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I know several people who just sits on a bag of money, either from an investor or personal capital with a product idea or proof of concept prototype to take to market - who could help engineer and take a hardware product to market?
Can a behavior really be taboo, if nobody shames people who engage in it? I agree that shaming someone probably won't change their behavior, but it definitely affects others who witness it.

If we didn't have a taboo around theft and unprovoked aggression, the only thing protecting us from regular muggings would be the police. I have a feeling that wouldn't work very well.
Fellow HTC M8 owner here. I've been running LineageOS for awhile now, and while it hasn't been entirely painless along the way, it's at least running 7.1.2 and has the August security patches. Worth considering, anyway.
Yes, since https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15066729 was posted earlier and points to the canonical site, we've merged this thread into that one.
Agreed on all points. One thing that cubes protect against is visual distractions. In an open plan, even when I'm able to focus on my work, I'll always be catching something out of the corner of my eye.
Doesn't say "nearest" either. Just near.
You think Universal Healthcare is charity? Thanks for demonstrating the disconnect that many people have in the US and why lack of care about facts and information has us in the place we are right now.
I dislike this. I almost hate it, but it at least raises interesting questions.

The reasoning is almost entirely post-hoc. He observes many successful people and their similarities and then claims "I have now told you how to succeed." p(success | trait) != p(trait | success). Hindsight bias is at play.

He makes other weird statements: "you are automatically condemned to waste the rest of your life (see Einstein above)." Mr. Hamming is a difficult guy to please.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi studied many successful individuals in a systematic way and acknowledged the inherent problems with this approach. Read his book instead of this: https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Flow-Psychology-Discovery-...

Finally: "Those who have done really great things generally report, privately, that it is better than wine, the opposite sex, and song put together."

This is strongly contradicted by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's evidence. Nearly everyone he talked to (many Nobel Laureates among them) said their greatest achievement was raising a family or something in personal life. I can't claim this generalizes, but I can provide it as a stark counterexample to Hamming's claim.
But then you will not know, what to do with all that extra battery life!
I volunteered in a NYS prison for a while. They had rooms full of computers which were off-limits to prisoners for unspecified security reasons. Some people were talking about offering a purely paper-based course on programming. At least developing programming skills was not a thought-crime there, though.
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Google Takeout

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3024190?hl=en

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Takeout

Problems though: if your account is already disabled, you can't use this as far as I can tell; and there's no diff option, it's a monolithic backup each time. But it might provide a strategy to limit data loss resulting from having an account disabled for whatever reason.
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I didn't say ECC doesn't work. It is enabled on Ryzen. But it's not something AMD go to the effort of validating to make sure it works properly and it doesn't get support. It's left in there as a footnote for enthusiasts.
I remember learning about the Blue Banana (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Banana) in high school. You can see it pretty clearly on your map.
That's a bit of an oversimplification. From the FAQ page:

> When people search, we believe they're really looking for answers, as opposed to just links. For many categories of searches (restaurants, game of thrones, code documentation, etc.), there is usually a specialized search engine (Yelp), content site or other source that does a better job at actually answering the searches than a general search engine does with just links. Our long-term goal is to get you Instant Answers from these best sources.

> To do that, we've developed an open source Instant Answer platform called DuckDuckHack, which allows anyone to propose and develop Instant Answers for DuckDuckGo. On the backend, we have a classification and relevancy engine that selects the best sources for a particular search and displays answers to you in real time, be it for recipes, products, images, and hundreds of other categories.

> In fact, DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (our crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, stored in our answer indexes). We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we source from Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex.

https://duck.co/help/results/sources

EDIT: changed link to more elaborate FAQ one.
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Technically, "a device near you" != "the device nearest to you".
They could have put it in the developer menu for goodness sake.
I like the 2600Hz phone phreaking stories, how people could whistle the codes into the phone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_box
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> 6. Not at all. I said you should start from one of the handful of links I posted, all to Wikipedia pages and to the top hit on Google Scholar.

Except the links you posted don't dispute Damore's arguments at all. Damore's arguments are perfectly consistent with the recommendations in the survey, with the possible exception of stereotype threat, whose studies have come under fire recently.

> We are talking about whether or not that has any bearing on the subject of sexism or relevant policy actions.

You must be confusing threads. Your pollution example has nothing to do with anything we've discussed. I questioned your claim that Damore's arguments disagree with the consensus in the field and asked for evidence supporting your claim. Everything since then has been some bizarre pissing contest in which you repeatedly asserted your position without any apparent understanding of contrary arguments.

> Either you're being too sophisticated for me, or that you're naive in an almost cute way. Obviously, I am not trying to convince you of anything.

Nice, insults and ad-hominem. I've read plenty on the subject thanks, and your condescension is just the cherry on top of a now completely pointless thread in which you convinced no one of anything. Congrats. Have a nice day.
Does Google pay these candy companies to use the name or do they pay Google?

There's obviously some contractual relationship but I can't figure out who's on which end of it.
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And here we have the Disappearance of Cooperation. The whole system is bad if the government does something you didn't want. Naturally if they do something you want then the whole system is good.

You know what cooperation means - it means that some of the time you don't get what you want and that's OK because the system gives you what you want (and need) also.

I dare you to describe a society where all services are provided on a voluntary basis. Go ahead I dare you.
They might not be able to hire that team of self-motivated superstars. Let's face it, some 95% of software development is likely boring, run of the mill CRUD stuff or similar. Those self-motivated superstars are going to gravitate toward companies where they can do interesting and novel things, regardless of the pay (those places do generally pay well, usually).
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Ask HN: What are your favourite bookmarklet games?
I like FontBomb (fontbomb.ilex.ca) and also KatHack (kathack.com) for playing with the website
I'm kind of disappointed in this. While they are upping the core count, the overall clock speed is being decreased across the board. This means that single threaded processes will theoretically perform slower (I know it still turbos up).

Honestly, I just upgraded to Ryzen from a 3770k and. My 3770k ran all cores at 4.2GHz (overclocked, obviously) and the only reason I updated was becasue I wanted to upgrade to NVMe and DDR4. That was 4 years old and I had no CPU-bound performance issues. I really think Intel needs to start innovating more rather than being complacent or AMD is actually going to steal the show.

Super happy for the competition though!
"Allows you to see two apps at once, it's like having super strength and laser vision." really
See my edit above. Your wording could be better.
Your IP is leaked to everyone you email (and if you receive mail, to everyone who emails you), which is a privacy hole since it ties your IP directly to your identity. I assume you don't mind, or did you not realize this?
That's almost exactly what my dictionary says. I think you and I are in agreement. Pretty much by definition, a polymath is knowledgeable about a bunch of stuff.
https://www.schweizerdeutsch-lernen.ch/
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Some prisoners get pretty good at interacting with the legal system and comprehending and writing legal briefs.
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Yeah, I can't even imagine there being 8 billion apps in total. Like, that's more than there are humans on Earth. If every 50th person would be an app developer, then every app developer would still have to publish 50 apps all by themselves. I doubt that even the studios that just rebrand and rerelease their apps over and over again get to such a quota.
It isn't just you, to be sure. I'm a native English speaker, but live in Norway. My Norwegian isn't strong enough to converse at length yet (I'm getting there) so most of my in-person communication is with non-native english speakers, including the spouse.

Some phrases simply translate in a rude way: Norwegians seem to have a liking for the word "fuck", which has made its way into Norwegian slang as well. It can come off quite rude back home. For folks I meet that learn mostly through television, it can get even worse because the shows don't always portray dialog in a natural way.
I don't think its any surprise that class tensions that could have unified the lower classes have been redirected into racial/gender tensions that have us fighting...
Talking about that, I feel obliged again to mention the work of Damien Woods, Yannick Rondelez and Nicolas Schabanel who are actually assembling DNA tiles implementing wang tile gliders (a la game of life) and then "higher" primitives up to a nano Turing complete machine.

An odd feeling to watch his slides (I don't have them as of now sadly)
Would they need to pay them? Cookies and mobile phones are completely different lines of business, right?

Though the name is a direct reference to the sweet, so that maybe makes it more complicated.
I think it is high time to start listing other extremist groups which make use of all those services which have decided to become their own judge, jury and executioner. I'm thinking about groups like AFA/Antifa, BLM/Black Power/Black Pride/other racially-oriented supremacy organisations, salafist/wahabist organisations, groups which sympathise with terrorist organisations, 'revolutionary' communist groups (yes, those still exist) and any other radical/extremist groups and find out where they host their stuff, which payment processors they use, whether they have apps on Google Play and the Apple app store, etc. Once a group has been identified the related services should be given a chance to react, and their reaction should be published just like they are when they close down nazi/white power/white pride/white supremacy groups.
It is a ludicrous idea. Many hold it, unfortunately - and they use scientific research and the status quo ("there's few women in STEM so obviously women are genetically programmed not to be a good fit for STEM" being a common one) to back their beliefs up, usually entirely ignoring the great big warnings in the papers specifically saying that the paper cannot be used to back up those beliefs.

What exactly is "being offended" and why is it bad? Where do you see people being offended, and how do you differentiate it from activism? I mostly see people being angry that even in - especially in - particularly egregious instances, many very vocal people still won't believe that there's a problem. That's different from being offended.

How is feeling pity for the people we meet every day who literally think we are less able than men and who are often in positions of power over us supposed to help?
Airbnb uses React extensively FWIW
You would think it would be the other way around considering the amount of free advertising Orea is getting from this. Like, in the KitKat release, I doubt there was any financial arrangement.
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It's funny, but that's true in a lot of places.. I happen to live in an apartment in an older neighborhood in Phoenix, mainly because the location and pricing was great... the crime rate's very low, and it's really close to a higher end area, so nice restaurants are close as well. It's not a bad neighborhood, just older. Most of the buildings were from the 50's to early 70's.

It's funny but more than one of my neighbors is in a similar boat, early 40's, works in IT, divorced, and just saving, mostly.
Curious to hear about anybody's experiences using the Redis Enterprise product.
Reminds me of David Foster Wallace's concept of "subsidized time" in Infinite Jest

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http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/ind...
Nope. I can't say that I have. That definitely might be something that can get you flagged.
So you take pictures. You document the circumstances. You contact the next of kin. These are all the behaviors of an accidental death at sea.

But - Oops. I forgot. She died for some reason and I threw her overboard I hope doesn't cut the mustard.
I also have a One M8; mine is currently rooted and running CyanogenMod. (I keep meaning to update to LineageOS but haven't gotten around to it yet.)

Rooting is nice, and I believe it's important from a philosophical standpoint, but I probably won't with my next phone because the features I want are getting built into the OS, and I am missing several apps that just refuse to work when they detect they're running on a rooted phone. (Everything from games to my work email.)

It definitely increases the longevity of phon but, while it mostly works, it has lots of little quirks - especially with the various radios. E.g. I occasionally have to re-pair bluetooth devices, wi-fi will disconnect and then re-connect for no apparent reason, etc. Also, sometimes I just find it getting warm in my pocket and I have to reboot it to make it snap out of whatever endless loop it's stuck in. (I assume that updating to LineageOS will fix a few bugs and introduce a few others.)

I'm going to replace it with either the next Pixel or the next iPhone when they both get released in a month or two, depending on which one I'm more impressed with. I am going to miss my headphones jack...
> I've never met anyone who believes women are unfit for STEM. It's a ludicrous idea.

They post to HN every now and again. I can't link because their posts usually get flagkilled, or their accounts are dead from other fuckwittery. But it happens.
> Under these circumstances it seems better to live a life in which you do important things (important in your eyes, of course) than to merely live out your life. No sense frittering away your life on things that will not even appear in the footnotes.

I'm curious what people on HN would consider "important things".

Is it writing the next generation of social media tools? Is it making nuclear fusion practical? Is it finding a smart business model and making a lot of money from it?
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I would love to have something like this. When I call an Uber/Lyft as I am walking out of my apartment, it always takes forever for the WiFi to disconnect, long after it has lost internet connection. So I constantly get the "Unable to Connect to Network" error, and I have to turn off WiFi and restart the app to actually call a ride.

If anyone knows of a solution to this problem on a Galaxy S8 I would love to hear it.
> However, I hope we can agree that reading Feynman's books (the ones for laymen at least) is not enough to call yourself a polymath

Of course not. However, first off, the reason I brought up the specific book of Feynman's wasn't because I believe reading it gives you anything special—I was just referencing an argument that Feynman makes in the preface.

Secondly, I'm addressing what I see as an impossibility in what it appears to me that you're advocating for:

> I've never met someone who I would describe as having a fantastic understand of QM yet skipped the formal mathematical training to deeply understand the equations.

That quote sums up what I'm talking about. Another way of stating it, at the level of generality of the greater question at hand here: "no one who is not an expert in field X understands field X as deeply as someone who is an expert in field X" —since people generally already know that, the more useful question is, "If I'm going to learn some things about field X, even though I'm an expert from field Y and not field X—which things from field X should I focus on?"

I think part of our disagreement here comes from what one pictures the person with knowledge of many fields doing with that knowledge. Are they working professionally as a philosopher and then on the weekends as a physicist? If so, they have to be an expert equally in both. Or, is there something that can be added to their philosophy work by having fairly in depth knowledge of say, physics, linguistics, psychology, history, and literature? If you are going for this second thing, the way you pick up knowledge from the ancillary fields is different from if you're going for the first thing.
I would say there are trade-offs with remote based communications with distinct advantages you don't mention that help make up for the lack of the human factor. The most obvious is that it eliminates the human factor, which can make it a lot easier to work with people who have unpleasant personalities. It also makes all communications more asynchronous, which means you can discuss things at the pace needed instead of the forced sync of a person staring at you. Then there are all the technical benefits, like cut-n-paste, live URLs, screen sharing, logs of conversations, etc.

It also sounds like you haven't experienced a fully remote team working. You don't miss out on the physical presence because it is not there to miss and people make up for that absence in other ways. All the water-cooler/hallway conversations are then there, online, in the chat rooms or what not.
> High fake detection rate.

Maybe not in time. The companies buy lots of stuff that never gets used. It seems totally plausible for them to use up their end-of-year-budget stocking up on parts they don't necessarily need or expect to use through non-conventional channels.

Plus, unless you dig into it like this guy did, he can just say what he did and give a refund.
This was the story behind Kit Kat, I'd assume it will be something similar https://www.theverge.com/2013/9/3/4691040/android-kitkat-the...
Well and they have a picture of the cookie itself on their landing page.
Isn’t Zurich horribly expensive, like the rest of Switzerland? I went to Geneva once and the prices of things struck me compared to what we have in Paris, France (which is already a pretty expensive city).
Google is the largest ad company in the world. Selling ad space is what they do. What is Android naming if not one giant ad space?

Long story short I'd be extremely surprised if Google didn't sell this.
I believe the kitkat one was a joint promotion, so kitkat did som android promotion and Google did some kitkat promotion and called it equal.

Wikipedia says the same.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_KitKat (see history section. Sorry can't figure out how to do the deep link on mobile)
Providing your bootloader can be unlocked, of course.
Oh, I see what you mean now by mitigation.
I should have quoted more of the above statement:

> If anything, it is just going to cause people to sympathise with the Daily Stormer, which is presumably the opposite of the intended effect.

There are two different things you can sympathize with here: the merits of the Daily Stormer's position / ideology, and their desire to have a platform.

The domain registrar is shutting them down because they don't agree with the merits of their ideology. I am reading the criticism above as saying, "If the domain registrar shuts them down, more people will be sympathetic to their ideology, which is counterproductive." I think it is fair to label people inclined to sympathy with Nazi ideas as Nazi sympathizers.

I suppose it could be an argument that the domain registrar's action will cause people to be sympathetic to the fact that they should have a domain name, but that makes less sense to me.
It doesn't matter how many bad apps there are when nobody wants or sees or uses them. There's also a lot of precedence with domain names and the iOS App Store for a pay-to-participate fee not really preventing bad actors from paying to participate.
Pardon my pedestrian take, but I think we're on similar pages. This is the weird, bizarro-world we inhabit because these "markets" are run by supply-side money flows. These companies don't have time to deal with the pesky issue of actual demand. Having more cash to burn is not a "sustainable competitive advantage", but we're probably long past that being meaningful to anyone.
> Not at all. The nursery is usually in cache, just as the stack is. Nurseries are usually implemented as two space copying collectors with small spaces, which are excellent for cache locality (arguably even better than stacks, because stacks can grow deep).

I think you're still working under the assumption that the GC is keeping up with the allocation rate, which if you have a small allocation in a hot loop will largely not be true. Typically GC'd languages rely on escape analysis to handle this and not the generational GC at all, but if that fails then you're SOL because the generational GC is unable to keep up and unable to keep things in the fast path.
You're right. In V8, values from a Float32Array are always converted to doubles upon access, even in cases like adding values from two Float32Arrays and storing them in another Float32Array where the result is provably the same. That costs a handful of cycles for each element.

Mozilla has a blog post about doing efficient float32 math:
https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2013/11/07/efficient-flo...

V8 bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=5541

Using a Float64Array is faster at the expense of memory usage. (I've never seen a case where the code generated by V8 bottlenecks on memory bandwidth fwiw.)
They could've probably called it "Hydrox" for free.
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