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> could get delayed a year until 2019

More like 2021. Absent a clear guarantee from the next administration, I'd be terrified of federal prosecution if I were anyone involved with state-legalized marijuana. The hands-off approach is pretty likely to end under AG Sessions.
As far as I can tell Oracle can store empty strings they just happen to be treated exactly like NULL. That's at least marginally better. Still, it's hard to imagine people being willing to use Oracle nowadays.
> I don't see the upside of DynamoDB.

Wide column, no-sql data store where you pay for provisioned throughput, and storage over 25GB.

All maintence is taken care by Amazon, no sharding, scale, patching, or tuning required.

If you need a non relational data store for use inside an AWS deployment, you would be hardpressed to find a better alternative.
There's a specific issue in implementing / caching the top of the stack with registers. (I'm assuming that you're talking about stuffs related to C's `register` keyword here) CPU registers don't have memory addresses so it would be basically impossible to achieve that, as in the stack machine implementation of this paper, void pointers are stored in stacks
Apple AirPods are finally available for purchase
1) I love it when that cord gets hooked on something and damn near rips my ears out.

2) I don't lose things.

This is like a guy leaving a negative review of feminine hygiene products. When a product designed for people with different needs and desires than yours, it’s not necessarily “stupid.”
The page about technology says, "Our sensors observe that the cyclist has extended their left arm. Detecting the cyclist's hand signal, our software predicts that the cyclist will move to the left side of the lane." This suggests to me that they're trying to deal with situations like the ones you've brought up.
Every time you scroll 20+ CPU cores have to hum away and generate previews of websites (assuming they aren't cached already). So it's mostly a server load optimization.
Just out of curiosity, what type of situations cause this to happen to you? This literally has never happened to me except while working out, and workout time amounts to probably 5% or less of my headphone usage
Not just Ford; most auto OEM's are involved with MCity: http://www.mtc.umich.edu/partners/industry
It does mean more, but it's not immune to other constraints, and it may be enough to make demand fall off a cliff. Cars are expensive (relative to the average income) and for many, it'll be hard to justify ownership if the alternative is cheaper.
One partial solution might be to simply turn off IAP on the device. I know Apple devices can do this, and I guess Android ones can too. This way they can download and play games, but won't get suckered into spending thousands of real life dollars on e-potatoes because some shitty app has deceptive IAP.
My pet theory is that we are isolated and there are less ways to feel connected to society (suburbs, too much TV) and the over importance of image, wealth, and status. Too many McJobs and lonely suburbs and people start to get depressed and other forms of mental illness. Naturally these people self medicate when their needs are not met anywhere else.

Corporations used to feel more obligated to the society that they were in. Churches used to be more popular. Even if the Catholic church did evil things and controlled people, it did/does provide a place for people to feel like they belonged somewhere.
I'm curious what the general vehemence is to quantifying and understanding this information is? It's right there in your commit history. I've run my own analyses out of curiosity in the past... statistics just isn't my favourite subject. I think it's an interesting metric and I'd certainly like to know more about how it's calculated.

(Although I'm sure that's part of the secret sauce).
How the hell do you turn that off? I'd love to know, because I'm not going to upgrade to iOS 10 until I'm sure it won't hose my phone, and I'm sick and tired of being bothered about it twice a day.
Or just a bed.
From a personal perspective, if you could easily pre-schedule a self-driving car, and the reliability was very good (it's basically there when you need it), it would increase the convenience factor by a lot. From my perspective I'd be encouraged to reduce the cars in my household from 2 to 1 if this was available -- I would probably use this type of service for any sort of situation where I have a pretty good idea of when and where I'll use the car.

Taxi service exists, but the reliability factor is very poor right now (in that you call and you have to wait n minutes, where n sometimes is a very large number). I see Uber is rolling out a pre-scheduled service and I wonder how good this has been so far for the markets that have it. This would basically be the same thing only with human drivers.

I don't think this pattern works for rural areas and all situations. I also envision some nostalgia and/or tech discomfort keeping the car ownership pattern going for a while. Still, I am wondering if there are a lot of 2+ car families that would be in the same boat. Even drastically reducing the 2+ car families will drop vehicle demand.
Good thing you put the "pro" in quotes, because actual professionals of all kinds will apply en masse.

Professional doesn't mean power hungry number cruncher as some people seem to understand it.

A doctor or a lawyer is also a professional.
I see your point. There are indeed a couple of errors in there. But the point still holds.

The sign is wrong on the sum of the left hand side. And a (-1)^(a+1) is missing on the RHS. But these do not change the "this is an integer" claim.

Further down, it does assume that 'a' is even, without saying so . But if 'a' was odd, things would still be the same but we would have a ]-1,0[ interval.

Anyway, I'm not a mathematician so I'm probably missing stuff.
I have an Apple Watch and I use Siri multiple times daily. Most frequently to set timers, but sending iMessages to friends and family is a close second. I also frequently use Siri to control music while I'm washing dishes or my hands are otherwise busy. If there's a faster way to skip a track when my hands are soapy, I don't know of it.

Also, FWIW, I've gotten pretty good at discreetly talking to my wrist in public. In any moderately loud area I don't think anyone even notices me doing it.
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Even so, it could easily be produced by this kind of error in a PHP script.

Including an ending tag (?>) followed by whitespace could have the same effect.
So, clearly the anorexic people die because they starve themselves, people with depression commit suicide, but what's killing the people with ADHD? I know ADHD is correlated with greater risk taking, greater likelihood to abuse drugs, but is it severe enough to put it in the top 5 or 10?
Every major player has stuff on the roads.
It' just not as sexy for the news as self driving google bubble cars.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/07/convoy-se...
I knew https://sandstorm.io and I just went to see daplie.com: My worry with Daplie is whether the UI will be as cool as promised. Sandstorm is the same idea as Daplie without the hardware part, and already their features aren't as useful as I initially thought.
I can buy cars with better safety systems being cheaper to insure, whether you're talking assistive driving systems or something more. But why would the existence of cars with better systems make driving vehicles like most people own today more expensive than currently?
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I agree they should fix it but I think they have been transparent about the restriction. It is already listed within most of their documentation.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/APIReferenc...

It is also listed as a Gotcha on the AWS Open Guide which trended on HN a few weeks ago.

https://github.com/open-guides/og-aws#dynamodb
The problem is that the ZIP format is not a full-file specification: it permits data before and after the logical extents of the ZIP archive. Among other things, it allows for self-extracting archives by prepending the extractor code. the library in this case is erroneously assuming that the archive spans the entire file.
It will be corrected. Thank you!
Yeah, I'll certainly be seeing if we can try these if/when we get some funding for another "Smart" brand product.
If you don't appreciate the 30 second in "registration wall": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwLGsWYVjqU
Now is the best time to leave VR, before the entire fleet sinks.
I use -ms when tex is overkill: http://www.troff.org/using-ms.pdf
That's fascinating. Would love to see what performance such thing can actually perform.
I like the way you spelled "lock-in". ;-)
I'm not saying you should be OK with background checks.

I'm saying that they're commonly used, especially in the financial industry (for regulatory reasons), and that the people who procure them really are (at least, often) prohibited from publishing the results.

I was background checked almost a dozen times at Matasano and never once got to see a report.

You're totally within your rights to be irritated by these checks. I'd refuse many of them too! But I think your argument about why you didn't get to see your report is overdetermined.
I have a pair of Westones that are slightly more than $150 but have reasonable after market replacement cables.

$150 doesn't seem so bad to me but:
- Not in ear
- No lanyard
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There is a difference between "trying to deal with" and "product on sale next month".

These cars are overhyped. They've been just around the corner for the last 10 years. They are the Duke Nukem Forever of Silicon Valley.
> Exactly, doing anything active with wired headphones on isn't fun.

I do active things with wired headphones all the time, and they rarely get snagged on anything or pulled from my ear.

That said, not having to carry the device that provides the sound source is a convenience that's worth something (though nowhere near the additional cost of these over wired earbuds.)
Still waiting for their review of the iPhone 7 SoC...
Dynamodb has performance guarantees and you don't have to get into nightmare of maintaining MongoDB cluster.
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> it's hard to imagine people being willing to use Oracle nowadays.

Only when it's the lesser of the super-evils you have to pick from. I'd pick Oracle over Progress(OpenEdge), but not much else :)
Well, that makes the most sense.
I've acquired some wealth, and can easily spend a (few) grand or more on clothes (and regularly do so). The more your investments throw off, the easier it gets to spend (or waste) significant money. What is more money in the bank worth, past a certain point? If you're worth $5M, and you make 10% a year on that, what do you do with $500k per year? Second, I agree on the 2 points you brought up; 1) can I afford it?, and 2) do I want to spend money on this? But the more you have, the less it matters.

Forget retirement. If you enjoy skiing, why wouldn't you buy a pair of excellent ski boots? Luxury items can be awesome.
It seems to get worse every release for a long time now. People around me insist on using it but I prefer WhatsApp, Slack and Hangouts for various tasks Skype tries to do.
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But it's the part that limits the usable hours of a truck most.

A self driving truck can pretty much drive 24/7 but the driver has to rest more than half the day.

Truck drivers are allowed to work 70h per week.
You have no reason to doubt him, and yet you are content to let the article malign him on this point without contest. Strange.

Oh and by the way, I see no actual evidence that Snowden even "washed out" other than his own resume and history....
Imagine if we stopped viewing "pysical" and "mental" health as separate things.

Imagine if we provided comprehensive health care and put wellness before ideology and dogma.

Imagine if we caught and treated problems early, where possible, before they become more serious and entrenched -- and expensive, for society as well as for the individual, family, social circle suffering them.

P.S. Before the Affordable Care Act, having a "mental health issue" severely impacted one's ability to get and participate in health insurance.

If you weren't part of a substantial group policy, one episode -- maybe just seeing a counselor for some "therapy" -- of itself or followed by a "life transition" requiring acquiring new insurance, could leave you unable to purchase health care insurance or leave you with a very poor and overpriced plan.

Mental health issues brought social ostracism not just in individuals' reactions, but from society's systems and social safety nets.

Talk about "kicking them when they are down." The U.S. was absolutely brutal in this regard, with respect to "first world", Western civilizations.

And, as we see now with the latest political transitions, those circumstances are not far away, if they ever were, from being once again realized.
Look and Feel: p≡p mail encryption and easy contact verification
There are two videos showing how the pretty Easy privacy (p≡p) protocols for automatized email encryption & easy contact verification look & feel like:

p≡p for Android (beta): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ8kYBj23MQ

p≡p for Outlook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm47YAXVTEw
And those probabilistic interactions perform no logic at all? Obviously a real cell isn't identical to a silicon circuit, but I feel it is a useful abstraction. If you want, look at proteins as being the finite state machine. These people agree:

> We propose a theoretical formalism, molecular finite automata (MFA), to describe individual proteins as rule-based computing machines. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3070173/)

A textbook I read several years ago on cellular mechanics inspired my thoughts on this, unfortunately I'm not able to find it right now. I was blown away at the time, the chapter on dna transcription strongly reminded me of programming.
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I imagine in an emergency the car would show a set of options on a screen and you click one and the car will do it.

For example getting out of the way of emergency vehicles on a blocked road. It will ask you what to do and if you tell it to drive up the pavement or into a bus lane or cross to the wrong side of the road -- the car will just do it.

I do wonder about all the non-verbal human-to-human communication. But a friendly baxter type screen with eyes that move (and messages that scroll across) would solve that.

We have to remember that these cars are all feeding unusual situations back to the google BRAIN that is learning. It'll watch us react to an emergency and learn. It'll see that 20 or 30 times a day and generalise a response.
When you can get bluetooth headphones that last 40 hours I don't see battery life as an issue.

Quality sounds fine to me as well. Are there any blind tests that show people can notice differences with Bluetooth? Even if the difference is slightly noticeable I doubt you would notice wearing headphones on the move, at the gym, in the office etc.

> How many times have you really found yourself genuinely bothered by wires on your headphones?

Multiple times a day. Any time you're doing anything active besides just walking (e.g. reaching for things, carrying something) or putting on a jacket the wire gets in the way. Getting them caught on a door handle and having in-ear headphones ripped out of your ears is really unpleasant.
Or you know, anybody who knew him around that time and remembers him not having broken legs....

But hey, who needs actual falsification to doubt Snowden's story. Let's just malign him because he is uncorroborated and cannot prove his story while in exile.

(By the way, it is possible to medically determine if someone's legs were broken as they claim. Source: medical doctor)

And Barton Gellman at the WaPo confirms it was bilateral tibia stress fractures: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160916/16594835541/house...
There are toxic work environments. When you're in one, start looking and move to the first good alternative. Don't stay in something that's become a pit.

On the other hand, if you have a good situation (realistic management, decent pay, good co-workers), think very carefully before moving. Such situations are not all that common.
Zuckerberg is a peener.
>What is your answer to that?

That you should follow the links and see if the citation matches as part of routine anti-vandalism checks.

>Cited to three sources. Looks great, doesn't it? But if you know anything about boot loaders, about ACPI or just about Windows, you understand this sentence is complete nonsense.

All that says to me is that articles about computers should be reviewed by people who know about computers, which makes total common sense.

An encyclopedia is defined as much by it's breadth as by it's depth. Cutting notable but lesser-trafficked chunks out of it to save on effort is a lazy-arse solution that lowers the usefulness of the wiki.

I'm sure you could come up with a thousand reasons why it's too hard, but that's not how you make a good wiki. Hell, it's not how you make anything good.

Ultimately, as the consumer of your product, I don't care about your troubles. Sympathetic customer fallacy applies. If wikipedia doesn't have the information I'm looking for, I won't use it. It really doesn't matter how lovely and maintainable the articles I'm not looking for are. If you wanna be proud of the work you do, you're gonna have to dig deep, maybe make some compromises, and figure it out.
* It doesn't matter how good your work is, it only matters what your boss thinks.
> Make it extraordinarily easy to contact you and then try to optimize so no one ever contacts you.

> By the time they get to the docs they're already frustrated, so it needs to be fantastic.

Well said.
Afraid not. I haven't used Vue or tried to learn it, so I haven't accumulated any relevant links.

That said, I'd generally suggest starting with the official docs, and the "awesome-vue" list looks like a good set of resources:

https://github.com/vuejs/awesome-vue
> Something like 80% of internet users use Facebook.

Do you have a source far that percentage? It seems high.
This is a nice symbolic gesture I suppose, but there already is a muslim registry, and a prominent member of team trump sits on its board.
They should have used the cigarette butt picture:

https://www.cnet.com/products/apple-airpods/preview/

Regarding specs:

+ Bluetooth

+ No cables

+ 5 hours battery life

+ Charging case with total 24 hours battery life

+ Automatically turn off when removing from your ears

+ Key synchronization via iCloud (makes pairing process simpler - and could make sharing process simpler as well - but is Apple-only)

+ Peripheral to Apple Watch

+ Including microphones and double-tap to activate Siri (no direct volume shortcut)
Recounts should be the norm, not the exception
I am not so sure. It could also be the Christmas present Larry got for himself. At least more affordable than a rocket company.

I guess it is a mix of both. The SV elite pretending they can do another trick and keeping themselves busy and entertained and Google/ABC pretending they are a growth company (beyond search ads). Why should they bother with worldly billion dollar markets such as office communication equipment (which Microsoft is successfully attacking as we learned earlier today).
Many reviews have stated the opposite: that, despite the reviewers feeling like the airpods would fall out when in motions, they stayed in just fine despite shaking heads and jumping up and down.
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The human side of trade
> Removing the audio jack also removes a whole market of products that were taking advantage of the audio jack for non-audio purposes (e.g. the Square dongle).

Except that it doesn't. Yes, you have to use an adapter now, and that's slightly (but only slightly) more clumsy than before, but "Square readers don't work any more!" is a particularly tired piece of FUD, which it would be nice not to see spread around any more by people such as HN participants who really should know better.
> For most users, Excel is doing the right thing. Blaming Excel for not handling CSV files according to the spec is passing the buck.

No. Excel is wrong when it comes to CSV.

Paste a Unicode string into Excel. e.g. Beijing in Simplified Chinese (北京市). Now Save As Windows CSV as beijing.csv. Close the file. Open beijing.csv. The cell now reads `___` (on Excel for Mac 2011 - maybe they deigned to fix it).

Excel just outputs bad data.
How is it anything more than a wireless version of the headphones they have been bundling for years?
You've never used an entire product category and you want to call it stupid? The first step to building good products is to understand how people use them.

Wireless headphones are about as stupid as wireless Internet.

Just like wired Internet, wired headphones will continue to have a place for people who need certain capabilities or ruggedness or etc., but for most people, wireless headphones are the way to go. Let me walk you through some of the advantages:

1. Working out. Wired headphones constantly get caught on things and sometimes get violently ripped from your ears.
2. Related to point one, any activity or job where you could risk a loose wire being caught is perfect for wireless headphones. It very well may be significantly safer.
3. Wireless headphones have bigger range than wires. You don't have to place your phone in your pants pockets, for instance, to use wireless headphones. You could even have your phone in your bag, and everything will still work. Much of women's fashion either has no pockets or pockets of little value. This is a major reason women carry around purses. But you can't use headphones with a phone in your purse, hence why women are often physically carrying their phones in your hands. With wireless headphones, they can keep their phone in their purse or jacket and still listen to music or respond to calls.
5. Or if you are doing something around the house, you don't always have to have your headphones on you at all times. This could be particularly useful if you are doing something like washing a car where you might get your pants wet and don't want to have your phone on you.
6. With this new class of wireless earbuds that are small and lightweight, you could keep one of two of them in much of your day to answer phone calls or ask Siri or Google questions.
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Uber to put self-driving cars on the road in SF 'very soon'
I agree fully. This is a piece of the culture change that I've helped drive at a couple of large insurers. The teams that I've taken over have to drop the control mentality over the data, as frankly, we need information all over the place and we can't (and shouldn't) possibly see to every request. Instead, we advise and help others serve their own data needs, and for those individuals in business units who we think have the potential, we'll mentor and pull in for project work to expand their technical skillset. The best run companies I've worked for have all been very data-driven in their decisions, and the culture I've always promoted is one where we enable our business partners to directly combine their knowledge and the company's data to make better choices.

As a result, I can have my teams focus on acquiring data and engineering it to be usable by the organization. The idea is that we need decision-makers to spend less time acquiring data and more time analyzing it.
I can't agree more. The whole Oculus platform is so intrusive, it really feels like they care 100% about ways to extract value from their IP and 0% about delivering something users want.