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Yes, I get it, you really don't like what Hillary said. Neither does she; in her new book she calls that statement one of her biggest mistakes.

But one politician's ill-considered indulgence in the heat of a campaign does not make your case that "politicians are not doing anything" to help coal miners.

Quite clearly, the opposite is true. Coal miners are America's most fashionable symbol of blue-collar righteousness, and politicians on both sides of the aisle are tripping over each other to be seen "doing something" for them. In both state and national politics, this has given coal miners influence way out of proportion to their constituency, and far beyond that of any other jobless group such as former steel-workers or loggers or out-of-work retail store workers.

Invoking the bogeyman of coal-hating elites is nothing more than a way to keep a political football inflated.
First result on Google: http://tangledhelix.com/blog/2012/04/28/iterm2-keymaps-for-t...
Totally agree. hopefully this time the laptops weren't all owned by amt
It's not a bug, it's a puzzle
I am implying an inconsistent wifi with speed or LAN issues. The wifi goes down all the time at my house because of Spectrum/time warner cable issues. My iPhone prior to Wifi Assist will use the network at my house if it has a good wifi connection regardless if was broken or just slow.
Since we're talking about anthropocentric climate change, it's safe to assume "life" means "life as we know it". But you already knew that.
I've only ever known awesome Russians. My comment is mostly a joke about ignorance.
I'm reminded of the days of CDROM speeds, when at one point, 2X, 3X, 4X, etc. described an actual multiple of the baseline 150 KB/sec performance. Eventually, the number started measuring only the peak theoretical speed of reads from the outer edge of the disc. It ceased to be a meaning comparative measurement and pretty much became a version number.
> That isn't necessary.

Yes it is, if you care about your users.

> Most of the "updates" you are talking about are usually tuning OpenGL/Direct3D/etc. t

Thanks to Vulkan that’s irrelevant anyway – I’m talking about stuff like shadowplay or similar functionality, and the APIs for that.

> It's true that graphics APIs (especially Vulkan) are continually changing

> You mentioned a few of the "technologies" that AMD seems insistent on a proprietary implementation for.

Stop being so stubborn, please. You still don’t get it. I’m not talking about the graphics APIs, which change on a scale of months to years.

I’m talking about exactly these additional functionalities, which are basically addons to the driver, hook into the driver, and for example dump the driver state at a moment (for 3D screenshots), or keep a memory buffer of the current videostream (for instant replay and share), or so on.

None of this functionality has to be closed source.

If you want to have this functionality open, the best solution is to work on a stable ABI for them, so that AMD builds many separate modules for each, and you can slowly clone each of them with an open version, or AMD can selectively open them.

> If AMD works with the kernel devs, they will have more developers. It's the idea that a manufacturer must force themselves to do all the work that makes no sense to me.

You mean, developers that still don’t get the entire point of what I’ve been talking about, developers that suggest they’d rather have people use Windows than add a stable driver ABI into Linux, developers that want to force a release cycle of several years onto drivers?

Because that’s the reality of forcing drivers to be mainlined without a stable ABI.

The majority of users will be stuck on a several year old kernel.

How the hell do you propose adding functionality with a latency of a few days or weeks between design and release into a kernel that only does releases every half year, and LTS releases every few years?
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>the pensions of teachers and firemen are being spent on subsidizing growth of meal delivery and transportation

I don't argue against your sentiment, but you could have picked a better example, or be more precise.

Services like public transport and food delivery benefit poor people the most (where in "food delivery", I include "grocery delivery", and by "transportation", I understand "public transport"). Building an infrastructure for people to live without cars is a good thing.

I say that as someone who could not afford a car, and depended on buses and online grocery shopping back in 2005 in NY.
How does one plan around a politician making it up as they go?
Quite often they are the same suppliers, even if the branding is different; the reason they produce both is that the “better” patterns aren't universally preferred, they are just what is preferred by people with more money to spend, and the other patterns are preferred to people with less money to spend. And there is considerable money spent making sure that those differences exist and evolve over time; because it drives spending and market segmentation.
I ordered recently from a restaurant in montreal that actually just used shopify itself. seemed to work well enough.
I think there's more than 1.3 billion users on WhatsApp - its massive - I am personally checking it constantly (> once an hour)

It's certainly a more popular app outside of the USA. They initially gained traction because they were willing to make apps for things other than iphones and androids - which gave them a huge following in the developing world where people may still use 10+ year old candy bars.
Can I ask why you say that? Not that I disbelieve you, but there isn't very much public information about Sasha Ostojic to go off.
Everyone I have met who have worked a long time in the database industry considers stonebreaker to be

- Overrated
- Overly Self Promoting
- Mostly not credible

That being said I love his work and his history. The red book is super famous. What gives?
You can argue that but, out of curiosity, I just sent my daughter a text.

Me: 'How long do you think you kept friendship bracelets for?'

Her reply: 'Maybe two weeks. I still have one from [redacted] somewhere.'

As I said, it surely isn't universal but she and her friends all fit that pattern. It didn't keep her from STEM, she's an MD.
I should say I have been writing production databases for almost 10 years. The people I talked to have more than 20 years exp
Have you read the Mythical Man-Month? I havent, but my understanding of the general crux is that is that adding more people to a late project only makes it later. Not (again, from my understanding) the problem Apple faces.

Of course, nine women can't make a baby in once month, but loosely speaking the narrative that's been mentioned is how Apple doesn't have two women to make two babies in 9 months.
You have global opt out with browser settings, you can use never ask again on a per site basis and you can avoid returning to the annoying sites.

You can also disable JS entirely.
I built one over ten years ago, and it's true, it's a difficult area to disrupt for these reasons.
stuff like this always makes me miss Ruby's even-shorter-hand version though :)

groceriesByDepartment.mapValues(&:count) # not ruby, but meh
> I had Simpson's references sprinkled here and there, that sort of thing.

I should offer to read your paper before criticising it, but I can't even begin to understand why you would think that references to a TV programme would help make a paper more readable. What if you don't happen to watch the Simpsons? Is the paper then even more opaque because none of the references mean anything?

I quite like the bland academic voice - because it lets me focus on what I came for which is the science. I don't want to be amused, and I don't want academics wasting time trying to be witty or fit in references to whatever TV programme is fashionable.

I want just the science, please! Delivered as clearly and simply as possible.
If you can solve the "help, I'm addicted to the internet" problem that this person posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15431208 you could do a whole lot of good. The existing apps out there don't work for a lot of people, but something new might.
This is an example of stonebraker being crazy
You can only plan on so much.

Notably: I only modeled traffic. I am not to blame. ;-)

(I have used that caveat so many times.)
also sorry for the last name pun
In the classical prisoner's dilemma it doesn't matter whether the prisoners can fully communicate with each other or not as long as it hold that they cannot change their move after seeing what the other guy moved. And it's perverse because they both have a strategy A that strictly dominates B but if they both play A then they're worse off than if they both played B.
Point taken regarding criminals using criminal methods to gain anonymity, and I have little doubt that often the real agenda behind government action in this field is accumulation of power and control over the population in the guise of protecting it. However, like with guns, when there is an abundance of them and they can be easily and legally obtained, you will probably end up with more casualties by criminals who would otherwise perhaps not have seen the investment (and risk) in obtaining one worthwhile. To be clear, I am for everyone's freedom for total anonymity and believe it is a faster way to a better world than trusting governments with too much power - it's just that I think that it doesn't come without a price.
Commercial HSM have ways of exporting the key they hold onto smartcards. Usually the keys are split onto a number of smartcards, let's say 3. For increased robustness, each third is written to two smartcards. (We now have 6 cards.) These smartcards each belong to one person, who is the only one knowing the PIN that protects the third of the key it holds. Each of these smartcards is then brought to different bank vault, sealed in tamper-proof bags.

To restore the key, you need to bring 3 out of 6 persons to the so-called key ceremony, and each has to bring his smartcard and his PIN.

The same mechanism can be used to provision multiple HSMs with the same key material. But there are other means to do this. As soon as two HSM share a common secret, also known as Key Sharing Key, they are able to exchange all key material they possess in a secure manner.

Some HSM don't even bother to store the keys they generate within the bounds of their hardware. Only it's master key is stored in it's hardware, any other key is encrypted with the master key and stored on a shared filesystem.

If this sounds artificial to you, let me assure you that such procedures are in place at various companies who deal with raw credit card data, at least in Europe. The EMV committee, the PCI organization and each issuer of credit card do mandate such procedures.

And they are very strict. We once had to ship HSMs back to the vendor, because at some point they were not supervised by at least two persons. (At least the documentation thereof was missing.)
I don't disagree, but you did see where Levandowski got $120 MILLION DOLLAR BONUS from Google right? There are literally billions of dollars of investment risk riding on the outcome of self driving coding and so nobody in a 'company' context would be likely to be motivated to share anything at all about how they were going about it. It would be like asking folks who wrote lottery software to open source their PRNG implementation so that people could see how cool their technology was :-). The brief upside of 'coolness' is massively outweighed by the major downside of 'used this against you and cost you millions.' right?
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Or the 'california no': "yes, but now isn't the right time [and will never be]" or "no, not today [nor tomorrow, nor ever]". Gives you false hope for no reason.
Now it shows you the live current location of all your friends, no one I know has it turned off.

Wth people?
> You're just concerned about projecting the appearance
> that you care.

This is a completely unnecessary, uncharitable attack. The reasonable interpretation of the parent comment is that they do actually care about climate change but the two of you disagree on which mechanisms will most effectively reduce it.
I absolutely agree that restaurants shouldn't give the whole profit margin to Seamless and that they should, as you did, pursue alternate marketing tactics that use Seamless as an entry point, but hold on to the customer and build a direct relationship.
For further reading about the high quality of database query optimization, and how far back MR et al must have set things, recent SIGMOD work managed to get to within 1000x of a single-threaded implementation (and so, not quite within that of data-parallel systems):

https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2017...

I don't use databases because they are really quite bad at computation.

In my opinion, the main recent novelty in query planning has been the work on worst-case optimal joins, stuff like EmptyHeaded[1] and the recent FAQ work[2].

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02368

[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.04044
This isn’t just necessarily a problem with WhatsApp. The same applies to IRC, if you set away states.

Even if you don’t set away states, one can simply monitor every channel you’re in, every message you send, and then quickly determine what timezone you’re in, when you sleep, when you’re on vacation, etc.

Here’s an example graph of a user, every dot is a message: https://i.imgur.com/DrgVvVw.png and here one from a user with more regular sleep patterns: https://i.imgur.com/a1xdSqR.png (notice the timezone transition when daylight savings time starts? And notice how the user takes about 2 weeks to adjust?)
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You're right. And I guess it should be mentioned that I usually buy the first of anything Apple makes (the AirPods are amazing!).

I just thought it was worth pointing out that that quip usually is applied to more than just Apple. I guess its kind of a riff of the programming "never be the biggest user of x" mantra.
Applying medical statistics to Backblaze Hard Drive stats
It does make me wonder about Fallout 2, where you could have varied levels of morality in the game and play would adjust accordingly.

By the way, it was the greatest computer RPG ever made - at least until that point. I know, that's just my opinion but I have conviction.

Err... I'd stop gaming after Fallout Tactics, but that's a topic for another day.
lots of people don't want others to visualize them dancing but the dancing emoji just isn't for them.
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> the "secretary who can't figure out copy/paste" issue is becoming less relevant every day.

Well, yeah, since the non-executive secretaries have been replaced by Office and network drives, essentially.
I seem to never find areas with which this quote doesn't apply: "We shape our tools, thereafter they shape us."

In short I think web developers build with the tools they know are capable of delivering a spec but this does not necessarily mean those tools are the only capable tools for some inherently unchangeable reason.

If some tool comes along that can allow devs to scaffold out 90% of a complex web app without sacrificing fine-grained control for the remaining 10% it could be a winner. In my mind, however, this tool would also have to weave itself into scalable practices like git workflow, modularity so many devs can simultaneously work on one app, etc.

I think the reason there have been so many attempts at such a tool without great success is that engineers building such a tool quickly bump up against a multi-layered, exponentially complex universe of edge-cases and to tame that complexity alone likely requires an enormous amount of careful, considerate and cohesive decision-making. And once you throw in the fact that any startup will be asked to deliver an MVP ASAP you start to see why the odds are stacked against such a disciplined approach.

Where I work the codebase is massive, 100's and 100's of internal modules all working together in many "sub-apps" with teams all across the world. One task was to add a field to a form and it took 5 engineers across 4 teams 2 weeks to even get it in a testing stage. Maybe an app this size is not the best target for such a tool but if it were it'd have to account the massive operational complexity as well, the human processes at scale.
Thank you! Before you did that I had resigned myself to missing that comment, it was unreadable on mobile.
I actually know a "psychologist/artist/technologist," an I'm sure they'll be fine, too.
Could you please not post unless you have something substantive and on-topic to say?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How I caught Ticketmaster selling my email to Groupon
To track the source of unsolicited emails I receive, I use a small trick. Every time I sign up on a website I add a + domain to my gmail address (you still receive the email).

Today I received a spam email from Groupon to email+ticketmaster@gmail.com. (screenshot - https://twitter.com/martindaniel4/status/917454181094453248)

That basically means that Ticketmaster sold my email to Groupon.

They both lost at least one customer.
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> There are literally dozens of packages that will register and renew certs with LE using the ACME protocol, and last time I checked none of them will cause your web server to refuse to start, with a valid certificate, because LE is down.

The work Caddy has put in though beyond the tech; business, pricing, support, is what differentiates a cool "project" from a business, that effort should be applauded in my opinion. Launching a project is tough... Adding pricing, support, and creating a business is in another league of difficulty.
But the OP asked if 3nm to 10nm is an apples to apples comparison, or if they are instead measuring something different for marketing reasons. In other words: will this "3nm" tech pack 11 times as many transistors as the 10nm tech for the same area?
Actually, both capital and labour shares of output have seen a relative decline at the expense of profits. [1]

What am I missing here. I thought "profit" simply was a shorthand for "captial's share of revenue". I tried to understand the definitions at the promarket.org link but couldn't make sense of them.

I think what you are saying is that profits are being increasingly being derived by barriers to entry. That makes sense, but still those extra profits are going to be counted as captal's share of revenue.
>It wouldn't be a suprise if some research team could put out a bot achieving superhuman victories purely by out-microing an opponent with minimal strategic choices.

Yeah they did pretty much that. But the problem is it's a very brute-force approach and violates some rules of the game.

They jam thousands of commands per second into the game, and give each unit its own rudimentary AI. The units basically just dance at maximum range, magically dodge hits, etc.

If they limit it to 600 actions per minute (10 keystrokes hitting the keyboard every second - still beyond the human mind but beyond human fingers) it becomes a much harder AI problem.
This reads very much like a Bjorn Lomborg type argument - along the lines of: global warming is not proven, and anyway if it does happen it may not be all bad, and even if it is bad we could better spend the money elsewhere. Personally when it comes to disturbing planetary equilibrium I'd rather err on the side of caution.
No, they don't. The protocol supports delivery report only. And the meaning of that report isn't necessarily what you believe or wish it to be:
...the exact meaning of confirmations varies from reaching the network, to being queued for sending, to being sent, to receiving a confirmation of receipt from the target device...(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS)
Yeah, right? I don't think the drag -> drop coding does a lot of help when it comes to learning.

Talking to my male peers, I learned that most of them started coding when they were Tweens, largely because they wanted to make games or found an open source project they loved. Jewelbots are designed to be the same for girls. So far so good!
Same in India.
I'm praying for a day when SV has been replaced by largely remote and decentralized teams. Spreading the wealth and opportunity beyond the privilege bubble and exposing the industry to a more representative distribution of political preferences.

It may just be a dream, but I do feel hope as SV has been getting backlash for it's identity politics and new blockchain tech is looking to be a way to enable decentralized remote organizations.
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In some cases, it is explicitly stated by the prospective employer that any refusal of requested information (or providing false information) will be met with a rejection letter.

I have been on interviews where this is part of a boiler plate release/waiver for a background check, prior to receiving an offer letter, and on the same form, you are made to list prior employers, and fill in the salary box for each.

And if you don't like it, good luck taking legal action, right? Whether something is legal or illegal, most people lack the resources to even entertain the idea of challenging legality.

The only path that seems to effectively buffer this practice is working with recruiting agencies, which do a better job of negotiating, but do still collect this information. And although recruiters might only be capable of telling you whether you have real leverage for your salary demands, whether the recruiter is being paid by you or the employer is a clue as to who they're working for.

Hint: if you aren't paying them out of pocket, recruiters aren't actually working for you, even if they seem really pleasant.
When it's of immediate local benefit to the individual, yes.
This reminds me of the badges at Queercon that are specifically made to interact with each other via radios or physical connection.
https://hackaday.com/2017/08/07/inside-this-years-queercon-b...
>all the capabilities of an Apple Watch

The site makes it appear as if your device is running a microcontroller, AVR or similar. The Apple watch is a full on ARM processor running an operating system.

But perhaps you meant something else by the statement? I'd be curious to know what all is inside.

Edit: Poking around your github repos, it appears the device has a Nordic nRF51822, basically an SoC with an Arm Cortex M0 microcontroller plus a Bluetooth module.
Microsoft is not part of the music ecosystem.

("PlaysForSure is not part of the Zune ecosystem" - Microsoft flack, 2006)
In Norway, everyone's salary is published online by the government.
There is always demand for a free tier, after all its free. Don't listen to this feedback, freemium is a marketing tool that requires a lot of capital for scaling and additional support, nothing available when bootstrapping. 2usd / month is hard too, because you will loose most of it to transacrion costs. Maybe a yearly or one time fee for up to x comments? The free version could be a trial of sorts, the first 50 comments free.
All of my teams, at at least one point during my time there, had zero women in them.

One of the teams eventually had two women, but at that point six of the men shared a name with another team member.
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In chat applications, those features were the first to get disabled. As I recall, one of the MSN Messenger features required you to sign in before you disabled it.

Anyhow, I'd disable showing online status, typing status, or automatically changing status based on activity.

This was a decade and a half ago, probably longer. The principle remains the same. No, no I don't want you to know when I'm in front of my computer, typing, or otherwise. If I want to appear online, I'll manually do so.