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> Apple says that it intends to bolster the U.S. manufacturing sector by creating a $1 billion “advanced manufacturing fund” — with some of that initial money going toward a company the tech giant is prepared to partner with, chief executive Tim Cook said.

Amazing what passes for news these days. This sounds no different from what they normally do with their supply chain. Anyone remember GT Advanced Technologies? Apple wanted their sapphire glass for the iPhone 6 and fronted $439m for a factory in Arizona. The deal went south and Apple ended up owning everything and 700+ people were laid off. Apple turned it into a data center.
Despite it sounding like a terrible idea, I haven't heard of any exploits.
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Asking 'for a friend'? ;-)
I've been hearing people say that there are signs that the bubble is bursting in China for the last several years now. This time it's for real, though, right?

edit: I had a hunch you'd be the kind of person who would cite a zerohedge article as a source on this. They have been gleefully predicting the collapse of China's economy since the site's inception. No doubt, they will gleefully take credit for "predicting" its collapse, too (should it actually happen), despite all of the failed predictions year after year.
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>> Cook told "60 Minutes” in 2015. “I mean, you can take every tool and die maker in the United States and probably put them in a room that we’re currently sitting in. In China, you would have to have multiple football fields.”

The BLS seems to think there are 72,000 tool and die makers in the U.S..

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes514111.htm#(1)

>I have shared this quote with every middle/lower-middle class person I know who voted for Trump and their responses have all been the same, horror.

...which quote, the tool-and-die-maker quote, or the jobs-aren't-coming-back quote?
that wasn't a requirement of this project
You have the right to keep up at all costs. If capitalism force-feeds you optimization, you swallow aderall. If computation mandates neural interfaces, you have the right to open your head and cut out all the trash.
If the world doesn't like your attitude, you have the right to be adjusted.
You have the right, to paint on what you have no choice what so ever in a pretty color.
I'm with you on not getting a 'smart' TV, but this comment reeks of elitism: "Better still is to forego on television altogether but if you insist on having canned 'entertainment' (panem et circensis) beamed into your domicile"

What if I want to play games, watch movies, or just sit down and otherwise enjoy myself? Is everything that comes on a screen an unnecessary diversion or is it just a screen of a certain size?
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If Google can get phished, are we all doomed?
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Broadcast TV only gets you local sports, or maybe some national-interest stuff (in the US). Cable is required to watch teams from other markets.

Ex. In DC, I'll get the NFL's Redskins on broadcast, plus maybe the Dallas Cowboys and 1-2 others of national interest. If I want to watch the Buffalo Bills every weekend (even when they aren't playing Dallas), I need cable.
5G networks will be coming online in the next 3-4 years. It will have latency in the 1ms range.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/02/5g-im...
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Sadly, you are right.
Gaining skills is just a matter of effort nowadays as everything anyone needs to learn to do pretty much anything is of course just clicks away.

I think that's the real change that needs to be addressed...self directed learning should be the future, and the need for formal education is dying
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And if man is not a socialist when he's 60, he has no health insurance.
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China is by far the largest aviation market in the world. They don't need other markets to succeed. If they can replace Boeing and Airbus with their home-made airplanes, that is a huge success. According to research, China needs more than $1 trillion worth of airplanes in the coming decade. That is HUGE.
Or, less than one-half of one percent of their cash reserves. That's generous and I'm sure it will be effective and not at all just a marketing gesture.
Finally! This is long-overdue indeed.

On a related note, I was pretty shocked when I first knew scientific glass blower was a very special skill set and is dying.[1]

[1]: http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-caltech-glassbl...
I'm really confused the purpose what this article's purpose is.
You first talk about the issues with clinical trials then you throw in a tidbit of you just feeling like putting your medical records on public because you couldn't find many open medical records?
That's an awful lot of assumptions in one sentence.
I have a friend who is a medical researcher and it definitely seems they are stuck in the past.

In order to study something, he has to:

* Come up with a hypothesis that X may cause Y

* Request access to data about that hypothesis

* He is only given the data regarding his hypothesis

* He can then study whether his hypothesis has merit or not

We should be dumping these whole datasets into machine learning and having computers give us potential links to explore. Obviously there will be plenty of things that turn out to be unrelated, but it's also very likely the computer can find links that a human would not have considered.

I don't see it changing any time soon in the US, but I suspect other countries with this data will use it, and we'll find the next generation of medical breakthroughs no longer come from the US.
Did anyone else have this problem: you enjoyed the product at first but after X number of bottles (like case 2 for me) your body started to react poorly to it and the taste became repulsive?

Not trying to badmouth soylent, I had a similar experience with a brand of granola bars.
> OSGi, a stable, mature (16+ years old) technology

And hardly used in industry beyond eclipse project.
iText PDF is a popular Java library that does this: http://itextpdf.com/Pricing
What do you consider the good parts of PoW to be? (serious question)
As a developer who just spent the last night building a visualization tool analyzing reddit data, totally appreciate the value of a good designer.

It is very hard to balance 'simplicity', 'usability' and 'features'.

I had to cut short many features and options because the interface was getting too complex.
Trade has certainly fucked _some_ workers. But it helped others; it's just a lot harder to see the ways in which the average American worker is better off, because the benefits of trade are spread across the economy, and the costs are concentrated among a smaller number of individuals.

Here's a libertarian making this point: http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2017/04/does_trade_with....

"Using novel data on firms from the US Census Bureau, I show that the data support this view: US firms expanded manufacturing employment as reorganization toward less exposed industries in response to increased Chinese imports in US output and input markets allowed them to reduce the cost of production."

Or Paul Krugman talking about the same, if you prefer that angle: https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/trade-and-jobs-...

Sure, there are arguments on each side. But it's not as cut and dried as your last paragraph suggests.
But it's not completely a labor play. Some of it is to skirt environmental protections. I'm not going to assume, but if you consider yourself both a globalist and an environmentalist, how do you personally resolve those two beliefs? Anyone reading this who does, how do you resolve those beliefs?

I can vote for all the environmental protections that I want, but what good does that do if it just forces companies to manufacture goods in places that have worse environmental protections than we do?

I ask this as someone who believes in both movements, and don't have a great answer to resolve this internal conflict.
And to add to this, if a jet crashes and it's discovered that the equipment is forged (as it may likely be examined by the documented OEM resulting in some WTFs flying around in a lab somewhere) the FAA will ground the entire fleet. They would then have to re-equip the aircraft with certified electronics and possibly re-certify everything. I'd be willing to bet that in that situation, any aircraft that was owned locally would either be sold back to china/someone else who wouldn't care or scrapped costing everyone a metric shit ton of money
Curious why you pay for it? If you're openly admitting to pirating it, why not just pirate it for free? it's not like the licence owners are getting any of your $13/month.
Well, the article explained that in this instance, it was via a foreign run telco.

So, essentially, to get in you just need to find the weakest telco connected to the main SS7 network and own them, and use their infra as a staging point.
There are benefits other than censorship resistance. For instance, these kind of sites are cheaper to run and are more resilient to DDoS attacks.
Yes, I'm aware 75% of new web developers use WP. But, with what believe the other CMS platforms exists and what advantages do they offer?
How about US expats?
I kill two birds with one stone: my apartment is actually two in disguise. I have two front doors, one leading to a third of the apartment (it's a rather large 4-bed) which is quite literally closed off from the rest by simply locking the internal door that connects the two. It may sound silly to have to literally exit the apartment to enter the office when it's literally next door, but it does have some value. Also it makes it much easier for tax purposes. Consequently a third of my rent is paid by my company, because it rents it as office space. Maybe it sounds weird or immoral or whatever, but it truly is office space and 100% legit, it just happens to be I'm also the landlord.
It really depends on the person, thats great you recognize that you do well in the corporate world. Unfortunately in many places the company would own your spare projects due to the intellectual property assignment rules in their employment contracts. Beyond that some of us strongly dislike conformity and being a replaceable cog in the corporate machine. Connecting with one's customers and seeing directly how what you build helps them instead of dealing with corporate politics is a huge improvement to me.
For the completely opposite view, listen to Daniel Dennet on The Life Scientific [1].

Dennet argues that combining Darwin's strange inversion of reason (complexity from bottom up iterative refinement) with Turing's Universal Machine provides a way of understanding how we are machines, built of mahcines, built of machines, etc. and it is the heirarchy that allows the complexity of minds to emerge.

That heirarchical iterative schemes are unexpectedly powerful is well mirrored by the recent successes of deep neural nets, and Dennet cites Hinton.

It's worth a listen and summarises his new book From Bacteria to Bach.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08kv3y4
Sourcegraph Director of Product here: We currently don't support installing extensions in our UI, but it's something we're definitely interested in. I'd love to hear more about other use cases you know you'd personally like to use?

You can however set up your own keybindings by editing the keyboard shortcut settings. Open the Quick Open (on a Mac, Command+Shift+P or F1 on a PC), and type "Open Keyboard Shortcuts". From here you can configure any mappings you'd like.
Learning to cook isn't hard. What do you feel like eating that seems easy to make? Youtube it or google it. 10 mins later you're on your way. It has a 15 ingredients? Cut it down to the main ones and skip the bay leaves, thyme, etc. You can also order food online for delivery. Honestly, this is really not that hard. Check out the meal prep community. I spent 3 hours this saturday and made lunches for 25 workdays and they're all extremely healthy (today is lentils, splitpeas, a chicken leg & thigh, veggies and a banana I grabbed on the way out the door.)
> I think it's really important that we consider that just because there's no legal way for me to watch say "The Americans" season 5 legally in the UK[0], I'm not entitled to pirate it. That is the content distributors mistake.

Eh. I'm willing to support creators to a certain extent, but if they don't want my money they're welcome to not have it.

> Saying that me downloading it doesn't hurt them doesn't track either because I'll be seeding a file to others who might have legal alternatives.

You can seed to exactly 1.0 so that your presence makes no difference one way or another if this is what bothers you.

> I've had to adjust how important watching stuff can be to me. Is it really that important that I get to watch some TV? Worth breaking the law for?

Everyone has their lines in the sand. The law counts for something, particularly when passed democratically, but it's not everything, particularly when imposed via backroom international treaties.
Reducing/removing taxes from abroad just incentivizes the firm to move as much of their profit abroad as possible, leaving nothing but domestic holding companies that report losses on behalf of their profitable overseas subsidiaries.
the kodi addons I've seen tend to connect to websites which host the content and display ads. Given that these don't involve seeding does that mean that the viewers aren't violating copyright, only the hosts?
It wasn't at all clear to me how the poster has committed this fallacy. For me, your comment was next-to-useless.
Your charger may not be harmful but that doesn't mean all chargers won't be or that all USB ports are safe.

Imagine if everyone used USB-C then we'd get to the point where no one would carry their charger with them because they could just borrow a charger or plug their computer into a random USB charge port at the Airport or Hotel.

At that point anyone could just setup a free "charge station" that would attempt to execute any number of nefarious exploits against anything plugged into them.
The risk with smart TVs is (as an example) CBS approaches Samsung and asks them to push code that makes the TV do a particular hard-to-notice sound when it detects the logo of a specific show being sent to the screen.
Expect the Chinese state to create a very friendly environment for those domestic planes.

Did it in other markets, currently under way against the iPhone.

Airbus and Boeing are toast in China.
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I drink a lot of coffee, and for me the Coffiest product is cheaper and healthier than your average Starbucks drink. I also really like the taste of the Cacao drink, which satisfies my sweet tooth whenever I feel like reaching for a bar of chocolate. I don't necessarily view it as a meal replacement, but rather an upgrade to unhealthy things I already eat regularly.
Any part of Bamboo, JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, or Hipchat driving you insane? That's how I started.

(I don't think Sourcetree takes add-ons, and Crucible/Fisheye are pretty much dead.)
> Whether or not it's conscious along the way is largely irrelevant.

Seems morally relevant re: does the suffering of AI entities matter.
Extremely close! It was actually posted on today's thread about consciousness[1], and what I was thinking of was [2].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14263842

[2]: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2756
Neither of those things are completely true. While bitcoin is accepted at some merchants, volume is pretty low. Several have removed it. People don't really use it to buy things, precisely because the network is stagnating and congested. The vast majority of Bitcoin's value derives from speculation, just like Ethereum.

Also, Monero is also on equal terms with Bitcoin when it comes to dark net markets. Another crypto with an actual valuable distinguishing feature (true anonymity) has more of a use case than Bitcoin here.
If only that was what the person you were responding to was doing, eh?
This is a risky thing to do when the patient's name is attached to it. Insurance companies, salesmen, etc., could do quite a lot with such information.

I whole-heartedly support the general idea, and making a centralised database of things like this would be great. Such a database would probably make it easier to anonymise the data as well.
Judging by the mono-unsaturated fat content that sunflower oil is a high oleic variety. It avoids the excessive omega-6 problem of regular sunflower oil.
It really depends on the kind of work. I'm a programmer by day and a writer by evening. For coding, the coffee shop is useless. For writing, it's priceless. I think getting up and ambulating to new scenery helps to stimulate the creative mind, and the coffee shop is a good destination (stimulants, horizontal surfaces, electrical outlets, climate control, etc).
Exactly this, which is also why every single automaker now publicly announces their retooling costs and shift changes for new model years. "We're spending $4B to improve manufacturing and hiring 10,000 workers" is a politically friendly headline even if you've done the same thing every year for the past few decades.
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Totally agree. iOS app developers are worldwide. Developers in the US are competing against developers in other countries that can sell low and still be profitable. Plus it doesn't have an effect on the software market as a whole. They're mobile apps. It's like saying people will expect software like Photoshop, Intellij or Matlab to be cheap because Candy Crush only cost them $5.
Regular small meals have been frequently recommended for a variety of diet reasons and is in no way tied to diabetes or other health issues, and is often times better then a glut of food in a single meal. In addition, people prone to hypoglycemia can benefit from gentle gnoshing through the day.

http://www.webmd.com/diet/obesity/features/6_meals_a_day#1
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-53111/Why-eating-l...
Here's an example: functional programming. I think you agree that functional programming in general helps us write very concise, but at the same time, still readable code. It also can eliminate some bugs because of the immutability, laziness, etc.

Python does support functional programming, but it's not a primary way of doing things. By learning one of the Lisp-like languages you can better understand all the idioms you would use in Python to apply functional programming concepts better.

You don't need to necessarily add it to you projects at work, it can be as simple as doing an online course.
Same old bunch of faces talking about the same old bunch of stuff.

Forever underwhelmed with design writing in the digital space.
I'm a big fan of Basscss also; since discovering it a couple years ago, I've almost exclusively used it (a custom fork of it) as the basis for everything I build on the web. It has a logical class naming scheme that easy to remember for me, and keeps things manageable (minimal inheritance) by composing atomic styles to build up higher-order styles. I use it for React applications, but have stuck with the Sass variant, to leverage the library of accumulated themes and "style modules" I've built up over time, which are based on the atomic design principle that Basscss naturally encourages.
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> But it's not as cut and dried as your last paragraph suggests.

It was the libertarians and liberal economic establishment who claimed it was cut and dried that unrestricted free trade was better for all Americans. Anyone who objected (Buchanan, Perot, now Trump) was obviously stupid, and probably racist.
Is this the new recruiting for elite recruits?

We saw this with the Nest folks, which was really a shell company that hired as many talented folks from Apple as possible, built a product, and then put themselves up for sale in the valley: either back to Apple or to Google.

This basically makes joining one of these startups a no-risk opportunity: huge upside if the thing you build actually works out, slide into a bigco job again if it doesn't...
I used the Groovy shell for this. Since Groovy is Java, you can paste Java code into the Groovy REPL and it works fine.
When you continuously argue against the basic merits of science in a forum based around science and technology you're probably not going to have a great time.
That's a function of the cable and not the laptop. With MagSafe any MagSafe charger will work. With that you only get protection when you bring your Griffin Magnetic dongle with you and remember to use it.
> You can prep an entire week worth of meals in 1 hour.

I have a feeling this is leaving a lot of things out. Maybe you can do the literal cooking in 1 hour. In order to be able to do that, how much time do you need to spend shopping for ingredients and transporting them, making sure they're still fresh and haven't gone bad, washing dishes and otherwise cleaning, and getting enough experience in cooking that you can actually do everything that fast.

And once you do all that, you have a week's worth of eating the same thing for every meal you do this for, and reheated and not as fresh as when you just made it. This is starting to sound not that much better than Soylent.

It's like that great Ars article on why many people don't cook. Maybe you or I can also install Linux and build an app from source. Could your grandmother do that, or would she be so hopelessly lost as to not even know where to start? That's what the idea of cooking is like for a lot of people. You aren't helping those people by insisting that it's possible to cook a week's worth of food in an hour, if you're already an experienced cook and know what ingredients to get, where to get them from, how long they stay good for, what to do if you can't find the ones you wanted, how to actually make everything in the most efficient way. It may take an hour to do the actual cooking, but it may also take a decade of experience in cooking to be able to do it in an hour and get a week's worth of food.
The bet on maps is interesting. I'm of the personal opinion that in the long run only machine learning can solve autonomous driving, but both MobilEye and now this company both have invested heavily into maps.

MobilEye makes sense, they have vested financial reasons that dictate what they do, so they can't turn their back on maps which they've been using for such a long time.

On the other hand, starting a company in maps for self driving cars, especially by what appears to be industry veterans, is far more interesting.
It's not only a question of time,it's also a question of energy and focus.

Soylent is not for everyone, but imagine you are a college grad, who just got a good job that finally pays and you want to make sure you build a good career.

Many college grads also need to focus on friends, dating, finally trying to find good exercise to become healthy, everything while working 60+h a week.

Not everyone has their stuff figured out, many young professionals are struggling, due to little money, social anxiety, job troubles and many of them can't cook.

Now tell them they should cook something every couple of days and that they should learn cooling for that when they can't even get their problems straight by themselves right now.

Soylent is not for everyone, but it is a big help for young college grads who are barely
scraping by and who don't know how to cook. It's better than McDonalds.
I love the cacao, its sweetness is tremendously useful to me as a replacement for desserts and unhealthy snacks.
Minus the Raspberry Pi 3.
Can you also be a musician right now?
Is it about time, or what?
Are you still a US citizen?
100% agree I hope we can get there!