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I find this kinda confusing, seeing how there's a link [0] to the "Talos II" Power 9 workstation 'pre-announcement' page (or whatever polite folks are calling vapourware these days) here today as well.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14803535
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Skype refund policy
I just found out that Skype ended the service which allowed to use my Dualphone. I got into contact with support and finally they promised a refund of the Skype Credits. Then the operator came back to me and told me the refund was not going to processed due to a not working software button. The operator told me I had to go to my bank for e refund.
So Skype / Microsoft is terminating a service, I can trash a phone and the refund as promised will not be paid to me. And that's the call Service!!

Now I know how you can make billions of dollars with crappy software.
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Whoops, yes, meant "on or after".
Those looking for racism or prejudice can find it here.

The usually intended question is about ethnicity. The problem is that phrasing (and the occasional racist) make it awkward.

I'm happy if a 0th generation immigrant considers themselves to be from my country. It implies a sense of pride and desire to be part of their new home and culture. Unfortunately, that pride can be injured when people inadvertently imply they do not belong - 'where are you really from?'

The opposite is becoming more common - born here, rejects local values/language, considers themselves from their ancestral country.
This is the first time I've seen someone hold up the Post Office as model that should be followed for anything. What makes you think that this model would be less monopolistic than the one we have today?
Electricity is weightless... Leave the power plant at home.
Just transmit the electricity by wire (if an electric train) or don't at all if its a coal train because I GUARANTEE the weight of the solar panels alone will make the train less efficient. And if it doesn't, the inefficiency of them being placed in a STATIC (i.e. not sun tracking) position on a MOVING object will certainly destroy whatever "efficiency gains" you had in the first place.

What's next? A nuclear power plant in the trunk of my car to power my radio??

Also, why use solar panels to power interior lights? You only need lights when the sun isn't out. And when do solar panels work? So now we're hauling batteries around the city too.

WHAT. A. WASTE. And what's frustrating is I see bullshit like this everyday!
Just what I wanted, a modal that blocks the entire page after you've read the first paragraph, asking me to sign up for something vague.

Surely the conversion on these can't be good?
> Wouldn't getting rid of net neutrality actually be good for startups and smaller companies?

How so? Only very large companies are able to pay for getting high enough bandwidth and speed and, more importantly, also negotiate the corresponding deals with the few networks (who already have effective monopolies in many areas). Smaller startups can hardly compete against them when their services are too slow.

I can see no reasonable story according to which giving up neutrality would be beneficial to smaller companies. The best thing a small startup can do is to bundle up with one of a few large corporations, and the result are more quasi-monopolies and cartels, of course.
Best I know of, is to just make a Tails linux USB drive. It comes with a bitcoin wallet built in.
Not how orbits work. A collision can't cause, for example, an object with a circular orbit at 400km (passive reentry regime) to become fragments with a circular orbit at, say, 2000km (non-passive reentry regime.) Like snaily said, all fragments originating from a collision will still pass through the point of collision, which, if it is still in the upper atmosphere, will lead to reentry. Orbital debris is actually very dissimilar to gas escape.
I tried both of those; still complained about an invalid quantity.
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Yeah I don't think it's a fluke that the DC area has decent broadband competition. That's where all the regulators live.
Charge money for that. If an app takes days to make, then you can also to pay for an hour of reviewers work if you want to distribute it to the public.

A non-prohibitive barrier to entry wouldn't be a big issue, as users in general want stricter filters that mean less shitty apps instead of looser filters that mean simply more apps.
Why would I want to publish stuff if I cannot put my name on it? I guess that shows that "rich != smart".
A third way is the ~20 state governments who've subscribed to this model peddled by ALEC, barring municipalities from deploying infrastructure, on the grounds of preserving competition. Given the typical size of incumbent providers, this instead has the effect of preserving duo/monopoly, which critics argue is its intended purpose. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1908390-alec-model-m...
The alt-right is a small fringe movement with outsized presence in election post-mortems due to their visibility on digital platforms used by journalists and bloggers.

Trump voters were (mostly) Romney voters.[1] Clinton lost by failing to galvanize voters who turned out for Obama in prior elections[2] and neglecting to campaign in Rustbelt states.[3]

[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/behind-trump...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/omribenshahar/2016/11/17/the-no...

[3] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/trumps-...
A 4x increase, but a world without speed limits, stop lights, or traffic lanes. We could support 10 times the amount of traffic in that case.
Actually, the correct term is text mode. It is precisely whether the display hardware is operating in text mode or graphics mode that is the subject of discussion here. With the hardware in text mode, even without CRTC tricks, scrolling is relatively fast compared to graphics mode. Scrolling the display in graphics mode involves shifting much more data around, as does rendering individual characters.

The confusion arises because people, as you have done, erroneously conflate the kernel virtual terminals with "text mode". In fact, the norm nowadays is for kernel virtual terminals to use graphics mode. It permits a far larger glyph repertoire and more colours, for starters, as well as things like software cursors that can be a wider range of shapes and sprites for mouse pointers.
> store their own knowledge (privately and securely) alongside the the public knowledgebase at stackoverflow.com

I know this won't go over well here, since many depend on Stackoverflow for their "programming skills", but this sounds about as believable as Google pushing companies to store their secrets "privately" using Google Docs.
You can build sideways whenever pieces have studs on the side, for example (the first brick with studs on the side was created in 1979 for headlights!). And also put sticks into hollow studs, "click" Technic pegs into holes, rotate Technic pegs and gears. And even place bricks and plates at an angle, using Pythagorean triples or careful rotations, and much more---this is what makes Lego fun for adults too!

Despite relying on basically one size (1.6 mm) and its multiples, the Lego system is really complex. To an untrained eye it seems like parts are very specialized, but actually they are just carefully designed.
Solar panels are also a lot cheaper than they used to be.
Unlikely, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it promoted on Apple News.
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This is great, thanks for building. Leaving for work but really deeply truly can't wait to play around with this tonight.
Quite right! This is not for everyone!
I have no solutions, only commiserations.

Is there a process that is slowing you down? Can you find a partner in crime to help you circumvent that process? Be it a co-worker to sign off on code reviews or a manager to shield your work?
My company uses haydle, which is basically the same thing and works very well.
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I don't think that really matters. If I only post really worthy articles in my blog it doesn't become a scientific journal. I'm not saying that I believe peer-reviewed journals are the end-all-be-all for science but it does seem like Apple is being misleading with this.

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Although, a company publishing a peer-reviewed scientific journal like Nature would be surprising. So maybe that isn't the common interpretation when they see the title. Maybe it isn't totally misleading. I guess I'm split on it. :)
"AppleHttpServer/8b2905f7" is an interesting thing to see
Coal, Road construction materials, switches, panels, lights,etc have immediate economic value, even in small quantities.

Solar Panels are a whole different game altogether. IMO theft is not such a big issue.

The bigger issue is power loss due to lack of cleaning, battery life reduction due to lack of maintenance, etc.

It's not just the panels, you have batteries, converters, etc that need good maintenance to get a consistent ROI. However, the unit cost of power from diesel is definitely much higher than that from the grid and solar panels have a pretty good ROI when compared to power from the grid.
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That's generally true, but as noted by GP you'll get run over anyway.

Also, bike lanes are rare in most of the US, and at least in California (which is where I got my license), if you're driving a car and turning right, you can enter the bike lane for the last couple hundred feet. In theory, that prevents right hooks, but it doesn't seem to help much in practice. The other issue is that you can turn right on a red light, so the driver is often looking only to the left for approaching traffic, turns right as soon as they see a gap, and runs over the cyclist or pedestrian who happened to be to their right.
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So you essentially work for the rest of your life? Building a business should not be confused with creating a job for yourself.
I would expect the major hurdle by any new ISP to be ownership of infrastructure. If anti-neutral firms own the poles, they are likely to put up one hell of a fight to keep them.

That being said, it would make sense to me that scrapping neutrality might be the very thing needed to encourage Google to finish their fiber roll out across the US. Incumbent telecoms have incentive to restrict access to content. Google being an advertising company, has incentive to encourage the flow of content.

Google owning the internet is probably way worse in the long run but it might just be a great short term solution to the neutrality problem.
I've designed systems that do this on continental scales (i.e. hundreds of millions of cell phones simultaneously, in real-time). The devil is in the details and non-trivial; this is not a "an intern and 6 months" job. Mobile telemetry is not nearly as ideal in practice as assumed here and it typically takes a couple years to learn how to handle the numerous peculiar artifacts of that data that will damage the quality of a naive implementation. Reconstructing a model of the population from the cleaned data that approximates the ground truthing is surprisingly difficult and requires quite a bit of clever data science and maths.

It takes a lot of work and expertise to build a population model from mobile telemetry that approximately reflects reality. Far fewer people know how to do this well than you might assume by looking at the requirements for a naive implementation. Even most mobile carriers have limited ability.
I don't work for Planet but I know the doves have a space-looking camera that is used to help understand the satellite's orientation based on the location of stars in the image.
This was previously on HN but only got a few comments, and in light of today's confirmation that AMD has no near future plans to open up its PSP it seemed worth a repost. With AMD's announcement post-2006(Intel)/2013(AMD) x86 will remain with a fully manufacturer-controlled access module for the foreseeable future, ARM is a mess, so OpenPOWER remains worth at least keeping in mind as a hedge. Raptor is apparently trying again with a "Talos II" system [0] based on the upcoming general release of POWER9, though details remain unclear as it won't even be open to pre-order until next month, if they hit their target.

It's doubtful, even with the technical community controversy around the ME earlier this year, that there will be much general willingness to pay a significant premium for owner control unless something extremely malicious, widespread, and directly end user noticeable (as something other then some slowdown) takes advantage of a hole or capability related to it. But I don't think it's unreasonable to keep it in the back of our minds, or for big enough open source projects to at least attempt to keep some flexibility with regards to not letting themselves fall too deeply into x86-only design. Also, though it's not free multi-architecture work can healthy for project self-discipline and useful in finding bugs regardless of whether it's ultimately deployed beyond the primary target.

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0: http://raptorcs.com/TALOSII/prerelease.php?target=2
I did want to read this, so thank you for the links!
Oh my god, no. The Azure Portal is absolutely the worst part of the Azure experience, by a long, long stretch. I don't know anyone who uses it regularly who likes it.
>Net neutrality is dying because no one has been able to make a compelling case for it that can be understood by constituents,

I disagree, I think the case can be easily made but it is being drowned out by the ISP's and their supporters with a MASSIVE wave of disinformation, and false information.

I have spent the majority of my time in discussions not attempting to explain why Title II is needed, but simply attempting to cut through the bullshit that has been spread.

For example the most common attack is that "the internet was fine with no regulation" and the feeling is that opposing NN means no regulation with bumper sticker "Hands off my internet" type of sayings

When In reality is a Debate over Title I vs Title II regulations, and if a Internet Service provider is a Telecommunications company (clearly yes) or a Information Services companies (clearly no)

The ISP's and their supporters have tanked any opportunity for real debate with a massive propaganda and disinformation war.. which they appear to have won
Can someone explain to me what the advantages of QR codes are over bar codes or other similar methods?
what's another compiled gc language with a strong type system? I only know D and ocaml (let's not even mention Haskell).
That sounds hellish for walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists, and people who enjoy quiet.
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> I'm saying that I'd trust the economic incentives to keep information flowing than to trust the political incentives.

The economic incentives are for the last-mile ISP monopolies to keep being last-mile ISP monopolies, throttling traffic in cases where it suits there interests.
> "Apple announced it had accepted the design among a slew of others, including a breastfeeding woman, both of which have multiple available skin tones."

Will Apple do a breastfeeding woman in hijab? That'd be truly innovative.
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For me the time off in between contracts was the best bit! :)

Yes, contracts can be stressful, but like you say you know the exact day when the pain will end. In most jobs the pain is never ending!
One major one is speculation. Each Mill operand, or element in a vector operand, has a 'Not a Result' (NaR) flag.
Not even a DOI.
I am assuming it is because they are getting paid by Apple.
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TripleByte has been awesome, literally started a new job 3 days ago, almost one month to the day from when I started looking for a job. As others have said, TripleByte opened doors I wasn't able to open myself. It was a great experience. I'm the second TripleByte hire at my company and it seems like they've really enjoyed the experience as well.
Just because a node can participate in a blockchain and cryptographically verify the chain doesn't mean the node can access the plaintext of every record in check chain.

Check out permissioned implementations like JP Morgan's Quorum.
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Survivorship bias: because for every Steve Jobs and Bill Gates there are millions of folks, whose business ended without any success (something like 80% of businesses close during the first year).
I meant when OP said:

> making it highly likely they could find themselves deported

Also, "calling out" in the presence of a mob? It seems he was rumoured to call them out in general, which is disputed?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/uc-berkely-...
Oh yeah gearing. I guess this really does deserve the title of CAD software at that point.
1. Denser (ie, more information per unit area)

2. More redundant (ie, more surface area can be destroyed and still be able to recover the original message)
> I don't see what this fuss is all about. If Facebook wants to offer cheaper Internet with their services prioritized, why not?

Incumbency advantage and the arbitrary consolidation of economic power. The one clear duty of a government in regulating an economy is to ensure competition. We had the same fight about railroads, and we had the same fight about telecom in the thirties. The economic principles have not changed since then, contrary to Telecom talking points.
had this problem extensively recently using ssh when text fills the entire terminal.
If nobody called it scientific journal why it has volumes and issues? I think Vol. 1, Issue 1 simply suggest they see it as a scientific journal.
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The confusing thing about this question is that "other similar methods" includes QR codes [1] -- they're just a generalization of 1-dimensional bar codes to a 2-dimensional matrix, with some error correction and alignment information to make scanning them theoretically more reliable.

They also have native support for some data types, like URLs. Other than that, it's mostly that they have some traction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode#Matrix_.282D.29_barcod...
I'm assuming the largest advantage is just the amount of data they can hold. One of the top google results[1] indicates that 1d bar codes can hold ~100 characters, while 2d ones can hold ~2000 characters.

There is also a bit of artistic freedom you can do with the 2d ones. They really aren't as ugly as the 1d ones. Especially if you use them to "frame" something. Note, still not pretty, per se. Just not as ugly.

[1] http://support.idautomation.com/Barcode-Learning/How-much-da...
Lots of things hamper the legibility of that site. Poor font choice, pure black text on pure white, long line length, narrow leading, small size. Looking at the site header it appears the typography decisions were based on decoration instead of legibility.
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A great example of why the whole 'be your own bank' feature of cryptocurrency is not so great a feature after all.

These 'how to protect your coins' guides get longer and longer each time another weakness in the system is found. Next month's security guide will have even more steps, and you'd better follow them too...
Here's a compelling case:
-- All big sites ban users from Comcast, Verizon, ATT every monday, explaining to them what Net Neutrality is, and that if they don't want to pay for special 'access' to sites like google/facebook etc the same way they have to pay for HBO, then they better contact their congressmen or their internet service provider and complain..

Something like: "I'm sorry your provider Comcast is against Net Neutrality, as a sign of protest you will be unable to access our content on Mondays until Net Neutrality is reinstated - here are some numbers where you can contact your congressman, senators, and comcast directly to complain.

Do that --and you'll have comcast/att/verizon BEGGING to get net neutrality brought back.
Working Copy is an app that provides you with, just that, a local working copy of your git projects on your phone. Not just an explorer. Just started using it yesterday and I love it.
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It's not a fluke, it's the result of sound municipal policy. D.C. is dysfunctional in many ways, but it's not anti-development like most U.S. cities. Right now, entire neighborhoods are being razed and replaced with gleaming 12-14 story mid-rise buildings. The city is also permissive with telecom deployment. Comcast, RCN, and Verizon have all been permitted to deploy in different parts of the city without being compelled to service the whole city at once.

It's not just D.C. though. The whole surrounding area is pretty lax about development. The Chesapeake Bay area in Maryland is pretty rural, but also has fiber internet because ISPs are permitted to build where it's profitable to build.
It doesn't need an explanation since it's a pretty simple swap.
Interesting combination of features, MPP query engine, but unlike the rest of the projects around Hadoop they can push down queries where data sits instead of requiring a bulk copy to HDFS first. This is a real pain point for modern analytical workloads, analysts want the experience they knew when organizations could run on a single relational database, but it just doesn't match how applications need to be made these days. Pretty impressive list of connectors for a first release, SQL databases, Hbase, Hive, Mongo, Elasticsearch. Definitely going to give it a spin today.
Yes, that happens all the time for me. And more often than not, it's because of all the crap I put in my startup scripts without realizing it until it gets too big. Sometimes it's the volume of crap other people have put in /etc/bashrc. Sometimes it's a slow filesystem causing one of the startup commands to hang a little. Sometimes it's a command that's just big and bloated.

It's instructive to dig in and debug it, you may be really surprised how much insane amounts of stuff a shell can be doing in those 3-4 seconds. Just some examples of what my shells are doing: archiving my history (diffing & zipping files), bash completion, git completion, read color definitions, run OS-specific scripts, run host-specific scripts, add (read & parse) lots of aliases & functions, run /etc/bashrc (which on my macOS laptop is almost 3k lines long)

The last performance issue I had was my history archiving junk got too big, I was saving my full .bash_history into an archive every day without clearing .bash_history, so they kept getting bigger. Diffing against the previous day, and writing a smaller file, fixed it.

You can binary search by putting a couple of "date +%s%N" in your .bashrc or .bash_profile to find out what's taking the longest.
The real question is why you are conflating an execution style with a data structure.
RISC-V is only available in microcontroller form for now.
Surprised they didn't mention cryptocurrencies at all here. Scanning QR codes to enter an address when making a transaction is pretty much the only feasible option I know of. Manually entering a very long random string is too much of a hassle, especially if you'd want to do real-world transactions.