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Because after 6 or 7 rings the person calling you will go away, while the person who has come to you will, usually, stand and wait.

I agree with the sentiment though, that it does often give the impression of being bad mannered.
The BBC are not allowed to commercially compete in the UK, BBC worldwide is the commercial arm of the BBC, so this content mustn't be shown in the UK.

But by having a commercial arm, the BBC can generate income from the rest of the world and provide more value to the licence fee payers.

So you want this to exist as it makes the homegrown BBC better, even if it's frustrating not to be able to read it.
Businesses.
A small but poignant correction here - no dodos survived what occurred even as taxidermy. The most complete known specimen of a dodo consists of 'a dried head and foot'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo#Physical_remains
$35 a month for 40 channels at launch and likely more later, that you can watch on anything that can access YouTube? Don't underestimate the value of convenience.
it's forty-two

(couldn't resist)
It'll be interesting to see if Google can work with traditional media companies to find a price profitable price point and offer the flexibility which many people today seek.

It's clear to see that a company such as Netflix can clearly benefit from moving away from these companies, as they tend to be priced highly (thus reducing the ability to make any serious margins) and be hugely inflexible when it comes to DRM and placing geographic and device restrictions.

Surely the deciding factory in YT TV's success will be in it's ability to wade through this ugly maze and convince the rights owners that their future success hinges on their ability to keep with the times...
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Your comment is quite frankly ridiculous to tar everyone with the same brush when you have no idea about my background or my purposes for visiting the country. I am not there simply to take take take.

- I first visited Nepal as part of my university degree and stayed in a remote area for three months studying anthropology completely alone. The people I met during this time are now lifelong friends.

- I am heavily involved in a charity project which helps the development of this remote area and continue to return and help when I can.

- One of these locals is now a business partner in a venture we are close to launching. If you fancy coming to Nepal check out https://adventureparadisenepal.com.

- I don't write such articles to gloat / boast / make people jealous. Moreso I don't write about the boring shit such as the business meetings which were a large part of this trip.

The article is moreso a reflection of the infrastructure and making some quite strong points about Pokhara having the potential to compete with Chiang Mai for that crowd of traveler. I have never been to Chiang Mai nor do I particularly want to.

It is helpful for people like you to not tar everyone with the same brush and realize that everyone is different. I do not need to prove my travel or work credentials to anyone and having one of / if not the largest AirBnB management businesses in Asia, I am sorry if it offends you that I am based in Asia.
I work with post production for tv/movies. Current digital sensors are much better than film in clarity, noise, dynamic range, etc. Film is still, arguably, superior in look.
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Yeah, I'm sure the relation is worse for my car because of its comparatively tiny 7kWh battery.

20% is still nothing to scoff at, but probably acceptable.
> Thought experiment: say Macs had USB-C for 10 years, and the latest Macbooks switched to MagSafe.

Then you would presumably still be able to use the remaining USB-C ports to charge it, with the MagSafe merely an option. That would not get many complaints. If they violated that they would deserve the complaints.
This document is over 900 pages. How long are you supposed to take to read and understand all of this? And is this really all necessary?

On the surface this looks like an insurmountable task with questionable benefits. Don't get me wrong, but in the past 6 years of casual and professional programming, I've needed only a basic understanding of math, the most difficult thing being collision detection in games, and that includes doing RSA cryptography by hand. This paper starts off with proofs, something I've never had in school and which always seemed to me as if they only belong in scientific math papers, not practical life of someone doing computer science.

I don't mean to criticize the document or math in general, I would genuinely like to understand what 900 pages of this is going to bring me, especially when it starts with something I've never needed or seen outside of theoretical math discussions.
Well, I suppose it's not meant to replace traditional building methods/materials, but as it gets better, imagine the usability of such tech eg. for building a base on the moon.
I love huf hauses. It's on my list of life-goals
What is the metric actually measuring? Where did 70% come from? The article says that only 30% of requests were automated but I find it hard to believe that the API aims for 100% automated responses for all requests. Heck, if the bot API managed to reduce human resourcing by 30%, I'd say that's more success than not.

Is this an article or an opinion piece? It reads very weirdly but I can't pinpoint it.
I see no reason to believe YouTube TV is going to be huge. $35/mo isn't a great bargain. Hulu used to offer a lot of the same channels for only $8/mo and while successful it wasn't "huge". Hulu has been dying since Comcast got ownership, but I see no reason to believe something priced at over 3x what Hulu charged for the same thing is going to be "huge".
"and includes unlimited cloud DVR storage with no fixed term contract"

That is essentially VoD that they are offering as well as broadcast.

"unlimited DVR" is PR speak for VoD in this case.
The story goes is that they've been trying for a very long time, but they're unable to get the content owners (TV channels and movie studios) onboard.
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Just go into Task Manager, Details tab, right click on the columns and add "Command Line". Now you can see what each svchost does.
Done. fman 0.3.1 is out. Per your suggestion, it just removes the cron job. I wrote an apology [1].

[1]: https://fman.io/blog/an-apology-to-linux-users/
I believe and based on the links below the data is sold by different entities to companies like Intelius etc.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-data-brokers-...

http://triblive.com/news/allegheny/8690215-74/drivers-inform...

http://spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/computing/it/us-states-s...
I disagree strongly with only mentioning the units in the first row.

If all units in a column are the same, mention that unit in the column header. Otherwise, you need to mention it everywhere. Only putting units in the first row suggests that the first row is different. It is basically lying in all the other rows, presuming the reader catches the error and understands what is meant.

I also think disagree slightly on color. Restricted use of color makes sense For example red for negative values, or green for highlighted values that you want to stand out.

Heck, if you have very geometric 2-D data, perhaps there is even a point to be made to color the background according to the value so you can 'see' the structure. This is pretty niche though.
Thanks for the clarification and much more detailed explanation. I was aware of the split-phase nuance and have been hit by 277 a couple of not-so-fun times.

As to the benefit to motors, it was my understanding that using split-phase or a single phase and a capacitor creates a less-than-optimal magnetic field which results in more noise/vibration and wear on the motor as opposed to 3 phase.
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Why? The only current benefit of Julia afaict is the tracing jit. If you run the tracing jit on web assembly then it's giving up most of its performance benefits. And Python could be built on web assembly as well.

But who knows. Weird things seem to become popular despite all the negative points.
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It's worth keeping in mind that there is no love lost between Apple and the Register; the latter deliberately contravenes the "reality distortion field" at every turn, and the former permabanned them from its press and release events years ago, a decision rumored to have originated with Jobs himself.

That said, the Register's Apple reporting, while no more directly informed than anyone else's, often stands the test of time quite well, and Orlowski is as close to a star reporter as anyone writing under their masthead. Thus the choice to disregard a piece like this I think merits some hesitation, whatever distaste one may have for the publication, which I gather is not well loved in all quarters here.
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-- Result received at 14:30:3, response time of 24.714s --

Execution Timed Out

Seems very interesting, will check it out and hopefully provide some feedback when it's back online
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It's hardly insurmountable, but to answer your question, maybe people will read it because you're just curious, want to learn. Also you don't have to learn all, or any of it -maybe you could just use it as a reference book.
One thing often overlooked about work interruptions: interrupting one person's flow is usually to aid another's.

So as others have suggested the response can be prioritised according to importance and urgency.

While flow is critical for productive work, it should be directed to the highest priority tasks.
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Me too, I never liked C.

What I was trying to convey with that comment was that C++ was looked down for systems programming, it required Symbian, BeOS, OS X IO Kit to change that mentality.

Even Windows that you mention, which always was a more welcoming place for C++ tooling, Microsoft only started to officially support it with Visual C++ 2012 when the /kernel flag was introduced.

So even that microkernel could have been eventually written in System C#, if there was enough management support to keep developing Midori and improving the language to the point C++ wouldn't be needed.

Instead the project was canceled and since in IT, seeing is believing, there will be idea for many, that there wasn't any other way to accomplish it.

I love the way Alan Kay and others like him think, it is not what the technology give us today, but what it can give us tomorrow in a few years time.
> reducing the ability to make any serious margins

That's a rather euphemistic way of putting it; the rightsholders know they have a monopoly on each specific item of content and don't see why any other business should make a single penny along the way.

(Orlowski is a known pro-DRM contrarian on this subject!)

As they say, the real success is if they can make this as frictionless as Youtube already is. Pay $35, get everything everywhere on all devices, end of story.
Totally agree with this. I'm not sure why Facebook hasn't implemented group chat for bots yet. It must be on their roadmap. Maybe they are choosing to focus on 1-1 interaction right now, because 1-N interaction will require much different UX and code. Some 1-1 features have no obvious corollary in 1-N interaction. For example when a messenger bot sends you a "menu" with options, should the bot send the same menu to everyone in the group? Should only the person who triggered the bot in the group be able to interact with the menu?

These are answerable questions, but there are a lot of them and I can see why Facebook would choose to focus on 1-1 interactions first (especially since those are more likely to become paying interactions).

Personally I would love group bots. They can enable a lot of fun interactions, and it's certainly more fun to "play with" a novel bot with your friends than by yourself.
There's a difference between "government sources" for hard facts (CDC), facts about the world (e.g. DoJ travel warnings, CIA factbook, DoE energy savings tips), for facts about the government (e.g. for Trump's EO, the suggested snippet would be to the text of the EO), and claims from the government. These are easily distinguished.
???

Apple doesn't give out Apple TVs for free. The beauty of owning the hardware and platform like Apple does is that they still make money from other peoples services.

Now, whether they have a compelling enough TV hardware + OS/software for people to buy and watch Youtube TV over... that's another question. But I think that question exists regardless of whether Apple makes a linear broadcast TV streaming service or not.
I'm surprised there's so many theregister articles on the front page these days, it's not exactly the most reliable source of information and most of its stuff is clickbait.

I seem to remember certain websites automatically get a lower weight on HN when they get upvoted a lot - shouldn't this be applied to theregister too?
But is this a sale office or a development site?
Per your (and other people's) suggestion, I just released fman version 0.3.1 that removes the cron job. Again, I apologise. I did not know it was considered such a bad practice. I also wrote a blog post [1] that explains how to make sure that the cron job really has been removed.

[1]: https://fman.io/blog/an-apology-to-linux-users/
> Remember when netbook will be huge, and Apple must respond?

They still are huge (they're some of the most popular devices sold) and Apple did respond, the entire industry did too.

The only thing that didn't stick was the name -- we call them "ultrabooks" now.
Depends on 30-40 channels of what -- if Showtime, HBO and Stars are in that price then it's competitive with buying those a subscriptions from Amazon. Thirty-fourty channels of non-premium content like reality TV shows and sports is a non-starter for me, anyway. Reading the article which claims "...including ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, ESPN, Bravo, Disney Channel, Fox News, FX, MSNBC, Sprout and USA Network." I can definitely say at least for me it ain't worth it.

A cheap antenna will get the broadcast networks and Bravo, Disney, Sprout, etc don't have any compelling content for me. Far cheaper to buy one or two shows off of Amazon if I want to see them semi-realtime, otherwise it's just fine to wait until they are available to stream off of Netflix or Amazon Prime.

Just one nerd's opinion.
To be completely fair, I don't think anyone really has 'solved' TV yet.
Twitch had a huge headstart. Personally I've only used Twitch reluctantly for many years, and only because the streams I wanted to see wasn't on Hitbox/Youtube Live/etc.

There are some annoying quirks with Youtube for sure, but it's better than a lot of others.
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Simple but powerful.

Great job.
Escher would turn in his grave being compared to that.
You still need to make a connection to drop it. You can DDOS just by making a lot of connections.
Sometimes those of us who live in the pure, mathematical world of software forget that the real world is more resillient than that.

People's passwords, identities, and bank and credit card details will have been leaked. Identity theft and other fraud will happen as a result of this. But we have systems in place for dealing with it, and ultimately life will go on. I've had fraudulent charges on my bank account; it was a serious inconvenience at the time, but it wasn't life-changingly bad.
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At the moment I'm not interested in mining, but I'd like to try things out with cryptocurrencies, especially with BitCoin. I've created a wallet with Electrum (seed + passphrase), what's next?

How do you buy your first coins?
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Is there a benefit of running Whonix in Qubes? Or just that running Qubes is a good idea in general?
I was a part time fitness instructor for over 10 years. I would burn about 1000-2000 calories exercising most days of the week. It did help me lose a maintain weight loss because I definitely didn't watch what I eat.

That being said, I would always tell other people that to key to weight loss and maintenance isn't "dieting" it's finding a combination of cutting back on how much you eat and exercise that is sustainable for you long term.

The other part of the equation is that realistically, unless you are already in shape, your body can't handle the intensity required to burn 1500 calories in a day in a reasonable amount of time. If the most you can handle is walking 4 miles an hour, you'll be walking three or four hours a day. I know people who run 6 miles a day in the morning and in the evening but it took awhile to build up to that.
Not really, Lisp Machines were expensive, UNIX was free with a plain symbolic license during the AT&T was prevented from selling it.

If UNIX had a price tag similar to all other OSes, the revolution would never have happened.
This would be a non-problem if everybody studied ToK and consistently used, you know, their brain.

But, unfortunately …
Yes he stumbled into a particularly thorny theological matter there. The Quartodecimans are going to hunt him down.
The optimal cutoff would probably have been $20 million rather than the $10 million that was chosen, but that change would have been too much for a lot of people. If I had only presented options from $1M up to $20M, then the group probably would have chosen $5M no matter how much I argued for $20M. I had to put the $50M number in people's heads so $10M seemed less of a jump.
I like the idea of using non-latin programming languages for latin based programs, you have a clearer picture of what is data and what is code. assuming you can differentiate the non-latin characters.
It's a great point. It shows how easy it is for somebody to think wow, that question obviously has a clear answer when the opposite is true.

Take the lead example: Was President Warren Harding a member of the KKK?

We know the KKK said he was. We know he vigorously denied it. We know that biographers of him and experts in his history do not think he was.

But how could you ever prove that somebody was not the member of a secret society? The entire purpose of secret societies is that the outside world will never know if you're a member or not.

Look, I'm happy to assume he wasn't, and at some point only kooks continue to chase things down past all reason, but just assume for a second that he was, and that somehow that fact could be determined but the research has not been done yet. So history student X starts wondering about it one day and types the question into Google. Never fear! Google has the answer: he wasn't. And this is Google's answer because this answer has the benefit of looking the most plausible to the greatest number of people. Student X has an answer, gives it no more thought, and wanders off to think about other matters.

Student X is now more stupid. The world as a whole is now less productive. And some preponderance of data that academics have assembled somewhere around the year 2015 has become truth for all time. That's amazingly fucked up, Google. Please stop.
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The source of homelessness is true for many places, but not all; Mumbai/Bombay, Kolkatta, Delhi and I would guess most other indian cities have crade-to-grave homeless communities. I know some of them do not consider themselves homeless, because they have a piece of corrugated metal to put their head under at night which is "theirs" - but would probably be considered homeless in the west.

Your statement about the 3rd world not being a good market is, of course, correct.
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You may be dismayed that many the new voters in the new few elections do not share your high level of faith in the mainstream media: a Data & Society report posted last week finds that American teenagers have low levels of trust in the media:

https://datasociety.net/blog/2017/03/01/navigating-the-news/
You can take that 15 year old photo, scan it and upscale it to meter width and keep sharp edges and so on. Try doing this with that fancy iPhone picture.
TBF, Michelson–Morley experiment did not found anything too
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Videophiles, and I gather they're more likely to use projectors with their vintage LaserDiscs.
I think this is a little unfair.

Anecdotally, I've had a good experience with them. I use them as a playground for ideas or learning things like docker/kubernetes.

I see no reason why a properly architected deployment would have trouble in their environment.
In most agencies, economists almost never interact with lobbyists. The lobbyists always aim at senior management, and almost all lobbying takes the form of 'We care about X and we want you to validate that by signalling that you also care about X' or 'We are presenting a credible threat to sue you if you do Y'. This is useful political and tactical information for management, but it does not affect the economic numbers at all. In theory a lobbyist could present useful information about a hard-to-research topic that informs our analysis, but I've never seen that happen.
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Wouldn't this be much more convenient in the form of, say, a Python library that the user can run on their local machine?
No, that's still DVR. Some channel still needs to broadcast stuff you're trying to watch and you need to set it up to be recorded for you account. Even if they offer catch-up-TV feature you're still limited to whatever the ad-ridden cable channels actually broadcast in last few days.
>I think it more assumes that the police's incentive is to maximize the ratio of [conviction to accusation] as much as possible, which is a reasonable goal.

Strictly speaking it's not a very reasonable goal. The best way to achieve it would be to pick, say, the three easiest to prosecute cases every year and only prosecute those.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=theregister&sort=byPopularity&...

Doesn't look like a particularly popular source to me.
Relative status is what matters. The author, being an extreme libertarian, is uncomfortable with that idea, because he doesn't want to admit that relative wealth and wealth inequality, matter.
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which is pretty crazy, because crimes involving CP are some of the biggest whales that exist in our society.
I don't care about that stuff either, but I know a hell of a lot of people who do.

In particular, I suspect you overlook access to sports content, in particular live games. That by itself matters enough to a whole lot of people to sell the service at this price point.
The problem is that compliance is complex and enforcement random. Currency fluctuations can change your circumstances overnights.

Also lots of catch-22 situations. People who are American by virtue of birth can but never live here can get into trouble when they coke to the attention of the tax authorities. Renunciation is also difficult and creates other issues.
might not work in all cases..
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Calorie information varies wildly between different sites, I have no idea who to believe.
There's arguably better isolation between the Tor gateway and workstation VMs. See https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Qubes/Why_use_Qubes_over_other_V...
TV must die.