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This excuse completely ignores the fact that through the MADA contract, Google controls all of the manufacturers and defines whether or not they are allowed to sell Android phones, effectively. And that the OS is designed, by Google, to require the manufacturer to distribute the update, rather than, as with... pretty much all other OSes, the software developer being responsible for updating their own software.

Google would like you to blame the manufacturer, but you need to realize the fact that you even can blame the manufacturer is a design flaw in the OS which Google designed.
> Can you explore your own hypotheses and put together your own experiments? Probably not.

Can you expand on this? I don't see why you couldn't, outside of the amount of money that may be needed for certain research.
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Good point, I bring an extra gas can in the bed of the truck but I ended up getting a few gallons in Frenchglen from the store, probably could have made it with the extra I had but didn't want to chance it. It's a lot cheaper and easier to bring extra gas then a spare battery!
> This one’s bizarre: the onboard keyboards on both the 2015 Macbook Pro and Macbook Air have worse latency than an external keyboard. Plugging in an external wireless keyboard improves response latency by 40 ms. What are you doing, Apple?

I noticed this myself when I upgraded my wireless Magic Keyboard a few weeks ago. I haven't noticed any difference between the two (keyboards) before, and assumed that the new one felt snappier due to shorter travel.
I would apply to a position on our site and write a nice cover letter (our recruiters are great and actually read it).

If you have hobby projects you have built, mention them proudly and show them off (this is the way I was hired at cloudflare).

We don't do much with rust, though. Lots of Go.
CAP theorem doesn't address rollbacks. That's an implementation detail for the admins to work out based on the results of how a particular distributed system addresses Consistency, Availability, and Partition tolerance.

User agreements are irrelevant--or at least a cheap cop out--for defining how a distributed system behaves in failure cases. In this particular case, I was where I was supposed to be, but I had an actual network partition event. My phone died. It's not really an analogy at this point. It's an actual P partition event. And Uber's default choice in that case is to assume the rider is no longer there. That's a bad practice, in reality.

No one would tolerate a data store that behaves this way.

It should be obvious that a network of drivers and riders and a coordinating piece of software that links the two of them up has every characteristic of a distributed network.
I'm actually surprised that a limited traffic jam autopilot isn't out yet. It'd be enormously helpful to a lot of people.
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The alternative to valuing a stock as the current value of its net future dividends (not future revenue; as a stockholder, you have no claim on revenue) is the greater fool theory.

Greater fool theory has some problems. For one, it's not economically rational.
Overlays is a way to extend Nixpkgs in a format which can easily be shared, imported and combined. An overlay can add or override packages, like any user could do before with packageOverrides.

An example of overlay is the rust overlay provided in the nixpkgs-mozilla[1] repository, which package all latest versions of the rust compiler[2].

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/nixpkgs-mozilla
[2] https://github.com/mozilla/nixpkgs-mozilla/blob/master/rust-...
> There's no way amazon is paying the same fee as anyone else in the world for credit card fees

I'm not so sure. Is there any actual evidence of large retailers negotiating down interchange fees? Even Walmart resorted to legislative pressure to regulate fees.

The power of network effects is strong. Retailers are reluctant to drop support for consumer-preferred payment methods and lose that business. That gives card networks a lot of negotiating power even with large merchants.
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I suppose that's the funny thing, I've not had (too) many problems with Comcast. Then again I lost upwards of eight hours when I moved into my current house because their phone reps set up multiple accounts for me.

With Verizon I've heard plenty of stories from friends of lock-in, specious fees, horrible customer service. All the fun stuff you hear from pretty much all the big players. Of course I'm talking strictly mobile service, which T-Mobile delivers adequately enough for me and has for the past five years. Phone service has been very word-of-mouth in my experience, and my friends with Verizon have scared me off of them for a long time. On the flipside T-Mobile did well at winning over a lot of folks I know.
There's an exponential curve:

https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1...
If this is implemented as an in-store pickup location with a little terminal that allows you to buy items with cash anonymously, I'd love the concept.
Totally. It's just that the notion that millenials are more frivolous because they don't buy cars and big houses seems so predominant in people's minds.
I suspect this has to do more w/ the audience here. Probably for more sde type works, certs do not matter. But any work with higher level design/arch. etc may need these.
Ya, I guess the title is slightly misleading. But the point is that speed isnt everything. I will still use Python regardless of it being slow.
That being said, Python3 is actually faster than python2 for most things, IIRC
The price has been rapidly decreasing in the last 10 years, to the point that it no longer makes sense to not have solar everywhere. It's cheaper than coal, and will soon be cheaper than all the other fossil fuels as well, and will continue to go down, never up.

China now employs over 1 million workers making solar panels. And they're ramping that up as fast as they can, and shelving coal power plants. We've reached that critical tipping point for PV solar to go vertical, and Tesla/SolarCity just built their own factory in Buffalo to take advantage.
To me this sounds like you just develop dependency-laden bloatware, i.e. you'll throw in some 5 gigabyte Javascript library just to do one thing.
Wish the hyperventilating over this issue would die down some.

This page is about as pointless as possible. It shows when someone from the "House" or "Senate" visits a page. Okay, and from that we will strike a blow at the evil congressmen somehow?
http://designernews.co for well, Designer News.
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I'm sure the world would immediately trust an Adobe OS. They've done such a great job keeping Acrobat and Flash secure, after all.
28% of Americans don't have a credit card. 7% don't have a bank account. Those numbers are massively higher in countries that are more cash reliant like India. In 2014 20% of the world was "unbanked", a good search term if you want to do more research.
My comment is about the use of the term "crisis".
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I had to check that this wasn't posted on April 1.

this is a form of scrip[0] as far as I can tell. I can't imagine anyone who isn't an indentured servant finding this to be something they want in their life.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrip
Oh I misunderstood the context, yes my examples were in the context of Infiniband cards, thanks. I admit I haven't kept up with RoCE/iWarp. If you have an links to share I would appreciate it. Cheers.
Market perception.

Ford's P/E ratio is 9.89.
IBM's P/E ratio is 14.02.

Facebook's P/E ratio is 40.79.
Tesla's P/E ratio is infinity since the E is negative.

I'm sure Ford has done many incremental innovations, I didn't say they didn't. IBM does the same thing, and has "record profits" every few years also. Its just the market isn't expecting the next big thing to come from Ford, while they are expecting that from Tesla.

If you think the market is wrong or too irrational, you can make a killing by shorting Tesla and buying cheap Ford stock.
Any move to make an official national identity program in the USA is demonized and shot on sight, no matter if it brings to light the crappy system around SSNs.

A true solution would have to be usable by private industry as well. If it were up to me, it would essentially be x509 (because today, you're trusting the state and the person presenting the SSN), but people lose important shit, even proof of identity, all the time.
ISPs fear being dumb pipes. They want "additional revenue channels" like selling profiles on their subscribers to advertisers, or better yet, vertically integrating with advertisers. Look at everything ISPs do and how badly they don't want to be water or power or sewer companies like they should be, especially given how few choices there are in a given physical location (for wired ISPs). With this FCC chair and political climate, however, I doubt we'll see change any time soon.
You're assuming that the point of academia is that it is valuable to society.

The point of academia (from a purist's perspective, at least) is that learning is the target in itself; pushing back the boundaries of ignorance is an end-goal of our species.

In many cases the advancement of our state of knowledge brings many rewards but that doesn't have to be the point of it.

> Maybe I am wrong but after postmodernism I really don't see what new revelations are going to be of fundamental value to society.

I'm not sure postmodernism has any fundamental value to society! But of course we can't reason about how much value new advances have to society - if we knew enough about them to know that, they would already have been discovered.
What was a myth?

Me saving around 500€ on today's money, because I got to use my savings on a no name OEM PC running DR-DOS/Windows 3.1, instead buying an IBM PC with OS/2 2.0?
There is a current growth due to fintech startups like monzo, who are using prepaid cards to test the market
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What if you don't have any of those things?
These people may not have the credit for credit cards or a bank account with a debit card (again, bad credit or maybe even just distrust of the banking system).

As others have pointed out, this is basically buying a gift card and applying it to your account in one step instead of two.
You cant say that about every other field though. You cant say it about physics you cant say it about chemistry you cant say it about math. Each of the have very applicable outputs.

None of your examples require philosophy or psychology etc. to provide progress. Neuroscience is perfectly capable to ponder on its own problems.

Emergence belongs to other fields too though systems theory, art, ai. And it isn't going to change philosophy itself like ex modernism or postmodernism did.

Keep in mind I didn't say the fields weren't important, the point is that they are not uncovering fundamental properties of their own field. They cant because the tools they uses aren't allowing them to really dig deeper.

Anyway I am not 100% certain about this but there is something that isn't sitting right IMO.
Government subsidies probably. My provincial government (Alberta) just introduced $40 million in solar subsidies. I don't think Solar City operates in AB, but I'm sure other states will come up with similar subsidies to replace the federal one that I believe is expiring.
I would much rather drive an iterated vehicle than one based on a large swing or risk.
Paraphrase the question in the reverse and you get your answer: What makes this possible on Windows desktops?

Stable binary driver ABI. Hardware monoculture. Expensive driver certification program. Letting hardware vendors release binary drivers without releasing the corresponding sources. An opt-out automatic update mechanism.

(Disclaimer: I work at Google, but not on the Android team.)
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What is customer experience and why does it matter?
In this case, there is a lot of visa fraud out there.
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Apple also made a run at Microsoft with Pages, Numbers and Keynote. Apple is known for intuitive user interfaces and they had some great looking templates that made it easy to create professional documents. The problem is still compatibility with Office. If you're not 100% compatible with the office file format, you aren't going to seen as a viable alternative.
This is kind of an ironic comment to a post about intellectual humility...
I realize that this has nothing to do with your larger point, but what technology do you consider to be superior to the original playstation? My understanding is that the PS1 was a significant technological leap.
"But the intent of document seems to be to rescind old guidance that would consider people with associate's degrees, or in some cases, no degrees, experts. "

No, it isn't about the people, it's about the occupation. They are saying that entry level computer programming jobs don't constitute a "specialty occupation" because some employers hire people for those jobs without a bachelors degree in the relevant field or equivalent experience. Even if the employee being petitioned for has a bachelors degree in the relevant field or equivalent experience, if the job category, across the industry, doesn't generally require it the offer will not qualify for an H1B.
Seems like one solution would've been to legally change her name to "Lisa Xhkuwbiyt" (pronounced "Lisa Davis") since the legal records system in NY is so dumb.
Even for other jobs, using this style of interviews reduces your false-positive rate, because any style of interviewing thats good enough for the sort of software that this tests for is going to be good enough for them.
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I think this is mostly undervaluation of Ford. 45B$ marketcap is quite low for that kind of revenue, profits and assets. I mean 12B$ in free cash flow! How do analyst even evaluate car companies?
It used to bug me, but now I actually like the phenomenon of Santa Claus.

The entire adult population is conspiring to lie to children, and it's up to the child to challenge it based on their own logic and observations.

It's a way to teach children to not trust authority blindly and to develop their own critical thinking skills.

I never felt betrayed by my parents about it. I remember feeling proud that I figured it out, and when my mother told me that everyone did it as a way to honor the memory of the real Saint Nicolas, I understood that.
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The student and the project already get a stipend. I'm not certain what it is now, but when I was a mentor the student got $5000 and the project got $500. In theory, of course, the project is getting more than $500, because they are also getting a "free" paid intern for a summer, and (for small projects who might need this) exposure.

IIRC, the student gets half the payment on completion of the first half of the project, and half after the second, both on the condition of positive reviews from the org. So if a student just blows it off, they don't get their payment.
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Since when is Monte Carlo fast :-)
This is to make it easy to 'buy' things on amazon with cash, by having these brick & mortar stores take up the risk of handling cash.
> It is interesting that Atom’s latency gets worse by two frames when Haskell syntax highlighting is enabled.

Heh, that's not so surprising to me. There are several vim plugins for Haskell, and one of them had some very slow features that made the latency go into the "many seconds" range :D

The Macbook keyboards one is ridiculous though.
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Does VISA means you need a country specific work visa to apply for the job? Or is the employer ready to sponsor?
My point is I don't think Ford is even remotely taking electric vehicles seriously. With a little better engineering the Focus electric could have been a decent $35k electric car.
Until Turing became a poster child for the gay movement, few people outside computability theory or cryptanalysis had heard of him. The big name in early computer architecture was Von Neumann, who laid out the basic architecture of the stored-program binary digital computer, which is what we use today. (Read the report on the EDVAC; it's a classic on computer architecture. The one thing he missed was the need for index registers.)

The reality of early computing was that electronic arithmetic was worked out well before WWII. James W. Bryce of IBM was working on an electronic multiplier in 1934, and it came out as an IBM product, the IBM 603 Electronic Multiplier, in 1946. (The war got in the way.) Arithmetic wasn't the problem. Nor was sequential programming. The Harvard Mark I was a huge programmable electromechanical digital computer built by IBM, started in 1937 and running in 1944. The theory was understood.

The big obstacle to a stored-program computer in the early days was memory to store the program. This was a recognized problem. Shannon once wrote a paper on the minimal memory an electronic telephone switch would require. Memory devices tried included plugboards, relays, rotating drums of capacitors, paper tape, mechanical counters, and large numbers of vacuum tubes. The first memory device that sort of worked and had some real capacity was the mercury delay line, which was a spinoff from radar technology. That got digital computers going.

None of the Bletchley Park gear had much memory. The bombes and Colossus were key-testers, like a Bitcoin ASIC, hard-wired to try crypto keys and stop on a match. They were not stored-program digital computers. They're really the ancestors of today's Bitcoin mines.
Duplicate, original thread is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14023293
You're missing the point that journalists can stick to facts, but still thoroughly pervade a piece with their own biases and agenda.