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> for example I will still fly united if the ticket is $10 less.

I won't. I had to save me at least $100 before I'll choose United. Which has nothing to do with this case. I just really don't like United due to previous experiences.
> You wouldn't believe the range of things I saw justified as "customer obsession".

I would like to hear some of them if you have the time and inclination.
I have a 7+. For the most part I've stopped using headphones (wired or wireless) with my phone. If I want to listen to music I revert to an ancient iPod or my iPad. While the 7+ fits in various pockets, the stupid lightning dongle juts out just enough that I can't use it with the phone in my jacket pocket.

I have a collection of Beats headsets, and thought that by now Apple would have introduced a "native" lightning-to-beats cable.

I'm not an audio nut, but I find the audio quality over Bluetooth to be subpar with the 7+ compared with previous iPhones & iPods. Initially I could only keep a BT connection for 10-15 minutes before the phone would drop it and I'd have to power cycle the headset. Same headsets with a ~3-4 year old iPod work fine, and the audio quality is ok.

I have odd ears, so the Apple earbuds and Airpods don't work for me, they constantly fall out.

Kind of ambivalent whether dropping the jack was the right idea or not. Feels like Apple put all of their money on Airpods + bluetooth being the only correct answer and that that's the problem.
libOSTree is a great solution for this. The updates are based on crypto (sha256) can be atomic and allow for rollbacks. Yocto's meta-updater provides an easy to deploy integration of libOSTree. Even Qt has an OSTree layer.
There's a lot of talk about counterfeit goods in this discussion, but my problem is the amount of sellers selling the same thing, and using bad search terms to get their listing to the top, and generally making everything harder to find. Have you ever tried to search on something that doesn't have, like 3 or 4 really, really obvious market-leading options? And then sort by anything other than the default? It's impossible! God go with you if you ever sort by price, ascending!

I've been a Prime member for several years, but the site has become so much less useful for me that I'm about to just let it lapse. I think it's creating opportunities for more-focused competitors, like Wayfair. I used to use NewEgg for electronics, but now they've started going the same route. I have to study every listing to make sure I'm getting it from a US warehouse, and not via a slow boat from China.

I just ran into this today with a big-name monitor, even. I added 2 very-similar models to my cart, and went with the one that had free 2-day shipping. Why did the other one have free shipping, but took 5 days? I don't know! There was nothing about the listing that would have tipped me off that it was a non-Amazon retailer. I'm getting tired of playing this game.
Hopefully, a sci-hub link to the article is acceptable.

Greenwald, A.G. (Apr. 2017). An AI stereotype catcher. Science, 356(6334), pp. 133-134.- http://sci-hub.cc/10.1126/science.aan0649
To be like Xerox PARC today you'd have to move back to the time when Xerox did what they did there. It's not just the company or the people but the total environment in which that took place.

Once the canvas is no longer blank it becomes a lot harder to be that innovative. All kinds of brakes on the system engage almost automatically: conventions, languages, processors, window managers have all become a lot less open to really new concepts.

The biggest changes of the last couple of years are deep learning coupled with the advent of GPUs that have computing power that was only affordable to universities not that long ago for very little money. Possibly that will engender a totally new computing environment in which our 'old' stuff no longer matters as much and we'll be more free to pursue things that are less anchored in the practical requirement to make money.

I suspect the whole 'deep learning' revolution will be as big as the original invention of the transistor or the web. It won't give us full AI but maybe by the time we've mined that for all it's worth we won't feel the need for it anymore.
My understanding of BrExit is that Britain is asking people who have lived there for years to leave.

It is not all Muslim Visa holders, but from 7 countries that were determined by the Obama Administration to be a security risk to the US because they don't do adequate screening at their airports. For example, Turks can come to the US as can Muslims from Israel or anywhere else except those 7 countries.

The Visa issue is regrettable, but it is only temporary and the people will eventually be able to return. Those in the US can remain here and not asked to leave as in the case of BrExit.
Googling for rfid toaster does not get much. Where do I find out more, and are they useful for non-amiibo tinkering?
I'm overwhelmed by the noisy design of the blog. The pitch decks, what visitors want to see, are a tiny, 430px wide embed under the fold. There is a huge header image, left floating side bar, a large right sidebar, then a floating ad, then a slide-in form in the bottom right partway through the page. This all makes for a distracted reading experience.
If a company is able to clone your idea and able to execute it better then your idea wasn't unique enough and your product is lacking something that the other company has.

Take for instance Google Plus, clearly a clone of every other social media. But it didn't work out too well. Facebook on the other hand was a copy of other platforms as well but well executed. Plus can Snapchat still be considered a small company, I guess in comparison to Facebook sure.
Isn't the problem that at an extreme this gives no incentive for smaller coffee ships to experiment and roll the dice on new ideas that may not work, because if they succeed, Starbucks will end up reaping the rewards.
If only it worked that way. Besides, Wii U anyone? They have plenty of recent fumbles we could bring up.
"then thwarted attempts by President Andrew Johnson to suppress fundamental civil rights of newly freed black Americans. "

I've always been aware of General Grant as being a bit of an American hero but that quote may make him one of mine as well.
YC HARC (https://harc.ycr.org) has a lot of talented people working on PARC-like problems. Alan Kay has close contact with a lot of the team as well.
We had a system like this at my workplace, but it is gradually being replaced with cooperative threads. I don't remember what specific issues we were having with it, but I believe slow adaptation to periodic workloads was one issue. Fundamentally, why hill climb when you can know with certainty exactly how many blocked threads there are in your system.
LED and CFL lights, SEER ratings, LEED certifications, Energy Stars all are having an impact.

Just in computers there have been huge advances. My MacBook Pro requires about 1/6 the electricity of my 2007 Desktop, and my LCD monitor is about 1/6 a CRT.

Transition to EVs may start to soak up all the gains we're making in efficiency so the usage may start to tick back up. But we're building Solar and Wind sources at an increasing rate that will effectively start trading oil for renewable electricity.

These are all positive trends.
HARC

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11679680
points to post because you will :)
What the Rat Brain Tells Us About Yours
This seems to be it: https://github.com/antlr/codebuff
>DU is used in warheads >> DU releases radiation >>> radiation causes cancer. Therefore, you could link the bombs that use DU to cancer.

All that is true and totally irrelevant, since DU is used almost exclusively in anti-armor kinetic rounds. This is just a really big firecracker.

>In this case, maybe they didn't have DU, but there are still other nasty contaminants that come with 22,000 pounds of explosives dropped in a relatively small area...

Are there? Do you have some reason to think that's true?
A "novelty" with massive demand and no supply. I don't get your logic.
Scientists discover evidence for habitable region within Saturn's moon Enceladus
As a side note, http://s21.q4cdn.com/118642233/files/doc_downloads/governanc... still has the approval requirement for forum postings.
It would be spectacular to have a tool like this to enforce, and automatically revise, code style guidelines as languages evolve. Keeping up with something like the C++ Core Guidelines [0] can be a fair amount of work, as you need to respect existing idioms to keep your codebase coherent (a higher priority than respecting the "one true style", in my opinion).

A tool like this would be brilliant if it could automatically generate suggestions for "hybrid styles" that fit your existing codebase, and provide suggestions to migrate existing code patterns to "correct" ones over time.

[0]: https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines
Principles of Debugging Effectively
> My MacBook Pro requires about 1/6 the electricity of my 2007 Desktop

Apples to Oranges though (or Apples, but still). The comparison should be a laptop from 2007. I ran a house on solar electricity and windpower back then, my laptop was about 35 Watts according to the e-meter connected to it, my present day laptop is roughly the same.

Laptops have always been substantially more efficient than desktops.
Nintendo is a 127 year old company. Pretty sure they didn't stagnate for 100 years before finally hitting their stride with Miyamoto.
I am no expert on the economics of airlines, but my gut tells me that it would have been cheaper for the 4 United workers to miss their next shifts (and pay overtime to 4 other workers) than to rip a doctor out of his seat against his will and suffer the wrath of the consumer.
Supply Chain Project
I don't think you can call the STG an IL...
The Multitasking Myth
The New Sonos Playbase Is Great, but Comes a Little Too Late
Or just use redis for everything :) One instance for the bitfield, one for atomic locks (done with a lua script) and one for tile data (with a few slaves for reads). Simple and independently scaleable.
Sorry about that, this should be fixed now.
Do you have a reference for that? It seems hard for a federated system to enforce such a constraint. And what would be the use? that's what the @domain is for.
> Correction: ALL production OS and kernels are affected.

No, ALL production OS backport security patches to their kernels. This bug was fixed in Debian 15 months ago and Debian stable kernel is way older than 4.5.

> "udp.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via UDP traffic [...]"
> There is barely any OS that are >= 4.5 (only CoreOS on the top of my head).

Kernel version is meaningless, see above.
Hmm, I'll take a look at that. For websockets, non-durability seems like a fine tradeoff, so it sounds interesting. Thanks!
Seems like a DOJ interested in antitrust is the real answer to that kind of problem.
This is basically the opposite of antitrust.

In fact, it's one of the few instances of capitalism actually working the way it "works" on paper.
Our engineering stack
I would be slightly more careful and just use a cluster of servers with a simple consensus algorithm (like raft). A simple C++ server with a raft library plus uWebSockets should be able to handle a lot of load.
I'm torn, because I absolutely hate the Fearless Girl statue, but at the same time the artist might not have the most right to complain.

A better solution might be to add a third statue changing the meaning of the girl to be negative.
This is my favorite one from Wendy's so far https://twitter.com/Wendys/status/852023711771238402
Didn't Eclipse (RIP) say their engine was going to be derived from a cruise missile engine?
When you look at PARC's contributions (laser printer, bitmap graphics, GUI/windows/icons, WYSIWYG editor, Ethernet, OOP, MVC) or those of Bell Labs (transistor, laser, information theory, Unix, C & C++, radio astronomy), we haven't seen anything comparable from Google's Advanced Technology and Projects program. We can give them another 20-30 years and reassess, but so far, it's not there. Most of the projects have been announced with great fanfare and then quietly scrapped, or are solutions that haven't found problems.

PARC and Bell Labs were at the right place and right time to make fundamental contributions in the nascent areas of digital computers, software, and digital communications. They caught that wave perfectly. Now we're searching a similar revolutionary technology that will open the floodgates of innovation, but it's not apparent yet. Machine learning and AI? If that pans out, Google Brain/DeepMind would be well situated.
I think that detail was probably abstracted away due to the limited time in high school history classes.

Andrew Johnson was impeached because he failed to adhere to law passed by Congress. Before that, he conflicted with Congress on the fundamental way Reconstruction was to be conducted. He single-handedly undermined newly-freed slaves' chances to secure suffrage and have refuge from oppressive codes in Southern states.

It's all in the wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Johnson
It looks like pythonaut_16 has edited their comment to say something completely different than what it did when I posted my reply. It used to be excusing NFC hacking on the grounds of Amiibo being limited, and therefore not everybody who wants one can necessarily get one.
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You must be kidding.
Banks don't even look at your signature unless there's some sort of dispute.
Fun yes, but it also points towards a future where you can have different flavors of a social network. There could be instances of Masto geared towards photography or visual art with large pictures, or geared towards sharing code, or geared towards any number of special needs. And all of them would be able to federate with each other.

As it stands we're all stuck on the same Twitter and the same FB. It's so limiting. I hope Mastodon and its descendants pull through and give us this better future.
A similar organization today is DARPA.

You can submit proposals to them and they may fund you.
I used to have the same argument... until I realized modern laptops can be desktop replacements (without being those gigantic bricktop "mobile/portable workstations").

Just slap a full sized monitor and a keyboard+mouse, and its more capable as a thin desktop (ala iMac) than the actual thing, and when you want to leave, just unplug all that shit and leave.

The only call for full sized desktops is people like me, where cramming in full sized GPUs, more than one drive, and 32+GB of RAM is required.
I was as horrified by the video as the next person, but I don't think your little thought experiment isn't relevant as the consequences of throwing someone off a grounded and in flight plane are totally different.

But back to reality, I can't speak for other countries, but in America the right to exclude people from your property is quite strong. But much more importantly, while there are many factors, the police are generally not in a position to evaluate them, and as a result they do not.

For example, if I go to a restaurant, pay for my meal, but before receiving it get kicked out by the owner (without refund) due to my race/religion/whatever, I am clearly in the right and I can definitely sue. But that's in the future. If I call the cops, they can't do anything. They can't conduct a mini, instant trial to determine if I was discriminated against and determine appropriate damages. On the other hand, if the restaurant owner calls the cops, and tells them that a customer is refusing to leave, the cops will almost certainly come and take me out of the restaurant. I can sue later, but that's it.

Edit: just adding that a United passenger has even less rights than the aforementioned restaurant patron, because as part of buying a ticket they agreed to a shitty adhesive contract, the United Contract of Carriage (https://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/contract-of-carriag...).
Yes, it's possible to do this using the HTTP server that hololens runs. It's pretty sweet it streams performance data as well as the muxed camera+virtual stream. We got some really good results today recording a demo that way.

Microsoft did an awesome job with providing built-in tools and the vast majority of MIT open source hololens examples.

It's very technical and dev heavy, it would be great to see an app that will provide the streaming feature without the admin pairing currently necessary for the "server" access.
Yeah, gatekeeping and all that jazz, I agree there, but I'm going to go ahead and say that the average US college freshman student probably does not have it as 'tough' as the average US boot-camp inductee. I would extend that to the integral of 'toughness' over the tenure of the average US college 4th year student versus the average 4th year US service member, but it's more of a crap-shot with the Air Force ;).
Less than half.

And SSDs are continually improving that by increasing performance (this maximizing the length of idle time (which on SSDs is a small fraction of a watt)).
I think you might be underestimating the front running required to make hardware at scale. There isn't just a "build more faster" switch they can flip.
I was having this issue to but all good now. Should I be concerned about my computer being infected from this? Virus scans don't find anything
This vulnerability has already been disclosed and fixed in mainline, upstream longterm releases and major distribution kernels last year, I don't understand why it made the news today, am I missing something, is it slow news day or is it fear mongering?

I flagged the thread because it is harmful (or time waster at best). From the comments I can see people are worried and unknowingly wasting their time checking their kernels to see if they are affected from a vulnerability that has already been fixed more than a year ago. Damn, I wasted half an hour of my time to see what really the situation is about.
Efficiency of CPU's and tech do not drive electricity demand. If anything, we use more power for tech now than ever before. This is the direct result of cheaper natural gas being on the market, which removes demand for electric heating/heat pumps, electric appliances, etc. There is also a shift in industrial use. Just this year Washington lost a large aluminum arc furnace smelter, for instance.
They are similar ideas on the surface, key differences are that we use Elasticsearch as the underlying distributed search engine, InstantSearch is based on Algolia.

Reactive Search also supports more components at this point, most prominent one being maps. We released an entire library https://opensource.appbase.io/reactivemaps dedicated to that earlier and all those are available with ReactiveSearch as well.

The part that I really like about ReactiveSearch is its neat composing of components to form complex search UIs, this abstracts out the need for writing Elasticsearch DSL queries to a large extent.
I practice Dirk Gently Driven Development.

Basically, I more or less know what I want to do, my fingers wander, encounter things I didn't anticipate and I modify my work. When it is done, I refactor and add tests where necessary.

Not the best methodology, but that's how my brain works -- all situational recall.
Largest stone monuments gone after 10,000 years? Are you sure?

The pyramids are already approaching 5,000 years old. Do they show any signs of disappearing?
I agree completely and in my opinion this is not a 'customer focused' way of doing business because the customer's are getting tired of fighting these fights. That was why in my email I called him out on this, and specifically said, "If you believe your highest priority is to focus on the customer, and losing sight of the customer is a precursor to Day 2, then you must address the quality of the shopping experience."

I too have been a Prime customer for years, but 2 day shipping doesn't mean as much if its 2 days to delivery, then a trip to the post office to return it, and another 2 days to get the replacement, and then another week before your account is credited with the returned one. As an egregious example I bought a replacement cable modem and the one I got had a 'property of time-warner cable' sticker on it! And yet advertised as new. They replaced it quickly but really? Why should I have to be the person to sort the crap? And if that responsibility does fall to me, the customer, then Amazon is not sticking to their policy of putting the customer first.

And I agree with Jeff in his letter, if he gets into Day 2, the company can ride it for a very long time into the sunset (just look at Sears!).
Transpiling is going to stay, currently you transpile es6/7/typescript=>es5, later you will do es8/9/typescript=>es6/7, and so on, so this point is not relevant.
And then UAL gained back almost the full value by Wednesday morning and has performed similar to Delta and other airlines. Like most PR disasters unless you keep digging when you are in a hole, the long-term impact is small and consumers forget.

Uber is in the hole right now and digging. Microsoft used to be. Amazon used to be.

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AUAL
> will appear to contradict you

Sometimes "startup" is used instead of "project". Is it really that big a deal? All this time wasted over such an insignificant detail.
Or they realize that comparing console hardware isn't a useful exercise. The upgrade cycle hasn't done anything to make games better in years; the Wii came closest, but required a marketing pivot that third parties didn't want to make.
Just the inflation would make $40 something like $80 today, no?
Tenancy has strong and unique protections. If you are a tenant you can call the police to kick out your landlord if they are not within their access rights. Someone has the exclusive right to use the space, but it is not the landlord.

I think both of us have a very strong sense of property rights, only we disagree who to ascribe them to. I think it belongs to the airline, so if the man wants to create a dispute with the airline, he should be the one to take it to court (and he probably will.) From my POV, you are saying the man has property rights over the seat because he had a ticket for it and had his arse is in it.
He wants a tunnel to go from LAX to the SpaceX office.

https://www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-wasnt-kidding-creating-t...
https://www.wired.com/2017/01/inside-tunnel-elon-musk-alread...
How You Can Maximize Social Impact Using the Social Signal Funnel
I think OSTree has a better update model. Especially with connected devices that might have expensive cell connectivity. I don't think the rest of the stack for update infrastructure is there though. Qt does seem to be trying to build some of that out.
When I saw the headline, I wondered what was so special about this. But actually reading the description, the UI sounds like a significant improvement in usability, such that I might actually consider using a postfix calculator like this.

On a side note, the description of arithmetic says that - and / swap the inputs, and it describes the operators as popping values a and b (and in the case of swap, then pushing a and b back on). This is a little confusing. It would be much simpler just to say that all binary operators pop values b and a. Now you don't have to swap anything, because - and / will still just perform a - b and a / b. And the fact that this swaps + and * is irrelevant, because those operators are commutative. And the swap operator makes more sense, because it "pops values b and a, and pushes values a and b", so you can now actually see the swapped values in the description.
Details on the CL are a little thin, and the "don't believe the hype" indicates this isn't automatically some big win. Can someone give more details?
Similar to this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_uX5yXSOwU
Not sure where the article is but this ASAPScience video gave a quick run-through relative to what I was talking about:

https://youtu.be/BPJ0729NVjw