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All of that is incremental and evolutionary. Here's a good example of what I mean.

Fundamental invention: radio. Before radio communication via invisible waves over long distances was impossible. After radio it wasn't. This is a fundamental qualitative change in capability.

Innovation and evolution: morse code keys to 4G/LTE and WiFi. This represents a quantitative change in capability (faster/better/cheaper), but qualitatively WiFi is the same class of capability as morse code key radio.

If the EmDrive actually worked, that would represent a new fundamental invention happening today. At this point I doubt it does, but it's an example of what such a thing would look like. In the pre-EmDrive world you couldn't propel something without reaction mass. In a post-EmDrive world you could. Qualitative step change in capability.
> assuming you found a good agency.

There's the rub. How do you find a good one? We've spent obscene amounts of money on agencies that said they could get us growth but none made the needle move. Where are all these good agencies?
Greek-myth is what literature is all about :) Have you seen Predestination (or rather, read the Heinlein story "All You Zombies")? Stylistically, I rather like the "unable to change fate" trope, which -- like you note -- is a classic from ancient times.

In the story, it is implied the ability to see the timeline all at once, non-sequentially, comes with the loss of free will. It's a different mindset where people think they are play-acting rather than choosing the future. Of course we find this puzzling -- after all, we think sequentially :P Louise didn't warn her daughter because it wasn't in the "script" of the future.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. Companies like Microsoft, Oracle, CISCO etc routinely lobby (a euphemism for kickbacks in kind) with governments in developing countries to corner big contracts.

These governments could invest a fraction of that money in open source tools and reap benefits for years to come. Unfortunately neither intent nor ability exists in these governments (including mine in India) to think for themselves.
Are you going to Shaky Knees? I'm always eager to meet other Atlanta-area engineers, especially if they have similar music tastes.
Depends on the field – e.g. in the cultural heritage space, many people used Google Reader and that still comes up any time someone mentions a Google service: “What will we do when they cancel this?” That doesn't mean that people won't use something but it definitely encourages a healthy discussion about lock-in.
I used to work for Kozmo.com way back when. If you have any questions, I'd be happy to field them as best I can.
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The experience crossing into Canada seems to vary quite a lot.

The two times I crossed (~5 and 15 years ago) the Canadian border agents were polite and brief. I guess that first one was in the days where US citizens didn't need a passport to travel to Canada.
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If you read the press release, there is a public visitors centre, cafe and Apple Store.
In this case, k is 26. Or ASCII value of 'z'. Either way, very cheap.
Really looking forward to this, and I'm glad that AMD's management no longer seems to be on the pipe.

Even if the real world perf is close to the $1K Intel chips it will be a win. It's going to force price cuts from Intel and hopefully spark some competition again.
It's possible that, even though it'd be nice for historicity / tradition, the Games just aren't a good fit for Greece.

But one of the things that turning the Games from a maybe-just-once event for a city/country to a recurring relationship does, is that it changes the nature of the profiteering.

A one-time-only event encourages profiteers to cut as deeply as they can can and really screw their customers -- no repeat sales are possible.

A recurring event still presents a large profit opportunity, but the recurrence encourages more cooperative profiteering. Contractors who don't come through or who overcharge beyond the pale don't get the repeat business.

(Of course, this doesn't always happen, and long-term graft is definitely a thing, but at least there's a possibility things might be different with a permanent venue.)
I can probably count the number of dinner parties I've been to on one hand. The only one I remember is the one where, in the mid-90s, we discussed the fact that the web was wonderful but there was no way to find anything.
I'd like nothing more than a wired Magic Trackpad. Batteries suck.
> Imagine a world without Apple computers pushing the envelope. We'd still be using wired mice and ugly black boxes.

I strongly disagree with these classes of statements. Would we not have calculus without Newton? Great ideas tend to often happen simultaneously for a reason.

Building of more complex abstractions (metaphors in the context of language) allows us collectively to consider ideas that previously we could have never considered (i.e. it increases our perception). Julian Jaynes on the power of metaphor for unlocking new ideas:

> All of these concrete metaphors increase enormously our powers of perception of the world about us and our understanding of it, and literally create new objects. Indeed, language is an organ of perception, not simply a means of communication.

If Jobs and crew hadn't done what they did, someone else would have. The timeline may not have been the same, but even 'geniuses' must exist within the context of their society and world.
I wouldn't say that the booster landings are fairly unreliable. Technically they are still in the experimental stage. They're also 8 for 14 at this point, with the last landing failure being at least 4 launches ago I believe.
Plus it is a big deal when they go kerplooie. On each coast, they only have 1 ASDS for landings, and if a core explodes on one of those then it's out for like a month of repairs. Failures on land are probably easier to deal with, but we haven't even seen one of those yet.

Plus within the next year they are basically going to stop producing new cores, so loosing one won't be "cheap"
I'm not saying taxation is slavery. I'm saying that you cannot have a system in which a portion of the population does zero work and receives resources for free without requiring that the other portion to do the work producing those resources.

If the productive portion simply stopped working, or only worked enough to barely survive themselves, the nonproductive portion of the population would perish unless they enslaved the productive portion and forced them to produce surpluses.
Source for the unannounced project, or just overheard in person from someone? I don't see anything obvious on their github but it could be private.
I still see far more wireless Logitech mice than Apple mice, so I wouldn't give them credit for popularizing it either.

Once every few months you'll run into someone who uses a Magic Mouse, but it's practically a novelty item.
Examples of shitty coding in products or services that the general public uses
>However, you don't really want to fire up into the air in the middle of a domestic city, making birds a more interesting option.

Shotguns with bird-shot would be effective and are comparatively low risk to bullets.
If this line of thinking ever takes off, it will be just another one of those meaningless rituals you have to go through to signal that you're part of the club. Polish your resume, dress up nicely, read 'cracking the coding interview' the night before. There might actually be a great idea for a new book in there: "How to fill up your GitHub account with random crap so future employers think you're really really passionate".
>If only Steve Jobs had taken the traditional medicine route he would have been with us for another 50 years.

That's a mighty fine assumption you are making there. Please share with me how you know this? Are you a future seeing oncologist that can see how his body would have reacted to specific treatments, or maybe you know more details than the rest of us about the exact mutation?
> has lost a large amount of land-space that could have been used for the community

Huh? The site they built on wasn't green field, they purchased previously constructed commercial real estate, knocked it down, and then built up their new campus. Look at this image: http://i.imgur.com/lzAbM0R.jpg

Please explain to us how the old use of the space was used by the community? All I see are commercial buildings and car parks. Because to me it seems like what Apple are doing with it (e.g. planting trees) will be far better for the local area than what was there previously.

The ironic thing is that you likely only posted this because Apple called it a "park" and has planted a ton of greenery. You assumed it was a green field site before without checking, and claimed Apple stole it "from the community." If anything Apple has improved the local area dramatically with this development, they've added a park, not stole one.
Well Thom said it's about [believing you're actually wonderful when you know it's not true](https://soundcloud.com/frank-d-3/big-ideas-dont-get-any)
It would be awesome if that was something everyone was able to do, but often company policy makes it really hard.

I've worked at multiple companies where the red tape involved in having my contribution merged into a public repo was such a pain that it just wasn't worth it.
Olympic bids often do help encourage public transit development in the US, however - a great recent example here is the extension of the 7-line subway in NYC, which was originally planned as part of the city's bid for the 2012 Olympics. After the city lost the bid, it was decided to go ahead and build the line anyways as part of another redevelopment project.
I think you might've meant to say "how appropriate", or "how fitting". A situation is ironic is when the outcome is contrary to the expectation. (Eg: getting run over by an ambulance)
Nest Learning Thermostat: https://store.nest.com/product/thermostat
The guy also chairs the steering committee of Bildeberg.
Provided by the man himself, as evident by the "Courtesy Alan Emtage" directly under the (whitest?) photo.
Sparse enough for free parking and easy driving < Instacart's addressable market < dense enough to support neighborhood-level grocery stores.
In another comment someone shared a youtube video of a flyover of the facility. It includes a shot of the solar array, it is absolutely amazing
I'd say all our innovative energy is going into social experimentation. Maybe that's the trade-off you'd choose, but if you look at what the government spends its various forms of capital on, it's mostly ways to make up for changing social structures: no more hometowns, no more social pride, no more multi-generation homes, no more homemakers, fewer multi-parent homes.

To get in front of a probable counterargument, the government also spends a lot (not as much as people think, but a lot) on military ventures, but not more than it did in the early 20th century.
I'm not going to say it's false. But I've love to see citations supporting the notion that technological progress has slowed since the 1970s.

Looking around me I see some evidence:

CCD Cameras: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge-coupled_device#History
LEDs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-emitting_diode#Initial_c...
Laser diodes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_diode#History
LCDs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid-crystal_display#History
Microprocessors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microprocessor#History

All invented before 1970. However, they were not really in the hands of consumers by this time. So, I wonder if the point of invention, or the point at which they really had widespread availability is more important?
I still use a wired trackball!
Or maybe one that reports the current battery level correctly. Neither my Apple wireless keyboard or trackpad seem able to properly pass that info along to the OS.
Well, I'm 45 now and noticed all the same stmptoms as you have. I went to a doctor and after 3 hours of testing he told me that no, I don't have Alzheimer, but yes I do have ADHD.
Why isn't the delivery fee enough to pay for the delivery?
I don't know about AWS SES, but I know that compared to Mailgun, SendGrid is a more complex and larger product that has features for marketing campaigns, and it's not API-only - it also has a web UI. It's like a cross of Mailgun and Mailchimp.

Mailgun OTOH is a cheaper and more streamlined product. It's for sending and receiving email, possibly in quantity, by developers and developers only. No mailing lists, no campaign metrics, no templates or template editors, just sending and receiving email from code.
AFAIK Docker is still not considered ready to run untrusted code on shared machines. If you want to run untrusted code, you should just use a VM anyway.
Is this NASA trying to build up some buzz in hopes of avoiding massive defunding by our clown car administration?
That's a part of it for sure. I think another piece is that everyone I knew in the industry was there because they loved games and money wasnt a primary(but was an important) concern. For instance I knew every title locally under development long before(6+ mo) it was even leaked because there's a sense of shared community in that industry.
The abstract doesn't give enough information, so I'm connecting the dots. This may be addressed in the text...

It sounds like all the participants were put on a program, and then some were additionally were given a smartwatch (which negatively impacted their results).

But I can't see how you can conclude from there that the smartwatch won't help for individuals that are NOT on a program.

A potential explanation is that the watch has a moderating effect: it gives you an excuse to stop exercising once you hit your daily target, the more calorie tracking you do, the less you err on the side of caution, etc. Under that hypothesis, a smartwatch is still better than no program + no smartwatch.
I fail to see what this has to do with Peter Thiel's self-identification as a libertarian.
Since adding new targets architectures and ports should be straightforward, are you going to support the not yet existing but very promising Mill CPU ?
CNC made from garbage
AMA with DHH / Ruby on Rails and Basecamp Creator
Sigh... I really hope that a couple months after people get their hands on these that they are really more bang for less buck, but last time AMD made these claims it was all about specific multi-core stuff and they were not the better all around processor.

Something needs to push Intel forward, because there have been more incremental ticks then leaps forward lately.
Probably I would inevitably think this about any ring-shaped building, but it looks quite a bit like the GCHQ headquarters in Cheltenham.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Communications_Head...

I guess the Apple version is somewhat more slender and (unsurprisingly for Apple?) a bit shinier.
I wish people benchmark GEMM performance for all of us math folk.
The 1990s management fad of "core competencies" addresses this, so long as your correctly identify core competencies.
They have documentation surrounding the issue: https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/4/Troubleshooting/Adjus...
>mundane a crime as non-cooperation, and without ill-affect on any Canadian citizens?

They already have laws that criminalise even possession of certain pornographics drawings or stories. Make no mistakes, Canada is not a free country and has no problem with imprisonment for victimless crime.
I can't wait untill the linux kernel is ported to Rust ^^
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It's dumb. I lost my GitHub profile on my resume and I have yet had one person ask me about anything I put up there. It seems that having open source contributions is a check mark for you but is a pretty pointless piece of data for making a hiring decision. Nobody is reading through all your code to figure out if it's actually good or not.
That's funny, Ars Technica says reviews won't be out until launch day. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/02/amd-r...
So it's about freedom to do whatever you want, like make a immoral product and sell it. After all it's not Palantir that's doing the surveillance. They're just making a product and selling it.

I guess I don't see this personal responsibility morality angle of libertarianism as it's been explained to me by Americans. It seems to be focused on restricting government action, like you said, not restricting the actions of individuals.
This is one thing i like about doing content addressed storage. I've been toying with my own implementation, quite similar to Camlistore.

The net result is it's super simple to verify an entire datastore as being valid or not.
You can build a great payload carbon fiber blade octocopter for $2000 or so and a few Youtube tutorials. Cheap carbon fiber blades can be $2 each! I wouldn't recommend using them if you care about safety, but on a single-flight mission they're perfectly fine. If you can get a missile (!) inside of metropolitan Paris for $2000 I would be very doubtful (as well as very concerned.)

There's also no way that a golden eagle can fly away with the drone: it'll definitely be taking it down too. A golden eagle has a payload of 900 grams. [0] Nine hundred grams! Videos of birds (typically not golden eagles) 'carrying' dogs or even goats for a half-second or so are because they perform a special swooping maneuver with their wings that lets them lift things up, taking advantage of the ground effect. There is no way this would work with a UAV, unless it was moving extremely slowly near the ground.

There are lots of people defending this PR piece because it sounds cool. This happens every time a new way to 'catch drones' comes out. Yes, golden eagles are extremely majestic. The reality however is that bullets are by far the best way to take down an unwanted UAV. Please, think about the realities of this: several hard blades going hundreds of mph is something you can only stop with a bullet. It doesn't matter if you put a super-suit on your eagles - at best, you'll just make the eagles die of internal bleeding instead.

Finally, if this UAV is flying over a city, it'll be very often above roofs/rivers/canals/etc where it's safe to crash. Give some special ops 20 minutes of training on shooting UAVs and a bullet, not a bunch of raptors that'll end up dead - that's the way to protect your city.

[0] https://raptorresource.blogspot.nl/2015/11/how-much-can-bald...
im not sure what him beeing black has to do with the first search engine
Baidu Details Deep Learning Hardware, Software Challenges on Horizon
He's from Barbados. I'm glad the article didn't mistakingly call him an African American. Though black history month is also called African-American History Month.
No idea, but after the initial expense you can pretty much fund ongoing maintenance from the leftovers you have wisely invested instead of embezzled.
Well, the new one they released almost a year ago is perfect for you then
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Neat.

I clearly recall connecting to archie.au and archie.nz to do (slow-ass!) searches back in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Why those? Easy to remember!
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You might be surprised, but in the American context numerous people considered "black" for political reasons clearly have microscopic amounts of black admixture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Johnson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Butterfield

https://twitter.com/mayorvincegray

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Jealous
> self-driving car

This is definitely a product that needs media management, because the key question is not so much if it works but if it's safe. That has to be a key part of any self-driving-car strategy. And you also need a legal/lobbying team, as the comma.ai guy found out.
Because otherwise is legalized stealing.

Pay money, but don't get the benefits of what that money buys?
I don't dislike TPL and PLINQ (though I don't much care for Akka.NET at all), but at the same time I pretty regularly write code with locks. There are problems for which the simplest solution is to treat it stupidly and imperatively and to run those threads side-by-side with well-defined critical sections.
SpaceX Aborts Approach to Space Station, Delivery Delayed
That makes sense! 4 years ago knockout was pretty popular and was often paired with ASP.NET MVC 4
I assume the reason why this can happen is because the default implementation of malloc/free doesn't check if the pointer has already been free'ed right? And the reason it doesn't check is because of performance reasons?
Ask HN: What's your favourite weather app?
With i3 you don't need a language. The configuration is a simple text file. That is why i3 has been my Tiled Window Manger for 4 years now.

> Configuring i3

This is where the real fun begins ;-). Most things are very dependent on your ideal working environment so we can’t make reasonable defaults for them.

While not using a programming language for the configuration, i3 stays quite flexible in regards to the things you usually want your window manager to do.

http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#configuring
But the more important comparison in those posts is not CC in wallet. It's that CC on desktop computer has no restrictions.

"hackers/hostile apps can do evil things on desktop" is nearly identical to "hackers/hostile apps can do evil things on phone"

So while in a vacuum you could argue that you need to protect against hostile apps the same way you protect against hostile NFC, it's a weak comparison. While the treatment of hostile apps on your heavier home computing device is a super strong comparison.
Legal residents too, at the discretion of the immigration officer, that is point 7 of that paragraph
What cities are these dense inner ring suburbs near? The only ones I can think of that would have dense inner ring suburbs are NYC, Boston, or Philly.
Smart Prosthetics: Medicine, embedded systems and machine intelligence (podcast)
FWIW, I tend to use mod-z to switch to last-used workspace with toggleWS, which seems to cover a lot of those cases pretty well.
If you're using a transpiler anyway, who really cares if you have native support for the language features?

I've been wondering the same thing. Surely the only exciting new language features are the ones that can't be polyfilled?

Native support means it can be smaller and faster, sure. But I don't think you can blame web bloat on Javascript's lack of built-in modules. Web bloat is caused by an arms race of advertising and tracking plugins. I don't care much about making those more efficient, I just want the advertising and tracking stripped out.
Circular buildings have been around for a lot longer then that. The Pentagon is essentially a round building with a grassy area in the middle.
He doesn't look black at all to me. Not even like the mixed people I've seen. I'm not contesting it so much as saying I'd have gone with white or latino based on the pic. I wonder what ethnicity is in family tree. Probably mixed in interesting way.
Report: Leaked AMD Ryzen 7 1700X Benchmarks Show Strong Performance
I wonder how applicable that advice is to other countries, especially those that tax investment income. Also, how does currency risk factor in? If I don't use USD in my daily life, how good of an idea is to hold all my savings in USD denominated equity?