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I think ideas like shoehorning SMS into Hangouts (or vice versa?) are driven more by misguided bonus formulas than any overtly evil intent.
Jetty? OpenHAB?
I'm not making an argument for "software should be free" here. I'm trying to explain why people often try to copy software or media: it's trivially easy, obviously not requiring the original author's expertise. If they pay the author in such a situation, it's because they want to support the author, not because they are forced to. This ends up with quite little. When an enforcement agency (a publisher) intervenes, the amount extracted grows, but most of it is taken by said agency.
As is the fate of all human endeavors, the task of writing fizzbuzz has been taken over by automation: https://github.com/trbabb/StackFizzBuzz

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Not trying to be an ass but isn't the device you want called a 2 way pager?
I don't get how Gödel leads to quantum consciousness. Even if you need quantum to make consciousness, doesn't that just mean we're all quantum computers instead of classical chemical computers?

If we're all made of Lego, but we need Technics sticks and joints to become conscious, how is that any less materialistic? Even the fact that quantum is a source of randomness doesn't seem essential.
I've seen just as many FP projects strain under technical debt as I have OO projects. Technical debt is a product of the developers, not the language. And FP developers are just as imperfect as OO developers.
Their website definitely claims that Soylent is a complete substitute for all food.
Boeing and Airbus have higher costs, though. They can't pay Chinese wages.
You could call it a mobile, which is about as common in Britain as calling it a phone. (The full name being a mobile phone.)
Interesting. The promise of making a small CSS is a bit overblown. With a build step or module mechanism, most frameworks can be smaller than this.

On another note, we had a great blast using http://tachyons.io/
It was a game changer for me, and made me remarry CSS. And spoiler alert, it was way smaller after a build step than 7KB, while not feeling like working in tight pants.
Actually, if you read that, they aren't government mandated methods (in the technical sense) there's an option of either using a government-specified safe harbor method or getting an "expert determination" that the data is deidentified.
These days what is a good way to authenticate people AND prevent them from making millions of accounts?
Isn't Java generally considered to be unusable without a decent IDE anyway? I feel like if you need to know what the return type is, the editor should be able to tell you that in these cases.
Ask HN: Youngest age to start learning how to type
My 4 year old can punch in passcodes on our IPAD. She can also write her own name. Is it good enough signal to try and introduce her to typing on a key board ? I understand that correct finger coordination for typing is probably not possible at this age but just want to hear from people who have any experience with kids learning to type.
And yet designers nowadays make desktop sites with hamburger menus...
By maps I mean high resolution 3D maps with lidar and stuff as this startup seems to be doing.

I don't doubt that 2d maps would be needed like how humans drive with a GPS.
I started writing shareware in 8o's and even then there were alternative "marketing" and distribution methods to print, like BBSes, SIMTEL20 (and other FTP archives), usenet, user groups, shareware CD's and sharing among friends. It worked pretty well actually. There was abuse of course and it started a whole anti-piracy industry. Protection techniques cost a lot to create and maintain and they didn't really solve the problem. SaaS is so popular today because it practically eliminates piracy. Developers get paid for what they build or they go broke because nobody wants what they've built.
isn't kotlin an option if you want async/await on the JVM ?
Yeah neat! Let's connect. DM @nicenovelninja
I'm sure you can find an android device that has a physical keypad, root it and disable any call or mobile data functionality while keeping SMS intact.
Lunch?????????
Solar sail technology seems so promising as a means of allowing our species to take our first steps into space. It's a shame that more isn't being put into it, as far as I am aware, the first test on it was done just two years ago.
Every choice induces stress. Sometimes we really need to be able to make that choice, but requiring choice or having too much choice overwhelms people.
Which is the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)[0]

[0] - http://www.eugdpr.org
Thanks, that's a good idea.
> Compared to C or C++ it has the advantages of better complex floating point number support and better control of reproducible math results

No it does not have better complex types. C++11 added std::complex which is a standardized implementation of complex types for all data sizes.

> And there is better possibility for compiler optimisation because the langauge semantics let the compiler know one array will not alias another.

These optimizations will only ever be made if Fortran has wide adoption.

These optimizations are probably already done in GCC/Clang. Fortran also misses out on a HUGE optimization that can be provided by the existence of explicit inlining from C/C++ and implicit optimizations from things like C++/Rust. There's also constexpr from C++ which, in C++17, will offer huge benefits to non-trivial code.

Most formulas can be expressed as an inline function or constexpr and as a result can, in some cases, see huge performance improvements from compiler optimizations.

> Compared to Java, C#, or Python, or any other JVM language, it has the advantage of compiling to machine code for every relevant supercomputer and cluster architecture.

You can do this with Python. Or you could juse use Julia which is built for clustered environments, performance, IPC & machine-to-machine communication.

> And all of the well-tested high performance computing libraties are written in or support Fortran. The ecosystem is there.

So is with most of these languages. C++ is just as developed in this aspect, Julia is getting there but it's already ready for most applications.

> Don't assume things are done purely by inertia -- for big projects there are real reasons for the choices made!

I'm not. I'm assuming these decisions are made because people in physics/ME/chemistry are not programmers and don't know about the latest and greatest our field has to offer. It's our fault for not advertising our successes to these people.
> Then again, I'm also strongly for renaming 3D Printers to facsimile machines because the word fax is too useful to lose to ancient toner-based modem printers.

Then maybe we really will be able to "receive a fax at the beach"[1] in the future!

[1]: http://mentalfloss.com/article/50105/you-willsend-fax-beach
> Everyone I've known from Hong Kong decried the education of mainland China.

I'm not surprised such comment came out from someone in Hong Kong but the truth is the education system in Hong Kong is even more "comes down to repeating book knowledge, so just memorization".

Actually, most East Asian education systems have a heavy focus on "book knowledge, so just memorization". Lack of innovation? Just look at Japan.

Disclaimer: I'm from Mainland.
I recommend separating collection from instrumentation. Always instrument at the source, so that you can instrument the flow of your entire application. If the caller decides there is something about the code flow that is worth recording, it can trigger collection of the entire trace.
And now I'm trapped in this multi-app universe where every entity uses a different app. My employer uses Symantec, my school uses Duo, my bank has its own app (as does Steam), and a handful of sites use TOTP.

Argh.
Yup, I agree about throwing away rater information. The actual application at my company that motivated me to research this doesn't have rater information, which is why I didn't think to adjust for it. The movie case was just an example I used to motivate this post for which, yes, I agree, rater information would be quite useful.
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Wildcard pattern? Wildcard variable? Dummy placeholder?
React, HapiJS, RethinkDB, Node and Haskell. That might be the coolest stack ever. Do you have any FOSS project on Github?
I think you can add Furniture and Solar Panel markets too... really India should be large enough to make some of the same plays fostering domestic industry too, but they either don't do it as much or you don't hear about it as much in US media.
This looks incredible, the brand new SDC hardware gets me excited! What's the next milestone your guys plan to hit? Are you going to be utilizing or releasing any open source software? I'm always looking for more stuff to hack on
I think painting Haskell as a LISP but in a blank-slate world without packages is not quite accurate. There is a large library of existing packages that take you beyond the language's primitive constructions.
It proposes a way by which those neurons can create subjective experience, yes. Namely, that the medium they're creating the signal in is fundamentally experiential and perturbations in it are fundamentally experiences of some variety. There are lots of philosophical reasons to think that this is the case for some aspect of reality (or perhaps fields in general, even).

This would give us a science of experience and allow us to categorize and create new experiential beings. That's a goal that many of us have.

Now, for various reasons, we might suppose a medium we're already aware of (or mediums in some combination -- as is the position of the materialist). Then the question becomes entirely about the integration mechanism, as that's the only piece of the puzzle we don't know.

So if you're a materialist, the integration of brain patterns in to a signal which corresponds to subjective experience is the question of creating new 'souls' (in the sense of beings who experience), and also of categorizing what exactly has a 'soul' (in the sense of inner experience).

The problem is how the computational structure which produces our behavior couples to our experience of it, which is a consistent, evolving perturbation in something, even if just in the sense of being a quasiparticle formed of the constituent parts interacting. (Though, likely, we're missing parts of the computational story -- I don't think most serious scientists would argue that.)

I think you just don't like the question, but it's pretty clearly formed, at least as far as big research directions ever are.
Give description of 'free will' so that it can't be replaced with 'chaotic', 'non deterministic' or 'random'.

So far nobody has been able to do that.
BYD delivers first massive 60-ft all-electric bus in the US: 275 miles range
Yeah, reading that shit drives me nuts.
I like the Coffiest product because it's basically like green tea, due to the caffeine + l-theanine they add (basically you get calm energy). Also I have only 13 minutes from waking up to leaving my door each morning, so saving time from mixing anything up, chewing food, etc is very useful.
Does that mean that animals don't feel pain? Or that they are conscious? I don't mean to tarnish his research with a simple fact but I guess it's something worth exploring. Do animals feel pain the same way humans do? Is there a measure of consciousness?
Or the company doesn't really sell ketchup but it offers a platform that lets you share ketchup with your neighbors for a small fee (initially subsidized by investors).
It's big and slow, agreed, but it is very powerful. I don't know the details of the virtual FS layer but I can sympathise because that's very difficult to get right in a cross-platform way.
But Google was simply extending their already-free web-based offering, not taking historically expensive desktop software (operating systems and productivity suites) and making them free.
I think you nailed it. I drink Soylent not to replace a dinner with my girlfriend, but in those times when the alternative is getting a quick burger or pizza due to lack of time, usually late in the night.
Thanks! Interesting. So, Java 11 or 12 eh?
I call the device in my pocket an iPad mini, and it doesn't even come with a 1st party phone app (unless you count FaceTime audio).

I can still make/receive occasional calls on it via Google Voice. But I use it much more as a mobile computer, and appreciate the bigger screen.
This holds for virtually all evil.
I'm assuming making these record public in an anonymized way. If somebody wants your records directly nothing changes. So he doesn't know whether you're sharing your data or not.

Of course there's good chance he can find you in the anonymized dataset if it's detailed enough. But he can't be 100% sure it's you.
a) You can optionally include the type if you want. I do this in some rare circumstances where it does create more readable code.

string name = getHandleFromUser("peter", "waivers")

b) It is usually not necessary to know what the type is while reading code, and if you need to know you can just hover over the variable.
You will need to expand on that "work together" bit before I will be convinced that you can explain consciousness. Also, can you identify maximal rewards in a way that does not become self-referential when the actions are things like listening to music or climbing a mountain?
This was new to me, thank you!

The video helpfully has a transcript: https://github.com/jwise/28c3-doctorow/blob/master/transcrip...
Too much traffic -- couldn't access the page.

Here's the cached version:
http://archive.is/vs4a7
The current title "A 2D Image of your hand and TensorFlow tell you everything" is a little head-scratching. "2D image" as opposed to "stereo" 2D images (or depth-mapped image?). And "tell you everything" makes it sound like some kind of fortune teller.
Protectionism is just wealth redistribution from the consumers to the suppliers. Most importantly it's wealth redistribution proportional to consumer spending.

So you take less (percentage-wise) from the mega rich than you do from the middle class because large capital doesn't spend a large percent of its capital on consumer goods. That's regressive.

Why don't you go take the money from the rich instead of coming after the middle class? You want the guy who's making $50k a year to pay $200 more for his iPhone and you want the guy making a million a year to do the same. Both of them are only going to own the one iPhone. Straight up regressive.
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Yes, and that's why you're often scratching your head at the function definitions: they're extremely general solutions to general problems. This, in conjunction with the documentation issue means that often you end up getting referred to papers, which does nothing to help the "only for academics" impression.
Because artists have been depicting the political system for centuries.
> "the craft could accelerate to one-fifth the speed of light"

At that speed, wouldn't this little device be ripped to shreds by dust, radiation, and loose atoms or ions?
Grad students in CS can easily make over $30k at a summer internship (I've done several).
Haha fair enough! And thanks for pointing out that it's actually been propagated by school teachers sometimes. I definitely deserve to be corrected publicly on the "us English speakers" thing. I could try to defend myself on the basis that I was deliberately affecting a more popular mode of speaking at that point, at the expense of correctness, but the truth is I've never said or written "we X doers". I'll bear it in mind for the future!
yes, but with a larger screen and keyboard

not sure why such negativity on that comment - I've met many people who see a phone as a distraction, but want to retain some instant communication capability

there is a real hivemind phenomenon on HN that mobile apps are everything next - what if that's not the case - what if people don't want to be tracked, profiled, remarketed to 24/7 - what if they just want the 4 messages they get in a day that are worth reading?
>What's the answer? Protectionism?

Fairness. If some major corporation can go somewhere where they pay people $.80 a day for their labor, let me hire people for that amount to do what ever I want. Or we enforce our current laws onto the entire supply chain. Every single person whose labor went to making some product had to be treated a certain legal bare minimum standard.

At least with automation it does largely become available to more people (granted we have to ensure the legal system isn't used to shut it down, such as with the DMCA or the patent system).
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> I've been joking lately that there is a new one syllable word for "personal computer": phone.

I wouldn't be surprised. I suspect that a smartphone is the only computer very large majority of today's children has ever used.
Are Imgur links accepted?

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> I wonder what makes people think that an AI needs to be able to code to improve itself. I don't see infant brains "programming" themselves to get better.

That's largely because you haven't looked. Infants are constantly developing and pruning pathways and connections in their brain, which effectively changes both the hardware and the software.
But no guilt has been established, and not even a formal charge at this point - so we are left with a question of how can a citizen be deprived of their property by the gov't when neither of these has been established.
We asked 20,000 people who they are and how they’re learning to code
If it's in the /system partition, it shouldn't be able to do any data collection or bound to any companies' services.

Anything bound to any companies' services or doing any data collection should be entirely user-controlled and user-replacable.
I don't think this is all that amazing.

Human fingers only have a very narrow range of motion in a single direction. When the 2D profile of the hand changes, the set of finger movements to arrive at that profile is fairly predictable.
I really dislike working in libraries; I've tried several times, but the "quietness" is very distracting to me. Add to this the fact that many unsavory characters like to hang out in the library, the difficulty of finding a desk with a good view of the sunny outside, and it is no wonder I just can't do it. I suspect there are many like me.

I much prefer cafes, and I don't have any problem concentrating there at all.

There is something different about a loud office, though, and I don't like those either
It is a fair point that some libraries could benefit from some better soft documentation.
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Was it https://fugue.co ? I think they use Haskell for their DSL
Yep, that's the one! Looks like there were lots of problems with the experiment but good to read regardless.
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I didn't know Kotlin had async/await. Thanks, I will have a look.
I've tried "Learn You A Haskell for Great Good" and "Real World Haskell".
Sorry, why can't you drink a protein shake on a call?
Very much so. I'm increasingly seeing more and more projects that use Phoenix (Elixir) on the backend, and Elm on the frontend.

Here's an exciting example: https://github.com/dailydrip/firestorm
I have a feeling it is meant to be all bouncy to spark an interest in kids when they visit the site.
Seems the Republicans will achieve their only real goals fairly quickly: large tax cuts for high incomes and getting rid of Obamacare.
How, specifically, is this going to improve health care while making insurance cheaper and more widely available?

This should be easy to explain, right?
PS that first sentence was supposed to read...

"Don't think permissions really protect you from this."
The problem is that it was switched to a 3rd-party app that collects and shares data without the user's knowledge or permission, and is rather difficult to switch back.
A while ago I wrote up my objections to the Penrose-Lucas argument: https://chronos-tachyon.net/essays/penrose-objections/ . I'm not super proud of how it turned out (way too meandering), but it boils down to:

1. Let's suppose for sake of argument that humans really can see the inherent truth of "Peano Arithmetic is consistent". That doesn't mean humans violate Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem: it could just mean that humans use axioms stronger than PA.

2. Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem only applies to systems that are perfectly logically consistent. Not sure how Penrose didn't notice, but humans... aren't.

3. When scientists proposed Quantum Mechanics as a replacement for Classical Mechanics, it was on them to explain how Quantum Mechanics simplified to Classical Mechanics in the common case. "Penrose Mechanics" is an even more radical departure — especially from a physics of computation standpoint, as Penrose Mechanics by definition would allow solving at least some of the problems in (ALL - R) in ~polynomial time. Penrose needs to explain how Penrose Mechanics reduces to Quantum Mechanics in the common case.

4. Penrose proposes that (a) there exist new physics, (b) that evolution has learned to computationally exploit the new physics via microtubules, and yet (c) that humans are the only lineage to make use of this feature of microtubules, even though microtubules are found in all eukaryotic cells (from mushrooms to amoebae). From a predator-prey standpoint alone, it would seemingly be a huge evolutionary advantage to be able to compute NP or R functions in polynomial time. (That ability is not _strictly_ implied by Penrose Mechanics, but it's a very likely consequence.) Penrose needs to explain why only humans are taking advantage of the computational power of microtubules, when microtubules have existed for billions of years and across millions of species.
FWIW their phones originally ran CyanogenOS. They're in the process of updating to stock android [1], after cyanogen's recent layoffs/pivot/rebranding/disaster [2].

[1] http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/12/31/after-cyanogen-colla...
[2] http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/11/28/cyanogen-inc-will-sh...
The Google Dialer only works on Stock Android.
Which is a shame.
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https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html#usecanon... does say this:
"If CGIs make assumptions about the values of SERVER_NAME, they may be broken by this option. The client is essentially free to give whatever value they want as a hostname. But if the CGI is only using SERVER_NAME to construct self-referential URLs, then it should be just fine."
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> Financial interests convinced liberals and conservatives alike that globalism was a good thing (for altruistic or selfish reasons respectively). Instead it just gave Capital access to cheap labor and totally fucked the American worker.

Lump of Labour fallacy.

The way both Liberals and Conservatives speak as if USA is marred with some wide scale unemployment. It is as if Americans would love to have sweatshops where pregnant women will be working 14 hours a day.

USA continues to enjoy very good employment, better than most developed countries with comparable scale and diversity. People all across the world are flocking to take those US jobs and you have to close the gates to prevent them from coming.

I find the constant self loathing pretty disgusting on part of a country that is home to such exceptional economy.

All those jobs are not coming back and it is a good thing.
Quest Bars have better much macros (barely any net carbs, plenty of fiber and protons) than that, though you'd need to eat ~two to hit the same calorie count. Any reason it needs to be a drink?