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This is, has been, and continues to be a problem. It's easy to blame Apple but it's an industry wide issue. It's so much more profitable to sell a new product than to repair and sell a used one. Also the industry's business model is to dump the old and get the new latest product. This model will not last long if the market is full of old products. So it's not surprising that they rather destroy than repair and sell.

The solution lies on the user. At some point we have to take blame on how the industry functions. Apple would not be the mammoth it is if we did not buy and support their business model.

What Apple is doing is to make a show of their recycling effort so that most people don't feel bad about getting a new Apple product but they can still continue to sell and make the most profits. Make no mistake profits will win over recycling.

To fix this, we could pressure the company to reform their ways by buying the competition's products that follow more sustainable practices. Not likely since they are so good at selling and there probably isn't a direct replacement. Or we can pressure our government representatives to do something about it. A good candidate solution since we have slowly increased what companies must do to protect the environment. We are not at the best point but we are getting there. We need to add pressure to our reps to continue. What they've done is not enough.

The best thing we can do is to resist the pressure to upgrade our gadgets. No we don't need to upgrade every year and no we don't need the new shiny gadget that will be put in the dump in a few months. The fix starts with us.
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The snippets are always wrong if you think about the ad revenue that Google steals and the copyright material that Google is using for profit. It sounds like a class action lawsuit could fix that.
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You're searching for products though. All of those ads meet the criteria of your search.
SVG is a good example of an overflexible, overcomplex standard with too much variety, too many options, too many different ways to do the same thing. The huge flexibility makes it almost impossible to correctly and fully implement.

I'm not sure how it got this way, but it seems to be connected to the W3 consortium, which has many other instances of creating exceedingly complex, difficult-to-implement standards.
The nonsense is that your comparison again has no relevance to the social security trust fund. Your scenario is based on the assumption that "the business spent the money" and "gave you an IOU". When the fact is that the government did not "spend the trust fund", and there is no such thing as a social security IOU.

As far as the general fund being in deficit, how they resolve that has nothing to do with social security, which has a healthy trust fund to draw upon until 2034, after which benefits will automatically shrink until payroll contributions are enough to fund the trust fund again.

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/progdata/fundFAQ.html

If on the very small chance you are not in favor of cutting social security in any sense, know that the argument that there "is no trust fund" and "it's just IOUs" is a right-wing argument, a right-wing frame, that is typically only advanced to justify cutting social security in some way. If you are not in favor of cutting social security, find different language. If you are, then be intellectually honest about your views that government has no role in doing what social security does, rather than engaging in myths about non-existence of trust funds.
Recalled food represents a small amount of this. Most foodborne illnesses are the result of improper storage, handling, or cooking at the time or preparation. The chicken isn't thawed properly before being cooked, the soup is stored at 130 degrees, or the chef doesn't wash their hands between touching raw meat and salad or after going to the bathroom.
> I can't understand why battery life isn't higher on the list of "must haves" for people who want a nice linux laptop.

My laptop is plugged in almost 100% of the time. If it needed to be plugged in a full 100% of the time, that would be at most an extremely minor hit to usability. I need a laptop that I can move, not a laptop that I can use while it's being moved.
That. Was. Positively. Amazing. Demoscene never ceases to astound me.
Is there a sensor technology that does this more quickly? My naive understanding was that sonar and radar also infer velocity by comparing multiple passes (and light should be at least as fast as radar, shouldn't it?)
Actually that part drives me insane.

Maybe we're taking about different things but... My understanding is in the USA it used to normal not to talk about affection for your partner. In the 70s and 80s there was a huge cultural push to stop doing that and verbally express your affection and appreciation. It was drilled in that assuming your partner understands you feel for and appreciate them without saying it is like believing in fairy tales. Your relationship will end in ruins and your partner grows distant not knowing you actually care, appreciate , etc..

So here I am in Japan where I hear this stuff about not needing to express that stuff. You should infer it. Except I can't accept that because it was taught to me it's BS. So many spouses whos partner leaves feeling unappecisted and the other partner is like "but I shouldn't have to say it you should just know". There's 1000s of books on why that silence is a recipe for disaster. In sex as well the advice in the USA builds and builds , say what you want, don't expect your partner to read your mind. They won't (mind reading is impossible and expecting your partner to devine what you want is childish). Your be disappointed and frustrated and then take that out on your relationship.

So I don't buy it. They just sound old in the same sense that blood letting is old.
Wow, so this happened on the same exact day I wrote this comment: http://imgur.com/a/2ktXP

Biker wasnt in sight.
People were disappointed in Fedora too when it was first introduced. People even mocked the name. It worked out just fine for Red Hat.
I moved from Toronto To SF last year on a TN-Visa and the process was as described above. My salary doubled as well.
You were spot on, this literally just happened today: http://imgur.com/a/2ktXP
I grew up in Toronto and have visited Montreal numerous times but only as a tourist.

At any rate I'm very skeptical of the Montreal claims. It is a wonderful place to visit, but all of my Canadian non-native French speaking friends eventually found that their career opportunities were limited and the culture was simply too hostile to non-Quebecois and so they relocated away.
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Would tensorflow (or similar) count as task-parallel because the computation graph is a DAG? If so, there's a pretty popular example of task-parallelism running on GPU's.
Use postgresql and when/if you grow big pay somebody or learn to scale it.

Only use non-rdbms when you need something special, say, full-text-search, or insane performance (in-memory-kv) etc.
3D XPoint has extremely low latency (e.g. 7 usec), and has already been demonstrated as such. Putting it through a PCI slot and a storage controller is not the same. The discussion is about running it as DIMM memory through a normal memory controller.
This sounds like a genuinely useful technology that will sadly never make it past the Big Credit gods. Card providers seem to make their profits when you're not managing your card usage so intelligently.
They enable access to trillions of dollars of metals and minerals. Shorter term they enable better data collection
"Selling past the close."
I wonder if this has anything to do with Final (https://getfinal.com) shipping?
Currently a lawyer who is also a programmer and does a lot of legal tech stuff. Some of us are tackling the automation side of things and many lawyers really do want to solve problems. A big issue is the billable hour but I see that disappearing :)

Email is in my bio so feel free to ping me if you want to chat about it!
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those numbers are ridiculously low even if in US dollars as I assume they are. I don't put much stock in the StackOverflow survey.

Then put stock in a the words of a guy who has actually looked for employment in Canada, and after the election of Trump is very incentivized to take a positive view on moving to Canada: as far as I can tell from the salaries posted, I'd take about a 50% pay cut, and I wouldn't be able to afford a house (at least not in Vancouver). Drop me in, say, Kamloops for $65K/year and maybe I'd do it. But there are few, if any, software jobs in Kamloops, or Kelowna, or much anywhere else outside Vancouver.
Losses are useful, too! McD's has been renting a lot in my town(85331) for 5+ years now, and yet to break ground. ~6 months ago the local "fish wrapper" ran a story on this very topic.

As an aside, back when oil was >$100/barrel Exxon/Mobile had numerous boarded up properties around Phoenix with For Sale/Lease signs that were neither for sale or lease, as the losses/write downs were valued to dilute the windfall profits they were raking in at that time(my source was an agent for CBRE).
I'll get hit by a bus in San Francisco before cancer or heart disease ever has a chance. I tried commuting and gave up after two weeks of endless close-calls and frustrations. Pedestrians wandering into the lane were the worst, then Muni whose drivers never look, then other cyclists and finally other cars.
dont even get me started about the difference between follow and sync, and that you have to press sync for each document library you make, which includes each group you make, and no you cant just turn on sync for each person you add to the group, they both need to sync to their windows client, and follow so it shows up in their mobile app.

so the new sync process. go to office.com, sign in, click mail or onedrive. click the group. if mail, click files. now it brings you to a list of recent files as shown on a client served by the exchange server. to get to the correct sharepoint served web client, you need to click browse files in the upper right corner. no dont worry, your folders arent gone, the exchange client just brilliantly collapses the entire structure and shows only the files, in order of most recent. once you get onto the sharepoint server your folders will reappear. then click sync, then click allow, then yes, then sync now. then wait. if i add 30 people to a group, i have to walk all thirty through syncing and following. and dont worry as soon as i train them the sync button will be renamed. my new favorite one. there are now THREE terms used in different spots that all lead you back to the office 365 group team site document library (aka group onedrive.) they include: Open in Sharepoint, Browse Library, and Go to Site. For some damn reason, in the teams app "Open in Sharepoint" is the term used to launch the onedrive group web client, but in exchange its Browse Library or Go to Site.
I speak as a founder of an AI company in Vancouver Canada and ran it there for ~1 year - we relocated to US for fundraising and that's another story - but here is my sense for salaries:

* AI/ML Scientists (UBC, SFU) , Typically MS/PhD: C$85K-125K

* Web developers: ranges from 60K (mediocre) to 110K (very good), the exceptional are nearly impossible to find.

* Database/Backend : C$80K-100K for the good to very good talent.

I would expect Toronto to have similar salary ranges, Waterloo and Montreal might be a bit lower.
One of the Plastc alternatives, I can't seem to find it now, was a device like Plastc, but also a yearly subscription fee, because they promoted the benefits being that the card would automatically switch between your available cards to optimize rewards.

At a gas station you would use the card that had the best gas points. At the grocery store it would switch to the card with the best grocery points...

I was never interested in it, because I don't really want to manage many cards, but I can see the appeal in it.
> To my mind if someone creates something of value, the creator should have a say over how that something is consumed. To use something without the permission of the owner feels a bit dirty.

I agree. That's why I want a say in how my data is consumed.
No not really. If anything one could argue that Germany was not willing to devaluate because it would increase debt. However it would have still been smart to do.

Both the hyperinflation and the great depression did not happen because of war payments, maybe one could argue the german political class did stupid things because of the treaty.
What are you talking about? I'm using FF without any trouble at all on both desktop and mobile for each and everything, and so do many others, for its support of uBlock origin if nothing else. Also, the iOS devices out there have only Safari-Webkit.
For existing formats Serde is indeed pretty awesome. However when I tried to pick it up I found the lack of support for fixed arrays >32 a show-stopper for me.

I just found out recently that there's a couple work-arounds but none of them were obvious and for a framework that is zero-allocation based not having great support for arrays was a non-starter since that's 90% of the structures I was working with.

I love Rust but I feel like arrays in general are somewhat of an unfinished part of the language, you run into similar problems with Clone and Debug which can be frustrating.
I feel HN has been specifically targeted as a source of above-average discourse, therefore it must be comprised.
As of my knowledge, you can log in to Skype without 2FA using an outlook.com-email-address even though it has 2FA enabled.
> Why can there only be one social network? What is wrong with competition?

The second question isn't relevant at all. Essentially no one is saying there is something wrong with competition.

I have absolutely no interest in rebuilding or managing my social network across numerous sites or services. The value offered would have to be truly extraordinary to get me to invest the time and effort. I only barely care enough about Facebook as it is to maintain that.
This has been well know for a long time. However the fact is the only reason that McDonalds is able to collect rent (in the dollar amount that they do) is if their product and service, the franchise, is able to sell hamburgers to customers. As such the value of the real estate (if the franchise fails to operate) is nowhere near what it is with a profitable operating restaurant. While the locations are valuable if you have ever seen a vacant McDonalds, and who typically rents those, you will know that the rent received and royalties is nowhere near what it is with a McDonalds restaurant.

So I think it's a bit misleading and hyperbole to say 'how they really make money'. The only reason the can make that money is because of the product and the customer base that patronizes the McDonalds. So in the end it is because of the product. "How they really make their money" is because of that product.
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Would be great if you can just take a video and it would automatically capture the keyframes relevant for this type of transformation.

The end game would be that you put your phone in recording and on some stand, and you just have to slowly turn the pages of your photo album. One can dream.
I don't understand the recent trend of very-high-resolution devices that strongly recommend you not adjust their 250% default scaling.

OK, you have lots and lots of pixels that are too small to see individually or in combination. Put in a cheaper screen with the same functional resolution. Lower price, same quality.
I'm just putting this out there but I would suggest that the habits of highly effective people are quite different from the habits of highly ineffective people.

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> Essentially it is the same.

This is a very subjective statement.
Jurors can comment on things like apparent misconduct, to the judge via the bailiff, or ask questions of the judge via the bailiff.
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They're selling the addresses, not renting them.
There are people using optical media for long term storage. So I am not counting it out as a storage medium. In my classification I would put it in cold storage tier.
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All I want is an automatic popup on my phone when I approach the register to scan my card details with samsung pay rather than have to slide up apps, use my thumbprint to unlock and wave the damn thing around madly

Currently I use it because of the novelty but it's actually more difficult for me than a physical card
So basically because the cost of living in San Francisco is scary, everyone is looking for the next start-up center and assuming it will be somewhere outside the United States. But there are many other cheap places to live in the US, much cheaper than Canada. I guess the current political climate in the US could be a driving factor.
If you've got typical levels of binocular depth perception:

Close one eye. Slowly poke something 2-3 feet away. You can do it, but you might be off an inch or two with your distance estimation and be surprised when you actually make contact. Open both eyes and do something similar with another object. The added depth information should mean that you can tell where something is to a greater precision.

Same thing with Tango. In both cases, you can extract some information about the environment from a 2D image stream. Add in accelerometer, gyroscope, and depth-sensing hardware, and you can correct some of the edge cases while increasing precision even for the things that you could do with standard hardware.
> Politifact rated Mr Trump's claim as false.

It's surprising that the BBC thinks it needs to give us information like that. It would be nice if the BBC could rely on its own journalists rather than here-today, gone-tomorrow websites.
That business model is heavily influenced by negotiations with the soda company.
Maybe "abominable" is an exaggeration...

However, after translating some exercices from Octave to python/numpy, I have experienced a great deal of frustration. A simple three-line solution in Octave becomes a fifteen-line behemoth that does not even work consistently across different versions of the system.
If someone wants to corner the juicer market, all they have to do is engineer one that can be completely cleaned in under 30 seconds. The best ones I have seen still take several minutes to fully clean.
The temperature of food can be easily changed with the ubiquitous household appliances called "refrigerator" and "microwave oven". And it isn't as though a drop in temperature of 5 degrees changes the flavor.

It's like throwing your pants away because you spilled ketchup on them, or throwing your car away because it ran out of gas--trivial issue, easily remedied.

Besides that, McDonald's corporate considers the service temperature of their food to be deadly serious. Complaining to the management with cold food and receipt in hand would almost certainly generate an overly obsequious response sufficient to satisfy even the grumpiest of customers. If not, going to management above the restaurant would probably get everyone at the restaurant re-trained right quick.
Completely agree. "You don't need to see any of this, you can't go there for your own good" is frustrating and unhelpful.

I keep FireFox portable 3.x around for sites (intranet devices) like that.
Wasn't it Joe Hewitt?
Active sonar and radar can get motion towards or away from the sensor in a single pass from the Doppler shift of the pulse.
Absolutely this. This is also one of the reasons why there seem to be many successful business where the founder "scratched an itch" - they built a business on something they knew a lot about.
I used PhotoScan in December to digitise a lot of my parents photo albums. I was really impressed with the ease and results. Right now I would consider using anything else.
It looks like it should be pretty easy to just hire the Dutch and build a levee to prevent the central valley/Sacramento areas from flooding. All the water is entering through one very narrow channel just east of Vallejo.

And perhaps the Bay Area can also be saved with a levee at the Golden Gate bridge.
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Active work is going into integer generics, which will solve this issue. It has taken a while but isn't exactly simple either!
Yes indeed! I would add on to this, instead of asking "how can I make $X?", ask "how can I provide $X of value to people?".

You provide value by meeting people's needs. So it is very valuable to learn about those needs!
It bums me out to hear SVG is in such limbo, I've been looking forward to SVG 1.2 support. It seems to be taking a long time, I guess this is why.

It's strange because I know many many companies are using SVG at least a bit for their sites. Maybe it's simmering just under the threshold where it seems necessary to have to do business, but so many sites would be hosed if SVG suddenly went away.

Is part of the problem authoring tools? Every time I need to make some SVG by hand, I look around and keep coming back to Inkscape and Illustrator. I can't afford Illustrator, and Inkscape has just never stuck for me, it feels very clunky. I've used lots of the other tools out there but nothing seems great.
That's just an elevation map. The SF bay is more complex than that, because the Sacramento River is involved. That's why there's the Bay Model.

Maybe a dam near Novato to prevent salt-water incursion upstream.
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Whoops, sorry about the incorrect conclusion. I didn't realize DockerCon 2017 was currently in progress.
I was going to say "because hosted solutions don't support Python 3" but I see that two days ago Amazon announced Lambda support for Python 3, which was my big holdup.

So I guess it's time for me to get on board with Python3!
Right, the difference seems minimal. When you start with a whole carrot, or a whole orange, there's the obvious advantage of greatly reduced surface area plus the plant's natural outer layer. Keeps everything fresh.

Blending it into fine pieces removes all that. The bags apparently aren't even vacuum-sealed (there's a "breathing hole"), so everything will be oxidizing and degrading pretty quickly. That's worse than bottled juice.
The authors have to take the time to study the situation, talk about it, make hard decisions and cut out features that are useless or barely useful, and have the balls to ship a product with just the right features instead of all the features in an attempt to please everyone. Not the user.

You're perfectly entitled to that view, and for someone who holds that view a product like Thunderbird is obviously not a good fit.

There are, however, other views, and for someone who doesn't want simple UIs with no flexibility or configurability and doesn't have a problem with spending a few seconds customising something to get a result they are happier with, a product more like Thunderbird is a better fit.
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> They've already neglected Thunderbird for years, and now they want to start from scratch?

If by "they" you are referring to Mozilla: they will not be involved in the rewrite.
When your computation fits in RAM, what's the point of a lower latency backing store that does fewer gbps per dollar?
Really? I feel like HTML & CSS have this problem way worse than SVG...
Note that salary is also close the same wage (~10% more) as an electrician, accountant, or boilermaker.