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>de Martinville was forgotten because his device had no use, could not play back sound, he did nothing to improve it and he had little idea what to do with it

So it's like a seismograph for sound? Makes me wonder if there is a seismograph somewhere that can play back recordings :)
If the laptop is not in your possession when it has to clear customs wouldn't this mean they cannot ask you for the password and such, then this would limit what they could do? Though they could still seize it, but at least without the knowledge of passwords and social media.
That's a fair answer, and I'm sure one that many share. Thanks for addressing the question directly - I see how for a minority of users, the switch makes sense.

I guess for me, I don't care enough to make all those changes. As a Chrome user, the sync across things is nice, and I enjoy the interface. I'll take the ease at risk of someone having my data in a catastrophic situation. Obviously, your choice makes great sense for you.
Recognize that the overrepresentation of a group with a lower median for that number in negative life outcomes is not indicative of societal bias against that group.
> They also often show inner structures of the program that can be hard to gasp from the code itself (why x has been done this way instead of that way).

Is this not literally the point of comments in the code?
>In fact, it turns out gold — at least the idea that it is of intrinsically more worth than another mineral — is another myth.

i always found this to be a ridiculous statement. you won't do well coining non metalic minerals/elements, and many others are subject to corrosion. gold on earth is finite and it is not man made. gold is the third most metalic electrical conductor. gold is also has the oligodynamic effect of inhibiting bacterial growth.

>One of the big recent risers, Ethereum, is exactly that: Ethereum is based on a blockchain, like Bitcoin, which means it has an attached currency (Ether) that incentivizes miners to verify transactions. However, the protocol includes smart contract functionality, which means that two untrusted parties can engage in a contract without a 3rd-party enforcement entity.

all this effort to not pay lawyers to draft/read/interperet contracts due to "legalese" only to write contracts in programing languages no one can read and understand....see the doa contract which was misread by the founders, by the third party reviewer, and every single person who bought in (except the party that stole $150m via smart contract).
> Why would it be unclean for others? That makes no sense.

The claim was that I was tracking in all the dirt from outside on my feet, and spreading it around where it would dirty up others. Since I'd be doing exactly the same (plus all the other dirt from years of wear) if I were wearing shoes, I agree with you that it makes no sense.
I don't get paid for the time I travel to and from my office either. I don't see the problem.
So the only way to break the circle is to purchase with cash... And now fewer and fewer people buy with cash, to the point some Nordics plan on doing away with cash as much as possible.
Reading creative fiction requires imagination and the ability to synthesize available information into an entire world. Great fiction gives you details and sequences of events, material from which meaning can be made. But the actual rich experience of being deeply engaged in imaginary worlds takes creative action on the part of the reader. It might not feel this way, but the meaning is not "in" the words. It is created by the reader at ... Uh, run time? And it is different for every reader.
Ah. Thanks for the correction! This is the downside of a cursory examination.
They won't in the medium term because of how much they hate the credit card company's cut. 3% is a lot on an already low-margin transaction at Walmart.
How many hyper-specialist occupations are there?

How many people are there?

Which of these sets is larger?

By how much?
Should have noted the date on the blog post!
vi's defining characteristic, which vim inherits, is that it is _modal_. That means that it has modes, like input mode (where what you type is added to the file), and command mode (where what you type are commands to the editor).

Modal editing is fantastic: it means you don't need a meta key, or multiple modifier key combinations to do things (for which your wrists will thank you!). It frees up keybindings for different purposes, which is partly how modal editing ends up needing fewer modifier key combinations.

Best thing in editing technology yet.
There is a hitchhikers guide to the galaxy quality about that comment! Nice one.
Thanks for the explanation, please see sibling comment for context. I think that a comment like

# assume "node" is an object with "value" and "children" properties

would make this question clearer.
I don't know if I would like software ported to Linux in this way. I already have mixed feelings about WINE. My concern is really on the legal side of things. What if these things are patent protected and people start getting sued?
Frontpage six days ago with different title https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14364573
If you are not happy with what you do, work to find another job. I would love to be a truck driver if it paid enough to get by around where I live. I'm sure a lot of people would.
You dig a hole. A deep hole. Away from water supplies. And then you shit in the hole: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_latrine
>don't you also need to be able to honestly say you can not provide access to it?

It's been said further down, but they can't possibly have carte blanche to compel that you reveal all data you have access to anywhere, which is what this would require.
So, to be clear, you think that when Google gave Uber 250M in funding (not 1B), in 2013, when Google had without-a-doubt the most advanced driverless car program in the world, and Uber was roughly two years away from beginning any driverless car program, Google made its investment in order to get into driverless cars?

Huh.
I saw the link, but I thought your issue was with the 2/6 year thing.

I still don't see any problem. Apple states that you get 1 year of "Apple" warranty, which allows you to get your product serviced by Apple, at no cost, independently of where you bought it.

Beyond that date UK law will apply, but since it applies to the seller, and not the manufacturer, they say to contact the seller (as I said in another post, a bit cheekily, since they will be also the seller in many cases).

Unless of course you buy Apple Care, that will allow the same level of service as the 1 year warranty...
Amazon already has been doing this as well.

They started to recommend some items related with books I have never bought online, just after I got them at local bookstore by credit card.
Yeah, but you have to login to a cloud service to turn it off, which they can't necessarily force you to do supposedly.
Yes, exactly. It would be impossible to tell whether you even had any Travel-Mode-hidden vaults without exhaustively testing every possible password.
It's very important to keep making as many purchases in cash as possible, precisely for this reason. At least where I live (France), this is very doable.

Cash is an anonymous payment system which cannot be traced and is widely accepted. It's something that would be impossible to bootstrap today if it didn't already exist. Hence, it's crucial to keep it alive.
Containers as kernel objects
Returns aren't accepted for Surface devices in particular?
at least a decent software update should be pretty easy to push out to fix the issue.
It's not potentially illegal, it's unquestionably illegal. Money withheld for taxes doesn't belong to the employer; it has already been paid to its employees, who are trusting the employer to pay it to the government on their behalf, as required by federal and state law. So it's (1) stealing from employees and (2) tax fraud. If the authorities had found out about it, he'd have gone to prison.
Isn't there a difference? Google is sharing that offline purchase insight with advertising clients, rather than simply using that data itself, as does Amazon.
Lots of people today think electric cars are a fad, renewables are unworkable, climate change doesn't exist, automation/self-driving cars won't replace manual labor, etc etc. Some of those will seem obvious with hindsight.
Why would retailers care? They are not making money from the payment information; the credit card company is. Further, they're not making money from the fact that people use the credit card; it's again the credit card company. I don't think that adding a surcharge for cash purchases (or, more realistically, a "discount" to credit card purchases) would make much sense economically? (Except in situations where handling cash is especially inconvenient, e.g., buses, vending machines, etc.)
Amazon is benefiting from decentralized local retail stores. 90% of goods a person needs can be located within 15 mile radius. Instacart or Uber needs to setup a central inventory system that locals can shop and get their products within 1 hour instead of 2 days.
Yeah I keep location services turned off most of the time. I also have never intentionally clicked on an online ad of any kind.
Yeah, if the water is the surroundings.

I was answering the broader question of not wanting light to penetrate "your surroundings" - ie the desk in front of me or walls around me. Would make life difficult if everything was transparent. Normally when one talks about "surroundings" it means that stuff, not the air (analogous to the water for marine life) both of which obviously need to be at least somewhat transparent for vision to be useful.
Right, that makes perfect sense. I'm mostly unsure of what tempestn said.
How The Economist Thinks
Walmart wouldn't take credit if it wasn't financially sound for them to do so.
Hadoop doesn't take six months for the project you described. It sounds like your team was learning Hadoop, not executing on Hadoop. Are you concerned that you fought a utility in favor of a tactical solution that now requires its own independent maintenance maintenancelifecycle?
I still enjoy remembering a friend who works at one of the week known big data companies tell me "our team works on tools for medium data"
Oh man, I've been looking for this article for ages. When the new Bem article came out yesterday I hunted for it again and couldn't find it. Thank you so much!
Wave was announced in 2009, and though it was not successful, it's feature breakthroughs led to realtime collaboration in Google Docs.

Innovation is not a linear convention.

In your warped exegesis of the world, Apple didn't launch the Newton and Microsoft never pushed the Zune.
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Proper IDE is fine, but then you switch to/embed another language and suffer. Btw, my colleagues often fail to perform simple tasks with proper IDEs, e.g. grepping entire project folder, not only files added to the project. Or moving through sources effectively, leaving interesting checkpoints in splits. Or respecting sw/ts/et settings per-file. Or formatting a table. IDEs are too high-level for these things, because they can refactor-omg-rename for ideally correct static language sources.
Pix2code: Generating Code from a Graphical User Interface Screenshot
SafeMarket, a P2P trade system
Short lines & spurs have nearly all been spun off into small, local railroad companies as BNSF, UP & CNX don't want to deal with the expensive, time consuming short lines.

The major rail companies would much rather move mile long trains hundreds of miles on well maintained track, and let the short lines fend for themselves, barely scraping by, running trains at a few miles an hour (as they can't afford proper track maintenance.
We live in the information age, when information is the ultimate power.

One danger is that with all that data about you and very advanced AI/ML tech Google can push you into making irrational purchase decisions (yeah, I know YOU are special, and advertising doesn't work on YOU) - e.g. buying a red sports car in your 40s.

The other is this data will be available to NSA, GCHQ, etc. and their controlling governments, politicians, their wealthy sponsors/muppetmasters, etc. Do you trust the politicians in USA, or any other courtry?

We are all man and not angels. Having all data on someone, you can always find shady stuff. Using that government and big business can make sure there are no influential union leaders, political parties offering real change, etc. It will be the end of (however imperfect) democracy.
Mind and Machine Intelligence
How to Remove DRM Protection of Subscribed Apple Music
His experience matches most of mine:

I've been learning & trying to use clojure(script) for ~2 years now.
A few things I miss in every other languages:

- The REPL: I usually don't need a debugger,

- Figwheel: that makes frontend dev a pleasure,

- reagent/reframe: are incredibly straightforward, there's no special syntax, no special constructs, just a few functions, a few concepts (dispatch / subscribed) and you're done,

- core.async: based on a simple channels / pipeline paradigm

But then you get into the practicalities of testing & writing code. Shady special cases[1][2], annoying testing tools[3], useless stack traces. And other issues everybody knows. Simple things that become a 30 min discussion with 3 different libraries and 2 blog articles to go through[4].

To me, there's this hardcore group of clojur'ist that seems to be hyper productive and keep introducing new concepts. And the "rest" (me at least), that are floundering.
You fight with useless stacktraces? Boom, transducers. You deal with buggy test runners? Bam, a new specification library with test generations.

I've started moving my code to ES6 and Go. The community is filled with helpful people, but it seems to me that if you're not writing Clojure professionally already, the language is becoming less and less relevant.

[1] https://github.com/replikativ/superv.async/issues/2#issuecom...

[2] https://clojurians-log.clojureverse.org/clojurescript/2017-0...

[3] https://github.com/bensu/doo/issues/134

[4] https://clojurians-log.clojureverse.org/clojurescript/2017-0...
I've noticed the same problems. Apparently it is possible to write a program that will keep the laptop from sleeping if the lid is closed. (https://www.appducate.com/2012/12/keep-laptop-awake-even-whe... is one I found, but I haven't tried it.) Given that, I wonder if it is possible to write another program that will check to see if a time machine backup is running, and keep it from sleeping until the backup is completed, after which it will sleep.
I like the idea of shipping your devices, but what if you need your device during the trip up to customs? One thought comes to mind is ship a one-time passcode to your final destination and only that can unlock it at customs? It may appear you are actively hiding something from them and you end up in a lot of trouble. Or during the questioning, you don't hide anything and provide the address the one-time passcode is stored, which will use up valuable resources to go retrieve it. Maybe that would be too much trouble for them and let you go or you just added 8 more hours and expenses you have to pay to retrieve it.
> Cash is an anonymous payment system which cannot be traced ...

I just wanted to point out the possibility of tracking serial numbers on bills. Obviously it's not going to be as reliable, at least not now, but it could be made more so; for instance, if there was a sudden movement to use more cash for privacy. Of course, that seems unlikely; most people like the convenience of plastic/digital payments, and there's a lot of market pressure pushing people toward those payment methods, so deploying the infrastructure for more reliable cash tracking probably isn't worth a whole lot. But I haven't exactly run the numbers, and there are other possible incentives, so who knows..
Analysts Believe Waymo Could Be Worth $70B
I think license plates and tail lights are reflective
Where the advertising client is the local bookstore that he purchased the book from.
What's your source for it and why would it take so long?
EthOn – introducing semantic Ethereum
Why learn Kotlin? (Infographic)
> Cash is an anonymous payment system which cannot be traced

Not really; bills are individually identifiable and can be tracked by either party to the transaction, and even if the payment medium isn't tracked, the transaction can even tracked by other means (e.g., cameras + facial recognition.)

It's only really untraceable if you assure privacy of the location of the transaction, and neither party to the transaction chooses to track it, and even then if the next party out on either side is tracking, a lot can be revealed.
Trump used to be more articulate. What could explain the change?
> is it crazy to think people may have a question? That should go in an issue.

NOOOOO. No thank you. There's a mailing list, a gitter.im channel, a Stack Overflow tag, and my email address, all of which can be found in the README file you see first thing. Don't abuse Issues for asking questions.
If you read the article, there is no "tell" that 1Password is in Travel Mode. The only impact is that most of your passwords are missing from the password vault, but the agent would have no way of knowing what's missing. It's not like it pops up a big "Travel Mode" banner.
Notes on debugging Clojure code
Ask HN: What are some challenges in batch processing?
I just saw a comment along the lines of "It can take a day to start a job on a supercomputer cluster" So what are some challenges when it comes to batch processing systems.
You mean complex is easy, simple is hard?
Huh. Both my kids loved Tom the Cat around age 3-4.

From my experience, I have to assume the majority of their hundred million dollar revenue comes from kids randomly mashing on ads, or somehow managing to make in-app purchases. (Like most free apps targeted at kids.)

Kudos to the developers, but even aside from the ethical issue (which rests more with the ad networks than the app makers imo), seems pretty risky to spend more than 1-2x revenue on this thing, given the risk of changes by Apple/Google that could wreck the revenue model.
There is no sign in the app that you are in Travel Mode. I suppose if you are well and truly targeted and they have a really knowledgeable specialist on-hand, they could know that Travel Mode exists and ask you to disable it. But, I think that's going beyond the boundaries of a border search, which is limited to searching things that you are actually carrying across the border.
> Hmm I was wondering how some stores show up on Google maps even though I did not use Google maps to get to those places.

Isn't that just advertising?
Might be time to subscribe to the Economist. That essay was chock full of faulty reasoning and ad hominem attacks (colonial insecurity? Really?) This makes Current Affairs untrustworthy. And since, by their own reasoning, journalism you can’t trust is worthless, Current Affairs is worthless.
Haha I upvoted because I used to work there. I like seeing stuff about Gusto on HN
I currently work on a self-driving lorry, we get around this issue by installing over a dozen lidars.
I'll second the recommendation for Duluth Trading Co. I've been wearing these [1] for a while and they're great. Every pair of jeans I owned before that wore through at the knees and the crotch within a couple of years; these are still going strong with no signs of thinning or fraying. They're also super comfy, not confining or restricting at all, and they come with giant pockets.

Can't comment on the fashion, but I've gotten compliments about them before. That may just be because the heavy-cargo-pants form factor works well for my frame, however.

[1] http://www.duluthtrading.com/store/mens/mens-pants/work-pant...
Why changes in Phoenix 1.3 are so important?
There's always hop
Just use a different email provider (or roll your own), use duck duck go for web searches, don't use an android device.

What else do they own?

It's already becoming in vogue to move away from facebook/google and are actively looking to move towards other systems but there aren't a lot of quality options out there at the moment.

If I could quickly spin up a remote server that had baked in panels for email, blog, and hooked up to mastadon, and a distributed reddit, I would probably go a step further. Further than that? Not sure what else I could do.

Open to suggestions.
Emacspeak 46.0 released
The talk covers Prompt Toolkit. The presenter wrote pgcli and mycli, and covers most of your list as well.
But it's probably good to list it all out here, for the lazy, or the ones unable/unwilling to play youtube.
For those who don't know what India's prime minister is doing, please read this. It is just part of Swachh Bharat Mission - https://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Indias-War-on-Human-W...
Conversion rates – you are (most likely) computing them wrong
I use emacs in a terminal all the time (usually in a tmux session, actually). That's how I learned it (in pre-GUI days) and so it feels pretty natural. I never use the mouse with emacs, even in a GUI session.
Terming it as a problem with Indian users is racist and hence leads to an analysis that focuses on understanding if Indians destroyed Quora for the rest of the world.

The problem with most online communities is that, as they grow the quality of discussion necessarily goes down. And given the generic nature of questions on Quora, obviously the topics that the majority community is interested in, will tend to dominate. Today Indians make up a majority of users, that majority could soon be Chinese users or somebody else. Does that make Chinese users the problem? No.
What if ChristianMingle was OK with attracting agnostic to their site? I mean, you don't have to be Christian to want a partner and agnostic can also be synonymous with open.
I'm not sure why you're getting down voted. This is reasonable contribution.
There is a 1 acre condemned two-story garage adjacent to the skyscraper in which I work in downtown Boston. The land it sits on is valued by the assessor at $32 million. I would not be surprised to see an acre in say NYC or Tokyo go for 10× that figure.
Its totally dependent on where the store physically is located and some kind of rating of how "fashionable" the area where the store is located. I used to do a lot of my school shopping in department stores. The selection in my mid-size city was decent. Not amazing but fine. Fine enough that I could usually find at least a couple things I wanted even if I didn't want to buy everything there. I visited a friend in a very rural part of my state and found absolutely nothing I would buy at my favorite department store back home. Visiting a Macy's in a major city like NYC or Chicago and they are multi-story buildings with basically every major brand.

Nike does something similar, their shoes are put into fashion-ability tiers and only retailers that are at that tier or above are allowed to sell that shoe, be it a certain color way, brand (Jordan for instance), or even a style.
You seem to know a lot about LIDAR, I'd love to chat sometime if you'd be interested. I couldn't find your email anywhere. Care to give me a ping at sixsamuraisoldier[at]gmail[dot]com?
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Yeah, but I'm thinking about a situation where the data is modified to cause your vehicle to drive to the wrong place. Like that fellow who was following his car navigation system directions and drove up a bike path and crashed.
This reminds me of this crazy Korean animated film called aachi and ssipak where the government payed people in addictive candies for their waste, which it used to produce electricity.

Like that film I would imagine the incentives would have unintended side effects, like encouraging more manual scavenging. I think the money is better spent on infrastructure and public outreach. The problem doesn't seem as much that people want to relieve themselves outside, but that it is the best option available to them right now.
Cash is a great invention.
It still has transaction costs.