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Duo is certainly not "failed"; it's actually doing very well internationally. It has the best video quality at the least bandwidth.

If I launched an app that got over a hundred million downloads and had many millions of monthly users I certainly wouldn't call that a failure!
Yeah, but it is quite bad that computers with the same price as mobile phones do get updates, while Android is at the whims of bean counters at OEMs.

All because Google don't want actually sort it out.

Given that OEMs are expected to push updates themselves on Treble certified devices, I don't have any hopes that the whole update chaos will improve.
Well it's the same case either side.
Since I have stopped travelling for the moment, I'll now respond.

IS this a type 300,000 square miles?

If you really want to put a 1 metre ocean level rise, you need 30% of the ice coverage of Iceland to melt and flow into the oceans.

Do the calculations and you see that the amount of ice required is beyond enormous. A uniform 45 metre thick layer across the entire Australian mainland is required to raise worldwide ocean level 1 metre. That is about the same uniform thickness across the USA mainland (exclude Alaska). 45 metres would be equivalent to a 14 or 15 storey building.

The energy requirements for the conversion from solid to liquid is approximately equivalent to the total daily solar flowthrough for our planet. Considering that a study looked at a 50 to 70 period and the energy absorbed by the oceans. A couple of fun ideas out of it, were that only a small percentage of the absorbed radiation entered the ice caps (some where between 2% and 5% - at most). How much actual ice melt was unknown.

But let's give them the benefit and say all of the absorbed energy managed to cause ice melt, at 5%, we are looking at we are looking at 1000 years before a 1 metre rise could even be possible, If we take the lower figure, we are looking at 2500 years.

This is a major discrepancy with the models that are giving predictions of 1 metre rise in 100 years, up to 10 or more metres in 100 years.

There is a problem with the models. Mind you there is always problems with the models.

If the gets more active, we could see a magnifying effect, if the sun gets less active, we see a diminishing effect.

As long as climate scientists and those that they convince of their "dogma" keep claiming that they "know the truth" and keep making this political, we miss the opportunity to do real and accurate highly mapped profiles of the energy distribution and movement across the globe. There are many assumptions being made in these models that are not being vetted.
I've been through Creature a few times but I can hardly remember a reference to the SEC. Of course if you are trying to make the point that it was a systematic move to control all mechanisms around banking, and by extension the SEC would be toothless from the start, then you need to say it and back it up instead of just telling someone to read a pretty obtuse volume. It's a good read about the fed and the international banking cabal in general but I don't think it's specific enough for talk of the SEC.

That said, I find it very interesting that JFK's father Joseph P. Kennedy was the first one in charge of "cleaning up wallstreet" via the SEC, but all the indicators show it was much more about going after the mid-level and low-hanging fruit on wallstreet in order to assuage the publics view of the markets (remember the 29 crash was in recent memory as SEC was formed in 34).

Please, us conspiracy theorists have a hard enough time on the internet, if you are on HN please take the time to put in some effort (one of the things that makes HN consistently better for discussion than other forums), otherwise you are just making it harder on us to reach others.
This is why the hype typhoon of ICOs makes no sense on HN. If you did a "Show HN" with a site that was all pedigree and vagaries, no product, it would get torn to shreds. But by and large, ICO coverage seems breathless and overblown.

It's nice to see the SEC take a more active role though. Maybe they can be a decent enough filter where the ICO world can grow enough trust to be a legitimate vehicle for investing.
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Off topic here - but thank you so much for PortableApps.com. I actually haven't used it much in the past few years, but it was hugely helpful to me back when I was living in a country with no home Internet connection and only outdated, virus infested software at local cybercafes. PA and the ability to execute programs from a Windows save dialog got me through those years (:
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Here’s a reddit survey of people’s favorite posts, which closely matches my own:

https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/61qrm2/favo...

If your main interest is psychology, though, note that many of the top posts are more in the sociology and politics realm.
I’ve read SpaceX uses Linux to fly Falcon and Dragon. If true, I wonder how they got happy with it for safety critical tasks. Or maybe those safety critical tasks get offloaded to microcontrollers with easier to audit codebases.

edit:
reference to the article- https://lwn.net/Articles/540368/
Are you positive? I checked with Google and I may have the wrong keywords, but I'm not seeing that as a law in the United States.

Sadly, I have not just one - but two friends who have lost their jobs for showing up incapacitated. One wasn't alcohol, though. They were stuffed full of amphetamines - but the first one was drunk. Neither mentioned any employer offers of rehab.
It seems to be meaningfully affecting the company in a negative way. Look at other big tech companies -- they all have aligned leadership and clear missions. Uber is a chaotic mess in comparison. That certainly isn't helping with the ability to attract talent. The engineers I know who worked at Uber have already all left.
My OS is Arch Linux.... so no
Wait a minute, I have one of those and they're hard enough to open two-handed, your arm would break the sound barrier before you could flick this thing with enough speed to open it one-handed. Is this really considered a gravity knife?
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I'm of two minds. On the one hand I hate the practices that software companies engage in order to create income from software that is not sold to users. On the other hand, I hate the idea that $8.99 has become an outrageous price for a software company to charge.

And to be clear, there's no free lunch. Small open source projects often burn out developers when the software is not built as part of their job and big open source projects funded by corporation and built to serve that corporation's interests such as React or Kubernetes and aren't useful to ordinary users in the way that Paint.NET is.
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A huge number of journalists is being arrested in Turkey. Turks who say bad things about Erdogan and/or Turkey on social media often get arrested.
> The digital gold narrative is newer and perhaps more powerful but I wouldn't call the transaction fees irrelevant.

The digital gold narrative comes from the blockstream|core|/r/bitcoin narrative that is desperate to keep the block size limit from expanding because their entire business plan is based around it. Anyone with common sense can see that a currency without fluid transactions is not very valuable, but with the constant and excessive censorship on /r/bitcoin and bitcoin talk some people have bought into thinking this somehow makes sense.
Massachusetts General Law (Part IV, Title I, Chapter 269, Section 10) includes a long paragraph that describes a variety of knives as dangerous weapons.

I was on a grand jury that considered a spring-assisted knife charged under this statute. Our legal guidance was to have the ADA read this dense paragraph out loud. A majority voted to indict.
I rather think it's time to give emacs-eww another chance as well.
Oh absolutely! I've had the same thing too for as long as I can remember. Aircraft cockpits especially interest me, and I can spend hours looking at physical switches.

I created a subreddit, maybe there are more of us? /r/ControlPanels/
I think the point is, though, that there's plenty of resources available in Mandarin and Russian to be able to get really good at programming from a young age, even if you don't learn English until later.

Contrast with, say, an African child of well-to-do parents who has access to computers and the Internet but who doesn't (yet?) speak English. Good luck finding lots of coding resources.
>This kind of personal attacking is totally uncalled for here.

If that was true, new accounts wouldn't be clearly marked as green in the comments.
> I have to admit that I haven't researched it much, but I haven't heard anything in the mainstream media about fraud during the elections or the referendum to expand the presidents powers

Unsurprisingly, there were major (in the order of millions of votes) frauds.
Flicks aren't required. The thumbhole on the blade is there specifically to enable a one-handed opening, and would likely therefore qualify as a "gravity knife", whatever we might think of such a classification.
> I believe that any knife that can be opened one handed would qualify, no?

This would include things like box cutters (utility knifes).
This is worse done than Brexit. Brexit had a public debate, this didn't. For some people being independent also means to be part of the European Union, let the Barcelona FC play in the Spanish league, getting funding from the central government of Spain, no borders, etc. There is only hate in both sides that has been fed by politics during years. I am quite sure an open debate would have reach a middle point that would have make happier everybody. Catalans that don't want to be independent are also angry with the central government because they want the right to vote. Numbers were never made public but 80% of catalans want the right to vote and only 33% have stated clearly they want to be independent whatever it means. If people go to vote probably they won't be independent, but with this referendum how is being done a lot of people are not even going to care and only nacionalist will vote.
Does this article seriously claim 25% of women are raped? Troubling if correct.
Probably not, I was shocked first time i heard but i've seen it a few times also. Most common complaint I hear is that everything is underlined in red as errors because you have a different code style or misspell things. Other common complaints are that the debugger buttons are non intuitive (both location and icons), hotkeys don't follow common conventions, or that it's hogging the computer resources. Although the latter is maybe not relevant in this discussion about UI-design.
I would say “the executive branch”
There’s a legal foundation but it’s still an active political argument as is teen birth control. We have made progress but I wouldn’t say anything is guaranteed.
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They are not capital-L official Luddites, but they could be classified as colloquial lowercase-L luddites.
It's not that it's a local maxima. There really isn't any economic incentive to care about investing in technologies that can't be turned into a profit in a few years. Capitalism is doing a fine job optimizing, it's just optimizing the wrong function.

>humans are bad at predicting the future, so attempting to allocate resources perfectly is probably a waste of resources.

It's hard to do worse than "random" or "not at all", which is basically what our current system is. Sure it brought us GPUs. But that's pure coincidence that what video games require happened to be what AI requires. If we weren't so lucky that two completely unrelated industries happened to require the same technology, we would never get AI.

Imagine tomorrow someone make a superior graphics chip. That's somehow highly specialized to 3d rendering in video games and does nothing else. Dropping all the general purpose computation and linear algebra stuff. Gamers would all switch to it and the market for GPGPUs would die and AI would stop advancing, or even reverse.

And GPUs aren't that weird or surprising of an invention to invest in. Increased computing power benefits many scientific fields besides AI and would be an obvious investment for a hypothetical central planner.
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> But that's true of people too.

Sure, the problem is we are more willing to ignore failures that are similar to how we fail. IMO, when we compare AI approach X vs. Y we need to consider absolute performance not just performance similar to human performance.

Deep learning for example gains a lot from texture detection in images. But, that also makes it really easy to fool.
My brother got charged as a result this law as the police wanted information about one of his friends. It is enforced very selectively too. If you can swing it down very hard and it opens, it is a gravity knife and thus criminal possession of a weapon. It is a bad law, and according to their definition nearly every pocket knife is a gravity knife.

There was an effort to repeal it, but for some reason governor Cuomo decided to veto it. https://kniferights.org/legislative-update/new-york-gravity-...
Even holding the blade?
How do you guys determine their age or even gender?

These are fictional characters, they can be 500 years old and have 3 penises.
The problem is that you can't look up those stats. They don't exist. I'm not talking about Federal Budget alone or roads alone. I'm talking about Federal Taxes, State Taxes, and Local Taxes as they apply to roads, electric lines, sewage, bridges, community centers, and the myriad other projects that go into supporting a healthy community.

There is a well established flow of taxes from urban areas to rural areas. We frame it as a progressive flow of taxes from high-income to low-income, but much of that low-income is tied to geography. I think the reaction to my post reinforces this. Comments in support of NY's export of low-income citizens out of the city have been up-voted. But, as I predicted, observing that rural Americans are consuming more public services than they pay for has drawn outrage. It's easy to call homeless people a problem, but people get angry when you point out how reliant they are on the government for their rural lifestyle.
What is this "Windows" "Store" you speak of? /s
In her blog, the author (Elaine Ou) is conflating different meanings of the word "interested".

When people ask, "how do I get my daughter _interested_ in computers?", they often mean:

- "interested" == "find joy/play/fun"

But Elaine's essay is answering it by interpreting "interested" this way:

- "interested" == "understand and value the practical business work skills"

Using substitution, Elaine interprets the question as: "how do I get my daughter to understand and value the practical business work skills in computers?"

It doesn't mean Elaine's perspective is not valid. However, we have to be aware that she's not addressing what many people mean by being "interested".
Agreed it’s not a switchblade, it differs fundamentally in that it doesn’t have a spring and is not automatic. You take that thing, remove a bit, have this thing.

Wikipedia:

A switchblade is a type of knife with a folding or sliding blade contained in the handle which is opened automatically by a spring when a button, lever, or switch on the handle or bolster is activated. Most switchblade designs incorporate a locking blade, in which the blade is locked against closure when the spring extends the blade to the fully opened position. The blade is unlocked by manually operating a mechanism that unlocks the blade and allows it to be folded and locked in the closed position.

Wikipedia itself contrasts gravity knife with switchblade (as of time of this comment):

A gravity knife is a knife with a blade contained in its handle, and which opens its blade by the force of inertia or gravity. As the gravity knife requires gravity or spinning motion to propel the blade out of the handle, it differs fundamentally from the switchblade, which opens its spring-propelled blade automatically upon the push of a button, switch, or fulcrum lever.

I’d think the distinction should be design intent: the Buck knife and Home Depot knife shown in article photo are not designed to actuate through a spring or gesture. A gravity knife, like a switchblade, is. So certainly closer to a switchblade without a spring rather than a locking blade folding knife.

In Africa we called these knives that were not fully automatic but required a gesture “flick blades”. Some of them are not folding, they slid straight out (or down, gravity assisted) and had a double edge like a dagger. Many of these could become switchblades again if you disassembled them and added a spring.

I also agree with you the enforcement interpretation sounds like they want it to mean any knife you could possibly shake to an open and locked position.
I believe the actual figure is 1 in 4 are sexually harassed, not raped
Or... why would I help anyone who locks my options down as hard as Microsoft?
> also, there’s one way to end all prediction error forever, and it’s something depressed people think about a lot

We believe it will end them forever. I strongly believe so. But that's still a belief, and may itself be a prediction error.
Cops get a bad rap, but the DAs haven’t come under fire. They knowingly ruin many many more innocent lives than cops. And unlike cops who may shoot in a poor split second decision, DAs knowingly and willingly destroy the lives of the innocent for their own personal gain. It’s time we put blame where it is due.
From what I’ve heard, they’ll even hold it by the blade and flick it so that the handle’s greater momentum swings it open, even if it’s physically impossible to do that with the blade end.

Handle swings out? Gravity knife. They have a very strange understanding of what “gravity” means.
This technology has been used by James Bond, Batman and many such bad-asses!

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EU was formed for opening up the market in a way that the economic benefit will be more for richer countries. In return, there are many benefits for other countries, but lifting up poor country was not that much of an aim.
1. I don't understand what any of this has to do with what I said.

2. Beware of learning philosophy from slatestarcodex. What he writes may sound very smart and convincing to people who have not studied philosophy, but Scott Alexander is often very, very misleading and extraordinarily simplistic. Much of what he brings up has been debated intensely among philosophers, with more interesting insights than his. For example, the entire exposition you laid out, with its distinction between deductive proof and inductive/probabilistic extrapolation, had already been worked out, pretty much in full, but the 17th century (see, e.g. Leibniz). We've learned a thing or two since then. In general, Alexander (and, in fact, the Rationality movement with which, I believe, he is associated) represent more or less the state of philosophy in the 17th and 18th centuries. The choice of stopping at the 18th century is, of course, one of the many ideological choices made by the Rationality movement, so take with a huge grain of salt anything you read by an author associated with that movement. Not that it's not true -- it's just very inaccurate and so, misleading. As you brought up quantum mechanics, the philosophy of the Rationalists, let's call them, amounts to Newtonian mechanics. True, but inaccurate and misses (or, in their case, chooses to ignore) some interesting and important phenomena. Of course, Newtonian mechanics just sounds better to most people, as it fits with their observations, and that is precisely what the Rationalists count on: that their 18th century philosophy would sound "common sensical" to their philosophically-lay readers, while more modern philosophy would sound, like qunatum mechanics, bizarre and foreign, and so likely to be discounted or even ridiculed by their readers.
I found Firefox very inefficient when working with large file says a 2GB file. It doesn't have filesystem api like Chrome does. There is no ability to do low-level create, read, update and delete (CRUD) file operations. For example, you cannot write bytes in the end of a file and continues to grow it. IndexedDB only allows adding and removing whole files. As the file size get big, the inefficient file handling will cause Firefox to run out of offline storage and the processing time will get longer exponentially as the file size increases.

Speed improvements are good, but the lack of basic features is what kills Firefox. It is not ready for heavy duty web app.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics#United_States

It's not quite as simple as just that number, but yes it's staggeringly high, even in developed countries. Note that most go unreported to the police for a huge variety of reasons.

Edit: some choice quotes for the lazy:

> Only 16% of rapes and sexual assaults are reported to the police (Rape in America: A Report to the Nation. 1992 and United Nations Populations Fund, 2000a)

> The 1998 the National Violence Against Women Survey described the incidence of rape as 1 in 6 and 1 in 33 men based upon the report of experiencing an attempted or completed rape in her or his lifetime.

> A 2007 survey by the National Institute of Justice found that 19.0% of college women and 6.1% of college men experienced either sexual assault or attempted sexual assault since entering college.
But as a new project they didn't have to worry about breaking things, supporting current users, etc.
That would be correct if the law was settled in this area. It is not.
Generally you also need to prove intent for fraud, and if the law is not settled, it will be hard to prove fraudulent intent.
It is not a philosophical debate in the arbitrary way that you suggest. "Observation" and "measurement" are not used by physicists in this context as common words, but as jargon with very precise meaning. Depending on what interpretation of quantum mechanics they're using, the meaning of said jargon could be subject to some debate, but that debate takes place in the context of other premises established in advance.

None of those premises involve the magical power of thinking to collapse wavefunctions, because that stems from a common conflation of the Uncertainty Principle, which is a physical phenomenon, and the Observer Effect, which is a product of poor experimental design and can be controlled for.
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An admirable move indeed if it was a physical object, but I'm not sure it's the right one when software is involved.
Thanks to Open source licensing, a fork would have been trivial: I'd have forked the project, then taken the money and donate half of it to EFF, GNU and other freedom friendly organizations. In a few years the word of mouth that brought VLC as no.1 player would replace it with a new one. Although in different contexts, it already happened with Openoffice->Libreoffice, Owncloud->Nextcloud, MySQL->MariaDB etc.
By doing so I would have helped myself and other people in need while taking money from advertisers.
It says 15% are raped. The (respectable) source is this: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/172837.pdf
These statistics are often caused by both an inflated definition of rape that includes undesired kissing, groping, or regretted interactions, and also by the fact that it's done by survey, which inflates the numbers.

Edit: I like how instead of arguing with me or having a discussion, some of you are downvoting me. Try to question statistics you hear, because usually there's a motive behind gathering those statistics in the first place. I've linked to it down below.

http://time.com/3633903/campus-rape-1-in-5-sexual-assault-se...
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