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> This may be fine for vehicles (and even that is questionable now that cars are becoming more advanced and require more expertise to repair), it would be silly for consumer electronics which is a much more dynamic and fast changing industry.

Sorry can you explain why it's silly because the electronics industry is more dynamic?

> And unlike what the name implies, Right to Repair isn’t about giving you the right to repair your devices or products. You already have that. It’s not illegal. Right to Repair legislation is purely about the third party repair industry lobbying to have manufacturers officially support them: with parts, blueprints, manuals, etc.

From an environmental standpoint that doesn't sound like a terrible private interest group. If 3rd party repair gets support from manufacturers it lowers barriers to entry to the repair industry. Which would make repairs cheaper. That in turn would encourage more consumers to consider repairs over replacements. In theory, at least.

> I have to congratulate Kyle Wiens and the iFixit team on having stellar PR.

The saying "doing well by doing good" comes to mind.
If the incomes were high enough for a living during 20 years, how did he launder all that money for so long?

Just curious, any idea?
Amazing VR gaming experiences have already arrived.

The last two months have seen a flood of incredible VR gaming experiences for the Oculus Rift. I highly suggest you give the current generation of consumer VR another try:

* Lone Echo - Amazing space story line, one of the highest ranked PC games on Metacritic right now: http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/lone-echo

* Echo Arena - Basically the Enders Game zero-g arena in space, multiplayer. Really addictive: http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/echo-arena

* The Unspoken - You're a wizard, with magic, and you use your hands in different combinations with the Oculus Touch controllers to battle other mages, including real people via multiplayer gaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVD1O853aSw

* Robo Recall - Battle robots, grab them with your hands, tear them apart, grab bullets from the air. Epic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIK4D0kVlIs

* Star Trek Bridge Command - You are literally on the bridge of a Star Trek spaceship.

* Mages Tale - VR RPG from the creator of the classic Bards Tale, makes me feel like I'm embedded into a classic AD&D dungeon crawl.

Anyway, that's just a small selection! I picked up an Oculus Rift + Touch Controllers the last two months and have been blown away at the developments lately.
I understand that what he did was morally abhorrent, but I don't understand why it was illegal? Maybe a lawyer can give a quick summaray?
I am glad I didn't have to study that way. I am notoriously bad at "collaborative learning" in team settings. I probably wouldn't have learned anything in school.
Its fine to have it on the right side but it would be better to have a preference setting to allow having it on the side user wants.
I use to hate this guy, then I saw the Vice interview on him. It was nice to see his side of the story.

I don't know much about this case in particular. It was kinda sleazy to see the congress question him about his price increases when they knew damn well it was perfectly legal and they haven't done anything to stop it. Shkreli seems to be trying to expose this hypocrisy, but the news loves their stories.

Vice interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PCb9mnrU1g
Just curious, how much are typical customer acquisition costs through podcasts?
I don't watch the show. Is it not a supernatural show? No possibility of time traveling?
Note that this does not have anything to do with his pricing of pharmaceuticals. From a different article:

"Prosecutors say Shkreli looted his drug company to pay back investors in two failed hedge funds he ran. The defense says investors got their original investments back and even made hefty profits."
I've worked with Java for over a decade in the enterprise before I started using Clojure.
This is not my experience with HBO Go, however. There's one skippable "here's what else is on HBO" promo (I think it's skippable—usually I just queue it up while we're settling in to watch), then right into the show with no breaks. Is HBO Now different?
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Maybe, just maybe, a reference to Chesterton's Fence is needed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton's_fence
You don't even have to fake a QR code to get into a lounge: There was a case in Germany a few years ago where someone bought a fully flexible business class ticket, used it to enter the business lounge in Munich and then rebooked it to another day from inside the lounge.

After doing that 36 times, Lufthansa noticed it and sent him a bill over 1980€ (55€ per lounge visit). He refused to pay, got sued and lost.

Source (in German): http://www.justiz.bayern.de/gericht/ag/m/presse/archiv/2014/...
There's more to productivity than how many 1-line koans can I type per minute. I know I'm caricaturing other languages here a lot (and perhaps unfairly), but one of the more productive things about Go is the low amount of magic the next guy/gal after you will need to comprehend to do the next thing.

Style and maintainability still falls on the programmer, but Go code never "feels right" unless it's done neatly with as little magic as possible. I think that property is super beneficial in keeping a large and growing team/codebase effective and malleable enough.
What's "improper" about Template Haskell, other than the easily-avoided phase restriction?
I would second this. Sanderson projects release dates for his future books, and normally meets them: https://brandonsanderson.com/state-of-the-sanderson-2016/

I remember reading an reddit ama by him where he said his process of writing is more of an architect style: that is, he develops the overall arc of the major events in a series, and then fills in the details in each book. This allows him to project book release dates 1-2 yrs. out.

I enjoy Sanderson, but I really enjoy knowing when the next book in an enjoyable series is coming out as well.
Putting people like Shkreli into prison for a long time is vital to the long term stability of society. I wish money didn't buy options to avoid prison and I wish that people with his behaviors didn't so often accrue large amounts of money.
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I actually find it much more clear for this to be set at the place you see the function defined in code--assuming you know what this is in the wrapping scope, you know exactly what it will be in this scope. Technically a bind is more explicit but in practice the bind tends not to happen where the function is defined so you have to go fishing around the code path for it.

And honestly, the sugar often speaks to readability as well. Compare myArray.every(function (x) { return x; }); with myArray.every(x => x).
Sounds like the premise of novel.
This applies to all recycling. The phrase "reduce, reuse, recycle" has recycle last for a reason.
I have thought about this and discussed with several of my friends across different industries. MY opinion is that it will be really great if you can narrow down the definition of 'freelancers' and build a workflow / suite of tools for one type of user.

Maybe you can then do it for 2 or more different type of professions before making it a very generalised solution. Something like what Stackoverflow did before creating StackExchange[1]

[1]: https://blog.codinghorror.com/rule-of-three/
Wow, that is brilliant! But it's not on the market, you say? Well, it looks like something I can draft and print. I won't be competing with them, that would be rude, but I must have this for myself.

They should remove the unresponsive Buy button, that just looks bad.
68080? had to look that up: http://www.apollo-core.com/
There are some things they dropped from the books that have really disappointed me. Mostly the whole Lady Greyheart story arc, which I fear will be quickly dropped from any hypothetical new books in the series from GRRM.
Did you read the article?

> Prosecutors argued that Shkreli lied to investors in two hedge funds and the pharmaceutical company Retrophin, all of which he founded. Shkreli told investors he graduated from Columbia University, that his hedge fund was large and profitable, and that he had hired an auditor, they said. These were all lies, according to prosecutors.
Here's one for a similar vintage MacBook Pro, which is similar:

http://manuals-apple.9manuals.com/a38175/686191APL.pdf

(Hope the link works for anyone interested)

Then there's the service manual for the first edition ipad:

http://manuals-apple.9manuals.com/a38175/380639APL.pdf

Where they describe the sim tray as the only user serviceable part.

FWIW, I have both of these devices and they both work still work fine...
We don't want to see Justice Thomas sleeping during arguments do we?
> What's the justification for anti-consumer practises like proprietary, uncommon screw designs?

Remember the (probably apocryphal) stories about Van Halen's contract requiring a bowl of M&M's with one color removed? It was supposedly a signal to them that somebody had actually read their contract closely.

Maybe there's something similar going on with the screws. Could it be a way for Apple to better ensure that Foxconn is using the hardware that the contract specifically calls for?
> It's a shame companies do this, not just to phones. Laptops and small-form-factor desktops have the same problem.

This isn't unique to technology either. Making a simple repair to most modern cars is an exercise in frustration even if you have all the necessary documentation.

I just recently replaced the headlight assemblies on my Toyota Tacoma. I had to disassemble the entire front of the truck to get them out. The grill, bumper cover, and wheel well liners all had to come off just to get the headlight assembly out. I had a bucket full of screws - many of them those garbage plastic ones - a garage full of parts, and a bloody hand by the time I even got to the meat of the project. It literally took me about four hours and 14 pages of directions start to finish.

Twenty years ago I did this same thing on a Dodge Spirit. Three easily reachable bolts and the headlights came right out. New one popped right in, and tighten three easily reachable bolts. Took like 15 minutes.

It seems like everything is becoming more complex and difficult to repair.
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I agree. My initial perception of Shkreli was the commonly accepted one of revulsion and hatred. After watching the Vice piece, plus a lot of Shkreli's finance talks and live streams, I find him pretty charming and unbelievably intelligent.
Martin Shkreli found guilty of 3 of 8 charges, including securities fraud
Any copies of PC Accelerator?
The YouTube video of him doing an Ebay Analysis [1] was very interesting I thought, both from a technical point of view and another look at his character.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFSf5YhYQbw
> In Clojure parlance, "simplicity" refers to interconnectedness

Clojure tends to redefine words describing concepts with a new or restricted meaning. Typically a general concept like 'simplicity' would have more than one dimension.

> take as as argument an object that has the "id" field from the "Student" class, and the "email" field from the "User" class. Or would you have to explicitly pre-define mixins like HasStudentId and HasUserEmail?

I would not do this at all. Having slots or not are low-level artefacts and writing methods which are fine-grained to slots of an objects don't expose the domain-level.

I would use methods for domain level classes which have the necessary slots either local or inherited.
Can you elaborate? Who did Shkreli hurt here and how?
One alternative is "impossible to repair, but rugged". Encapsulate the whole thing and make it watertight, dusttight, and airtight. (Yes, you can get microphones and speakers for that environment.) Lose the connectors and have wireless charging and audio out. The problem with Apple's products is fragility, not repairability.
Nokia had this nailed over a decade ago. I have a Caterpillar B15 phone, which is the modern equivalent of "doesn't break".

Here's one of my projects, restoring a Teletype Model 15 from the 1930s.[1] This one was in bad shape. Those machines are 100% repairable; any part can be removed and replaced with common hand tools, usually just with a screwdriver.
It took about a month to overhaul. I have it running, connected to a laptop computer. The typing quality isn't very good; I could do a rebuild on the type basket but haven't done so. The price of this repairability is a big, heavy machine.

There are people in Shenzhen who repair iPhones at that level. They un-solder chips with a hot air rework station, put down a solder paste stencil, put in a good chip from another broken phone, heat up the new chip to solder it in, and have a working board. It's feasible because it's such a monoculture - there are so many identical phones, and you don't need a broad parts stock. For brands with a lot of models, and a smaller markup over parts cost, few people bother.

[1] http://brassgoggles.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,43672.25.htm...
Only ADS-B Out (which refers to an aircraft broadcasting its position and other information) will be required in the near future. ADS-B In (which refers to an aircraft receiving the broadcasts and messages) remains optional.

Also, due to the common airport design of runways and parallel taxiways, it isn't uncommon to fly either near or over waiting planes on final approach, so this may not have been cause for alarm even if they were equipped with ADS-B In.
I really hope they nail it with Rider. I am so sick of Visual Studio. It just gets slower and slower. I have a 20 core machine, with 128gb of RAM and it constantly seizes up for seconds at a time, various components crash randomly, and things sometimes work and sometimes not: Go To Definition for example, or pressing F2 to rename. Whatever it is that suggests I add a missing using sometimes decides it can't do that and instead prefixes the unknown type with the fully qualified name (so it has the namespace, it prefixes the type I wrote, but it can't suggest adding the using). Debugging has been broken too, where sometimes it can't even show me what my local variables are never mind other vars, and it is also much slower than it was. And god help you if you have a large code file in your project. The moment you've opened it once, that's it everything starts falling apart and slowing to a crawl. If I copy a file in a .NETCore project then I have to close the solution and re-open it for the compiler to see it. Et cetera, et cetera.

It's obvious that things that shouldn't do a lot of work, do in fact do work. Like if I press Ctrl+C on some selected text. I simply expect it to put the text into the clipboard. But sometimes it will stall, put a dialog on the screen telling me it's doing some formatting and I need to wait! What the hell is it formatting?

Every member of my team is sick of it and it's negatively affecting our productivity, so if Rider is good then bye bye Visual Studio.
That would be great if he wasn't one of many, and if nothing of significance will come from this ruling (it won't). He's just a convenient target that can be pointed to and said of "Look, aren't we doing our job?" when the truth is nothing will change in the long run.
A utility for labeling training data for supervised learning then?
Got it! I was thinking of creating a solution for mobile app freelancers at first. Thanks for this suggestion!
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Yeah the main channel is pretty chaotic. You can filter links, gifs, emojis, and any words you don't want to see by using the settings.

If you try other tags and play with the settings, it shouldn't be as bad.
>Under what jurisdiction?

You're seriously arguing about the legality of using your boat to attempt to block a ship from leaving a harbor? I'm going to leave it to you to find the law the coast guard believed the violated when they arrested them. I don't speak Italian, so you have at it.

>Wrong. The Chief Prosecutor of Catania, Sicily thinks so:

And he's a far right politician who has zero evidence.

After he made that statement, the Italian Justice Minister asked him to open an investigation if he had any evidence, but he refused and stated it was merely a hypothesis and he had no actual evidence.

There's nothing but looney toons conspiracy theories to support this stuff about George Soros working with ISIS to smuggle in terrorists, it's complete nonsense.

I get it, you want to keep Europe white. Defend Europe wants to keep Europe white. Far right news sites and bloggers wants to keep Europe white.

You can say that without resorting to conspiracy theories, and trying to co-opt the international outrage against sex trafficking.

I get why you do it, out right saying that you want a white civilization isn't palatable to most people. But wrapping it up in language about "Western Civilization" and stopping human trafficking is so transparent that it's not worth the effort.

And if you do want to keep migrants out of Italy for whatever reason, the correct way to do it isn't by pulling your boat in front of a ship at night and firing flares at it.
It's just a really old version.
Ran into him in Bryant Park last summer. Told me my 1.5yo daughter "is beautiful."

So, you know, seems like a good guy to me.
There's a difference between being harmful to an administrative agenda, and harmful to people.

It's one thing to publish a leak detailing corruption which "harms" the agenda and reputation of the criminals engaged in it. Boo on them. "That which can be destroyed by the truth should be."

It's another to publish a leak that reveals identities and plans made in secret, and gets people killed.

Somewhere in the middle are leaks like yesterday's transcripts of Trump talking to Australia and Mexico: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/politics/austra... Perhaps world leaders should be able to speak together confidentially, and perhaps these transcripts will 'harm' people in the future when politicians are less able to communicate frankly because the conversations are public.
> It would be surprising if glyphosate turned out to be toxic, because it straightforwardly targets a metabolic pathway that plants have and the entire kingdom of Animalia lacks.

Biochemistry is not that simple. My favorite example is n-hexane, the linear hydrocarbon with 6 carbon atoms. It is more toxic than any of the other small alkanes; about 3 times as toxic as n-pentane, with 5 carbons, but also less toxic than n-heptane, with 7 [0]. Why? I don't know if anyone knows, but seems like it must have something to do with the exact size of the molecule. Maybe it's just short enough to fit someplace and just long enough to cause a problem when it's there.

The point is, so much of biochemistry is about how molecules fit together in 3-D space. This is not something that's easy to predict. Your line of reasoning here is just not valid.

[0] https://books.google.com/books?id=e4_S46UcI2AC&pg=PT286&lpg=...
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"Charming and unbelievably intelligent" are definitely fair descriptors for this man, just please bear in mind that these terms probably describe many other people who are also guilty of fraud. Sure he has his side. And yes he's probably been treated unfairly by the press. And no, he isn't guilty of all of the things people say. And yet none of that makes him actually innocent.
He's not charged with anything related to the drug price increases.
I prefer the laissez-faire philosophy of classic, but the innovation is happening on the main chain.
Blue Apron sucks. This week was the first time we ordered from them. The garlic they sent was spoiled and rotten. It took quite sometime to make and the instructions are unclear. We will trying other services but never Blue Apron
The article seems to have been extended from a couple paragraphs to a long piece. The url stayed identical.
It looks like Blue Apron misspoke to the press and gave numbers that made it sound like massive layoffs, and Bloomberg wrote the initial version of this article based on the CNBC reporting, which was based on the bad numbers. See this Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/jowens510/status/893545938790363139
the static typing part - yeah, you just have to try and let go. there is typed.clojure for gradual typing though last time i checked it was quite slow. clojure.spec is a great attempt at bringing some discipline and provides quite a bit more than your usual typing system can do, though not entirely on compilation level.

as for compiler part - you're in for a treat. clojure is a compiled language - everything compiles down to jvm bytecode. the surprise part is that due to homoiconicity you get a compiler that's happy to let you hook into particular pieces of your code and (since code is literally represented as usual clojure data structures - lists/maps/vectors/etc) modify it on the fly before compiling. you basically define `f(code) -> other_code` - the ultimate metaprogramming.
This is a disgusting comment.
Yes, he said "misleading" not incorrect. The vast majority of people who will read it don't have your experience dealing with publishers, and likely won't interpret it the way you do. I'll go further and say the title is deliberately misleading. Since the author still wants it published too, it is deliberately misleading to mention that one party of the contract wants it, while not referencing the other side at all.
This trial was not about him raising drug prices but rather about how he deceived investors. He lied to them and used illegal business practices to cover things up
Yeah, they've got their own 68k-compatible CPU design.
I think GRRM is raking in too much cash from TV to have time to really contemplate the myriad consequences of all the mixed loyalties and character crossings the story has entangled. I'm not surprised the books haven't been finished, and the TV series now seems to have the pedal to the metal with plot development, since they are out of time.

Disclaimer- I'm a mere show-watcher, and avid reader of gameofthrones.wikia.com :-)
This looks interesting because it add the ability to put the user in the loop of fixing/annotating the problematic observations relatively easily. I like the example of Tinder for data.

Are the examples picked those that have the highest objective function error rate, or something similar?

Does this apply only to text classification problems? Are there examples where this could be applied to tabular data?
> Prosecutors argued that Shkreli lied to investors in two hedge funds and the pharmaceutical company Retrophin, all of which he founded. Shkreli told investors he graduated from Columbia University, that his hedge fund was large and profitable, and that he had hired an auditor, they said. These were all lies, according to prosecutors.

yeah seems like a great dude...
Yeah I would have one app per segment. If I'm a trivia fan (spoiler: I am), then I am interested in going to trivia nights 2-3+ times per week, and this would be a good central location without being locked into a single trivia group (ex. Geeks Who Drink). This would also allow the app to be a source of trivia nights while on vacation or visiting family.

For the farmers market example, I might be interested in learning what's in season across multiple markets, and what farms/vendors will be where.
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