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So, the question I would ask is does Metacritic include reviews of movies that are not in IMDB, or vice-versa? That could definitely skew the scores.

The second question I would ask is whether or not there is a relatively simple transform that could make the IMDB and maybe even the Fandango scores more uniform in their distribution, over the same set if movies?
I have avoided AccuWeather since they worked with Santorum in 2005 to try and avoid "competing" with the NWS.
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The USAF is not required to make a profit
I live in a city and am not dying, in fact the air quality is very good. Do people who can afford electric cars live in the same cities where pollution is so bad that people are dying from it? Why don't they move to where the air quality is better? (Why move from a problem when you can make the problem move from you, I guess?)

When the majority of pollution is coming from large trucks anyway, will swapping a few cars even matter?
Some people buy custom made braided cables for the design as well as more flexibility than standard plastic/rubber ones.
One of the really disappointing things about Tesla is how incredibly proprietary all of their products are. For a company that has such lofty goals as "saving the world", it feels wrong to me for them to then sell DRM cars and unrepairable black boxes. Maybe I'm just too idealistic, but surely if we have an opportunity to create a new market for solar devices why would we decide to recreate the proprietary world of the 1980s? Creating your own powerwall from recycled batteries is a pretty neat hack, and I'd hope that people are publishing free (as in freedom) hardware designs for said battery banks.
What are the side effects of fixing the value of c?
The keyboard annoys me the most.
What if the plan b is needed? How are tech companies with data in the hurricane doing right this second? That really depends on their planning doesn't it?

Or put another way, a good Plan B puts makes your Plan A possible in some situation that would otherwise mean failure.
> manufacturers want to get maximum bang for their buck in terms of marketing

Sure, and I thought that you would have to do something that was attractive to the audience for the marketing to work.
Indeed. Reading this makes me suspect someone is planning to 'fix' KDE with something that will inevitably end up being awkward, expensive and take five years to mature. Unless there is a demonstrably better solution in mind leave the menus alone. Every attempt to supplant traditional menus that I have experienced has only created obscurity, added weight and fueled no end of animosity.

I hate to take a bad attitude towards someone's inspiration and well meaning intentions, but the users of open source desktop environments (and proprietary ones for that matter) have endured a lot of iconoclasts, and I don't see that it has achieved much. If your plans are demonstrably better they'll take hold among the enthusiasts and spread beyond without writing think pieces to promote them. Otherwise, should you instead choose to foist your plans on the innocent, be prepared to live in a furnace for about a decade. Right or wrong that is what you can expect.
Queen of Batteries explains why a little-known material could knock lithium off
Because their users who are buying the device are doing so in spite of the Touchbar. MacBook Pro wasn't updated for such a long time that the Touchbar doesn't matter, there's a lot of pent up demand. But now people know it's kinda annoying in its current implementation. Make sense?
Yep. One strikes fear into the hearts of innocent civilians, the other is military.
I love Hacker News :) TIL!
This sounds like it could be rather dangerous, no? Connecting up a bunch of old lithium cells of unknown origin and using them hard.

I'd also worry about an insurance claim being denied if it burned my house down.

However, I very much approve of the DIY ingenuity and repurposing of old stuff.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we are almost out of fuel. In a few minutes, the refueling aircraft will be making its way toward us. To enjoy the benefits of in-flight refueling at low, low prices, please have your credit card ready."
The math isn't what turned me or anyone else off, your unwarranted and unnecessary verbosity did that. You also didn't address the point that was being made at all. Simple questions should invite simple replies, this isn't a math class and math isn't the topic.

In case it needs repeated, the point is you don't seem to know how to express yourself simply, your unnecessary verbosity is off-putting. If you don't care that's fine, but if you're actually trying to communicate with people with your replies, you need to learn to make your point in a few sentences rather than dumping a giant wall of jargon laden nonsense on a layman audience who are clearly discussing things in layman's terms.
Deep neural networks aren't aware of changes in their own performance, because their cannot remember or compare their own current performance to the one in the past.

Thus humans at least cannot be pure DNN ML algorithm.

RNNs have error propagation thru time, but connections' weight changes aren't represented as neuron activations and therefore aren't accessible to the neural network itself. That is RNNs aren't aware that they learn too.

Thus humans cannot be pure RNN ML algorithm.

Naturally, humans implement some learning algorithm. The question is which algorithms are capable of which sides of thinking.
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Totally agree. Very out of touch to say most people want to work full time. They do not.
I believe the OP meant that they're narrowing in on being confident that gravitational waves travel at C, not narrowing in on a more precise value of C.

That said, if we do obtain a more precise value of C, the definition that changes is the meter. The second is defined in terms of energy states of a caesium atom.
If he understood how to communicate with people at all, he'd have simply said what you just did. He's also mistaken, it is an extremely useful one because it makes a complex topic clear in a way that explains why C can't be exceeded. All models are wrong, that model is useful because it can be expressed very simply, it doesn't matter that it's not the only valid way to see things.
It's still manual transmission and they don't have traction control or launch control or automatic suspension adjustment.

I think they added the boost tech so that cars pass each other more frequently.
He tried to solve performance problems in complex applications, and obviously complex applications doesn't need to preserve internal state when children list is changing :)
Yes, I'm actually very happy that magsafe is disappearing, never liked it. It tends to fall down when using the laptop on my lap and the only time I've tripped on my cord, my mbp went with it because it managed to somehow pull the cord straight.

I haven't bought a new mbp yet because I'm still waiting for 32 gb (I want VMs and it's just faster working locally than using aws to work)

My biggest problem with Apple is macOS, it went from a good stable OS back in Snow Leopard to a buggy mess that crashes rather often with broken features (mission control takes more than 20s whenever I use it whereas expose was always fast and responsive).
Instead of a work-life balance, consider a state-of-flow/state-of-social balance. Spend chunks of time heads-down in solo project; and spend chunks of time between tech talk, elevator pitches, and tangential discussion. Instead of striving for an eudaimonistic balance between the two, let the balance freely oscillate between those extremes as feels natural for you.
I use Vim with a MBP Touchbar. A half decade or more ago I swapped caps lock and control, I then started using 'ctrl-[' as escape. This is the actual escape code for the 'esc' key. Super easy to press, just uses both pinkies, and it doesn't require stretching for the escape key.
I've found myself so annoyed with the touch bar I used this great disabler https://github.com/LumingYin/TouchBarDisabler

Conveniently, it maps key combos like ctrl+1 to make the screen dimmer it ctrl+2 to make the screen brighter. Definitely would prefer real keys though if they made a 15 inch with them.
A non-stop flight means you only have to deal with CBP or TSA once, at the end of the flight. If you fly SYD-LAX-JFK or SYD-DFW-JFK you have to get off the plane at LAX or DFW, go through immigration and customs, go to the domestic terminal, go though TSA security and hope you have not missed your domestic connection.
Kind of dangerous seems like quite the understatement, considering the nature of lithium batteries!

It'd be fun to play with something like this for the learning, but I wouldn't actually run one unless it was in its own shed, many dozens of yards from the nearest anything else. Lithium fires are no joke.
"absolute numbers are worthless."

Percentage figures are also worthless, unless (A) there's only a single class of shares, or (B) you know all the financial terms (liquidation preferences etc.) attached to each class of shares.

EDIT: I just noticed that OP was talking about options (not shares, as I had assumed). So, of course, strike price, vesting period, and vesting cliff are also important. When presenting the offer, the company may justify the strike price based on the valuation of the company at the last funding round. However, this valuation is often an overestimate, as they're based on the value of just one class of share, rather than the actual mix.
Computers have been heralded as the magic answer to teaching kids for 40 years now. There have been no positive results yet. It's not hard to see why - putting computers in the classroom is like putting labor saving devices in the gym.

Learning requires focused effort and work, there's just no way around it.
That's not necessarily true if it means that more Americans are pursuing skills-based training instead of college. Many of our vacant jobs do not have a college program to prepare for them [1]. Valuing education doesn't mean you need to chase ever-increasing college enrollment numbers, especially if you are unable to provide every college graduate with a matching job.

[1] https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/22/help-wanted-americans-don... (featured on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14651019)
If they're from laptops the cells should be safe (as opposed to unknown new cells from AliExpress which may or may not be to spec); albeit not necessarily at maximum capacity. As long as appropriate protection circuitry is used, I don't see how using then hard would make any difference (laptops use batteries hard too).
I'm pretty happy with Thinkpad keyboards :) Some of the more modern ones are thinner, and I haven't tried the ones on the X1 series for instance.
Modern business class is a different world

While boarding a flight this week, I was told to wait (just entered the plane) because they wanted to serve orange juice to someone in business class. So me and some 10 people behind me waited until the air hostess served the juice and came back few mins later, because orange juice couldn't wait for another 15 mins. It felt very weird. I guess rich people do really experience life on a different level.
If you'd stuck to that in the original post, I would've upvoted and moved down the thread. I was replying to the stronger claims that things like other advanced mammals "all think in essentially different ways", and your characterization of the nature of human thought.
It’s also annoying that the iPad keyboard cover actually has more (and IMO better) key travel than the new Macbooks. Other than the lack of escape and function keys, I wouldn’t mind too much typing on it for development.
> You could travel 10,000 light years but you will find them only on Earth.

(sorry for the Reddit'ism, but:) This. That sentence is subtly and unexpectedly profound.

Imagine having developed interstellar or even intergalactic travel, and after having colonized multiple solar systems, we find that life isn't so rare after all, but the specific lifeforms on Earth were.

What if we find that each life-bearing planet has its own unique creatures, not to be found anywhere else in the infinity of the Universe, and we may never again see the creatures we wiped out here on Earth?
I'm with you. I have my system to do data analysis. I have a late 2013 MacBook Pro and like it, especially the SSD and the Retina display. When I upgrade I want a faster processor, more RAM (I have 16GB now). I like my keyboard with the escape key. I like my ports (incuding HDMI). Like you, I want good battery life at a reasonable weight - and I don't want major surgery required to replace that battery if needed.

I don't want a walled garden of software. I don't mind a distinct authorization to run non-app store software (I break it, I own it...), but I want to run it easily. For example, I want an OS will easily let me install and run R and a current Python distribution like Anaconda.

While I want my phone, iPad, and MacBook to play nicely together, I want each to be optimized for a different set of tasks.
actually i'm reading now that photons do not even have their own reference frame simply by definition/axiom. Interesting..
Their parents, and their school during class hours.
I never tripped over a cable in my life, so for me MagSafe's utility has never been safety, but ease of use — it's just so incredibly easy to plug and unplug. It's also wonderfully easy to share a plug; sitting around a table with a bunch of people, you can see who's fully charged (the green LED, which is gone from the USB-C charger), yank the cable out without them noticing/caring, and plop it into your own MacBook.

With USB-C, you can't see if someone's fully charged, and you can't yank it out without disturbing the other person. The USB-C connector is actually super sticky, and you have to use both hands to get it out.

To be fair, the difference can be measured in seconds, but it's still a step backwards in convenience.

Adding to this: The USB-C cable that Apple ships with is very thick and inflexible, which is also less convenient. I don't know if other power-capable USB-C cables are like that.
From the research article:

> We previously developed a high-throughput screening CellTiter-Glo ATP bioluminescence-based assay to assess antiparasitic activity [48], and used this assay to test compounds 1–9 against the trophozoite stage of E. histolytica, G. lamblia, and N. fowleri. Compounds 1–6 displayed dose response antiparasitic activity against all three pathogens by reducing the culture density by 50% (EC50) compared to untreated trophozoite cultures (Table 3).

If I am translating it correctly, they only tested this in vitro (not in rats, not in humans). So, as you say, this may not be useful to cure us. Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1217/
Then you will be thrilled to learn that there is one in Brooklyn!
Every time I see the badge on iOS that tells me how many apps need to be updated, I delete apps I haven't used recently. All my apps on my phone fit on one page, no folders.
They do have the right to free speech, yes.

They do not have the right to incent riots.

They do not have the right to compel me to listen to their free speech.

They do not have the right to force a company to carry their free speech.
Dylann Roof is a loser, the same as the KKK, the same as Antifa, the same as BLM, the same as neo-Nazis.

Violence is the last resort of loserdom. Reject it in all it's forms. Let's return to normalcy.
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I meant only to imply that the US military alone is about 3.5% of our economy, and that the protection to value ratio there is about 1:30

I did not mean to imply that bitcoin could replace the entire military, only that the ratio of spending vs. assets defended is better.
I'm unconvinced.

>Means no more downtime,
no possibilities of censorship, be it from states or from companies.

Wrong.

>historically, patch-based systems have been very simple to learn and use, but slow, whereas snapshot-based systems can be extremely fast, but are usually hard to use for more than simple operations. As an example, cherry-picking is not intuitive in git/mercurial

How is cherry-picking not intuitive?

>Category theory has certainly been an inspiration for Pijul, but categories are neither algorithms nor data structures in themselves. In order to get the semantics we wanted, especially the handling of multiple files, rollbacks and unrecords, designing and implementing new algorithms and data structures was at least as useful as learning theoretical stuff.

Yet another thing with relatively little practically use, but hey, it uses category theory! It must be good! Oh look, it's also functional!

All of that said, props to Pierre-Étienne for putting in the time and effort to make this. He probably learned a lot.
Yes, this is extremely dangerous. I'm sure some of the people mentioned have the expertise to pull it off, but for most this is like building a massive bomb in your garage. There's a reason that 18650s aren't generally sold directly to consumers, in most applications they need dedicated circuitry to be used safely. And that's for brand new cells, it's another story entirely to be using random collections of "old" cells, at various points in their life cycles, different rated capacities, and subtly different chemistry. No thanks!
Coding is not mechanical. Or to say, what do you mean by coding? The ability to write programs that successfully solve problems good judgement and decision making, critical thinking, complex problem solving...it sounds like coding is just a meaningless term without the others.
You note the circularity of your definition, right? Oppression is something that is over. What's oppression? Those horrible things in the past.

That rhetorical tactic works wonderfully at any point in American history. "Why don't you [group name] just shut up and enjoy this now perfectly fair society we white men have built for you? Why keep dwelling on the past?"

I believe that you don't know what I mean. But that's because you don't understand the history. If you'd like to understand, try taking a course. It's not an easy subject, but it's worth the time. Your local college surely offers something. Mine does: https://www.usfca.edu/catalog/undergraduate/arts-sciences/in...
This opens Tesla up to an immense amount of liability with no benefit.

If you want to build your own open source battery storage system, battery management system firmware, and distribute it online (think Backblaze), I'd encourage you to do so. But Tesla has enough to worry about as it is.
The new Touch Bar MacBooks have apparently been selling like hot cakes, so my fear is that Apple will attribute the success to the Touch Bar and keep it on new models. The fact that they added a feature that "nobody wants" is in itself not promising, but Apple has historically always had an affinity for minor, gimmicky, and ultimately useless features (e.g. Front Row, Dashboard).
Running a majority of the nodes does not give you the ability to arbitrarily decide to accept an alternate history. One of the big value adds of bitcoin is that every node can decide on its own, without consulting other nodes, whether a transaction is valid or not.

There is absolutely a thermodynamic cost to reversing a transaction in bitcoin. Having the miners run an alternate client doesn't change that.
Cells are brought through charge and discharge cycles to test them individually before building a pack.
Thanks to everyone for their explanations!

It took me a while to read them all and not sure I do understand them all.

It's amazing how complicated can physics stuff get. I'll be sure to check all the linked resources.

Thanks again!
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The hyperbolic response isn't warranted, as these are nearly identical lithium cells of known origin. Were they all different random cells, or if disassembly were required, then one might catch fire or explode like a small firecracker.

This isn't much more dangerous than putting batteries in a toy car, or putting gasoline into a hybrid.
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So why not communicate via quantum entanglement? Kind of like FTL TCP.
But many libraries that has a primary focus on library size are usually sacrificing runtime performance to reduce size. Yes, they've reduced parse time, but significantly increased bootstrap time.

I understand that they are doing it because of marketing reasons, because many people think that smaller means faster.
Fuel usage will be lower because there is one take-off less.
We can't afford for it to take generations :(
I'm not sure why I never see NPTEL mentioned anywhere. nptel.ac.in or www.nptelvideos.in

Very comprehensive video lectures for many fields of engineering, set up by Indian universities/government.
First off, I emphatically agree with the top paragraph, but I'm not sure I would so quickly write off this guy's credentials. Not saying his background is unquestionable, but it does seem to deserve some credit.

> Dr. James Conca is an expert on energy, nuclear and dirty bombs, a planetary geologist, and a professional speaker.
The "Add Your Website" is essentially for other housing startups who want their listings to be added onto the map.

It's still early and we're exploring how the listings ecosystem is going to populate and retire itself. We're thinking of using a combination of crawling/indexing, 3rd party APIs/feeds, and manual submissions (aka "add your website" button) to achieve this.
I grew up in a suburb just off Buena Vista in Columbus, GA. The Waffle House on Buena Vista was "my" Waffle House.

It was in that parking lot that some stranger tried to buy the family car from my parents. My parents bought it new and kept it for more than two decades. It had become a "classic" and was still in good shape.

Lots of good memories.

And I love their decor. It is practical and convenient. The layout is extremely efficient. If you know what you want, you can be served hot food in minutes.

I don't know why there aren't any other chains trying to imitate parts of their model.
Meditation has nothing to do with getting high or being in a flow state where self-awareness is lost due to complete self-absorption.
But you don't need source control to compile the base. You only need it to retrieve the base sources - and even then only when you want to get the latest, since the installer comes with a tarball of /usr/src.
I really dunno - I find React to work really, really well in the small and medium projects where I do (any) web work. Coming to React after years away from frontend development, and avoiding it because of things like jQuery, was really awesome because it demands that you enforce separations of concerns in a way that really appeals to me.

Hell, I generate HTML email with React, now. No reason not to; it's great. Simple, understandable tree of reusable components that have understandable data flows--sign me right up.

The biggest problem with it is the initial activation energy of a new project, which is partially solved through create-react-app and largely solved by doing it once in a replicable way. (I've been creating React projects off of the same base for quite awhile now.)
This is what I was thinking. I.e. that it would be very complicated. I wasn't even sure if it made sense to ask such a question.

I have so much to read now...
Yes. A bonus is that if you use it in combination with a health-check-capable proxy (HAProxy, Kubernetes), clients can be routed to any non-paused node automatically. In fact, you'll need that, since a paused node will close its ports.

That said, the devil is in the details; I'd be interested to know if RabbitMQ is capable of reliably detecting that it's in a minority. We've had issues where nodes are having issues talking to each other, but the problem is not consistent on both ends (e.g. A can talk to B, but B can't talk to A).
Fellow ThinkPad fan here. I'm using an older ThinkPad (X220t) and would like to upgrade, but I want to try the keyboards before I commit. Has anybody found them anywhere? I called a number of stores in NYC with no luck.