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I basically agree with you.

> I think that every single person in this thread can think of a dozen things they wouldn't want made public.

While privacy is definitely going away as we watch, secrecy is alive and well. For both private and secret data, an unrelated person would have difficulty uncovering the information, but privacy is a public good (people who have no inherent interest in hiding the data have access to it), whereas secrecy is a private good.

Those who truly value keeping information about themselves non-public will have to work to keep or make it secret.
Looks like code for the project is here: https://github.com/brho/akaros
Did you get tested for ADHD? Many people with ADHD have problems with focusing on a conversation, especially when there is a lot of noise around.

Their hearing is perfectly fine, but they drift away a hundred times a minute.

You don't have to move a lot to have ADHD. Here is a fun test/explaination on how it works in adults:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iozAFIr3BEw#t=50
> If I can't find a use for those, what chance is there that I'll ever use the "history of western music" and similar? No boss will ever seriously ask for Marxist criticism.

Not to sound overly humanist here, but considering who the US just elected president, I think there should be more not less classes like that. Or at least more people taking them. I see education not only as a way to maximize returns for the individual, but also as a drivers license for society.
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Oh we are perfectly well aware of our encoding issues. In NumPy, one of the most important libraries in Python 2 or 3, strings always take one byte per character. And it's not going to change. So the built in csv module needs to support a reasonable behavior. Which it does not.

If a company tries Python 3 and discovers basic things like CSV produce utter gibberish, they would do well to opt out. And they do--in droves.

My data is not misencoded, you see. It's just misunderstood.
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Am I the only one that has been just fine with 8GB RAM? I'm running glassfish, IntelliJ, and serving JS over gulp. I have multiple browsers open with lots of tabs. I also have several other applications running. I have yet to notice a problem with RAM.
Not sure I agree.

I've owned 3 different models of iPhone and the premium support (if you pay it) is worth the price, aside from the issue of booking a time I always leave the apple store with my device fixed or replaced, I never have to come back another day and they always take my complaint very seriously (even showing me diagnostics indicating potential other issues I had not noticed).

I cannot fault Apple's customer service at all, in fact, it's why I still buy their phones instead of going through the impressive hoops I used to go through with sony-ericsson and nokia phones.
They already do that. France wants them to go further.
> You can still program in C 89 or FORTRAN 77 or COBOL 74 (and no doubt there is somebody still supporting compilers and runtimes for those), but they are all obsolete standards.

The situation with C89 and Fortran 77 is completely different than what you see today with Python 2 vs Python 3. For 99.9999% of C89 and Fortran 77 code you can build the old code with new C and Fortran compilers and use it from today's standards. You can take a piece of code written 30 years ago, recompile it and it usually works.
This is what happens when you do business with a company who views you as the product.
Yes, and France runs the risk of Google saying "well, FU France" and closing its offices and presence there. If they try to enforce at the EU level, same thing.
That's been well debunked. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/jan/... http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2013/02/does-a-constituti...
It is sad how the best way to reach Google's support is through their pr department.
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Eh, attending a football game and watching one on TV are two different things. My wife would never watch NASCAR on TV, but she loves going to races. She'd never watch football on TV, but she loves tailgating and sitting in the stadium. She absolutely hates baseball, but we're season ticket holders for our local minor league team.
> "Please, do not put obsolete software on life support."

The vast majority of current development out there is in python 2.x. A small minority use Python 3.x. How on earth does this make Python 2.x obsolete?

This is like saying Perl 5 is obsolete, just because Perl 6 is out and completely ignore the realities of the real world use of the products.
I started the original thread last year:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9799007 and the discussion was so valuable and resulted in this essay https://medium.com/black-n-white/the-problem-with-problems-4...

We been talking about doing it monthly. And I have been talking with a few people about creating a conference around it. No pitches, no ted-lets save the world speaks. Just problems and people who are looking for problems to solve.
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> The fields in quantum field theory are mathematical tools, they are not physical entities.

Still, they only maintain physical relevance as long as they are continuous, no? Otherwise you literally have a break in reality.
Oh yeah, I definitely get that. My main point is there's no reason to be outright afraid when a new framework arrives. I would argue there's even time to let it mature and see if it's actually worth learning.
General relativity makes certain predictions, we now measured a deviation from those predictions assuming a specific model of the source of the observation. So more measurements will help to build up confidence that the deviations are not just measurement errors.

After that you have to explain those deviations and the two most obvious options are that either the model of the event or the theory itself is wrong or at least not accurate enough to describe the observations. Then you can look for changes to the model, varying masses or the number of objects involved, or maybe even look at entirely different possible source of gravitational waves to explain the observations.

But if you return with empty hands you will have to take the option serious that a modification of the theory is required. For example if you theory only allows a quantity to decrease monotonically over time but your observations show oscillations, then you have pretty strong evidence that your theory requires modifications.
Sorry for my pessimistic views, but I think big companies always have had the power to screw over anyone they want. This is especially the case in the US, where it seems to be quite accepted for companies to screw you over. Almost all countries lack an easy option for non-billionaires to take action against big companies. If you go to court, they will deliberately make the costs too high to pay for normal people, and even when the company is wrong, they will usually win the case. In the best case scenario, they will settle, and you become rich by being screwed over.
>2) In a lot of locations, analog reception was terrible (ghosting, static, etc.). Cable marketed a crystal clear picture as an alternative to the ghosts and static.

Which, funny enough, my area cable providers won't show local channels because we're close enough to the city to pick them up on an OTA antenna. Even though my antenna only picks up one channel.
Woah, Aluminum doesn't corode very readily.

Do you work around mercury vapors, by chance? I wonder if it could also be something unusual in your sweat (perhaps from your diet)?
Prosecutors want trophys.

If a victim won't testify, unless there is alt of other evidence, good luck getting a conviction.
> If Google wants to charge Apple iPhone prices, they can't continue with Google level service.

This differs per jurisdiction, but in general you are entitled by law to receive a working device without flaws. In my jurisdiction this even extends beyond warranty. For example, you can expect a car, a door, or a guitar to work beyond 2 years. This law is irregardless of what you paid for the product or what the perceived quality is. The law even extends to software updates (security & reliability fixes).

As for Apple, they managed to ship my MBP 2010 with a broken discrete GPU yet fail to replace it. They also try to scam customers into buying extended warranty which basically is an anti harassment tax.
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The "right to be forgotten" does not apply to illegal content. If it was illegal it could just be removed from the origin servers (if in the EU) and the publishers punished. The right to be forgotten applies to legal, true content which nobody will be punished for, but which the person it's about would prefer to go away.
Well, next time just buy an iPhone, the price is the same...
You throw a dice 3 times. It always show 6. How do you know the dice is loaded, and that it wasn't a fluke? Repeat the experiment, and see if it starts looking random (pattern disappears) or if the pattern is strengthened (always saying 6).
Why is my comment 'dead'?
I submitted to following comment to "Developers' side projects". Can someone please explain why and how this became dead? Is it because I'm a defense contractor?

/*
As an engineer at a defense contractor, I recently had to go through the process of having my company waive my '100% IP ownership' clause so that I could work with a startup on my own time without fear of putting them in jeopardy. It took about 3 weeks to process the paperwork, and answer a lot of questions, but eventually the paperwork was signed. It only allows me to work freely with the one startup.

However, the important issue here is the opportunity companies are missing by not offering any significant profit sharing from disclosed inventions. If I submit IP to my company and it gets patented, I get a $500 check. That's idiotic because it dissincentivises significant innovation, but it's unfortunately common place.

To solve the dilema, companies simply need to get their greedy heads out of their rears and offer inventors a profit share percentage such as 10%. If they don't accept, the inventor should be able to do with the invention as they please, which includes selling or licensing.
*/
It doesn't actually. There are no laws that create or define the right to be forgotten. It was a "right" created out of nothing by a new court interpretation of a very vaguely worded part of the ECHR. Before the court invented this right nobody was even talking about it.
Right now we're using Edeliver and Distillery. We're planning to containerize things soon, so I'm not sure what the toolchain will look like then, but if you have long-lived servers then Edeliver is great.
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>Apple doesn't have the best customer service

They don't? Who does then?

Now if you want to say they're not perfect and they've had their problems, I would agree with that.
I would really rather the characters use real-life brands than obviously fake nonsense brands. When someone uses a MobTel phone to call 555-555-5555 and request pizza from Little Kaisers, it seriously drags me out of the moment.

If they're using a Samsung, eh who cares. My brother has the same phone, I can relate to that.
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Well, considering Apple wants me to pay to fix a manufacturing defect in the iPhone 6, I have to agree. I will say HP was cool with fixing a lot of netbooks when we had 100 out of 120 failures.

Basically, American consumers yell on social media or popular boards, wait for the class action suit to force a fix, or go without.
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Someone on here was just telling me that their customer service is fine when you're an actual paying customer.

Guess not.
Why don't they have some kind of postal address where the phone can be send to? The phone was send from one, why don't they have a return address for RMA? And, (FWIW, in NL) if it does fall under warranty, the additional S&H costs would be on the seller; not the buyer.
There is.
TIL, contrary to recent political claims, there are some situations in which it's better for one's health insurance not to cover mental health.
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I can only give my perspective .

However I would venture to speculate they've managed to alienate other groups of customers in the same manner.
That seems kinda petty. Surely you can work around that. If they really were killer features that many devs used I doubt they'd have been deprecated and removed in python 3. I do agree that though I wish lambdas could be more useful instead of one liners.
I think you're focusing too much on accounting labels, and need to step back and look at the bigger picture. From the point of view of the economy as a whole, the baby boomer generation retiring is extremely expensive. In general, societies need to budget around extremely expensive events like that, eg, deferring other expenses, making sacrifices, saving up in preparation.

You seem to be arguing that, uniquely, the US doesn't need to do this; they can just promise whatever, then borrow all the money cheaply from foreigners. Perhaps so! And I really, really hope you're right (and all the textbooks, financial models, and experts are wrong).

> they don't have a guaranteed source of income and can actually run out of money.

That income is finite, therefore, the US can most certainly "run out of money", hence why the budget is a nasty political fight every single year. Now, it is highly likely that the politics of social security will make it a priority come what may, and thus I'm confident that money can be found for it, but only at the expense of other things. Hopefully none of them end up being important. But the reality of social security is that the national savings rate when the baby boomers were at their most productive was extremely low. (Even right now, the US savings rate is almost half that of the EU-15.)

In a different universe, the US would have saved more during the long post-war boom, and would be in a much better shape to, eg, pay for the boomers retirement and replace our aging infrastructure.

> It happens all the time. Look up open market operations

The Federal Reserve does not (and cannot) retire or forgive the US debt it holds.
And that's the problem with google having an ever greater monopoly on everything. Mega corps are no good.
But this is precisely Apple level service. This is how Apple handles design defects like current touch disease:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45rRLkjdgrU

and how apple 'handled it' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDaPDHvI4Xg
Google will let you export all your data. Google "google takeout".
Maybe at some pedantic level you can argue it is deceitful.

It is common practice to use handwriting fonts to increase the response rate of mail. It is easy to discern that they are fonts. I just made it much harder to discern.
and get screwed by Apple when they have a manufacturing defect and want you to pay for the fix. See http://money.cnn.com/2016/11/18/technology/apple-repair-touc...
I have heard SOME reports that their support is decent if you are purchasing ad space through their platform. Since that's where the bulk of their profits come from, perhaps that's to be expected.
> Are you implying Python3 is repressive?

I am not GP but I think the xkcd is relevant. OP is delusional if they think "Python" 2.8 is even python. It is not.

From what I've read so far, it is a fork of Python 2.7. There is nothing wrong with that. What is wrong is calling it Python.
Exactly. The whole point is to get access to people with insights about an industry and who can point to the problems and why they haven't been solved and connect them with people who might have solutions to those problems.

Just imagine how much valuable knowledge and insights get lost every time someone retires.
You have to read the rest of the comment too. "HTH"
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Pretty sure they say NOT to rely on the ordered nature of the new dicts. So definitely not something you want to put in your tests.
Have you ever tried doing a chargeback? It's much harder than you think.
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Bendgate was more a problem of BS media reporting than actual hardware issue.

And Apple's service has topped "customer satisifaction" lists for years on end.
> Many average users I know think Google is the Internet.

yep. i mention this a lot, but it's scary how well Google has done in the education market these days. Kids (at least all of the 0-6th graders I know) equate all things Google with "the internet." They know nothing that isn't Gmail. To them, "Gmail" IS email. They know no video sites besides YouTube. They go for Google Maps. Even on mobile devices where Google is the default search engine, it still feeds you Google services before anything else. Notice how on the iPhone, you can't copy & paste an address from a web search into Maps? Nope. It opens web version of Google Maps and prompts you to download the app.

The average user is going to say, and often times because they have no idea how to leave. Google is keeping them there.
If you have a desktop computer, and particularly if you have a Server, Dell was pretty phenomenal (though I presume the same model was followed by HP as well). They will come on site, and, if you have an expedited warranty, they will come on site same day, sometimes within a few hours. When I ran IT, it was great to put a call into them, run through a bit of online troubleshooting, and then have them dispatch (separately for some odd reason) Parts and Labor to resolve the issue. Apple experimented with on-site support for a while, but it never really went anywhere. I guess they want you to come into their stores.

On the flip side, Apple Service is so good that now our IT organization just tells their employees if they have any issue, just go to the Apple Store and work with them directly. So, something to be said about that. And, it's getting to the point that almost all of the major cities I travel too have some kind of Apple Authorized repair - even if they don't have an Apple Store yet.
I wish the cryptophiles would study how real world elections work before floating their ideas.

Votebook proposes using a blockchain as a tamper evident (immutable) audit log. Because voters sign-in chronologically, recording votes in order removes the secret ballot. Votebook's proposal is to group up multiple into "blocks" and randomize the order within a block.

Randomizing the order of the votes in an audit log would simulate the secure one-way hash of dropping your paper ballot into a ballot box.

Poll sites are "bursty". During rush hour, lots of voters, so blocks will span small time windows. During midday, blocks will be large.

1 - How large must these blocks be to guard the secret ballot? Using some differential privacy mojo might determine they have to be 100 votes. I'm skeptical. It's problem even today with poll sites and postal ballots. Situations like small precincts or low turnout. In which case, Votebook is adding complexity without any real world benefit.

2 - What happens with the vote data as blocks are being built? So now this system has plaintext data in memory awaiting processing. Oops, power outage. Oops, software bug.

3 - Votebook does not solve the problem of properly, accurately recording the ballot as the voter cast it.

4 - Votebook will be cryto-based, necessitating further outsourcing our elections to vendors.

5 - I would never be able to explain how Votebook works to my mother (Jane average).
> The system will shut off if it reaches 104 degrees to protect itself. Every time I touch that thing its hot to begin with. I got it to cool down enough to go back on, and now its been suggested I install a hole and a fan in a closet packed with HVAC and A/V equipment.

This is funny to me - of course a closet packed with HVAC and A/V equipment should be cooled! It's a server room!

As someone designing a smart building - the key is to find protocols and systems that 1) work with open protocols such as Z-wave, and 2) always have a hardware interface that works as a failsafe, so that even if the controller completely malfunctions or if the internet malfunctions, everything will still be fine as a 'dumb house'. Or 3) Use specific technologies from companies whose entire business model depends on the technology working -- say, Sonos.

So. In the building I'm designing: Z-wave light switches are normal switches, yet wirelessly controllable and will report their status back to the controller. Z-wave thermostats can be controlled locally and globally. Sound systems are Sonos. Ethernet ports are mostly PoE as to allow for future 12V devices. An alarm system is installed by a dedicated alarm company. Everything is designed to work without internet or wifi or the z-wave base controller.

I'm coding a Slack-based interface, which has the added benefit of being interface + human-readable logging system in one.
Sounds (no pun intended) like APD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_processing_disorder
I started keeping a daily list of my accomplishments. I read about this technique somewhere. I haven't seen how it has worked out yet but I think it will help a lot with preparation.

Interesting site. I signed up and will give it a try. Very well done landing page.
My dad, while never a national level player, taught me chess, and likewise never let me win. The day that I beat him for the first time was an enormous triumph for me, and I'm happily imparting that to my own kids now. My 8 year old hadn't beat me yet, but his game has developed rapidly and that first win isn't very far off now. I'll offer him advice and help him understand why a given move was good or bad, but his moves are his and his alone.

When he wins, it'll be because he earned it, and I know from experience what a triumph that win will be.
Yep, no way around it, Google is just really bad at people.
At some point a NTSB style part of government is going to be created to issue recalls on defective electronics if companies keep this crap up. I expect it to happen after the first IoT device defect affects a politician directly.

I don't want to see that because of possible affects on open source, but I get the feeling that won't matter.
* replacement (must be the same condition as the purchase, so no second hand!)

I believe apple & att will replace the broken phone with a manufacture refurbished device.
Just went and found the comment, it was a google fi user using their fi experience to suggest that google's support for self driving cars would be fine.

I think this is a pretty good confirmation that google doesn't know how to support hardware.
OMG I didn't know they were making customers pay in advance. That's really bad. I do understand their position on the issue, but I also get the kernel guys point. I have some faith that a compromise will be found because it's in the best interest of AMD and Linux.
This seems insane. I make tiny pull requests all of the time - sometimes it's just a documentation typo fix! If you're a Google, you need to send those through a lawyer, or you'll (I assume) get fired? Ignoring the intrusion, that's a good use of Google's expensive lawyer time?
Police Google as much as you like. They can remove their results worldwide, but not the data itself.

I'm confident that there will always be a search engine available that gets around this law. Perhaps we will even see some specialized tools to show only results hidden by Google.
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