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Even if this were true (it's not) that was a conscious choice by Google to capture market share.

This issue was predicted (and observed) years ago, almost since the release of Android in fact, and is only getting worse.

That is all due to Google's own choices.
Why would valuations change and be more realistic if you tax illiquid stock people can’t afford to pay taxes on the gains of?

Valuations would be artificially low if that were the case.
Ask HN: What barriers prevented you from using Clojure?
I love Clojure and I want to see it being more widely adopted. There was recently a comment on HN where someone said that they had issues getting Clojure to run due to the fact that the package managers Leiningen (lein) and boot would not work properly for them. They also had issues with libraries. This was the opposite of my experience with Clojure... everything just worked! I would love to help others out and get them going in Clojure and would like to know what barriers they've had getting started. I think that if the software doesn't 'just run', than it is not the fault of the people trying to use it. I want to help you get started using Clojure, so I want to know: What barriers prevented you from using Clojure?
Right? It may still largely be functional, but I would never trust that device in the open, it's just ripe for a bevy of attacks.

I really wish Google would expand their service lifetime on their own devices, because I feel 2 years is really too short.
Right, but the implication is that they'd be just fine meeting one on one with another man. That it's only women who get treated specially.
Why then did it not happen after the Black Death decimated Europe?
With current and older devices working perfectly well, and new devices being even less serviceable and more user-hostile with greater efforts towards planned obolescence, is it any wonder that people just aren't "upgrading" any more? I don't consider this a problem, but a sign of an ecosystem that is gaining stability. In fact I'd say it's even better, from an e-waste perspective, that the amount of churn has decreased.

Even in the low-end/unbranded devices, I'm seeing a gradual removal of hardware features and general lack of parts (screens, cases, etc.) availability, while replacement parts for models several years old are still plentiful.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tridactyl-vim...
Anecdotally my iPhone6 16gb became way more usable with iOS 11. I went from always running out of room to now having a lot of space. I use https://photos.google.com/ all the time so I rarely have more than 200mb of media on my phone. For me the OS footprint shrunk quite a bit and as a result the phone became a lot more usable.
The Nexus 6P was made by Huawei. Also usually it is not the manufacturer, but the carriers that hold up or stop updates.
The Pythagoreans? The guys who couldn't separate their geometry from their mysticism? The guys who murdered the man who proved the existence of irrational numbers for (essentially) heresy? Whose "how do we know what we know" was at least sometimes "because mysticism"? They grappled with the question, I'll grant you. But their answer left a fair amount to be desired.

> What do you think the iterative process of developing those rules of thumb is, if it isn't science?

Well, it's technology. We observe that, if we want to build a bridge for an aqueduct, if it's higher than X feet, we have to build the bridge in layers, or else it will fall down. And we can't have more than Y layers, or it will fall down anyway. That's observation, and engineering, but it isn't science.

To me, science is: 1) Systematic observation, 2) The search for regularities in the observations, 3) Proposing an explanation for the observed regularities, and 4) Testing the proposed explanation.

Without that fourth step, it isn't science. And I don't think that "we can't build higher than Y layers" should be the end point of "proposing an explanation".

> And if Aristotle being wrong about the observation rankles you...

What rankles me isn't that Aristotle was wrong. It's that he never made the observation. He stated something that seemed obviously right (to him), but he never checked it in any way, even though he had the means to do so in his own house. (And no, I don't think Epicurus is the answer to what Aristotle did wrong.)
I might not have been clear enough, sorry, but my very first sentence was 'Unrelated to the news article.' I make no comment to the article.
FWIW, the linked article doesn't track security update status at all. It's graphing percentiles based on API version, which correlates only weakly. A vendor with a correctly patched but old OS would show up as "out of date", but one that missed or is late on important security updates on a recent version is "current".
Most wifi router vendors have STILL not fixed the KRACK vulnerability. Looks like most companies dont care about user security at all.
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Privatizing profits and socializing losses always reduces animosity. It’s also a perverse incentive, and should never ever be done.
I think that energy availability is overlooked because it doesn't seem to be an especially proximate cause of the Industrial Revolution. Many other countries have coal. People in the UK knew of the existence of coal for centuries (millennia?) before the IR. A lot of times and places had fossil energy stores available in the abstract. Why did it take so long before any people performed mechanical work with fossil fuels, and why did the first outbreak of industrialization occur in the UK instead of (e.g.) China or Germany?
ex-Akamai staff here!

You almost certainly have malware on your network somewhere. Going through Akamai's support channels isn't going to help; we're contractually bound in ways that prevent us being helpful to end users.

The good news is that the blacklists automatically age out once the behavior stops. Check to make sure you don't have any open wireless access points, run another scan for viruses and malware on all your computers. If you don't find anything, it could have been a malicious ad that was making your browser fire off a bunch of requests; if that's so, it'll fix itself pretty quickly.
Hosted on a dubious server with no guarantee at all there is no malware in it.
Wow, the ReadOnlyList really does implement all methods of the IList interface. That's just ridiculous, %50 of the methods on the class throw an exception!

Why would the class implement these methods if they aren't even public?

Also, aren't statically typed languages like c# meant to reduce run-time errors by catching them during compilation? Wouldn't throwing exceptions from unimplemented methods from interfaces frequently break this idea?
There's a job at NASA for that. It's called the Planetary Protection Office: https://planetaryprotection.nasa.gov (relevant xkcd what-if: https://what-if.xkcd.com/117/)
As such I would not want to work with you or hire you, man or woman.

Work is the majority of many peoples lives. Human touch is fucking important to most homosapians and is used continiuosly and importantly in most interactions (like other things like the obvious talking but also smell and body language)

I understand you might have a disorder or be atypical but the problem is you seem to think societies entire wellbeing should be reduced for your own wellbeing rather than dealing with your atypicalness or disability.
did you see the new AndroidOne phones? google does updates for them and they are quite affordable. The Moto one is $400-ish and Xiaomi is $200-ish
Some lidar manufacturers are now working on trialing software (in airports and government building) which identifies people from pointclouds from many lidar units and tracks them. Fused with even poor facial recognition could make a quite powerful/scary tool.
Are you using Firefox nightlies? As I read the article, the Quantum improvements they're talking about are nightly-only today; they get released tomorrow. So I think when you say "now" you're still talking about pre-Quantum.

That said, I don't know if Quantum fixes the specific memory leaks you have, adds (back?) the extension hooks you miss, or adds the reporting you're looking for.
In my experience, OCaml seems to perform worse than Go in most interesting singlethreaded cases, and obviously it completely lacks a good parallelism story. I can't speak to Chez Scheme or MLton, but I may check them out in the future. Thanks for the recommendation!
>> Then there's the need to spend time to be sure that the transformed data is still correct.

>> By the time you've realized the thing is going to take much longer than you thought, you've already wasted enough time.

> I gave a go at trying to normalize it. I probably spent over an hour

None of that is something that having the data originally presented in "table form" (whatever that meant... it IS originally presented in table form as far as I understand the term) would have addressed. There are plenty of tables / databases / other collections out there that need cleaning.

The issue of "is this data accurate?" is completely unrelated to the issue of "does this data come in a .csv?"
Perhaps the real problem is sloppy development practices that make staying up to date so important.

Unfortunately, nothing is going to change because the companies making these phones (and other software based products) see it as a way to drive sales.
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It’s just a rough intuition/guess of mine. I tried to think about anyone I’ve heard of (in/near my social network) who’d lost a job due to any accusations at all. Two came to mind, both with smoking-gun evidence. Even if I knew five people who were dismissed on claims alone (which would still probably be a mix of true and false claims), that’d still put the fraction at well under one percent.
Thanks for pointing this out. I was much too cynical in the above post.
All of it goes to the publisher. You also forgot to ask if the peer-reviewer gets anything, and the answer to that question is also no.
The Secret to Long Life? It May Lurk in the DNA of the Oldest Among Us
It's an isometric projection, not perspective
Yeah, a black tag is someone who is going to be dead. That may be because they're already dead, or because they're beyond help (given the resources available).

The criteria used by all the major triage systems for a black tag classifications is a lack of respirations (and because he's an ER doc, he's going to reflexively check a pulse).

I don't think my experience is especially important (as you said, this is all googleable info), but I'm a paramedic with a little over a decade in EMS.
If software is eating the world, then data is swallowing it
You spend the majority of you life in work, and to avoid making friends with some people you spend time with is very isolating. I'm not going to the weekly board game thing because then, gasp, I might make friends!

Imagine if we applied the same standards to school.

I think this attitude is part of the reason why adults have a hard time making friends after college.
>> There are about 10^170 legal positions in Go. We think that there are about 10^82 particles in the observable universe. The space isn't infinitely large, but it's close enough.

I don't understand why the number of atoms in the universe has anything to do with the tractability of Go, or anything else. I've heard of this idea before, but, for example, my computer can calculate the factorial of 106, that is 1.146281e+170 (1.146281 times 10 to the power of 170), in much less than a second. 10^170 means nothing on its own. And like I say, the point with Go AI is to try and not have to examine all possible board positions.

The other thing to keep in mind is that finite is always infinitely smaller than infinite- no matter how large it (finite) is. And infinite is always intractable, so if a problem is infinite you can't solve it, unless you can reduce it to a finite problem.

As to music- the number of combinations you're looking at is far larger than the number of permutations of the set of notes. A musical piece is actually a string from a language with the musical notes for symbols and some unknown set of rules that govern what is a well-formed string in the language (i.e. what is a musical piece and what is just noise). That language is probably context-free, or above- and certainly not finite. So, no, you can't hope to just machine-learn how to make a song just by training on a few examples.

These sort of infinite problems crop up all the time in human activities. It's no use trying to approach them without a full understanding of the tractability issue. I mean, that's why we have complexity theory in the first place- because some problems can't be solved in a general manner in the available time in the universe (and again that time has nothing to do with the atoms in the same universe).
>It's like if you show up early to a meeting and so I accuse you of speeding. Is that sensible?

No, but it is sensible to consider that if they've estimated 2018 themselves as the initial release date and then put it out in 2017, they didn't "made it naturally" but rather rushed it.

I don't say that's 100% proven or anything.

But it's very sensible to consider -- in other words plausible.

It might be "rushing to conclusions" but it's totally not a "non sequitur", since evidence in support is there, even if you find it lacking.
It's a great site, which documents a horrible situation.

It'd be cool if it also showed which papers have preprints online. And which (I presume virtually all) are available via SciHub. Even links, if possible :)
Odds of Hurricane Harvey rainfall could rise to nearly 1 in 5 per year by 2100
It has nothing to do with puritanism. If project leaders don't set good examples, people "lower down" in the hierarchy will also act like jerks, and the project will lose potential contributors as a result.
I think GTD has the concept of a "Maybe Someday" list.

Edit: or "Someday Maybe": https://facilethings.com/blog/en/someday-maybes
Why would making and receiving calls and texts and checking email not work on current devices in a couple of years ?
Maybe focus on Leadership skills, as in getting people excited to do what you want them to do. Google is full of bright people who are genuinely excited to work for them because they believe in the product, culture etc. What does your startup do? Can you get people excited about it? Can your co-founder?

On the other hand, just quit if you don't believe in the venture. You only live once, and in the cosmic scale of things it won't matter if you don't succeed.
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> documentation is often a tertiary concern at best in large scale events like this...

People came in so grievously injured and so many at a time that Fisher, who is the medical head of trauma services for the hospital, and his colleagues used markers, writing directly on patients, to do triage.

When someone arrived, an emergency room physician would mark their wounds. It was quick, simple and impersonal by necessity.

Fisher says in those first few hours, the patients were functionally anonymous to the surgeons trying to save their lives. "There's no paper charts prepared for all those patients," says Fisher. "No documentation, so literally they just write on the patient. Just write where the wounds are."

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/10/04/5555849...

> As far as infection control goes...

How soon do patients get antibiotics administered?
Yes, that's the point. That this paranoia is bad for women. And the paranoia is all about a man with any element of power interacting with a woman. The first party's sexuality is somewhat relevant, but the latter's doesn't matter at all.
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> Unless you are an actor or dancer any sort of touching with coworkers is very inappropriate for all genders, sexual or non sexual touching included.

Weird. So I guess you never shake hands with someone in a business meeting, and it is only appropriate to do so if you are an actor or dancer.

> Closed door meetings are sometimes needed but you should never do them excessively or with only the young or attractive, that looks like you're being inappropriate.

When I worked at Evil Corp, the only meetings I could have were behind closed doors. I worked closely with a female colleague on another team - she was young and attractive, nobody thought it was inappropriate.

> Basically, it's just professionalism and should apply to everyone, all genders.

I can agree to that.
Ditto. I'm taking steps to move into the business end of things.
The goal is to take ~20 seconds. You position the head and neck in a position where the airway would be open (if someone is unconscious, they can't maintain their own airway, even if it would otherwise be fine). After positioning, take 10-15 seconds to observe for breathing. During this time you might as well check for a carotid pulse as well.
I think this is a good idea and would speed up interviewing at companies since you would be able to focus on the match. It does rely on companies actually knowing what criteria they are looking for and to be upfront about it, which unfortunately, is not common.

The real problem is that very good candidates are often not motivated to get certs, since they likely don't need them. However with the added benefit of speeding up the interviewer process, I think more people would do it and it could then become a standard and not a negative signal.
The 52-bit mantissa of a 64-bit double is only sufficient to represent all the significant figures of 22! and a 64-bit integer can only represent 20!, so if you want larger factorials with full precision, you need to use more bytes for your numeric representation.

Not many real-world applications require precision greater than a double, but pure mathematics can calculate millions of [decimal] digits of an irrational number just for amusement. A cryptography application, for instance, would need full precision, whereas an engineering problem might be perfectly fine with fewer significant digits.
Do you have any data to support the claim that "Their real estate development boom is largely supported by Chinese investors"? My interpretation of that statement is that you are saying it is the most significant factor. I would certainly agree with you if you were to have said "...is supported by Chinese investors."
Contrary to trends & general opinion, RSS usage for content aggregation & monitoring is on an increase, specially in the business world and niche industries.

I'm speaking from our own experience running a little startup, Feedity - https://feedity.com, that helps create custom RSS feeds for any webpage.
Because you can't conceive of it in 5 minutes, it doesn't exist?
Trade school, not 4-year college, is a better bet to solve the US income gap
Yeah, that's another common technique in extreme circumstances. You can sharpie a lot of info onto someone's forehead...
Absolutely, there's nothing better! Contrary to trends & general opinion, RSS usage for content aggregation & monitoring is on an increase, specially in the business world and niche industries.

I'm speaking from our own experience running a little startup, Feedity - https://feedity.com, that helps create custom RSS feeds for any webpage.
The last case is rarely seen in Go (at least not in the standard library).

Accepting for the moment that Go has no exceptions and and error returns are the way to go, the first two cases make sense.

The third case ( value, error) is actually useful in several scenarios. For instance, considering you're writing bytes to a stream that fail partway. The value is the number of bytes return so far and the error is the error that was encountered. In fact, this is the signature that the ubiquitous io.Writer's Write method uses.

If all you had was single return values (aka "int or throw Exception"), how would you model the io.Writer?
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I am not in a legal state and it seems only the most potent stuff flows out of legal states to us.
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> economic freedom

China certainly supports that premise. The before and after on their shift toward economic liberalization, is something beyond dramatic. A 50 fold expansion of their economy in a mere three decades after Deng Xiaoping began the liberalization.

It's also interesting to note that wealthier resource nations that heavily lack economic freedom such as Saudi Arabia and Venezuela (formerly semi-wealthy in their case), also mostly lack modern industrialization and have routinely failed to develop their economies.

Russia is another example of this in action. Putin will continually fail to see high level economic development under his regime, as the nation almost entirely lacks economic freedom. The primary means by which Russia can expand its economy under his oppressive rule, is through natural resource prices moving higher (which accounted for most of Russia's economic gains from 2001-2013, leading up to the price of oil imploding in 2014 and sparking a terrible recession there). Russia's GDP in 1991 was $518 billion (when the price of oil was $20). It was $1.28 trillion for 2016. Inflation adjusted (much less further adjusting for the higher real oil prices today), they've made very little self-sustaining economic progress, while burning through vast energy resources.
Security, basically. If you care about your privacy, you should care about security (can't have one with the other). You need updated phone for that.
The difference is when you write out your reasons and you find out 3 years later that you were right.

It can be gambling, but that's like saying dating is gambling because there is an element of chance involved with whether or not you get physical with someone.

No. It's not. There are people that are good at romance. There are people good at understanding and predicting technology. This whole mantra of "it's just gambling!" is by a bunch of people that didn't have an approach rooted in discipline and science.
Thanks for finding it. Here's my attempt at a tldr:
Teaching with analogy is bad because it robs students of jumps in understanding. By scaffolding new concepts on things they already know they are losing the opportunity to learn how to make cognitive leaps, which is a skill itself. One that Dijkstra believes is is paramount to combatting dictators or zealotry.

Did I read that right?
Yeah, but if they're not being supported anymore it's not ideal.
Yes, I understand that Google do make some phones. I own one. But, the vast majority are not created by Google.
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The clock is the test. That's pretty much the LSAT in a nutshell. This is much more so than the SAT, the GMAT, or even the bar exam.
Any examples of how it handles pagination? Couldn't find it in the README.md
Im not advocating any traditional economic theory. Would be nice if our language caughtup with our tech. We've been post-representative democracy and post-capitalism-capable for quite a while now.
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I think the "easy" rebuttal to your third point/counterargument is that's not what's actually happening: you're being forced to pay taxes on vapor. No one is objecting to paying tax when stock is sold; that's normal and reasonable. It's just crazy to expect people to pay taxes on something that cannot be sold.
I'd heard stories from those involved responding to the Port Arthur mass shooting.

It's obviously a completely different scale though, and they had some time to prepare before the patients started arriving.
The Moto X4 sell at $400 and the Xiaomi A1 is not available in US yet (you can get it ~$220 on some website).

Note Xiaomi A1's system update is not handled by Google according to Wiki.
On the other hand, if you care about privacy, then not updating your apps often helps too.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.