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Partly this is a meme diffusion problem - eg. we have really good diagrams that explain visually why Pythagoras' theorem holds ... yet students often don't see these more intuitive forms.

Another example is the Feynman Video Lectures are effectively inaccessible, due to being in an ugly format - they should be on youtube as a planetary resource.

I was recently looking at reviewing University chem so I can have informed discussions with my teenage son.. Atkins has a great book, but at an exorbitant price. College texts seem to be a kind of scam. Some would argue its morally justified to pirate such content.

We seem to be stuck in all these local minima for minor psychological or economic reasons. There should be open texts that cover most of the basics of highschool and freshman science, with upkeep costs shared by universities/schools or covered by a library tax.

We can think of education methods as a technology itself, and the best technology, namely the best explanations, are much much better than the average - how do we propagate the best ideas ?

Having ratings on quality, like those on goodreads and amazon, seems to be a practical benefit, but maybe we need smaller granularity - eg. rate a particular diagram on an open biochem textbook wiki.
This would be extremely useful for me, especially if it was baked into a mobile HN reader
That is a neat idea! I should deploy something similar. Thanks!
I've been mucking around with LMMS[1] lately and I found a great video that shows you how to synthesize a kick drum using ZynAddSubFX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coVl1D-q7Bo. Basically, it's all about havin no sustain and whitenoise. Also, a tiny bit of reverb with a HPF goes a long way.

[1] https://lmms.io/
This is hilariously wrong. If "businesses never paid any tax", they would have no problem when tax rates went up. Instead they complain vociferously and buy legislators in order to keep that from happening.
But Waymo (and Apple) is no longer building cars, as they partnered with Fiat Chrysler. Turns out building cars is a pain in the ass.

If all you're building is the underlying technology, you NEED partnerships for an actual complete solution.
Sadly we have medical instruments (worth 40k)that work only with win7. The vendors do not update drivers for win10. We have to stop updates as they do not guarantee working of these even for win7 updates. Sad but true.
Uber should start a suit against Levandowski.
Of course it's possible that in a given box the new chips will be limited by thermal headroom. For applications like encoding, it's better to have 16x 2.2GHz cores than 8x 3.0GHz cores. But since they have the same architecture, they should be getting the same performance clock-for-clock without a penalty just because they have more cores.
I prefer the title on the article's page - How Pixar Lost Its Way - and enjoyed this observation:

> “Who would want to see a movie about a little boy who plays with dolls?,” Michael Eisner, then the CEO of Disney, obtusely asked when told of plans for the Pixar debut. (Disney was to co-finance it.) But the film’s creative premise is precisely—and crucially—the reverse: Toy Story is a movie about dolls who want to be played with by a little boy.
I disagree. As a software person, I'm constantly dismayed by the quality of information in the surface web. Some days it feels like all but the most esoteric search terms yield so much lowest-common-denominator information useful only to the rank beginner.

As in any branch of science or engineering, learning to work from primary sources is an absolutely core skill. Resources like StackOverflow are a crutch at best, and counter-productive if not outright dangerous at their worst.

At the very least, I always recommend people at least try to correlate the cookbook answers they find against the standard references.
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I would much rather trust a regularly-changing collection of my fellow citizens, who we've all voted on on some regular basis, to put together laws that reflect our will.

Trusting a wealthy company or individual to keep giving a hand-out? Nope, no interest in begging for scraps. I prefer the self-determination of a government by the people, for the people, etc.
I'm self-taught, and now in my 50s.

I started programming when I was 10, in 1976. In those earliest days of consumer-class computers, there wasn't really a developed market for practical programming books. However, the manuals that came with software or OSes were quite well-written. There were a few magazines, too, like BYTE and Dr. Dobbs Journal, that published source code -- always the best way to learn!

It helped, too, that my dad was a programmer. I learned most of the basics about computer architecture, binary logic, algorithms, etc., from talking with him.

There were local user groups, though most of the folks were enthusiasts, not necessarily programmers.

By the early 80s, I was reading the C manual by K&R and other books on practical programming, and trying things on my home CP/M system (Heathkit H89). If I had problems (and I often did), I simply had to experiment, read more, think more, debug more.

I first got online around 1980 -- via dial-up BBSes, then the early Internet (ARPAnet), and USENET. While you generally couldn't search for answers/code the way you can now, you could browse, and you could certainly ask people who knew, or at least could offer suggestions.

Finally, I think it's been an advantage that for most of my programming life, I've used Unix, and most of the versions I used included source, which is always educational.
The Walmart here is having trouble hiring.

(which I understand means they aren't offering high enough pay and so on, but the staffing levels they maintain are an interaction of multiple factors, customer traffic, pricing expectations, etc., not just arbitrary cutting of hours)
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Wow, that was a blast of nostalgia! I remember how much I was getting sent to ExpertsExchange from my googling as an intern in an IT department when I was a mid-teen. Luckily, SO had gotten off the ground when my real thirst for programming started.

Unfortunately, I don't have many good EE anecdotes to share[0]... But I'm gonna try to dig my account up to have a good ol' chuckle at my younger, clueless self.

[0] — EDIT: Gems include accepted answers for 'how to open task manager' and 'website not loading properly' -- perhaps a bit more elementary in those days...
They paid for the company and the employees. They didn't pay for LiDAR, which is the basis of the suit.
I think you are right. Liberty and freedom are more important than security.
The Dynamo paper is from 2007... How much has Amazon published about their internal workings since then?
I had a half hour debate in my head on this topic the other day; this is a great post thank you! I work at Walmart HQ and I think people underestimate their size and don't always consider what position that puts them in. They are investing heavily in private brands from grocery to apparel which will drive margins up continually over the next decades. I have heard that they are investing in some pretty crazy stuff to enhance the in store experience such as VR. We are actively cutting billions of dollars of inventory (I work in the supply chain) They are really taking a look at internal operations and reworking the organization the perform at a higher level. I don't know much about Amazon operations but I have a friend who is a vendor and he said they are a bad business partner while Walmart is a great business partner. Anything Amazon does with pricing Walmart is doing the same thing and we can push lower and that will not change for a decade. I don't think one or the other will "win" although most other retailers will die out. Amazon will get a big piece of the pie in the future but Walmart will never die, people love low prices (Walmart is synonymous with this) and customer service is going to be top notch at Walmart in 5 years as we invest in training, stores and wages.
Good answer, thanks! I look forward to seeing more and hopefully watching it blossom as it grows. Cheers!
Ask HN: What tools do you use for Developer Portals / API Docs?
What tools have you found useful to quickly build developer portals, specifically API documentation? We have looked at SwaggerHub and Gelato. Any feedback on either or other tools you have found to be valuable?
It shouldn't be a problem ;) I'm considering to write such a service, and firstly would like to ask the hackers.
The fundamental problem with vorlon.js and similar remote debugging solutions
Presumably there must be a lot of computer assistance?
<It seems obvious to me that Amazon will move into small-parcel shipping (UPS/FedEx/USPS) within the next five years.

I wish the author expanded on this.

Some are afraid president trump may EO the postal service in some unheard of way...which favors businesses that rely on last mile delivery

I wonder if the author was referring to delivery franchising?
You seem a nice chap, I'm not quite sure if you understand the real nature of the organisation you're sticking up for http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/1098105...
Here is one: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffreydorfman/2014/11/13/net-n...

I don't agree with a few things the author says, but I agree with the overall sentiment of resenting government interference in private business.
I think one underappreciated advantage that amazon has, and that is probably less savory:

Because so many competitors and potential competitors use AWS, they have many opportunities to undercut their own customers and introduce competing products with lower costs, because they're using their own services. They can simply look at their fastest growing customers scope out their system architecture and duplicate it.

Amazon Video vs Netflix being the prime example.
I have Windows 10 Education version, completely legal. But I have been "restarting to apply the patch" for the past four days and it always reverts itself. I am stuck in a loop.. This is why I turned off updates.
By way of background, US airlines apparently always had the 2-person policy (after 9/11). But the reason was, from what I understand, that one person had to get up to the door to look through a peephole to authenticate the pilot requesting access back in.

European airlines, by contrast, had a monitor in view of the pilots, so they could authenticate visually from their seat.

In the wake of the GermanWings tragedy, they were chastised for not having the 2-person policy, introduced it (partially under the pressure of media and the public, in my opinion, and because "you've gotta do someting!!!1!!"), and now, as this has faded from public attention, they revert to their original (entirely sensible) policy.
What about a socket that is like USB-C, there is no wrong way to insert it.

Though I imagine such a socket would be an insane task to complete and have numerous problems with latency and speed.
Microsoft may put a great deal of effort into supporting old APIs and old ABIs, but it turns out that that effort has not been enough for us to be able to tell everyone "Yes, go ahead and upgrade to a new Windows version, nothing will break".
Maybe rpi2 is better for this. I have the old one.
> We ban accounts that do that

From his username, and comments he's posted, he expects (wants) to be banned, and he'll just make a new account.

Do you also ban IPs? Or will that not work anyway?
Note: While I'm replying to you, please note that I'm not claiming you've done anything like this or that you are doing these things. Rather, it's just your comment sparked these thoughts. That is all. =)

Since this topic is already fairly meta already, and because of the nature of your question, I'll chime in here as well as to why I would normally down vote your comment in other threads.

"why did people downvote this comment?"

Any discussion of voting (outside of a few exceptions such as this) gets down voted quickly. Not only is it discouraged in the guidelines, it's also generally self-correcting. I've seen far too many comments that ask why they are down voted when they clearly have more votes up than down. In addition, the conversations in reply generally revolved around why people might be voting down, and whether that is wrong.

Basically, it creates a bunch of useless commentary for no good reason.

In addition to this, asking people why they voted down a comment is annoying. The goal of commentary should be to spark either conversation or thought. If it does neither, it's really not worth my trouble to explain why I down vote it. I vote down the comment because it is a bad comment, and not worthy of worthwhile discussion.

I've voted comments up that I disagree with because the discussions they've sparked were interesting and voted down comments I agree with because they don't honestly contribute to the active discussion and exchange of ideas.

Not everyone thinks this way. I'm sure people vote up what they agree with and vote down with what they disagree with without a care to the overall discussion simply to fit an agenda. I admit I've done it in the past (I am not perfect, after all), and I've regretted it. But overall voting corrects itself, and frankly, it does not matter. Karma is representative of your value.

If you are that concerned about the karma of a comment, do not post. If people are voting down your comment and not replying, start by addressing the failings in your comment to spark proper discussion.

Blaming others (tripe like "people would rather vote down than explain where I am wrong") is weak and childish, and will get voted down without hesitation. HN should be better than that weak (non-existent?) rhetoric, and the moment you add that to a comment, you've lost.
I've been a customer since 1998, it was excellent for most of that period but has been slipping over the last couple of years. It's now become the last resort for me even if it means paying a bit more elsewhere.
I went to the library and checked out books with code you would type in by hand, like this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC_Computer_Games
it was a lot harder.. I used to go the book stores (remember those?) with a pad and paper and copy down pieces of code that i needed, or, even worse ;) I would actually buy the book. I recently just threw away a bunch of old programming books that I bought for the same reason that I sit on Stack Overflow for half of my day.
Oxford supports MW [1]. And so does common usage.

[1]: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/literally
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I disagree about the CIA analogy, because having your DNA collected really doesn't harm you or affect you significantly, though it is a privacy violation.

Here's a better analogy: suppose you were pushed to get a vaccination, but the vaccine company secretly added a virus to the vaccine which alters your DNA so that your hands turn into claws and you grow antlers, because they thought this would be a great idea somehow. Then after word gets out about this, they say anyone who doesn't get this vaccine is an "anti-vaxxer" and "ignorant". That's basically what Microsoft did.

(reference for the body modifications: http://dilbert.com/strip/2004-04-18)
What are some recommendations for math books that really are deeply enlightening?
Most of Wikipedia's money goes to pay for things besides hosting.
Centralized hosting also happens to be more efficient than a decentralized version.
My point was that when the plane is pointed at the ground, that won't help.
This is a prime(!) example of a really powerful kind of first-mover advantage. It will be difficult to overcome with communication or advertising.

I remember Amazon's policy, like millions of others, because of a little shot of dopamine in my 20s. Amazon was the first to do it; we all discovered it and it seemed like a bit of the future.

I've used Wal-mart shipping, but couldn't tell you what the policy is, because it didn't strike me as new or unusual when I ran across it. I'm not sure you can communicate out of that hole in my cohort.

(Now, you might change my behavior if you convince me that Wal-Mart is better about weeding out counterfeits; that's new information).
I wrote a draft of it but didn't publish because it just felt like a rage post. I found it difficult to separate the objective events from the frustration of data loss. That said, there probably would be value as a lot of people blindly recommend Backblaze but haven't experienced edge cases like this.
I believe Walmart is a destructive force in society and I won't shop there. If they rebranded as something else, I wouldn't shop there.
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Not sure why this was downvoted. I think it was an interesting observation.
I find your analysis to be incorrect. To avoid needless bickering about it, here are the first few paragraphs of the ruling, which people can derive their own conclusions from:

"By way of summary, this order finds plaintiff Waymo LLC has shown compellingevidence that its former star engineer, Anthony Levandowski, downloaded over 14,000confidential files from Waymo immediately before leaving his employment there. The evidenceshows that, both before and after his departure, Levandowski and defendant Uber Technologies,Inc., planned for Uber to acquire Levandowski’s new companies, defendants Ottomotto LLCand Otto Trucking LLC, and to hire Levandowski as the head of its self-driving car efforts. Moreover, defendants and Levandowski anticipated and took steps to defend against litigationwith Waymo in connection with his move to Uber. Significantly, the evidence indicates that, during the acquisition, Uber likely knew or at least should have known that Levandowski had taken and retained possession of Waymo’s confidential files. Waymo has also sufficientlyshown, for purposes of the instant motion only, that the 14,000-plus purloined files likelycontain at least some trade secrets, and that some provisional relief is warranted while this case progresses toward trial. The scope of relief warranted at this stage, however, is limited byseveral countervailing factors. As nonexhaustive examples, not all of Waymo’s 121 asserted trade secrets actually qualify as such, and few have been traced into the accused technology. Waymo’s patent infringement accusations on this motion also proved meritless. Accordingly,this order grants important but narrowly-tailored provisional relief necessary to equitably balance the parties’ competing needs at this stage. Now follow the details."
what about tesla
No doubt turning many car companies into the new Android phone developers.
I've been in business for decades, and this is a repeating problem. We have feature X for years, nobody much cares about it, our competitor comes out with X and it's lauded as amazing and innovative.

Having a competent PR department matters a LOT in business.
> As the article stated, Amazon has become well known as being customer-centric almost to a fault. I am confident when ordering anything from Amazon because I know that returns are quick and painless.

i'm the opposite at this point. the surge in counterfeit, or low quality chinese shit comingled with previously good listings on amazon, has pushed me to let my prime lapse after six years, and i simply don't trust amazon for things other than books at this point. maybe that's just me and the things i shop for (mostly <$50 purchases), but returning things through the mail is a fucking pain and a huge friction.
It's only hacker news, don't get so worked up. People are allowed to disagree with you regardless of what you feel your best intentions are. Why do you care what anonymous internet people think?
not a huge automation task, but i wrote a python script which plays songs from terminal with filters like title,genre and artist etc.
https://github.com/zuck007/xplay
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So,

A good Samaritan must know all workings of the malware, including trip wires, actual triggers and threat scales. And, must know if any threats that get released (not yet in sandbox) as a consequence of his investigations.

A good Samaritan must seek and get all necessary approvals using a procedure and checklist. If such procedure, checklist and inventory of authorities to seek approval from does not exist, the good Samaritan should immediately embark upon the task of defining one. Fully realizing that just creation of such listing would require constitutional amendment.

A good Samaritan should be able to look away from current mayhem (patient support systems, ambulances, public infrastructure collapsing) while above things are settled first.

On an existing command chain, sure, up to a point. US doesn't have any control if someone at Kaspersky had done it or some kid in Asia trying to understand how it works.

What you are proposing is going to make people on good side to disengage at the thought of prosecution. You would be shooting your soldiers for not successfully defending you. Worst, you would shoot enemy of your enemy for triggering the common threat.

The control that you desire goes against nature. Unless you put every single human being in matrix, you won't have that control.
I loved EE's trick of covering content with an easily-removable div.
> [...] but for the general public, the concept of "anonymous hacker" is not associated with anything good.

It's absolute no excuse for the doxer.
https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Processors/AMD-Ryzen-7-1800X-R...

https://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2017/04/06/amd-ryzen-7-170...

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/8072/amd-ryzen-7-1800x-cpu-...

http://hothardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-7-1800x-1700x-1700-...

(bear in mind the 5820K/6800K/6850K are 6C, the 5960X/6900K are 8C, and the 6950X is 10C)

Essentially AMD is rating their TDP under a very light load - like a single thread at full boost clocks. Under an all-core load they are running roughly 30% over TDP. Intel's TDP rating is much more generous - they aren't quite rating at full, nonstop AVX load (eg Prime95) but typical full-load consumption is 15% under their TDPs which leaves some headroom for intermittent AVX usage.

Anecdotal evidence: my 10C20T Haswell-E Xeon pulls ~60% of its rated TDP during a Handbrake x264 encoding run. My 6C12T 5820K Haswell-E gaming chip (overclocked to 4.13 GHz all-core at stock voltages) pulls 75% of its rated TDP during a similar Handbrake x264 run. And supposedly x264 is smart enough to use AVX, so that should be a realistic-but-high figure. My OC'd 5820K pulls 90% of its rated TDP during a Prime95 SmallFFT run.

It's still a huge gain compared to Bulldozer - but not quite as rosy a picture as AMD is trying to paint. They are equal with Haswell-E/Broadwell-E in most respects, not 40% ahead like AMD is rating them.

AMD is playing the same game in the GPU market too. AMD's RX 480/580 are rated for "GPU only" TDP (which they define to exclude memory/etc) but NVIDIA rates the whole card. In practice, AMD is ~30% above their official TDPs while NVIDIA is pretty much spot on.

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Sapphire/RX_580_Nitro_Pl...

(RX 580 is rated at 185W TDP, GTX 1060 is rated at 120W TDP)
"Sad" used to mean "sated". Why are you spreading the incorrect usage perpetuated by fools in the 1690s? These days nobody understands me when I use the true definition.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&searc...