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rebase uses the same merge logic as merge. What some people don't get is that if there were three commits pulled down form a remote, and you had three commits, and you had conflicts (different ones) on each of those commits, rebase makes you resolve them one by one so it can literally "replay" those commits on top of the tip of the branch you are rebasing onto.

That's why rebase is so cool. It lets you solve each conflict during the merge of each commit separately. Then you can do it interactively and squash it all into one commit.

Learn the tools, don't complain.
Ask HN: What do you think/ feel about an app name 'acarot'
it is confusing that we drop a 'r' from the work 'carrot'?
The way they harvested the sugar involved burning the fields (I believe after harvest, but could be wrong) which lead to unusually high levels of respiratory illnesses on Maui - I think this is net-net good, but like the rest of the country, more areas of job growth are needed.

Interestingly, Maui has one of the lowest levels of unemployment in the country at around 4%

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4596502/

https://www.google.com/search?q=hawaii+unemployment+rate
Perhaps I wasn't clear in my wording. The modern violins are probably all in top-notch condition -- if a violin wasn't in great condition, it probably wouldn't have been included in the study.

The Strads, though, are in whatever condition they happen to be in at the time, which could be good or not so good, depending on whether the years and previous owners have been kind to the instrument. And if there's anything that ought to be fixed for maximum playability, it might not be possible to get permission to have it fixed. Not because the owners don't care about maintenance, but because the owners are more concerned about keeping it in as close to original condition than how good it plays right now.

For instance, let's say there's a divot worn in the fingerboard from years of string friction. With a modern instrument, you'd just take it to a luthier and have him/her plane it down. With a Strad, you might consider how many times you can plane the fingerboard down before you have to replace it entirely, and whether or not the violin would lose value with a new fingerboard. And you might also say to yourself that that divot was worn into the fingerboard by <some famous 18th or 19th century musician> and who am I to erase that little bit of history? People can be sentimental about old instruments, and doing too many repairs may also be more harmful in the long run than only fixing what needs to be fixed and nothing more.
Everything I've ever read says that the gambling revenue in just about every city that tries casino revitalization is more or less offset by the local small businesses the casino squeezes out. And at this point so many places are getting casinos you aren't going to get a lot of tourism.
I mis-read and thought this was a service showing you all the tweets coming from your IP range. This is cool too though!
I won't give you legal advice but I would think it should be clear to anybody that the embedded use case refers to distributing Java as part of a combined hardware+software solution. None of this is new or even particularly controversial. Everybody knows that Java Embedded, and especially the highly customizable embedded jvm, is a commercial product subject to royalty payments. None of that, BTW, has stopped countless people from shipping free products that run on Pi and/or use Bluetooth. Again, this idea that you're promoting, that if you use Java SE to "control hardware" (as if software can do anything else) or you use Bluetooth or "ARM Units" is complete FUD. If you really are curious there are plenty of resources out there around Java SE Embedded. The naming does make this more confusing than it should be but you can start at [1] and if you like you could even reach out to Douglas White himself (his email is easy to find and he seems more than ready to speak to this).

[1] https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/entry/java_se_o...
nvim with Rust syntax support works for me.
Doesn't the question then become how many and at what salary do these engineering jobs exist?

Seems like there typically are fewer jobs and the total compensation for labor is reduced when manufacturing is automated (why else would the company pursue such a course of action?)
Or you could just use a $5 lamp timer.
Good point. I was confusing GitLab.com the hosting service with GitLab CE the server software, which they could run an instance of.
People with acquired skills are plenty and not really up to scratch most of the time. So people who have these "acquired" skills have a high likely hood of being scrapped at the CV stage.

If you're serious about machine learning - build a blog or online repository of quality work and use that to get a job instead
Business love regulation. Really keeps the upstarts out of the game if they need to have twenty different certifications to get their product to compete.
If you have physical access to the hardware, it actually has exposed JTAG under the covers, and it's basically a Particle Photon, so I imagine you'd be able to have a lot of fun.

Actually, here's a guide: https://learn.adafruit.com/dash-hacking-bare-metal-stm32-pro...
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Why wouldn't you sign up? It took me 30 seconds to sign up and another few minutes to copy/paste a list of my networks....
"qlosures"
Suggestion: Please give me a longer text box I can paste a list of CIDRs into. I was copy/paste/click-add/rinse/repeat-ing for a while.
Yes, but this isn't very many jobs. The amount of labor per unit of productivity is drastically reduced in any case.

If we can attract new factories then it could be a net win, but someone will lose out (not china, but Bangladesh, India, Vietnam, and other countries that are trying to break into middle income).
Isn't that the point of "featured"? If they featured everything it would lose its meaning.
A Cortex M3 on a single AAA battery can only last a few hours without sleeping. 3.3 volts at 200-300 mA with a 1200 mAh battery doesn't provide much wiggle room.
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So you've heard Hindemith, Ligeti, Messiaen, and Xenakis? And all the other composers on this list?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donaueschingen_Festival#List_o...

So it's all garbage right? Metal is noise too I suppose, and Charles Mingus should have just played lounge music eh?
Dear me what a long URL
Bro, you are going to get sued and you will be flattened. Change the name.
Are you asking about "acarot" or "carot"?

Either way, yes, it's confusing. Carrot needs both Rs to be pronounced; car-rot.

Karrot, Carrott, Kerrot: might be better.
The problem is, this kind of speculation really goes nowhere. It's unprovable. And, even if there was a connection between peripheral awareness of Flint due to Moore and the legs this story has...so what?
I have the Bose Quiet comfort i20s (for air travel), QC35s (for development mode), the PowerBeats 3 (I wanted to say for working our, but in reality it was to experiment with the W1 chip that's also found in the AirPods), and now AirPods.

The AirPods are by far my favourite.

The newer EarPod design (the ones that aren't the oblate spheroids) fit my ears really well, and so do the AirPods.

I find them much more comfortable than the PowerBeats (which uses the same W1 chip).

The pairing felt much better with the AirPods.

Re: Expectations

They surpassed my expectations. iCloud syncing of bluetooth pairing information is nice. Being able to hear the sound in my environment is also good when exercising.

Invoking Siri is so much faster using the EarPods an it is with the Apple Watch.

You can also double tap the side to answer calls (which I didn't hear about in any of the reviews).

We use SIP phones at work, and I've found an app called Groundwire (https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/groundwire-business-caliber/...) that integrates with call kit.

Re: Having them fall out.

I have not been able to get them to fall out, even when trying.
This was one of the more frustrating parts of this past election cycle:

"No candidate talked much about automation on the campaign trail. Technology is not as convenient a villain as China or Mexico, there is no clear way to stop it, and many of the technology companies are in the United States and benefit the country in many ways."

A lot of US jobs have been lost to globalization, but in the long-term that won't compare to the jobs lost to automation. As a software developer this seems painfully obvious to me, and I would hope most politicians are intelligent enough to see it as well. Unfortunately none of them have even talked about it, much less proposed solutions to help displaced workers.
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This reminds me of how metric-driven companies can go off the rails when they over-optimized for metrics that almost, but not perfectly describe their actual goals.
Some jobs is better than no jobs, right?
It seems like Uber wanted this to happen. But why?
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I guess we in tech have seen this coming for the past oh.. 25 years? Now it is really starting to hit home.

Another big thing that drives automation is the stock market. The stock market provides a bunch of money to companies that can show earnings growth. Used to be you could just expand globally. Well, all the big brands have done that now. So the next step is to cut costs. How?

Automate.

Without the stock market this might also happen but at a slower pace.
Both are 1080p60FPS. Also, VP9 will never be more efficient than H264 on my machine since I have a 2015 13" Macbook Pro, and that model only has H264 acceleration in the CPU. And the 2015 Pro is more modern than 90% of the machines out there..
I think we are destined for a future of political and social instability in the world if we continue to define labor and its compensation as we do now.

We currently don't have a social understanding for navigating a world where little human labor is required. The resentment of the winners (capital owners) by the losers (jobless masses) may lead to great upheaval, to be harnessed by willing politicians of short-sighted vision.

What will it mean to work and contribute to society in the future of machines?
That's sort of his point. The narrative after the Y2K rollover was that it had been a whole lot of hype and didn't end up being a big deal after all. Conveniently ignoring the fact that the reason it wasn't a big deal was the massive amount of effort expended to make the transition seamless.
I met a guy in Chennai, India who sold Ultrasound machines some time back. On enquiry I learnt they don't sell any of the big brands cause they cost in millions and can't be afforded by most semi-urban or rural health facilities.

Instead the one they sell is locally made and costs around 10K tops. He did claim there is not much tech on these devices and I took him at his word then. It makes sense now.
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> But this doesn't really bring jobs back, since they'll just be automated.

Yeah, that's right. There would certainly be other benefits (and a limited number of jobs created) that are more indirect.

The real issue around automation in my opinion is how we as a society manage it. If we stay the course, it is clear that capital owners stand to benefit most (almost entirely I would say). We are already seeing problems with rising inequality due to diverging returns from capital and labour. This is going to exacerbate that hugely.

I'm generally in favour of capitalism but I think we are going to need to revisit 'the social contract' that allows capitalism to exist in exchange for a share of the rewards being used to ensure that society's basic needs are met. Just as when it was first negotiated by Bismark, this is going to have to be an initiative of the capital owners if serious unrest is to be avoided.

I'm hopeful and think that it is possible. Rich people are not inherently sociopathic. A good example of this sort of compromise in more modern times was the reaction of Kennedy snr when the US faced economic and social unrest. Partly through correspondence with Keynes he was convinced that if himself and his peers didn't take a hit for the good of wider society then they stood a good chance of losing a great deal more.

Every so often the social contract needs a reset (e.g. Bismark, the labour movement, the new deal, etc). Automation is going to make this more urgent. The one thing I am sure of is that it will be a political solution and not simply an economic one (e.g. less regulation, more free markets, etc).
Couple of LinkedIn profiles reference Palantir's "Analytical Framework for Intelligence" in their profiles:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:linkedin.com+%22Analyti...
Wow, I just tried it, and it's the tab interface I always wanted. More vertical space for reading web pages, and wider tabs to read the tab titles more easily. Why isn't this the default yet?
Surprise surprise, taste is subjective.

The byline is misleading, wine experts most certainly can distinguish wines by grape, region, and even vintage with remarkable accuracy, they just don't grade them consistently.

Here's my tip for drinking good wine on the cheap. Buy the Trader Joe's label. Not two buck chuck, but the ones called "Trader Joe's Reserve", "VINTJS", and the like (they have several variations).

I buy a bottle when they have a new one (usually in the flyer they send out), usually for $8-15, and if I like it, buy a case or so. Better hit rate for me than Wine Spectator scores or whatever.

Not sure how they source the wines, but the consistency is pretty good.
yes, this is why we have no free open source SDR software, no gnuradio, no osmocom, no rtlsdr, not to mention lack of cheap SDR hardware .....
So if you use an infinite amount of matter to create an infinite number of beam splitters, an infinite amount of energy to move them to an infinite number of positions (which I guess you keep track of using a computer with infinite memory), over (I guess again) an infinite amount of time, then...

... it turns out that you also need an infinite number of hidden variables for the resulting setup to work according to QM?

Shocking! :)
That paper says that Ireland did have a limited transfer pricing regime (which they hadn't really enforced, or in PWC's words "Owing to these uncertainties, it is not believed that this section [1036] is applied in practice.").

Also, from: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-2923_en.htm

...the European Commission has concluded that two tax rulings issued by Ireland to Apple have substantially and artificially lowered the tax paid by Apple in Ireland since 1991. The rulings endorsed a way to establish the taxable profits for two Irish incorporated companies of the Apple group (Apple Sales International and Apple Operations Europe), which did not correspond to economic reality: almost all sales profits recorded by the two companies were internally attributed to a "head office".

The Commission's assessment showed that these "head offices" existed only on paper and could not have generated such profits. These profits allocated to the "head offices" were not subject to tax in any country under specific provisions of the Irish tax law, which are no longer in force. As a result of the allocation method endorsed in the tax rulings, Apple only paid an effective corporate tax rate that declined from 1% in 2003 to 0.005% in 2014...

Yep, that sounds like either transfer pricing or just direct income mis-attribution to me.
Would you mind linking to some of those blogposts. I used to read the weekly mozilla meeting notes but they seemed to have stopped including content about 2 years ago. https://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates I just looked and now it seems that notes link out to separate pages. What's the best way for a non-contributor to follow firefox development?
I don't particularly care about this guy's alleged foibles (although it does sound kind of bad), but I do have issue with this site being portrayed as some authoritative source of pure objectivity whose only goal is the unadulterated truth. It hasn't been an unbiased site since they went away from a focus on researching urban legends IMO.

I encourage people to not take my word for it, but to search for terms like "snopes bias" and take into account a diverse set of perspectives.
Right, so I don't remember having any such language (don't disclose your salary or your work) in my departure paperwork. I was a SA in a SRE team. Does this apply to people in X?

That said, Google has a VERY restrictive IP a policy that effectively prohibits employees from running side businesses at ANY time during their employment on ANY medium, Google-owned or not. Anything you make is Google's.
The engineering jobs already exist. Factory automation has been a big business for decades (Siemens, Rockwell Automation, Mitsubishi and others). They generally aren't high paying compared to Silicon Valley software engineers, but pay more than civil engineers.

Automation will continue, but labor will probably never be completely replaced within our lifetimes. I think it makes sense to have factories and make physical goods in the US. It is easier to bring hardware to market when the production is in the same timezone. I think it leads to a more robust economy even if there is heavy automation. There are still ancillary jobs associated with factories.
As others have pointed out, open-source software is not necessarily non-commercial. Open-source software can be sold for any dollar amount the author sees fit. The author simply must furnish a copy of the source upon request from any recipient of the binary, and cannot charge any more than it costs to fill that request.

The commercial breakdown occurs because each recipient also has the right to redistribute the source code and binaries, so Original Author Alice sells to Bob for $100, Bob sells to Charlie for $50, Charlie sells to Dan for $10, and Dan posts it online for everyone to get for free. Even if Dan's site goes offline, someone will create a mirror. Open-source licenses make this perfectly legal. Thus, open-source authors do not have an enduring market for selling their software.

The loophole for commercial OSS companies is usually something called dual-licensing, enabled by the unique "copyleft" provisions first introduced in the GPL.

Copyleft means that the license is infectious. Any code linked against GPL code also becomes GPL. If someone links against code that they cannot legally make GPL or refuses to distribute the linked code under the GPL's terms, they have violated the GPL and could be sued by copyright holders to enforce compliance, stop distribution, and/or seek damages.

This infectious element is why some people and companies are very cautious about the licenses on the open-source projects they use. Some household names have had some close calls by incorporating GPL code without fully understanding the ramifications (and some household names may be in hot water over this soon, as GPL violations are not entirely uncommon).

Copyleft is great for most pure open-source projects since it means that everyone has to share back not just their changes to the software, but also the stuff they build on top of your project. However, because open-source software usually doesn't sell well (as discussed above), it means that people who want to sell their software commercially cannot use any GPL code anywhere in their software -- unless the copyright holder also makes that code available under a non-GPL license that won't infect the linked software.

This allows people who want to use your code as a foundation or library in a commercial package to pay for a commercial, non-infectious license, and it allows people who don't need that to use the GPL version, which requires that their code becomes free too.

Dual-licensing is the way that many open-source software companies have survived and tried to harness the best of both worlds. TrollTech, who made Qt until they were acquired by Nokia (and then spun off after the Microsoft liquidation), is one such company that lived many years off the dual-licensing model.
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> By the time they realized they'd either have to change or go out of business

Sugar production in Hawaii peaked 40 years ago but even then had already been in decline for decades, there were no surprises for any of these companies and I'm skeptical they could have turned that train around.

> kept the field burning

Not burning the fields was certainly not going to help the bottom line, there's a reason these companies fight it.

> the impossibly ancient mill equipment

New mill equipment wasn't going to fix the real problem, that third generation kids didn't want to work in the fields for low pay.

> focus on more secondary goods like rum, organic sugar

It's called secondary market for a reason, it's small. Puerto Rico has (had?) ~70% of the US rum market but only employs ~700 people directly. That's the same number of people that HC&S just let go on Maui but that only produced 4% of cane sugar sold in the US.
This is assuming your time is worth $0. It took me a long time and a lot of waste before I realised that sometimes it's easier to pay.
It's not a nightmare scenario, they literally let terrorists use the platform no problem
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My experience exactly: Gerrit reviews, changes separated out: no "patch bombs", etc.
Rather than the hacked amazon dash button, have you seen the AWS IoT Button? https://aws.amazon.com/iotbutton/

That might be easier to work into the system on a future refactoring of the system.
The author references the novel, but appears not to have read it or any interviews with the author.
It's apparently so common that there's a game -- Catlateral Damage -- where you play a cat from a first-person perspective and score by knocking as many things to the floor as you can in a set time.
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we mean a-carot. thanks.
Note the first assumption: "The choice of which measurement is performed can be made randomly and independently of the system under observation". In the Physics Today article, this becomes "if an experimenter is free to make spin measurements anywhere".

Either way, the conclusion that "systems in hidden-variable theories must have an infinite memory" only holds if you assume free will.
The old Firefox sync used a local-only passphrase to encrypt things. The new one, as far as I can tell, just tires everything to your Firefox Account (i.e. nothing local is required). That's not really better than what 1Password does, I think.
I'd love it if they had a things don't look broken promise for IE9. Seems like it should be relatively easy to sequentially layout the page in IE9 without flexbox?

Is everyone else dropping IE9 support at this stage...

I'm a bit out of the frontend developer loop these days being full stack and learning things like docker or elixir is more fun, and useful, than the vagaries of the latest promise library/CSS Pre processor/awful class naming scheme/etc.
Tired of hearing devs reel off these projects like they actually matter. None of that is user facing, none of that is worth the thousands of employees.

Stop looking at everything with dev eyes.
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> Next thing you know, Apple removes the Control key.

I'm pretty sure Apple would never give up Control.
Emailing: +sendgrid;
Realtime Infrastructure: +ably, +pubnub
Someone will reply to this reeling off things like bootstrap etc as if they actually matter and justify the millions in high expense developers
China and Europe are moving away from this pesticide, but both export to US
Yes. But this specious argument is exactly why I corrected myself and said "unbounded" instead of "infinite."
With no context I'd pronounce it the French way, like Carnot.