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I'm surprised nobody mentioned that it could simply still be a normalization phase.
The iPad's growth exploded because everybody thought it was the new iPhone. Analysts started analyzing it like if it WAS the new iPhone.
But it's a very different product, with a lifecycle much more akin to that of a laptop. In this regard the iPad is indeed a computer. I'm typing this on a late 2014 MacBook Pro Retina. It's still a great machine, why change it? I can do everything with it. Even video editing to a very good extent.
The same for my iPad Air, bought in 2014. Still rocking.
I might be swapping it for a new iPad in 2 years maybe, but so far, why bother?

My mom's iPad is my old short-lived iPad 3. She gets Pinterest, she browses the web, she does her email, we Facetime. My dad borrows it from time to time to buy a rare book online or to look for some obscure Prog Rock band from the '70. He is the typical proudly tech-illiterate son of the fifties, but well, he actually loves to use his iPad 1 as a YouTube Radio when he's painting.

She has a laptop at home, but it's strictly connected to work related task. I.e. spreadsheets. And that's it.
Her laptop and her iPad are perfectly complementary devices she is not really thinking about changing until they will break or become unbearably slow.

There's no mystery: the iPad IS a computer, and its update cycle reflects it.
Is there any way to isolate wine and limit write permisions to user files? I only found this https://askubuntu.com/questions/327223/how-to-isolate-wine#3...
My favorite website is probably printfriendly.com, I pass most url through it, and enjoy my life back.
Talk about biased numbers and interpretation.

Revenue is growing but losses are growing too, so revenue is not growing fast enough.

7 billions of cash means Uber will be broke in less than two years depending how much faster losses are growing compared to revenue.

Investors might become hesitant until they know where the lawsuit with google is going.

My interpretation is that, unless Uber finds a way to reverse steam and become profitable they are still around today but are on the way out and might be gone tomorrow.
I did use a laptop that way, and I think that I did knacker its battery prematurely, though I'd simply these days be more gentle about switching between it and external power, like I do with my network gear switching between mains and off-grid.

http://www.earth.org.uk/low-power-laptop.html
One can make word games to what the word free should mean in English, but to the regular man and woman without technical background, or references like the Cambridge Dictionary, free software is software that doesn't cost any money.
Are you referring to the line in which I asked to be spared the PR? Note that I didn't mean to insinuate that the author of the comment to which I replied was a paid PR professional or shill of some sort.

Thanks for your remarks.
Sorry for the harsh language, but that's fucking ridiculous in this context.

Free speech? Free speech doesn't exist so that people can make ridiculous comments like 'taking comments from the public into account when making policy is mob rule'. Free speech exists so that people can make those comments on policy and have them heard.
Please don't post generic political rhetoric here. It might be good for rallying people to a cause, but HN threads are for substantive discussion, and the Venn diagram of those two things has little overlap.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14338291 and marked it off-topic.
> Stop spreading bullshit.

Please don't break the site guidelines by being uncivil, regardless of how right you are.
No, the more pressing question is whether it can run, specifically whether it can run without intervention, and I'm willing to bet a lot of money/bitcoins that it can't, purely because it couldn't gain access to the machine unless those ports were open.
cracked me up haha thanks!
Not all developers have access to a build server or want to bother setting up one.
It's totally cultural. The culture comes with some costs, and some benefits.

In physics, there are so many times where we present the same mathematical ideas in a manner that's way more ergonomic for the minds we're talking to-- other physicists.

Inexperienced mathematicians tend to see these presentations and are kind of gobsmacked, "why did no-one tell me it was that simple and concrete?" Experienced mathematicians tend to see these presentations and cringe, "don't they understand it's not that simple and concrete? For instance, look at this pathological example here that contradicts everything they just said."

The slick presentations are great if you're a physicist or anyone just wanting to use the ideas. And they're great if you're an inexperienced mathematician trying to get your bearings as fast as possible. But once you're a research mathematician, trying to build new ideas, too many slick presentations of ideas just creates groupthink. You want as many people to generate their own mental pictures as possible.

That said, few people studying mathematics go on to be research mathematicians. The mathematics culture should be much, much friendlier to people whose endgame is not being a math prof. Apathy toward those whose ambitions lie outside the ivory tower is a problem endemic to most academic subcultures.

Finally, when reading anything generated by academia, remember most of it is crap. Academics are fired if they don't make enough noise. This is truer than you think, even taking into account metrics like "impact". You can make a lot of "impact" just by making enough noise. And you generally can't make "impact" on a short timescale without making enough noise. Once your name shows up enough in a field, you'll get known as "a name", and start being cited in that field. Even when your work is drivel. If your name only shows up a couple of time in a field-- unless your work incredibly well written and you get a good dose of luck-- it'll take years before it gets uncovered and appreciated, if it ever does.

Think of how much more attention you pay to what someone like maxxxxxxxx says here. Sure. He's good. But he's also familiar. It's primarily his familiarity, more than his quality, that makes you feel like he's one of "names" in this little subfield of the internet called hacker news.
If elected officials aren't already in charge of the NSA, who is?

Does the NSA literally report to no one?
It is not actually about cache busting. I generate unique filenames for all my JS files and other assets when they update, but the client browser gets to know about them when they download index file, untill then they dont need anything else. So, there are some users who do not refresh browser ever and keep on using the same tab always. I want them to always use the latest index file and thus the latest code. Is there a way to do it just using cache ?
You have to be pretty delusional if you think macOS or Linux don't have security problems.
One nice thing about Raspberry Pis for this sort of thing is that they support the full cec protocol, so can control other devices. I use hooked up mine to switch my TV on and off via an Amazon Echo: https://github.com/simonbyrne/fauxmo

The only annoying thing is that my TV doesn't provide USB power while on standby, so I needed a separate power supply.
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>>Sure Uber is losing gobs of money, but that's not the most important metric at this stage for them. Look at Tesla, they lost 330 million in 2017 Q1.

Apples and oranges. Tesla is losing money because they are investing massive amounts of capital to improve their supply chain and production capabilities. Uber is losing money because they subsidize rides to try to push competitors out of business. Tesla is actually profitable. Uber? We don't know.
Don't feel too hard on yourself. While I do not think I've installed malware because of that, I've mostly been lucky I guess (or just haven't noticed the malware yet).

The stars are aligned against you on this:

1) impatient kid who wants his mod working,

2) unfamiliar territory for you,

3) the timing for these things is ALWAYS wrong, you've probably got pressing household matters to attend to or another kid wanting your attention,

4) a couple of more points I forgot.
Similar story here. Although the only way I could get my hands on the school computers was intentionally swearing at the dinner ladies and being sent inside to sit in "the boring computer room" because the school had a strict policy of anti-technology in all subjects. They never worked my tactic out and thought I was just disruptive.

My knowledge came mostly from the BBC Micro Users guide and Advanced Users Guide initially. Eventually a dead relative, who I will be eternally grateful for their thought, left me a not insignificant amount of cash and I bought a then new BBC Master!

The books in question:

http://bbc.nvg.org/doc/BBCUserGuide-1.00.pdf

http://stardot.org.uk/mirrors/www.bbcdocs.com/filebase/essen...

This eventually made way for a PC and eventually in the mid 1990s, Linux and then I discovered my father had a 1st edition copy of "Programming C" stashed away in a junk box somewhere. Oh and O'Reilly books. I had crates of them at one point.
I use Uber a lot, and most of the drivers don't use Lyft. So I am not sure whether one can use any anecdotal evidence like this to gauge anything.

One more thing -- even though the press is hitting on Uber with lot of negative articles -- lot of this appears to be because those articles sell. Lot of the negativity seems exaggerated or seems to be the result of incomplete facts provided (for example, Mike Isaac on NYT said Uber uses Slice Intelligence to get aggregate anonymous data on market conditions; he did not mention that Lyft also does the same and that most companies have competitive intelligence teams. There are many other examples like this).

I like Uber that they went ahead and got cities to recognize the need for ride-sharing -- they were the first so they had to fight the regulations and entrenched taxi industry. In the end, that benefitted everyone - riders getting convenient, inexpensive rides, and drivers getting livelihood. Uber's competitors also benefited as the market was created by Uber already.
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Valuation is bullshit. When this bubble will burst a few trillion will go poof and the cycle will start over.

60+ billions valuation for a company losing over 2 billions a year or one third of their total revenue, seems like a big pile of horse manure.
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Another thing to bear in mind, since many people are talking about how convenient iPads are for older parents (I too gave my parents an iPad Air a year or two ago - they get a lot more use out of it now than the MacBook I gave them about 8 years ago...): their definition of "unbearably slow" and our definition are really markedly different!
These are all good suggestions. "Earlier dimensionality reduction" could possibly be used to reduce noise in the eigenvectors: while PCA removes noise as defined by dimensions with low overall variance, the results still sound noisy from a sound engineering perspective.

I saw some research years ago about breaking down sound into pitched and unpitched components, using some kind of kernel transformation in fourier space. If I remember rightly this reduced the usual 'artifacts' you get when manipulating fourier transforms of white noise. Perhaps a good candidate for this case. Sorry I can't remember more though I think the talk was by this guy https://www.york.ac.uk/music/staff/academic/jez-wells/

Either way, to the OP who I presume can only be Dr Brady of the Museum of Techno; good work old chap, you deserve a sherry.
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That and the fact that you turned your outrage about Amazon onto a specific individual. That is a sort of personal attack and we don't allow those here.

Every one of us is part of and/or tied to institutions that do bad things, so we all need to be charitable about this.

Thanks for responding even-handedly to my rather hot comment.
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Catchier yes but imprecise and moralising. What if you have been born with an impairment which makes it difficult for employers to take you? You don't want to be called useless because of that.
> Republicans would still win half of elections, because that's the nature of a two party system.

No it's not. (A lot) More than half of the population benefits/are catered to (what capitalists' Adam Smith would call maximized utility) by one party, while very few benefits from the other. That's why gerrymandering and lack of facts are vastly larger issues on one side.
Myspace was designed from the get go to be sold to a big company so it has little inherent value.

Rupert Murdoch bought Myspace for quite a sum as an attempt to get into the online business because all their attempts failed miserably for a lack of understanding and vision. The same drove myspace to its expected outcome.
This comment makes my blood boil. Please ask yourself:

1. why would anybody want to keep 10.04 alive?

2. do you think the type of people who stubbornly continue to use 10.04 would know/care enough about security to seek an alternative source for security patches?

edit: should maybe add why this pisses me off: just logged into a production server running 12.04, default install apache and updates _turned off_. the owner looked confused (and slightly bored) when I explained the problem to him.
Yeah then some bugs in your code or unplanned set of conditions amongst the bazillion xp computers out there lead your code to kill someone by failure of some critical NHS equipment, or worse, to lose a lot of money!

"but I meant good "is totally going to save you then.
Isn't this the exact reason Americans give for having their right to bear arms? Why is there not an armed revolution against the clearly corrupt government?
"Uber is losing money because they subsidize rides to try to push competitors out of business."

?? I think thats the wrong way to phrase this. Uber is loosing money as Uber and its competitors are giving a lot of incentives to drivers to win business. All of them are loosing money.
You can't speculate about parallelism when dealing with shared resource.

It is unbelievable you even suggested it.

TSX won't save you.
In my case I run my RPi2 as my home server, but off-grid from my non-grid-tie solar PV section, which is a nominal 12V, so a single part (switching 7805 2A, well plus cap) gets my power sorted nicely...
How will you define fat? (I'm guessing that wasn't a serious comment!)
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I think that, on the whole, his eccentricity and out-there image has helped his cause and not hurt it. He's far more instantly-relatable to both geeks and normal people, whereas someone like Bruce Schneier really only relates to geeks.
I once argued that the best thing that ever happened to web-development in terms of adoption was "view source" and how easily accessible it was.
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Sure there is a legitimate reason to withhold them, though many would say it's not a very ethical one: money. Private researchers hold them for sale to the NSA and other agencies all the time. Here are a few exchanges (there are also high end "agents" - akin to Hollywood agents - that broker these deals):

[1] https://zerodium.com/

[2] https://www.mitnicksecurity.com/shopping/absolute-zero-day-e...

And some info on this market: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_for_zero-day_exploits
So which one, Lyft or Uber, is the one being made for the purpose of being sold to a giant company ?
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Sorry but this is extremely misguided. You are making assumptions that make you look like you haven't talked to a mathematician as if they were a person, but a machine or a misterious magician.

Mathematicians do not find difficult to verbalize motivation and intuition because they (we) are autists. We struggle to do it because it is really difficult sometimes. You can find that you have an intuition that you cannot put into useful words (sometimes the intuition is "it should be like this"), or that it relies on more advanced concepts (something that clicks only when you get to know concepts that rely on it), or that you know that the idea in your head is not useful to others and putting that down in a book would make things worse. I have not written any book, only some notes for other students, and with that I already know it is difficult to write a good motivation and intuition to abstract concepts even when you completely dominate them. Moreover, most of the mathematicians learn to develop their own intuition and motivations and it is not as important to write yours (which are subjective most of the time) down.
Did you consider the 12" MacBook? It's nearly as light as a tablet, has a full operating system, and the top of the line is plenty fast to run macOS even for programming.

(Just curious to know what swayed you to the iPad rather than the lightest Mac.)
And you can see how points on the a_(n+1) = 0 plane ("infinitely far away" in projective terms) are invariant under this operation - so they behave like pure direction vectors and can be used as normals and transformed with the same matrix as points!
Ask HN: Is logging out of an app with a third party login broken?
After developing an app with a third party login mechanism I'm left wondering as to whether the concept of logging out from these applications is broken.

For example:

* I have a GitHub and GitLab account

* I log into GitLab with my GitHub account

* This means I'm now logged into both GitHub and GitLab

* If I log out of GitLab and don't log out of GitHub I can automatically log back into GitLab without providing any credentials

* If I sign out of GitHub I'm still logged into GitLab

* To sign out of GitLab I have to sign out of both applications

To me, it seems that for someone non-technical it's not going to be obvious that after you log out of the likes of GitLab that somebody with access to your computer can still access both GitHub and GitLab. This makes using a third party login on a device you don't own or giving somebody access to your own device a lot more risky. This is because now being logged in/out is a bit more ambiguous. The concept of a shared user space seems to be completely incompatible with third party logins.

At first when I was putting the third party login mechanism in place I thought I was doing something wrong because logging out seemed to be so convoluted. It turned out that this is how it "works".

So with all that. I'm assuming this issue has been discussed before? Was it agreed the trade-off in convenience out weighed security?
I just upgraded our family iPad 3 this week... because it finally died after FIVE years constant use (and abuse from two young kids, and it was fine for the games they play all this time).

Got a refurb 9.7" Pro... so nice.
Ehh, he supported internet fast lanes. Not so different in my opinion.

Anyway the GP's point is that comments changed his mind, not that Wheeler and Pai thought exactly alike.
I use a separate user session with a separate X server to run games, which is about 100% of my use of Wine. Granted, that's not out of paranoia, but because video mode switching makes my windows resize and go all over the place and sometimes the window manager crashes, so simply running a barebones OpenBox session specifically for games results in less pain than letting them run on my main desktop.
But there can't be, because mathematics is abstract and most of its fields have no intuitive physical analogies to back them up.
Before buying a tablet, we have a need in mind. If the need is filled, we either do not need to change the tablet or change it quickly to have a stronger one more adapted to the need. If the need is not filled, the tablet is almost not used (often given to children) and we do not buy another one. The candy crush like applications almost never requires a tablet: they work as fine on a phone.

The use case is very different from phones. Obsolescence is very different. I am still using my palm III XE (very rarely) for the single application that motivated buying it 18 years ago.
I took it to mean the (then) top rated answerhere on HN, so I'm glad of clarification.
Its a neat feature actually. Taking up the next ride before finishing a previous one allows drivers to have no downtime, and thus increase their earnings; and for riders it allows them to get drivers sooner in cases where other available drivers are further away.
I am excited about the fact that the design is focused on SSD from day one (not just optimised for SSD). Wondering whether the authors have plan to optimise it for Intel Optane which has lower latency and much higher random IOPS at low QD. Currently I am using a cgo based RocksDB wrapper with the WAL stored on Intel Optane, the rest of the data is on a traditional SSD.

It will also be great to have some comparison on write performance with fsync enabled.

Overall, very interesting project, bookmarked, will definitely follow the development!
We run java + clojure in Docker and we do it so that we can connect all of the dependencies together with Docker-compose. We don't "develop" inside docker, but we do integration tests in docker. We also deploy (CI and prod) on docker for convenience.

This setup also allows us test resiliency under bad network conditions using https://github.com/IG-Group/Havoc/
Yes. And that REALLY hurts.

(Not movies but the occasional book.)
Because that's ridiculous and exactly what foreign adversaries would love to see as a result of the currently tense political environment.

Plus, violent protesters almost never come out looking good. Any violence coming from the left would just entrench the powers of the right.

There are a few exceptions, like the revolutionary war. But, that's a time when American people were separated by great distance from its governing body. Revolution doesn't work when you're connected by land. Some foreign power would just take advantage of our weakness, and all Americans would lose.

We need to find a way to work together.
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Steam is far less curated these days than 2-3 years ago
From a musical perspective the analog mental model produces very clean and high quality results. My experience of advanced digital techniques is that they sound somehow lower quality.

This is not to be confused with the analog/digital debate, In which I am a fan of digital: digital synths that use the analog mental model can and do sound great e.g. virus, sylenth, zebra, fm8. It's more that the analog model evolved from how our ears perceive things while newer paradigms while mathematically neat often lead to unwanted artifacts, or boil down to much the same sort of thing as before e.g. NI Razor.

Then again we might be talking about different things bitL, if you want to post links to the sort of sounds you're talking about then I'm all ears.

Rick Snoman is fairly basic though I'd say the definitive synth guide was the old Sound on Sound Synth Secrets series (google). Or better just hang out on forums with more experienced people and post up links to sounds you like saying 'how do I make this?'
Thats probably true but you could enforce it at a corporate level with a whitelist of apps that should have access to certain permissions.