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I liked Pebble as a company because they knew how to make just the right engineering compromises to make their product work. The smartwatch everyone wants has a battery that lasts for weeks, a high contrast always-on color screen visible in daylight and total darkness, no bezel, and a round case only a few mm thick. That perfect watch is impossible to build, but Pebble found compromises that worked. They chose different compromises than those of Apple and Google, and IMHO better ones. The Pebble Time Round is a tiny little triumph of smart engineering compared with any other product on the market, including the Apple Watch.

In particular it's incredible what the Pebble firmware team was able to accomplish. They built a bespoke OS that's extremely reliable (certainly more reliable than Android Wear), with an app SDK and store, plus a well thought out user interface with a striking visual design and even fun little animated flourishes, despite running in a fraction of the power budget of Apple or Android smartwatches. How many companies could have done that? Fitbit is getting a bargain, if that team is still intact.
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ESPNs bread and butter is not so much live sports but highlights, commentary, and analysis.
These are replaceable with online sources like Bleacher Report, SB Nation, and even social media.
In the US, watching live sports on TV generally still requires some kind of traditional television access, but over-the-air broadcasters + a regional cable sports network will cover most needs in that regard.
I am the core developer. It's not abandoned at all. There are updates that haven't been pushed upstream, but no new features. Was going to support replication via an external consensus service (etc, consul, etc) -- but looks like implementing Raft directly into Tank for interfacing with other cluster nodes is a better idea, all things considering (no external deps., simplicity).

The reason this hasn't happened yet is that, other than lack of free time to pursue it, we(work) haven't really needed that feature yet. We run a few instances and they are very idle and we can also mirror to other nodes (via tank-cli).
I got into trouble at one stage mixing branching with rebasing. This really put me off branching. Creating a new branch to perform the merge is a stroke of genius - thanks! I will be doing that right away.
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Great, now blind users can listen to text in the voice of, say, Donald Duck.

Or it can potentially make a whole movie sound like only one of the characters.

But more seriously, this would do wonders for extortionists ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In fact, there's already ways to generate text using your common speech patterns. How hard is it to get the inflection right? Does it work in Chinese?

A little video editing here and there and some control of the media and you just made that politician say something "undemocratic".

Scenario: "Wait, didn't you call me telling me to leave the keys to the safe in the kitchen counter?"

And when you make a call, who else is listening? Voicemail isn't stored in your cellphone.

For a more positive outlook, perhaps it can be used to better train speech recognizes such as YouTube's , just take the diff of audio vs generated cc as training measure (?).
The charger and watch plug of my kickstarter version oxidized slightly few months ago, since then I am unable to charge it unfortunately. I was using it quite a lot
Transferring 100 PiB at 10 Gbps (1.3 GiB/s) takes 121 days.
Extremely sad. Especially when they were offered $750 million by Citizen not long ago.

I've found the watches to be a joy to use, to develop for and the community is sensational. I have no hopes it'll survive as is with Fitbit.

If you have a Pebble and are involved in any way in it's development, I strongly recommend you have a look at Gadgetbridge https://github.com/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge
We're actually quite lucky to have a decent Green Party and a proportional government system here (NZ), where the Green Party can get up to ~15% of the vote. I wish it was more though.

In a world where no party is proposing reforms that will actually do enough, I feel like I basically have a responsibility to vote for the most environmentally conscious not-totally-insane option.
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It is a service, and a library(C++). You can always check the implementation, but obviously that's the wrong answer to that question :)

The README states that replication is not implemented yet. I encourage you to also check this issue https://github.com/phaistos-networks/TANK/issues/14 for some details on the I/O semantics, and the Wiki for answers to other questions: https://github.com/phaistos-networks/TANK/wiki
I think in chess the purpose of the match is to determine who is stronger.
I wonder why they haven't chose Apache Drill over Presto. Anyone knows?
If you're saying 1000x for Swift, my immediate guess is you've got some pathological code that is triggering a massive number of copies of CoW structures (e.g. arrays, dictionaries, sets).
Please see earlier comment. Specifically re: sys calls and concurrency you may want to start from this issue https://github.com/phaistos-networks/TANK/issues/14
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Silk is a fork of Chromium, Amazon just piggy-backed on Google's hard work. Just like Fire OS itself (a fork of Android).
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if you still have it. If you can crack it open, you can fix it by removing the zebra connector and spraying with a little contact cleaner on the contacts that connect to the zebra. had no problems since.
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Instead of self-imposing pseudo-malthusian constraints, why can't we just embrace the fact that we are geo-engineering on a massive scale and actively do it instead of the accidental kind we have right now? It would only take an increase in tree biomass of 1.5% to offset human CO2 production. Phytoplankton stimulation would be an incredibly cost effective method to counteract human industrial activity yet why is it completely ignored in favor of regulating everything and constraining progress?
I imagined Pebble being worth more.
Oops, I was having trouble editing my post and so I had to delete it and repost it. It got cut off in the process of copy-pasting.

Here's the URL again:

https://66.media.tumblr.com/23e3cc103960ec568bdc1a0086e71901...

The images I'm seeing of Le Corbusier’s Radiant City are so beautiful. I would love to have the ability to create a Blender model of something like that.

This short documentary on architect Vo Trong Nghia also made a large impact on me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgQoVbEX8-A
Chromium suddenly starts downloading a binary blob (2015)
پکیج ارزان تور تایلند در هتل های پوکت ویژه ۲۸ دسامبر ۲۰۱۶
A few days ago, Karjakin tried to tilt Magnus by showing up very late for the press conference as a way to be disrespectful.

Anyone know if there were there any other psych outs that happened? Historically, there have been some really interesting ones in the chess world.
Using Asus ROG series laptop (32GB, 2 HD slots, 17'' model) with Linux Mint. Very satisfied.
I think I, or someone else maybe?, needs to run some benchmarks and produce some meaningful comparison metrics -- as pointed out by commenters here, and elsewhere. I suppose I should have done that already. Apologies for the lack of concrete numbers. There's some information about performance in the Wiki and Issues though.
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That sounds like an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance . You hear a lot of things about Tor in general because Tor is popular and has existed for many years. Vuvuzuela is new, so we don't actually know whether it's secure or not.
Not part of stdlib, but it can be done using Boost. https://godbolt.org/g/QBN5zP
You can also move counties around to reduce the effect of cities on the electoral college.

It takes a great deal redrawing midwestern state borders to reduce the effect of Chicago on Illinois.

By moving the coastal counties of California into Oregon, what's left of California flips red.

Kevin, the creator of this site, also has the 2012 election results. This way you can see how Mitt Romney could have won.
Now that we have a viable alternative in electric cars we could just start to tax gas powered cars external effects a bit higher every year. E.g. with city driving permits. Because for pedestrians, reducing airflow aka wind is generally a good thing.
I'm curious, what were the "mid-range, not-that-useful" models (which I assume includes the Pebble) missing for you?
(Not off-topic for me. :-)) I will have a play with all this. Now that I have my source being backed up to zfs I can be a bit more comfortable with experimenting with new workflows.

Thanks
Do you think that most of the other billion Android users know what an .exe is?
Functional array programming on GPUs works pretty well, and is an immutable programming style. Your object granularity tends to be pretty big (entire arrays), so the low-level shared memory concerns that inevitably arise at some point in the software stack are easy to handle for the compiler and/or runtime. Basically, you have much fewer synchronisation points, so you can afford for them to be slow.

It's a more restricted programming style than common functional programming - in particular, recursion and advanced control flow is out - but that's the name of the game on GPUs, no matter what you do.
Global Bonds Suffer Worst Monthly Meltdown as $1.7 Trillion Lost
> Adapt or die.

Yes, and you see how entrenched companies with old management deals with new stuff
From what I remember of the Bible, the only act of physical violence Christ committed with his own two hands was turning over the tables of the moneylenders in the temple.

Looking at what Goldman and JP Morgan have done to our country, and to the world, it would be a beautiful thing if more people distrusted financial institutions.
She would also have an incentive not to talk about it at all. Playing out the whole game so openly, especially with purely selfish interests, seems really strange to me, as well.
It's house flipping; deskilled, and at scale. With hedge funds turning to single family homes, it's only a matter of time until a startup got involved.

Looking at their jobs page, they're expanding to Atlanta and Dallas.
"I'm glad to see I'm not crazy."

That doesn't prove you're not crazy. ;-)
Call it ADHD, but I'd go nuts (nuttier?) doing the same thing every day too. These days I'm doing a computer vision project (C++/OpenCV/3D math) and a laser monitoring project(C#/WPF). I just wrapped up a radar graphics project(C++/OpenGL).
> dehumanizing screening process that boils you down to a number

That's a very long-winded way to describe a prescreening questionnaire. Are you saying that you think no one should ever take a job if there's a prescreening process?
You probably tried this already, but for reference there is an easy fix for the screen issue which seems to work for most. Google "Pebble display fix", takes 5 minutes max.
Karjakin wasn't disrespectful. He just gave a couple of short post-match interviews that Carslen intentionally skipped, went straight to the conference room and was waiting there. The post match interviews were standard up to that point in the match. Carslen decided to skip them after he lost the game.
>Don't cover 100% -- that way people whose spouses have better coverage won't cost you anything.

That's a surprisingly and annoyingly bad incentive. Like, it punishes companies for providing excellent medical coverage by basically making a cash transfer to companies providing shittier coverage to their employees' family members. There's some countering incentives for very high-value employees, where they really really care about medical coverage because their spouse is stuck with shitty coverage, but overall it pretty well sucks.
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Same with heating.
Heat pumps are increasingly popular in Norway since they will heat your house a lot cheaper than most of the alternatives. In reality people are increasing the temperature by 1-2 degrees Celsius instead of saving energy.

Read the same thing about four wheel drive cars, where the added safety is eaten up by drivers taking increased risks.

Interesting psychology.
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I guess I agree with that; I was thinking specifically in framework defined abstraction / usage.

And if the framework has abstracted away something that you end up needing to understand - well bad framework or bad usage I guess, but still difficult to figure out what's going on.
Legacy broadcast contracts are a huge problem here. I only care about hockey, but NHL.tv is a complete mess from an audience perspective.

$120 a year theoretically gets you streaming for the regular season.

Unless you're considered in-market for the team you want to watch, in which case, the games are blacked out for you since they're available on regional sports channels.

So say you live out-of-market from the team you want to watch. Great! Now you can stream all the games live... unless it happens to be broadcast on national TV, in which case you get blacked out.

It's literally impossible to give the league money and watch all the games you want to see without also having cable and it's all because of the tangled mess of agreements with regional cable channels.
Indeed, 40M is astounding
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The C code was a byproduct of some higher end framework isn't it ? (Still doesn't forgive the stupid errors that went into but..)
Not a native Portuguese speaker, but I'm fluent in the language and have lived in Brazil. The BR-PT is also worse than the English version.
AWS cuts their prices all the time. Every couple months an email comes out announcing price cuts for S3 or various EC2 instances.
1: There is a limit to how much you can be completely involved. There are many parts of our household that are opaque to me, and as I trust my wife, it's just not worth the time, energy, and effort to look over her shoulder on them.
If all you want to know is who is the strongest player overall, then we don't need these special championship matches, we'd just look at the overall rankings.

Being able to perform "on the day" is an integral part of every sport championship and the thing that makes them exciting.
Good argument. People do irrational things. But still, it's smart to assmue that taking pictures of interesting documents never hurts. I'm not worth $10k and already do it regularly.
The problem is that Erlang is only good a network communication and parallel programming, which is of course to be expected, given the language design goals.

The problem is when one tries to make a general purpose solution out of that design.

For example, how would Erlang look like in GPGPU programming, video/audio codecs, graphics programming, GUI,...
No thoughts on the Python 3 issue?
I only had a chance to look at one assessment of a charity they rated that I know relatively well, and the assesment was fair (they didn't recommend donating to the charity).
Ask HN: How do I correct my poor academic hygiene ex post facto?
Ever since I can remember, I have had poor academic hygiene. In middle and high school I did the bare minimum to pass, but I was strongly reluctant to study or do homework. I purposefully missed 10 days because that was the maximum I could miss before getting an attendance failure. I went to a four-year university for a year and got a 3.94 GPA for both semesters, but I feel like I didn't learn much at all (and it is more likely that the grade was handed to me). The only classes I can recall that were intellectually challenging was a history course that had required reading. I had a hard time staying focused and it would usually end with me skimming the textbook and not really learning much at all.

I ended up quitting college because I had no academic focus. I didn't want to be in debt without a strong sense of focus on something I liked.

In the past few months, I've had the desire to learn something interesting. Unfortunately whenever I want to learn something new, I end up getting stuck in a "fractal" where I go so deep into a topic that I realize I know nothing at all. It really dampens my motivation.

For example, "I want to learn about farming" -> "I am going to read about basic gardening" -> "Soil is really important to gardens, I should learn about soil structure and healthy soil" -> "I have to learn about organisms in the soil" -> "To understand how these organisms interact with the soil, I'll need to learn the physics and chemistry behind it" -> "Wow, this physics and chemistry stuff is WAY over my head, I'm just going to give up learning about farming"

I guess I'm missing the foundation necessary to understand and study more advanced topics. I continue to be a poor mathematician, a lackluster writer, and an intellectually devoid person.

Is there anyone out there who has faced this same issue? How can I go about fixing my academic hygiene?
FYI: you can click the "undown" link on the right after accidentally downvoting.
If the value of money is logarithmic, then going from $200M to $400M would be identically valuable to him as you doubling your net worth; I'm sure you'd like to do that.
See also http://perl11.org/blog/seed.html "The dangerous SipHash myth"

It's technically impossible to declare a hash function used in hash table secure, a countermeasure against DoS attacks. djb made a bad mistake here. You always get seed exposure somehow. It is independent on the hash function. You can always brute-force it.

So java is right. The only countermeasure against collision attacks are fixes in the collision resolution. Adding stronger hash functions only makes the table slower, but not secure.
And lot's of prominent hash tables are insecure, since they drank djb's cool aid.
I feel like the longer games (in both cricket and chess), because they're often so tactical and slow-paced as to be yawn inducing, have a greater payoff when they do suddenly turn exciting. (See the final day of this past week's New Zealand/Pakistan Test for a great example.) T20/rapid chess is exciting in the moment, but when you step away from any specific match and think of the last, say, year's worth of matches, every high-drama moment looks more or less the same.
Not completely. It's more like seemingly righteous woman seeks compensation for hard work she did together with her soon-to-be-divorced husband, but no, actually both are fraudsters that now try to fraud each other.
The multi-core runtime for OCaml already exists, just isn't fully feature complete to be integrated into the stable version.

https://github.com/ocamllabs/ocaml-multicore
I am aware of the associations with 'golem' and 'lugenpresse'. And I know the alt-right really hate the media.

You're probably not aware fnovd, then many of the attendees were themselves Jewish, including those of 'Heiling' fame.

http://www.thewrap.com/tila-tequila-jewish-friends-nazi-sieg...

These people are trolling. This is classic trolling. They know this causes people to react and how the media works. For instance The Atlantic in their video on the NPI conference showed apparently 'dozens' of people doing the 'Heil' salute, but if you examine the footage closely you'll notice Richard Spencer is in fact holding up a water glass in one hand and the camera is being positioned multiple times in such a way to make the same three people look like six or nine people. There are classic camera tricks in that video actually to form your opinion (e.g. selective blurring), I'm sure you'll see them too if you go and look.

This is also trolling with a purpose in order to attract the right enemies.

As I said, this is not the high moral ground. Nonetheless they are not Nazis. You'll need more than some Jewish boys and an Asian pornstar for that to have merit.
This site gives high railings for things that it can measure and are of marginal value, and not much for things that are important, like the effectiveness of the intervention. It gives high ratings to a least one charity I thinks performs poorly.
No direct link to this in OP. It's in limited preview, and you can get the invite via https://gsuite.google.com/campaigns/index__appmakereap.html
wait so why did you reply to my comment instead of just to the original comment? Is there something wrong with me addressing inaccuracies in the portrayal of Schiff's role, even if I don't address the aspects that interest you?
Local fallbacks also make it easier to do web dev when e.g. your wifi drops out and you can't see where it landed or you're on a boat or whatever.

I do things like http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7383163/how-to-fallback-t...
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I've stated this nested in the comments but I'll leave it at the top too.

THE INTERNSHIP IS THE INTERVIEW.

These are just screenings.
"They should had found some other means to support the company while keeping the wearables as just one of a larger line of products or services."

Misfit tried this (beddit for sleep tracking, and smart lighting). They still got acquired by fossil (though for 240m)
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"Manliness kills Ass-Cancer". That should have been the headline, even if a bit vulgar.
I concur. In fact, I find the podcast better than articles. I'm not sure why though. I think the conversational tone of the podcast is better. They attack the problem from different area and then hone in on the main point.
This seems really inefficient - group plans are cheaper than individual plans, and the premiums are tax-deductible, unlike individual plans. I suspect you're also driving away older workers, since the ACA allows insurance companies to charge older customers up to 3 times as much as younger ones. Maybe it would be ideal for everyone to be on the individual market and for group plans not to exist, but that's not the world we live in.
What is only touched upon in the comments but not often discussed in depth in these articles- is ESPN losing subscribers who had eyeballs on their content or is the majority of this continued slide the effect of general cord cutting rather than conscious unsubscribing? I would love to see some more detailed analysis on this breakdown.
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> Rust code that type-puns an unaligned pointer into an integer would crash on MIPS or SPARC just like the C code would.

Actually you can enforce that on Intel too. I do that for some hash functions in debugging mode, to avoid valgrind slowdown.

e.g. https://github.com/perl11/cperl/blob/master/cpan/Digest-MD5/...

#if defined(U32_ALIGNMENT_REQUIRED) && defined(__GNUC__) && (defined(__x86_64__) || defined(__i386))
/* Generate SIGBUS on unaligned access even on x86:
Set AC in EFLAGS. See http://orchistro.tistory.com/206
Also see https://sourceforge.net/p/predef/wiki/Architectures/
for possible other compilers. Here only GNU C: gcc, clang, icc.
MSVC would be nice also. */
#ifdef __x86_64__
__asm__("pushf\n"
"orl $0x40000, (%rsp)\n"
"popf");
#else
__asm__("pushf\n"
"orl $0x40000, (%esp)\n"
"popf");
#endif
#endif

This way you won't get the SPARC/MIPS surprises debian maintainers are struggling with. If it doesn't align, copy it temp. It's still faster.
Hmm. Clearly this code is miles away from MISRA compliance (although compliance doesn't mean that the software is any good)

Even so, sorry to say, the code is miles away from any decent software standard. It is almost exactly what you might call CRAP (classes really a procedure) and mixes responsibilities all over the shop. Little attempt is made to abstract behaviour, and there are differing units, and random multipliers all over the place.
Using c++ and python, both of which are OO many classes of error could be avoided if any actual OO features were used, even if MISRA was not a target, sadly the code doesn't do that.

This has all the hallmarks of software that doesnt know if it's doing m/s or mph.