory to do this was already well known.

But that's just a guess...
Great job Bitfusion!
You just criticized somebody for specialising in what they're talking about. Next you're going to tell me Hawking's biased about physics theories because he knows them and that's somehow a bad thing.
Either that, or you are the one with bias, and the news outlets you go to and/or the people you associate with feed into that bias. You can see just as much bias in the opposite direction on any number of news sites. They're all biased in different ways, some knowingly and some unknowingly.

Individuals are usually even more imperfect than most news outlets when it comes to having limited sources of information and unexamined preconceived notions about things. No one is off the hook for being personally responsible for trying to understand all sides of a debate or being as educated as possible on all sides of an issue. I only say this because I see huge correlations between people complaining about bias in news outlets (regardless of political leanings) and people who don't see just as much bias in their own preferred media inputs.
There was a company called GreenCine which had the same business model as Netflix, but focusing more on independent and rare films.

I meant to give it a try once I ran out of interesting movies to watch on Netflix. But I guess I waited too long, because now they're out of business.

Despite Netflix not having absolutely everything, I think Netflix still has a really good DVD selection, with plenty of relatively obscure films (along with tons of mainstream ones).

It could definitely be better (on selection, and also wish they offered more letterboxed and full-length films instead of shortened ones), and I wish there was more competition in this field. But overall I'm pretty satisfied and would recommend their DVD service to others.
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Can you point out the section of the major Chetty VA study that distinguishes student circumstances from student intrinsic quality?

The context of the thread you've jumped into is what the best intervention to circumstance might be to improve outcomes for students. You appear to be begging the question.
Yes, it definitely doesn't have them all. I've found more too. Perhaps the map maker got bored.
> Fight for the Future will email you with updates on this and other important issues.

Yep. Pretty much just a skin for their newsletter sign-up.
While these programs are horrible, I'd like to mention how great the naming of the programs have been. One of my favorites was FIRSTDATE then BADDECISION leading to SECONDDATE.

Again, not condoning behavior, I just wish I could be so creative when naming systems.
How much companies have succeeded at reinventing themselves after a scandal ?
> You can't do anything while not online, not search in the offline area, map a route or anything like that.

That's not true at all:
https://support.google.com/maps/answer/6291838?co=GENIE.Plat...
Wells Fargo boss John Stumpf steps down
Go Elizabeth Warren! Without her prodding, I am sure this would never have happened. He was very happy with firing the 5k employees and not taking any blame on himself for what was essentially his push.
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Like I said: I made sure my kids went to a decent school too (I drew the line at private school, but, like I said, my kids go to what is essential a de facto private school based on the neighborhood they live in).

I'm not prepared to crucify people for making these kinds of moral compromises, but I think it's important not to go the other direction and valorize them.
Some policy changes: RT retiring; use GitHub
There are offline mobile navigation systems that are easier and cheaper to keep up to date than the one in your car. For example, Sygic provides free updates once you purchase the initial license.
Oh, I'm certainly not disputing the NYT article itself. But as with all political coverage this year, I'm highly suspect of timing and motivation.

This post had an additional benefit: I've been able to observed the votes for my comments go up and down like a roller coaster for the past hour, as the readers of HN apply their own biases. Rather interesting, especially as the number of actual responses is relatively small.

What can we learn about HN's user base from the ultimate comment score, I wonder?
Meta: Looks like WSJ is smart enough now to detect the `web` links. I went directly to the site, hit paywall, backed out. Then went via the `web` link, same paywall. Went to `web` link in incognito, was able to read the (fairly anemic) article.
Patience is what my grandma used to call it. This was in the UK so it might be called that in several European countries.
So you wouldn't use a Heroku or cloudfoundry etc? You'd go for IaaS. Why?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12682944

(also, the two submission immediately before yours were the same link...)
I was a speaker at the inaugural PyCaribbean 2015 earlier this year in Santo Domingo - I gave a talk on doing the first and only Google Transit implementation in the Caribbean (in Kingston, Jamaica).

It was a great conference - Lots of camaraderie, talks available in English and Spanish, ranging from Python's type system to one guy's experience teaching Python in rural Argentina. Johnny Gill (a real character!) from Bermuda showed me a system using Raspberry Pis to collect weather data. Unfortunately, I missed Allen B Downey's talk, but caught Brandon Rhodes' (opening) and Jacob Kaplan-Moss' (closing) keynotes.

If you're anywhere near the region, come on out! It's tropical nerdery at its finest :)

@skfroi - It's Oswald, from Jamaica.
Honestly I still don't understand why this organization continues to exist. Banks are chartered by the government for the purpose of safeguarding deposits. This bank was engaged in fraud on a huge scale. Their charter should be terminated.
Whatever. Will he get a nine-figure golden parachute like the other senior exec who just left? If not, this does not impress me. Will any of his earnings and bonuses be clawed back? If not, this does not impress me. What about the other execs responsible?
So, did I just make all those sites that I'm not logged in to aware of my IP address? And if I didn't have ad blocking, would I then be seeing ads "of interest to" people who visit those sites?
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I would expect no less. Given the size of the issue, it's virtually impossible that he didn't know about it. I'm assuming competency here, as he was leading one of the largest banks in the world.
What exactly is wrong with questioning the "authenticity" of a poll based on its methodology?