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Sure, but:

1. Those new ways of using energy themselves are highly dependent on energy-intensive factors as inputs. Steel, aluminium, copper, electronics, reliable power inputs, control systems, etc., are all the products of high-energy outputs.

When you realise that the Watt steam engine revolutionised manufacturing based providing a net total of 500 prime movers of about 10 HP each net power output, you start to recognise just how energy-contrained economic activity was.

2. The Solow Residual is, quite literally, just that. It's a statistical residual. Solow himself describes it as "the measure of our ignorance". Again: there is no basis to attribute it to "technology". Other than it forms an economically convenient theory.

3. The research I've mentioned is far more specific -- rather than just run a regression of capital vs. labour and handwave a declaration that All That Is Unexplained Shall Be Termed "Technology", it specifically considers the role of other factors, including energy. And, again: shows that that accounts for up to 98% of the residual -- an insanely high fit.

So long as we're talking factors of production, I've just learned, reading of and from Alexander Hamilton Church, who more-or-less invented cost accounting, that through about 1900, only labour was considered as a factor of production.

Somewhat amusingly, his discussion of factors other than labour focuses, almost exclusively, on the ability to supply mechanical power through engines. Go figure. 1910.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton_Church

https://archive.org/stream/productionfacto00churgoog#page/n1...
It's even more horrifying that, as a US citizen, I'm one of the people who paid for this work.
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> Do you really think that the machine does not handle credit cards a well?

I don't know about the U.S., but as far as I know were I live these card readers have to be almost completely separate systems. The connection between these two should only exist to a) set the price to pay and b) confirm that a payment was made.

> Provide a daily management report? Report inventory?

No longer managing money directly, so the possible abuse for financial gain is quite restricted. You could argue that someone manipulates the reports in order to skim some money for himself, however that would be a rather targeted attack with someone on the inside profiting and could be detected when the physical goods no longer line up with the reported values.

> Provide a Facebook interface between customers via the big blue E icon?

Are we even talking about the same thing?
Just spitballing, but could the serial port of the Optiplex act as a substitute for GPIO pins?
Google JavaScript cache busting.

Some tools, like Ruby on Rails will compute a unique signature as part of the file name for each file when you prepare for deployment to production. This helps ensure that every time you deploy new code, only the new version of everything will be linked to.

If you use WebPack it may help you out quite a bit. Take a look here https://medium.com/powerspace-engineering/how-to-cache-busti...
I'm typing this on my iPad & it strikes me that there's not a lot of motive to upgrade your iPad once you have one. It's a consumption device, as long as I can continue easily browsing the internet, listening to podcasts and watching movies I have no reason to upgrade.

My laptop I may want to upgrade to improve computing power and phone form factors continue to improve. Both of those things sort of affect the iPad but not nearly to the same degree. I carry my phone around in my pocket, if it's a tiny bit lighter it makes a huge difference. I mostly use my iPad at home, it's great for the things I use it for and there's no upgrade I can imagine that would significantly increase its utility.
You mean bundle and forcefully install MS patches? This would require reboot which AFAIK can't be done without user's action (if not using undocumented APIs).
Free software can be closed source, which is why companies love MIT style licenses.
> * watch movies in bed

Without a proper ipad holder, watching movies in bed with iPad is painfully, your arms get tired quickly after opening.
> Waymo will have the first self driving cars on the road

Which are still way, way off in the future (if ever).

I propose 'self-driving cars' are the 'flying cars' of our generation: Something that seems inevitable and just around the corner, yet here we are.
You're right - I should have used cuckolded.
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Users could just keep their existing iPhone and switch to a cheaper SIM-only contract, of course.

I'd be interested to know how much of the iPhone upgrade market is replacements for smashed/water damaged phones.
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Being cynical about the effectiveness of the agency is fine so long as that doesn't translate into apathy.

It should be a motivator to hold the agency accountable, to get it to do the job for which it was created. Write. Call. Show up at meetings. Pressure them back in line.
WannaCry Stopped from Spreading and All It Took Was the Registration of a Domain
> Sorry. I do not think people commenting on some document has anything to do with democracy

What would have something to do with democracy, then?
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It's important to remember that the NSA isn't why the world was insecure. The NSA discovered the flaw. That's their job.

We need the NSA just like we need a military. As an offensive cyberweapon, this exploit was operationally one of the most effective weapons that the NSA had at its disposal. Most of the world runs unpatched Windows systems, as Stuxnet showed us. This would've been the perfect tool for a similar operation.

Unless your stance is that computers should never be used by a state actor to intentionally cause harm, like the military, then you can't logically also hold the position that the NSA should voluntarily neuter its own arsenal.

I don't like it either. But the alternatives seem objectively worse.
Such devices absolutely should be isolated in separate networks (DMZs), and connections to outside world should be removed except for the bare minimum.

That the NHS has not done this is their actual failing and negligence. It doesn't take that much money to move such devices to a quarantined network.
The post also implies that the quote was a response to the Surface, when in fact Steve Jobs said it two years before the Surface was released.
Shame it won't make any difference.
Another example of this is that many open office buildings that are (or seem) relatively high density are over 150 sqft/head because of restrooms, meeting rooms, and corridors.
What we did here in Poland (Internet became available to the public in 1996 and then expensive) was to check the library and book shops then buy the worthwhile books. And as usual, run through all examples and then modify and extend them for fun and experiment.

The books were of vastly different quality, the food ones always had properly described algorithms in algol or pseudocode of the day.
The RAD ones had plenty of screenshots.
Also the books came with disks containing the described programs.
It was typically some form of BASIC or Pascal.

Advanced Turbo Pascal books had x86 assembly in them. Old advanced C64 BASIC books had 6052 assembly. And sometimes you could get your hands on an Amiga Rexx book or magazine.

From the more advanced books you really learned how dumb the computers are and how they work internally. This is missing nowadays.

There were also pretty decent magazines with ideas and program printouts.

You had to experiment more and rely on the cookbook less.
Are there any books with the same kinds of tasks that the author proposed to his students? Would really like to improve my proofing skills.
It isn't a competition problem, it's a laws of physics problem. If you want to carry more traffic you either need more wireless spectrum or more towers. But "more towers" quickly devolves to the point that you would need a "tower" on every block, at which point you have nearly all the expense of a wired network and might as well run the cable inside the buildings.
Huh? The NSA didn't create the exploit. Oh, it's Gizmodo. Why is this garbage on HackerNews.
Economics would also be really hard to understand if it didn't operate on the real world: something very familiar to us.

I can imagine a mathematical version of economics operating on some abstract constructs designed to emulate an economic system. It would reuse no terminology from the real world for the sake of producing an abstract notion, completely (or at least artificially) decoupled from the system it was designed to emulate.

I would imagine that Akerlofs paper, encoded into this form, would be at least as hard and involved to understand as the one from Atiyah.
Is Uber making profits in the US market?
‘Indian IT firms to layoff up to 2 lakh engineers annually for next 3 years’
I don't mind a new security model for personal computing, one that sanely quarantines - or containerizes or sandboxes - an application.

Any browser or App process has nothing good to do in ~/Library other than its own application support and prefs plist files (and the equivalent in Linux and Windows)

If an App needs to access any artifact in my $HOME it needs to be explicitly authorized for that specific one (e.g. I want to embed images in a presentation) by a UI element that is part of a the OS itself.

Right now, I might be running as root on my machine, because as soon as I'm 0wned, my whole life can be siphoned to some dodgy server on the net.
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> and VC money

Yeah, this is pretty key. If Uber's dominant position in the US is slipping but there's still a clear way for them to emerge on top globally and cash is the limiting concern, it seems likely they'll be able to continue subsidizing international expansion with more VC money.
1) looks like the mission has been adjusted, they simply take the lead in information assurance now. Although, a foreign power seizing control of government computers to make unauthorized transmissions sounds like something a jury would think the NSA should be responsible for.

2) Indeed, my entire argument depends critically on the existence of a .gov propagating the worm.
You don't have to program to be positively affected by my suggested change. You could be just a user of an app that currently does not exist on the iPad, or the user of a feature that does not exist.

Would you like to group all your files that belong to a certain project (photos, texts, presentations etc) together in one thing, like a folder? The iPad currently cannot do that. After that change, somebody could do a patch that would. And then Apple would see that there is a demand and do a proper version of that.

Would you like to use the great Apple Photos app, but also have all your files on dropbox/google drive? Well if you do that currently, you need to have your photos twice, and work with two different apps. With my suggested changes, one could create a patch app that just stores all your documents on the service of your choice.

Would you like to use the Google or Amazon Alexa voice assistants when you long press the home button? Currently you can't, but in my future you could. Any you would be surprised how much better they often are. That would create more competition, and would motivate Apple to up their Siri game.

Would you like to have a SNES emulator? A bittorrent client? A bitcoin client? A podcast client that can do flattr? All of these things are constantly shut down by Apple. You are not allowed to have these. With my suggested changes, you can have these.

Would you like to have something like Maya? Current iOS rules prevent any app from implementing their own windowing GUI, with the reason being that in this way, apps cannot become their own platform, which would be problem for Apple because then another party would become a platform owner. Well many professional apps like Maya are their own platform.

The list goes on an on. You do not have to be a programmer to suffer from the limits Apple currently imposes on iOS.

And it's not arbitrary at all. It just returns to the same state computing was in for 30 years until iOS arrived.

Also, watch your words. "More than a little ridiculous" is not an objective rational statement, it's just pure ad hominem.
Blocking websites on Android (no root required)
They're too expensive relative to consumer income. The form factor is wonderful. The price and relative fragility are awful. I think Apple has gone from monopoly pricing to potential market failure.
It's not just a question of people not keeping their computers updated. I have bought a few second hand computers with windows 7 the last few months and they have all had problems when updating. I doubt most people even notice this and think they are updated.
Jobs said a lot of things, not all of it smart or correct. A stylus and a mouse and a keyboard have a place.
That isn't what I said. I stated that it is more likely that a woman would be homeless from domestic abuse, not that men aren't the target of domestic abuse.
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You can't blame Microsoft for this one.

More than 15 years ago Chairman Bill laid down the law at Microsoft. Trustworthy Computing from then on: https://www.wired.com/2002/01/bill-gates-trustworthy-computi...

So we can't possibly still be dealing with problems in the shit software that made Gates one of the wealthiest people in the world.

/s
You actually believe that the NSA created this exploit? I'm struggling to understand the logic on this page. I've never seen so much misunderstanding and misleading nonsense on a HackerNews topic.
Draconian laws to ensure "security".
Most of the time, upgrading from one minor version to the next is painless. If you installed OpenBSD 5.0, you are expected to keep updating all the way to 5.9. (For some reason, OpenBSD always makes exactly 9 minor versions for each major version.)

Most Linux distros don't even make any fuss about minor versions, using them only as an opportunity to build fresh installation images. New minor versions are security patches for the major version and all previous minor versions.
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Google is not doing anything differently here from what they did before. They've been releasing papers instead of code since 2003 [1].

I think overall this has been a good thing. Had they open-sourced, we'd all be using their stuff, but there wouldn't have been the many competing open source big data projects. The fact that the rest of the world was forced to reimplement what google did created a beehive of open source technologies which is going places google never did.

[1] http://blog.mikiobraun.de/2013/02/big-data-beyond-map-reduce...
Everyone in this thread has been going on about how iPads are “toys”, “game machines for kids”, “only consumption devices”, “for movies and casual web browsing”, etc. But I use my 13" iPad as a drawing tablet, and it’s amazing.

I wouldn’t want to code or a write book with it, and the software is in some ways more limited than I would prefer, but the hardware (display, stylus) are great and it’s a lovely tool for proofreading/annotating PDF files (or other material), making doodles, writing mathematical notes, sketching out user interface designs, drawing technical diagrams, planning carpentry projects, and so on (I know others also use it for drawing comics, making visual art, & cetera).

Basically it’s a great tool any time you want a computer (unlimited pages, many drawing tools in one, easy to import/share content, undo support, layers and versions, ..) with pen input rather than mouse/keyboard. The latency and precision of the stylus are as good or better than other graphics tablets, the screen is gorgeous, and the price is competitive as a drawing tablet.

I’d recommend one to anyone who can afford it, and does any kind of critical reading, design work (e.g. great for flow-charts), or work in a visual medium. It doesn’t replace a laptop, but it’s a great complement.
If Windows were open-source, would the situation have been any different?

Would organisations with very conservative attitudes to upgrade paths or a requirement to run an older OS version have suddenly been patching nightly?

Would the exploits used have been identified and patched prior to their malicious deployment?

Would organisations with a vested interest in stockpiling exploits have elected to immediately notify projects' maintainers?

The answer to these swings wildly between 'maybe' and 'probably not', so the eventual endpoint is likely largely the same. It's a compound issue brought about by a chain of decisions made by disparate organisations, and using it as a stick to beat Microsoft or proprietary vendors in general with is missing a very important point -

Security is the responsibility of everybody involved, from vendors and the government, all the way down through to the people innocently opening infected attachments.
Does nobody game on their iPads? I enjoyed it in the past. Gaming does push hardware release cycles.
Also because users are used to their phones being able to do less than a laptop. "The appstore doesn't have it" is a legitimate reason to not be able to use a program on a phone but not a Windows machine (for example)
I'm pretty sure he means the top rated answer in the linked article.
Still valid that rating ratios can change though.
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But the finance fundamentals of Uber are truly horrible.

Their only explanation for literally lighting billions of dollars in funds on fire to subsidize rides is supposedly to consolidate market share. If they don't have a defensible position and they lose money on every transaction what exactly do they have to show for it?
Luigi works pretty well for workflow and versioning, if not complete provenance.
Here's why I upgraded my Ipad : webdesign.
My Ipad 1 still works perfectly, unfortunately it cannot handle javascript heavy websites. People love to talk about planned obsolescence but React, Angular (and others frameworks), stupid parallaxes etc bricked my Ipad, not Apple.
I took their post to be referring to the top reply on the math exchange site, which may actually be a stable thing at this point as the question is not fresh. I may be wrong though.
Mary's place sounds like a commendable organization and if so, Amazon's sponsorship is also commendable. I made sure to say so. My questions were honest - I really don't know if Mary's place serves single men (though it sounds like no?) and I really don't know how Amazon's charitable contributions are proportioned.

Where we spend our charitable contributions is indicative of our values (both as individuals and as a society). Some charities are criticized for being too "feel-good" or being inefficient with donor money for emotional heart strings. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/heartwarming-causes-... OTOH, this argument taken to it's logical conclusion says we should only ever donate to the Gates foundation and it's ilk. I find it interesting that Amazon is receiving such positive press for making a donation to an organization that is deliberately aimed at a subset of an issue. I've never seen an article about a corporate charitable donation of this small dollar value on hacker news before - not that the value is so small, but most charity news that breaks the media bubble is so high (e.g. billionaires pledging to donate half their wealth).

The make a wish foundation existence says something about our values. So does this donation sitting on the front page. Some people love the make a wish foundation and say it reflects positively on our empathy and compassion. Others murmur about warm fuzzies vs the greater good. I don't think this ethical question should be invalid or offensive in the context of politically charged issues.
Just have a look at the XML configuration files for the exploits used. They are on GitHub. Windows 10 was not a target.
Assuming these hospitals keep updating and do not get stuck at Ubuntu 10.04.
Does your content actually generate leads?
Running a small business and worrying about its sustainability?

Digital marketing is sky-rocketing these days. I wonder if an all-inclusive tool could work for the same.
> NSA created this exploit

I don't believe that, however I do believe they sat on this vulnerability without disclosing it to Microsoft. This particular piece of software may not be theirs, but it may as well be.
Yeah, well over encrypts your files and the other is a full game
It would appear that Lyft is making some strong ties with Google as of late. Between this and the announcement of the Lyft partnership with IBM and Google to work on some sort of Kubernetes router mesh [1] I am starting to see a trend.

"We are excited to announce that we are working in partnership with both Google and IBM to bring Envoy to Kubernetes. Fun fact: there are now more people working on Envoy at Google than there are at Lyft! We have a lot of other things planned with Google that we will be able to share more about in the coming months."

[1] https://eng.lyft.com/envoy-7-months-later-41986c2fd443
I always like to try to pick out the single most useful sentence or two from long essays like this. Here's my go:

"So when I get into a car—a computer that I put my body into—with my hearing aid—a computer I put inside my body—I want to know that these technologies are not designed to keep secrets from me, or to prevent me from terminating processes on them that work against my interests."

Indeed.
I get weird results:

input: [12,85,75,57,86,45,31,76,57,60,28,87,54,28,43,53,53,69,0,39]

output: "32|60=4,12=4,75=NaN,57=NaN,86=NaN,45=NaN,31=NaN,76=NaN,85=NaN,28=NaN,87=NaN,54=NaN,43=NaN,53=NaN,69=NaN,0=NaN,39=NaN|%undefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefined!undefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefined"

edit: this only seems to happen when there are more than 10 unique values in the input.
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I mean, engraving went from a super-special thing that only happens on 30-year service watches and gravestones, to a minimum requirement for children's baseball participation trophies. The market did get larger.
Uber is present in 581 cities and 81 countries.

Lyft is present in 300 cities in America.

Having IT people in SF using Lyft instead of Uber is only a tiny change.
Have you considered UDOO x86? It exposes GPIOs from an Intel braswell CPU and a microcontroller.
(Disclosure: I do some software development for UDOO)
I just had a really bad experience with Uber myself. Here's my data point:

I was just trying to get an Uber the other day in a large city and I waited over an hour in the rain. The first N-1 drivers that accepted my request cancelled on me after 5 minutes.

Eventually, a driver picked me up. He didn't want to pick me up where I was, and had a very hard time communicating to me where he was. After some back and forth walks-100-ft-"Do you see me now?"-repeat for about 10 minutes, he asked me to just cancel the request.

I said no. I wasn't going to risk paying a fee to cancel. I was already waiting in the rain for an hour.

Eventually the driver found me and took me to my location. The whole ride was quiet until the driver decided to break the silence with full-volume anti-slavery rhetoric on the radio.

That day I learned that Uber's algorithms, whatever they are, led to at least a single very bad experience. I didn't downvote the driver. Instead, I just didn't rate him. That said, I'd say 95% of my Uber experiences were very good.
If you're going to disagree with someone, it's your responsibility to substantiate that disagreement. If that's too much of an effort, best not to say anything at all.
I'm using an iPad mini 2nd gen - I would love a newer one but this one just keeps on being usable...

I seriously think the upgrade cycle for these devices is just much much longer than most people think it is