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>the screen shape on this phone just makes so little sense.

It is the only design that makes sense. The other manufacturers just put a bar down the bottom that has no purpose at all. No one cares about a notch. Obsessive personalities are just fixating on it.
Morality is complicated and relative across cultures, efficacy is not. Efficacy can be demonstrated, or not, in an empirical manner.
Yeah. The XUL addons have a warning symbol next to "Permissions", and when you click on it, they say "Please note this add-on uses legacy technology".
True but as they say "Let he is without a good slashdotting cast the first packet".
"the most anticipated product in years"... stopped reading there. Anticipated product in years ? Really ?? not even "most anticipated Apple product in years " ? For a phone with a missing button and a face recognition feature nobody cares about ??

I am an iOS developer, and i generally love apple product, but frankly it's time everyone, including hard-core apple fans, agree that apple has been under-delivering those last 3 years.

If i had to say "anticipated" about something, i'd say the watch 3 is far more interesting and opens more application use.
Y Combinator winks at the worm on their people page:

http://www.ycombinator.com/people/
It's typed, but the types can be fully inferred. If you didn't specify the types of your function, it could end up being inferred as float -> float -> float instead of int -> int -> int.

The different operators are a concise way to tell the type-checker that you're working with floats.
Discussing torture efficiency is basically a torturers' shop talk.

In the same way that discussing the total lack of efficacy of magic makes you a sorcerer, sure.
> we released millions of year of concentrated solar energy

This seems like an overestimate of how much energy it would take to do capture and sequestration. The energy density of fossil fuels is nowhere near that high. A gallon of gasoline is ~33kwh of energy, which is about the same amount of energy that falls on a square meter of Earth's surface in about 22 hours.

In terms of barrels of oil, with global consumption at 96 million barrels per day, assuming 12hrs of sunlight a day, I calculated 8600km^2 of Earth's surface, or a square about 93km on a side.
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But have you set up 15 of them?

And even if you just set up one framework, did you find it getting corrupt after a lot of use, and did you have to tear down and rebuild it?

I found it easy to set up, but have had to do it a few times, and that was just for Tensorflow. I haven't tried other frameworks (CNTK, for instance) because of the work of figuring out how to get it up and running.

That's just for 1 other framework, let alone 14 others.
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I fail to see the equivalence. I'm not contracting with Anvil for development or support. I'm basically buying a tool, in this case a tool that is more expensive than my hosting costs.
Same. I even worked for one for a while. In general a lot of the New England economy is built around the military, unfortunately. In New Hampshire BAE is one of the largest employers and in Connecticut they freak out at any suggestion the sub base may close. At least if Raytheon, BEA, Lockheed, and MIT Lincoln Laboratory (there are more I'm forgetting I'm sure) leave Boston the local economy will survive.
Found the coal shill.

Look. We have a carbon budget problem. When you have a budget problem, you need to make a budget. Nobody with real problems ever solved them by looking at all of your outlays, trimming the biggest one and claiming victory. You have to trim every single one that doesn’t represent a reasonable fraction of the whole.

The opposite of “Singling coal out” is not “give it a free pass”. It needs to be cut. Along with everything else. It is indefensible that it is 40% of the energy mix but 60% of the carbon footprint. Full stop.
And every physical good you ever purchased would be tracked and accounted for until you die.

Don't you think it would be far easier to just enforce the laws we already have?
It is for people who run big systems because the title includes the words "distributed computing". They might as well have called this paper "building skyscrapers in your back yard" (which is a pretty good name for a paper I think!). If you don't write your app to be capable of running on multiple nodes, you aren't doing distributed computing - you're doing concurrent computing.

If there's nothing out there that picks a stack for you, that could certainly be automated based on a Q&A for the dev. But it's arguable that this decision should not be automated, because this decision directly impacts how the app works.
I thought this article sounded familiar! :-) The Cuckoo's egg is an amazing read.
It’s almost certainly not just one function.

An ant’s fitness function is different from its ancestor’s fitness function, which is different from its own ancestor’s fitness function, which is different from...

You don’t get from zero to complexity with a single fitness function.

The question we should ask is: How do we vary the fitness function over time in order to evolve something complex?

I have no idea what the answer is, but...

“If you know the question, you know half.”

-Herb Boyer, geneticist
I believe decaying plant matter generally emits green house gasses. (See for example emissions from biomass collecting behind dams; there were headlines about this in the past year.) So you'd have to bury the biomass to prevent rot and/or gas leaks. That means digging big holes and/or transporting biomass to the holes and/or fabricating/moving material to cover the biomass. All that work uses energy and thus produces GHG. It's probably hard to come out ahead.
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I would say similar to the amount now, and less than passcode-based unlock

Using your phone while driving is reckless, regardless of the authentication mechanism.
Apparently climate change is hard to reason about due to our cognitive biases. I know that Kaheman has lost a little luster of late I still buy this:

"Kahneman won the 2002 Nobel prize in economics for his research on the psychological biases that distort rational decision- making. One of these is “loss aversion”, which means that people are far more sensitive to losses than gains. He regards climate change as a perfect trigger: a distant problem that requires sacrifices now to avoid uncertain losses far in the future. This combination is exceptionally hard for us to accept, he told me."[0]

That said, I think that the thing that will make people change their behavior is not so much how bad it gets but the economics. If it's cheaper to use renewables than burning fuels then people will switch. Thinking about one's short-term economic choices ($1 < $2) is mostly simpler than thinking about global issues that are at odds with one's cognitive biases, and one's choices to ignore scientists.

[0] https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329820-200-understa...
That github note doesn't really disagree with the article, which points out that you need to trust your VPN provider.

My general position is this: I don't trust my phone provider. At all. Just a week or so ago there was an HN post demonstrating how an ad provider can get your full name, cellphone plan details etc just by calling an API from a page rendered on your phone. But I also don't really have a choice - AT&T or Verizon or T-Mobile, they're all different flavors of the same crap.

Do I trust my VPN provider unequivocally? No. But I trust them a hell of a lot more than my phone provider, and they can't sell my personal info against my browsing history because they don't have it.

A VPN isn't the answer to everything, but nor is it useless.
It's certainly the highest profile and perhaps worst case in recent memory but not by a country mile. Jorn Nielsen murdered a rival gangster and was paroled, killed another guy and was paroled again. The country seems intent on protecting its worst at the expense of law abiding citizens. The Danes put flowers on the grave of terrorists: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Copenhagen_shootings
If you look at the effects on carbon dioxide on plant life in isolation from everything else they're right. On the other hand higher temperatures will slow down growth leading to a small net positive or negative depending on which staple crop we're talking about. And on the gripping hand shifting patterns of rainfall are liable to totally screw everything up in a way that could be totally disastrous but which is very hard to predict.

But a reluctance to admit that you're wrong is a big part of human politics. Maybe we can find some way to reframe the issue so that it doesn't seem like a retreat to them?
> … you focus on the specific example…

That's the only way we can see whether what you claim makes sense.

> … which leads to sources that are much more verbose than they need to be.

We can see that for the example you provided, the Smalltalk style need not be "much more verbose" than the alternative you provided.

Using positional arguments will be a little more concise than using keyword arguments, but only a little.
I remember the day it hit, quite well .. it was a huge deal. Nobody thought the Internet (in those days) was that safe .. but nobody expected the extent to which the worm brought systems to its knees - it really woke a lot of us up to just how exposed we were.

I wonder what the equivalent would be in todays terms .. some sort of Facebook-crippling JS injection, or so? I think its hard to come up with an example in the modern era- the scales are much higher, so the chances of making such a huge impact a lot lower.
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Meaning that, pre-21st, the states could have regulated this if there was a federal law saying they could? Or perhaps merely if there was no federal law saying they couldn't?
It would also make it even more useless. IE originally had it default on; they turned it off after people complained that it meant advertisers wouldn't honour it anymore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track#Internet_Explorer...
Yes. I don't remember the search terms to find it, but I did read a paper (~10 years ago) that discussed this. The problem is most of them are plants we would consider weeds.

This depends on where you are - in the desert plants are water limited, and no amount of CO2 will help. When not near the equator plants are also water limited in winter (at the extremes they are also sun limited). In some parts plants are nutrient limited (dumping iron into the oceans causes an algae bloom - which at least short term is CO2 negative - more research needed)
I think tor is simply too slow and complicated to advertise as a tool to "regular people"

Encouraging people to use a VPN is much more likely to be effective
> Of course, F# has not always been the favorite lovechild of MS, but the OCaml ecosystem does not seem to be in a particularly stellar state either.

I'm not entirely sure what you're referring to, but OCaml has been around and used for real work for much longer than F#. I'm not sure it's so clear cut.
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I think the most popular use case is torrenting which a VPN will help.
Makes terraforming Venus look easy.
The biggest issue is that if search results were actually ranked by speed, sites would already become 100x faster without any of this AMP nonsense.
The problem is that the options being presented politically are

a) Support the international movement to fight climate change, or

b) Do nothing

> Until scientists further develop not only cheaper, but more convenient and efficient energy solutions, fossil fuels will continue to be used.

That is utter cowardice. Imagine if WW2 had happened and the USA had stayed out saying "we're not participating until scientists invent ray-guns".

There are conservative, anti-globalist options to fighting climate change.

Carbon taxes encourage the market to develop solutions, and could be done in a revenue-neutral fashion which would mean it's a tax cut for green citizens. Tariff countries with bad climate records and encourage trade with countries that are doing their part to fight climate change. Block expansion of the coal industry. None of these would be contrary to conservative, market-oriented values. None of these require funnelling billions into international climate funds.

But instead, the North American right is keeping their heads firmly planted in the sand.
Here's Cliff Stoll's post to the RISKS digest.

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/7.69.html#subj1

It's now 3:45 AM on Wednesday 3 November 1988. I'm tired, so don't believe everything that follows... Apparently, there is a massive attack on Unix systems going on right now.
You could probably rewrite your thing in Django or similar in the event of that. Given that the majority of web apps don't turn into successful small business it might be a good way to try stuff.
Historically the stars and sun played a MUCH greater importance than today. They absolutely would have seen and recorded this event. Reason why is we see it in many other recording of them and throughout the ancient world. This helped us to much more accurately date history.
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"In 1988 his discovery of buffer overflow first brought the Internet to the attention of the general public." has to be the understatement of the year.
A bit OT but how did ancient civilizations know that they should NOT watch an eclipse with a naked eye? The knowledge would have been lost or unavailable at each occurence. Remote areas would probably never get the word. So how didn't they get massive eye damages back then?
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I also like the fact that I know in advance that an AMP page will be fast. Non-AMP is a mixed bag, but mostly slow and crappy.
Interesting perspective but it's missing one big elephant in the room: China. China is a reason why the trinet will not happen globally. Baidu, TenCent, Alibaba and similar services won't be replaced with Google, FB or Amazon. Maybe for better.
We seem to punish extreme violence with a similarly light touch in the UK also, but speak out online about a protected group and you'll be in clink in short order.
They've presumably decided that raising rates further would cost more customers than it would be worth. Stupid tricks like cutting down on the "standard" package and rolling those things into upgrades is a common way for companies to raise rates without appearing to, therefore losing fewer customers.
This looks super interesting. I'll check back when more datacenter locations are added.
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I kind of liked it better when it was hobbyists and enthusiast sites. The "web as we know it" isn't necessarily a great thing.
It raises an important distinction, though: protecting users vs protecting brands. There are business interests pushing to conflate the two, but we shouldn't.
How about Apache Beam on the Google Cloud Dataflow Runner? Easy to use, no real configuration needed, easy to switch between stream and batch workloads and really fast performance.
Duckduckgo recently included "How to Choose a Good VPN" in their privacy newsletter - https://spreadprivacy.com/how-to-choose-a-vpn/
No one except all those folks running rent up in cities. Landowners and renters are both to blame here.
If you can send a text reliably from your pocket (something I've never even heard of anybody attempting), you can unlock it with the 6-digit passcode reliably.
And if the Amazon dried up considerably, we'd probably be looking at a big net loss.
Be careful, Mozilla. When you blog about VPN's as Mozilla, you write from a position of authority. VPN's are a notoriously minefield of shady providers and false promises. You do not want to recommend CyberGhost to your followers, the find out in six months when they show up in a court order that, oops, CyberGhost actually logs a ton of stuff that can be subpoenaed.

Exercise caution. Do your research.
I don't know, cost of disaster recovery isn't in the analyses I've read. For nuclear power the failure modes for different fuels and generations is different, so any analysis would need to take that into account. If you find something would you please post it?
My understanding is that media fills the screen in the same way it does on any other iPhone. A double tap will change the zoom setting such that it will letterbox and not cut off any part of the video. This setting is supposed to be saved when you view another video.

And because this screen has such a wide aspect ratio, in most cases you can zoom out and only have black bars on the notch side and opposite side (left & right when in landscape mode).

That being said, I do find the designs that “embrace the notch” (especially in landscape) repulsive. I’d much prefer if that area just stayed dark to blend in with the notch.
Are you worried about your chip and OS today?

Yes, Intel is still pulling these stunts and there are not many viable alternatives.
It's snarky but I think the replies constitute a perfectly good discussion and there's no reason to collapse all of it by default. It's a bit off-topic but out of the five current top-level comments only one is addressing the contents of the article anyway...
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I’m just an independent writer. I know a bit about AMP, so I thought I’d clarify some things and share the information that I have.
> shouldn't be looking at a notch every time you are viewing a video.

For what it's worth, the iPhone X doesnt have a 16:9 display, so by default video displays pillar-boxed. Just like on iPad (which also doesnt have a 16:9 display), if you zoom in on the video you can make it occupy the full display, but cutting off a portion of the video.
Hi,

I'm really not a fan of Python client side. Or RAD. Or closed source services.

And I'm hugely impressed by the potential of your product.

Good luck.

I never though I would say that one day. But don't listen to people asking you to open sourcing it now. You can always do it once you are profitable. But right now, you need money to get this going. And if your product does what you say it does, people will be happy to pay.

Although not to be locked up on the long run. You will need to address that one day. One day.
Sorry but this doesn't seem like harassment to me. Read his email without projecting any tone, it sounds totally reasonable. Your mentor also wasn't being sexist, he was suggesting you not start a startup by discarding the most passionate team member who helped write the prize-winning software.

I'm not seeing the "you're a woman and I'm threatening you" anywhere. "By the way I designed cool t-shirts, you want one?" and "Lets not have any bad vibes due to this", doesn't sound like "Do what I want or I'll kill you."

Maybe the guy is selfish, and intensely trying to "make it" (sounds like a young over-eager tech guy), but he's not threatening to attack or "victimizing" due to sexist views imo.

If someone disagrees, please provide one shred of evidence. As best I can make out its summarized with the big-text quote midway through:

"He didn’t use all caps. He didn’t swear. He didn’t yell. All he did was calmly… threaten. Subtly… insinuate. And distance himself from reality, little by little."

I'm not impressed, the bar has been raised for claims of harassment and victimization. If you had spent your whole weekend working around the clock on a project that won the prize on your own code, only to be told your dreams were now crushed because you "weren't a good fit", you'd probably be begging to find a way to hold onto the tickets or the project as well, whether your boss was male or female.

[Edit] And also, the mentors, the coordinators, the others in the posts all seem to agree that this isn't harassment. This really points to an issue with hackathons in general. You have people contributing to a "startup", then getting tickets to an expo, all without any contracts, just some verbal agreements -- these type of disagreements are bound to happen.
Are these websites responsive too ?
Yes, “verge” is a common french slang word for penis.

Let’s also mention San Francisco’s Coit Tower, which always amuses the french tourists (coit = coitus)
They are talking about owning an ASIN

For example: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KRYMB88/

The ASIN is B00KRYMB88.

Whoever FIRST listed to that item picked the title, description, pictures.. and it created the page on Amazon and assigned it an ASIN. If you have an identical shirt to that, you can list it with ASIN B00KRYMB88, and it will appear on that page (But you can't edit the listing details). That is how Amazon is built.

The problem is, what if you have a counterfeit shirt, and you sell under the same ASIN. A customer will get it delivered.. it sucks maybe.. and you blame the listing and leave a bad review.
I don't think they're talking about total insolation. They're talking about the total amount of energy which gets stored up by the biosphere and kept in long-term forms of storage like oil and coal. I believe what humanity has used so far does account for millions of years of that.
Looks like DDG recommends TunnelBear[1]. Any one have an experience with them? I'm always a bit skittish on free VPNs.

https://www.tunnelbear.com/b/privacy-partners/
If you want to torrent, turn one of the low end boxes into a seedbox rather than a VPN server.
When would you remove an article about years-old crime from newspaper archives?
Recently I've been reading various books about how to avoid and control excessive anxiety.

One piece of advice that I keep seeing is that I should not worry about things outside of my direct control. This idea is also a central component of stoicism.

How then, should one process terrible news like this? One the one hand, the world is not thinking about climate change enough (certainly politicians aren't).

But on the other hand, it seems impossible to maintain good mental health if one spends too much time thinking about these things. Part of me wants to stick my head in the sand and just get on with life (which seems to be what many people do anyway). How can I read news like this yet remain optimistic and positive?

Maybe global warming deniers, rather than being stupid or brainwashed, are just instinctively better at protecting their own mental health?
You are forgetting the case of when the sun is behind light clouds (which is not everywhere, but definitely does happen):

http://slideviewer.appspot.com/show?tag=dgay,solar-eclipse,1...

(no filter)
I trust most VPN services more than I trust my ISP. If what you are trying to do is avoid your ISP collecting your surfing data for advertisers, throttling Netflix traffic, or adding a super-cookie to headers, then a VPN might make sense.

My ISP choices are limited to two companies that are both terrible. A VPN is a nice way of limiting what they can do to you.
Even outside the carousel; three weeks ago we implemented AMP with our content marketing strategy and we have received 34% more visits.

I don't think people our target is more inclined into clicking on AMP results as they're non-technical, I'm guessing we're higher in the results.
I’m not sure I understand everything you said there. Software engineers are often tasked with designing and implementing “business processes”, just as they are tasked with implementing correct logic in a concurrent threaded program, or system of microservices. Don’t you feel that when they step up to the whiteboard and draw yet another completely ad-hoc diagram, for any of the above problems, with no agreed rules of composition or semantics, that these people, who often have degrees in computer science and mathematics, are basically communicating using cave paintings?
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