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I'm less and less into technology.

I really believe the matter is just human. We just need to take time to speak to each others peacefully. Instead we delegate to hurried teachers in potentially shamefull classes, or technology to do exercises..
>it is easy to become a hermit.

I worked from home full time for about 3 years then moved to a job that had about 1.5 hour commute each way. One of the reasons I took the job was the fact that I did feel like a hermit. I then started to resent the commute. I'm lucky that I have been able to work out a deal with my current employer where I work from home 2 days a week and come in to the office 3 days a week. This gives me a nice break from the commute but I also don't end up feeling like a hermit.
What I'm getting from this is that Amazon hires drivers that don't care, underpays them and can't make sure they don't misdeliver or drop or steal packages. And their solution to this conundrum is for me to give the same set of drivers that can't be trusted with delivering a package the access to my home. What are they smoking there at Amazon?
Like instantiating an object from a class.
$1000 smart teapot discontinued
I don't know how to apply graph processors on AI either. I'm intrigued by their product since they first appeared on HN.
I used to feel this way, until I realized that the real problem was my lack of a good social life outside of work. Once I took care of that (meetup.com is great) I stopped yearning for office camaraderie. In fact I find it a bit annoying now - everyone I work with has kids so that's all they talk about, whereas my social circle is full of people with similar interests as me.
There's also "Laika" by Moxy Früvous, referring to the dog.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlG-kpzMQIw
Cool cards. What's not cool is $50 shipping on $5 cards. To Canada...
I don't see much difference between handful and a dozen or two. Or maybe my English as second language is failing me..

It'd be definitely interesting to see Ukraine and Iraq conflicts unfold while they had nuclear weapons. I'd be all for giving nuclear weapons to every single country if that'd stop wars in the future. But I'm afraid some asshats would start blackmailing others and those would bend over. And we'd be back at square 1.
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> Until it isn't. But then it's too late to try anything different.

We had that for a brief period of time. US was the only one with the nuclear bomb. Would they have used it on Japan if they had a chance to retaliate?

> I don't trust statements from governments, as a general rule.

I guess we agree governmental disarmament agreements wouldn't work..
To be fair, neither does Vertica. The big data warehouses are expecting fairly flat predigested fact tables.
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Stalin had a saying, I paraphrase:

One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

I think the reaction to Laika's demise illustrated this.

The exact quantity of dogs 'put to sleep' in 1964 in the USA is not known. However, I am sure that many thousands were 'put to sleep' every single day, with more than a million dogs euthanised in the USA over the year because that is what happens.

Incidentally, the last shuttle disaster (Challenger, 2003) was bad news for 13 rats, eight garden orb weaver spiders, five silkworms and three cocoons, four Medaka fish eggs, three carpenter bees, 15 harvester ants and an assortment of fish. Plus the human crew.

I am sure all of the animals all had names. There was no mass outpouring of emotion though or letters to the New York Times saying how cruel it was to put them on the Space Shuttle given the likeliness of it going badly wrong.
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Ask HN: Do you use Gmail and have an issue with unsolicited mail?
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I have an no idea that I'm thinking of building out but need to get some feedback. Simple question really:

Do you use Gmail and have a problem with unsolicited email getting into your inbox (and not being classified as spam)? If so, how do you deal with it?

Would a simple service that can easily block domains, as well has having public lists of domains that send unsolicited email that you could subscribe to be of interest to you?

Thanks!
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Secondhand smoke (SHS) has the same harmful chemicals that smokers inhale. There’s no safe level of exposure for secondhand smoke (SHS). - American Cancer Society

"Secondhand smoke harms children and adults, and the only way to fully protect nonsmokers is to eliminate smoking in all homes, worksites, and public places" - Center for Disease Control

"At least 69 of the toxic chemicals in secondhand tobacco smoke cause cancer" - National Cancer Institute
I think Apple explicitly position themselves as the combination of hardware and software and want as much vertical integration as possible... the more hardware they control the better they can make software to run on it.
Funny story from the LIFFE pit, told to me by one of the locals (ie market makers):

For a while the brokers used one colour of paper for buys and another for sells.
What amazes me is how with age, places mean emotions. Before I enjoyed having everything at hand in one place. Context switching happened for free. Now I enjoy having a place where I can go deep into a thing, then a place where I can relax, etc etc
An interesting question. I'm inclined to say yes, insofar as the device is identifiable as a sex toy rather than just 'adjustable thing #73'. As to which sex crime, that depends on both the circumstances and the degree of information about them available to the remote abuser.

Those inclined to offer defenses of the form that 'it was just a prank, 1337 h4x0r5 couldn't have known how it would impact the victim' should brush up on the 'eggshell skull' rule in tort law, which basically says the person who commits a tort is liable for all consequences, not just easily foreseeable ones, and the concept of strict liability, which can mean you're fully responsible for the outcomes of some criminal acts even without proof of intent. Judges often pieces of existing conceptual frameworks when presented with a novel situation on which they have to issue a ruling.
Haim Saban was notorious for underpaying his people. Half the cast of Power Rangers, another Saban show, quit during the second season because they were working for peanuts. IIRC, they only got paid $1000 per episode. That was low even by 1994 standards.
They should provide a QR code on each card that sends you to the Wolfram site with the expression being executed, that way when you are waiting your turn on Hold-em you can watch the animation from your phone

(it must have been a pain to hand type those expressions...great job!)
>That said, as many have suggested, the new iPhone is no more than just another faster, smaller, and costlier.

FaceID is a huge leap and affects how people use their phones. The phone can behave differently if you are looking at it. For example: showing sensitive info only if you're looking at it, and not playing notification sounds as loud (or at all) if you see the notification as it comes in.
The project will be more useful for education and research.
Very similar to people who think the Rambo movies are just action movies. Every one of those movies had a political purpose.
I can't tell apart nostalgia from value, but I miss a part of the feel of scifi fantasy animation of the 80s. The mainstream culture was really high on the space/tech idea.
You're true on all of your points. But there's other factors that make them very interesting.

1. Since the electrolyte is a base (Sodium/Potassium hydroxide) you can make it out of wood ash in a pinch.

2. The batteries can handle all sorts of catastrophic damage - have a charged battery and run a gutter nail through every plate? It'll fizzle and discharge in the nail.

3. You can severely overcharge and undercharge with no ill effect. Our current NiMH, Lithiums and the like all have really bad effects when you under/over charge them. Blowing up is one such... err, "feature"

4. These batteries are known to last over 100 years. They were some of the first ones that Ford and Edison put in cars. Chalk this up to longevity (and no acid eating consumable lead plates).

Oh, and for your electolyte losses- true that you do need to top off with distilled water. But 'regular changing' is actually around 6 months to 1 year. I wouldn't be listing that as a major downside. I'd much rather add a few pellets of NaOH and some distilled every 6 months than pay for a new lead-acid battery every 2-3 years.
What makes you think that Play Services is well-designed?

Google also designed the media system, and that leads the security patches every month - what would have rehabilitated them?

https://interviews.slashdot.org/story/16/08/26/1338246/the-s...

"Don't start me on Stagefright and Mediaserver, I could rant for 2 or 3 hours non-stop! Seriously, the code over there is crap, and has insane concepts, like aborting the whole mediaserver (and all related media decoding of all other applications running at the same time), when it parses a file with attributes it does not know, instead of skipping the file. We discovered some issues in Stagefright (busy loops, device reboots, mediaserver crashes) quite early, but we never thought about submitting them."
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The distinction between property generally and bourgeois property, and the statement that Communism aims for the elimination of the latter and not the former is in the paragraph of the Communist Manifesto immediately preceding the one your quote is drawn from.

“The distinguishing feature of Communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois property.”

Again, “private property” in Communist theory is narrower than the usual capitalist understanding; particularly, neither consumer goods nor money insofar as it cannot be exchanged for a proprietary interest in the means of production in a society which has progressed to the socialism stage as envisioned by Communism are necessarily included in “private property”. (And, even personally held means of production that cannot be converted to bourgeois property because of controls on engaging wage labor are frequently not sought to be banned in practice—which may be contrary to Marx’s statement on private property, but is consistent with the focus on borgeois property which is explicitly it's underlying motivation.)
Samsung's screens are excellent, but their CPU/GPU performance is a generation (or more) behind Apple. Plus they are way behind in integrated functionality such as motion coprocessor, ai processing, and secure enclave.

I don't know how true this is, but I've heard that the Samsung OLED screen on the iPhone X is significantly better than the ones Samsung puts on it's flagship phones, in color fidelity especially. Partly because of Apple's attention to detail, but also because Samsung's flagship phones ship in much higher volume than the X is expected to.
Ok, that's interesting. I'd seen the Multics source was made available a few years ago. Has anyone tried this?
Because superpowers are more likely to fight proxy wars or use indirect methods, while smaller countries are more likely to fight with real boots on real territory supported by real explosions.

The reality is that if a superpower wanted to launch a sneak nuclear attack on another superpower, it could be done to great effect without missiles or bombers, and without necessarily giving away the identity of the aggressor.

The fact that it hasn't been done either suggests lack of imagination or lack of willingness - or perhaps both.

As for small countries - it's debatable if nukes would have saved Iraq or the Ukraine, because any small country using nukes on a superpower is likely to do more damage to itself than the superpower.

But this is largely a sideshow in 2017. As we're currently discovering, infowar and weaponised social media are a much cheaper and more efficient way to wage proxy war than nukes or terrorism are.

Nukes are almost obsolete now that it's so ridiculously easy to persuade a country to destroy its own political stability and self-confidence with covert funding of fringe extremism, supported by weaponised social media.

And if that's not enough to do the job, direct hacking of infrastructure remains an option.

The West is well behind the curve on defending against both. As and when the next war starts - if it hasn't already - the reliance on nukes as a deterrent is going to become one of those "And this is what they were doing on until the new reality hit" chapters in future history books.
Why aren't they doing this?
The new concept seems to be dual-battery.

I'm sure they investigated designing simply L-shaped battery but for some reason they decided to go with two batteries instead.

I wonder if its because one is supplying power to some critical circuits while other one isn't, or since display and battery are #1s replacement on these phones, they simply run some stats and decided that splitting cells into two separate battery boxes will help them cut the costs down the line when it will come to battery replacement.
Is the only benefit of Li-Ion weight ? I don't mind heavier devices at all.. I'd swap in a minute.
Oddly enough, I was singing the Spider-Man theme to myself last night as I was walking around the house. 20 years later, and it still randomly gets stuck in my head.

"Spider blood, spider blood, radioactive spider blood..."
Not quite. Samsung fabs chips. They may even design chips. But they don’t work ‘together’.

Samsung makes 5 processors and puts them on the open market.

The another part of Samsung buys those chips off the shelf and used them in their phones.

My understanding is the two units don’t work together hand in hand like Apples teams do, they work together the way Samsung and HTC do.
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You need to look at it.

Just like when you use it.
Calling DRM "security" is bullshit and should be called out every time. It's not extra security for the user, it's security for someone else's revenue stream.
Supposedly static electricity could trigger the detonator in a nuclear weapon. There was a near accidental ignition during the development of "the Gadget" and my understanding is that the ignition system was virtually unchanged for decades.

https://books.google.com/books?id=lJ6JDQAAQBAJ&lpg=PA41&ots=...
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Not saying the hypothesis you put forward is wrong but I've heard a very convincing complementary one:

Kim's goals are:

1. Survival of the Kim leadership
2. Reunification of Korea

To achieve the latter (and also the prior), he needs to remove the US from intervening in any conflict on the Korean peninsula. If he had a credible threat to any major US city, then the US would have to weight the freedom of S. Korea vs. the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans.
It's from Latin 'res' meaning 'thing'. If that's cognate to 'reif' I wouldn't know. I'd be happy with 'thingify' but that's at least less established. :)
Remarkably, yes. But this release removing the biggest, most used, iconic button might not be the ideal moment to claim "same buttons!"
I can believe it. The quality is all about cost. What level of rejected units can you accept for price $X? If Apple can pay more (due to cost, scale, or just where the price of the phone is allocated between parts) they can buy a better screen.
Maybe it's too materially inefficient to cut an L shaped electrode.
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Complex behavior can be and often is genetic. A great example of this is the vastly different behavior of the zebra and lion when in close company with zebras. The zebra will engage in herd behavior, whereas the lion will try to eat one of the zebras. No amount of socialization can alter these behavioral patterns.

I can tell you that my wife and I both knew long before we were anywhere near adults that we wanted families. You know how some people know that they want to be a fire fighter or a police officer when they grow up? I knew I wanted to have a bunch of kids. The story is more or less the same for her. And my wife and I both grew up on the left, where the attitude toward having children varies from something you do after you have your career sorted to outright anti-natalism.
I would not consider working for a company that required a 2 minute slack response time, especially for a role that required uninterrupted focus. Different story if you are in a "put out fires" role

Is it more important to actually get stuff done or to be available for every distracting slack message that comes through?

If you need people to respond within 2 minutes to every message, that is lack of organization imo unless it is an emergency.

Good remote teams are very organized, prioritize documentation, have weekly and sometimes daily kick off meetings and then for the most part get out of the way for their team to get stuff done.
Basically, yes. Twitter and other social media had a lot of disturbing, hateful and abusive content long before one of the parties in the US lost the elections and decided to blame Putin for that. And feeble efforts of a bunch of paid trolls change nothing in that. The only threat to the democracy is attempts to control online speech because otherwise scary Russian will ruin our democracy. I hope the democracy is a bit stronger than one that a bunch of trolls speaking bad English and 100k investment in ads could ruin it. And if anything is scary in Twitter GC testimony it is the admission that they already exercised political censorship, suppressing certain content (such as talk about Podesta emails) but apparently not enough.
I have literally no idea how you could have reached the idea that you would be an indentured servant/bill collector. Is this some sort of post-truth propaganda?
Is this actually still true? If you look at the public patch notes for ios and android, the number of platform bugs is similar.
You have to point the sensor towards your face and look at the screen.

So far feels pretty natural, 70-80% time the phone is unlocked before I think ‘is the phone unlocked’ the rest of the time I forget I need to glance (literally glance with your eyes) at the phone, which I think comes from muscle memory of from unlocking with touchid and not looking at the phone while it unlocks...

Passive security, will become standard across screen based interfaces in the next 5-10yrs...
Thank you for illustrating my point.
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> The most impressive thing to me is how similar the iPhone X is to the original iPhone (shown side by side in the second picture).

And really, how similar every non-notebook/desktop Apple product has been to each other one. Design-wise, the iPhone was just an iPod with a bigger screen; iPod touch/nano/other variations are obviously just an iPhone in different sizes; the watch is just the iPod nano on a wristband; iPad is a bigger iPhone. Apple hasn't released a fundamentally new design idea in over a decade.

On the one hand, the consistency of physical design is its own type of branding and creates solid brand recognition. On the other hand, the UI/UX that transformed interacting in the digital world from using keyboards and mice to using our fingers on touch screens is already old. Apple really has no need to be creative since they are still profiting from their slight modifications. But the next big, real revolution in personal computing design and usage will need to be more than a glass rectangle with slightly better curved edges.
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>Split access providers up into two: the wholesale access network

This should be municipally owned, too. Monopolies almost always function better when answerable to voters rather than taxpayers (the exception being when the privatization playbook is being followed: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/06/tsa-as-example-of-pr... ).
can't answer your question, but there is no official LineageOS for any Pixel (1st or 2nd gen). There are unofficial ones
I'm surprised to see this kind of things here, of all places. I'm even more surprised to see all the positive comments (so far).

The most important feature of the periodic table of elements is that it is based upon some underlying structure of the elements. It was initially used to make predictions about the existence of elements that had not been found at the time.

The "true" Periodic Table was truly a stroke of genius, equivalent in many ways in coming up with a scientific model/theory to describe nature.

The "periodic" part refers to the fact that some properties reappear as move from element to element, from the lightest to the heaviest: this is related to the filling of the atomic orbitals and their effect on chemical properties.

There is absolutely nothing of the kind in this so-called "periodic table" or its various cousins (I have seen some for "design" and other topics). There is no hidden structure revealed, no predictive power to be made if one were to actually leave one of the squares unfilled. It takes a wonderful communication/organisation scientific tool, keeping only a superficial visual element and leaving all essential meaning behind.
That’s my assumption. It’s probably much easier to fab two batteries to fit the space available in the phone than to use just one and leave empty space or have it made in an ‘exotic’ shape like a non-rectangle.
It's nice people are able to hustle and make a profit but are you really adding VALUE to the equation?
"DT doesn't tweet things he doesn't really believe in or care about"

Really? Funny how he cares about Hillary when he's getting heat in the press. Then tweets distractions all day long. No, he's a troll, he trolls the press and his detractors with the twitter platform.
Not agreeing or disagreeing - just curious, why is that?
If something like this makes me tear up, which this did, I usually find that I needed it.