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I think the problem isn't a technical one.

Mozilla seems to put much time into getting the community right, which will get much younger people on board. Then time will do its thing.
As I mentioned in a comment near this one, you're far from the first person in this thread to say so, and the frequency of such statements is starting to make me wonder if I haven't rushed to judgment. After all, the Illuminatus! trilogy could be described in much the same terms, and despite it taking many rereadings over something like five years to feel I really had a solid grasp on the book from beginning to end, in the end I'd have to say it was very much worth my while. (Don't get me wrong - well over 99.9% of Illuminatus! is unmitigated, top-tier, Grade A bullshit, good for fertilizer and not a whole lot else. It's just that the remainder is solid gold, five nines fine.)

In any case, I've just bought a copy of Infinite Jest, so pretty soon I'll be finding out whether I've treated it too harshly or not harshly enough.
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Balls I went deep on this one. Almost makes me want to subscribe to BJPsych or something. So interesting!
I'm already baffled by the distinction between algebra, trig, and calculus.

Where I live, it was just called 'math'. The first time I encountered algebra was in university, and that started with groups (a set and an operation on pairs of items in the set)

As to the 'pre': I have a masters in math, and lots of what we did was in some sense pre.

For example, calculus on real variables showed you how to define differentiation and integration and how to rigorously prove lost of theorems (pro tip: if you can't make heads or tails of an exam question, at least write down "let epsilon > 0")

Next, we basically went through the same set of theorems but in multiple dimensions, but showed that those rigorous proofs had glaring holes, but hey, now you know better. Also: infinities are weird (pro tip: the area under a 2D curve can depend on the order in which you add up its parts).

Next, calculus on complex numbers extended that and showed that those rigorous proofs had glaring holes, but hey, now you know better (pro tip: every contour integral you compute at an exam has a value of plus of minus 2n pi, with n typically being plus or minus one)

For math majors, the next step was measure theory: that definition of integration we started with? Forget it. Lebesgue came up with something that's better. And by the way, those proofs we told you about have glaring holes (let's spend a few hours proving that cutting a rectangle across a diagonal gives you two parts that each have half the rectangle's area). A few of the functions that we proved cannot not be integrated can be, if you use this new definition of how integration works.

That seems a waste of time, but I don't think it is. Very few people can jump in at the deep end and survive; the first iterations are necessary to prepare one's mind for the next steps.

Given the above, I think you will have had various 'pre-' things, even though they weren't named so.
Carriers with caps generally don't shut off your service, they simply charge you more. So your example of the water company shutting of your water is facetious.

I definitely would prefer a more even metering method, and I think it should be granular down to the megabyte. But data caps are a move in that direction, a very positive move from where we were in the unlimited-but-not-net-neutral past.

Generally speaking, you are not getting charged for "much more" than the normal cost of service, if you have picked a good level for your data plan. Should be just over your usual usage, you might occasionally get an overage once or twice, but it should round out to be cheaper than having picked a higher tier every month.
How does it suggest a switch to ARM? I'm not seeing any indications to suggest such a claim.
You're repeatedly making the argument that requirements to obtain ID are too onerous. Perhaps what's broken is the process for getting that ID. Let's look for ways to streamline that process so that it's less of a burden.
Might it be as simple as adding a cheap A-series chip to the motherboard?

Or they could be boring and just exploit the SGX on Skylake chips.
Apple seem to seriously care about security†, it would be surprising if they deployed a MacBook implementation which has less security than the iPhone's. So, presumably it would use the Secure Enclave or something similar?

†I mean, they have a public document detailing the iOS security architecture, so they're at least proud of it. And of course, they went to court over it.
I hope the OLED panel doesn't replace the physical function keys. I have ESC plus F1-12 mapped to stuff like turn on/off spellcheck, paste mode, switch language in vim which I use a lot for LaTeX. I don't want to remap them.

It's something Lenovo already tried and was hated for with the X1 Carbon (luckily they removed the useless OLED gimmick thing in a next iteration). [0]

[0] http://core0.staticworld.net/images/article/2014/04/lenovoca...
I support you and Dan having absolute authority to decide which direction you want to take HN in, and which policies to set in order to achieve that goal, but for what it's worth, I respectfully disagree with this decision.

I'd explain why, but TeMPOraL already did so perfectly in the insightful second paragraph of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12746980, every word of which I agree with.
Do you mean this? http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/4/10702516/griffin-breaksafe-...

I like it, but leaving a dongle there all the time is dangerous, so you'll end up taking it out and back in every time, defeating much of the convenience. Still good for safety though.
Oh yeah! I was visiting NYC from Canada and I kept complaining to my wife that the LTE speeds were so slow in the city. I just couldn't understand it!
> Unfortunately, the fragmented (ie, redlined) us public school system means that higher teacher play is impossible in lower income areas.

The lowest-income school districts around here pay higher salaries than the nicest districts by a solid 20-30%. Most teachers with options still won't work there because the environment is frustrating, unrewarding, dangerous, and toxic.
Scaling cooperation is impossible because for a given person, it can only work within that person's trust network.
>Here we report the results from quantitative MRI and neuropsychological testing in ten patients with cognitive decline, nine ApoE4+ (five homozygous and four heterozygous) and one ApoE4-, who were treated with the MEND protocol for 5-24 months.

The number of patients studied is too few, i.e. is grossly underpowered statistically, and the results do not allow any general conclusion to be drawn.
The picture of Mike's backyard shows that the trampoline is mounted in the ground and has the springs very well covered. This is a thoughtful design.
I assumed that agentgt meant "up for grabs" in the sense of "not yet dominated by any one language", which is true. Go and Java are both big presences in that space, but neither is dominant. A language with the expressiveness of Java and the memory use of Go could be a strong challenger, and Rust is already better than that.
Mansplaining has nothing to do with "talk[ing] for long streams". It has to do with what is being said and why. Mansplaining is when there is an assumption of ignorance on the part of a woman that can only be rectified (and must be rectified) by a man educating her on a topic, where that assumption of ignorance stems from gendered biases. And it does happen. And the reverse does not happen in any serious proportion--in no small part because of the social conditioning where women would be considered pushy and bitchy for doing so, but where men are considered leaders and experts for it.

You've failed to even grasp the topic, and yet you would condescend towards dragonwriter (one of the wisest, most insightful posters around here on a wide variety of topics) about his "need to be right" while inventing an argument out of whole cloth. Tremendous.
> this goes to show that too many people still believe in the old system: learn skill in school -> get job

I would say it proves the opposite. Those people got scammed by a shitty little outfit, here today, gone tomorrow. That's much less likely to happen when you go to, you know, a real school.
This applies to Wikileaks/Assange too:

"It's ok to demand transparency from other organizations but my organization is going to be secretive."

"It's ok to release the contents of other peoples emails but I don't want people looking in my inbox."

"It's ok to demand accountability for other people's crimes but I'm going to live in an embassy for years to avoid my own trial."
Should airlines be allowed to withhold fares from booking sites?
As a VMware developer, hehehe, you're funny.

As a user of a modern web browser, yeah, 8GB by default isn't going to cut it anymore. Browsers leak like sieves and routinely I have to kill them once they hit 10+GB.

32GB is not even outlandish. It's a simple upgrade. The memory controllers support it. Apple can charge a fortune for it since it's "memory down" instead of DIMMs. Why wouldn't they do it?
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I got bit by something similar, bought this garden hose adapter from someone who wound up never shipping it but indicating they would ship it in some ridiculous far out shipping window. Amazon is degrading into the wild west of eBay experience that turned me off from that platform a while back.
With these: https://github.com/Expensify/Bedrock/blob/ecda922dc279e06fda...

Do you use the Issue Tracker to keep on top of things like that, and/or prioritise?
Probably from Mars Express (2004). The analogous NASA orbiters are MGS (1997), and later, MRO (2005 -- http://mars.nasa.gov/mro/).
Yeah - given the size and market environment during the trade, I'd imagine there were many people looking over trader shoulders to keep everything legit. Someone is going to have a nice Xmas.
I'm about as heavily invested in MagSafe as a single person can semi-reasonably be, but I have pretty strongly mixed feelings about dropping MagSafe, so when I hear that people are upset (and I admittedly presume that those individual people can't possibly be more deeply invested in continuing with MagSafe than I am (although I make no claims about people making decisions for groups of people, like IT staff)), I see an opportunity to point out that there's at least some merit to this. I want to be clear upfront that I'm not saying it's a landslide in favor of Type C, but that there is at worst a silver lining and perhaps at best this is a net win.

First, it's a good thing that we're converging on a standard. Standards mean not only that we can safely buy components from third parties (for instance, buying reputable, reliable USB Type C cables from places like Monoprice or whomever), but that we can borrow charging cables from others relatively easily. We've had a taste of that thanks to MagSafe's ubiquity, but a USB-based spec potentially broadens that.

Second, USB battery packs (admittedly a slightly niche product category, but one that's been growing rapidly in the past few years) could potentially be made to charge Macbook Pros now. There are some battery packs out there that support MagSafe today, but my sense from shopping around every few months is that the best option continues to be to buy a battery pack that has a standard electrical outlet, and carrying that big bulky MagSafe AC adapter with me. Transitioning to a USB spec (should) permanently open the door to portable battery packs, third party AC adapters, etc...

Third, USB power hubs (again a slightly niche product category, depending on whom you ask) can consolidate all of the AC adapter functions that devices need for charging. I'm already nearly there --- my tablet, battery pack, bike lights, phone, and watch all charge by USB (heck, I have a charger for my DSLR's batteries that uses Micro USB), and a single AC adapter for those devices is both tidier and easier to pack and travel with.

I agree that MagSafe's really nice and I'll be sad to see some of the benefits go, but particularly with MagSafe 2 they've overcorrected in my opinion by making the threshold strength necessary to break away too low, and it's caused me to seriously reconsider whether the frustration of all these inadvertent disconnections is worth the benefit. I see at least a few reasons to be glad that the next laptop I buy (maybe in a year, certainly in three) will probably be able to charge via the same (reasonably priced!) AC adapters and battery packs that I'll own for my peripherals, and that if I'm really up a creek it'll be more likely that I find someone with a compatible charging cable, since USB is (and will continue to be) pretty much ubiquitous.
> I'm voting with my wallet by not buying the headphone-jack-less iPhone 7

Same here, I'm fine with the 6S+ for another year.
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How much of this applies if the medium is pure CG/traditional animation?
Which market?

In the case of the NYC market, AT&T had the worst spectrum planning of any major carrier. They are suffering because they chose to rely on low-band spectrum rather than densifying their network, and are now trying to band-aid the solution by using carrier aggregation of oddball downlink bands. It doesn't change the core problem of having too many people on each sector.

The reason they have to stake 2G dead this early is because they are spectrum starved and already only running it in HSPA guard bands. They need every resource they can get since they haven't been spending money at throwing towers in every possible place in the city for years. They've been using it to buy a satellite company, a Mexican carrier, and WCS spectrum that's worthless without densification. Priorities.
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It seems that the most important conclusion of the article is that using lambdas is more error prone than using iterators. What begs the question: how many compiler errors were caused by the actual lambadas, and how many were caused by the declaration of a `std::function` variable, as induced by the authors (that besides unnecessary, is somewhat of a bad style)?
Yet another person who has read too many of the Culture Series books by Iain M. Banks and thinks we are close to achieving a lot described within those books.

I do think it is achievable, but even the books acknowledge it takes thousands of years to get there.
Designers are ruining software in general.

Or, is it that designers making decisions in a vacuum are ruining software in general?

One huge problem with interface design in industry segments for which I am a heavy/detailed user is that the major design choices are made by people who have never actually used the system in question and seek no input from those who have (e.g. Focus Groups, or simply observant-to-potentially-annoying-degrees users like myself).

Case in point: ticket management and sales systems. Example 1: Ticketmaster's mobile resale interface that was replaced in 2014 or so. It was so stupid that if you were seeking, say, 3 tickets for an event, it would show you all listings offering 3 or more... even if you could not possibly purchase 3 from those sets! Many customers unknowingly bought more tickets than requested.
Any knowledgeable user would have spotted that; I did in 10 minutes. It remained unchanged and without warning until the whole site was redone.

Example 2: Tickets.com "My Tickets" account interface. In the general case, a given ticket has a barcode; they changed the mobile site to display the barcode when you drill down to ticket detail. Nice idea, since you could then just show your phone at the gate if you forgot your hard tickets. Anyway, also, in many cases, a ticketholder may want to make a note pertaining to a given ticket, e.g. "Given to Dave and Carolyn for anniversary; don't resell these, you idiot."

So, in Spring of 2014 (I think), they decided to have the desktop system allow display of barcodes as well. Um, OK. However, they implemented this by having that overlay/replace the Notes, so therefore you could not only not see any given note, you could not even see that any note had ever been entered. See the hazard here? Poor Dave and Carolyn get shut out at the gate and embarrassed because you later resold their tickets because your careful notation was silently disposed of.

Anyway, after I pointed that out to them, their solution was to roll back and give up on the barcode display feature altogether, rather than provide access to both.

All of these problems (and many others) could have been avoided simply by inviting and encouraging feedback from your power users before tearing out your load-bearing walls of code.
- Most phones are 1080p or better in this day and age. They can absolutely display HD resolution. And, of course, many tablets have even better screens, including tablets with LTE connectivity.

- Cell carriers should want you to tether on a non-unlimited plan. The more you tether, the more you pay them for data usage! The idea that tethering should cost extra on tiered data is silly, because it's the ability to run up a bigger bill anyways. (As a note, I know Verizon does not charge extra for tethering, I didn't think any tiered data providers still did.)

- Fundamentally, if people are using more LTE on tiered data, they are paying carriers more, so carriers have more money to spend on increasing capacity on our LTE networks. Carriers should want users to spend as much net neutral data is humanly possible.
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I don't see them making a Mac with a A10. But we'll know for sure on the 27th.
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Glad to upset you. ;]
Isn't that exactly what the comment says?
You don't have to censor or filter yourself. But objectification and sexism and racism aren't "being yourself" and the idea if it is ludicrous; it's just being hidebound and shitty. Why should you have a sinecure from which to be hidebound and shitty? Why not just not be hidebound and shitty?

I would rather they not have the sense to "speak their mind in private settings"; I would like to know who I should not trust because of who they have decided to be.
I recently discovered Black Mirror.

It's a great and fascinating series. Finally something other then the mind numbing pabulum that is most TV.

I especially loved season 1 / episode 2.

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The way our brain works, all experience, self consciousness and awareness is intricately linked to physical perception. If we were to go the 'brain in a petri dish' route, we would have to fake all those signals a body would send to the brain. If we just start emulating the brain physiology digitally, that is easier of course.

But I would not call the result of either method a 'human being', but something inherently different.
Re: Ludlow : "...the culmination of a bloody widespread strike..." My grandfather was involved in the Mid-Continent strike, which wasn't as bloody but he was blackballed from working in oil again.

J.D. Rockfeller II was a notorious Social Darwinist ( the founder of some Social Hygiene organization so probably also a eugenicist ). Eugenics was a Progressive idea.

Many company owners - Henry Ford being one of them - ran company towns for Progressive/Utopian reasons.

Some mining towns would not have existed had the miners had to have arranged their own housing and depend on random strangers to provide supply.

Of course some had to "sold their soul to the company store" but it's like most things - a spectrum and not a given. And it was not all just about greed. It was more likely to be about stubbornness, anyway.
Title is a little clickbaity as they only provide 1 instance of this happening. And the Kickstarter was basically a modified selfie stick(in a case)

Though I suspect that it could or does happen. Especially on something relatively straight forward to manufacture from the right people. I find this particular example kind of a non issue.

I do hope that as 3d printing develops and manufacturing items such as the article references, this just becomes a non issue and people share ideas on relatively simple toys.
> We tried having a 'Men's Shed' in our town, but I think it got shut down by a bunch of harpies.

happy is a place where the mythical Greek creatures dwell, and where they have enough good sense to shut down questionable establishments

> I voted for it in the Irish election recently even though I had to visit 4 polling stations to get it in properly

I call bullshit. Everyone here knows it was a referendum, not an election, and everyone here knows where they're supposed to vote

regarding the homosexuality scare, it's the right and conservatives you have to thank for, not the left.
"but the inverse is true where too much genetic variability leads to less reproduction"

Two ant colonies A and B. Sugar is abundant in the area and all ants in colony B prefer sugar. 95% of the ants in colony A prefer sugar while 5% prefer peanut butter. The ants that like peanut butter have a higher risk of getting killed because peanut butter is scarce and they must travel further. They also use more energy in getting food. One day a truck drops sugar near the colonies that is poisoned. Colony B is wiped out. Colony A survives on because of the 5% of ants that prefer peanut butter. The queen may die but the surviving ants reproduce.

We all know someone who hates a particular food that most people love. We all know someone who loves a food we think is disgusting. Why don't we all like the same healthiest foods?

I'm not an expert on genes but it's possible that in one species, taste or some other variable is determined by 1 or 2 genes. In another species it may be determined by 8 or 9 genes. This complexity in taste determination may cause more variation in how it manifests. Maybe that complexity causes odd variations to occur over generations. Even as other factors select for sugar in one species, individuals keep popping up that like peanut butter.
I doubt it because if it were caused by an infection, one would expect infections to cause Alzheimer's disease-like conditions more generally.

If it is caused by a specific infection, then one would expect such a specific infection to cause the disease in young as well as older people.

Neither of these scenarios are known to occur.

If you extend beyond these simple scenarios, then you have to assume that there is another (unknown) factor that induces Alzheimer's disease, and therefore that the theory of infectious disease causing this condition is not sufficient.
It used to be (see https://www.amazon.com/Age-Em-Work-Robots-Earth-ebook/dp/B01... and http://ageofem.com/). I don't know why it was pulled or who was responsible.
USB-C to USB-A dongle, then USB-A to Ethernet dongle.

Or like the fanboys on the Apple subreddit have pointed out, "who the hell uses wires in 2016". Not sure if certain people are complete apologists or simply out of touch with the real world.
The fact that they screwed up the marketing is why it is not consumer-friendly.
But consumers do have a choice, at least in the US. T-Mobile offers unlimited data plans, and although they were just fined by the FCC for deprioritizing heavy data users in cases of congestion, that's still a significant improvement over standard data caps. (At least T-Mobile never did what AT&T used to do before they were sued, throttling users who weren't connected to congested towers.) Some web searching shows that Sprint just recently started up a similar offering. Sure, the more favorable terms come at the expense of network quality compared to Verizon or AT&T, but they're not that bad and that's the nature of competition...
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GS has about 90 bln in total equity and nearly a trillion dollars in total assets.

100m sounds high but 100m is a rounding error especially if spread across 100s or even 1000s of trades.
Hanson's thoughts on the profile: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2016/10/profile.html