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Microsoft was the leading mobile platform. They even had apps, real apps, desktop-caliber (for the time) apps. 10 years before the iPhone.

Microsoft had the lead for a while and they got disrupted by a shinier, more consumer-friendly device. Their mistake was thinking that consumers didn't want a smartphone and aiming it at an enterprise market, like Blackberry. That "mistake" made them possibly billions of dollars over its life.

Apple took a huge risk going in the opposite direction. It's easy to look back and realize Microsoft gave up a huge market segment, but at the time things were going well for them. Their only competitor back then (Palm) bet the company on trying to make the transition to compete with Apple and... well. We all know what happened there.
Agreed - I'm into these earbuds specifically because they don't seal. I have nice headphones at home for "actual" listening.

When I'm out and about I have to balance sound quality with not getting hit by a bus. For me anything I wear outside needs to let in outside noise.
I think the closest real analogy to what your thinking is Amazon, where they sell things like the Kindle line of items, close to price. In the hope that you buy more stuff from them.

Look at the fire tablets, you have a 7" for $50, there is no way there is any profit in that price.
Why not up the number of participants to 1000? Or 1M?
Yes, but coal miners are such a small subset of middle America. I'm talking about all the blood letting between VA and CA. And (I'm not being snarky) but what would you retrain them to do? Unless those cities grow an economy, they will just be retrained, still unemployed people.

Unless you have a massive migration to large cities, it's not going to do much good.

I mean think about that for a few steps. You have millions of people in small towns all over America in ghost towns. Training will help, but until these towns start growing businesses, then what? I mean read about the Walmatization of America. Read about all the factories moving to Mexico after NAFTA. It's all dead.

The Democrats used to serve the middle class, but they stopped after Carter got demolished by Reagan. Bill Clinton pushed that retrain idea, but the blood kept flowing. Why would it be any different now?

Like it or not the default vote for most of middle America is GOP. The Dems have to actually come up with something that works to get these smaller cities and towns vibrant again if they want the votes. I don't think the establishment Dems understand America outside the coastal areas.

The latest plan from Schumer is the same. Would probably do a lot of good for the working poor in cities, but won't do much for middle America. Same ole same ole. Like I said, it's a problem neither party knows how to solve, or doesn't have the political will to solve it.
Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but I like to keep simple queries in an ORM, and then execute anything complicated as a stored procedure.
Why does this have to be done on a blockchain? Or what is gained by building this service on a blockchain?
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This all seems to revolve around less than 100,000$ woth of ads, not a multi million dollar campaign. How much exposure can this amount really buy?
What a breathtakingly stupid idea. It doesn't actually solve any of the underlying problems with UID limitations, and it removes the possibility of static analysis.
I have these in my inbox alongside many other rejection letters. It is not very nice to have.
SQL strings should always be in the hands of a DBA, not a developer. The RDBMS should get your request in the form of a SP call and get the data you need in the form of cursors.

So, SQL strings belong to the metal, not the UI.
Space science is something that greatly interests me and I'd like to get employed in aerospace contributing to space exploration. HFT for fluid simulations is just one example, but there are several other ways I'm open to getting into. Other examples include providing support for processing telemetry data, or embedded programming for the on-board hardware in launch systems.

If I will return to school, I will try to get into a good internship each summer. Many internships already pay higher hourly wages than the $20-25 I have been getting paid.

I am very self-taught myself, but as you can see it hasn't led me to a good career. Being the lone developer is actually a bad thing in the long run, and I learned the hard way that if you're the smartest person in the team, you should move up to a different team or a different company. I learn better by working with someone that can kick my ass at software development most of the time. I don't even know how to write unit tests!

But I'm also talking about the training done at big companies like Google. I expect their sort of infrastructure and resources to be top of the line.
I talk about that a little in footnote 5. The changes were mostly just syntax, which I don't think is very important. You may disagree, but surely we can both agree that the important thing is it's all in GitHub so you can see the edit history of the queries :)
Those who ignore CODD will learn it the hard way, forcefully.
20% are women in the places I have worked so you would expect there to be around 2 on average then. The probability then that a team of 10 has zero women would be around 10% so not that common.
>they tried many times to get into mobile

Tried? When the iPhone came out, Windows Mobile had already existed for 7 years and had 40%+ of the smartphone market. I'd say that's a little more than "tried".
Windows Media Player 12 of Windows 7 (and v11 of XP) are perfect. The UI is very nice, the star rating well integrated, the playlist functionality good. It plays mp3 audio, it plays avi, wmv, mpeg and mp4 videos, (and does all the advanced stuff most people don't even know about it has included)

VLC, WinAMP2, MPC, iTunes, foobar2000 are all good for one thing or the other. But for playing music files, there is no better program than Windows Media Player 11/12. The combination of XP or Win7 and Media Player is perfect. One can rate mp3 files in Explorer or in Media Player and create playlists based on that using saved searches, etc. And the cool thing all the data is stored to the metadata of the file itself, not like iTunes were all your manual edited that sits in an SQLite db and cannot be recovered or gets lost. WinAMP2 has not the best interface, and no a good rating system, but otherwise it is second best media player for mp3. Then comes iTunes, older iTunes versions had a much better UI.

Best for videos VLC or MPC

Best for music Windows Media Player or WinAMP

Unfortunately, many noobs prefer to stream music nowadays, and then they cry when they loose access to "their library" or "are stuck in airplane mode".
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/75944s/half_the_univ...

> The approximate distribution in the Universe is 5% regular matter, 25% Dark Matter, and 70% Dark Energy. Half of that 5% was missing, and now found.

> Regular matter makes stars and visible galaxies, so it is "bright". Dark Matter is so named because it does not make things we can see with telescopes directly - it is "dark". We can see the effects it makes with gravity, such as the rotation curves of galaxies, and gravitational lensing. So we know something is there, just not what it is made of. Dark Energy was invented to solve a couple of mysteries. One is the geometrical "flatness" of the Universe, and the other is the apparent acceleration of the Universe's expansion. Like Dark Matter, we don't yet know what it is. But something is causing the flatness and acceleration, so we gave it a name as a place-holder for theories.

> A similar situation happened a century ago, with the precession (shift) of Mercury's orbit with time. We thought it was caused by a planet inside of Mercury's orbit that we hadn't found yet. It was named Vulcan, after the Roman god of fire (not Spock's home planet). It turns out relativity was the right answer - the Suns gravity bends space near it, and causes the orbit to shift. Vulcan was just "a name we gave to whatever causes the observed effect".

> Dark Matter and Dark Energy could turn out to be something entirely different than types of matter and energy, but in the mean time it gives them names we can attach theories about them to.
The title's enthusiasm is completely out of whack from the actual review.

From the cons section (and this is in line with other reviews of the chip)

"Coffee Lake is the third "optimisation" of an existing architecture with no IPC improvement"

The performance gains exclusively come from the small bump in clock frequency which you could trivially get with a minor OC on the previous gen(s), and from 2 extra cores in multithreading tests (no real impact to games currently).

If you're already in the market for a new CPU and motherboard it should be on the short list. If you're not already in the market this won't make you want to upgrade.

It also means the 2- & 4- core Coffee Lake chips have no redeeming qualities over what came before, hardly a smashing success.

Side note it seems the author isn't even able to read their own charts? The author lists as a con "The 8700K runs very hot and pulls a lot of watts" but the 8700k was the lowest power consuming chip in the entire lineup that they compared it against. It has a similar power consumption to the 7700k and comes in at ~90w under load. That's peanuts for this category of CPUs.
No, you could write raw SQL (we do this alot in our Rails app) or perhaps push out your abstractions to stored procedures (not a good option IMO, but maybe better than letting my framework come up with the best SQL)
Didn't the big companies already fight down a labeling law? Maybe it's in my jurisdiction, but they want to shove their GMO stuff down the public's throat without the public having a say.

That's why people distrust GMO - the companies that distribute don't want informed choice going on.
They will not. By default there is Movies app that will play all videos
I doubt it, since iMac Pro's will be running Xeon processors.
Aren't they still working out the actual software... To make all of this work...hardware wise they are ahead but people around here have been tooting the GM horn just because they can produce cars.
Yes! We're going to write a "part 2" where we talk about the qualitative differences, which are huge.
A rant about blockchains
That is pretty good. I have never made that much money in my life and I have 10 years software experience. So my self-taught nature has its limits. I see a few people here telling me to consider the loans, but developers with a BS in Comp. Sci tend to earn more than most other graduates (on average) right out of college. At least for now, it is one of the most bang-for-the-buck majors.

My goal is to get into a good internship each summer. I'm looking to emphasize in math as well as I took some CS coursework previously (OOP and discrete structures) but it was not enough to even minor in it.
It is still better than the word-of-mouth of most of our ancestors. Our actual computer equipment will be fossilized quite well in landfills, hopefully.
The requirements are generally clearly communicated. The strictness is about publishing quality science. Someone who has not been through the peer review process before might be quite shocked by the stringent requirements to get a paper published. Again, it is NOT arbitrary; it is about making sure the journal is publishing real science and not quackery. It is entirely possible for someone outside of academia to publish, but having guidance to get through the peer review process is invaluable.
There is a middleground too - for instance sqlalchemy in python allows you use code to build queries. It's python, it does quoting right (lowering lots of sqli concerns) and it has an orm layer on top of the query builder.

You get to use the orm for a lot of braindead simple, and mild complexity stuff, and can drop down to the sql builder as it makes sense for complexity or performance reasons.

It also understands the various databases very well, so if you choose e.g. postgres, you can access most of the features without needing much (if any) "raw sql".
There are plenty of devs out there perfectly capable of writing sql (and plenty of DBAs who are actually just developers). It's not rocket science and is entirely based in CS.
The psychology behind spending big
is that EKS? or TEN?
It's quite an indictment of the current state of our tooling (not just tmux) that such an application as this is necessary. Why isn't it easy to configure this in tmux itself, and persist the resulting configuration?
Even that is frequently misleading. Take the problem of finding a maximum independent set. You can show that if you manage to approximate this problem within any constant factor then P = NP. On the other hand, finding large independent sets is a common subproblem in several graph reduction algorithms and simple heuristics often work very well on the graphs that occur in practice.
That's kinda the point. I don't believe MJ ever called himself elite. He didn't really need to, did he?
ArsTechnica is hardly 'pop tech'. Their technical analysis is reliably high calibre, they do excellent benchmarking and thorough testing, and they also do some stellar long-form science journalism. I can't really see how you could say that.
Does that also play MP3's (i.e. audio only files)?
FYI your callback link on MailChimp goes to www.rejectionconditioner.com which has no DNS entry, when it should go to rejectionconditioner.com
Introducing Torch Decision Trees
I think the scope of the discussion is whether to use an ORM when using a database that supports SQL.
Same as Amazon's phones, though. It's Android without admitting it's Android, and they're selling it as a completely different phone.

Similar to how Ubuntu is Linux, but their homepage doesn't mention the word "Linux" at all and they tried their damnedest to make it incompatible with the broader Linux community for a long time.
Their entire business is sending out emails to notify you when someone has replied to your comment.
I once had an idea for a non-profit[1]. Started to fill out an application, got about 1/5 of the way through, abandoned it because I decided it wasn't something I'd commit to, and never submitted it.[2]

Then about a month later, a rejection still floated its way into my inbox. It really stung even though I hadn't applied that round :).

P.S. - if that rejection came from someone actually viewing it, and not some autosender, that's kind of a lightweight privacy violation, at least from a usability standpoint. Most would think that an unsubmitted application would automatically be an unread one as well. But since it was in the non-profit category maybe the screener had extra time on his/her hands.

1 - chronic disease studies for multiple blue-color workplaces
2 - never did video, so couldn't have been accidentally submitted
Search your start menu for "Add Feature". There are lots of features not installed by default but part of Windows and still supported. They're not installed by default either because they're very obscure or specific functions not everyone uses (e.g. IIS, XPS). Or they're things Microsoft would like to kill off but can't because they're so entrenched (e.g. Active X, WMP).
Think you replied to the wrong person.
What's the name for the bias whereby someone reads this list once or twice and then thinks they are immune to cognitive biases? ;-)

It's one thing to read a list of biases, and another to recognize biases in the field. I've been studying biases for years, and still occasionally fail to recognize them when they are staring me in the face.

How do you practice?
And as a user of several generations of Fires, Amazon's App Store has always been noticeably inadequate.
Off topic, but you weren't kidding about it being the "crackpot" version. A quick check of the recent papers in the "Set Theory and Logic" section gave me this gem: http://vixra.org/abs/1708.0156 . Which seems to argue that Cantor Diagonalization, a method of proof known for over a century and taught in most undergraduate abstract math courses, is completely wrong. There's also a 2-page proof that P != NP http://vixra.org/abs/1709.0076

EDIT: this one probably takes the cake: http://vixra.org/abs/1406.0180 . Completely nonsensical, ramblings about fuzzy logic and "topological experiments", the same sentences repeated multiple times. The actual work seems to be taking the formulas for a circle with a line through it, showing all of his work for some Algebra I + derivative level manipulations while still making basic mistakes (the one I caught is the final equation should be "= 1", not "= 0", because he didn't take the second derivative properly), to come up with a differential equation to describe his "intersection of a circle and a line" problem. Then concludes that this "fuzzy topological non-linear differential equation" will prove very useful in solving quantum gravity, somehow.
I would like to see a variation on this that

1. requires you to fill out the YC application form to start the process; and

2. takes 7-10 days to get back to you with the inevitable rejection.

There's a whole separate psychology involved in getting over the hump of submitting the application, when you know that not only might you be rejected, but you'll have to spend a lot of effort to get rejected, and won't find out whether you have been for quite a while. That, in my mind, is the feeling you have to "get used to."

(For a bonus, let the applicant respond to the rejection email with special pleading. Auto-reject that after 7-10 days as well.)
> that Intel stayed at 4 cores for the desktop for so long has been unfortunate

That's why my next cpu will be AMD: Intel needs competition to stay sharp.
They also have invested in Lyft for $500 Million USD.
See https://blog.lyft.com/posts/lyft-1billion-gm
It doesn't appear that Doc Brown, within the scope of the movies that we see, ever came to grips with just how horrifying the universe he lives in is. It's got many of the same issues that proof of and access to an infinite multiverse does.

Doctor Who fits somewhere in the middle, where the universe is more mutable than you might like but still is supposed to have some general flows and rules about what can't be changed, albeit presented as being so complicated than only the Doctor can even hope to understand them. And when writers process this properly there is always a sort of manic, edge-of-sanity element to the Doctor which makes sense.

Gandalf doesn't live in the same sort of universe, though. He lives in something more like our real universe, where actions have consequences and can't be undone, or sidestepped by just shooting a portal gun and stepping across to the next universe. And also, perhaps even more importantly, he lives in a universe where it is not possible for a time traveler from the far future to suddenly appear or for Rick to step out and just start killing people because he's in a bad mood and who cares about fantasy-era bumpkins?

I don't think Rick is too far out of line, in terms of the universe he lives in.
Run your own DNS server, such as dnsmasq. For example I have a homegrown script that gets a few adblocking lists and constructs a dnsmasq config out of them (dedupe + merge + map to black hole IP).
Right, but then customers are going to be either really disappointed at that number or the price is going to skyrocket when basically every internet package becomes dedicated.

Under your rule there would really be no way to sell 'best effort, capped at X' internet packages.
I so agree. It would be more worthwhile to terraform the Australian outback or Gobi desert and put a forest and settlers there than oxygenated domes on Mars. Not to say that space exploration should never be an agenda, but rather we select projects that have a national or scientific ROI with little to no harm caused to any individual.
Ha, sorry, that was a stretched interpretation of the term official from me, I meant it's the second modern language kids study at most schools.
It's odd that, despite the big emphasis on increased power consumption in the review, the TDP is still specified as only 95W. I was expecting something much higher, at least in the 130-140W range.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CPU_power_dissipation_...
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15434340.
It funny because the way to add WMP back is through the Add/Remove Features wizard.
Yeah you're right. I'd forgotten about the radio show.
I think the issue is that they don't adjust for what the market is offering, they just take a standard NYC salary and adjust it depending on your city's rent.

So if your city has a better market-salary:rent ratio than NYC, their salaries are not competitive.

Conversely, they pay pretty well in Lisbon, since the rent is actually quite high compared to the pittance that software developers earn (which is why long commutes are common).
There is a good progression of effort you may want to put in:

First, discuss your idea on reddit machine learning. It will be shot down quickly if there is a gaping flaw or something you overlooked.

You can combine this with second, write a blogpost on what you got.

Third, write a preprint, link to it on the blogpost so there is no risk of you not getting credit.

Overall, the effort for each step increases significantly, you might be tempted to go straight for the preprint but let me tell you that this is most likely a waste of your time because you (very likely) don't know how to write with a certain ML flavour, how to present certain ideas, and how to design the right experiments or contextualise your arguments.

If you write a good blogpost, you have a nice starting point to find someone to help you formalise your ideas.
Per-plane sold? That's underselling yourself. Go the song-writer way: demand to have your royalties calculated based on flight-hours or per-passenger ticket /s.
Looking back, I think the couple folks who were adamant about "you can't do that" were thinking of "dumping". Yet... it does happen, plenty. I think they're more favorably called "loss leaders". Well, different purposes behind them, I know, but yeah, Amazon is not making any substantive profits on some of those fires, but if you start renting movies from them... bingo.
‘We made that day like a rock concert’: the launch of the Apple IIc
It's already simple to split panes in tmux, but the ability to persist them sounds like a good Hacktoberfest project.
TL;DR - spend time configuring it, write efficient code, and understand what your 3rd party code is actually doing.
>I've seen cart abandonment drop by 50% or more simply by including shipping price and policies on the pricing page.

To be fair I assume that some number of people never start shopping because they don't like the shipping policies.

That said, people have gotten conditioned with a lot of "free" shipping or free shipping over a certain amount. So when they hit final checkout and are presented with what seems to be expensive shipping, they'll often almost reflexively close the page.

>People will spend $20 extra to hit the $50 minimum free shipping threshold than spend $5 on shipping for a $30 order.

Raises hand :-) I think the shipping charge feels like throwing money away. Whereas adding the item feels like "Surely I can find some item I want at effectively a 25% discount." But, yeah, most of this isn't economically rational. It was all very eye-opening when I was first exposed to this sort of thing 30 years ago and it's been useful in a lot of contexts.
Some of it goes into space (if it's transmitted the right way), but most will be drowned in noise. None of that matters though, since you can't get in front of the outgoing signal to receive it at a future date. It would have to be reflected, which would also introduce a large amount of noise.