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> Did you want an opinion piece, or a news article about a phenomenon?

I suspect GP wants a body that goes with the headline: if the headline says the article is going to tell you why an effect occurs, then the article should, in fact, do so. It's fine for an article not to have a conclusion as to the "why", particularly if it's a new article and that's not a question that the facts answer
But then the headline should match what the article is.
Very succinctly put.
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Amazon doesn't have much to worry about in the short term. Ordering online from walmart.com was so horrible that I'd never return. It's still pretty horrible, the people that's packaging the items do not give a shit whatsoever. I had a tv that had burn spots. I ordered groceries that somehow thought it was more efficient to ship from Ottawa when the nearest one was 10 minutes away.

Brand and impressions are critical when switching cost is nil. Amazon is not perfect but it's not due to their fault, it's always the carrier delivering items late.
Should this apply to cloud provider portability?
Ask HN: How do you address users in website copy (and does it matter)?
"View your posts."
"Go to my profile."
"Login to your account."
"See my stats."

Et cetera. Is there an unspoken rule on being consistent when addressing website users in either the first- or second-person? Are there any studies on which is more appropriate for different audiences?
Nice to see something new in the field of enterprise search, several questions arise while reading:
- what about security, does it support Active Directory user/groups? Does it support query and crawl time security trimming?
- LOB integration, can i crawl databases or other line of business apps?
- what about reports? Can i analyze what my workers search and also if they find what they are looking for?

At least the first 2 points are very important for a enterprise search product.
Here's the status of support everywhere:
https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/wiki/Distributions
An RGBW panel has R,G,B and W subpixels. The white is there to increase overall brightness. You can't count your subpixels and call it 4k (although oddly you can count three-thousand...something and call that 4k.). Or are you criticizing the decreased color fidelity that accompanies those higher brightness levels?
They had smartphones, just not iPhones. I don't see what's special about iPhones that Android phones shouldn't have caused what you said to happen. Besides, no matter how cheap iPhones, you still need a Mac to make the apps.
I'm impressed by the number of fallacies you manged to cram into a single run-on sentence.
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Oh good, I was really looking for a way to insecurely ship all of my customers data to Google. This makes it super easy to lose all compliance controls I've worked years to build.
A.K.A - They should have a hosted onsite version and, at the very least, not offer connectors without secure connections (like the postgres one). This tool is good for analyzing data already at Google (adwords, etc), but it is very poorly positioned to be useful for anything else.
>Love how the free market works!

I don't. Being forced to sell your labour in order to survive doesn't sound all that good to me. Nor the environmental damage due to pursuit of profits.
Wouldn't this be a request that needs to be fielded with the airlines managing the flights? Also I'd imagine there is a barrier regarding privacy laws here, I don't think flight manifests are public information
Too bad they didn't share the job categories. I would love to see the percentage of job positions spread across this number.

What do you guys think, what are some of the highest job positions on demand in this 110K?
> Besides which, isn't Amazon a cloud tech company with a vestigial retailing arm?

That's sort of like trying to pin down General Electric. At some point, you have to give up with the "they are a $foo company" thinking and accept that they've grown past the boundaries and limitations imposed by a single market.
To what extent is snap a new package manager and to what extent is it a security mechanism? Does it actually prevent the application from getting full access to the user's home directory?
He's not an irrationality machine.

Well, I disagree with you there. Based on his actions, especially since assuming office, "irrationality machine" seems to be the perfect description of him.
That's a pretty interesting point. Never knew that.
Mac is dead for developers and pro users if this is the case. My current Mac will be my last, and I'll be happy to give my money to Dell instead and anyone else selling more open hardware.

One of our devs just got a new XPS 15. It's a gorgeous machine. Amazing. First time I've envied a non-Apple machine since the early 2000s. I still marginally prefer the Mac track pad but the rest is on par or better.
I used to be married to a military forecaster. It was always interesting to hear about how this stuff works, and it seems to me that "models not fitting reality" comprised at least 50% of their office drama. Forecasters have their own preference for models and "past experience" which leads them to very different conclusions. And climate change is making these models much less effective over time, adding even more excitement.
I don't know the executive team or anything, but it would seem their ecommerce President seems to meet your criteria. But Walmart was actually renowned for their early adoption of technology and prediction. Long before HN or the deep learning trend pieces walmart was pitching their analytics team's findings: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/business/yourmoney/what-wa...
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> Codes of conduct boil down to requiring members of the community to treat each other with basic decency

If only it were that easy.

I've seen codes of conduct for technical projects where they said things like "MUST be inclusive of trans, gay, etc.", along with political / ideological statements. And the kicker was a phrase saying "these ideologies are not open for discussion".

Why a software project needs an ideological statement, I have no idea. But it hits all of my red flags that the purpose of the code of conduct is not to treat each other with basic decency, but instead to push a particular ideology.

> you'll be ejected from the pub if you harass the other clients.

What about simple questions?

Q: Hi, I noticed you're a Democrat / Republican / whatever. I think I may disagree with your opinion.

A: THE SIGN SAYS NO QUESTIONING IDEOLOGICAL PURITY. GET OUT.

Uh... no. That way lies totalitarianism.
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I can't imagine that anyone worldwide was going to buy their first and only smartphone, but decided to spend more to get a special high-security black phone, and is then without a phone because of this. And even if they were, I'd rate the safety of even one user who'd accidentally click through the warnings and make a call that should have been secure but wasn't, as paramount.

If my smoke/heat/etc detector starts to fails I don't want it silently dropping back to a smoke-only detector. I want it to start beeping loudly and refuse to stop.

> If the user is informed they have a non genuine device that is not safe or secure

Having to flash a new OS onto it is an appropriately sized clickthrough for a warning of that magnitude. Like being woken in the night to change a smoke-detector battery.
What's with the empty brackets in the title?
I fear there is an error in your calculation. I make it 26 years if the world population is constant or 27 if it increases in a likely manner.
Cool, how can I use this with PHP/Laravel?
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Nice read, thanks for posting. I grew up in Zambia in the 80s I and live in SF now, and I never heard of Zamrock before.

This comment about young Zambians - "They marvel when they listen to Zamrock. They think Zambians could not have done that." - saddened me. It seems to apply to a lot of areas of life there now. There used to be a time when Zambians were self reliant, growing their own food and making their own goods, but now everything comes from South Africa and most Zambians are just consumers.
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Indeed. My understanding is those terms mean your device can't defensively interfere with the operation of other devices because they are causing undesired operation of your device.
I ordered $40 of powdered peanut butter from Jet.com yesterday afternoon. It was on my doorstep here in central Iowa by 9AM today.
While its still no silver bullet, encryption can make the problem more manageable. For example for hard drives with full-disk encryption you should be able to just throw away the key and the data should become inaccessible. Same applies to for cloud backups; you don't know what the cloud provider might do with the data you upload, but they should not be able to access the content if it is properly encrypted, and as such the issues raised in the article become lesser.

Of course this does not apply to data that is actually being used/processed in cloud instead of just being passively stored.
Yeah, I think they'll lose 99.5% developer mindshare as well. Which is the one thing Ballmer got right. Don't underestimate the value of developer support for a platform like iOS.
What are the stats on revenue from retail vs revenue from AWS? I doubt they'd release those numbers but surely there must be an estimate
Slightly offtopic: can somebody recommend me a 4K display for programming (around 28-32inches)?
Unless Amazon really fucks something up, Walmart will never be able to attract the tech talent that Amazon does. Nobody wants to work for Walmart.
I have no clue why people defend Trump and Bannon for these antics either. It's just clear that both together is like the anti-peanut-butter-chocolate combo.
> No profit = FAIL. At some point the funding they are getting, from investors and stock owners is going to dry up like the Serengeti when they realize they won't make money.

An explicit part of their business plan is maximizing free cash flow (not profits).

I'm not sure what funding you think the company is getting from investors. Amazon's stock price could drop through the floor and the biggest issue the company itself would face is the departure of a workforce who take a significant chunk of their compensation in AMZN shares. Unless they're hoping to do another public stock offering the share price is mostly useful as a gauge on Jeff Bezos's net worth.

When the company does want outside funding, it hasn't turned to public stock offerings in recent years. Instead they've secured it by issuing corporate bonds[0]. THERE is somewhere they might have to worry, but as long as their credit rating stays high, they'll find plenty of institutional buyers. Their credit rating is maintained by people who understand that profitability has little to do with how well a large business is doing, and is sometimes an indication of failure to manage funds well (failing to employ depreciation appropriately to minimize tax liability in very successful years, etc.).

[0]:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-12-02/amazon-se...
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No, no, first Haiku (the BeOS clone), then MorphOS, then KolibriOS, then KolibriOS ported to ARM and THEN TempleOS.
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The article is about math, not necessarily academic math. And it was far from "overly exuberant". Jesus. I have no degree, and do math all the time, precisely for the reasons listed in the article. There endless comments shitting on academic life are obnoxious and tedious, they are also becoming something of a plauge here.
Grow food, learn an instrument, how to paint, build something.

Not all "work" in life should be based around mercantilism.
Their current OLED TVs are absolutely stunning, and I really like what they've done with WebOS. Unfortunately the price is not something I can justify right now.
I'd be careful with the content that site. It has a pretty transparently religious-nationalist agenda.

But to the content of the article, 100 years ago obesity wasn't a significant problem in India, and India was not the only society that used copper cookware. If anything, it was probably used for its ductility (hence ease of forming), and its pleasing reddish color.
What kind of a system doesn't involve selling your labour (that doesn't include selling somebody else's labour) ?
> I will even pay more for a TV with fewer features to get in the way.

Look up "Retail Digital Signage" and "Retail Video Displays" (and similar terms) - for instance:

http://www.planar.com/products/large-format-displays/ultrare...

These are all essentially large LCD displays (monitors) with little to no extra features (many will have the ability to load via wifi or usb graphics and animations to be rotated on the screen - it's advertising after all).

Your only other option would be large computer monitors, but because these tend to be meant for the desktop, you won't easily find sizes beyond 40 inches diagonal.

Note that for digital signage - you are going to pay more - a lot more (it's one of those cases of pay more, get less - because niche and "you're a business, you have money"); also note that some of these kinds of displays can be found at Business Costco stores (though maybe not the 4K+ units).

Another interesting thing about these units is that they have very small width bezels at the edges, for those cases where you want to tile them to make a video wall (again, retail advertising and menus and such).
Looking at a bottle of Centrum Mens Multivitamins, they list that it includes 900 mcg of copper and that this is only 45% of the recommended daily value (presumably because too much is bad and folks get some in their diet already). However, this also suggests that the recommended daily value is 2000 mcg, rather than the 700 mcg listed in the article.
It may be true that "shame only works inasmuch as you believe folks have a point" (I'm unsure), but it's certainly not true that shame only works when the folks doing the shaming have a point. People often feel shame when people criticize qualities that they do have that I think we'd both agree are not shameworthy. As well, some people have a tendency to, when they see criticism of a vaguely-specified group to which it is remotely plausible that they are included in, include themselves in the criticized group and feel shame as a result.

These objections do not necessarily imply that we should not attempt to publicly shame shameworthy behavior, but such tactics do harm some people who are guiltless (unless "guilt" here is intended to include feeling a sense of guilt without having actually done something wrong, in which case the statement seems tautological) and guileless. So does asserting that they don't in a public setting like this, independently of whether the particular individual the assertion is deployed against is themselves worthy of disapproval.
"Substantial similarity" can result in a copyright violation? How is it possible there is more than one cookbook describing how to make a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich without "substantial similarity"?
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Thanks for pointing this out, expect a fix to come soon in the recovery build. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/19775
Why? In this case, the majority of these employees are likely not in tech roles, but in various parts of the fulfillment pipeline. That makes them more similar to FedEx or Walmart.

Edit: Disregard this, I can't read.
Worth noting: The leaked tools will only work on very old iOS devices, and everything (including PIN bruteforce) can already be done with open source tools such as those from iphone-dataprotection.
Abstract on the Stanford website, as well as link to slides: http://web.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/170201.html

First 50 minutes or so is an overview on John Gustafson's unum's, followed by the introduction of "type 3 unums" that have two subtypes: Posits (discussed here), and Valids. In short, Posits have a greater mathematical accuracy AND dynamic range of floats, while in many cases also using fewer bits in the representation.

At around the 53 minute mark, the presentation switches over to Dr. Isaac Yonemoto (HN username: dnautics) who gives a live demonstration of a Julia implementation of Posits, showing it preforming favorably for both a FFT and neural network compared to low precision floats.
In addition to the pure R & D value (with all its uncertainty, but with probable considerable upside in the longer term), doing this likely more than pays for itself in terms of the leverage it provides with/against existing vendors/partners.

This is just my speculation. But, 1) You learn things; 2) You lessen lock-in / dependence, in turn reducing the markup you have to pay on existing production inputs.

Apple's benefited very considerably from the increasing customization and optimization of its phone CPU et al. platform. What's the argument against carrying that over to their computer lines, if and when they can make that a relatively smooth transition?
Not Free for Everyone, as it said, it is not available in your country! (Pakistan), looks like US only edition for now.
Maybe you can tell me why their recruiters for AWS are the worst to deal with? Terrible people, I wish they would stop hitting me up...
> Microsoft could've done that too, but instead decided to improve Git,

They didn't improve git, they only made this for themselves and for their product users. Git doesn't restrict you to a single operating system.
> Why a software project needs an ideological statement, I have no idea.

Any selection of relative values is ideological; and every project is, inherently, based on an agreement to pursue some set of values. And the choice for those values to not include social inclusiveness is as much an ideological choice as the decision that the values should include inclusiveness (or that they should include exclusiveness, which is a third possible ideological choice.)
Of the three Hit piece seems the most descriptive. I can directly say it looks like the article is aiming to sway the public opinion by presenting the false or biased information in a way that appears objective and truthful.

It's just more words for the same idea.

IMO, Hit Piece like War has negative connotations because of what they depict, not the tone. Hatchet Job on the other hand tacks on the idea it was written that way with malicious intent, which I don't want to imply as it may simply be a tactic to gain more views.

So, I disagree there is bias when simply describing what it's structure of point and counter point suggests. You could replace the content with talk of muffins and the same structure works to exaggerate concerns.
Gays+aids? Urban black "super predators? Werent the 90s the height of white-flight and the bussing debates? Perhaps thats a different type, an internal fear.

Perhaps the post-apollo 70s? Americans then feared nuclear war generally, but not russians as a people. Racism was a thing internally, but i cannot think of an especially hated outside group.
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An interesting product line split might be putting the Macbook line onto ARM for portability & battery life, and keeping the pro or air & pro line on Intel.
Competent but not flawless (antennagate, bendgate). So maybe not so different from LG.
Disclaimer: Maybe you (and any particular reader of this post) are an exception to the rule -- I don't know you personally. I only know the people I've personally interacted with in this whole national discussion.

> A lot seem to think Muslim immigrant|refugee == terrorist.

Some do. But some people think the U.S. never landed on the moon. That is, just like not every Muslim is a terrorist, not every person who wants change in our visa laws wants to introduce internment camps, etc.

It's fair to think the due diligence done in admitting foreign nationals has been lacking. I think this particular approach is heavy-handed and inhumane, but we're not arguing for a more humane alternative... actually, I'm not sure what we're arguing about other than people are mad and think things are really racist right now.

> I'm for the ban because I don't want them to come and kill me and my family in our sleep.

So maybe you heard "Muslims are clearly dangerous" when they meant "my government's job is to protect my family and waiting until people are dead is too late". And even if they think Muslims are more dangerous, the right response is to, empathetically, discuss facts (statistics, counterfactuals) with them. The goal is to appeal to their better nature, not to make them lose so we win. All the left-wing apoplexy and panic these days is actively harmful from that perspective.

> I blame this perception on the people who seek to profit by the general hysteria, not those manipulated by it. I am sad for the victims of it.

Me too. I think the misconceptions about Trump-voting America is the another instance of the same phenomenon. And it's no less harmful, in my mind.
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He also searched on how to format a drive[1] (presumably securely) after receiving notice of litigation. I know that the folks here really, really love Carmack, and want to give him every benefit of the doubt; but, for most people, that's pretty damning evidence.

[1] http://www.pcgamer.com/zenimax-statement-reveals-john-carmac...
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Retail is inefficient. To make a retail purchase, you have to drive to the store and back, while a delivery driver can pick an optimal route and make multiple local deliveries with their vehicle before returning to the warehouse.

To give a more concrete example, to purchase a souvenir, some personal hygiene products, some computer hardware and some spices, I'd have to make 4 stops, spend at least 2 hours and $6-8 worth of gas.

None of these things are day2day critical, like food, or essential to physically inspect before purchase (like home improvement goods)