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It's not exactly a conspiracy, stuff like this happens in the open: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/12/koch-brothers-...

I'd characterize this behavior as "rational actors (economists) in a dysfunctional environment responding rationally to incentives, matching demand with a supply of politically useful economic models for wealthy special interests..."

The ultimate outcome of this is Greenspan telling us "nobody saw the financial crisis coming" because economists in policymaking circles drank their own koolaid and almost entirely assumed away the existence of private debt in their models.
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You can be sure that the code is unsafe. Along with almost all other code.
I will just leave it here: http://instaco.de/
This is legally not "unsolicited", at least in my jurisdiction.

To be unsolicited, you must not have had previous business contact with the company before they contacted you. If you have a business relationship with the company, for example because you opened an account and gave them your phone number, then these laws do not apply.
The real questing is how true flames skipped from WTC 1 & 2 to WTC 7. Probably easy to answer. (Must be highly flammable material and what essentially became thermite driving nearby building temperature high enough to start the fire.)
Next paragraph after the one you quoted:

> If I had cooperated in adding a backdoor or been threatened to, then I wouldn’t tell you anyway and I’d thus say no to questions about it.
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Which version?

In order for this process to be truly secure, every single software version needs to be audited.
Need an always-on computer? Get one that's more power efficient or even something tiny like a Raspberry Pi running at 3.7W tops.
Yes and outside of the US nobody would be able to do a loan with a power-of-attorney without showing evidence of it
Just tried to archive the robots txt without even thinking lest it changes but can't. It is stuck. Screw Yelp. Good riddance. I hope they go bankrupt.

It is clear this is someone (yes I'll say it: M$) using Yelp as a front to attack Google. So much for the new Microsoft. I'm ashamed to be a .net developer.
This is not true on the actual Google devices (Nexus and Pixel lines) that have a supported path to flash your own rom, and root. Google so far has been supportive of the custom rom community. Some manufacturers (cough samsung cough) have not.
In my small city we are a few people interested in night observation. We are pondering about lobbying the city hall to have a "dark night" once a month, maybe something from 1am to 3am, where public lighting would be off.

Considering the mayor comes at every smallish local events just to remind people of his name, he may be interested in something that would make a bunch of people praise him for little effort.
Distributed punishment. Gives a new meaning to pulling changes.
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This usually shows up in the late game of successfull companies. Suddenly new products are slow.
Exponential numbers of people have to be hired.
Some parts cant be worked on if one member of the company is on holiday.
I could go on and on about how my company screws this up. First, even though they get commission they also get large base pay despite a salesmans performance which makes the salesman stop working around making 70k a year, second horrible tracking of what the deal in each contract will cost our company in developer hours and hardware etc etc so they get paid full commission on a $20,000 that ends up being $4,000 revenue. What our company needs is a strict standard but it's a endless loop of oh salesman can make a sale if you can create this so stop what you are building and welcome to the chaos.
I live in Bulgaria in a place completely filled with electronics and gadgets and other stuff. My wife has a gourmet restaurant kitchen and we have heated flooring (electrical) for the winters and air conditioning (that's on 24/7 on max) for 5 months out of the year (it's going to be almost 40 here today) and we pay about $75CAD/month max.

Ohh and BG is expensive for electricity. At least %30 more than Canada.
The majority of commenters here seem to be beyond repair after going through their fairytale economics courses. May I humbly suggest they read Debunking Economics by Steve Keen if they are at all interested in the real world. Be warned however that it also trashes Marxian, New-Keynesian and Austrian views.

Anyone who thinks the simplified and unrealistic models "are still useful" does not understand just how bad these approaches are.

This course seems like a step up, but honestly anything still teaching equilibrium models in 2017 should be burnt for electricity.
My wife and I had an average draw of about 100 Watts in the winter when we lived in San Diego. Made for electric bills around $12 a month. However, we had gas water heating. The gas bill was always for 0-1 therm per month.

The only always-on computer was an Odroid, and our bulbs were LED. The fridge was pretty efficient.
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Perhaps compared to the US, but pretty cheap by first-world standards.
Apple allows you to 'sideload' apps as long as you get a (free) developer account.
AFAIK tracking images are usually sent via a recipient-unique URL, which allows services like Mailchimp to provide open stats for individuals. Since the URLs are unique, the host servers will get hit at least once per recipient that opens the email, as Google downloads and caches the image.
I'm useless at reading these reports but I guess they have the liquidity: http://annualreport2016.volkswagenag.com/consolidated-financ...

Maybe they'll shut/slim down the combustion departments.
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Copyright does not work that way. Copyright awards protections to a creative act.

If you use a computer to generate songs, there is no creative act, and no copyright.

If you copy a song someone else generated with a computer, there is no creative act, and no copyright.

If you independently write a song, and a computer independently creates an identical song, there is a creative act, and you own the copyright to the song you created (but the song the computer created is in the public domain).

If two people independently write the same song, then they both own the copyrights to their respective songs.
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I have low patience with salesman who prefer to BS me with credit when I have the cash available
This book is great. The chapter on the theory of the firm is particularly damning.
> You can use freshman economics to predict the average oil price in a given year, from tables of quantities supplied and demanded.

Not sure if I completely understand what you want to do, but if I do, this is not drawing supply/demand curves, this is just predicting the prices based on history of supply and demand. The supply/demand curves (that is, the model) is what I am criticizing.
Many airlines have repeaters on their planes, allowing people to place cell phone calls and send/receive text messages, usually at inflated prices.

So why do you think it's impossible?
you can do io_submit from one thread and then have some dedicated threads do io_getevent + event signalling (comes at a price though).

Still all this event goodness is not good enough for things like infiniband and the brave world of zero copy networking.
Why does it say [flagged] when it's clearly [deleted] ?
The implementation of this should give a random answer when not being truthful.

If the coin comes you heads you answer truthfully. If it comes up tails, you flip the coin again and answer if the yes if the coin is heads and no if the coin is tails. You can then no longer know if anybody is (or is not) a dog.

The probabilities can be adjusted to provide more or less privacy (while making the data less or more useful). For example, if you only answer truthfully 0.1% of the time it would be hard to know anything about anyone, at the cost of knowing the total number of dogs less precisely.
Yes, there are diminishing returns. But people who are frustrated with Go's type system aren't just blindly pushing for more precise types. They have experience with generics and have decided that the cost/benefit is worth it.

Also, the optional static type systems for languages like Python and Javascript are more precise than Go's. So when you actually decide to apply types to your code, you get more checking than you could ever get in Go.
could you elaborate on what you mean by making this distinction, please?
It is both very rejoicing to see this happen and a bit depressing that this is not already the norm for textbooks over all subjects.
Most likely not so much. They wont invest $84B in one year but rather over the next 5 or even 10 years. VW's annual R&D budget is about $14B and considering that ICE are going EoL, this should fall right within the means of normal R&D.
> Wake up at 4pm-4:30pm (yes I need a full 8 hours every night, not negotiable), you'll have much more willpower to tackle your side project in the morning before your kids wake up.

This is the exact tactic used by a friend studying PhD with five young kids. She got the PhD in four years.

Also if you do a lot of manual labour - gardening, stacking shelves whatever - sleep becomes the obvious choice.
> and the Windows Way™ has it's own problems

Could you expand on that?

(I'm assuming that by the "Windows Way", you mean I/O completion ports.)
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On an ongoing basis? Probably can't. Differential privacy may work OK for one-off measurements, but it's known to leak when doing ongoing measurements of data that's somewhat correlated over time such as emoji use. It's not clear there's any way around this.
Gallon of whole milk was $3.50 at Whole Foods in Berkeley yesterday. A welcome sight indeed. I also noticed butter prices were very discounted so picked up an extra brick.

From one milk lover to another, what's your favorite and additionally best value brand for milk? I haven't recorded my preferences but seem to remember disliking Trader Joe's and being plenty surprised by a value brand or two.
Ah, is this the new pro-fossil-fuel set of talking points?

Edit: see recent HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15217697 ; if my moving the decimal point is correct that's £0.06 per kWh.

Overall energy consumption is quite flat: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/... possibly due to all those EU-imposed energy efficiency directives.
>>> POSIX I/O is stateful

>> This is fundamental to the authorization model. Authorization happens at file open time. It's also what enables the stream abstraction.

> This is very true, but in the workloads the author is talking about, there are often times that a stateless API would enable a more efficient implementation. Think about what is going on in your file server when you have 100k clients all accessing the same open file.

Kernel can already cache such checks, I suppose. If you open a file 100k for 100k users you definitely have other scaling problems to solve first. Even if that becomes a bottleneck, a simple userspace LRU can solve the problem.

I don't understand how having the permission check performed upon every operation is faster than performing it only once at open.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/04/14/tech/mobile/phones-in-flig...

> The maximum distance at which a phone can still make calls and send texts varies depending on the type of tower and transmitter, but an airplane would have to be no more than 10,000 feet in the air for any cell phones on board to still have a signal,

If the plane offered cell connectivity itself it's another matter entirely. Those planes sure did not.
Yeah, it looks like the choices are between competent+PRISMed and incompetent. The former can likely only be accessed by the Five-Eyes. The latter may be secure, but may also be insecure and accessed by anyone. What would you bet on? For me, a deciding factor is that I don't live in a Five-Eyes country.
Also there's a big difference between 1) a company collecting and selling your data to other companies 2) a company giving authorities access to your data for complying with anti-terror laws.

I'm not implying i agree with how far governments go to intrude into peoples privacy. Just pointing out that i agree with OP that there's a big difference between for example Googles and Apples stance towards privacy.
I'd say it's more the other way around; privacy depends on obscurity. The less conspicuous you are the less you'll stand out among all the 8 billion people on the planet.
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Very nice but I cannot get this to work in MS Word
What Apple could do to is to move the bar from "rubber hose decryption" to "rubber hose account access" by offering a dead simple cloud recovery. Imagine a "Flight mode" where everything on your phone is backed up to apple and your phone is presented with an "enter backup id and password" dialog which allows you to load anyone's cloud backup and is essential a factory reset. Border control might still force you to enter a backup id and password under the assumption that you surely have one, but (to my limited knowledge of the US legal framework) it would not be a felony to load a "duress" backup id (because there is no such thing as a duress backup id, just different data sets).
Thanks for your explanation! The bit about the front of the train stopping and the back of the wagons really helped visualize this for me. (together with the rest of your explanation).
You cannot trust the WiFi chip either. In fact, I bet baseband is better on the security front than either Bluetooth or WiFi.

See BroadPwn.
Also from central Europe (same climate zone as Germany) so I can answer.

Central heating in Europe usually works this way. You have a boiler in the ground/underground level of the building which turns water into steam which is pumped to radiators in the building through vertical pipes.

Most of boilers I have seen in central Europe use gas so it wouldn't be included in electricity bill. There are electric boilers as well but I haven't seen a lot of them out there, it seems like a rarity to me.

We have abundance of cheap gas so it makes sense most people would use gas boilers as you'll save money.

Another big factor is in central Europe doesn't need AC which is a massive electricity hog in places with warmer climate.

I think most of your crazy electricity bill in Australia is because of AC no? Do you have electric or gas boiler?
I've found my Facebook usage just going down in general over the years. Switching to the Messenger app and messenger.com on desktop to chat with friends has made it much easier not getting distracted by the newsfeed at random times. Plus, I switched off a whole bunch of notifications and email subscriptions and actually went through my 'friends' and marked most of them as acquaintances, so I mostly don't hear about them, which improved the quality of the feed immensely. In general, ignoring all Facebooks feeble attempts at engagement doesn't really seem all that difficult to me. And being able to look up "what was the address of that event I'm invited to again?" on the phone is nice, so I don't particularly want to delete the FB app either. So in short, it sounds to me like a lot of people are having a much harder time ignoring Facebook than I do - I wonder if maybe they just need to tweak a few things like I did, and they could happily co-exist without being bothered by it, or if there is something else at play too?
I'm not sure. Learning how to use a camera is simpler than learning how to responsibly use a gun.
I've always thought native handling of markdown for email would be pretty cool.

The MUA could strip out any HTML embedded in the actual markdown, render to HTML locally (for display) and you have nice formatting without the risks or cruft of email HTML.

And of course if you choose to view in text only mode, you don't actually lose any semantic meaning.
Their new logo screams airline to me - I can only see it on the side of an aircraft.
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And in practice it is close to that, due to cheating hardware with a cache.
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You had it right the first time. ISO on most cameras is very much implemented via analog gain up to a certain point, beyond which "digital gain" is applied.
Because those flights did not and US airlines in general don't at least not then.
7.50.1 The repost can be found here https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/a/aa/Curl-report.pdf

You don't have to do a full audit on each version, auditing the deltas should be fairly comprehensive. Now, there could be some malicious code hidden that gets triggered by a begnin change, but otoh, no audit ever will guarantee full security.
We don't trust them. We are forced to say we do, because the other option (to go without all the services gated on that answer) is so uncomfortable as to be non-viable for most.
Isn't Samsung considered to be kind of an arm of the South Korean government? They also make weapons of war and other military equipment, and they haven't proven to be ethically or morally responsible, if not outright reprehensible.

For many people, their only positive quality seems to be "Not Apple."
Different is easy. Different and generally pleasing (making sense) is a much harder proposition.

ML models have problems handling even medium level structure much less something long term.
How many non-wood buidings collapse after a fire? None except tower 7 that I have heard of.
Pretty much agreed, though not living in a five eyes country doesn't mean any of those eyes aren't 'looking' at you. :)
Intel ME was widely known of before BadBIOS. BadBIOS is still nonsense.
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You do the same thing in physics when your calculations assume no friction or wind resistance.

It's not because friction or wind resistance aren't commonly present in real life. Of course they are. It's because they're tougher to calculate and often require estimation. You'd be missing the point if you assumed these calculations are meaningless because you're not including those factors. They're just ways the answer could change in real life applications that need to be kept in mind.

And just like they don't footnote every physics example with "[1] In the real world, friction and wind resistance exist and will affect the end result," they don't do it in economics, either. This is kind of an understanding of the basics of the concepts.
depends. often the meritocracy of performance reviews is skewed by extroversion and pleasantness of a person toward management, which doesn't have much of a way to judge real skill unless form a technical background and actively working on the codebase.
And a link to the site/book: http://www.core-econ.org/ - seems like it is getting the hug of death.
A bit far-fetched, but: I read one theory that artic icebergs melting did not produce a rise in sea-level was because the crust may have moved slightly vertically with the change in ice-mass weighing it down.

If the crust is getting slightly redistributed in one place, might there not be some pings and bongs elsewhere?
How does it compare to SYCL that someone else mentioned in another comment?

Sounds like it's trying to do a similar thing
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Installing the necessary packages and dealing with dependencies, installs that don't work is always the longest part of any project I do (or at least it feels that way).

I am running Ubuntu if that makes any difference (thought mirroring the web server would make it easier for deployment).

Do you people have any tricks/softwares/OS you use that you find has greatly eased setting up a project's environment? I had a look at Docker and while the store is growing its still missing quite a bit (e.g. react-rails image).
Yes, it's a problem from our end. I would support some policy mechanisms to support mining in a way which was environmentally sound and reliable.
> merely because under those assumptions it's actually feasible to build models

I think it's a really bad excuse in age of computer modelling and when we have mathematical tools to deal with dynamical systems.
Well at some point one can never know things for sure. BUT, not running it on the device you want to filter would be a good step. And default deny.

Security is a matter of layers, there is not one layer that fixes all.
Even if solar were same price as "dirty" energy what would be the rate at which you build solar to keep up with the increasing demand of energy ?
More or less the same. It was a standard junior freelance rate that would be acceptable in The Netherlands [1].

[1] The source is in Dutch but Google Translate works good enough to understand the gist, see: https://uurtarief.tips/nl/zzp/ict/uurtarief-ict-zzp-freelanc...
'Tinfoil hat' is a derogatory term designed to intimidate and silence truth-seekers. Given that many so-called 'tinfoil hat' theories about illegal activities within the USG turned out to be true - what would a suitable, equally derogatory, antonym be?
China is ultimately a global superpower, and its government clearly has wide public support domestically. My hope that I can alter how mining is regulated in China is pretty much nil, that has to be up to the Chinese population to reject their government, to force them into action, or to acquiesce.
What really pissed me off recently, is that after deleting my FB account, whenever I login with email/password to a web site where I previously connected my FB (Spotify, for example), it restores my FB account without asking me and tells about it to my FB friends. Why the hell does it even keep a list of friends if I deleted the whole thing?.
Yes, I failed to mention the roaming exception was for calls only.

Since this summer, roaming charges are also banned altogether within the EU.
Certainly on iOS, the Facebook app eats battery like nobody's business.

I simply use the mobile website which is pretty good - and if I need to take a peek at messenger, I request the desktop site, which is sufficiently inconvenient to prevent me from doing it too often - about once a week.