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almost every kids toy has these type of warnings. It is easy to get desensitized to them

I agree and think it's a mistake to put on so many warnings that tired parents, or stupid parents, or parents who can't read English well, or whoever, become so overwhelmed by the warning information that they just ignore it. But it's also a mistake to say 'well people don't pay attention to warnings so we'd better just take the product off the market.' That's just an absurd over-reaction.

'You can have fun with this' =/= 'Safe for kids to use unsupervised.' Or more bluntly 'fun' =/= 'carefree.' Lots of enjoyable things are also dangerous. At some point liability accrues to the person who willingly engages in the dangerous activity; manufacturers should clearly inform consumers about the existence of risk but should not be expected to actively insulate them from it under every circumstance.

And for the record, I'm not saying these should be outlawed or anything. Just that the comparison to guns and fireworks or using those as a justification for a lack of regulation is silly due to the marketing and perceived danger of all three products.

I don't think so. Guns and fireworks are often marketed irresponsibly from what I've seen, and while responsibility is a matter of opinion it's easy to find advertising materials suggesting that guns and fireworks can be employed for fun, so I hope you'd agree that that's a fact. It's definitely a fact that while in pursuit of said fun, people do stupid shit with guns and fireworks on a regular basis - every year a few people kill them,selves on the 4th of July doing some idiotic firework stunt, and the toll from gun accidents is higher again.

So look, while I agree that magnets are not as obviously dangerous as guns or fireworks in that they don't involve explosions, they're still dangerous and anyone over the age of about 12 who doesn't appreciate this is rather ignorant. When the magnets are sold with a large warning saying 'this is dangerous because you could die' and people choose to ignore than, then they're being willfully ignorant.

I don't understand the compulsion to make excuses for willful ignorance. Most households have several dangerous chemicals in a cupboard under the kitchen sink and it's well understood that you shouldn't let kids drink drain cleaner etc. etc. Why are parents expected to exercise reasonable judgement where firearms, incendiaries, chemicals and so on are concerned but the same level of warning isn't considered sufficient for some other products? It's a self-defeating position.
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Last I ever heard.

By all means, please do "out" this company. Preferably as a response their next "Who's Hiring?" posting.

You'll be doing not only your fellow developers a huge favor, but the guilty party as well. Being as they need to get their heads around the fact that it's not in their interest to keep pulling off bad behavior like this -- and if they need a good dose of public shaming for the message to sink in, then so be it.
>I would agree with you if we were talking about a defective product. But neodymium spheres are not defective, they're just dangerous.

Why make a distinction between things that are dangerous on accident (defective) vs things that are dangerous by design?

>otherwise we should shut down every gas station and hardware store right now.

Every law or regulation needs to balance the risk to society against the benefit to society. This is a toy.
i actually returned mine after learning they considered manufacturing in china.

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>Device manufactures depend on you buying new phones. They cannot support phones after two years or else it kills their profit margins.

This is the reason after using Nexus devices for 5 year, I will buy an iPhone and I will never ever look at Android again. My girlfriend switched from Galaxy note 4 to iPhone last year, and she is amazed how much iPhone experience is better than high-end Android experience.

2 year only update? Give me a fucking break, this total rip off. If I remember correctly even iPhone 5 does get update(and remember iPhone 5 is 5 year old phone, which will get new version of OS, not just security update, this alone is more than lifespan of Nexus or pixel device). Let alone the fact phone processors passed the threshold, phone produced after 2015 are almost as powerful as desktop from ~2005. My point is , if you don't play intensive games or any specific use case, an above ordinary phone would run browser,mail client, chat apps for more than 4 year without any issue. But companies trying to minimize lifespan just because of their own profit.

And my answer to them would be my middle finger.

They are totally screwing up customers.
This is actually wrong.. There's an old joke in logic: sound, complete, consistent -- pick two :)

I think you're misunderstanding what soundness is. Soundness means that a proof in that logic implies a (semantic) entailment in that logic. That is:

Γ ⊢ A ⇒ Γ ⊨ A

It's a very specific characteristic.
Trump is meeting with an ex-bank CEO who wants to return to the gold standard
FWIW, it appears that Mulle-objc gets around this by actually changing the calling convention for Obj-C methods, so the IMP takes a single parameter (beyond self and _cmd) which is a struct that contains all of the method parameters. This way the compiler can just synthesize the struct for you, and then objc_msgSend() itself can be written in C because it just needs to pass the pointer to the struct along to the IMP rather than messing about with forwarding arbitrary arguments.
Because in a competitive marketplace the company that doesn't do that has an edge over one that does.

I don't think it's Silicon Valley that lacks empathy, I think it's the system that rewards profits and growth over anything else...
Rex Sinquefield comes to mind.
There are several 3rd party options for playing audio files on iPhone without iTunes. The two I use most often are Plex and CloudBeats. Recently, I have been giving Bound a try for audiobooks instead of CloudBeats. I really want Plex to support some basic Audiobook features so I can use just the one app. The audio I listen to is stored either on my home server (Plex) or a cloud service of my choice (CloudBeats and Bound). I don't touch iTunes.

Disclaimer: I rarely listen to music. I'd wager 85-90% of my aduio listening is podcasts and I do that with Overcast. This may lead me to have the false belief that not using iTunes for music is easy/not a hassle on the iPhone.
I was working on the documentation for 1.0 http://www-archive.mozilla.org/start/1.0/

Specifically I co-wrote the 1.0 FAQ http://www-archive.mozilla.org/start/1.0/faq/

I also wrote (and Gerv hacked right down) the page explaining Open Source/Free Software (while trying to keep both camps happy) http://www-archive.mozilla.org/start/1.0/opensource.html

I'd basically been a volunteer tester and bug reporter through 2000 and 2001. Mozilla wasn't a good browser then, it was rubbish and it crashed even more than IE5. But it was important to keep testing it and crashing it and sending in the talkback crash dumps and so on.
AFAIK the remote network access ("AMT") has to be specifically enabled.
I find it difficult to separate the "teaching practices" from the "teaching content." Wouldn't the approach the teachers take be dictated by the textbooks they're using? Even in primary school, a good lesson would be planned around some activity or handout. Or does every teacher just improvise the lesson on the spot each year?

From what I know about teacher portfolios, their focus is often "too meta": they discuss the process the teacher used rather than share the actual result (e.g. lesson plan, notes, or slides).

At the education meetup during Pycon 2014, Greg Wilson of software-carpentry asked a really good related question: Why does open source work so well for code and not so well for educational content? I don't know if anyone has an answer to that yet... Why is OER not taking off more? Here is a blog post of my own ideas about what git-for-authors could look like: https://minireference.com/blog/git-for-authors/ It's a really interesting space to watch.
But the labels failed; the restriction of sales failed; and some of the companies were resisting better labelling and tighter controls over sales.

This was the first court case CPSC took in 13 years to force a recall. That doesn't sound like an out of control regulator.
Nothing brand new however there is a huge second hand market for iPhones. Looks like you can get an iPhone 6 for around $250-$350 which is a pretty good deal in my opinion.
We bet you never thought your HTC One M8 can get this update in any form
I was considering buying a new phone but I installed CM on my 2nd gen Moto E and that solved most of performance issues (so far, remains to be seen if it holds up.)

CyanogenMod has less bloat, and more actually useful core functionality, which means I need fewer apps. (For example, no need for something like Twilight since it has adaptive brightness/hue built-in.)
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I was just on the volunteer documentation side for 1.0 (working under Gerv), but I do recall how very annoying the corporation could be.

Was the basic fact of paying devs better than not, though?
Vendor lock-in is often solved by competition for proprietary software so it's not a great argument by itself. Software patents not withstanding.
> More generally, building a profitable, sustainable organization of human beings is intrinsically useful and interesting. This last part is less a reply to your post and more a response to a cynical (in my opinion) tone throughout this discussion.

I do understand this view, and I share it to some extent. It's easy to be cynical and it's hard to try to make things work. I understand that far more now in my old age than I did back in the fuckedcompany.com days, for example.

With that said, I think people who espouse this view can be a little oblivious to the downsides of frivolous investment bubbles in tech. If you take a million dollars of investment and do something like take cases of wine, open the bottles and pour it into little glass size vials, and mail it to people for a couple months before realizing that service is not really useful to anyone, then that's a real life tragedy.

Asset bubbles are bad and have real life consequences.

Those million dollars belong to someone, often someone's retirement fund or similar. That million dollars can help people. It can help them directly, by giving to those in need, or more relevantly, it can support business ideas that aren't frivolous, people who aren't privileged graduates of prestigious colleges or connected to hot incubators.

Maybe a system that is funding that idea but leaving so many prospective entrepreneurs and ideas completely out of the system, is somewhat broken. Maybe we're allowed to notice it and find it problematic if we want to.

Maybe we can say hey this is disappointing because it is.
The concept of the game is fascinating. Realism-based starship movement is a concept that many modern games sorely lack in it's entirety.

A question for the developer; What status is the unfinished game presently in relative to what you initially envisioned?
This just blew my mind.. Thx a ton!
It appears that controlling the calling convention is exactly what Mulle-objc is doing. It's layering a new convention on top of C calling conventions, where objc_msgSend() is given a pointer to a struct containing the arguments. This way the compiler can synthesize the struct for you, and objc_msgSend() itself can be written in vanilla C.
Wish it wasn't food themed.
Well I first learned about the risks from reading the warning leaflet supplied with the fancy magnets I bought which explained exactly what could go wrong.
Hopefully a lot, the knowledge they provide is priceless.
I don't think this is the recording you refer to, but here is an audio version of Exhalation: http://escapepod.org/2009/04/10/ep194-exhalation/
This was confusing to me as well. I'm parsing this as the NIC doesn't work after a cold boot, but does after a warm boot.
> Apple does have an iPhone in the traditional Nexus pricing zone. For $400 you get the iPhone SE - https://www.apple.com/iphone-se/ - which could be acceptable.

Unfortunately it runs iOS :/
Your own descriptions are the substance of White Nationalism. I will accept that they are different (but overlapping!) identities, but they are the same substantive political ideology.
I know zilch about the physical inventory world - is that $.50 something Amazon will charge?
I made it by hand in vi.
Kickstarter is a magical fantasy land where people get excited about your stuff in a way that doesn’t translate into your small business.

I don't really get Kickstarter. The above sums up a lot of my concerns about it and why I have yet to look into it in a serious way.
Yeah it does suck. We're going to look exactly at how much it'll cost to ship / warehouse them vs destroy. My gut instinct is shipping + storing 5000 for the duration until they sellout would be comparable to just printing a second edition in China if demand picks up again.
Their help page, unless recently modified, explains why this is. I agree it is a 'dark pattern' however.

>If the item you're ordering is out of stock or unavailable to ship immediately, the shipping method time starts when the item ships. For example, it will take two business days after an item ships to reach you with Two-Day Shipping.

Simply put - the item does not ship immediately. If you read the 'Guaranteed delivery date' message it gives you an "If you order in the next x hours and y minutes". That is when the shipment is expected to be made.

Why are the boots 4 day shipping? Because the next guaranteed delivery time is in 61 hours (>48 hours, so 2 days to ship then 2 days to deliver = 4 day delivery). If it was "in the next 73 hours" it would be a 5 day delivery.

The exploding kittens is 3 days because the order is within the next 24 hours. I wager if they waited 17 minutes one of two things would happen: it would estimate 2 day shipping or the date would be pushed back an additional 24 hours (never falling under 24 hours).

I imagine this is because the companies selling these items can only guarantee shipment within 24/48/72 hours of receiving an order. If they set this to 72 then "2 day shipping" is really 4-5 days.

My personal experience, nearly all of my 2 day shipping comes within 2 days, even when the guaranteed date is 3-4 days out. Items with 12-15 business day shipping often arrive in just a few days. I'm a bit forgiving when my 2 day shipment comes in 3 days when my 2 week shipments frequently come in 3-5 days...
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It's going to be mighty interesting to see what all comes of Theranos and these suits.
Yeah iTunes makes transfering libraries or switching PCs unnecessarily tedious. I've had a lot of problems with it. I also think Apple's product decisions (hard- and software-wise) are becoming more dubious, which is why I was looking to switch. Privacy and security still outweigh it by a wide margin which is why I won't switch for now.

As for the MP3 problem: There are 3rd party apps, where you can simply drag the files into the iTunes window and they'll sync without hassling much with iTunes.
Setup a VPN server on an AWS EC2 Instance via single Cloud Formation template.
This is an idea that many people resist. I think they mistakenly believe that programming languages are genuinely difficult to learn, and students must start on one that is marketable.
Language does not have the sole purpose of making direct statements of fact though. Indirectness, in reasonable portions, is perfectly legitimate, especially because you often have to feel out your interlocutor's response to each line in your conversation - arguably, this is a more sophisticated use of language than straightforward statements or questions. In its natural environment, the trailing ellipsis serves a valuable role in signaling a willingness to change your mind, or at least a sensitivity to the other party's reactions and positions. I agree that a lot of people overuse them - in most cases, you should be able to get away with just using it after your thesis, so to speak.
I think it is like all Hackernews, 3 days up, then back to normal counts.
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Yep, theyre great. One major problem for me is that their build logs are in pure Black, and don't have any colour output. Also, afaik you can't set up a multi stage build step, like Travis.
My friend just texted me that we were #1 on HR. Had to check for myself. I'll post an update here at the end of the day with any numbers I can scrape from our analytics.
I'm somewhat reminded of http://www.gospelofthetrees.net/.
Thanks for the write-up. Marketing seems really hard in many of the entertainment-oriented businesses out there. Weak ties and word of mouth are still the dominate way to sell things effectively, but they remain very hard to strategize around.
Tried: Facebook Advertisements.
Result: Spent ~$1000 on 30 different ads, ~20 clicks, 0 sales.

Is this a typical result with facebook ads?
Facebook ads: spent $1000, got 20 clicks and 0 sales

Is that for real? Is everyone else's experience with Facebook advertising similar?
> How much advantage is there to rust implementation vs c++ if unsafe is used so liberally?

I think this code could potentially be refactored with smaller unsafe blocks, if that were a goal.

The benefit in general is present for many reasons, among which is that you still have to opt-in to unsafe{} and SeaHash consumers wouldn't need to in order to leverage these features.

The benefit for SeaHash specifically is that Rust isn't merely a safer language, it's also one with arguably newer/better language features than C++. And it's one that has support for several targets today.
SIMD-friendly algorithms for substring searching
It sure would be nice if MKL could be integrated in clang. It's still the fastest LAPACK implementation. I use it on a relatively powerfull cluster (~11k cores) at university for doing quantum chemical calculations in Dalton, and having more research software as open source would benefit everyone in the end I believe.
That's not what the paper described at all. Even the article explicitly said that the birds could only mate with 25% of the population -- the "opposite sex" along two dimensions, instead of just one.

Those "special mutations" on chromosome 2 result in a chromosome that cannot recombine like a normal chromosome -- a new separate sex chromosome.
Except the government, who isn't?
well I mean for broad adoption, in particular. For example, you hit on one of them. Users want to use all different browsers, restricting people to Chrome isn't viable for plenty of reasons. I think the biggest problem is that I have an iPhone sitting next to me and no way to use a yubikey with it. Many (most?) Android phones are the same way.
A good reminder to max out 401(k)s along the way and pretend that money doesn't exist.
Worse still is a paper check. I have to deposit that in my checking account to spend it. Once it is in there, it immediately becomes indistinguishable from the cash used to pay the utilities. Here, I want to buy you three cans of tuna, 75 kWh of electricity, and 4 gallons of gasoline. Enjoy!

At least with cash, I could theoretically put it in a special envelope that is exclusively for fun expenses.

Also, cash-equivalent gifts are a great way to tell your friends and family "I value our relationship at exactly $x/year." You can so easily compare it to previous years, and with what they typically give to you.

But the worst gift of all is lottery scratch-off tickets. Here, I spent exactly $X to give you an amount of cash that is very likely to be between $0 and $X, but is probably just $0 or $1.
Can't you give them away? Would be some extra marketing.
To be honest, this is awful optics. So many people were criticizing Trump on the rigged election rhetoric, its weird to see the mental gymnastics about auditing the election from certain figureheads now.

I do hope now that both parties seem to believe its rigged or needs auditing. We can get some real reform, like voter id laws and paper trails like most other reasonable countries.
ex. India has voter id laws, and I think Ireland scrapped electronic voting.
Check out using medium publications with a subdomain, I set it up for my company and its been working great
Outbound calling to real phone numbers (let us call out to a conference line, or someone's cell phone)

Heck or even INBOUND calling directly to a room. Our team uses Join.me frequently, and while our dev team all have their own "rooms" (so if Bob needs to have a meeting with a few devs in Chicago, he can just throw join.me/bob at them) I've long wanted to be able to just call a number and get thrown right into the audio stream.
Letters threatening genocide against Muslims, praising Trump sent to CA mosques
> This is a toy

This comment is one example of how hard the labelling failed. Buckyballs came with a big label saying "BUCKYBALLS ARE NOT TOYS".
I don't think her phone has NFC, it might but she wouldn't know if it did. But I don't always see her in person that often, which means we'd have to wait until we were face to face before we could even try to see if she had NFC etc.
Hey gang. I'm John Teasdale (author) happy to answer any questions you have about the write-up.
More than 900k routers of Deutsche Telekom German users went offline
Per HN guidelines: offered as an interesting article about the sociodynamics of racism and genocide (not "pure politics").
Does anyone know what this means to vc funding in the valley ?
> Many of your responses should be "304 Not Modified", in which case you don't send anything back but the headers.

A 304 should be able to fit into a single frame, unless you're doing things very wrong. You don't even need headers in that case.

> In addition, hpack also allows the client to compress their request headers, which decreases your incoming traffic.

Yeah, that was the DoS concern I had. Lots of web server software checks the incoming header sizes don't exceed a certain length. But with huffman expansion, you can't quite make an INFLATE bomb, but if the implementation doesn't have a backout function during the decompression, you could consume a huge amount of memory by abusing this.

> ideally, only the path will change between requests.

Can you put the path at the bottom of an HTTP/2 request? Otherwise it would be tricky with lots of bit-shifting to reuse existing compressed headers but insert new paths onto the top of each one.
Are iPhones significantly more functional without cloud connectivity?
There is another very strong bias that goes on when hiring, though. Take 9 competent developers who tend to get offers and 1 that can't code their way out of a box. That 1 could very easily do more interviews than the other 9 combined before landing a job (and will be back on the market sooner to boot) and interviewers might conclude them typical and the other 9 atypical even though the reverse is true.
That code looks like it could (and should, IMO) be refactored to put the unsafe code in more contained locations, e.g. the &[u8] could be manipulated into a (&[u64], &[u8]) pair (with the main sequence of values, and the trailing ones). Rust unfortunately can't stop people writing code that makes life hard for themselves.
Snapchat has the scaled back version of the original product on the market but I bet they are still working on the more complete AR system. Looking at Snapchat as an AR company paints it in a whole new light.
How does truffle enhance JRuby to create such a dramatic performance improvement?
I suspect you are far more willing to learn by rote than some other students.

For a particular kind of curious student, "just do it because you have to" is a very fast way to them checking out and doing nothing at all.
“Snoopers' charter” petition hits signatures target
Right, but this also happens when it says "Only xx left in stock, order now!"

And also direct from / Fulfilled by Amazon.