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> And yes ... after all, humans are quite capable of identifying people with high accuracy from 2D photographs. Depth maps are not required for there to be serious privacy issues with such databases.

Yes and no. We’re mostly good at that (with exceptions — I have to see someone a lot before I remember their face), but we evolved for small groups and therere are now enough people that doppelgänger is a profession.

On the other hand, databases are still a problem because collections of timestamped photos can reveal far too much about us once an identity is properly confirmed.
And since they conspired to reduce wages they cheat on income taxes paid by their employees too.
> the excellent MSP430 documentation and support negates any advantage the GreenArray product might have.

The advantage of the GA144 is not that it has slightly better specs. It is a completely new paradigm. This is basically a new zeppelin that can take you from one continent to another in a comparable time to a commercial flight, and you are complaining because the price of the ticket is much higher.

I do not think the point of these new chips is not make a dent in the market (either for consumer products or enthusiasts), but to show that radically different computing systems are possible. Maybe it is not directly profitable, but it surely is mind-opening.
There are lots of cultures (national and sub-national) where people don't think about the future.

Migration flows are always away from those cultures, and towards cultures where people do think about the future.

The thing is, everybody likes to dream about the care-free life, but nobody wants to experience the inevitable ultimate results of that: poverty, crime, underachievement (e.g. never accomplishing anything on a long time horizon), and powerlessness at the hands of people who planned.

Never forget the little red hen [1].

[1] http://www.enchantedlearning.com/stories/fairytale/littlered...
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I love my BigCo comp package, but to tell you the truth, I would not go to a startup for a 50% raise, because the best part of working for the BigCo is that my code ships to tens of millions of people, and I see it on the service dashboard. You can't get that anywhere else. Hundreds of millions of people a month run my code. That is very cool.
I don't think it's a bad thing by itself if children have access to the main communaction platforms to chat with their friends and communicate with their parents. However, I agree, parents should be prepared when they let their children to use the web.
Already starting in music

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I can believe that. Not to belittle Tiger Woods or anything, but golf is not a sport in the same way that basketball or triathlon is a sport.

EDIT: This was poorly worded. Golf is a sport, but I don't know that a professional golfer is an athlete any more than a professional carpenter is an athlete. A professional basketball player is an athlete however.
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Most products out there are rubbish. Every manufacturer wants to own their customers through yet another form of cloud hosted smarts and yet another app for your smartphone. The Nest smoke alarms are a canonical example - they stop working because they want you to buy the next version. Samsung, LG, et al are all the same ... clueless.

As for wireless networking, these devices need batteries, lots of them and all the time. Many won't even tell you when it is time to replace their batteries.

For my home, I'm looking at using alarm cabling to every point. Using 2 cores for power and another 2 cores for data - rather like CAN-bus (which works well for cars, trucks and marine applications). I also plan to wire in quite a bit of Cat-5e/6 with PoE for security cameras, etc.

For intelligence I'm using MQTT (mosquitto). Arduino, e.g. LilyPad for small devices and PocketBeagle (it supports CAN-bus) for more complex nodes. As you might guess, I'm constantly on the lookout for clever hacks of consumer devices to add into my "system" without using cloud services. Plan for on-going work-in-progress. But you'll have lots of fun.

As for smart locks - they're all basically easy to defeat. You'd be better off using conventional locks with electric strikes that you can control from your system - but remember to carry your keys .... just in case. I find that keying all locks alike saves having too many keys.
Isn't there still a 160 char limit as well? I thought the support for longer SMS protocol messages these days was just multiple messages in the background. Wikipedia still just says "Larger content can be sent using multiple messages".
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Yes, meant unionists. I don't agree with that though. Right now, they are feeble. That's not a good thing when really it's a body representing workers.

Productivity, wage growth in the UK is a problem. Is that going to get fixed by carrying on as we are? Should the workers not have more say?

I don't subscribe to the idea that what's best for the corporation and board of directors is what's best for everyone. Thats how we're operating. I think the next general election will change the record i.e what's best for workers, for the average person, for the sick and disabled, is ultimately best for the corporations. After all, a happy, healthy worker is a productive worker.
I'd almost admire how convenient it was that the language that was used ships regexes already.
And in this set of predictions, Cointed is acquiring its baking license
From my understanding the pay night be very good but the quality of life is awful. If you last more than two to three years, that is impressive
The beauty of SMS is its serendipity. It was "just there" as an unused network feature and somebody thought to commercialise it.

Back in the 90s the telcos were completely caught off guard - this was signalling architecture meant for setup/teardown of calls and other bits and pieces.

Overnight a booming cottage industry in SMS Service Centres sprung up to offload all the additional traffic.
> I also think overwork is a byproduct of a globally connected society.

But what about the rise in real estate prices that happened just about when people were getting double income?

Overwork may be market-driven more than we think.
Actually, Java has made programming easier compared to C++ with 'elegant Syntax' (similar to C++) and 'sensible semantics' (similar to Smalltalk) - especially 'without pointers'!

And probably, Kotlin has made it even simpler than Java.

So, it's an evolving process.

On the other hand, JavaScript - though still painful - has no alternatives... hence, JavaScript is still OK - without any close competitor!
wow,

to bed fair, if snow is common then the roads and infrastructure should be aimed at handling it, right?
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It's not obsolete. It is still the only way you can be pretty sure the recipient receives your message since it works on every phone in circulation. This is used heavily by shops online, postal services etc etc.

Many telecom operators also offers basically unlimited texts and calls for a fixed price which makes it often an easier way to communicate than to figure out what service person x is currently on. I use sms way more than I communicate on any other digital service. I would like for everyone to use Signal or something but so far I only have 1 contact there. And by using sms, at least I know it is not indexed and searched by an american company to sell me more ads. Also, I live in a country with large, pretty empty areas. In several of these locations the 3G/4G-networks are often unavailable but sending a simple sms works just fine.
My family had an Alcatel One Touch Max that could receive SMS in upper or lower case but could only send SMS in ALL CAPS. Forced to shout at everyone. And that was released in 2000.
Anti-intellectual is an odd criticism to level at the Midwest. The Midwest has some of the highest performing (by NAEP math scores) education systems in the country (Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas). Some of the strongest growing states, like California, have among the worst.

The article doesn’t support your statement either. It’s basically a comparison of funding at Midwestern public schools versus expensive coastal private schools. E.g. they compare the endowments of midwestern publics to Harvard, etc., while leaving out U Chicago and Northwestern. Your last point is also wrong. Out of the handful of 5 states that spent more on universities in 2017 than 2008, 3 are in the Midwest. Most states cut funding, with no noticible pattern of the Midwest cutting more than the costs. MN cut about the same as MA and CT, IA and MO cut about the same as NJ.
FWIW back references mean you're way outside of "regular languages" so e.g. DFA usually don't support them.
This comparison looks like bad content marketing at best. "The MSP430 family certainly includes peripheral options that current Green Array chips do not, such as flash memories and timers." => TI's 430 range peripherals is imo one of the primary use-cases.

MSP430's aren't trying to be energy efficient per operation - they are really bad at processing. What they are good at is running complex circuits/peripherals at a low total energy consumption over a long time.

The fact that they're running at 8Mhz is telling... that's far from the "low power" level. As far as I recall, you generally run using internal low-frequency RC oscillator for low power, and then just boot up the high speed crystal oscillator if you really need it.
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Yes, assuming that cryptocurrency takes over and it becomes a whole new ecosystem, the gain will be at the expense of everyone who doesn't hold cryptocurrency especially the wealthy elites whose net worth is mostly tied up in the current fiat system.

More people will start offering services on a blockchain and anyone with computing power will be able to run a node for the service and will profit directly from customer payments made to their blockchain address.

The key here is that anyone with moderate technical skills will be able to assist in providing a service by setting up a node on the relevant blockchain - It's not like in the current fiat system where I can't just run my own machine to help service Google users for example (in exchange for a commensurate portion of the proceeds).

It's a fundamentally better system because it takes out the middleman. The current fiat system is all about locking people out while the new system will be able making it impossible to lock people out of opportunities.
Good Point - but double income is just part of it. The other parts are:
- ZIRP and resulting housing price increases
- overleverage on housing, driving up housing prices
- mainstream acceptance of spending 50% of income on housing in many markets

But your point remains -- costs are out of line from our parents' generation. I cannot afford to buy my father's house even with 4x the salary he made. Salary-Housing multiples are insane and drives people to make poor work choices.
Baking?
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As with any X vs Y weapon, the scenario matters a whole lot. If you know where the missile is going and your interceptors are launched from that area you have plenty of time. This is the situation the USN is looking at with the new Chinese anti-ship ballistic missiles.

On the other hand, a system to protect the continental United States from incoming missiles from anywhere to anywhere was always fanciful.
If that crafty little trick is really that little, perhaps we could try to find it by brute forcing it on a computer (symbolically, using a proof system) (?)
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Deus Vult ("god wills it") is also the expression in Latin used during the actual crusades, the historical event that predates the game by over 900 years.

The name of the game is based on that expression.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_vult

Some rather informal historical explanation can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIs5B2U7US0
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Great article but some many typos ... sigh
>> but nobody wants to experience the inevitable ultimate results of that: poverty, crime, underachievement

I grew up in a diverse community in Brooklyn NY. There were marked differences in ambition amongst cultures. BUT Not all lack of ambition is negative as I personally witnessed. It may be negative at a society-level, but I witnessed very happy people. Parents who played soccer with their children daily. Parents who were always present at dinner. People who lived paycheck to paycheck, but were happy. Obviously, this is NY, so there are some safety nets for two-sigma cases (medicaid, housing support.)

Remember that ambition often comes with a cost (I worked 10+yrs on Wall Street, most high achievers I worked with rarely made it home for dinner with kids.) So many people I worked with were miserable.
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Bezos is the worst person to invest in flyover areas. Amazon culture is extremely classist. Every bad stereotype you can think of happens. If you are from a rich family on a coast and went to an ivy you get lots of funding, support, and an easy management job. If you are from flyover country you are supposed to be a robot slave whether working in a warehouse or coding through the weekend. Yeah, if you are from some village in Asia tech companies will help you out and hold you up as an example, but guess where people in flyover states are not from.
Usage increases over time though, as perceived speed increase leads to heavier stuff being deployed on the Internet. Over time, we started to stream music, then video, then HD video, then 60FPS Full-HD video, 360° video; I don't see this trend stopping with time.

(And then there's software bloat, which also increases with time.)
It's not being aware of someone else's situation - it's being aware that your own situation is not as good as it could be by comparing your situation with others out there.

In smaller societies, you have less people to compare to.
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I also don't need to ask... Should I contact you on WhatsApp, FB, Wechat, Hangouts, Twitter or whatever the shiny thing of the day is. Just give me your phone number.
Hm, so feeding them year-round (the right stuff of course) might be the ethical thing to do now.
Flock multiprocessing library in Python. Focusing on easiness.
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Thing is, you can’t police it like any of the other guidelines. You can just remove threads of arguments over that, but I’m curious how often that would be.

Personally, though, based on recent world events I think those should be added.
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Yes, longer SMS messages are technically sent as multiple parts, each one SMS.
Imagine if Big Capital started investing in cities instead of companies. That would be a nice thought.

Property would be the new stock; hostile takeovers would be fights over the city-government board.

Investors would profit when they managed to increase the value of the properties they own. So they start building better public schools, improve the local infrastructure, make the downtown a bit more appealing, etc. -- Hell, why not build a community college, an actual communal one where anyone can freely attend, and have that as the new "church"?

Of course there's the issue with gentrification -- which I'm not sure is avoidable given the influx of capital -- but if equal access to these new resources is guaranteed, an investment in cities may perhaps produce compound interest not only for the investors but also for the residents long term.

Thoughts?
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No it doesn't. It's really just a scientific calculator with a solver built in. It handles perhaps 95% of my requirements pretty well. Anything more complicated than that heads to a mac. I've been using scipy, matplotlib and sympy on that.

The basic graphing calculators from Casio, while not overly powerful have a programming language that you can effectively drive on the device very easily. I've seen people do some amazing stuff on them.
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There are also millions of n=1 studies across the globe, in which parents did the opposite and kids turned out fine anyway.

It's true you can't wait for science. But it's important to realize when something is mostly an arbitrary choice. The anti-tech sentiment that's popular in parenting these days is exactly that - an arbitrary choice without solid foundations.
>I disagree with your solution. Less guns and more discipline at a young age would go a long way.

Agreed, But until you can outlaw owning a gun and criminalizing bad parenting we won't see any realistic change.

>Why should a kid take your lecturing and conflict resolution seriously if he/she hasn't been raised knowing their actions will lead to very real and immediate consequences.

It because the incentive would be admission to the center. It would be part of the experience. If they're not taking it seriously or behaving inappropriately privileges will be revoked. My hope is that they will receive this type of risk reward reinforcement at the center.

>The prison and juvenile detention systems encourage criminality not correction. Maybe the needed education is for parents. Social shaming of abandoning your child raising spouse might help too.

Agreed. Maybe national ad council money can be used for this social shaming of sorts. But sometimes it's not as simple as everyone abandoning their children. But again no one criminalizes bad parenting.

>I'm just saying,it's always best to address the disease instead of the symptom and that at the foundation of a child's life. Just my humble opinion.

Agreed. We needs to attack the disease and not the symptoms. Things like passing more gun laws aren't going to help this city. We have some of the strictest laws in the country. Criminal don't follow laws. This is known. The key is to reach these kids before they're picking up guns. We need to find out what drives their urge to rob, maim, and kill. Sure we can say it's bad parenting but it also goes a lot deeper than that. I had bad parents, grew up in a single parent home, and I don't feel the need to rob or kill. Sure it's anecdotal but it just a small piece of evidence that some kids turn out fine with shitty parents.
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I agree that it's hard to get good predictions. The point, however, is that ignoring systemic bias and other historic influences is worse.

> and start being facts with unjust causes.

Of course. That means you know the data contains an "unjust" bias. Do you want to account for that bias, or do you want to proceed anyway risking problems (e.g. Simpson's Paradox).

There are more confounding factors in heaven and earth, closeparen, than are dreamt of in your model.

https://mathbabe.org/2017/01/04/recidivism-risk-algorithms-a...

https://mathbabe.org/2013/01/29/bill-gates-is-naive-data-is-...
Just as a sidenote, rust has no defined behaviour when dereferencing a null pointer. What makes it worse is that a null pointer in an option<> is handled as None instead of Some, which kind of broke some of my code until I found that particularly nasty bug and worked around it (with offsets).
You could read "Syntax-Guided Synthesis" by ALUR and al.
There is here (http://resources.mpi-inf.mpg.de/departments/rg1/conferences/...) a presentation he did at a summer school last summer.
Is centralization of resources really needed for a thriving economy though? Germany begs to differ [1].

[1] http://freakonomics.com/podcast/secrets-german-economy-steal...
Dimwit -#0.5 whadayamean a couple ? we already have a diode.
http://easy-electronics4u.blogspot.fr/2012/02/simplest-led-f...

Although I'd use a tiny micro or a blinking diode by now.
But how do you get them to finally give up? If they say you owe X and you say no, I owe Y, then does one of you have to threaten to go to court before expecting a settlement?
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Depends on the encoding.

It's 160 chars over 120 bytes using a special 7 bit encoding. However, if you fall back to ASCII it's 120, or if you're using a wide character encoding it drops to 60. But as someone else says we have concatenated SMS these days to cater for the longer messages.
Wow, I had no idea Ant Financial was not part of Alibaba's main entity. Where can I learn more about this? I've done some work in China (even integrated Alipay/WeChat pay into an app) but had no idea this happened.
Whoah there, you're completely misreading my comment. The single sentence I wrote, "This recent story in the Atlantic does a good job of capturing the quiet desperation of motel-homeless life" isn't even directed at you personally, but at HN readers who want to understand more about the topic.

So: of course staying in motels is far preferable to life on the streets, and it sounds like you had it far worse than the family profiled in the Atlantic. My sole point was that precarious living in a string of motels is still homelessness and -- as the article explains -- far more challenging than the average HNer (like me) might think.
Hah. I remember Bryan Cantrill complaining about this exact thing. Glad that it's fixed.

Turns out somebody else did, too:
https://twitter.com/bcantrill/status/774290166164754433?lang...

/edit: spelling
I get the feeling it will never happen. The nearest thing to this was the TI Voyage 200. Everything went downhill after that.
I'm sorry it is not about that topic in hand; but I just read 'BIG BUCKS' like Frank did in Scarface.
SMS was there from the very beginning, and likely network engineers were sending around messages for testing purposes, but it only came to light as a commercial feature in the 90s ...
What a Miss Universe stage you got here. Yet my funny "2 chicks" comment (which is an Office Space quote) got flagged? Damn!
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It would have made an excellent top level comment, with much less room for misinterpretation.

Thank you for clarifying.
We have two classifications: Prototype and tracer bullets

Prototypes are meant for info. They are not simply disposable, they are supposed to be destroyed, like toxic waste. We crank up speed all the way. No documentation, etc.

Tracer bullets are meant to hit, but not overly planned. They are completely maintainable, fully documented, refactored whenever possible. The name comes from the idea that instead of making calculations and plans, you just point and shoot. After shooting, you adjust the machine to hit the target better.
"Startup nerd" (LOL) here. I linked to the article because I thought it was an insightful illustration of the life of the "motel homeless". No more, no less, no disagreement (with what, exactly?) intended or implied.
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