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Samsung's problems with software are a legacy of how Android was launched: Android had to be launched with the help of hardware OEMs. Hardware OEMs (with the exception of vertically integrated Apple) were, in turn, under the thumb of carriers. Both carriers are hardware OEMs are utter crapulent crap at software AND at product management, and at the time could be quite arrogant about it despite being hopeless.

Now that Android is mature, OEM and carrier modifications should be limited and strictly user uninstallable. Even in the short history of modern smartphones, this has been evident for several years now. But that legacy of carrier dominance of phone specs and crap product management persist.

Google has been unable to get a handle on this problem. If you are in the know, choose a Nexus or Pixel device. But Android Silver, Android One, Google Play Edition, etc. have all gone by the boards as OEMs drift back into "but we need differentiation."

The upshot is that Samsung's biggest challenge is to simply refrain from adding bloat and confusion. Their product management should be asking "Is this SO much better than what Google has that it would dominate the category if we put it on Google Play for everyone to use?" If not, it needs gone.
That's true. One thing I like about CIM is it's trivially easy for me to be PCI compliant, because that particular sensitive data doesn't hit my server. But you're right - I can't export it.
I'm not sure that achieving a solution is the same as avoiding a problem. And it's not clear to me which has happened.
That's a lot of conclusion from one data point. I went to Stanford, the teaching was top-notch and the students motivated and upbeat. Had guest lectures from Silicon Valley stars, had Stanford facilities to visit (they have their own particle accelerator!) and clubs everywhere.

However my youngest tried to attend Cleveland Institute of Music (a well-respected conservatory). Depressed and burnt out in 1 year. They forgot somewhere that young people are actually living there. The only thing on the online student calendar was Weight Watcher's meetings. No karaoke nights, no community visits (students were instructed to never leave campus), dark dormitory like a submarine. He lost weight and ultimately gave up on the career that led him there.

So I guess that's just 2 data points. Anybody else got a story?
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The Spearman rank correlation of your two sets is 61% (after dropping cities that are not common to both).

https://gist.github.com/hughdbrown/94016d0f477b855a893514131...

Sadly, Salt Lake City is dropped from the set because of the missing foreign-born data.
Coincidentally, the Japanese like to use English to appear 'exotic and cool' too.
Funny you should say that. I moved to Ireland a few years ago, and just returned from a week-long trip to Copenhagen yesterday. It was bliss for the cyclist.

Interestingly, I had thought that separated infrastructure would be the primary benefit, but even on roads with shared space, the drivers were _vastly_ more considerate than where I've lived in the US (all California), with the potential exception of Berkeley.
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The thing is, Utah has never had a truly poor population. They aren't raising people out of poverty, but it's growing fast and most of the people who move there are relatively rich compared to the general population.

But also, Utah has the fifth richest bottom quartile of any state, about 40% higher than North Carolina's. So yes, it's much much easier to move from that to the top quartile than in most states.
I agree, that's the purpose, sadly many don't feel that's the reality
Plus education and (business) knowledge that survived the war

I find it rather strange that people think that money alone can make a country long-term prosperous.
A 3-inch blade length restriction is reasonable. For instance, it was illegal until 2014 in my state to carry a blade longer than 4 inches. (There is now no limit.) During the majority of my life that it was illegal to have a longer blade, most people I knew still carried pocket knives that were legal to carry.
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I have had great success taking flamenco lessons from a teacher over the last 18 months.

I have had much less success putting together my own AI/Machine learning trajectory through Coursera and other online resources.

Granted these are not exactly the same, I do feel a good teacher, who provides homework and can scale the class to your current level is really useful.

So say I wanted to work through this book, http://www.deeplearningbook.org/ and pick up the missing math on the way, where might I find someone who can help me with that (through skype or other means). Paid of course!
On the other hand, Apples lack of support for standards is hurting their users. Metal instead of Vulkan, USB Micro/C vs. Lightning. No Miracast support. Most TV software has built in support for Android (simply show videos and photos on your TV). Better integration into the system. My router supports landline calls via smartphone, but iOS doesn't allow integration into the dialer. Copying non-iTunes music to your iPhone is still a PITA. If you don't live in an exclusively Apple environment, your experience will suck. Honestly, Google and the bad update support is the only reason I won't switch to Android. Definitely not the day-to-day user experience.
Wow that's a lot of angst. Sanctuary Cities is precisely "doing something about it" right? I don't think they're cesspools of anarchy.
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The factorization of 2 is fine -- factorizations are equivalent if they're off by a unit, and i is a unit.

By the same token, 1+i and 1-i are essentially the same prime, since you can multiply one by a unit to get the other. That's how we can get away with saying 2 is a power.

edit: Just noticed the sibling comment by mrkgnao, which is a very good overview of some of the technical nitty-gritty that goes into this.
Not just a lot of progressives, accusing people who oppose "government welfare program to support X" to be against X has been a thing for the left that's been going on for centuries. Frederic Bastiat already said in 1850 in his famous quote:

"Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain."
This is basically a more serious riff on Dan Lyon's 'Disrupted' -- and having read that book, I'm a little disappointed in this editorial as it doesn't bring anything particular new to this (Uber) discussion.

His previous book, with its first-person descriptions of life inside Hubspot rang _eerily_ true to me as a late-30s employee at a Bay-area unicorn, and has caused me to re-evaluate a lot of things around me. Disrupted is hilarious, depressing, and fucking spot-on.
This exact same story was submitted four days ago and received considerable discussion. You can find that discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13977554
> they can be farmed on ropes with no environmental damage

Some activities are worst than other; but all have some effect on the environment. Mussel farms release sediments to the sea floor below, modifying its granular structure. This changes the communities of organisms living in the area.
Iirc Matz (of Ruby) is Mormon. I've always wondered what the Mormon roots are like outside of the continental US and how they took hold and continue to be.
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I don't think so - I think it means the ability to destroy, or otherwise render harmless, those mutations that behave in a cancer-forming way.
Lots of great answers here, but I think that there is an underlying cause of most of the benefits described, and that there is "one obvious way" to think about this question, and it's this:

* Python lives outside the control of any single corporate or government entity. Yes, three of the biggest players work at Dropbox, but clearly Dropbox doesn't have the kind of control over Python that Oracle has over Java, SalesForce with Ruby, or Google with Go.

Because of this, Python is more a community than a single programming language. Being at PyCon fills one with the sense that, after the fall of the state (or at least the US government), very little will change within Python - we'll still be there to support each other in code and in spirit.

There will still be a space for data science and web trends to share air with multimedia hacking and sacred geometry. There will still be story telling, acro-yoga, robotics, and unit tests under one roof.

I can actually imagine Rust or Go (and Gophercon) becoming such a haven, but to my knowledge, it isn't yet. Python has the unique combination of a rich, diverse, radical, accepting culture with technical maturity and reliability.

Python makes me feel safe and brings out the best of who I am.

That's why I use Python.
I get that this is an April 1st joke, but this bit actually hit home:

> We call it, “R-Query”. Since demonetisation and US presidential elections, we knew that ₹ is the future and we can’t rely on $ anymore.
I think that's only in the tech world, because I once came upon a "legacy senior home" and none of my (non-tech) friends found it as amusing. Apparently there are plenty of senior homes with legacy in their names.
We know the limit is not 100 because of Euclid's proof of the infinitude of primes.
A few more stories about idiotic drivers ending up behind bars for life would have an infinitely better calming effect than all the signage in the world, imo.
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Well, it don't know where you are, but the US pretty much has that covered.

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+long+has+america+been+at...
On the other hand, there is no such thing as a free lunch (if there was in this case and this policy was so great for the Economist, why don't all publications whatsoever insist on anonymity?), and all journalists who might work for the Economist are well-aware of this editorial policy; so they have to pay the price either in offering higher salaries to compensate for the lack of brand-building, or accept fewer/worse hires.

It's a curious policy and highly unusual, so I have to wonder if it's a good idea at all. The usual arguments for anonymity online seem to only questionably apply here. There's a lot to be said for people writing under their own names - accountability, for one thing.
> The thing is, Utah has never had a truly poor population.

What about when the first destitute pioneers arrived and found a desert?
> The Economist is not doing mathematics or controlled, replicated experiments. Any given reader can't meaningfully check the work of a news organization for its relationship to the truth, except to see whether it aligns with what you already think.

If that were true, it'd be one more reason not to try to give credence to unfalsifiable publications by linking them to experts of various fields, or even editors-who-once-took-a-course-on-T.

But I think it's not true at all. The thought process on most publications like Economist is one most people can follow for its validity, precisely because it's not state-of-the-art mathematics (or even economics). Even though the domain experts can immediately judge its correctness, I think it's important for anyone to be able to at least identify when they're reading something they can't verify as correct, and not take publication X's "word" for it.

> Editors are a thing.

Editors are there to make sure the news piece conforms to certain standards, but that's not the standards of the readers.

> If you already know whether or not the Economist is correct about something, what value are you getting from reading it?

That was nowhere near my point, and I don't see why you base your comment around it. My point is I am (or want to be) able to read a piece and judge it on its own, rather than who wrote it.
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I'm sure the author didn't research enough to make this realization.
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Ah, yes. I have heard similar experiences from ex-Mormons i've come across. Just shows that things are more complicated in real world and you can't take some anecdotal evidence to judge a group/person in any meaningful way. Your side of the story is not something people looking from the outside would normally see.
As a student, I would find that an interesting thesis. As your advisor I guess.

I'm working on a generalization of this concept to rendering, but I'm not sure I would publish the results or just write informally about it. The idea is to generalize light rays to depend on the geometry of the scene, allowing them to bend to reach more interesting parts (behind objects or the horizon) as a global function of the scene configuration.
codementor.com might be an option. Or lookup a related subreddit and try to find someone there.
Is there a good book on copywriting that you could recommend?
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Isn't it the case with every group with strong identity? Imagine being raised in a long-term Democrat family and declaring that the Tea Party is your thing. (And it's not even about eternal damnation.)
It's a nice hope, but the people initiating the wars are not the ones who fight the wars. We'd have less wars if bankers and politicians had to fight in them.
Also, lower oxygen levels in the air have been linked to higher depression and suicide (not just Utah, but everywhere near the Rockies).
They run a letters to the editor section every week.
I don't know. I've never had an argument with an infantile book.
I don't think it is. Working on 64x64 makes global coherence easier and the NNs smaller/faster but shouldn't make a qualitative difference. I believe one guy using DiscoGAN/CycleGAN on my current Danbooru anime dataset ( https://www.gwern.net/Danbooru2017 ) is doing it at 128px without any major changes.
I'm _really_ put off this simply by the fact that the author chose to promote it on, of all things, Blogspot. The code is hosted on Github! As are the binaries! How hard would it have been to put together a clean promo page, or even just a clearly-written README with screenshots?
> Similarly, Dijkstra had to leave Europe to escape a 'religious' academia and found refuge in 'backwards' religious Texas.

Do you have a source for this? Seems like an interesting story and I couldn't find mention on his Wikipedia page.
I am interested in how this works on the back end, and whether or not they're using t.38. And if they're using t.38, how reliable this service is. As someone that played with -- nay, engineered -- a faxing solution over a couple of years' worth of side project time in order to facilitate playing an ARG, I can say confidently that faxing over VOIP lines ("t.38") is almost impossible to do reliably.
The poster merely said "possession"
But you don't want the software that is capable of decrypting the DB to also be responsible for uploading to a fixed cloud service!
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Wolfe is a pseduo-scientific salesman of the worst kind; I would seek alternative sources of information to back up anything he says or writes:
http://ascienceenthusiast.com/the-david-avocado-wolfe-effect...
At my University, there were Calc I, II and III - roughly AB, BC and Multivariate. Calc I is a review of the high school curriculum (at least for local students). I think having a quick review of the chain rule and proceeding from there would be much less of a waste of time. I can't imagine anyone who got through HS Calc failing the first calculus course (although I'm sure it happens) and I think passing the Calc II course on the first try is a good test of the kind of intelligence needed for CS/Engineering. Doing Calculus at MIT's pace doesn't seem unfair at all.

That said, plenty of people repeat Calc II and go on to graduate (often in 5 years instead of 4). My University has a strict rule where if you fail a required course twice, you get kicked out of your program.
Not yet. I'm thinking of trying 1Password or something KeePassX-based, maybe with Google Drive or Dropbox for the syncing.
As much as I preferred the swipe type keyboards on android to the plain IOS one, that doesn't compensate for a keyboard crashing and freezing. It wouldn't have been an issue on my Samsung except they kept updating and reasserting their buggy one over Google's.
I'm not sure about the "few skills" part - is there a way to verify that? Seems like there are a fair number of educated immigrants who have to take lower-paying jobs due to language and cultural barriers.
It's fair to say, I think, that the Economist represents the distillation of much globalist/elite thinking.
I think that's a very good point. That said, my guess is that, on average, shunning is probably less frequent when family members leave a political party than when they leave Mormonism, but that's just a guess with no backing evidence.

Some Mormon families don't care whether their kids stay in the church or leave. For others, it leads to shunning and disowning. I'd say shunning probably occurs more for Mormon apostates than Catholic apostates, but it probably occurs less for Mormon apostates than Jehovah's Witness or Scientologist apostates.
No. And everything is scanned for Malware too.
> my Mormon loved ones told me that they were concerned about the future of my children, that I was depriving my family of happiness in heaven, and, as one of my own parents told me, they didn't know who I was anymore.

If they believe that you must be religious or else you burn in hell for all of eternity, then their reaction makes sense. They are behaving that way out of concern for your well being.
"A breath of fresh sanity"

When in doubt, portmanteau the idiom.
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Think how much fun it is running the intelligence-agency run VPN front companies now! You get paid to log the traffic of users worried about their privacy!
It might be ridiculous but not for the reasons you state. All those differences are the result of culture and governance.
Call me naive, but even as an outspoken critic of many things Google, I trust their phones far more than any other Android phone.

That said, I disagree I would trust even Google branded phones re: malware. Android will likely never have my trust there.
Here's a list of the YouTube channels I'm subscribed to. It spans a broad range of interests; hopefully you'll find at least some of them interesting.

* Julian Illet - Low-voltage electronics

* Big Clive - High-voltage electronics (plus completely random stuff)

* Cody's Lab - Science of various sorts

* Nile Red - Home chemistry

* Periodic Videos - Professional chemistry

* Tom Scott - Things You Might Not Know

* Objectivity - Brief looks into the archives of the Royal Society

* Numberphile - Mathematics

* Matthias Wandel - Woodworking

* Matt Parker / StandupMaths - Mathematics

* Every Frame a Painting

* James May the Reassembler - BBC show (not a channel, but people have posted episodes) where James May reassembles things that have been disassembled.
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There are quite a few comments here on the use of checklists. Dr. Atul Gawande wrote at length about their usefulness in "The Checklist Manifesto".

We've released an iPhone app, Koantify Checklists:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/koantify-checklists/id115800...).

It's a voice responsive app (i.e., Siri-like) for creating, maintaining, using, and sharing checklists.

(Based on the post we're commenting on, I guess our next step would be to recognize gestures like pointing...)

The app steps you through tasks by voice or text, and responds to your voice commands (it tries to provide optional "hands-free" operation as much as possible).

When you complete your checklist, the app optionally emails you (or a list of people) a detailed record of completion of the checklist, showing steps you completed, skipped, or possibly had to repeat.

For organizations, it's easy to export/import checklists. You can distribute by email, via iCloud, or you can download checklists from web links. For training, use of a checklist provides important reminders of how things should be done.

Feedback, comments, suggestions are most welcome.
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They changed editor. Micklethwaite stepped down and he was replaced by Zanny Minton Beddoes, who apparently has rather different political views ...
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One of these views is more factually valid and supported by data.
It avoids ad hominem attacks over decent independent research.

Maybe you don't want to read Peter Theil's view of how the tech sector will change in America even if it was a spot on analysis
Mobility is typically defined in terms of moving between income quintiles in the population -- relative, not absolute. If the income range of the quintiles is very compressed (i.e. everyone's income is close to the median) then a small change in absolute income can lead to a large change in income percentile. Compared to places with higher income variance, this tends to overweight the "mobility" of places with low income variance. At the very least it produces a misleading result relative to what most people would define as meaningful mobility.

The same problem applies to comparing mobility between countries. If you have someone with the same (PPP) wage in the lower quintiles in Denmark and the USA, a $20k increase in absolute income in Denmark will cause a big jump in the quintile (and therefore "mobile") and a $40k increase in absolute income in the USA won't even though it is twice the real gain! Simply due to the fact that Denmark has low income variance and USA has high income variance. Income mobility measures that don't adjust for variance tend to produce misleading results when there are significant differences in income variance in the sample population.

If Utah has a relatively low income variance (not a lot of poor, not a lot of rich) then it will lead to percentile based mobility measures that are less meaningful than States with higher income variance.
This is being pushed through in haste and rips a huge hole in privacy for its citizens. The Indian state and the agency managing this exercise (UIDAI) have refused to own up to responsibility for any breaches. They have even gone ahead and started punishing people who point out flaws in the scheme.

Centralizing biometric data and giving third parties access to it is a bad idea anyway.

Besides, in the confusion a large number of foreigners are likely to become citizens. This is a huge foul up and a live example of how badly thought through some government programs are.
You have to be pretty careful about what conclusions you draw from this info. It means relatively little about what your actual peer has seen. It tells you a some info about the channel between you and your peer, though.

If you need detailed feedback, you need to implement a feature that closes the loop.
Are you seriously about to go to school again? Work your job, save money and perhaps you can invent a device on your own, or invest in one, etc, in your spare time. Lots of physicians have done so.
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