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> epistomatic masturbation

Did you mean "epistemic"? I don't know of any kind of masturbation that involves stomata only on the upper side of a leaf.
There have been numerous public grocery store companies over the decades, so the financials are very well understood at this point. They're all notorious for very poor margins. Most of retail in general is famous for mediocre margins to begin with, and then inside of retail, near the very bottom, is the grocery business.

Take Whole Foods an an example. They're a top tier margin company inside of the grocery business. Their net income margin is typically 3%. That's a good outcome in the business. The net income margin for Sprouts Farmers Markets the last three years: 2.5%, 3.5%, 3.6%.

The retail business in the US also happens to pay among the highest corporate income tax levels on the planet. Whole Foods paid 38.6% last year (almost 39% the year before that); Sprouts paid 37.6%. They get squeezed from almost every direction.
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Casually using phrases like "the absolute of all conditionals" as though anyone is supposed to understand what that means makes your whole post sound like gibberish. This is why philosophy is the butt of jokes.
> Oracle usage only 16.5%, but I guess it makes sense considering the web developer proportion.

At the end of the day, Oracle is expensive. Web or not.
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Speaking as someone with no aviation knowledge at all this seems like an awesome idea.

The plane could take off with battery packs slung under the wings which are jettisoned and become drones, gliding down to a depot.

I'm now waiting for someone who actually knows what they're talking about to point out the flaws. One that springs to mind is the logistics of collecting the drone-batteries and transporting them to be reunited with the parent aircraft.
I own 3 and still don't know the answer. I've been wonder the same. Steve Jobs swore the iPad was the perfect size and any other size was a failure.
In Western Europe a senior dev makes less than 100k. A regular dev makes about 60k. In Eastern Europe a regular dev makes about 30-40k.
> whenever I look around at a non-Apple dev conference

I think you're seeing selection bias here. The devs that attend conferences are a very, very small sliver of the total population, and the price of attending a conference (not only the ticket, but travel and PTO necessary to attend) also overlaps heavily with the more "well-off" devs, which probably have a higher percentage of Mac usage.

FWIW: I've had a personal Macbook (for two years in college) and a work Macbook (when necessary), and in both cases I only ran linux on them.
Using Azure {App Services, DocumentDB} with Raspberry Pi
That's a pretty well thought out argument.

I'd propose that above the very bottom of the barrel, contract work is slightly better because it is like speed dating and the odds of meeting the right client for you are higher than could be experienced in slower paced long term employment.
Have used several browser fingerprinting services and have tried a few of the techniques myself, they're incredibly useful for fraud prevention when said fingerprint is reported against a central database alongside with the fraud that happened to _you_. The next time said fingerprint shows up at an eCommerce site, they'll be blocked off from purchasing or at least flagged for additional verification.

They're also just useful for super targeted ads.

shrug
Why would Jobs not get credit for the Apple 2? It's not like he engineered any of the other items on your list. It was his marketing that made the Apple 2.
I feel the same way, and yet, so much happens every single year that I never expected to see in my lifetime. I'm young (and in a tech field), tech isn't supposed to surprise me as much as it does. It's just that the media gets it so wrong so much of the time.
Well, #00ff00 could be difficult to dictate over the phone... :-)
http://myappcenter.in, My App Center is a app builder website
They ultimately settled it and fixed it when I got my State Senator involved.

My small claims suit for my expenses was dismissed due to a binding arbritration clause. As a then 22 year old, that was about all I had the time to do.
Wow, apparently I've been driving an electric car for years! It uses quite a bit of petrol too though.
I see what you're saying between Swift, Go, and Rust, but I'm not sure C# belongs in the same category. There are orders of magnitude more real-life lines of code implemented in C# than the other three combined. It's much more comparable to Java.

F# may be a better comparison.
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Then they would not have a reason to charge more. They need low cost and a premium option.
I'm sure you could have made this point in a less ass-holish way.
How about the US too?
Made me think about Yuri Norshteyn's project started in 1981, animated by husband and wife team, and still not finished (36 years so far).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Overcoat_(animated_film)
It's interesting to note Lexmark tried to (ab)use other kinds of so-called "intelectual property" laws earlier: the copyright law and DMCA. When they failed, they decided to use patents instead. And all this for what purpose? To prevent people from using cartridges manufactured by other companies, i.e. blocking competition and acting against free market and user rights. If this isn't abuse, I don't know what it is.
If you can't build a superior product supported by good marketing, don't try to save yourself by legal action. If you do, you only alienate your customers, the very people you should serve first.
Should Elon Musk Let Someone Else Run Tesla?
Just adding 2 words to the sentence feels more logical.

"Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can’t Own Nice Things for free."
The title is typical EFF bluster. This case is about a relatively narrow question on patent exhaustion, not a referendum on patents in general.
Non-Evolutionary vs. Evolutionary Superintelligences
Wow. Its all happening NOW.
Could we create any kind of app?
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Today, one of my colleagues got fired because he was downloading movies the previous night at his residence via BitTorrent. Next morning at the office, it autostarted the previous night downloads and was asked to leave for no fault of his(because using torrents in our office is illegal)

Isn't it high time to stop autostarting applications?
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Where are you in the US? Cost of living plays a major role in salary pressure in both directions, especially on the lower rungs of the ladder. Adjusted for (not much, but measurable) inflation my first job paid $32k. Entry-level dev jobs in my area are in the $40-50k range depending on the technology and company.
There are a couple:
https://github.com/davidjb/pass-ios
https://github.com/mssun/passforios

Passforios is being actively developed and is shaping up well.
Show HN: Terrafarm - pay farmers up-front for seasonal products
https://terra.farm

This is a prototype web app that I published this past weekend. There isn't much you can do with it until I get some farmers to post their products. But the basics are in place to post a product, register shareholders, and issue/validate vouchers. If you want to mess around with it, you can create an account and reserve a product marked as demo data, and I'll activate those shares. Thanks for checking it out.

-Ryan
I agree with Twisell. The solution is to create a super data-structure so this really is an architecture and abstraction issue - ie. design things in a way such that these structures can be added in an incremental and painless way when the need appears.

Only a minority of people are good at that. I'd also note that there is a correlation between the importance of such needs and the ability to anticipate them at the initial design stage. (ie. is it reasonable to be surprised by the fact that a holding owning several supermarkets asks for consolidated reporting at some point ?).

If you're good at abstraction, modularity and composability, there really isn't any gotcha to fear. Stuff don't just come out of the blue.
56 here as well. Like yourself, I've been doing this for a long, long time. If it weren't for my personal projects that usually incorporate some pretty wild ideas or technologies, I think I would've given it up years ago.

Today, with a head cold, trying to get caught up on the 400 emails I have because I took yesterday off. The idea of selling ice cream at the beach sounds like a kick-ass career move.
The EFF chose a very bad / misleading title compared to what the article is actually about. A better one would be:

> Supreme Court to Rule on Whether Patent-Holders Can Control What You Do With Your Stuff

or something like that.
That's very James-Bondy :)
good plan, no ads = no click revenue
I think you are right, however it kinda seems they already put up with a lot more from companies selling them their 'patented' seeds and the constraints that come with those seeds.

I once saw a doc mentioning a farmer that got 'fined' by a seed company because he had some seeds he did not pay for in his crop, these few plants that grew because the neighboring farmer was using them and the wind blew some on the side of his lot. Also, they are no longer allowed to stock up on the seeds, they need to renew their stock... Has anyone seen this also?
> There's also the issue of the mass of batteries not going away during the flight

Excellent point; currently as fuel is burned off, planes can climb to higher, more efficient altitudes (known as a step climb). What's the performance penalty for not being able to do this as your batteries aren't getting lighter as the flight progresses.
Their site and blog reminds me of the Mars One project: a lot of talk and no substance. I hope I'm mistaken.
If you're interested in a book length exploration of patents on the anti-patent side of the argument, I found this book to be well argued:

http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=978052...
> In Australia, it went mostly into the profits of companies headquartered overseas and the government negotiated with them so badly and/or corruptly that it's managing to run a budget deficit.

That's incorrect. Australians have a higher median net worth than Norway (100% higher in fact!), thanks to the commodity boom (which prompted the real estate boom). Look at where the number was 20 years ago compared to the rest of the world, versus where it's at now. You can also track that exact same thing in the median income and the GDP per capita, they all simultaneously skyrocketed.

Australia's median net worth per capita figure, is higher than Luxembourg. It's 100% higher than the UK, Japan, Iceland. It's nearly four times that of Sweden (!).

Australia went from having a GDP per capita half that of the US in 2000/2001, to having a higher GDP per capita than the US by 2010 (now back to being slightly below the US, thanks to the dollar run). Median incomes in Australia have soared in line, as witnessed by the $17.70 minimum wage (which only a handful of countries could ever attempt / support). All of that was due to the commodity boom, driven mostly by China.

Today, Australia has a standard of living nearly unheard of in the history of humanity. It has clearly surpassed Norway. Whether it ends in a bust - as it's heavily chained to both commodities and real estate - is the question.
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- Yeah, if you have an js error in your syntax the whole front-end application will not work.

How is this possible that you compiled js code with an error during packaging? Or you don't use packaging/analyzers tools?
> Is the bump at "more than 20 years" of coding experience just an artifact of not assessing answers with over 20 years of experience at finer granularity?

I would think so. If someone started a programming job right out of school (~22 years old), and is still programming today, that would be any developer who is ~43 or older. I would say at least 1/4-1/3 of my former and current colleagues would fall into that age bracket. Not all of them started programming out school but many of them did for sure.
It's 2017 and developers are still abbreviating variable names ('err', 'resp', etc. in the article). It's tragic that readability is still not seen as a priority by so many people.
Could you be more precise about the setup? I don't think this is a known issue, but someone might be able to replicate this if you gave details.
We have the Internet. If the parent commenter thought a more digestible summary or paraphrase of "the absolute of all conditionals" would have been helpful, they would have written it that way.

If you're frustrated that it's opaque, and you care about understand the chance to do so is as near as googling "Kant absolute of all conditionals".

If you don't care about understanding, why complain?
How can you take something as useful evidence when it has been explicitly prohibited from use?

Unless public colleges are secretly flying in the face of a Supreme Court ruling, your assertion that "being black is worth +1.0 on GPA, whereas underrepresented state is +0.1 and underrepresented county in Michigan is +0.3," is unproven by the evidence you provided.

Had you said "was," and explained that you don't believe things have changed, that would have been far more intellectually honest.
A colleague of mine also got his 5X replaced out of warranty. It did take a couple of months before he got a replacement 5X, but he did get one. Might be worth a try.
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Further down the Digg hole.
POST = Create and PUT = Update
> Actual question: where in the constitution is this clearly stated?

You're obviously way more legally savvy than I am. Just goes to prove that a _little_ knowledge is a dangerous thing. Totally agree on the "securing convictions" motivation.

I'm referring to the 4th, about needing a warrant to intercept communications. Is that not clearly stated? Maybe my ignorance is showing again. Doesn't the 4th -- on the face of it -- preclude any system of wholesale collection of electronic communications?
It has a significant east-west displacement so you'd think there would be some tidal flows.
At which time everybody and their brother will be doing the same. The hard part is the batteries.
When the OBD system was created auto manufactures (via dealership trade organizations that are extremely powerful in some states due to the large sums of taxes paid on new vehicles) pushed for state regulations that don't allow cars to be used that have the check engine light on. Often the sensor not functioning has no effect on the use or safety of the car (also the sensors themselves are designed to be needlessly difficult to replace). In effect causing the use of older cars to not be cost effective. In my state emissions are measured at the tailpipe, you can be well within standards but fail simply because a sensor reports that it needs to be changed.

This is essentially a highly regressive tax scheme that subsidises auto makers and dealerships at the disproportionate expense of poorer working Americans. It gives auto manufactures a "replace car" light that they can activate and have enforced by law and thus, planned obsolescence.

As someone who grew up poor and has spent time not having access to food in order to replace a useless sensor in a family vehicle (or paying a fine related to not having a valid inspection sticker) and knowing many other families who have been in the same situation. I have seen first hand the issues with this policy.
Heh, mine has always just been my first initial. "Welcome, R!". Also when I buy Kindle ebooks the default option is "Send to R's Kindle".

I have no idea where this info is stored as the details on my billing / shipping addresses have my correct (full) name.
This is flagged as [dupe], but I can't find where the original post is. Anyone have it?
no you're exactly right
I hope the took the requirements of two alternates to heart in their range calculations otherwise - bad pun - this won't fly.
> Would answering the question of whether we're in a simulation have any impact on your behavior, thoughts, and actions? Probably not. So what does it matter?

It would matter a lot, surely.

Being in a simulation, implies that some conscious entity is running the simulation and has constructed it.

Therefore, the motivations and reason of that being running the simulation are immediately important.

Perhaps a twisted posthuman sect is running an ancestor simulation of all humans to have existed to "test" them in various moral situations and then judge them or punish them as appropriate? That could be hugely important for how you choose to live your life.

Even if you don't know why a simulation is being run, but only know that you are in one, it raises a lot of troubling questions because the simulation runner must have some motivation. I bet it would lead people to live differently.

The universe would go from being fundamentally amoral to having an effectively omnipotent entity in "charge" of it - a massive change that would surely influence how people view things and act.
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Emacs will respond to a file's being dropped onto its dock icon (and the response can be whatever Lisp code you want) but of course there has to be an Emacs icon in the Dock, which means the Emacs cannot be running "inside" a terminal.
> TL;DR: If I read things right, the BBC article is highly misleading and the plane still uses jet fuel.

I don't think there's a clear description of the plane, so I don't think you can say what it "does" use.

Their blog says they'll go all-electric if batteries progress fast enough or they describe taking a hybrid approach "like a chevy volt".

> From browsing other sites [0] it appears that the engines are still using conventional jet fuel to generate the thrust; it's just that the external systems (pressurization, de-icing, landing gear mechanics, fuel pumps etc) that are powered by electricity are using battery power instead of generator in the current jet engines.

The clip I think you're referring to comes from this: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5dHV3MyeeBjN1BoU3hHclFYd3M...

which is not describing their proposal but they bring it up in one of the reports as a side opportunity for electric aviation.
$20/month? That wouldn't be enough even for most white women.

Black women's hair appointments are more expensive; many hair salons charge a premium. Plus they use a lot of products and elixirs to change the nature of their hair. Plus, many of them wear a wig-like accessory, often of real human hair, every single day. The process of 'weaving' that into their natural hair can cost hundreds or even thousands, at the high end.

Source: black friend in college wrote an essay about this for a journal I was editing at the time, plus, common knowledge. There are some interesting cultural questions about how in North American society, natural black hair is deemed unacceptable, and this has generally been internalized by black women. If you choose to just be natural (as my friend did) you get a lot of flak from other black women.

I don't know if you can get this to work out to $500B; other industry numbers I could find are like $10B, which would be about $50/month for every black woman in the USA.
To 95%+ of the consumer market, a TV is a dumb commodity. Dollars per inch is basically all that matters for the sale, and relative picture quality is forgotten about as soon as a consumer watches one show.

On the other hand, I think most Android users I know have told me a story about buying the "wrong" Android phone.
I understood what the OP meant, since I've read CPR and am broadly familiar with Kant's metaphysics.

HN presents a broad and informed audience; there's no reason to call something gibberish before at least cursorily researching it on your own.
Based on another article they are not doing 100% electric. They are basically using battery's to replace the alternator/APU attached to the jet engine. That still adds up to a lot of jet fuel, but is only something like 5% total fuel savings.
No. I want to keep them around, sure, but of course they can be styled differently.

I don't know what makes everyone so upset at old listings. They are listed chronologically, there is an RSS feed to follow for fresh things. It's not like it's thousands of mixed jobs where you have to hunt for the recent postings? I definitely don't object to someone adding an archive/expiry functionality that does not completely delete old job listings. If you look at the referenced ticket on github, I created it.
I assume they're titanium. I wonder though if they use titanium crystals as per jet engine turbine blades?
I spent about a minute looking at the results for "Kant absolute of all conditionals" on google, that phrase doesn't have any close hits, I think its fair to describe this phrase as non-trivial to understand just through googling, so I think your snark is unwarranted.
How does someone create an account a few years ago and this is their first comment?
Don't executives ship...execution?
Are you trolling or something? I did google it and there were no relevant results. Putting "absolute of all conditionals" into Google gives a bunch of stuff about absolute convergence in calculus without quotes, and no results at all with quotes.
The term micro was always left up to the implementer to define what exactly constitutes micro. There is no uniform standard, and no official definition of microservice, and indeed in my own short time dabbling in them, I have seen it vary from org to org.

The ultimate example I have seen, and used myself, is an AWS lambda function, but even then you talk to some "microservice experts" and they don't consider this to be the case.
Out of curiosity then, what does it mean?
Plenty of recent jobs are open to remote workers, which includes UK.
London is special because there are a lot of Apple stores here (I count 7). That's more than many European countries have.

The calculus of owning a Mac changes drastically if you live near an Apple store. If my Mac has a problem, I can book an appointment at the Apple store, real person will try to fix it, and I can have it back ASAP. The customer service is half the price.
well shit I'm sure I can take a RAM dump and soup up fancy graph code to make it look like a brain .. it still won't mean anything
Most items of clothing have complicated international journeys
The article states they're milled out of solid aluminum
'error' is a protected keyword in Go.
FTSE CEOs 'earn 386 times more than workers on national living wage'
Apple is tired of making Coca-Cola and now wants to sell champagne
So, why not:

mkdir $GOPATH/src/mystuff

git clone https://github.com/foo/bar
# may be switch to a branch here while you're at it

mv bar $GOPATH/src/mystuff/bar

Now in your Go program

import "mystuff/bar"

The whole "URL import" is not a "feature of Go", it's an artifact of "go get", just a tool to make it easier to pull code from github or whatever.
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Possible continuing cyber-sabotage? See https://nytimes.com/2017/03/04/world/asia/north-korea-missil...
'response' is too large. Having too large lines is not great for readability.
You should check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Hair
Turbine blades are made from inconel. And all solid metal is crystalline.
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Loved the gif question :)
Technically speaking, in the US, ripping a DVD is still considered illegal under the DMCA, so don't expect Apple to do you any favors there.

Personally, I use Plex running on a headless Linux box instead.
"A routine check of the aluminum wheels" - first sentence of the article.
The retail apocalypse has officially descended on America