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Perhaps I shouldn't have said it so strongly. I will elaborate on my meaning.

Within capitalism, the labour of a working-class man is dictated usually by the capitalist; the hours he works, what he works with, when he works, and what quality of product is expected of him. However the labourer working under the capitalist is forced to sell the only thing he can provide - that is, his labour power (capacity to perform labour), and in return, the labourer receives a wage, which is equal to the exact amount required to sustain the worker and keep him within the labour force and introduce new labourers.

Thus in order to survive the labourer is required to sell his labour-time to someone else, and have the products of his labour appropriated at the end.

As is mentioned in Classical Econophysics (Paul W. Cockshott et al.):

>Marx asked, where does profit come from, if all goods are exchanged at their value? The answer, Marx said, lies in the special commodity labour-power. The worker sells to the capitalist labour-power which embodies (let’s say) 5 hours; that is, the value of the worker’s means of subsistence amounts to 5 hours per day. But once he gets through the factory gates or the or the door, he finds that the working day is 8 hours. The worker therefore performs 3 hours of ‘surplus labour’ per day and this is manifest in 3 hours’ worth of surplus value accruing to the capitalist. Marx calls the labour time workers spend in reproducing the value of their wages the ‘necessary labour time’, and he calls the ratio of surplus labour time to necessary labour time at therate of surplus value. In the example just given the rate of surplus value is 3/5 = 0.6.

So here we have one element of force: the forceful appropriation of one's products of labour at the end of the production process. The next element of force is that the labourer is required to work under the direction of someone else, usually the highest bidder for the worker's labur-power commodity (if he can find such a bidder), rather than voluntarily decide with others how much or how to work. And finally the third element of force, that the worker is required to work more in return for less, despite no social need to do so as a result of increased automation, which could be used to alleviate workload rather than increase short-term profits.

What are the exceptions? When a labourer is able to amass sufficient capital so as to sustain himself from it, or become a property owner himself. This not an option for most people, as it involves too much risk and time, especially for those with families.
This is where I really think scripted languages can shine... I find that using SQL in JS you really don't need an ORM, except maybe to shape your response for the purpose of an API interface... even then it's still better than the boilerplate that ORMs bring into the mix more often than not.
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Eh, I get the author is being sarcastic, but for someone who buys water filters for their looks, his Soma jug looks just like a slightly plump version of Brita. (What's wrong with Brita, anyway?)
Less powerful than autohotkey, and requires you to use a separate keypad? Just use autohotkey and the keyboard you're already using? I just bind my capslock to my alternate layer. For instance holding caps turns j,k,l,i into arrow keys.
In the absence of counter examples, it's reasonable to assume a truly human-like intelligence needs as much down-time and sleep as a real human, and that it can be as effectively coerced with the threat of simulated prison if it breaks the rules.

But the point about food and rent is very economically important if they ever get to be cheaper than human labour.
I stumbled upon puri.sm in an old reddit thread talking about this, I'm very intrigued by the systems they make. Also it seems disabling ME might be possible, though risky: https://hardenedlinux.github.io/firmware/2016/11/17/neutrali...
Which ones are you thinking of, when you say that?
The repository mentions "other languages" but I could only find Python examples?

While I think wrapper generators are a noble idea, I doubt I would choose this over the convenience of IDL-like metaprogramming approaches (e.g. pybind11, or Boost.Python)
Bugbot that allows you instantly see user actions that lead up to a bug,in Slack
Can you please post a reddit-AMA style proof to assure users that it really is you. It is unbelievable that you weren't aware of HN and that the profile was created just a few hours ago. Thanks. :)
If ads were the only issue I'd be pretty happy and willing to give advertisers all my information.

Trouble is companies and law enforcement frequently abuse information, and even when they don't, they get hacked by other people who do.
> It doesn't mean anything

That's not true. It is as an indictment of the scientific system that would allow fraud like this to get through because it fit the prevailing narrative.
This was covered in Sam Peltzman's "Regulation of Pharmaceutical Innovation" book, where he goes over the statistics before/after the 1962 FDA Amendments. Statistically, the percentage of drugs that later prove to be ineffective or damaging is no different, just the aggregate amount of new drugs, good and bad, is way less.
Windows Phone has a nice manual workaround to this. When you disable WiFi, you can say for just 30m or an hour or four. Excellent because I never remember I've disabled WiFi until I've eaten a ton of mobile data. Of course, it's still a poor substitute for not having proper switching.
This was an All in the Family episode. For whatever reason, Gloria can;t tell the difference in taste between Coke, Pepsi, and RC but Meathead can.
First, I suggest that you not get too worked up about this. If you do the fundamentals of "success" (develop technical knowledge and skills, build social capital, work on interesting problems, etc.), you will be a success after graduating from either of these schools.

Second, I would focus most on where you want to live geographically both during school and after -- this will drive a lot of your happiness in life. UIUC grads will have an easier time landing jobs in the Midwest, and UVA students will generally have an easier time finding jobs along the East Coast (esp. mid-Atlantic).

Third, neither of these departments will hinder your intellectual development. Hands down, you yourself will be your biggest limiting factor (the big winners at good schools are folks who embrace autonomous learning). That said, I suggest you look at the research projects/programs/centers led by professors at each of these schools and see which ones have more projects that make you say "hell yeah!". Go to that school and try to work on one or more of those projects. Figure out a way to be useful to the lead researchers ASAP and possibly start working with them now or this summer.

If you still can't decide after doing the above, I will add some marginal issues for each school:

UVA

+ Scholars programs sometimes have unstated benefits like access to jobs, funding, or social contacts. This is potentially big (not sure at UVA specifically).

+ Priority scheduling is a big deal at big schools. Avoiding crappy profs makes school a lot more fun.

UIUC

- The state budget is in shambles, and the school has had some upper administration issues in the recent past. The school is currently not in a great place organizationally as it has been in the past.

- Relies a lot on international students (which is cool imho), but the students and their funding may vanish rather rapidly if the US is perceived as being hostile towards immigrants. This has the potential to create a bigger administrative mess.

Let me know if you have any other questions, and I will be happy to answer.
I can't wait for the "Hacker" "News" commentary on this post. Is this a parody website? Mind-blowingly out of touch with reality. Christ.
In addition to a few more keys next to the keyboard, how about adding a simple voice interface?

"Keypad 1"

"Keypad 2"

or even name the macros:

"Keypad sort"

If I'm not constantly repeating a macro, I like to keep my hands on my main keyboard.
Phone apps in general have a huge problem with extremely high timeouts and no user-facing cancel/retry buttons.

My intuition for whether a request that's not done yet is ever going to complete seems to be much better than what's written into most apps. It's really annoying when I have to entirely kill and reopen the app, rather than just have that one operation retried.
No, this is actually a terrible thing in the long run for one simple reason: fisheries are being destroyed everywhere [1], and the US is the only nation currently with the clout to really push to change this. But since seafood isn't even on most Americans' radar and we live in a democracy, it's very unlikely any politician will ever spend political capital on it.

Fisheries are being destroyed is because blue water fisheries are a commons -- no nations own them, so whoever vacuums up the fish first reap the profits. Not to mention global warming and ocean acidification are stressing fish breeding grounds worldwide.

This model made sense up until WW2, and was in line with how international waters were historically governed, but it is an ecological disaster in the making because technological developments during the war (sonar, deep sea nets, etc.) allowed huge fishing fleets to completely destroy blue water fishing grounds.

The only way to change this is for someone to push at the international level to rewrite the agreements on fisheries (restrict them by quotas, manage them by an international body with an eye towards conservation, etc.), and the only superpower that has the political capital to really get the ball rolling is the US.

But most Americans don't eat much seafood so it's not on anyone's radar. Enjoy your seafood while you still can. Maybe rich nations will have farmed fish or domestic freshwater sources, but cheap seafood from the ocean will basically not exist within a few decades.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/07/global-f...
i7 4510U affected?
I'll venture on the aggressive side and say they are even less than a commodity.

Communication companies like these are inherently highly competitive. Each one only cover some part of the world (for instance, SMS to USA and canada).

When you have a big company operating in multiple continents, like Uber, you MUST have multiple service providers to cover all your customers (and it will also come with costs savings so you really have maximum incentive to diversify).

Once you have diversified to 3+ providers, you mastered the abstraction good enough to plug them in and out. The next logical step is to take advantage of that to put providers in a same zone in competition with each other.
I was pretty impressed by fake Obama's voice. Obviously it doesn't stand up to close scrutiny, but I think if I heard it playing in the background, I could be fooled. And the biggest giveaway was occasional weird intonation rather than the timbre of his voice. All they have to do is make it to where you say a sentence, and it matches your intonation with the other person's voice.
That's fair. (I'll admit I don't 100% understand the appeal of Minecraft and other survival simulators)

What may also be interesting is looking at the systems of periodic quests with high rewards, such as the daily quest system used in games like Hearthstone, the secondary purpose of which is to encourage diversity of play, which keeps players from being burnt out. These quests are typically drawn from a list instead of being algorithmically generated, which seems like a missed opportunity...
Canadian? I'm betting this is a terminology collision—US debit cards use credit-card protocols to talk to banks, while Canadian debit cards ("ATM cards" or "client cards") use their own protocols for POS transactions, which Apple doesn't even bother supporting.

Instead, to support Canadian debit cards directly, Apple would seem to be using the Canadian banks' web payments infrastructure (Interac EasyWeb)—which is effectively a SAML auth flow using your card number + PIN as credentials.

Before this mechanism was introduced, Apple did first support Canadian "Visa debit" cards, though, so earlier Canadian users of the system—who have their phone pointed at a Visa debit card number they have, instead of their debit client-card number directly—might be confused by the assertion that Canadian debit card use on Apple Pay requires a PIN. It doesn't, for them.
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There's no way to create a thunk in portable C even today, much less back then. You had to do some form of machine code generation on the fly, which instantly limited it to some particular architecture / calling convention at the very least.
And yet... you can get them in stores. That's kind of the whole point. Not everyone in Italy eats clams or octopus or whatever every night either.
WhatsApp would be huge. A WhatsApp PBX, auto-responders, etc. But it seems like FB would nix access pretty quickly so you'd constantly be playing whack-a-mole. They might even terminate the underlying account, making it too risky for businesses to even consider.
> In other news although we can harbor optimistic thoughts for scientists, medical professionals, lawmakers and maybe even politicians all around the globe to do the "right" thing to preserve human life in a currently recognizable form

Why is this the right thing to do? What are you signifying by putting "right" in quotes?

I am reminded of the Hyperion Cantos from Dan Simmons, where most of the human race has declared that nanotech modification of the human organism/germline is a cardinal sin. Meanwhile there is another segment of humans who decided that maybe it wasn't, and they're off colonizing deep space by remaking themselves into a wild range of body types.

In fact if we don't stop dirtying up the planet, we may feel a lot more pressure to adapt our bodies to an environment whose rate of change we can't keep up with. In any event I am sure there will be a segment of humanity that does want to preserve human life in a currently recognizable form, and they should be able to choose that for themselves. That should not stop those of us who want to vary it wildly from doing our thing too!

There are a number of ethical concerns when it comes to these kinds of changes, of course. There is the world of The Windup Girl, where competing agricorps target each other's crops with tailored viruses to wipe them (or their consumers) out. So we will need to figure out how to rebalance our societies in the light of this vast new power. Yet it looks like it may also be the start of a whole new stage in treating human diseases. Imagine a world where mass-produced medicines are mostly replaced by taking some host cells, gene sequencing the target diseases, then programming and re-injecting the cells to eliminate them. I'm not well-versed enough in this stuff to know how far-fetched that is, of course. It sounds like something out of Star Trek. But it's hard not to be optimistic about what it can enable.
Why was Soma so hard to distinguish from Bottled? Article seems to gloss over this point?
"Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator. It's like a monster truck you can pour into your face."
Ask HN: Cost of components of a satellite
What is the cost of just the components used in a satellite? Not the cost to put it space or its assumed value but some type of raw value? Because there is so much variety, lets assume something like the one facebook was leasing and spaceX was launching which was quoted at around $400-500 mil. What would be the cost of components of that one?
An aside: I visited Mongolia a few years ago and learned that Mongolians almost universally dislike fish. And given that the vast majority of Mongolians were pastoral and nomadic until about 10 years ago, the many pristine lakes and streams of Mongolia are filled with ridiculously large fish. The waters are very accessible, too, because the vast majority of the land in the country is open to allow the population to freely roam and graze their livestock.

I'm not an avid fisherman, but anybody who is should seriously consider visiting Mongolia before it's too late. An exceptionally brutal winter in 2009 killed many livestock and drove millions of people to the capital city. And in the past 10 years the mining industry has exploded. The population is rapidly moving away from nomadic pastoralism and toward industrialization and private property. While I'm sure most of the country will remain undeveloped for quite some time given its size, with the mining operations the waterways are likely to become increasingly suspect.

FWIW, it's not that Mongolians are like some isolated tribe in the Amazon. They're fully aware of the world and enjoy a decent literacy rate. But the Soviets kept the Mongolian economy relatively undeveloped, perhaps because the pastoral culture fit the communist ideal. With the collapse of the USSR the country stayed on the same course until about 10-15 years ago when outsiders (especially South Koreans) poured in to develop the resource extraction industries.
Twillio's business made no sense to me until now. I can build the exact same apps for customers using SMS gateways for a lower rate. Sure, they provide a single provider for a small company, but there are better features and rates offered by local companies in each country. So how many small companies have an SMS app that requires global SMS gateways?

From a technical perspective, I think what they built is great, but at rates around a penny per message, how could I make a profit? A single large customer such as Uber makes sense, but if your business success is based on a unicorn, then good luck to you.

I really think that Twillio is first to market because of the inept management of telcos, but how do you compete when they figure it out? Further, the rates per message drop dramatically on a contract for volume, especially in the wholesale market.

Then of course there is O365 Microsoft Skype for business, and I expect that all of these capabilities will be available with their UCWA api.
I am surprised people are shocked by this. Personally, I live in Berkeley - within a 20 mile footprint you have a nice sampling of exorbitant wealth and abject poverty.

As you drive through you can see drastic changes of roadside advertisements transitioning between English, Chinese, and Spanish. In the poor areas of town bus stations are plastered with high-interest payday loans. Drive 5 miles North and you will see advertisements for expensive art/music events. Drive slightly more North and you will see endless advertisements for divorce and accident lawyers.

It would be a miracle if all of this store location/advertisement placement was coincidence.

It's such a shtark reality you can stand at the Bus Station, read the bus outside advertisements, and estimate if it's likely to be going where you are. But once you get inside the bus where fewer people of wealth can see, you no longer can.
That people exist who drink decaf diet sodas boggles the mind.

Why not drink carbonated water at that point? Or just water, you know.

Or drink real soda in moderation.
That's what standards are for. If all your storage is based on a shared standard, anyone can implement a replacement for a given unit of data. Unfortunately, standards are not cool these days, because they make vendor lock in difficult to achieve.
Maybe I'm overly cynical, but I found the article and many of the comments here annoying.

Yes - rural people can be nice, helpful, friendly, wise, experienced, and unpretentious.

Rural people can also be short-sighted, rude, intolerant, gleefully embrace ignorance, and every bit as pretentious as a city-slicker.

This is because whether it's city, suburban, or rural, we're all still people. And here's the kicker: All things being equal, people are people, and some are jerks and others saints. But things AREN'T equal. I've lived in trailers, and I've owned a house - I can't tell you about your neighbors in those situations, but I can tell you about the areas.

I won't speculate the reasons here, but rural areas (more in the American South than other places I've been, but still in general) have more than their share of bitter, racist, sexist, intolerant, xenophobic, self-righteous people. This is demonstrable in a variety of statistical ways by look at different states/counties.

When reviewing the Voting Rights Act, Chief Justice Roberts asked "Is it the government's submission that the citizens in the South are more racist than the citizens in the North?". I've been there. It totally is. And the more rural, often the more racist (etc).

When you look at states where they are removing actual science from the textbooks, where are they? When you find the populations of people that want to "go with their gut" in the face of any evidence, where are they concentrated?

Of course, you can't paint with broad strokes - for me to condemn everyone in a low-population density area is just as wrong as calling them all saintly. There are many people, many towns, many areas, where what I'm talking about is less common than in many cities.

But my experience says the embrace of ignorance to be more likely there. I don't look down on someone for coming from or being in a rural area. I don't admire someone for coming to or being in a city. But the sort of "noble savage" picture that I'm seeing painted here utterly disregards the very real problems and social ills that many of these areas have.

Tell me your in/from a rural area and I don't care. Tell me you're poor, it doesn't impact my impression of your worth as a person. But don't be an asshat and surround yourself with other asshats and then complain about the reputation you're getting.
You can enable Wifi Assist on your iPhone to automatically switch to Cellular data when Wifi is weak.
They do have an R8 core, but they don't have a trademark on that part of the name[1], they just have one for Cortex. However, the name should probably be changed for removing confusion anyways, because Renesas has an R8C series of CISC microcontrollers [2]. The namespace around single letter and then a number processor model is real crowded.

[1] https://www.arm.com/about/trademarks/arm-trademark-list/

[2] https://www.renesas.com/en-us/products/microcontrollers-micr...
Yeah, those social buttons are fucking atrocious.
For those of us not familiar with this particular financial product (is that even the right term?), could you elaborate on the $30+ billion dollar figure? How do you arrive at that number?
Yes, as far as I could tell then in 2013 (or now), Keep was alive. Given that it had just been released (and a sarcastic article on it was actually part of my impetus for that analysis), the survival model only gave it a 61% chance of surviving until 2018. As it's almost 2018 now and Keep is alive, that suggests (on purely statistical grounds) it has a better chance of sticking around for a while.
So, what terminal do you use?
In the 1970s the conspiracy theorists were all convinced that oil companies bought the patents to 100 mpg carburetors in order to keep them off the market. My father (ex military) laughed at the idea, as a huge problem for the military is fuel consumption, and they would not let a little old thing like patent rights stand in the way of using it.
I wonder how much efficiency and productivity hours are lost to stupid preconceptions like "Brita isnt something you put on a kitchen counter".