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From my understanding the problem was that Germany was growing very strong and threatening Britain's domination.

An interesting book about the topic is The Great Illusion By
Norman Angell [1]

Saying a bunch of students started WW1 is quite absurd.

I did find some material pointing fingers at King Edward though, might want to take a look [2]

[1] http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38535/38535-h/38535-h.htm

[2] http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1995/eirv22n13-1995032...
This is fabulous! There are millions of old phones out there with decaying versions of iOS and Android. Google and Apple are ignoring them, so these devices are just plummeting in value. This is the perfect market for an actually-open-source mobile OS!

If somebody can get React Native to run on PostmarketOS, then we could start building up an ecosystem of non-walled-garden apps that are compatible with iOS and Android!
Thanks! And for those for which Ancient Greek is "within their power" here's the first sentence

τῶν ὄντων τὰ μέν ἐστιν ἐφ᾽ ἡμῖν, τὰ δὲ οὐκ ἐφ᾽ ἡμῖν.

from Perseus (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...).

Actually you don't have to know anything at all, you can just click on each word and it will show you the meaning. You can then judge yourself which translation you like best. Note, for example that the word control is not used.
I had Sonic Fiber in a high-rise in the SOMA/Rincon Hill neighborhood. Not sure why the permit data is not there but they definitely serve this area.
How do FPGAs compare on space and power? Would differences be enough to matter for mobile?
So then maybe the key is a start up that's in the business of raising the chance of success that other players having in this endeavor?
The OS detected the fault and terminated the application which used the faulted memory address range, which is what it was supposed to do.
Could this mean on-device ANI? My deal breaker with Amazon, Google, Microsoft and even Siri is their role in normalising the hoovering up of sensitive data.
Why post it on Hacker News? What kind of advices were you expecting? Why not ask your wife? Why not ask your coworkers? Why not ask your friends? Why not ask your family? etc.

They know you and your situation much better than any of us.
Well....

This is interesting indeed, although I suppose it was somewhat inevitable.

I'm definitely interested in the architectural details of the chip, but I doubt Apple will open up. Apple has control of the software stack and by extension, what models will run on this chip, so I expect that it will be a little bit more special purpose than general purpose.
For about three years I maintained the official internal coding conventions documentation for the Microsoft Word development team. This was when we were working on Office 2007. I remember loving the spirit of Hungarian notation. Using it in practice was also a major lesson and shaped my valuation of naming variables and types.

That same timeframe we ported Word's codebase from C to C++. That meant rewriting a bunch of manually ordered vtables for COM as regular virtual member functions on classes, and sadly, the elimination of anonymous unions from the codebase. But, type systems have really taken over and I think that's a good thing.

Because Word was written in C it followed a beautiful pattern of functions calling other functions all the way down. It treated data as data, and did not utilize classes or inheritance. I later came to understand the value of that way of thinking but at the time I thought it was so old fashioned. Of course, lacking the OO mindset meant that Word also lacked a great deal of encapsulation, and had horrible coupling across certain modules. Most notably, Undo, and Display.

I suppose that's enough reminiscing for now.
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Yes, for some reason GEMA has become the scapegoat for all music-related inconveniences in life.
What parts of formal education is 'core to life'? Genuine question.

I question the value of obligatory education at all in it's current state. What do you get for your 10+ years? The only indispensable skills gained of concrete benefit for most citizens are the ability to read and write. Otherwise, some general notions that may or may not be of use in your life.

I have spent most of my life in education and independent study, and am a proponent of learning and knowledge. But I have also spent time with people without formal education. They are often sharp and inquisitive individuals, and if they don't know about how to prove contorted geometric theorems that we do in high school, so what?

Just a train of thought.
> Just handing a device to every student will not automatically improve education, though; they're not magic.

This. Blended learning is more of an art; if you are interested in how it can be applied in schools, I highly recommend this MOOC:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/blended-learning

Lots of different models, readings and videos, including tours of the more "tech-savvy" schools :)
When stating something as a fact on HN the poster typically posts proof that is verifiable. When you post a link to a book there is no research one can verify. It's of no value in the timespan nor do posters have the trust that they should pay money to see evidence that someone purports. In addition to that you'd still need to verify the source(s) that book used, if it even cites any (I'm unfamiliar with the book, how would I know what it contains?).

Essentially: You're wrong but you have to pay and wait a few days to know why. Not really in the spirit of constructive arguments on HN.

In my opinion, anyway.
Yeah, so Betsy DeVos is like a broken clock here; she is narrowly right but for all the wrong reasons. Charter schools are heavily used in a neighboring school district, most are publicly funded though. They are doing great there. Many many reasons also come into that issue, but suffice to say that school uniforms, school lunches, strict no-phone policies, and a lack of a restorative-justice model really do help. Well that and a lack of racist elderly turbo-republican voters that will never raise a levy for new taxes for the schools. As I say in another comment, the main issue here is the poverty. I have no idea how to solve that, but I know chromebooks aren't a part of it.

Yeah, we're bitter, we know.
It's a minor nuisance. It requires people to click on a local file. If a criminal can get a user to do that, he will not waste that opportunity on crashing the desktop.
yes, but it works better in terms of start-up speed, battery life, looks more native (at least on windows 10).
Sounds like a lot of really useful improvements. Can't wait to get my hands on the new version!
That's fine. 99% of my status updates are zany jokes/observations anyway. I read somewhere that Facebook will be dethroned soon anyway. Not surprised if that happens. My use has decline precipitously since it was "The Facebook"...
Like this Chrome extension I made... :)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/xray/dgkdfehohjdbm...
Long gone are the days when .org was a meaningful suffix.
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No, but it has been in the past. I'm speaking theoretically in general when people are wronged by things like this.
Weirdly, I've only really noticed this in the US. Back in Australia where we've been using chips for about a decade, I rarely remember it taking more than a couple of seconds, certainly not 10.

We also have contactless payment on most of our credit cards (as in built into the card, not Android/Apple Pay) and support for it on ~90% of terminals as well though so it's not much used anymore.
Ask HN: Will self-driving cars have incognito mode?
Hi HN,

Do you think self-driving cars should have incognito mode? If yes, how should it work?

In a browser, when one browses incognito, no one would notice that there is no browsing history, say, between 15:00 and 16:00. With self driving car, a lack of route between some specific hours would bring attention, especially if the car changed place.

Thanks,
J
You look at it as a restaurant problem but it's really an ecommerce supply chain problem.

By implying restaurant you're still thinking about back of the house and front of the house. That paradigm doesn't exist for the likes of SpoonRocket or Munchery or Sprig.

They operate out of commercial commissary kitchens that produces products that needs to go into a distribution network to people funneled in from marketing. The bet is that function isn't linear, rather it can be scaled up, especially when prodded along by all the state of art and best practices in ecommerce marketing techniques.

These guys were trying to play the Amazon game, but instead of a 2 day shipping window, it's right now or in a few hours. And instead of a shipping hub to your door steps, it's down the street to your doorsteps. And instead of elastic goods that can wait for awhile before you commit to buy it's a need to satisfy.

A successful restaurant feeds your craving. A successful supply chain fulfills your need.

The real challenge is just the fact at the end of the day there's a fixed cost to fulfillment no one can figure out how to shake.

Despite all the twisting in the labor relationship (avoiding W2s or stealing wages), it still costs $15/hr to deliver up to four $10 items that costs $3 to make. Until that goes down (with automated tincans on wheels) then merely sale of food items won't support these bets.

Except weed and alcohol. Those are the only things that have the margins and demand to support an immediate delivery network.
A hobby :)

Use to be a frequenter of extremesystems.org 10-15 years ago, in the overclocking and water-cooling threads.

Good fun.

Now practicality wise, I had no use to OC really. Wasn't even a big gamer at the time. Pure fully fun and just seeing if I could (thought I was the cool kid running water-cooling, overclocked cpu/mem/you, installing every nightly patch in Gentoo portage with a tonne of system specific gcc and kernel flags lol).

Now my thousands of dollars water-cooling parts, and a q6600 processor have been sitting in garage for 10 years.

Use a standard i7 low-end laptop, no desktops in past 10 years
Me too, I hoped Spring Framework is shutting down.
I don't think this is true. If you develop a meta-AI and it doesn't immediately solve all other fields, the humans won't just suddenly stop. Maybe the Meta-AI ends up solving all of the rest of the fields later and the humans turned out to be useless in retrospect, but after the Meta-AI is created and before all fields are solved there will necessarily still be humans doing work since they can't actually know that "solve AI for all fields" needs no more human assistance until it is.
I hope this takes off. I was happily using a note 4 for years, occasionally buying a new battery because it allowed you to change it by removing the back (remember all the phones that used to do that?). The only reason I had to retire it was because I needed security patches but each update made the phone progressively slower. My new phone has exactly the same features and if I factory restored the note 4 it would run as fast as my new one but phone manufacturers don't exactly like that, and it's something that should change.
This is awesome and I've been waiting for something like this to come along for a long time. It's crazy how easy it is to get Linux on an ARM based Chromebook, but nearly impossible to get it on a phone.

Android is a security nightmare and most of us are aware of that at this point. On top of that, Android has been moving functionality off the device and into their services for years making their AOSP offering weaker and weaker. Keep up the good work!

Edit: At some point it'd be nice to use a GuixSD or NixOS configuration file as your "one custom package" instead of an Alpine package. Any Linux on bare metal though would be welcome of course.
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I didn't mean to imply that I think retail bike shops will completely disappear. I was more trying to make the point that there are already a few successful online-only bike brands. So maybe Vanhawks' issue is their product, not the online sales model.
Seems like an expansion of the profiling like service disguised as what you said.
> You are saying that by the time the kids reach HS, if they are this damaged, just triage them

No, I'm saying that the attitudes of kids currently in high school and their unsuitability for certsin changes in educational methods is not indicative of the utility of changes in educational methods introduced earlier.

You have essentially invented a line of argument entirely unrelated to anything I actually.wrotr to argue against. I don't disagree with any of what you write, it's just entirely irrelevant to the post you are responding to, as it seems to be a rebuttal of an argument that exists in your kind, fueled by expectations driven by a stereotype you explicitly describe yourself as holding of the HN community.
Why exactly would you want to speak several languages, if your interlocutor speaks English?

I'm French and I'm not religious about the French language itself. Everything would be so much simpler, including sharing cultural differences if all of humanity just spoke the same language.

English is the interop layer of human communication. It has imperfections but one imperfect standard is better than hundred or thousand of them.

Our common global culture is mostly shared in English. I wish the next generation, or the one after that, all speak English, maybe dialects incorporating local cultural differences. Then we could move forward as a species.

I don't think the friction brought by having so many different languages is worth it.
Out of curiosity, what is The Circle?

Excel 2016 does have a feedback menu with Smiles and Frowns.

File -> Feedback

Disclaimer: MSFT Employee (not in office)
I noticed Facebook's JavaScript does weird things if the newsfeed <div> is removed from the page. Thus the correct way to hide the feed is to set the <div> to visibility: hidden, but no extension does that afaik.

You can use this bookmarklet to do it:
javascript:(function(){document.querySelector('[role="feed"]').style.visibility = 'hidden';}());

Or use Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey to run it on page load. Alternatively use messenger if all you need is to message people.
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I don't mean any personal disrespect, but I mostly don't believe you. Well sure, maybe in some divisions a few people (through a personal effort rather than corporate policy) look at these things and try to make good software, but outside of a few teams (PowerBI for example) I truly believe Microsoft is still primarily just about money and market share.

As a company, Microsoft's official goal is not to make good software, but good enough software.

There are thousands of passionate users of Microsoft software users out there who are gladly willing to do a large part of what your job is: identify and document bugs, and they are willing to jump through extensive hoops to reproduce something so it can get fixed and stop disrupting their workflow, all we ask from Microsoft is that they do the final step: fix it! But no, even that is too much to ask.

And I say this as a relative Microsoft fanboy.
You make sure your boss is aware of the trade-offs, but once the decision has been made, you carry it out to the best of your ability. In the long run, you don't get paid unless the business makes money, and examples abound that show getting to market first is often more valuable than getting there with the best product.

If that bothers you, talk to a union rep, because few businesses in existence would rather do the right thing if doing the wrong thing makes an extra buck. If the money flows in, those maintenance costs will keep you employed; if it doesn't, those costs won't need to be paid.

You don't refuse to deploy, you don't leak, and you don't shame. If you feel as you you ethically must do any of those, quit first. (Don't mention your intentions to HR at your exit interview.)
This "style" is just some habits of your attention. Your attention was trained to focus on movie, but was not trained enough to focus on book. You can use some behavioral training approaches to make youself attentive while reading (without much effort), or inattentive while watching movies. So this "style" is no more than a habit, that reinforces itself.

This is not some kind of disorder, its just habits. I cannot attentively watch movies full of speaking heads, where no guns, fires, fights and other funny things. I would better read book, article, or something like. And this is not disorder also, just a habit. If I'll need to use movies for learning, I train my attention to concentrate on movies. Its not a problem, though it needs some time and effort.
I guess ethics is like jazz.
> Common core is a pretty interesting curriculum.

Common Core is a set of standards that curricula need to meet, not a curriculum. It may seem nitpicky, but it's an important distinction considering the amount of hate lumped on to Common Core because of shitty curricula that implement it.

I think the standards are great, and well-designed curricula (as it sounds like Arizona has), are fantastic.
In contrast, Steve Jobs was known for randomly answering customer support calls to better understand the customer.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/22/tech/innovation/jobs-excerpt-c...
Plutonium can be hazardous, but we've been able to work with it very safely. There is little reason to worry about storing it safely.

"During the Manhattan Project in 1944 and 1945, 26 men accidentally ingested plutonium in quantities that far exceeded what is now considered to be a lethal dose. Since there has been a consistent interest in the health effects of this brand new substance (first discovered by Glenn Seaborg’s team at the University of California in 1940), these men were closely tracked for medical studies.

Forty Years Later
As of 1987, more than four decades later, only four of the workers had died and only one death was caused by cancer. The expected number of deaths in a random sample of men the age of those in the group is 10. The expected number of deaths from cancer in a similar group is between two and three."

https://atomicinsights.com/how-deadly-plutonium/

Of course that doesn't count the demon core.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core
No doubt the timing of releasing this news on the holiday weekend was deliberate; intended to reach as few people as possible.
Because anyone can edit, and probably understand, it. Same reason hedge funds and banks calculate so much through Excel. Contrast that with a service which someone has to maintain, keep up to date, document, et cetera.
Also, it would take care of the homeless problem.

2 birds, one stone.
filtering out the, ahem, "idiots"

Not relevant to this specific case, but: For smaller companies I've found that "I got your phone number from your domain whois" is a very effective shibboleth.
I have never had a Bluetooth headset that doesn't sometimes cut out when my phone is in my pocket.
You don't need to embed a binary framework for Reveal. And I think it's still a lot better than the Xcode tool..

I like using it to fine tune the positions of views instead of guessing and re-running which happens occasionally. (Can't do that w/ Xcodes built in tool)
"The military is capable of gathering all of the defensive intelligence that we need to protect ourselves."

In theory, yes. In practice, no.

Military intelligence focuses on identifying and tracking threats to military forces. During the Cold War, for instance, this meant having a decent understanding of Soviet doctrine, equipment, and tactics. Civilian intelligence agencies focused on government operations, infrastructure, and the like. Overlap existed (and still exists), but their focus was different.

But let's say, for the sake of argument, that you wanted to close civilian-run intelligence agencies and turn it all over to the military.

How do you get enough green-suiters to fill all those chairs previously filled by civilians and, more importantly, keep those chairs filled by qualified individuals?

Enlistments end, and soldiers/airmen/sailors are generally given other duty assignments on a routine basis. That's institutional knowledge that walks right out the door, that doesn't necessarily happen if you've got civilian employees.

What you may be saving budget-wise (military personnel being cheaper than civilian), you're spending on training and retention. Why would an E-6 with plenty of analysis and personnel management experience stick around when he or she could make a lot more in the private sector?

And when all is said and done, does this really prevent the kind of abuses we're already seeing with civilian-run agencies?
I don't know that random facial recognition has been used to any notable degree to catch fugitives in the US. The FBI system has a high failure rate, so I suspect it's used only manually. Such that it's risky only if you are continuing to commit crimes.
Is this massive ontology similar to what Leibnitz attempted with his characteristica universalis?
For Alt-Right Trolls, “Star Trek: Discovery” Is an Unsafe Space
I'm wondering why you would want to do that anyway?
Everyone's gone by now, and you can't charge them because of diplomatic immunity. (I've seen that twisted to "someone under DI can be opening fire in the street and you still can't stop them".)

This should, however, be grounds for kicking out Turkey's diplomatic mission. But that's not going to happen when your president thinks Erdogan is a role model.
Yep, sorry, I worded that pretty wrong.

Also, Ki is an IEC prefix and distinct from the metric system. Metric doesn't have anything other than decimal prefixes as far as I know.
In Canada, an (Computer) Engineer, you are required to take Engineering Ethics courses. Not so for Compute Science.
Playing with abstract objects in VR
Just in time for the 100 year anniversary of the October Revolution.
Forget Supersonic. Hypersonic Is the U.S. Military’s New Speed
Totally random but you probably would like the LG V20.
American card terminals pretty much universally suck compared to everywhere else in the western world so it's not that surprising to me.

According to staff at a few shops in my area when asked why they always ask if tap to pay is ok they said a lot of people still don't allow them to tap and insist on chip+pin still.
I don't think space is an issue, but an ASIC designed exactly for a workload will always beat an FPGA on power. But if you don't know the workload exactly or don't have the money to fab an ASIC then an FPGA will be superior if the workload is a bad fit for CPUs or GPUs. So if you can save (2-10)x power on some unknown ML workload in the future that might be preferable to (10-20)x on some fixed workload with a fixed-point ASIC.

I.e. Bitcoin mining went GPU->FPGA->ASIC, each with more investment required to design but higher overall performance in Hash/W. But that workload is known exactly.
Your credit card company should offer a $0 liability policy for fraudulent charges. If not, switch card companies. Then it's their problem not yours.
Probably worse on power consumption as well as price per MIP.
Unknown unknowns. Does the average consumer even understand that contention is an issue?

All the average person sees is the number of bars in their wifi connection UI, which AFAIK doesn't take contention into account, only signal strength.