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> Each Stack — bar Facebook, for now — offers the same awkward bargain: commit wholly & wholeheartedly to our ecosystem, and we will better your life.

However, the stacks (ecosystems) need not be mutually exclusive. For example, Microsoft's ecosystem includes dozens of apps for iOS and Android, and it has supported Macs for as long as Apple. It also has Linux options for Windows 10 and Azure.

Apple mainly supports Apple hardware, but it still has iTunes and iCloud support for Windows.
Facebook – cancer of our generation
Directly related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13924546
I got some usb cables some time ago. fancy models. both got broken wires in less than a year. their lifetime warranty was taking forever until I updated my 4 star review to a one. got and email instantly saying they shipped new ones to me and if I could change my review to 5 stars. this was via amazon, they even used the same Shipping address as the purchase. never heard from the warranty email.

they did send new ones of an upgraded design that even had a pouch. but why not do that when I contacted via the regular way? that lowered my respect for them.
no - the best you can do is get it appealed to a higher court.
If I can't tell the difference, does it matter to me?
No discussion at all because the similarity isn't immediate. Just swap bunnies with crop and their food with patented sterile seed.
I believe their new standalone VR unit uses tango technology to map out the surroundings (WorldSense) thereby negating the need for externally mounted peripherals like those needed for by room scale VR.
Returns on rare coins over ten years to the end of 2016 were 195%
Have you tried the sculpt? I was having wrist pain that was preventing me from working up until about a week after mine arrived.
Not in this case. You would need to have standing and a relevant claim to sue any person or firm. I would think it would pretty difficult to show sort of generalized claim about the injustices of the patent system. That is a political question, not a legal question.
Golden quote:

Don’t confuse privacy with secrecy. I know what you do in the bathroom, but you still close the door. That’s because you want privacy, not secrecy. (From I have nothing to hide. Why should I care about my privacy? : https://medium.com/@FabioAEsteves/i-have-nothing-to-hide-why...)
Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway People’
International Weightlifting Federation?
I used to be the blue-vs-brown guy (mostly because my brown keyboard made a lot less sound that my coworker's blue), but then I tried his keyboard and let him try mine and it turned out that it wasn't about the keyboard switches, rather it was about the person using them. My blues made a lot less sound than his browns.
Stackexchange's Roadmap to HTTPS: serving and uploading HTTPS-images only
That's basically what https://www.shoprunner.com/ is trying to be, I think?

It's not as integrated as it could be, but it accomplishes the same thing.
Open source social web app sample with Python/Django
Funny thing about loud keyboards. A few years ago my company had a programming pit, and I could tell when ever one of my younger programmers was chatting with a friend rather than working. His typing rate would go from 20 wpm to 100 wpm.
FYI I quickly abandoned the programming pit, back to quite workspaces for all!
Under the Hood of Google’s TPU2 Machine Learning Clusters
Otherwise Texas policy seems to be pro-corporation. No corporate franchise tax until you make at least $100k, and you can form a corporation to do whatever you want. I know of one Texas corporation that did business for years in a Schrodinger's cat-like state, where it only kind of existed because they were in the process of finding a new board. Technically, the corporation existed, but wouldn't have been a valid entity to do business with, but most people would only check that the company existed. I'm not sure why it was done, but I suspect those guys got out of paying the franchise tax this way. (No, it wasn't my company!)
You're still subject to being sued where you have a presence. So, not only do you have to incorporate in a friendly jurisdiction, you have to restrain yourself to operating out of such locations as well. At least based on my non-lawyer understanding.
Ask HN: Why is there no boom around the baby boomers?
There's a large market of retired people looking for ways to stay active and/or generate a small amount of side income. Are there any businesses targeted specifically toward their demo? My dad has a ton of time on his hands and occasionally dog / house sits, and I'm he's not the only one. I'd love to get him hooked up with an existing network but there doesn't seem to be one that I can find. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Looking at it from an engineering and legal perspective each one of Google's products and new features is a minefield of new and un-proven tech that would be outright dangerous to enable for a work or education account (which you have even though you originally had it for personal use and it was grandfathered in). They do slowly roll out features as they mature and the legal implications are ironed out but Apps accounts are never going to be bleeding edge and for good reason.
It's in the file format

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

Also check out "libmagic"
Roughly 16% of Federal expenditures go towards the military.
I use a topre too, and I bottomed out too, as it turned out that blues a lot better in terms of teaching you not to bottom out (because they have an audible click which provides you about the feedback of the actuation point).

I'd recommend to get used blue and try it out.
Why did you go back?
Your general point is well taken, but do you think the fact that there is notable unemployment among law grads demonstrates that the ABA requirement (in most states) that people complete a very expensive three year degree is not an example of regulatory capture? Or that the existence of a non trivial number of law grads proves that the requirement does not affect the availability and price of legal services?

As you can probably tell, I do think the ABA does still function effectively as a cartel. In fact, the seemingly paradoxical co-existence of brutally indebted and underemployed law grads and the lack of available and affordable legal services may in fact be a consequence of cartel-like behavior in the legal industry.

If very smart people were allowed to self-study and take the bar, they might be able to offer lower cost legal services, free of the severe debt that accompanies a 3 year JD at UC Irvine, for example.

Honestly, I'm not even sure the quality of lawyers would go down if we eliminated the requirement. Why? Because really smart people who can learn rapidly may be turned off by a program that forces them to go through 3 years at 50k a year, when there are other fields that allow them to learn at a more rapid pace. If the bar exam remained rigorous, allowing smart people to learn at their own pace might actually draw more talented people in, yet in a way that would allow them to keep prices lower. It might also be possible to require some apprenticeship and coursework, but less onerous and with less debt. Keep in mind, regulatory capture can involve expanding reasonable requirements for licensure into unreasonable and onerous ones. Arguing that regulatory capture exists does not commit you to arguing agains any regulation.

I want to be clear this is just a thesis - I'm intrigued by the possibility, and as you can tell, it think there's a good chance it's true, but no, I'm not totally convinced, and it's hard to test - to really know, it would have to happen at scale, with enough time to ramp up, something that could take a generation or more.
The Accusation
I feel like TLS certificates are fundamentally misdesigned there. It should be possible to have a wildcard certificate that matches all subdomains under a domain, no matter how many layers deep.
I would bet for Google getting back to consumer augmented reality hardware once timing is right. I think the wearables will be something where they want to produce their own hardware to manage all the details.

For me the biggest problem is how to build and market the product so that they don't end up with the same problems as with Glass. For example one quite obvious and useful feature would be recall information about people as you meet them, but it's not so easy to think about a product that enables this kind of functionality without creating a public backslash.

Google just has so many interesting pieces for the AR puzzle. Tango to make sense of 3d space and Google Lens about 2d. Knowledge graph gives information about world and from Gmail and Calendar they can mine my personal data. As always with Google, privacy will be issue for some people, but I think enough are going to accept the tradeoff between privacy and convenience.

Is there public information on how big share of Magic Leap Google owns? There were some reports that Google led one of the investment rounds, but I can't remember seeing actual figures.
Norway is not freely spending the oil wealth, instead it's going into a sovereign wealth fund with protections on spending. So I really don't think you can dismiss their success with their oil reserves.

Norway's approach seems to be a very smart way to handle the oil wealth and atypical of most outcomes. See the phrase "resource curse," natural resource riches like oil typically hurt the economic growth of the nations that should be benefiting from it.
Open Source Stories: A.I. Revolutionaries
If it's not fulfilled by Amazon, then it's not coming from Amazon's warehouse. It could be subject to counterfeit by the seller, seller's supplier, or possibly even the sellers fulfillment center.
Apple's own USB-C to external monitor options are horrid. They have an USB-C to HDMI/USB/USBC dongle that is notoriously buggy locking up the new MBP. We ended up with a 3rd party cables to connect to external monitors.

Some balls definitely dropped over at apple's product teams.
The reason shred writes "multiple times with garbage" is due to magnetic disks where even when overwritten, old bit values could still be extracted with advanced tools. This is not the case for SSDs, so a single pass of shred (either random or zero) is enough here. Multiple passes will just kill your SSD faster.

The problem with sector access still stands, so you're not sure it's actually overwritten. You should use sfill(1) in addition to shred. sdmem(1) also, if you don't want to physically power down your machine.
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Delete timeline for me:

- Delete account

- 1st week, open facebook tab close facebook tab.

- 2nd week, visit facebook once a day by accident don't login

- 3rd week, visit facebook once a week, don't login

- 4th week, stop visiting altogether

It's been about 6 months now without an account and my wife and I are really happy about no longer have it. Try it!
Of course, there have been bumps in the road in the compatibility story between the two XAML environments. .NET Standard 2.0 will help a ton (in the very near future), deeply increasing the amount of .NET code that can be shared between the environments. XAML Standard 1.0 (in the slightly further future) will help a lot, in particular the fact that Xamarin.Forms is planning to implement a WPF renderer for sharing a much larger portion of XAML across every platform.
Are the Ts and Cs the same in Europe? I'm not sure all of this would be legal?
Perhaps https://developer.github.com/v4/guides/forming-calls/#commun... is relevant:

> In REST, HTTP verbs determine the operation performed. In GraphQL, you'll provide a JSON-encoded body whether you're performing a query or a mutation, so the HTTP verb is POST. The exception is an introspection query, which is a simple GET to the endpoint.
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babies the normal way is pretty unsettling if you've got one on the way.
Also because they basically have warehouses and distribution centers in one. Instead of shipping your box to a distribution center and from there to your home, they just put it in the truck that delivers it to your door. At least that's what I've seen in Europe, but wouldn't be surprized that that is what they do in the US, too. I think they have direct 'peering' arrangements with DHL and others, in that the truck actually starts at Amazon or goes there the first thing in the morning.

I would love to see "independent" fulfilment centers. E.g. I order at my favorite company a few cities away, and my local fulfilment center (the former huge amazon warehose) processes it, and I get it next day. I could imagine a shipping flat, for all packages that go through "my" center. Note, I am not thinking "mom and pop" centers, I am imagining local joint ventures beween logistics/delivery companies and these huge warehouses/goods transportation centers. But still a few orders of magnitude smaller than Amazon. (For the Germans: all my Amazon packages go through Bad Hersfeld. Imagine that logistics center would be it's own company, maybe backed by DHL / Schenker / Trans-o-flex / ... I believe it has a critical size to be viable.)

Unfortunately, the free market is not going to bring me that...
This is so true. I love jupyter notebooks, but running a program that will run for 5 days is a nightmare, you don't know when the kernel will just crash. Also, if there are lots of constant output/logging, you have to make sure that it comes on the terminal, if it is in the notebook itself, it will just freeze.
Why will almost all patent suits be filed in Delaware specifically? Are most tech companies incorporated there?
just wanted to thank you for providing this summary.
Machine Learning for Phrenology
(Thanks to ezquerra for bringing me back to the conversation here via Twitter.)

Disclaimer: I'm a PM on PowerShell at Microsoft, and the following is based on my personal observations. There's also no current plan to do any of what I suggested (but it's certainly giving me a lot to think about at the start of my work week).

The default ExecutionPolicy was engrained and controversial long before I joined the PowerShell Team (or even Microsoft), and I'll be the first to admit that, as a long time Linux user, I didn't GET why I couldn't just run arbitrary scripts.

The public Microsoft opinion on the matter has always been that ExecutionPolicy is there to try and prevent yourself from shooting yourself in the foot. In Linux, this is very similar to adding a +x to a script (although that's clearly much simpler than signing a script).

I'd say it's also akin to the red browser pages warning you about self signed certificates, or Microsoft/Apple "preventing" you from running certain app packages that are "untrusted" in one form or another. In one sense, you could actually argue that PowerShell was ahead of the curve.

Now as a power user with much less at a stake than, say, an IT administrator at a Fortune 500 company, the first thing I do with all these restrictions, warnings, and confirmation prompts is to turn them off.

But those warnings (often with no clear way to disable them) are there for a reason. PowerShell was built at a time when Microsoft admins were GUI heavy, and PowerShell did its best to herald them into a scripting world while fostering best practices. And if you're using a bunch of scripts sourced from SMB shares within your domain as a domain administrator, you don't want to accidentally run a script that hadn't gone through your internal validation process (hopefully culminating in the script getting signed by your domain CA).

So let me assume that you agree with everything so far. Why does this experience still stink? Any Microsoft administration worth their salt uses PowerShell, and many of even the power-est of users finds ExecutionPolicy annoying.

In my opinion, it's too hard to sign scripts. We should be following in the footsteps of the drive to get everything on HTTPS (props to Let's Encrypt and HTTPS Everywhere, along with many others). We should have guidance on signing if you have a CA, we should have guidance on getting scripts signed by third party CAs, and we should probably offer a cheap/free service for signing stuff that goes up on the PowerShell Gallery.

Oh, and we should make it easier to read the red error that gets thrown explaining how to lookup a help topic that tells you how to bypass/change ExecutionPolicy.

Unfortunately, that's all easier said than done. But the default being what it is puts the onus on us to do something to make security easier.
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Some problems run deeper than their individual manifestations such as these for which one may propose techie solutions -- here, sex ed is the only permanent solution. It's time to find ways to explain to boys that sex is an ordinary way to have fun and/or connect romantically between adult people, rather than a source or arena of power or status as it is endlessly portrayed in media.
Good luck asking Wikipedia what's the weather today, what's your first meeting in the morning, and which route of your commute has less traffic at the moment.
How much did Anker have to pay to have this full page ad on The Verge?
"Addiction: (noun) Addiction is a brain disorder characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli, despite adverse consequences."

I would get my family off of Facebook because they cannot stop using it even though it makes them feel bad after being on it. That's reason enough for me.
After quickly skimming this article, I got sucked down the rabbit hole of "ray marching" - in concept, and implementation (mainly as a shader). The idea and how it works was fascinating, if a little above my head mathematically. I got the general gist of the idea, though; it's kinda a combination of ray casting and ray tracing, where you send out the rays and step along them, but in ray marching you don't cast secondary or tertiary (or more rays) like you do in ray tracing (thus limiting the processing, but also the level of realism) and instead continue to "step" (ie - "march") along the ray past the intersection, to gather more information (and thus you can do volumetric stuff with transparency - smoke, water, clouds, marble, skin, etc).

Stepping is done using something called "sphere tracing" - where for each step along the ray, you compute a sphere, and where it intersects the scene, and only step that far; as you get closer to surfaces, the spheres become smaller (and so do the steps and more computations) - this keeps you from sampling along the ray where there is no scene, and stepping along the ray in larger "jumps" to keep the computational reqs down (it has limitations, particularly along edges of objects, and complex scenes).

For 4k comps (and in general, I think) objects of the scene are described algorithmically (ie - you don't create a model of a sphere or torus or cube, but rather the mathematical representation of it) - so intersects with the ray become a bit trivial. At the same time, complex scenes can become tedious to lay out, so you typically see tessellations and repetitions of scene objects, or other mathematical constructs are used (fractals and the like) that can generate complexity from simple representations (thus, procedural rendering and representational concepts come into play of course).

There was a ton more involved (found interesting shadertoy demos from known authors, going over the concepts of how raymarching and related techniques are used - especially in the context of GPU shader rendering, where it is frequently used in 4k compos - the idea of "two triangle demos", doing everything in the shaders) - and I probably got a lot of this wrong or over-simplified (as I said, I felt a lot went over my head in the math arena).

But I think I got the gist. Regardless, it was a fascinating exploration, and taught me some new things I didn't know about until then; I haven't kept up much with the demoscene since I stopped playing around with my Amigas a long time ago (aside from the occasional amazing demo or whatnot here and there - especially those authors who like to push their Craft - hint-hint - using microcontrollers). So it was nice to see what "state of the art" was. Although - milkytracker is still being used as well - which is nice to see.
The problem with shoprunner is that not every store supports it,but all stores can ship with ups "prime".
> "all bells and whistles turned on by default etc"

Arguably a little unfair? Spring boot makes it pretty trivial to just pick and choose the components you need for a project, especially with the https://start.spring.io/ tool.

> Requiring a custom test runner is not a feature, Spring!

I'm guessing this is a reference to using Spring's test runner to support Spring's dependency injection mechanism? No one forces you to use this so it's a stretch to say its 'required', but for certain tests it will save time over manually mocking etc, and often only applies to integration tests anyway. You can absolutely unit test without it.

> "It gives you all errors at runtime."

I'm sure it does, if you have errors.

> "Encourages you to make your app too configurable"

Spring boot apps are only as configurable as you make them, much like any other application. At least Spring tries to provide a standardized methodology/pattern for externalizing configuration parameters. I fail to see the 'encouragement'.

> you cannot easily integrate it with other frameworks.

It's java at the end of the day - there's a ludicrous number of third party frameworks it will play nicely with.

> slow to start, uses too much CPU

Sure JVM applications rarely have 'instant' startup for various reasons, but is a handful of seconds really a problem? 'Uses too much CPU' - I don't really think this is fair either - Spring Boot applications can deliver very efficient solutions.

Not going to argue it's the perfect choice for every project, but no framework is.
Amazon isn't moving in on UPS/Fedex really, yet. Their "in house" Amazon Logistics is mostly third party vendors who are doing a terrible job at it too. So much so that I've had to call Amazon enough that they've explicitly flagged my account to never use it as an option for shipping me anything.
Beautiful quote. Also, an unfalsifiable catch-22.
Sure, but the trouble with that is you still have to be someplace--either at an office or at home. It's not like you can actually enjoy life more. Which is what this is really all about--being able to be free of "work" for as long as possible each week and still manage to eke out a living.
Slight differences in cubes make a big difference to me. I was just moved to a cube where the only feasible setup is having my back to foot traffic and it drives me nuts.
Anker may make great products, but their marketing is shit. They have way too many products and no good way to differentiate. Check out this site which tries to explain the differences:

http://www.powerbankguide.com/anker-powercore-vs-astro-the-d...

Let us simplify the situation for you –

#1 An Anker PowerCore+ powerbank is BETTER and NEWER than Astro Gen 1 or Gen 2 of same capacity.

#2 An Anker PowerCore (without the +) powerbank is BETTER and NEWER than Astro Gen 1 or Gen 2 of same capacity.

#3 Anker PowerCore+ and Anker PowerCore powerbanks exist side by side with PowerCore+ usually having some extra features while PowerCore offers excellent value for money.
I had a different experience. I had a charger that stopped working. When I emailed them they immediately sent a new charger (through Amazon) and didn't even ask me to return the non-functional device. Very fast and excellent service.
So you need an already updated Windows computer to actually get the updates
Looks exactly the same as the previous GitHub Desktop app.