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There are a few markets where people's demand are very inelastic: food, housing, health care.

Food has gotten cheaper because competition is trivial.

Housing is becoming more and more expensive since it's a positional good and we have been doing our best to make sure supply doesn't increase.

And healthcare costs are being held high due to monopoly rights in the form of patents and drug companies' general unwillingness to compete with each other.

In light of all this saying that pricing is a question for the marketplace seems naive at best.

The part about companies not being willing to invest is true, but maybe that means we should stop relying on them for this; the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) has been doing a lot of good by focusing on drugs that drug companies are not interested in since there is not a large enough profit motive. Maybe that should be a model for taking publicly funded research and bringing it to market.
> In case it's not clear, this is meant to be a fun summary and not a live demo. - Mark Zuckerberg
Or you're more likely to do the troll thing for the lulz if there's no incentive to give your honest opinion. When you see poll results where some outlandish result (the earth is flat or whatever) gets 10-15% agreement, I suspect that's what is happening--combined with some percent who just misunderstood the question.
Sure, but energy is the biggest use of oil by far. Obviously we will never completely eliminate the use of oil, but that's not the goal, we just need to bring it down to a reasonable level. Not what we are doing now.

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I want an assistant than can do things I can't do. I'm perfectly capable of switching on the lights or making my own toasts or letting my parents in. What I really want is an assistant that can do my taxes or find a damn good leather repair shop to come and pick up my couch that needs repairing. (Not so easy when you're not fluent in the native language!)
A lot of those criticisms are sort of unfair. For example, pointing out length extension attacks in a fabricated MAC construction not found in the article, especially when the OP explicitly recommends blake2b, which is not vulnerable to length extension (and also disclaims "How that magical MAC is built is beyond the scope of this paragraph.").

Another example: criticizing that he mentions appending a MAC (you should choose an AEAD!)... when later he recommends using an AEAD.
LOL! "planning social events in advance..."

I'm sure over time it'll all just fade away.

Look at how many people (myself including) can't tell which direction they're pointing. That used to be very important; not so much anymore.
This is a joke video right? I was sure it was while watching it, but the other comments here seem to imply this is a real thing.
So great to see a female founder killing it in the developer products space!
I wonder if Slovenia did really not switch before 1919. It was part of the same "country" as what are now Austria and the Czech Republic for hundreds for years before that, who according to the list switched in the 16th century.

It seems unlikely that what is now Slovenia would use a different calendar than the rest of the Habsburg Monarchy/Austrian Empire for such a long time, particularly since there was no subdivision of the Empire that directly corresponds to modern Slovenia.
Shame - I have no facebook account and can not view. Any other sources ?
Both Unity and Unreal Engine (UE4) supports Metal, so any games created in Unity/UE4 for Mac & iOS might possibly use it. If the game doesn't need anything beyond GL 3 support then the creator might choose to not enable Metal and stick with GL.

I don't know what percentage of Unity/UE4 Mac & iOS games have Metal enabled, but it is potentially a very large number.

That's the thing about Metal -- as long as common libraries and game engines add support for it, most developers won't have to do much additional work to use it. Only people who are writing their own graphics engine from scratch would need to learn it.
And more available memory, letting the OS cache more files in RAM.
Also, you might want to take that app down if it's in prod. "You don't want nasty letters from lawyers."
The title says "prioritizing"; if that's not synonymous with "making tradeoffs", I don't know what is.
Fair, but there's an important difference between a tool where live coding is technically possible and a tool designed to support it. Clojure is built from the ground up for the REPL experience and supports e.g. redefining functions seamlessly. The fact that it's functional helps a lot, too, since that means that the order things are defined or executed in matters less.
> Common usage shows that Americans have no issues adopting the metric system, just very selectively. Americans currently enjoy:...
> Monthly power bills that are specified in Killowatt hours

Kilowatt-hours are not SI, the metrics unit is the Joule (or MJ in the case of your power bill). However the US joined the Metric convention in 1878 and has used the internationally standardized metric inch of precisely 2.54 mm since 1959 (except, I believe, for surveying)

Plenty of so-called "metric" countries continue to use customary units such as miles (UK) though those are based on the metric inch. I still hear people talk about their weight in stone. Germany uses a metricised pound (Pfund) of 500 g. Japan still commonly uses the tsubo (坪) for land. India also uses a variety of official land measurements, and also doesn't break its numbers symmetrically into blocks of 10^3 (preferring lakhs and crores). etc etc

I am not a fan of the metric system in daily use (though I use Celsius). For work I have used the official systems MKS and (US) Imperial, but have also used cgs and imperial imperial. For building a staircase, making the riser a convenient 2/3 of a foot is physiologically ideal.

If there is a god it was cruel for giving us five digits on each hand. Far better would have been one fewer or, even better, a thumb on the other side.
I honestly think it holds the project back.
It's interesting that Lithuania and Poland have different dates too. Poland and Lithuania were a union back in 1582 and the change was made throughout the Commonwealth. It was switched back during Russian occupation in 19th century though. Both in Lithuania and Poland switched to Gregorian again after WWI.
Thanks for making this point, especially with regards to pregnancy being a loaded discussion topic.

In the original study I found it very interesting that the authors drew parallels between the "maturation" of a new mother's brain (grey matter reductions) and the brains of adolescents undergoing pregnancy. If this study replicates, I would love to see followup studies exploring measures of narcissism, time management, executive functioning and facial recognition over time in women shortly before, during and after pregnancy (and perhaps even two years afterwards). These are all areas in which adolescents experience significant variations in functioning when compared to the general population, and there could be a lot of fertile ground here.

One other thought that strikes me is how the grey matter alterations could potentially impact teenage mothers. If the mother's brain has not left adolescence by the time she experiences pregnancy, it would be interesting to see how the grey matter alterations differ, considering the authors' comparison.
Yeah exactly this. Rate limiting isn't free. It's almost certainly more expensive to rate limit than to statelessly respond with the time.
Why these companies aren't giving these devices away free is beyond me.
I like Razer's product line, but I also like the safety of an extended warranty backed by a very large company like Dell, Lenovo or HP.

I had one of those dodgy early 2011 15" MBPs, and if I didn't have AppleCare, I would have been stuck with a costly motherboard replacement when my GPU croaked the first time. Granted, my MBP did eventually die after my AppleCare lapsed, but knowing you can get decent support in a major North American city on your warranty is something I value. I'm not sure that Razer (or ASUS, MSI or Gigabyte, for that matter) is well equipped to provide that level of service.
This is my experience too, when buying a high-end laptop, I expect it to just work. If my time was worth dealing with shitty QA, I'd buy a low end laptop.
see also long text post yesterday: https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/building-jarv..., discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13212976
I found it silly and at times pretty creepy.

Citing His Dudeness, "Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man."
I tried to switch from markdown.pl to Pandoc and encountered some problems, one of which remains an open issue (https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/1841): https://twitter.com/arntzenius/status/745946799836381184

A telling comment on that github issue is "Actually, it's a bit unclear what the behavior should be." I think the real problem is the idea of "a default Markdown engine" is pretty impossible when Markdown doesn't even have a formal spec. Complex human-readable formats without a spec are never gonna be compatible between different implementations without extraordinary effort. (Hence the http://commonmark.org/ effort, which I applaud, but doesn't seem to have a 1.0 spec out yet.)
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Oh man, this is PERFECT for me. Previously I would just run VS Code and periodically build my current markdown document while writing LaTeX in it, and have a browser window refresh on changes (using the LivePage addon for Chrome). This saves a lot of trouble for me, very excited!
Monitors are a sort of special arena of contention among our types, but I gotta recommend the Dell Ultrasharp U2415 24 inch model. Native 1920x1200 at a DPI I feel comfortable with. The trick here is that it has the DisplayPort inputs and outputs needed to properly daisy chain the monitors. Then you just need to get a high data rate DP cable (Rankie DP 4K Resolution cables are legit and cheap). The crazy that follows from bad standards and misleading specs caused me all sorts of heartache.
Really excited to see how this space has matured over the past year or so
If a dentist could balance the load reasonably well, it would look very good.

Missed appointments are a big problem for dentists and doctors. A missed appointment means paying staff and not receiving income.

I always end up waiting at the doctor or dentist anyway, even if I show up on time for an appointment. I would rather there were no appointments for routine things, and that we just found some reasonable way to balance load.
You raise some good points about how the article portrays the issue. Here[1] is another reputable source with some more information that confirms some of what you say.

You also got me thinking about what "slippery slope" would be in Arabic. It could be directly translated but the idiom would lose its meaning. Regardless, I think the point the article's author is trying to convey is that religious conservatives are wary of the slow creep of Western concepts into their society.

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-ar...
Regardless of it being true or not, it still feels kind of a gimmick to have a "bot" like that.
Talking about the Classic NES system that was recently released:
"It’s possible Nintendo limited stock to create a bottleneck, and thereby a holiday phenomenon. But more likely, the company just didn’t anticipate demand for an official re-release of its three-decade old flagship."

Isn't it kinda Nintendo's thing to bottleneck their consoles? Does anyone else remember having to wait in huge lines to get a Wii? The Switch will likely have the same "issue"
This author woke up on the wrong side of the bed before writing this article. If Nintendo can achieve $4M in mobile sales in 1 day as it did with Super Mario Run -- does it really matter if the company is conservative or revolutionary?

See: Hollywood in recent years and its constant need to do sequels because they guarantee a successful and profitable venture.
GC doesn't preclude value semantics or lack deterministic release of resources, not all languages are Java.

Also not all GC algorithms imply stop the world.

Regarding RC, it still is a GC algorithm, and Herb Sutter had a nice presentation where he shown how a cascade release of resources with RC algorithms can lead to indeterministic release time and worse, stack overflow.
In case anyone's wondering, I suspect that the "one single verse [...] taken completely out of context" is John 10:30, "I and the Father are one". To the best of my knowledge, this is the only place in the Bible where Jesus seems to directly claim to actually be God rather than doing his work, representing/channeling his authority, making allusions to prophecy, etc.. The context can be read as suggesting that he was saying they are intimately linked and united in purpose rather than literally being the same entity; of course, the vast majority of Christians are Trinitarians and thus reject that interpretation.
You should be looking for another job unless you absolutely love your organization. Just look, you don't need to accept any offers.
Nintendo actually has a very sizable war chest. I don't think they are struggling for survival at all.

Although Nintendo doom and gloom has been a popular theme for many years I'm a little surprised to see it here.
Apparently not. My father got a HP netbook/tablet and feels super comfortable with it, scrolling and zooming in with gestures on the screen. I never thought it'd be comfortable (for scrolling I'm super used to the mouse wheel, a habit he never caught), but to him it came naturally and he certainly wants it on any other device.
Surprised he didn't build the app with react native. Would have thought it was a good marketing opportunity for one of (IMO) FB's best open source dev products. I appreciate the "whatever tool works to get it done attitude" though so no judgements and maybe that's ultimately a more important message. Just seems confusing that they booked Morgan Freeman but missed that marketing opportunity?
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You aren't including the time it takes to find your phone, pull it out, maybe unlock it, and THEN do the steps you describe.

That's friction, and that's where these frictionless interfaces step in.
Except to my understanding, they aren't currently using any big dam power. Though they plan to soon.
Just get it with youtube-dl :)
Here's the "real" demo https://www.fastcompany.com/3066478/mind-and-machine/mark-zu...
Nintendo is leveraging their IPs in a relatively monolithic fashion, and I'm not sure why. They need to allow their different IPs to express individuality, and certain franchises certainly need more games, good and bad.

They also need to stop hand-holding gamers. Nintendo Hard doesn't exist anymore.
Huh?

I'm using a Dell Latitude E7440, it's about 3 years old, and I carry it everywhere. It has a few dents here and there. I've gone to the pub with it a few times and only God (and Google location services) know how I got back, luckily with the notebook still in my backpack, and the backpack somehow inside my place.

The RAM never dislodged.

http://17c4dcd7f91259d8cc66-f5932f6db0039e8c02f89a70c334ff0e...

But of course, soldering them in is not surprising. It cuts costs. A lot I guess. You need less connectors, you need less time assembling the laptop, less time supporting the very rare cases when there's a problem with the RAM.
> One can easily represent new and old generations as linked lists

Sure, it's easy but non-optimal. A side-effect of a moving generational garbage collector is heap compaction and better temporal locality.
Exactly! I'm one of the core devs, and we all see Arcadia as an experiment in what game development could be. Some people want to expend effort mastering the tools of the day, and that's totally cool, but we're somewhat more motivated to spend our time trying new things. Members of the community have already pushed out a number of games, and their experiences have guided made the tool better and better.
I don't know exactly how long, but I'd venture to say it's one of the small extremely homogeneous European countries like Switzerland or Denmark.

It's an interesting question to ponder about in your free time.
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Third sentence in the article:

The power flows from a mix of solar panels and hydroelectric turbines including the Hoover Dam.

It seems odd to think about hydroelectric power in a desert as a renewable resource, but it does come from snow in Colorado.
In real life most companies don't want to pay for "meticulous team of very high quality engineers with top notch documentation and design practices".

They rather pay for outsourced consultants that deliver something that works within a fixed price contract.
If your ideology is at odds with factual correctness... maybe you should rethink your ideology?
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I've checked my calendar a couple times and nope, it's not April. This is also not on funnyordie.com so severely confused. The only possible real applications in this video are already done well by siri/google/alexa .. so he's either entering a well established market late or just talking about a pet project?
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"neither can any other remotely reasonable public safety measure"

How about allowing citizens to carry their own protection?
Just like in politics: "He has my full confidence" = "I'm going to accept his resignation after this weekend"
GC shifts the cognitive burden off the programmer for the default case. I've done more than my share of programming in C++ and Rust, and I spend a lot of time thinking about memory management when it really doesn't matter. Personally, I prefer to only think about performance concerns when I'm working on something that needs to be fast--and for many applications these hot paths aren't a majority of the code base.
What's the big issue with slapping a USB c adapter onto your audio interface and considering it a $30 upgrade? USB c is objectively better.
> ... reliably delivering push notifications, managing identity and permissions for different people, and more. You can learn about the bot framework at ...

For a moment I thought I was reading an infomercial.
I disagree. If a person truly believed a bullshit answer was true they'd pick it over I don't know. The experiment shows that given an incentive to not think in partisan talking points, people will admit they know that what they would normal espouse as truth is, in fact,bullshit.
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Feature flags FTW!
But it won't buy the magical ability for a built PC to run macOS. I don't care about the applications, I care about the underlying OS
Agreed. I was there in the 80s/90s and everything operated on western time standards. Calenders arent magic runes. People take constitutional language to seriously. Anyone who thinks this makes any real difference probably also thinks the RCMP literally work for the queen of England or that India isnt actually called India.
> wow. I can't imagine trying to make a computer system integrate with that style of timekeeping.

I don't mean to harsh on you but I feel you have it completely backwards. The computers should do the heavy lifting to adapt to how people want to live, not the other way around. If people want flexible calendars that optimize for strange things let the computers do the heavy lifting for them.

I have been quite sorry when countries have attacked their languages or even alphabets in a misguided way to support computers (consider the letters ll and ch in Spain which were "reformed" just in time for the "improvement" to become irrelevant) when the responsibility lies with the computer.

This is not only a computer issue: cities and suburbs were restructured for automobiles, and even the law changed (the invention of "jaywalking" at the behest of car manufacturers) rather than forcing the machines to adapt to the needs of humans.

Technodeterminism is simply a weakness of will.
In an article about "Nintendo’s Sad Struggle for Survival", no mention of the Switch (and four paragraphs dedicated to CliffyB because...)?
"Buy a desktop" in a thread about deficiencies in Apple laptops is a joke, right?
He wrote about it yesterday and someone in the comments asked him for the video. Mark replied that he would upload the video.
In GitLab CI you can use any machine for a build as long a you can install GitLab Runner on it. We kept the design of that simple with few dependencies and it is written in Go.
It is in AUR though, and for *ubuntu distros you can always find a PPA.
See example above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13221395

Not everyone is going to spend resources on implementing a redundant API. Apple are just being their usual lock-in jerks by not supporting OpenGL and Vulkan.
I have no idea how they do it. They also committed to more responsible investing after it was noticed they had investments in cigarettes and alcohol- then made more money than before after the changes.

They still have big challenges though, as they have a lot of baby-boomer teachers retiring, living longer, etc. They only real way they stay afloat at all is because teachers are paid pretty well in Ontario, and they get that double-digit percentage of their paychecks. And with the high salary, there's a big over-supply of teachers wanting jobs, so no one is quitting over it.
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Does anyone know if there's still coil whine issue?

I had the same issue on a old ThinkPad and couldn't tolerate it.
>Locally-generated solar electric power to charge the batteries is also easier in a farm environment, and makes direct financial sense.

Doesn't that run into the same problem as biofuels? In a farm, most places where you could put a solar panel are also places where you could be growing more food.
> Could you explain why you think solar is bad long investment?

Other emerging energy sources all ding the price of solar stocks. Eg...if tomorrow a press release for "huge natural gas power plant opens in California!" breaks, you get a (sometimes large) dip in all your solar positions, despite no value being lost at all. I would sum it up as "solar equity prices are affected by too many things other than their performance".
If 1∘4=51∘4=5 and 2∘5=122∘5=12 and 3∘6=213∘6=21 then what is 8∘118∘11?
So I guess this moves the mindset from "argument" towards "truth finding".

Assuming that's true, how could we use that effect for, say, good?
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Buying a quadro card for gaming is like buying a truck for racing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13219828
A top dollar SSD over SATA III will be about 1/6 the speed of the new NVMe connected SSDs. Are there good options for external PCIe hard drives using Thunderbolt 2?
> the wording is just awful and comes off as corny and forced by your PR department.

Well someone's got to play the part of Steve Jobs.
You can say that, but [almost] everyone has ideological beliefs that conflict with the best available evidence. Maybe you rationalize it to yourself that "well, the jury's still out...those studies aren't conclusive" or "yes, but in principle my belief is correct, it's just that X, Y and Z are confounding variables so..."
It looks great, but what inevitably drives me away from solutions like that is that sooner or later I want to do something they don't support or are too inefficient at, feel constrained, use something else and suddenly I have notes split across multiple applications.
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I had the same thought as you and I did a quick search, the results of which are behind my company's firewall.

I think Nintendo can lose up to $250 million a year until the year 2052... so not too sure if they are struggling for survival like the title claims.