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Interesting that you brought that you should bring this up - reminded me to dig up this old Ken Thompson interview[0] (see the section starting at COMPUTER SCIENCE AND THE FUTURE) he talks about the increasing complexity and specialization of computer science as a field as a barrier to innovation, and suggests:

Well, I had to give advice to my son, and my advice to him—to the next generation—was to get into biology.

Definitely worth a read through the whole interview even if you don't agree.

[0] http://genius.cat-v.org/ken-thompson/interviews/unix-and-bey...
In one of their financial earnings calls, Google made veiled reference to the fact that the incentive structure for the self-driving venture was wildly out of whack and they were taking steps to correct it. This looks like definitely one instance of that.

Link: http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/13/14599186/google-waymo-self...
UK researchers create graphene-based sieve that can remove salt from seawater
Battery backups were several times higher before Tesla. Just looking at the South Australia proposed battery, Tesla's offer of $250/kWh is about a third of other bids for storage, from what I can tell.
"In particular, algebraic effects are combined seamlessly, whereas monad transformers are needed in the monadic style." Implies otherwise...but to be frank, I don't care. As long as I can get these features without type pollution (as monads do in Haskell) then I'm happy.
What do you propose then? Typing in the patch?
I think the line you're referring to actually read "For social security and tax purposes - not for identification." As it was explained to me, it meant that the card itself was not a proof of identity, as opposed to something like a drivers license that had a picture and other identifying info.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_documents_in_the_Unit...
This article reminds me of a couple of things.

1. Wasn't Feynman the one who was promoting replacing classical mechanics with relativity for freshman physics? How has that turned out?

2. Fuzzy logic makes a similar argument. Bart Kowasaki down in San Diego I believed proved mathematically that fuzzy logic equates Calculus and Nyquist equations. I'm probably not getting that quite right. But, Fuzzy Logic was called the "cocaine of math" and yet the Japanese have done quite well in using fuzzy math in software and manufacturing. The arguments put forth here about why every developer should learn category theory smack of the same arguments that have been made about Fuzzy logic and why fuzzy math should be taught in elementary school. I personally like and use fuzzy logic for programming but wide spread adoption of fuzzy logic never took hold. From what I've read of Category Theory, Fuzzy Logic seems to have a better argument as a programming shift because Fuzzy is a lot less abstract. Just start with a bunch of if statements that approximate the math.
The troubling thing is that presidents are so often consumed with an idea of greatness that is completely antithetical to that. They want to be remembered as a great leader. Not as some lame victim of circumstance.

To have heroes we also need villains. It is terribly unfair, but maybe that should act as a warning. If you hold the lives of thousands in the balance your own reputation will be linked to the fate of those people.
Indeed it does. When using f.lux the color temperature of the cursor remains unchanged due to this.
You are right, free speech can be very dangerous. People use it to mobilize others to truly evil acts.

But freedoms have always been dangerous. I think they are worth the risk.
Personal attacks like this on HN are one of those wrong turns that a subthread can rarely recover from, so please don't make them.

We detached this from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14026080.
there's no comparing brick with composite/hard plate steel
That was amongst the fixes I found on stack overflow, and it was nearly identical as far as issues. Maybe I'd have been ok with comparing that to Windows (where some programs do get scaled down if you start them on a high res screen and move them to a low res screen), but macOS is the definition of perfect handling of multiple monitors. These tricks don't come close to that experience for me, let alone exceed it...
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I agree with you on volatility playing an important role in bootstrapping the network in the early days of digital currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum.

I think stablecoins will play out differently though and are an important component of attracting new users. I believe decentralized applications will be built that bring mainstream users in, and these users will want a stable store of value to use these applications.
Please don't use HN for partisan battle. It's not good if an account veers into using this site primarily for politics. We eventually have to ban those (regardless of what their politics actually are) because it's destructive of the things HN is really for.
Is it safe to disable 2FA on personal devices?
Many services providing 2FA allow you to make an exception for your personal devices, after you log on for the first time. Is this safe on an un-encrypted device, especially in case you lose the device?
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The speech itself is protected, but speech can be deemed a tort in a civil proceeding, regardless. Freedom of speech protects opinions and best-effort reporting of facts, not necessarily all speech. Granted, we have to be careful not to exclude too much from protected speech, or we will never have the right again. The canonical example is causing panic with malice of intent, such as yelling fire!, fire!, fire! in a crowded hall, knowing well that there is no fire and with the intent is to cause a trampling hazard.

Fraud usually has to do with commercial statute (in the U.S., the UCC), where misrepresenting goods is grounds for a civil dispute.
I think the error in this thinking is in assuming that the market leader will be the source of the next step change in innovation. This is covered very well in the book "The Innovator's Dilemma". Bottom line, this is seldom the case. If the inflection point in battery technology comes from an outfit Tesla does not control they could be in trouble. All other car manufacturers will simply go off and buy these new better batteries while Tesla will have to figure out what to do with a factory that can't produce them and, perhaps, never will because they won't have command of the tech.
Would you accept my BTC from March 1, 2017 too and give me your USD for the March 1, 2017 price?
My brother said in Russia the milk is generally unpasteurized and tastes way better again.
Every year is potentially a record breaking year for profits. That's how inflation works!

India and Africa are going to buy Fords?

China has been really nice to Ford, it has kept them afloat while the American market tanked at home, BUT let's not delude ourselves about how Chinese JVs work. Also, China has some weird tax games going on, so its not clear where demand will eventually settle (disclaimer, I lived in Beijing for most of 2016). Other countries have and will follow similar home-grown biases.

You seem to have a bullish outlook on Ford, I don't know. I don't see them as a tech company, they make cars, they always have and always will, nothing will change for them. They aren't aiming for a shot at more greatness than they already have.
>>the combined assets of the entire class of student debtors is probably NEGATIVE

Doesn't matter. As the saying goes: if you owe the bank $1,000, you have a problem. If you owe the bank $100,000,000, the bank has a problem.

Debtors as a group probably would have a great deal of collective bargaining power.
Interestingly, the 100mi road record is 11:46:37. I doubt that was done with ~10mi of vertical climb though...
Trumps goons are hunting immigrants as we write here. Trump supporters regularly beat up people of color. Police regularly shoots black people.

And Trumps entire team believes climate change is fake news - this alone will lead the US and the world with it into a desaster.
He hasn't scaled the 4k screen. You can tell because it's eDP or Embedded Display Port. That's something they use on laptops for the internal screen.
Even if CO2 to petroleum were 100% efficient, you're still throwing away 70+% of the energy by burning it in an ICE rather than putting it in a battery as electricity.

Any likely method of CO2 to petroleum is likely to be below 50%, more like 15-30% efficient. Round-trip efficiency an entire order of magnitude worse than battery. That's why batteries are better for ground-based applications and will remain so.
and posting things online is not the same thing as writing an article in a local newspaper printed in the town you live in.

do you see how the differences are incredibly important here? can you not try to make this conversation about mean tweets and feminism? that just isn't the topic and the comparisons you're making are extremely disrespectful to the Mexican journalists involved.
I honestly don't think anyone that I'd be able to talk to on the phone there cares. Between the 4 or 5 people they passed me around to, I was given info about this other person that they had no right to give out.

And that's the lesson here. Customer support representatives are so far removed from positions where they can actually be helpful, that all they are able to provide anymore is apathy and canned responses.
Once you give the government control over what constitutes "fraud", you can kiss your freedom to speak goodbye. Every totalitarian state in history suppressed (or suppresses) speech in the name of controlling disinformation.
I say both. You coming over on July 4th for our big Forth of July Celebration?

And year/month/day/hour/minute/second is best as its largest to smallest and if you name your documents / fields in this format it sorts better.
Down for me, archive.org from September: https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20160917172140/http://amazo...
Samsung's Odin bootloaders are not based on fastboot (or at least I don't think they are). And whatever they are based on, the problem is that they can be locked, depriving end-users of their right-to-modify. And that Google went out of their way at every turn in Android's development to reimplement GPL components with permissive licenses (like Bionic) that would enable hardware vendors to engage in this sort of dickery.

Android is the emblem and sigil of Tivo-ization. And Google was the key enabler of this. I get that this was successful - after all, "Android overtakes Windows as the blah, blah," is very successful. And maybe if Google had behaved ethically Android wouldn't have been the success that it is. Just don't give me any of the "don't be evil" BS. When threatened, Google was every bit as evil as Microsoft was at the height of the browser wars.
This is exactly correct.

There is no rational reason why Palo Alto should have detached houses with lawns, or Sausalito be a little town, except for terrible political decisions about land use and mass transit.
> Note that having a job seems necessary though.

I'm not sure that's true. It would be interesting to see some numbers. My naive impression is that there are at least two things needed to make intellectual history: genius, and opportunity to practice your genius. Both are rare, and given that there are far, far more people who need to earn a living than people who don't, I would expect the absolute numbers of (Genius)(NeedsAJobHasAMenialJob) to be greater than (Genius)*(Doesn'tNeedAJob).

My impression is that gentlemen of leisure have, especially in the 19th, 18th, and 17th centuries, been a very disproportionate percentage of intellectual history, and that even the nominal jobs in that group (parson, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge) were wholly orthogonal to whether they produced.

What do you think having an unrelated, undemanding job would contribute to intellectual work?
> Conflating a home and a car is a bad argument. Homes have been required for hundreds of thousands of years. Shelter has been a human need since before humanity.

> Cars have not been. The earliest proto-human sought shelter from a storm. They did not seek personalized shelter during transportation.

Are you familiar with New World Economics' discussion of "really narrow streets"? One thing the author points out (in "Let's Take a Trip to an American Village") is that even in the 19th century, the US was very interested in what he calls "My Personal Means of Transportation" -- the fashionable thing to do was to have a carriage house, no matter how little you actually needed a carriage. I think you see less of this pattern elsewhere in the world (or else you just see less wealth; consider how "pedestrian" seldom has positive connotations and "equestrian" never has negative ones), but there's definitely an enthusiasm for personal transport in the US.
Maintainable code is very important, unless you work for some company that just produces code then dumps it on a client. The key is to balance functional purity with understandability.

Let's take something like Clojure. I get immutable data, sane multithreading (I haven't had thread related problems in my code for years), etc. All without monads. Whenever I've started doing things like introducing state monads, or seen code involving applicative and "free" stuff, it basically becomes an opaque blob of functions. Zero ability to have the code self introspect or to leverage that pile of functions.

The better method is immutable data and data-first designs. Data is searchable, introspect-able, and transformable. Most CT stuff is all about composing functions via functions. Making your entire system opaque, at least from the point of view of the program itself.
Well, Lavoisier's tax farming was not passive income: "Lavoisier's researches on combustion were carried out in the midst of a very busy schedule of public and private duties, especially in connection with the Ferme Générale." [1] The gentleman scientists were also usually involved in some sort of business, even if it was just administering their estates. The people who truly had a passive income - relying on annuities or government bonds, mostly inherited - are hard to spot in the history of science. They were a pretty numerous class though [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Lavoisier#Gunpowder_Co...

[2] https://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/25/piketty-and-the...
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At first I thought it said oauth! I was thinking, 1.0 or 2.0?
Also, Microsoft, with Windows Phone, tried to be much more domineering with the hardware vendors than Google. And those vendors told Microsoft to go pound salt. Google is letting the hardware vendors be true to their model which is to sell something snazzy, and then drop support after 12 months, with life support for another 6-12. That's what the device manufacturers want.
I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, etc.

Assuming you mean the Mexican constitution, it's kind of vague:

Article 6
. The expression of ideas shall not be subject to any judicial or administrative
investigation, unless it offends good morals, infringes the rights of others, incites to crime,
or disturbs the public order.

"Offends good morals" is not defined anywhere, so it's up to interpretation whether that includes fraud. "Infringes the rights of others" is defined in various places, but in similarly vague terms.
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> dollars are stablecoins

i get it, dollars are digital. but really thats the only similarity.
So an OEM being allowed to build their own OS is a huge design flaw?

Is Debian also responsible for Ubuntu's security flaws?
Blog Del Narco[1] is one such underground source. Of course, some accuse it of falling short of journalistic standards because it filters almost nothing, and so has often been used as a de facto PR outlet for numerous cartels. Even so, one of its founders is believed to have been murdered in 2013, and the other was forced to leave Mexico permanently.

[1]http://www.blogdelnarco.com/
What about credit unions?

(Genuine question: I don't know if they are any better in that regard, or not.)
This also came out and is more narrowly focused on areas relevant to frequent discussion on HN: https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/files/nativedocume...

SUBJECT: Rescission of the December 22, 2000 “Guidance memo on H1B computer related positions”

(edit to add:)
Some key passages from the USCIS memorandum: "... an entry-level computer programmer position would not generally qualify as a position in a specialty occupation ...

Based on the current version of the Handbook, the fact that a person may be employed as a computer programmer and may use information technology skills and knowledge to help an enterprise achieve its goals in the course of his or her job is not sufficient to establish the position as a specialty occupation."
I dropped my resume for PM (Technical) on the website a while back and I haven't heard back from you guys yet, outside of the automated "Thanks for applying" email.

Is there an email that I can reach you guys at?
We know who is better the same way we know how to set the metric. There is no escaping "values" :)

Metrics do complicate cliques and nepotism; but they can also be used to reinforce them. Rarely is performance as clear cut as speed in a race. Metrics that boil down to approval from coworkers -- how helpful was this person? how professional (1-5) was their communication? -- often do more to conceal bias than prevent it.
I mean, if they were present now, people wouldn't have been asking for it, would they?
At some point, people may get to implement Oath oauth login to a site by connecting via oath. :)
Their podcast is pretty good. I like their interviewing style.
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Ask HN: How to handle a cease and desist?
I'm a solo developer and have a successful SaaS business. I've received a cease and desist from a very large company my product works on top of.

For people that have similar experience, should you take a cease and desist email serious, or wait until an actual injunction has been filed?

I honestly don't believe my service breaks any laws, but I obviously can't battle one of the largest companies in the world all by myself.

I don't want to shut down my business because I received an email that could very well be a scare tactic. What should I expect next? I assume an injunction that demands I stop the service and/or battle it in court?
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The risk is mass murder. Nazis have murdered over 200 people in the last two decades alone in Germany.

In Chechenya, only two days ago homophobes murdered at the very least three homosexual people, arrested over a hundred - and credible activists fear for much worse numbers.

Fascist and reactionary ideologies always lead to death.
Yeah but what you're saying is that the state has the right to impart it's beliefs on these kids. I know you don't like the evangelicals beliefs and prefer what the state is currently teaching. But what if the tables were flipped. What if you lived in a country with a religious rule and your kids were forced to learn that religion. The only free and fair system I can think of is to allow parents the right to teach their beliefs to their children. As not everyone in society is ever going to agree.
This seems as good a place as any to add the familiar lament: Why does no one build new commuter rail in this country?

(This assumes that you're also from the US, for rhetorical convenience.)
Sorry for late reply, but I totally did not mean the word "extreme" like you are talking about. I meant extreme as in, my expectations for a newspaper opinion section with the heft of the WSJ should contain wisdom and NOT be mostly a cheer-leader for one side of the political spectrum.
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As described here, "communication ability" and "timeliness" are not metrics -- they are just things that someone wants. They are no more a metric than "tastiness". In the absence of a well-defined measurement procedure and the intent to carry it out, one can not really be said to have a metric.
I am Chinese and I've been living in the U.S. for a couple of years, so I know both worlds. Everyone I know in China who use an Android has ton of apps on their phones. I'd say there are at the very least tens to hundreds of thousands of apps to choose from either in the various third party app stores or directly from first party websites, and it's very common for people to have multiple apps with similar functions, e.g., four or five web browsers.

I don't know where you learned about the misinformation that is "the balance of things towards WeChat and away from Play Store/Play Services in China", which is frankly quite ridiculous because WeChat is just a messenger app with a few added functionalities (social timeline, payment, etc.) — it's not comparable to an app store or a service SDK at all.
Location surprisingly has less to do with the possiblity of it happening than one might think. There was a huge scam in Silicon Valley with card readers stuck inside of gas pumps so they were undetectable, that started five years ago. http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/02/21/six-arrested-for...
There's a big difference between an OEM merging their source code with Google's AOSP source code and then compiling it to build an OS than just adding crapware to a Windows installation. OEM's can't modify the Windows source code and can only distribute the OS given to them.
At least Nissan had their name prior to the domain being taken (they just didn't register it early enough.)

When I first read this I was thinking that this might be an Alphabet-type situation where the domain name doesn't really matter but I'm not getting that impression now.
While I agree, it's also way too late to start brandishing the Constitution about. A cynical observation: neither Democrats or Republicans give one fig for the Constitution, until The Other is in power.

Case(s) in point: the FCC, FDA, minimum wage laws, Federal involvement in education.

None of those is Constitutional without some laughable legal gymnastics around inter-State commerce, and yet very few people have been complaining about their existence over the years.

As a non-American observer, the whole system seems reminiscent of ancient Rome at the point where it had become an Empire but was still pretending it was a Republic.
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