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Used LEAFs are super cheap because they have short range, and new LEAFs have a 50% larger range. The tech keeps getting better and making old electric cars less desirable to the market of buyers looking for an electric car.
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I mean, when you say that you parted ways, did you go over to something like deBB?
Putting aside your condescending commentary, and disregarding for the time being your hysterical proclamations of closed borders, pray tell... What is it you feel my non-EU wife and I, both living in Edinburgh, are putting up with (or not, as you say)?
What you're describing is a local hidden variable theory. In this case, the "hidden variable" is who has which fruit. It's "local" because there's no remote influence -- Bob eating his fruit doesn't change which one Alice has.

Bell's theorem places limits on the correlations that a theory like this can explain. Here's a simple example of a Bell violation:

1) Alice and Bob get together and conspire. They can do anything they want here.

2) Alice and Bob are then taken to separate interrogation chambers, to be quizzed by separate interrogators.

3) Each interrogator randomly (and independently) chooses one of three yes-or-no questions to ask their subject. Both interrogators are working from the same list of 3 questions. Alice and Bob are asked the questions and the questions and their answers are recorded.

4) This whole process is repeated many times. When the results are tabulated, it's found that every time Alice and Bob were asked the same question, they gave the same answer. But when they were asked different questions, 75% of the time they gave different answers.

How could Alice and Bob have achieved this? Classically, they couldn't. In order to always give the same answer to the same question, they'd have to (either directly or indirectly) agree beforehand on which answer to give to which question.

Since there are three possible questions but only two possible answers to them, any strategy they pick must give the same answer to (at least) two of the three questions. Therefore, if their interrogators pick different questions there's at least a 1/3 chance they'll pick the questions with the same answer.

But with quantum entanglement, the chance of getting the same answer from both is can be only 1/4. Something weirder is going on.

(BTW, for completeness, here's how the quantum results I described can be achieved: Alice and Bob are replaced by electrons, prepared in the (entangled) singlet state. The "interrogations" are measurements of their spin (up or down) on the 0°, 120°, or 240° axes, with one of the detectors set up upside-down. This is not the way it's actually done, but it's easier to explain & see the paradox this way.)
For starters, anything that indicated the person was specifically interested in the opportunity for some reason. This wasn't usually a good start.

"Dear Sir or Madam,

<generic blob of text>

Sincerely,
<applicant name>"
That photo's position, overhead and looking down a long hallway of cubes, with some meaningless but chipper corporate slogans as well as some very serious business-looking stuff, reminds me of the opening office shot of the game Stardew Valley: http://www11.onrpg.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Stardew-Va...

That game's protagonist, perhaps not coincidentally, burns out on their office job and decides to go become a farmer.
> This seems to be the key part. So when they run experiments on this, a certain result can be forced?

No, a result can't be forced. The analogy being used isn't very close. I'm going to summarize an explanation used in (IIRC) The Elegant Universe that may be helpful.

Mulder and Scully each get shipped a box that's entangled with the other's box. These boxes have three windows. You're allowed to open only one window, at which point you'll see a red or green light. These boxes further have the property that they're entangled: if Mulder and Scully open the same window, they'll see the same color.

Mulder and Scully open the same window on each box, and sure enough, they see the same color. Mulder claims that it's spooky action at a distance, Scully claims that the boxes are simply preprogrammed with a preset color pattern: one of "red, red, green", "green, red, green", "red, red, red", and so on.

Mulder thinks for a bit and devises an experiment. They now acquire a large number of these boxes, each paired with a box in the other's possession (and in such a way they can identify which of their two boxes correspond to one-another). They proceed to open doors randomly, recording the results. Now they compare notes.

In the case where they both opened the same door on an entangled pair of boxes, they always get the same result. So far so good. But what happens when they look at the results as a whole? Well, Scully's theory was that these boxes are preprogrammed and the data we've collected falsifies this theory.

The only possible patterns, ignoring specific color and order, are ones where two windows reveal the same color and one window reveals another color (any ordering of GGR or RRG) or where all three windows open to the same color (GGG or RRR). In the latter case, their results will obviously match 100% of the time. In the former case, 2/3 of the time their results will match 2/3 of the time (for 4/9ths) and 1/3 of the time their results will match 1/3 of the time (for an additional 1/9th), adding up to 5/9ths.

So if Scully's theory is true, when opening doors at random, they should have recorded the same result at least 5/9ths of the time (more if some boxes are programmed with all windows revealing the same color).

Unfortunately for Scully, their records show that their results matched exactly 50% of the time. No matter how complicated your "programmed" hidden variable theory is (pseudorandom generators with the same seed, etc.), it is fundamentally disproven if the observed match rate is less than 5/9ths. The simplest explanation that fits this experimental result is that both boxes choose to display a color truly randomly when a given window is opened, but they both arrive at the same random color when the same window is opened!

Again, this statistical argument works against all hidden variable theories.
It might take longer than it needs to, but I see this happening eventually. As low-skill jobs are automated away and cab/truck drivers are replaced by self-driving vehicles, many people won't really have a choice but to become interested in tech curriculum.

Furthermore, I think that cultural shift is already happening. Computers aren't just for geeks and professionals anymore. The average user might not be thinking about how Snapchat's geofencing works when they take a selfie, but that can't be more than a few steps away.
Hi folks. This is something I found myself wanting all the time while reading longer news stories, so I finally turned it into an extension.

I made versions for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, as well as a bookmarklet that works anywhere. (You have to activate the bookmarklet on each page, so it's much more annoying to use, but so is searching the page for a name on an iPhone. The Firefox version is a UI-less WebExtension, so (I'm told) it actually works automatically on every page in Firefox for Android, which is pretty neat. I'd love it if Apple added support for running extensions automatically on iOS, but that seems pretty unlikely due to battery life concerns.)

The code is open source and up on GitHub.
> A needle is a simple object, but finding one in a pile of hay takes a lot of work.

1. Gather all the hay in multiple trash bags (this assumes that the needle remains with the hay and doesn't fall out)

2. After gather the hay, use a roller-magnet pickup tool over the area the hay was at to find the needle if it fell out of the hay (assumes needle is made of ferrous magnetic material)

3. Place each bag, one by one, inside the torus of a CT scanner. Turn on CT scanner.

4. Remove bag of hay. Check inside of CT scanner torus for needle.

5. Repeat as needed with other bags.

Alternatively, one could set the hay pile on fire, then run over the ashes with the magnetic pickup tool.
This is tempting, particularly when learning new libraries, but it seems like it could be resolved with an offline database at some point instead of a hosted cloud service. This would probably improve performance a bit (in terms of responsiveness, rather than accuracy).

I can see where you might want to index all of my code to add to your store of information about how frequently various functions are used, because "more is better" in terms of training data, but there are plenty of open-source projects that could be polled instead. For my own code, why not simply analyze my existing projects on my own machine without sending it elsewhere?

It's pretty laughable that when one clicks through to the security page, the very first thing beyond the heading of "Security. Built in." is "Kite is Cloud Powered." as though that were a feature instead of a liability.

While directory whitelisting and a .kiteignore seem like decent ways to prevent code from leaking, it's only one small bug away from disclosing a company's proprietary secret sauce to unknowns entities.
The meaning and purpose of the chart is extremely clear. They're varying C02 and similar gasses, and looking at what happens. Water vapor is held constant as a first order effect and so isn't plotted.

I don't draw straight lines on all my plots relating constants to (in)dependent variables. Even fifth grade science experiments follow this convention in their plots. It's an extremely common practice. Water vapor isn't being varied, so isn't plotted. Again, nearly every fifth grade science fair project follows this convention in their plots. It really does count as basic literacy.

For someone with some basic scientific literacy, the author's intent is obvious and confirmable by reading the literature. OBVIOUSLY the authors are aware of water vapor concentrations, and you can confirm this awareness with a superficial investigation into how this metric is used in models.

Sorry, but I do not believe a non-antagonistic reader would jump to the conclusion that climate scientists are unaware of tyoical atmospheric H20 concentrations. That's so far from the realm of reasonability.

At some point, the readers' good faith must be assumed or the entire expository enterprise is pointless. I think this plot is by far on the correct side of that line.
Really nice! Now I just need to wait for Brazilian numbers support to move for my current SAS provider.
A repo for all Apple EFI firmware files
Well, they had unlimited bullets and needed just one to hit. We needed to block everyone. But how can people follow a story let alone a lobbying effort with our current ADHD news cycle...

Can someone give people like me a "5 things to fight back" list?
That was a very vague and meandering allegory, but I think I hear what you're saying. I'm not gonna respond to it, but if you wish to call me a paranoid witch-hunter please just go ahead and do so next time.

Put yourself in the shoes of a jew or black person and watch some of his streams. Then revisit the comments for this story and how they all gush over his unique cool project and wave away his vehement racism as just an unfortunate detail.

Go a little bit further from the curated and (somewhat) tolerant atmosphere of HN, and you'll see Owens' hateful speech being parroted, and being used to legitimatize the promulgation of the already massive undercurrent of racism that lurks in almost every corner of Internet culture.

I hate to confirm Godwin's law, but -- Hitler was also schizophrenic. Seeing an obviously ill person suffer from disease is sad, but it's even sadder to see the social disease of racism so ubiquitous and widely tolerated.

And just in case you really do think I'm "looking for" examples of racism --just last night I joined an IRC channel about my city (DC) to meet people. I had to leave because I heard "nigger" and "brown people get out" one too many times for comfort.
Great. Really great. /s

Let me explain the /s:

alert/prompt/confirm have one very huge advantage: they're native. Which means: screenreaders, tab, escape and everything I expect from the OS are working consistently across sites.

Now people will have to implement the wheel all over again - everyone will do it a bit different, 90% won't give a sh.t if tab works and 99% won't care if Esc works. It will be the fake-scrollbar-styling once again.

Stop messing around and replacing OS-native stuff with lowest-grade JS bullsh.t. Thanks!
"Nay" was the pro individual privacy vote.
I'm not OP, but there are a few I could see some mentioned in the OP's post in passing.

* The common lisp condition system [3, 0] is a way better way to do errors.

* Tune-able compilers [1] allow you to make better trade offs than even gcc allows for c, let alone Clojure's very opaque compiler.

* CLOS [2] is a very powerful object system which clojure does not replicate (they have multi methods, and java classes, but not a meta class system; think python's meta class features but better (because of macros and compiler access) and with multi methods designed in).

* Nice native interoperability (Clojure generally being on the JVM, and common lisp capable of direct calls and memory manipulation).

That being said. Clojure's unparalleled concurrency features are amazing. I would compare them as: if Clojure is the Java of lisps, then Common Lisp is the C++ of lisps.

[0] http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/beyond-exception-handling-co...

[1] http://franz.com/support/documentation/current/doc/compiling...

[2] http://www.laputan.org/pub/papers/MOP.pdf

[3] http://axisofeval.blogspot.com/2011/04/whats-condition-syste...
Thanks for that link.

I'm taking a portfolio approach, whereby I'll average in over time until I'm holding about 20 or so plants. Worst case I'll have some lovely shade and beautiful green trees.
Of course brexit arguments work for the SNP: the separatist language is universal, from Yugoslavia to Slovakia, from Sardinia to Catalonia, from Texas to Libya... the big bad government far away is the root of all evil, "we" have to take back control, "they" oppress us, our tribe is different from their tribe...

It's always the same story: when you start talking about drawing lines, you give an excuse to anyone to look for differences, and because we're all different at some level, you don't know where it's going to end. Do we think people in Aberdeen and Glasgow are happy to be ruled by Edinburgh? That people in Manchester are happy to be taxed to build railways in London? Of course not. Egoistic tribalism is natural, and it scales down terribly well. You legitimise one level and soon enough you're fighting the same arguments three levels down: my town won't be ruled by your town! My district won't be ruled by your district! My street won't be ruled by your street!

This is what the British elites of all stripes have unleashed upon us, with their intolerance for progressive rules agreed in Bruxelles. We are running towards the ethnic conflicts of yore. Sad days.
Uh, no. I think I was very clear that I blame management for incompetence. They didn't manage their way out of it and cut REALLY BAD DEALS with the unions.

And believe me, I think the unions share some of the blame here. They negotiated terms for their members that included overly generous pension terms because one of the things that unions like to do now is control member pensions. And when they control member pensions, they have a nice pot of money to invest for their members behalf (har har har) until they do such a bad job of it that they need someone to blame (that greedy company).

That particular story has played out over and over again because union management swings investment funds to "favored" firms which court pension funds aggressively (read: kickbacks).

Think I'm making this stuff up?

Do your own research and tell me if you can find any examples of union-run pension funds exceeding the market performance of something like an index fund. Do pension funds even have to meet the disclosure and transparency requirements of your garden-variety mutual fund?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/success/terrysavage/t...
> If both enter into the contract freely

Ah, yes, the "freedom" thing again.

When you're on a salary that barely keeps you afloat, that you cannot really afford to lose, suddenly you start reading different meanings into that word.
If you want those places to start having worker rights and environmental protections, then you better make sure they're rich first, by giving them jobs and trade.

The only reason they don't have these things is because they're poor in the first place. Only wealthy societies can afford those things.

Free trade is the global labor and environment solution.

Or maybe you want those countries to be environmentally destructive forever?
reality/inexperience I would put largely on myself, and in the "business role" sense of the word. Looking back we were far more solid than we even realized on the tech side, compared to peers in the industry.

What we lacked was all the rest - sales, marketing, business development, someone ensuring that the market verticals we were in were strong and who knew when to start looking into new lines of business. While I had some of the latter, the marketing and sales side was always difficult for me.

Lessons definitely learned, and I'm very excited for try #2!

And yep, the team matters the most. People forget what that word means, but when you're in a functional team you'll simply know it. I describe it as that feeling of being stuck on some tedious work you're hacking away at feeling burned out on, leaving for the day, then coming in the next morning to find your co-worker who works late pushed that project forward for you while you were sleeping.

Sounds silly right? But that is severely lacking in most corporations today - that idea of team spirit and team members having each other backs like that. You certainly see it in startups, but that seems to almost be it save very small pockets with competent managers in large corporations almost by accident rather than design.

Reading your other posts in this thread you would have fit right in to our ops team back then. Basically our job was to make sure that phone never rang at 2am, and if it did we had fucked up somewhere so we didn't mind it as much as the only person you typically had to blame was staring back at you in the mirror. Everyone was empowered to keep those calls from coming in though. If your company requires heroics to operate, you're doing it wrong.
Really this is about increasing demand and not supply. Americans need to be trained to not want cheap shit. They need to learn to value stuff like repairability and durability. Americans need to want things that only Americans can make. As long as they want stuff that can be made by the dozen, then they're just going to get all that from the cheapest maker.
That doesn't seem reasonable. There is a clear majority of elected representatives in the Scottish parliament in favour of independence, and the SNP were elected with a specific manifesto statement that the considered a vote to leave the EU justification for an independence referendum. It's difficult to picture a more legitimate political move!
I still get more problems on bad connections than other chat clients. The biggest one is probably that messages get sent twice or three times when I have a bad connection (I just had this happen yesterday). Sometimes a message goes red but it's still been sent, and clicking "Resend" makes it appear twice. Another is that while offline (on the desktop/web client), I can't look at past messages, because everything is replaced by a loading screen.

No chat client works _great_ under bad network conditions, but I think overall I tend to try to avoid using Discord more than I try to avoid others when I'm on a bad internet connection.
>Discord is going to be very hard to touch, even for Amazon. They should buy them as soon as possible.

Time. Curse has significantly better community integrations. Discord has taken a long time to deliver on its features and lacks even the most basic (text channels per voice channel for instance). Curse already has video calls, its a significanty better replacement of Skype than Discord is.

Many are migrating to Curse because streamers use it, and it makes it easy and lucrative to do so as a streamer.

Unless Discord does something unique, like client side modding support and some cooler things you can do with servers, they're going to get crushed.
If I gave you my English message templates could you translate?

Drop me an email if you're willing.
Somewhat related. I've been using AirTable (https://airtable.com/) to manage my consulting startups clients and even track hours. Absolutely loving it.

You define tables and scheme in their beautiful excel like web interface. AirTable then automagically generates a RESTful API you can build on-top of. They even have a great Node.js ORM[1] library. Finally, you can export public embeddable forms for inserting data into tables.

I'd love to see somebody create a React based front-end that pulls data and schema from AirTable and automatically creates a CRUD interface like Rails does. All inclusive authentication (Twitter, Facebook, GitHub) and user level permissions.

[1] - https://github.com/airtable/airtable.js
Should've mentioned that for the Rubyists we've created the Ruby Staff of Development (https://gallery.enstaved.com/#14902801969539). Happy to create staves for other languages/technologies if there's demand!
It's not necessary always possible to output valid-to-compile Java sources. If the bytecode came from a different JVM language, then there are times where javac can't emit certain bytecode patterns.
One thing I don't get. They recommend using <dialog> instead, but the MDN page they link to[0] explicitly says

> This is an experimental technology

> Because this technology's specification has not stabilized, check the compatibility table for usage in various browsers. Also note that the syntax and behavior of an experimental technology is subject to change in future versions of browsers as the specification changes.

Which makes me wonder about backwards-compatibility-handling etc.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/di...
Particle physics is a dance between theory and experiment
My iPad Mini came out at the same time, but iOS 10 doesn't support it. I don't expect infinite support, but that felt like a pretty small window to me. I've gifted it and another to my younger relatives who are happy to play games on iOS 9.
Streisand sets up a new server running L2TP/IPsec, OpenConnect, OpenSSH, OpenVPN, Shadowsocks, sslh, Stunnel, a Tor bridge, and WireGuard.

https://github.com/jlund/streisand
Why do they need higher wages? Land prices due to financialisation.

Why are land prices still at a level that kills your economy?
Sorry to burst that bubble - that couldn't be further from the truth, especially when it comes to high-tech automation, i.e. industrial robotics.

Japan is still THE undisputed powerhouse in this field (Yasakawa, Kawasaki, Fanuc, Mitsubishi, Epson...), with the EU a distant second (ABB, KUKA, Stäubli, Comau...) and China rising quickly (e.g Siasun, Foxconn).
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You also can't just say that the internet is the same as POTS.

The FCC has scarcely been better than these companies. It has a history of being a revolving door for companies. Consider what RCA/FCC did to Armstrong back in the day.

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

Just because the FCC does something doesn't mean its good, legal, or whatever. It's just what 3 of 5 unelected, unaccountable appointees cooked up. When the board changes, they can just as easily uncook it up.
From a purely functional programming perspective, yes.

In reality, global state may have changed. So, no.

i.e. What we refer to as "the same thing" often isn't, in a non-FP world.
Isn't the more relevant date when they ceased sale of the iPhone 4S, which was September 2014 (2½ years ago)?