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It's interesting that people are real sticklers about turning off unnecessary lights. As you said, the electricity costs are negligible. Today's "bulbs" are either CFL or LED and they consume virtually zero electricity. But I still have this itch to turn each one of before going to sleep.
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The irony, the thread appears to have been knocked off the front page and in my opinion is the equivalent of being censored.

This happened recently on this thread --> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14868133
What tax rule are you talking about? The cash in the "absurd pile" has already been taxed as income.
How is it better than F# and Akka.NET?
When I used to wait tables, I kicked out plenty of people for being too drunk or for refusing to shut up their screaming toddlers throwing food everywhere. You're going to tell me what I can and can't do?
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Just want to point out that Records are still part of the standard library, and can be important for integrating with Erlang code using records which you need to work with. Even though they are avoided in Elixir, because structs are better in every way, they are still alive and well in Erlang.
Yes it's annoying but forgivable when you consider that MS's first priority with its Surface Line is to run a profitable tech demo rather than competing its own foremost customers - Dell, HP...
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> Who would weigh themselves down with a high cost phone in your pocket when there's one on the wall?

Anyone who sits in a place waiting. Put a phone a smartphone in their hands where they can look up the thing they're thinking about (or anything else on the net that they can access). Instant comprehension.

> Who needs a website showing pictures of goldfish when you can interact on a bulletin board?

Ask anyone to imagine what the bulletin board looks like in a geographical location far away. Then enter a URL for that far away location and receive the response in seconds (vs days of travel). Instant comprehension.

> Hard to predict which technologies get adopted.

That's true. For the two examples I gave above, there are many more where respondents instantly recognized the benefit but the technology still didn't take off.

However, that's beside the point. The point is-- what is the moment of "instant comprehension" for all of someone's appliances phoning home to a third party?

Edit: just to add another example. Someone does an hour commute to and from work. Put them in a self-driving vehicle. Now they potentially have two extra hours of concentration they can devote to something other than the road. Even if they're fearful of using it in the automated drive demo-- instant comprehension.
The stance I have is more for data quality. If you can't trust the numbers then they're not good numbers.
Why do they even have the data? Collecting it is fine but it has no reason to leave the robot.
For privacy reasons, some users would prefer not to give phone numbers. From a provider perspective, sms would become a significant cost if you're sending millions of texts, while push is essentially free.
At one time during system checkout we had a very elusive problem which we couldn’t pin down. In looking over the programs, we realized that the symptoms we were seeing could occur if an unconditional jump instruction failed to jump. We therefore asked CDC whether they had any indication that that instruction occasionally misbehaved. The reply was, “Oh, no. That’s one of the more reliable instructions,” This was our first indication that commands could be ordered by reliability.

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I'm just glad someone interviewed the engineers back then, to preserve those stories for us today.
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The whole point of his post is that ALL governments are founded on this idea. You would not have a need for government in the first place if it wasn't for undesirable people doing undesirable things. In the United States, we founded our government on the principle that governments shouldn't get involved with the concept of free speech. This doesn't mean all speech is free. We put certain limits on when free speech takes effect, and this is actually a perfect example of how the law must take imprecise definitions into consideration. [Insert the usual, "free speech isn't really what you think it is" that I'm sure the internet has seen millions of times over].

The poster's point was that commercial platforms must address the same issue of undesirables. People realized that allowing the government to prohibit certain forms of speech has the negative externality that governments also gain the power to regulate all speech. On the other hand, corporations can never feasibly have that much power. They can only limit speech on their own platform. There's always another place to speak freely if you wish.

This is why I find the "free speech" argument for not regulating internet comments intractable. It assumes that since we don't want governments regulating all speech, we don't want corporations regulating speech on their platform. But that simply doesn't make sense for idealogical reasons, which I believe was the top-level poster's point.
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Are you being facetious? It seems like you are. I'm 99% sure you have to be, but some people do think and write like that.

Notably the cringeworthy second paragraph and substituting $ for s like this is Slashdot in the 00s.
I'm surprised the FAQ doesn't answer the question that immediately came to mind: why should I risk my data with an untested startup when the only benefit is claimed performance/price?

Or my second question: wait, doesn't this sound an awful lot like Pied Piper's product from the newest season of Silicon Valley?
I have to agree. Mac has for years now felt like a redheaded stepchild at Apple, and the loss of the dedicated Mac development team at Apple sent the message loud and clear: Tim Cook doesn't give a fuck about the Mac.
I don't think this is a truck either, an SUV would probably be more appropriate of a label.
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Just put symlinks to the relevant subfolders of /mnt/c/users/... in /home/..., and you can barely tell. I hardly touch /mnt/c.

I like having separate filesystems so I can have both Windows and Linux versions of some things in the "same" place but not interfering.
I would suspect CoreML would play an important role in scene identification, which could certainly be used in conjunction with ARKit, don't you think?

Microsoft is investing a lot in computer vision, I'll be interested to see what changes they make to the next HoloLens' vision capabilities. Plane finding seems almost as good in ARKit as it was on HoloLens when I was developing on it (albeit the environmental understanding is limited/non-existent in ARKit, which as you mentioned is a big part of the equation.)
Very strange that the article doesn't mention that Laurene Powell Jobs is the widow of Steve Jobs. A weird attempt at political correctness?
> 6) Don't deduct any stats when I level up. Sometimes when you level up you are suddenly slower. I shouldn't get punished for leveling up.

I think that's for balance reasons and I kinda like that dynamic.
New players that join are weak and fast, high level players are powerful but slow, that way new players at least can run away from a hopeless fight against a way higher level.

The snowballing is already pretty bad as it is, high level tanks nearly instagib the low level ones. If high level tanks would be just as fast as the low level ones then no late joiner would stand a chance and the field would be dominated by that one guy/gal who managed to get max level first.

My suggestion would be to set the game to a fixed zoom level. Right now players can get quite an advantage by using the browser zoom function to zoom out and see further than players with standard browser settings.
I had an Amazon Fire 7" tablet that I used for comics and occasional TV shows on airplanes, and I routinely would ask the question of various Android fan in real life, on Reddit, and on this forum, I'd ask one simple question: How do I get my Downloads folder to map to my SD card? When I download something, I don't want to have to manually move it to the SD card, I want it to download directly to the SD card.

The answer, after 2 years of asking, is always "there's gotta be a way" followed by "but I'm not sure how". 4GB of onboard storage fills up quick, which is why I bought a 32GB SD card. But stopping every other download to manually move files over is just a poor user experience. It's what I expect from 2005, not from 2017.

I gave it away and bought a tablet with enough storage built in. My advice? Don't get suckered into the "but it has an SD card slot" nonsense. SD cards suck. Moving files around sucks. It should have storage built in.
Honestly, Windows users should be accomodated for as little as possible. I don't want to write my software once for 12 operating systems and once again for one. WSL is the only reason my software runs on their shitty OS at all.
Meh. No one needs proof that advertising works, especially for political campaigns. There isn't even proof mentioned at all though. They made 4 different ads and tried to target people political beliefs indirectly. It worked. Big surprise, you can guess someone's political beliefs based on other psycho/demographics.

They could've also just found a list of voters or party affiliations, paid a company to augment that list with addresses/emails/etc, then uploaded it directly to facebook and targeted only those people.

The article even refuted that the test results indicate voting habits, "we should be careful not to equate a short-term decision to share or like a post, with long-term political views"

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Problems with this article aside, newscientist would appear to be a reputable site by its name, but it is asbsolutley not.

The title says "dark ads". "dark" is never used in the article, and the term is pure clickbait. Dark posts are just another name for an unpublished post that is used as an ad. Not nefarious in the least bit.

"Building blocks of alien cells found on Saturn’s largest moon" is the article currently featured on the homepage. Sounds like a legit sciencey article.
I wonder if he is using wireless cameras because I have an uneducated theory that I would like a smart person here to destroy. So please forgive my lack of knowledge here.

If I made a device that amplified the RF signal from a wifi router ... made it like it had the rf signal power output would that device be capable of "drowning out" other wifi transmitters ... making a wifi camera incapable of seeing its base station ?
> I'll happily read a conservative news story that understands facts but many ignore/lie about them to drive their political agenda.

The same can be said about the other side. All too often our ideology drives what we believe rather than being able to see and sift through people's arguments.

The problem is that "both sides" tend to read to reinforce what they know rather than to challenge it. Why not try to understand someone's argument.

For example I've talked to several people who 1) agree climate change is happening but 2) disagree with most of the people who are very pro cap-and-trade or emissions limiting.
That's the thing; Amazon itself has sort of become a search engine of things/products. There are so many third party sellers that only sell their products through Amazon and not even their own websites that many people use Amazon as the first place to look for a product.
I wonder how do businesses make do with SQLite's public domain license. I see it used everywhere.
Zero risk? I wish they were more cautious and orthodox sometimes.
Vide Mac Pro, Final Cut Pro X, TouchBar. Just give me a faster version of the previous one, don't reinvent every category every decade or so. Because sometimes they manage to, but others they just screw up (like everyone else).
You must being living in a very different community than mine. I live in Texas and being a heroin/cocaine/alcohol/nicotine(not as much) addict is a shameful thing. Yet we still have quiet the drug problem.

I've only known a few people who fell down the deadly spiral of drug abuse. But each one hid their addiction because of shame until it was so terrible they couldn't. And I believe if it had been less shameful they might have gotten support before they completely ruined their lives.
The irony in the linked article is also somewhat lost when he cites the UAE, a country which threatens people to a fine and/or a jail sentence if you empathize with Qatar in any way [0].

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40192730
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If a Land Rover classic is a SUV, this thing is, too.
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I just don't see how that's provocative outside of some non-western countries. This only becomes provocative if you're dealing with a country that has a recent large minority of muslims that it is trying to appease.

One certainly gives a discussion some focus when stating that radical islam is a problem so I don't see how it doesn't add something worthwhile.
Write any games in D in your spare time sir? If not commercial, just for fun? I'd be curious to hear how good D can be in that area.
They can buy an alternative licensed version from Richard Hipp if they're worried about it.
Not in a noticeable way. I'm sure there isn't much extra power usage.
May I suggest Johann Hari's book "Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs"?

It addresses (among other things) the personal responsibility component of American attitudes towards drug use. I found it informative and an excellent read.
Anecdotally, fwiw.

We installed a motion activated light in our laundry room, years ago, since the switch was not in any convenient/sensible location. It worked for awhile, but eventually would turn on, if at all, for like 3 seconds (even when the switch inside was set to 10 minutes).

Probably it was just a cheap, crappy fixture. But I don't think I'll ever try to use a "simple" motion activated light again.

Of course, connected lights, whatever that means, are probably even buggier...
Great post. I long for a chrome extension that identifies fairly obvious clickbait, and attaches a little "*" on the end that links to a counter-post like this. I appreciate that the author didn't just shoot it down (which he easily could have) but did give it some credit.

- A Captain Disillusion extension

https://www.youtube.com/user/CaptainDisillusion
I have plenty of conservative people(one of the benefits in living in a rural area) who I love having a solid discussion with. I was specifically talking about conservative news sources.

Fiscal conservatives I totally grok(and don't disagree with some select things). However the current mainstream conservative bent seems far from that. If you have no basis in facts how can you even work towards any common ground?
I just cd to my windows home and work there.
Anything politically negative related to SV or YC seems to be almost immediately flagged.
And yet California certainly doesn't have its shit together...
Okay I'm out. All the best. But I don't think we're going to come to agreement here.
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Not just in the US. Real wasabi is very expensive. Even in Japan, unless you're seeing them grate it for you at the table, it's still just green horseradish.

(Source: Posting this from Meguro-ku in Tokyo ;) )
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OK, but for me, Brisbane is the Brigadoon of the Bay Area. I don't see why we should have any say whatsoever in how they decide to develop what is theirs. Make it a win/win for them or GTFO IMO.
I think that you're confusing "Land Rover" and "Land Cruiser".

Land Rover vehicles are made by Jaguar Land Rover. The term "Land Rover" usually refers to either the Land Rover Defender (a bulky, tractor-looking SUV that isn't legal in the USA* due to a lack of safety features and emissions controls) or a variety of luxury SUVs that are remarkably good off-road but suffer from questionable reliability.

Land Cruisers are made by Toyota. The term "Land Cruiser" can refer to two totally separate Toyota vehicles. The J20, J40, and J70 models are known for being incredibly sturdy, reliable, and versatile vehicles, while the J50, J60, J80, J100, and J200 models are luxury SUVs; the J200 has a base MSRP of USD$86,000. Toyota doesn't sell the rugged, non-luxury models in the USA, although unlike in the case of the Land Rover Defender this may be more due to market analysis than legality.

There's no way to know from the original comment whether they were driving a rugged Land Cruiser or a luxury Land Cruiser. I've never driven either of them, but I'm sure that they behave very differently.

*Yes, I know that the person who commented specified that they were in Norway. I'm just adding the bit about Land Rovers not being legal in the USA (with a few exceptions) so that Americans like myself won't be scratching their heads trying to remember what Defenders look like :-)
Fortunately plane finding is pretty easy even with something as simple as RANSAC[0]. I'm sure there are better algorithms now but ransac has been around forever and is nearly trivial to implement. It just doesn't easily generalize to "Siri, find my car"

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_sample_consensus
I thought the same thing, haha. How can WaPo possibly ever be objective on this topic lol
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How does that work? The whole mess is because of this.

Fentanyl is 100x stronger per gram than heroin. Therefore you can import 100th the quantity and still make (in theory) make similar money on the street. It is exactly because you get a worse sentence for higher quantities that drug dealers have optimised to get the strongest per gram drug. You will get a lighter sentence for 1g of fent vs 100g of heroin, no doubt.

This is a cycle always seen in prohibition - there was a massive shift from beer and wine to spirits in the 1920s US when alcohol is prohibited.

Throwing harsher sentences will not help whatsoever and is likely to be counterproductive.
One of the first things you notice when coming to America from Europe is just how damn sweet everything is. Even your eggs seem too sweet, let alone your drinks and actual sweets.

Maybe regulation is a good idea.
Why does everything have to be an ICO? What's the point of a token here? Just give the appropriate organization some charitable funds.
For a simple example, imagine a dataset where the naive assumption is true if you split it into 100 classes, but false if you split it into one vs everything else. All of the conditional probabilities for the "everything else" class will be underestimated, biasing the weights towards the one.

This problem happens because the class you are interested in is more compact than its inverse.

It's also exacerbated by feature selection, as the negative features have smaller weights and thus lower information gain than the positive features.
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Correct, it's not a virtual machine at all. It is a reimplementation of the Linux kernel's API. Most userspace Linux programs run as normal and can't tell that the system calls they do aren't handled by the Linux kernel.
I read the Google Cast SDK license agreement and didn't see anything about search engines or requiring certain apps to be installed.
You're confusing niceties with necessities, and in not a very productive manner.
I'm surprised there's no mention of fire safety in the comments. Not by any means an expert on that subject, but these places look like death traps in the event of a fire.
I think I see what you're saying. The author is trying to use the Game Theory mathematical model to encourage a moral or ethical response, but the model itself is flawed for that purpose because it just as readily portrays a moral "poison", if you will: the idea that selfishness can justify cheating. Is that it?
+1 on Surface Book. Great build quality, good dev machine and decent gaming laptop as well.
Rockbox that thing, download some WADs and play some DOOM!
The nano is great for the gym, small, and no worries about sweating my regular phone to an early death. Sad to see it go.
> For what it's worth, Musk also spent a lot of time discussing nearer-term implications like job displacement.

That's great to hear - I honestly had no idea. Which suggests that the media doesn't have as much interest in covering that as it does the 'killer robots' angle...
Not sure a 1st generation device or creator can be judged like that.

New devices and manufacturers don't typically improve the 3rd or 4th generation.

Rushed devices are largely premature, unusuable, and still move things forward: iPhone 1, Galaxy Note 1..

When did quality, functionality, delivering on scale and time get better? iPhone 3-4, Galaxy Note 3-4, LG G3-G4, Samsung S3-S4, iPad 3-4, Nexus 4-5.

Hype aside, the first effort isn't something that should be undercut.
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Its interesting seeing the poll and the comments on that site. The poll was divided 49 to 51% in favor of not re-instating the draft, and the comments seemed similar.
There is no question that this is the reason. Many billionares have sought to control the public narrative by buying media outlets. It's easily the most effective way to ensure that their personal views are served up to the public. Same reason that Putin started RT.
My point was that I don't see the sense in the strategy laid out by grandparent, because I don't see a compelling reason to run Windows on servers (I say this as a former Windows sysadmin (as recently as this year, not 2005)).
> The system fails because people don't compromise across large, unaccountable groups.

The solution: don't group people who are uncompromisingly different from each-other into the same democracy. Group them into separate democracies, and then have them interact with one-another through their state (by treaty, trade, war, etc.) rather than by trying to all be part of one giant family.
Fair enough! I retract my statement.
Not really. Floyd can say whatever he wants to say, he just needs to warn people that they might not be able to weather the loss. Just like if I was to say that I think Apple's stock is going to soar now that they've discontinued the iPod and can focus more embedded development into the Apple Watch and TV and something something pulled out of my ass, I should also state that:

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