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If Uber does this it will only strengthen the "employee" argument, and trigger even more issues for them in my nonlawyerly opinion.
Yeah, I wonder if that's a mistake on the webpage. Some other site I found[0] says the decision to deploy tensioners happen at 0.015s after impact, and they "go into action" at 0.020s. Someone might have accidentally added a zero when converting units?

[0] http://www.takata.com/en/around/seatbelt01.html
> Taxes are included in the GDP income method, which is why taxing even air (even if free) would increase GDP. The OECD defines GDP as "an aggregate measure of production equal to the sum of the gross values added of all resident and institutional units engaged in production (plus any taxes, and minus any subsidies, on products not included in the value of their outputs).”

GDP is composed of four components. One of those components is government spending, which can be negative (ie, taxes) or positive (subsidies or direct purchasing).

However, government spending doesn't come from nowhere (no, even if the money is printed or issued as debt). A change in government spending is always matched by an equivalent change in consumption, investments, and/or net exports, which are the source of that money.

The secondary effects of tax policies may be to ultimately change the shape of aggregate supply or aggregate demand functions (at least, that's the argument for doing so), but taxation does not directly have any effect on GDP.

So no, taxing air would not increase the GDP.
I've been watching the whole Bash on Windows thing since it launched and it blows my mind in almost every possible way, the project has all the potential to make Windows a viable programming environment, specially for PHP and Ruby folks, which need to run Apache and all that stuff.

It won't replace a full Linux install, but it might be enough for most use cases (it doesn't run X yet, for example). So virtual machines aren't exactly going to be replaced by Bash on Windows.

But for people who buy Macs just because it is a Unix machine that runs Photoshop, and use Homebrew and Macports, which let's be clear apt-get wins hands-down, Bash on Windows is a strong alternative for these types of users.

I own a Macbook Air 2011, Apple prices skyrocketed in Brazil and for me to pay that price on a machine that has soldered RAM, almost no ports, having to buy expensive adapters, to use a shitty package manager with an OS that makes me dual-boot with Windows/Linux for some things, I am definitely considering a Lenovo or Dell machine with Windows for my next development environment.

Of course, not all things are perfect, while the project seems to be moving at an awesome pace and the future is bright, it is still in Beta, and lots of things are broken for now, if it becomes as stable as it should be, it will be big. I am eagerly waiting for the stable version of it.
So basically the NN is learning a one time pad?
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It would, if your professional life depends on typing. Many people's do not.

There are many kitchen tools being marketed to casual home cooks, and not professional chefs. The solution isn't for everyone to become a professional chef to stop those products coming to market, it's for professional chefs to recognise those products are not meant for them. Even if the manufacturer used to tailor to their needs before, markets change.
For the Canadian price you need to add HST (depending on the province).
Jinxed! :-)
Employees can't hop between apps, so this decision screws smaller competitors.
UK pricing for new Macbook Pro is cheapest in Europe.

It's in inconvenient fact, but this seems to have become a political issue, where everyone wants to prove that their opinion about Brexit is correct. Therefore factual accuracy seem to have been thrown out the window.
Like the other guy says, you have to ask them.

In general, if a provider doesn't write ECC - it's almost always not ECC because it's a selling point.
> these days

My original comment specified a roughly 10-year period, from about '02-'12. Most of the malware then was not state sponsored. And I'm not blaming MS for having a few vulnerabilities. But literally hundreds, perhaps more. Patch Tuesday ? Really ? Their product was so bad they had to dedicate a day of each calendar month to addressing vulnerabilities.

But what's worse, was the response. They had time to patch all these holes, but not to write code that fixed users' systems from the damage that the exploits did. Or to address the underlying vulnerable model that lets these exploits happen. They just played "poke-a-hole/plug-a-hole" for most of a decade. Someone brought up Windows Defender, wasn't released till October 06, and it didnt' work. Everytime I removed spyware from someones machine I used free tools such as MBAM made by third parties who weren't even being paid by MS! Even with all these vulnerabilities, it would have been better if System Restore actually did just that. They should have architected a system that, in the worst case, could restore you back, _including virus removal_. Thats how you take responsibility in that situation.

Instead, they used the situation to further profit, by releasing more versions of windows. Thats a weaker version of racketeering: "oh, version XP has major security bugs...better pay us to upgrade to Vista!... then to 7...then to 8".

If this were any non-software product, there would have been massive class action lawsuits and recalls. And that would send a message to the whole community that you can't harm people and leave them high and dry
This is actually easier said than done. I'm 58 and been a hunt and peck typist (at this point a fairly effective and fast one) all my life. I've been a developer for 30 years. I've tried several times to learn to touch-type. I can do all of the exercises, play all of the games, but I have never been able to make the leap from looking to not looking at the keyboard.

It's the gap where you still have a full-time job to do along with those expectations that I fall down. :( Maybe it's to late for me?

That aside, I have never had any problem with productivity as a developer. As a "typist", yes, but not as an author of software. It just never comes up. Do I feel less "cool" when I am in a room with people looking at me type? Hell yes. But am I actually getting things done slower? Probably some things. Typing commands, yes. I could be faster there. Typing code? Maybe.

Just adding the perspective of a long time 6 fingered typist (occasionally 7).
> their prices aren't that much cheaper than taxi's in the UK

Really? I find them at least a third cheaper than taxis in London for any trip over about five minutes.

I still feel guilty for taking an Uber (and note the difference in ability and knowledge immediately compared to black cabs). I'll be more inclined to take them, even with less of a saving, knowing that they are not allowed to treat their drivers quite so poorly.
Our bodies having to break down food is not necessarily bad. For example, it allows you to receive a steady stream of nutrients throughout the day, instead of getting it all at once and being deprived later on.
I think it might be quite difficult for them, as some of these rights apply regardless of hours worked: https://www.gov.uk/employment-status/worker
Americans who need to be good at math, are good at math. If you don't use it, you lose it.

Hell, I'm an EE, so I'm probably one of those who would be considered "good at math" (at least by layman opinion), yet I may do at most a couple of integrals a year. I'm mostly just doing basic algebra on an RPN calculator. Though I did ace all that EM theory, random proceses, etc in grad school; do I use the math behind it? Rarely.
Looks like there's some broken 6to4 relays out there.
This is exactly why large stores of data should be considered a liability and NOT an asset. Keep as little of it as possible and for the least amount of time possible.

I'm actually a bit confused about why they would need to store the medical test data and medical questionnaire information at all - can't you boil those down to "suitable" and "not suitable"?
It would almost make more sense to put the touchbar on the regular Macbook and a set of proper function keys on the Pro model.
The pound has devalued against the dollar due to the Brexit.

Apple records revenue in dollars so you need more pounds to buy the same kit so they can convert those pounds into their base currency.

The good news is, if you're planning a trip to London from abroad then for a while consumer electronics are pretty cheap. i.e. Sony cameras etc.
That's funny, I thought it was the worst crime possible on Hacker News to hope that someone gets fired for their political views. Or are our sympathies only with Mozilla CEOs and people who make dongle jokes at conferences?
Almost 4k people who liked that story on Twitter probably can... I am not sure what is the issue. Those are replies, so the align nicely in most clients, including the web one...
Plenty of people are, but your argument is unclear. Prices for things aren't set based on the amount of innovation since the previous release of that thing.
> I mispoke; GDP == taxable transactions.

That's an oversimplification that honestly provides a more confusing definition than the real one, which is that GDP is the sum of consumption, investment, government spending (which can be negative) and net exports.

> If it was taxable (privatized), it would increase the GDP, whereas if not (as if the government performed and didnt tax it), it would not increase the GDP.

No. Whether a service is performed by the private or public sector has no bearing on how much it counts towards GDP.
Can you change the title to specify that these are PostgreSQL packages?
Web workers offer several benefits:

1) UI isn't locked up by long running tasks;

2) Potential performance improvement by running multiple processes at once (parallelization);

3) Potential design improvements by decomposing the problem into a CSP-like design (which may or may not relate back to (2)).

(2) is really not the purpose though, it's just a potential benefit. golang, for instance, doesn't give us inherently better performance by use of goroutines. What it gives us is better design and separation of execution blocks so that they can run concurrently. Better performance is just a perk when things can run in parallel.
I think most people who use computers for a long time don't look at keyboard. It's not required to use full touch-typing discipline to just not look at keyboard.
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Flagged, article has a misleading headline that is largely debunked in the comments (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12815204) showing that by and large the difference in price tracks extremely closely with the difference in sales tax in differing regions, despite the additional regulatory costs involved in doing business in those regions.
Of course they didn't "simply disputed their status", they KNEW their status since the day they decided to become Uber drivers, after that they tried to use the law to steal money from Uber, probably advised by some lawyer and by the devil himself.
Exactly this. I think what most people forget is that they are primarily targeting the new generation of kids growing up. The kids that are growing up with iPhones as their first cellphones, iPads as their first tablet and Macs as their first computers. That's what Apple wants.

Kids these days are use to the whole idea of multitouch. See how many 15-16 year olds going into college know what a SD card or a USB drive is. Kids in high school are provided with chromebooks. They don't even know what .doc extension types are. It's a different time and they are targeting those kids.
Wait until you get RAM errors, you probably won't notice it until services quietly start to crash and you cannot figure out why because the errors are not logical. So you try to restore a backup - but then the backup won't unpack because the RAM created a corrupt backup. Having a fancy file system like ZFS won't help, but it might give early warnings (if you scrub often).

I guess you get the picture.
If I lived within walking distance or a cab or subway ride of Wolf's or any other well made pastrami on rye, I'd throw moderation out the window and eat that for every meal. There are no well made pastramis on rye where I live.

If I could have a full English breakfast and Béchamel dinner every day, I'd do that too. Once my startup goes unicorn, I will have time to cook. ;)

Totally agree with everything you said there!
It's funny that I thought the same thing but from the other side, "it seems a really good news for Uber 'employees' (or workers or whatever you want to call them)".
That's something I always try to keep in mind while reading HN, most of us are well paid to do something we love, many of us are entrepreneurs (whatever that means, again), and most (?) of us are americans. Uber drivers are not well paid, and if they are they work 26 hours a day in LA or NYC or any big rich city and don't know if they still will earn enough money in one or two years because Uber will change their contract or let them go if they refuse.
Sorry I should clarify - not that much cheaper than private hire taxis I meant, ie Addison Lee.
You don't need to be. I'm still amazed by the build quality of my ZenBook after four years of daily usage.
How is it misleading that some Macs in the UK have increased since this time yesterday, despite not getting any updates?
Yes, in London Uber is at least a third cheaper – possibly more – than a black cab fare. It's almost too cheap. I would happily pay a little bit more.
Good. If your path to ritches involves circumventing laws to protect workers in order to pay them less and undercut the competition, then basically you are the reason these laws exist.
As I said on mobile it would have to be very opportunistic, not something to be left in the background that keeps the phone awake.
Only if his argument is compelling to people with enough money to drive the price. The average investor doesn't even know how to short stocks.
Soylent isn't the only product available to easily replace meals. Besides the products marketed to bodybuilders and those wanting to lose weight there are meal replacement products from serious pharmaceutical companies. They are readily available; Abbot Laboratories meal replacement drinks, in several varieties, are stocked in my local supermarkets.

Abbot Laboratories ($20 Billon in revenue per year, 74,000 employees) has a large list of products, including powered versions, listed on its web site. See http://abbottnutrition.com/brands/products/nutritional-produ...
No, one would get bored eventually, unless the games incorporated hard problems.
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300-400 ms on mine.

Ofcourse, not hanging the website beats 400 ms.
The laptop used to be £1600, so removing the sales tax, Apple UK received £1300. So Apple UK has UK costs, let's say they are 15% of the laptop so around £200 per laptop, and Apple US receives the remaining £1100.

If the pound weakens against the dollar by 20%, that £1100 is now worth about £920. So if they put the price up to £1100, then the value that the UK company needs to submit to the US company is now £1300, and the high-street price should rise to around £1800 (£1300 + 15% UK costs + 20% tax). But the price has actually increased to £1900.

What's more, this all assumes that Apple can maintain exactly the same profit margins with increasing prices, which they can only do when there is insufficient competition. Also, if Apple were paying UK corporate taxes, their UK costs would be higher, so the currency change would have even less impact.

I'm no economist or accountant, so there's a good chance I've got something totally wrong, but on the face of it, this looks like Apple sneaking in a big price rise by abusing their dominant position. In markets where there is more competition, I expect I won't see the same kind of price rises, because the manufacturers will be forced to absorb some of the increased prices. Some price rises yes, but not 20%.
It has 9g of Isomaltulose. It's a sugar, but it's not as bad as table sugar or HFCS for your blood sugar levels.

So yes, it's not perfect, but it's better than it sounds.
Kind of. Except that there's no restriction that there has to be a 1:1 correspondence between the key and plaintext bits (or characters) that get mixed, as there would be in a conventional OTP. And, indeed, the DNN doesn't learn that - it mixes multiple key and plaintext bits together. Probably in a way that's worse than a true OTP -- the adversary is more successful than it should be were the encryption scheme a "correct" OTP with XOR.
man, I'm glad I'm not the only one. One compromise I found that works is go to the deli at your grocery store. Get a half pound of some salad (doesnt have to be greens, they have potato salad, noodle salad, etc ), then get either "tuna salad" or "chicken salad", and buy a loaf of bread or crackers. Then just scoop the meat-salad onto your crackers/bread slice right before you eat it. It's like JIT cooking. Cleanup consists of throwing away the salad containers.
Why? That simply depends on how the code was written. The magic constant may be chosen randomly, or based on previous guesses, or generated by another program, etc.
> NG2 is a monolithic and over-engineered framework backed by a company who have proven they conflict with themselves (Polymer) and deprecate popular services on a whim (Google Reader).

It's a tiny bit of a stretch to call it a whine, but it's old when it's brought up constantly, tbh.
I was under the impression that the UK didn't have almost any manufacturing industry left, only services. I googled and found that I was wrong http://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/gbr/

However the trade balance is negative. A weak pound won't help the industries that import raw material. I won't bet that it's going to be good.
I think the reason they are necessary for solar and EV is because non-solar and non-ev have had so many subsidies over the years that it is difficult to compete with them.
If the key is the same length as the plaintext, wouldn't even a one-time-pad evade any adversary?

I wasn't clear from the article: Were Alice and Bob sharing any algorithm details, or was it just the secret key?
I understand the time-saving aspect of this product. I understand that one's schedule can be so intense that taking the time to cook & eat is impossible, though I posit that the mental down-time offered by meals is beneficial to better process what we're thinking about throughout the day (disclaimer1: I can't back this up with data as I only have anectodal evidence).

But the real issue I have is diet monotony. We live in an era of convenience and have forgotten about how fruits and vegetables yield their harvest in seasons. When most fruits/vegetables are in season, you might eat volumes of them, then never eat any for the rest of the year. Some indeed can be kept for a few weeks/months.

The same is true with meats: larger animals would be consumed on a less frequent basis than smaller ones.

Disclaimer2: I'm not a nutritionist, I just enjoy traditional foods.
Bad for who? Uber - yes, but for more honest/rule abiding competitors, the British public via the tax office, the drivers... seems pretty good
Because once you start Soylent you cannot possibly stop, or skip a drink and go out and eat with friends? Or cook dinner sometimes? Nonsense.

I'd call a steady diet of fast food a 'food prison'. That's the addictive stuff that ruins your health.
Nope, this is totally legal and people do it all the time.
We won't have to label our strawberries because they will rot in the fields for lack of fruit pickers :)
Uber basically has little choice but to exit the UK if their efforts to keep it all on a contractual basis fails. This is similar to the Walmart vs Unions situation, I'm just curious how willing Uber is to make an example out of UK.
naturalistic fallacy
for me the web worker IS consistently faster. Chrome 54. 3100ms vs 3400ms.
"law to steal money from Uber"

Wow, that's impressive. Are you an Uber or Lyft shareholder? Because damn, this is a pretty strong sentiment, especially for a company that basically has flouted the law on it's way to a lofty valuation.
Have you tried Karabiner-elements[0]? I haven't used OS X the past few years, so I don't know if it actually works, but somebody suggested it on reddit.

[0]: https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements
But don't you ever get weary? Like "oh, this again. I've seen this before, in a slightly different form. This too shall pass."

I've felt this way since I was 20, and I haven't seen much.
Sidechain compression doesn't do anything more for overall dynamic range than regular compression. Rather it provides a channel for some audio to completely bypass the compressor while the rest gives way to it. The point of it really is purely stylistic, the fact that it reduces the overall dynamic range is incidental.
No, they lock your seatbelt before you move. Modern ones do this during heavy braking: all you notice is that when you step on the brake your belt is already locked.
>"What this election cycle has proven to me is that the old media and rapidly more and more of the new media censors things they or various friends of theirs don't agree with, and that doesn't sound like a path to a healthy society to me."

Can you mention some of the censorship incidents are you referring to here?

I think you made some interesting points. That NY Times quote is particularly condescending. I can't help but think theres a bit of schadenfreude from some of the old guard media regarding recent Twitter events.
You forgot 50-60% margins.

> Better keyboard

Apple's keyboard quality has decreased significantly across all products. For example, compare the keyboard on a 2016 12" MacBook to the 2010 17" MBP. Or a 2010 15" MBP to a 2016 15" MBP. Key travel is shallower and there's less physical feedback.
this guys work for Microsoft..... so predictable...
>That OLED touch bar is going to be the equivalent of force touch on the iPhone. Neat idea, that will be forgotten.

I use it daily. Context menu for apps - like calling/texting directly to favorite/relevant person in phone, messaging and facebook messenger apps. For posted images/links previews. Most beloved feature - for moving cursor while writing anything (can't replicate this with "long press" on android).
You think remembering all function keys for every program is not a problem? Some remarks really amaze me.
> really hard pressed to a better option than a $250 13" Chromebook

Right because no one who wants a cheap laptop also values their privacy or wants to have control over their documents.
Errrr, UK prices for the Macbook Pro are the cheapest in Europe, even after the worldwide rise of 25%.

So you are incorrect
A Formal Security Analysis of the Signal Messaging Protocol [PDF-From /r/netsec]
The modesty in here is refreshing.
This is just a transition to driverless cars. Uber knows it and they are willing to pay the price.
Strictly speaking, TypeScript isn't a sound type system: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/type-compatibil...
See answer below re: OTP. Yes. We hoped the DNN would learn something close to an OTP. (The network we used for it is capable of learning an OTP, but the likelihood of doing so by gradient descent is vanishingly small.)

Nothing was shared between Alice & Bob except the secret key. The architecture of the three neural networks was the same (for Alice, Bob, and Eve), but they were all initialized independently and nothing was done to tie their weights together.