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Tim Wu wrote an entire book called "The Attention Merchants" documenting the long history (going back to the 1800s) of various forms of media being commercialized with attention and data.

The "penny press" -- starting in the 1830s -- offered low-cost newspapers, basically at a loss, which were then subsidized with advertising. (See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_press) A similar business model was then used for most newspapers, radio, network television stations, national magazines, cable news/TV subscriptions and on, and on. At each stage, the level of demographic and geographic targeting became more sophisticated. The modern web-based media is basically the logical conclusion of this two-century evolution.

What's more, profitable subscriptions for media are at an all-time high. The issue is that the spoils go to only a few winners, like Amazon, Netflix, SirusXM, Spotify, Comcast/TimeWarner, etc. A real issue is that people are more willing to pay subscriptions for music & entertainment than for news & analysis. But that's changing.

NYTimes, WaPo, WSJ have large-scale digital subscriber programs, and mid-market publishers are following suit. But, it's never going to have as much scale as ad/attention-based monetization.

I tend to agree with the sentiment embedded in your statement -- that if media are subscriber-based, they tend to be better aligned with those readers. But people are definitely accustomed to free on the web.

I recommend you check out "The Attention Merchants" to learn a bit about how news and information has been paid for over time. You shouldn't blame measurement; you should, if anything, blame the media industry's unit economics: http://amzn.to/2osFiNz
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Having been born in Bristol and frequenting the place quite often, I can confirm this.
Does Tesla sell batteries to GM for the Bolt?
Was it really necessary? I mean, couldn't you construct structured criticisms before you attended the lecture? I'm pretty sure you could.
So that everyone who is handling this news before it is released (i.e. the publisher) knows that it contains sensitive information and may not be acted upon.
I don't follow your comment on imagining the measurements.

Uncertainty Principle refers to the arbitrary precision of two operators. You can measure each operator individually to arbitrary precision. In theory, that is.

If the two operators commute you can get theoretical arbitrary precision on both measurements together. Since their commutator is zero.

If they don't commute, the product of standard deviations of each measurement operator is restricted to no less than half the expectation value of their commutator. (photon-torpedo's comment at the top of this thread gives a better summary).
Apple to Develop Own GPU, Drop Imagination's GPUs from SoCs
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Use decimals in c# they are used for exact calculation ( and are slower)

PS. It says: Console.WriteLine("{0:R}", .1 + .2);

But when you do .1 + .2 it is 0.3 :) . With the 0:R he actually converts it to double which give the false result
You don't have to be uncertain. You could be a 100% certain. Yet as new data comes in, you might recompute for a different result. It does not imply you were uncertain at the last available dataset.
> Apple has not presented any evidence to substantiate its assertion that it will no longer require Imagination’s technology, without violating Imagination’s patents, intellectual property and confidential information.

Sounds like IMG has some fundamemtal IP that nVidia and AMD already license? They certainly have tied up their Tile-Based Deferred Rendering method, which never sounded that efficient to me (yet, Apple beats others graphically, so I probably don't appreciate it - maybe to do with cache efficiency?).

Apple, having understood this technique very well, might have thought of something even better.

They certainly would have to be pretty sure about their tech before sending this notification. Let's hope this... betrayal doesn't have the same fallout for customers as ~~google~~ maps did.
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...which comes back to my point that old truths are more likely just not as true anymore.
That is correct, but if GDP remains stagnant or falls, that becomes harder to do. GDP per capita is one of the ways that the wealth of a nation's citizenry is measured, so if that is declining due to low productivity and continued population growth, that's trouble. Basically means that the economy isn't going to be able to serve people.
In my personal experiences I've seen quite the opposite.

Specifically, this kind of starvation mostly occurs only in synthetic lock benchmarks.

In the real world, cores should be actually doing work in between spinning on cache-line locks; and the time before they get back to locking should be fairly random by quite a reasonable number of cycles - which tends to largely mitigate the starvation issue you talk about.

Basically, if you have code that is structured to by default sit on spin-locks, there is likely an architectural issue in play.

I'd go with the other contributor who said something along the lines of "the best policy is to go with the fastest lock possible", unless there is some very niche reason not to.
Now that's a fat pipe.
Sources I found suggest a speed more like Mach 2 when near the surface, and that evasion ends a few kilometers out from the target, well outside the Phalanx's firing range. I'm willing to credit CSG-1's existing CIWS with being able to knock down a Moskit or two - but not twenty, or thirty, or fifty, or a hundred, coming in all at once and, given their range and wide launcher compatibility, quite possibly on more than one axis. That's how we lose a carrier group.

I have seen some mentions of a move toward missile-based defense, which would probably be a more effective option, but most of the same considerations apply - each missile might be much more likely than an individual CIWS round to score a kill, but many fewer missiles can be carried, and the launchers still need time to reload once they exhaust their magazines.

This is also, incidentally, the real reason why DEWs and hypervelocity kinetic weapons - lasers and railguns - are such a matter of interest in the naval research establishment at the moment. They're justified as being a more cost-effective means of dealing with low-level threats, but this is America - the last time our military services had reasonably to worry about being short of funds was no more recent than the mid-1930s, and nobody since has given any meaningful fraction of a damn about the cost per shot of naval weapons - and frugality would militate against the very considerable R&D cost of new systems without new capabilities, in any case.

A much more plausible reason why these new systems receive such interest is because they might eventually offer a solution to the currently insoluble problem of how to defend against a mass attack with supersonic AShMs. You don't see that discussed much in public, because no one with a stake wants to suggest that our enormously expensive carriers no longer offer the power and prestige that merits the cost of keeping them active, but nothing else makes as much sense.
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absolutely, I totally agree.
what makes Arduino anything more than an open source Basic Stamp? I was using Basic Stamps a decade before Arduino came along. It's about choice.
Why not? They don't seem to have any other customers.
The problem seems that they are dug in like a tick. Surrounded by thick bureaucracies and they actually helped write the laws that protect their profits, this is of course a full on slap in the face to who laws are supposed to protect....
You misrepresent me. I did not say "Go live in North Korea". I said "Go live in North Korea if you want there to be no dissenting opinions.", which is a perfectly valid statement. Or are we pretending there's free speech in North Korea in the name of political correctness? However, I do admit that my post about presidents wasn't particularly constructive, yet it was still a fun observation in my eyes.
I have an almost life-ruining case of intestinal issues and I've researched and tried pretty much everything on that list over the years, sadly to little avail.

I don't like the conviction with which people recommend detailed protocols. They often have inadequate warnings (quercetin for example has not been tested for safety in higher doses + prolonged use) and fail to realize that most people are different. Plus it makes it incredibly hard to isolate what's working for you and what isn't.

I much prefer discussing items individually rather than as part of a protocol, except in cases when items are directly linked (e.g. Calcium homeostasis is linked to Vitamin D, Magnesium, Calcium, Vitamin K2 and Vitamin A).
That's some strong thoughts on umbrellas. I like to think of them as a physical indicator of personal space, if you're getting poked in the eye maybe don't get all up in peoples' business so much, respect your fellow humans - But then again I don't live in a city.
Exactly. Unless you believe you have access to information or insight that the market does not, you're just gambling.
does it even matter, browsers don't follow w3c anymore do they?

Didn't all major browsers follow the https://whatwg.org/ spec instead?
Good suggestion, but it still wouldn't prevent beginners from just learning the 0.3f notation as an idiom and skipping the explanation. The trouble with floats is that understanding them depends on knowledge of binary, scientific notation, etc. It's a lot for someone who is only just getting to grips with how a program works.
But the drivers' beef is with Uber, not the customer.
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I was also born and educated in Bristol, and not everyone there's an anarchist in favour of people being able to paint or sticker or everything they want.

And people saying they're ok with graffiti and vandalism are really saying that they're ok with other people's property to be graffitied and vandalised, not their own.
>> That's perfectly compatible with moving a lot.

So what? People who don't want to move a lot find they must keep paying someone else's mortgage as they can't get their own.

>> Yes it is, because it neither reduces demand for, nor increases supply of dwellings.

If buying up housing is made, by whatever means, financially less attractive to those who already own homes then of course this tackles demand for purchases and allows more people who are forced into renting the ability to buy their own home.
I hear the words "magic" and "magical" used in the Python community to mean that a particular module or framework does not expose its inner workings and does a lot of work behind the scenes that is not transparent to the programmer.
Vampires: http://www.csicop.org/si/show/staking_claims_the_vampires_of...

Romero-style zombies are a modern invention.
> Tesla's current market cap is equal to Ford's

While I think Tesla's valuation is high, it's worth mentioning that Ford's valuation might be exceedingly low. They live in alternate universes. Tesla's stock price is based on everything going right. Ford's stock is based on everything going wrong, with a P/E ratio of 7 (roughly half of the industry standard). Investors are already baking the subprime auto loan problem into the stock price.

Personally I'm more interested to see how GM fares against Tesla now that they're selling the Bolt. Everybody says it's a great car (never tried it), but I don't think anyone expects it to sell like a Tesla.

Whatever happens, it's fun to watch from the sidelines.
I already made a comment about Apple's GPU here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14021814

Apple actually has its own mobile GPU, built from scratch.

The Tile-Based Deferred Rendering GPU is an advantage from the GPU sharing the same memory with the GPU. On a normal desktop GPU you need to transfer huge amounts of data from the main CPU RAM to the Video Ram but on a mobile device, the CPU and the GPU sit both on the same memory system. This allows you to architecture your GPU in a different way.

Both ARM's Mali and Qualcomm's Adreno use Tile-Based Deferred Rendering.
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Web developers​ use debuggers too.
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Uber presents itself as the alternative to customer-unfriendly taxis and cab companies. So much for that.

Maybe its worth having a cup of coffee in hand to drop on the upholstery if the driver tries that trick.
If you are in the UK and using Virgin, the very first thing you should do is buy any router other than their garbage SuperHub 3.0. I was getting a ~50ms ping on LOCAL NETWORK, and weirdly high packet loss over internet, after complaining to virgin they sent me another router, was exactly the same - there's plenty of threads on their forums complaining about the same thing.

Just buy anything other than their own hardware and the connection is brilliant.
When I set a short timer the answer sometimes is something like:

"Make sure you don't overcook that egg" or

"The suspense is killing me".
>as soon as you try to measure how well people are doing, they will switch to optimising for whatever you’re measuring, rather than putting their best efforts into actually doing good work

Similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect ?
I have read about khosla paper pretty much covered
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Automation is the natural consequence of computer technology, which is a natural consequence of human intelligence. Any effort to fight or control automation is doomed.

Believe it or not, the future is gonna be much different and you either accept it, or get crushed by the power of The Machine.
It's been discussed on HN a lot [0] but the goto book is Flash Boys Not So Fast[1]

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=flash%20boys%20not%20so%20fast...

[1] http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23570025-flash-boys
Skyscanner got acquired recently, maybe this is what triggered the change.
Journalists seem to be pushing hard on the idea that what they report is is simply the facts and there is never any such thing as "alternative facts" - that is, that anything that goes against what they report is simply a lie. Probably because it's easier to sell their complaints about social media as fighting to protect facts than as an attempt to protect their control over the political process.
More than 85% of soy grown is for non-human animal consumption. Animal agriculture in Brazil is the leading cause of Amazon deforestation, likewise, animal agriculture in Argentina.

I'm not even sure if you've read the source you've given as it states the same.

Not to mention that most soy humans consume is non-GMO (which excludes practically everything from Argentina and Brazil), and that soy is grown in China, and for example in suprisingly large quantities in Serbia. So it's not even necessary to cut rainforests.
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> If the search is guaranteed-linear-time in any case then why the requirement for a Turing-complete language?

Because suggestions of using Turing-incomplete languages seem somewhat uninteresting to me. To be honest, I have never used one in anger, but if you told me to go write a production grade regex engine in Agda and Coq, I'd say you're nuts. It sounds like a fine experiment to do given infinite time, but I want people to actually use what I build. And I have a very strong suspicion that using one of those languages would take me 10 times as long to write it, if it's even possible at all.

I try hard to blend the practical with the theory. I'm not aware of any Turing-incomplete language that comes close enough to the practical side of things. I hope that changes as PL research advances. :-)

For the most part, my problem with your initial comment on the matter is that it neglects everything except for the "type system could have stopped it" part. But in reality, there are a host of trade offs at play given the actual choices available to me. (Even if those trade offs may be fundamentally orthogonal to the notion of type safety, they still exist and they are still things I must confront.)

I feel like an Agda/Coq implementation would be dead in the water pretty quickly. How easy or hard is it to manipulate raw byte buffers in those languages? Or memory layout? That's why Rust is such a nice tool for a regex engine, because it gives you access to the hardware at the level of C without any fuss at all, while still remaining reasonably safe.

A long time ago, we had a discussion about ASTs and property based testing. I noted that my "AST" couldn't be round-tripped with the concrete syntax accurately, and you noted that it was therefore not an AST. I'm in the middle of making that happen, and I've tried a bit harder this time around to use the type system to avoid invalid states. I do still have one that I haven't been able to rule out though, which is related to an invariant on a sequence of operations applied to a stack: https://github.com/BurntSushi/regex/blob/syntax-rewrite/rege...
Our "entitlement" doesn't come from nothing. Wages have been dropping significantly since the recession. The loyalty that corporations show is lower than ever. All the jobs are either being outsourced or concentrated to a handful of urban centers in the country. Cost of living is going up every year, especially in housing. We're required to get $40-$100k in debt just to start our careers. All this is happening when supposedly our economy is doing better than ever. Then we hear constantly about how we're lazy, entitled, and should just work more. I'll tell you, I'm one of those "lazy" millennials, but I'm not lazy. I'm just not willing to be exploited just so corporations can profit more and more off of my labor. Why should I care about my work when it's obvious that it doesn't care about me?
Does anyone listen to you?
I am not being sarcastic and I use it and I have used it for years. I consider myself a "hardcore greybeard", or a neckbeard, which is what you actually meant ;P

I don't agree with the support thing though. Most Gentoo users are knowledgeable; developers are always on irc/forums lending support; certain commands such as `emerge --info' make it easy to figure out what the state of the machine is regarding flags/masks.
And in many cases it has been poor UI design preventing the humans from recognising or understanding what the machine is telling them, particularly when they are under the extreme stress of an undiagnosed emergency situation.
Ultimately democracy can't exist where there are "those people" versus "us people". Lincoln's famous speech spoke of government "of the people, by the people and for the people", which only means something if "people" is a unified whole. Not "for us people, but not for those people". After all, the American civil war was about the inclusion of a different kind of "those people" in the voting pool and the abolition of the 3/5 compromise.

National unification is incredibly hard work, but worth trying.

"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills" -- Kennedy

(this applies very much to the UK as well, but I'm targeting a primarily American audience here)
Username checks out. But that looks to me like Tesla still have "yuge" room for growth.
What do you use for tracing?
Alright, some dairy products have less fat because producers spend money on making the product less unhealthy. But it still has cholesterol, and hormones and other bad stuff, and what are the benefits to consuming dairy over all the alternatives there is that has none of the bad stuff? There is none. Why take something like dairy and spend money and energy on producing those and making them more healthy than they really are, when you can get all the other benefits from other foods that also has even more benefits and none of the bad stuff, and also contributes to climate change much less, and doesn't need to include the exploitation, the suffering, and the murder of animals, when we don't need dairy and actually have to go out of our way to make it so it doesn't kill those consuming it?

And yes, antibiotics and other drugs is also a problem for meat products. I'm also against producing and consuming those, if you were wondering.
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>Can’t call me a cynical, turf-protecting doctor now.

I think the overall tone of the article is a bit harsh on the machines, especially considering the coda.
It genuinely boggles my mind that you can justify interfering with something that belongs to someone else because you think it's clever or classy. It doesn't matter how classy you think it is if the owner of the property doesn't want it.

Everyone here's replying like I'm crazy. I think it's just simply wrong to do anything to something that belongs to someone else without their permission unless you absolutely have to. No matter how trivial or clever it is. It's just wrong.
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because you can try to swipe China on Gboard

there is pretty much zero information about developing anything, just personal advertisement and only reason went people are upvoting it is because it had magical word China in title, as someone who lived there better half of decade I consider this article waste if time even for people who never been there
> They don't particularly need to be affiliated.

MPEG LA, however, would like you to believe that, seeing as LA is (or at least, was) an abbreviation of Licensing Authority -- something they clearly aren't.
The Hawthorne effect describes how any change in environment can temporarily lead to positive effects. The sentence you quote is more akin to Goodhart's law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law).
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I lived in China for a few years as well, and most expats you run into are usually teachers. This doesn't mean they are all low skill or lost perse. Many are young and come there after college for a gap year or two, to travel and experience something different. However, many are enticed by the ease of life: 16 hour work week for Uni foreign teachers, relatively decent salary, ability to travel, and other assorted reasons. I've seen many people get into side businesses while over there, but it was usually running a school (most likely with a foggy legal arrangement and no ability to procure residence permits - eliminating the true draw of a school for many parents over there). It's been a while since I was over there, so things might have changed, but I think, for the most part, the poster above is correct.
How do you keep your project wiki or confluence up to date?
I returned to a confluence project after a few months away, and Im uncertain how up to date or relevent the information is. I know the project has changed, but am unsure how much the wiki has been maintained. What strategies do people use to keep this information up to date? Especially for small teams
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Doing that for the politicians might be a better idea there. Too many MPs and Congress members only think about the short term effects of their policies as is, and it's certainly causing issues in the political world at the moment.
Likewise, and that paticular quality isn't limited to just their phones. Samsung Television UI's suck terribly too.
I also like this quote:

"What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months." - Fred Brooks