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Maybe for a better fit for product manager role.
They did it for me (Slovenia, UK) and I've never bought AppleCare in my life. In my case they even once made an exception to cover my defect when I was two weeks late after deadline to report it.

Edit: I think I misunderstood your comment. Yes, good service like this would make me more likely to buy AppleCare to extend it (even though I haven't yet).
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“Username or password is incorrect” is bullshit
In my opinion, this article conflates two separate phenomena: technology and politics.

Bitcoin is technology. It’s assembling different parts into a tool that people can choose to use. Much like a car is assembled from different parts.

Regulation is politics. It’s a social phenomenon that concerns how we use the tools offered to us by technology.

The issue is that most, if not all, tools can be used both ethically and unethically. This reveals the fact that regulation has nothing to do with the tool itself, which means trying to modify the tool itself — as a form of regulation — doesn’t make sense, since it ends up hurting the people who use the tool for doing good.

By all means, prosecute people who break the law, but do we really need to regulate the shape and size of vases, such that they can’t be used to hit a spouse over the head during an argument?
If you're in the specific range where your problem doesn't fit in a GeForce and does fit in a Tesla, then it can be great.

For a very large number of problems that are smaller than both or bigger than both, that extra memory bandwidth is a lot smaller than the price difference.
I always write std::string etc. in those cases. It is consistent and quicker to read and there is not tangible benefit to using auto.
One more word: Windows.

FreeDOS was released when it didn't matter much any more as action moved up the stack (and soon enough off DOS).
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Note that, with the BTC/USD seeming to have stabilized at around 13,000 for the moment, for everyone that got in by Dec. 6 (two weeks ago), this is still a win.

As long as there are still that many winners, I don't think the number of losers (ie, people that got in during the past two weeks) are sufficient to panic those winners.

To really trigger a fire sale, I believe you'd need a larger number of losers.
After all the deadlines and last-minute changes, most of game code is not something you want to make public. Especially with your name under it.
This isn't a case of thermal limiting - this is a case of the power supply being literally unable to supply enough power to run the system at its full capacity. If I can't use that 1060 at full power for more than 5% of the battery capacity, even while plugged into the wall, isn't that misleading?
These people are on the site, let them speak for themselves.

I don't see what a clueless new grad, wildly speculating, adds to the discussion.

Especially as you say the weather first, while the real reason is probably money, money, money, money, money.
Agree. And for quick prototyping it's also very useful.
haha, Apple was blasted to pieces by this in the threads, not here though.
Giving cars preferential treatment is a political choice.

You can choose to use your streets differently. I see wide streets in SF that could have been closed and turned into pedestrian only streets.

Union comes to mind, there are shops and restaurants on both sides, close it to traffic and you have nice shopping street.
As I understand it, and I may be wrong, the power usage of DDR4 compared to LPDDR3 under load is not that much higher, but the standby mode power draw is a lot higher, so the real reason is standby time and thinness.

Anecdata: I have a 32 gb RAM laptop (thinkpad t460p) and battery life is excellent while actively but lightly using it, but I charge it every day so I don’t know what standby time is like. Also, while it is light and compact it is absolutely not thin.
Thats not true. Western diet is build on processed foods - which includes lots of processed sugars and processed fats together.

Example, I don't see people eating teaspoons of white granulated sugar all day long.

Doughnuts and ice-cream on the other hand...
If I were a regular WSJ reader, I'd subscribe, but I'm only reading the occasional WSJ article that's linked here on HN. Having the Add-On bypass it is more convenient than using the FB redirect snipplet and that's about it. If the WSJ doesn't want any non-subscribers to read their articles, then it's on them not to provide exceptions (FB referrer).

For me, it boils down to reading between 1-3 WSJ articles a month by bypassing the paywall or reading none at all if they don't allow me to, since I don't consider the consumption worth the price (which includes handing over data to a US corporation) I'd have to pay. That money is better spent on a local news outlet that provides me with news I consider more relevant to myself.
Which accusations were based on innuendo and which accusations were grey area? Those I read were not that way, but then again I did not went out of my way to seek stories.

I am asking for specifics, because I have seen some accusations of quite clear non-grey harassment that got discussed as if they were about "flirting" here.
The regulatory nodes seem to have created quite a stir! I believe this stir is partly because it is being viewed as a central authority to control the blockchain. This is an incorrect understanding of the proposal.

The top node of the hierarchy of regulation can be created by anyone.

However, those who want to legitimately (within their jurisdictions) use blockchains to improve the experience of transfer of coins (not just money, could be equity as well) can use it with the regulatory framework of the country.

Also, we must not forget that unregulated blockchains are being used as a bridge to transfer money between the legal and the illegal businesses.

By adopting the regulatory nodes framework, the transfer of coins will happen only between (or within) "well intended" regulations.
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> Dishonest designs like this should be punished by consumers

This needs to go one step further because consumers don't generally care about the design of the device until something goes wrong, at which point they get burned and lose their investment. Retailers then misinform them of their repair or replacement rights intentionally. Either the retailer should warranty it for the reasonable life of the device which has to be quoted on the front of the packaging with no questions asked or they have to meet certain repair criteria with a full refund no questions asked if they can't repair it under a certain amount of time (critically a short amount of time like 2 weeks)

Consumer Rights Act in the UK is the nearest thing to this and gives you a position to argue for fitness for purpose over the span of 6 years from purchase. But it doesn't go far enough.

With the above, the Surface Book wouldn't even make it to market which is how it should be. It's disposable and nothing in that price range should be disposable.
I would sugest they pick another name because it is hard to find them with google. A name like TeamMatrix or MatrixTeam might be better.
Ah, the 1930'a Nazi policy. Interesting to see it come back after almost a hundred years of people realizing "You're either with us or against us" only leads to human right's abuses.

I'll be sure to grab some marshmallows to cook at the upcoming weekly burning of traitors.

I mean, you might as well apply the same logic to everything else. "Why doesn't my Calculus book push my agenda? You're either with us or helping the status quo!"--sounds insane, doesn't it?

When did it become so popular to throw away your professional objectivity, for a political agenda?
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No, this project is a fork from Mayan edms, which is another Django app that's similar to paperless. It's actually referenced in the readme of the original paperless (which is also a Django app)
Do you have another explanation as to why the post which I responded to is solidly downvoted, with no answer or contest of its arguments which could explain this phenomenon ?
> The result, unsurprisingly, is a large body of men who basically don't believe any of these allegations until proven in a court of law. I saw several transform from believing in equal-opportunity to becoming secret and extreme misogynists. Several whom I know personally hold positions of high power in both corporate and government settings. Women at those organizations run into a secret glass ceiling.

They retaliate against female colleges because their own divorce was ugly? But, but, meritocracy ...
Another interesting example is Shazam, which listens to 10 seconds of music and identifies the song. When I encountered it, I knew immediately that its implementation must be based on a fourier analysis of the sound to generate a fingerprint. That's because FA was a required part of my engineering curriculum.

No matter how good a programmer I was otherwise, without knowledge of FA I'd probably hack around for years with one inadequate ad-hoc solution after another. If I was really clever, I may even actually reinvent FA, badly.

This is where having proper engineering/mathematical training pays off. Just being a great programmer is just not enough.

For another minor example, I was given the minor job once of printing what was on the graphics screen on the printer. I knew that constructing a coordinate transform matrix was the answer, and had it running in a couple hours. A coworker, an excellent programmer, who had never heard of matrix math, was completely astonished at this and thought it was just black magic.
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The Surface Studio is probably fantastic if you actually use pen input. But as a programmer, I'll gladly take the better display resolution and fantastic trackpad of the iMac. They're both AIOs, but I don't think they target the same market.
PSPCL Step by Step Application Fill
Follow the link given below
http://blog.engineerscareergroup.in/step-by-step-process-for-online-application-of-pspcl/
Hey what about Chrome? I usually need another whole machine to run it properly.
Correct, my relative tried to trade in their iPhone in US but rejected because the phone's origin was HK.
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Security is a core principle for all browser implementors - due to the nature of a browser you won't get far without it. Privacy is a can of worms - all implementors will pay lip service to it. Whether or not they deliver on it is another topic entirely. A blanket ban on browser development in the name of security is heavy handed.

As I mentioned previously (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15985884) WebKit is a core part of the iOS operating system and is tied into a bunch of things, including Apple’s brand.

In addition to all of the technical, security and privacy issues, there’s also user experience, especially with something as core as the browser on a mobile platform.

We’ve already seen that Google can’t be trusted on iOS--it was fined $22.5 million by the FTC for essentially bypassing Apple’s iOS platform privacy features not that long ago: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2012/08/googl...

90% of Google’s revenue comes from advertising, so why would Apple and its users want Google’s browser to have low-level access to its operating system?

If Google could run Chrome natively on iOS (instead of using WebKit), would it be free to disregard Apple’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention feature (https://webkit.org/blog/7675/intelligent-tracking-prevention...), which uses machine learning to stop cross-site tracking via 3rd-party cookies?

Everything is a trade-off when it comes to technology; I’m fine with Google and some of the other companies deciding which privacy features they will or won’t use.

BTW, my new favorite iOS browser is Brave (https://itunes.apple.com/app/brave-web-browser/id1052879175?...), which by default blocks all ads, trackers and fingerprinting methods by default. Not loading all of that crap makes it run really fast.

And if we’re lucky, we’ll be able to pay content creators with the Basic Attention Token (BAT), based on Ethereum’s ERC20 token standard, in 3-6 months.

If this catches on, it could impact Google; lets see if they allow it on the Play store, especially after payments are implemented.

Clearly there can be browser innovation without giving in to companies like Google who don’t respect users’ privacy.
No, because Microsoft does things like this:

"For about eight days, some versions of Windows 10 quietly bundled a password manager that contained a critical vulnerability in its browser plug in, a researcher said Friday. The flaw was almost identical to one the same researcher disclosed in the same manager plugin 16 months ago that allowed websites to steal passwords." [1]

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/12/micro...
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Is artificially lowering down the performance of iPhones to keep the battery for a day the same thing?
Because Apple's laptops are the only macOS machines you can buy, whereas the Surface line is just a small part of the Windows(/Linux?) world.
The whole "Apple slows down old iPhones" silliness now seems a bit different in retrospective :) :)
We have a laptop that is not fully charged when... plugged in!
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Does keto diets have anything to do with the arguments presented by above poster, that could explain the downvotes ? Did I mention keto diets ? What is your point ?
I'm not claiming that one can't be successful by using Python (or pretty much any programming language). Market success or user count are unfortunately not tightly correlated with technical excellence, as many of us have bitterly found out.

Development speed, maintainability, error count are also important development issues. Unfortunately we don't have much data to judge, but the little that we have such as this article indicate that dynamic typing has a non-negligible negative impact on the above.

""having to push the performance of your product is a nice problem to have and you will probably have the money to spend solving it by either optimising your python or rewriting parts of your application, as all these large companies have done.""

Not considering the topic at all is negligent. I don't understand why you're so sure that the only possible outcomes are either not reaching scale or having the money to optimise or rewrite.

First of all, not even Facebook had the money to rewrite their PHP code base, so that's probably out of the question.
And it's very well possible that one will reach scale and not have the money (or worse the time) to optimise, if optimising means inventing type checkers.

At least one should spend some time thinking about this topic and picking a language that is flexible and can scale at least somewhat. Having to stop writing production code in order to invent a Ruby static type checker or native compiler is decidedly not a good problem to have.
It's interesting but not surprising that this competition exists. I'm not sure the concern about what leaches from the plastic pipe is legitimate, since it seems like a lot of ductile iron (which replaced cast iron) is also plastic lined though with a different plastic. Iron may have a structural strength advantage, but how important is that most of the time? Finally, plastic pipe may have the advantage in some locations due to the nature of the soil - there are some places where the soil is more likely to cause corrosion in the iron, and for those it seems reasonable to use plastic rather than simply coating the iron in it.

Overall I think the big advantage is going to come from actually getting the aged pipes replace more than from the choice of which new material to use.
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Nearly all fiat onramps have AML/KYC. There's also localbitcoins.com, one way to meet parties who are interested in transacting person to person.

Naturally you are still supposed to pay your taxes if you do this.
There's no technical reason you couldn't run OSX on it, but I am really talking about the hardware.
You have a point. But "artificial" has many meanings. This one, "contrived by art rather than nature" seems to fit. But this implies that nature is stupid. But we know that nature is intelligent. "By art" implies "by intelligence". "By nature" implies "without intelligence."
Still no 4k display. :(
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It's a giant grey zone, for sure. Morally I find baseball or Magic cards fundamentally different because they are an end in and of themselves... Lootboxes are generally attached to an audio/visual pleasure center simulator which is constantly encouraging further investment into tweaking that pleasure/dysphoria loop.

Honest gambling, like with slot machines, are also straightforward about their purpose. Attaching a slot-machine experience to ordering food at McDonalds isn't deceptive per se, but would seem as dubious as lootboxes.
> Also, we must not forget that unregulated blockchains are being used as a bridge to transfer money between the legal and the illegal businesses.

sure, without Blockchain, in the "regulated" way, there was no money washing scheme and illegal business couldn't transfer money.. right
What is "artificial" for you?
It made me realize that I have been freeloading the entire time. The backpay issue arose because they do not have enough revenues. I was consuming their content for free without contributing. This letter explained the issue plainly.
> a lot of companies have imitated Google's hiring process without ever stopping to consider whether it's right for them.

Truth be told, this is common across virtually all businesses, regardless of size and scope. Hiring is tough, since even the most well-meaning family oriented business doesn't want to put time+money into someone who isn't going to be a fit; at the same time, many employers aren't sure how to properly scope out what they want from an employee, and the end result is searching for "good ______ interview questions" and using those as the interview.

Taking the time to find out what you actually want instead of just "...the best!" is usually a better idea, but it also means taking a lot of time to really break down your needs first. I've seen interviews get past the last interview and to the final deliberation on the results only to have people arguing over the purpose of the position, which is pretty egregious in my mind.
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That’s not a problem with your laws, but more a problem with SaaS. Data should always stay as local as possible, ideally even within of your own organization.
Well, he did join and then leave Apple. If there's ever a Quora answer about that, I'll gladly read it :)

https://github.com/apple/swift-package-manager/commits/2e8db...

(Huge Homebrew fan here! Good API design is such an underappreciated skill.)
In college I had a wind symphony conductor who was phenomenal. Playing for him was so much fun. Someone once told me that the better we played the more he danced, and the more he danced the better we played. I think this concisely captures one of the big functions of the conductor.
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Do you need any license for this? Does it need FCC approval? It's a basic electronics kits with some LED lights, an Arduino and some wires + battery.
I highly highly recommend always using a linter/formatter that just fixes this for you
Garrison Keillor seemed like a case where the punishment outweighed the facts as we currently know them.
Numba is like laminating wood to build structural beams - it will get you close to the performance of metal, for some applications, if you can accept the weight increase etc.

Numba could be seen as misguided from some points of view. E.g. when using Python for high performance scientific computing, you will typically be writing your computational kernels, I/O etc. in some compiled, superfast language (C/Fortran/CUDA/whatnot) and all the input handling/case setup/etc. in Python. If 1% of your compute time is spent Python and 99% is carefully optimized C, Numba is obviously pointless.

But that's for one application. Python is used for so many different things that you can't make blanket statements like this.
Is it me, or does cursorcolumn really give Vim a bit of a sluggish feel?
“Let’s, Like, Demolish Laundry” (2014)
As far as I know, no battery, including iPhone’s, can achieve 100% charged. The concept of 100% charged is a software concept. It is hard to measure when exactly is 100%.

iPhone’s 100% is roughly around 97-98% of its measurement by the hardware. So why is that dishonest?

Am I confused here?
orphan_jobs.sql:
SELECT job_id FROM `{{.JobQueue}}`
WHERE status = 'grabbed' AND grabber_id != CONNECTION_ID()
LIMIT 1000

can it break when MySQL's thread ID is reused, and some new client will get the same CONNECTION_ID as a previous failed worker?
Whilst I don't doubt that having the knowledge of an actual compsci education is valuable, because you're supposed to be able to build more than one product (and build it correctly), I don't think we should quote "really good things". Homebrew is quite popular and for the short time I used MacOS, I did like it, perhaps not as much as Linux package managers but better than anything Windows had to offer at that time.

Being smart and writing beautifully architectured software is also not something that sells. What sells is software people actually want to use. I often find myself focussing too much on the first part of getting a nice architecture, and in general writing nice code. But the UI/UX is the first thing people interact with and if that part is bad, the rest doesn't even matter anymore.

I realize this is not the case in every industry, but it's not something we can just consider 'worthless'. Homebrew does a fine job (as far as I could tell) of providing a decent user experience. Even if the internals would be pure spaghetti.

That said, I do think that at google you'd look for a balance of both, and they thought he didn't have enough knowledge about the underlying theory, which is a fine reason not to hire someone.
Sure, but mini-displayport can do that just as well. The promise of USB-C is the ability to have a generic docking station, but I've not seen a lot of Macbooks using docking stations, and the Surface Dock is really nice.
That is actually not a bad idea!
It doesn't correlate with success, but the choice of language does correlate with development speed, number of faults, maintainability, etc.

The interesting thing to note is that a language that's perfectly acceptable at the above at small or medium scale might turn into a hindrance at large-scale. An otherwise fast to develop in language like Python won't be so fast if every change has to be painstakingly reviewed and tested due to the complexity of interactions in the code base.

Using a type system to verify assumptions/requirements is not a recipe for success, but it can improve reliability.
This is not my experience with Apple.

I had to fight incredibly hard for them to fix something that was under warrantee because I bought it online in HK and then wanted it fixed in the UK. It was one of the most painful support experiences I've ever had.
Yes. Or at least, try using a Surface Book and see what you think. It's a really nice machine.