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Samsung Cloud Service Policy Changes
Email just received from Samsung. (I'm in Canada.)

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Samsung Cloud Service Policy Changes

Hello, we would like to inform you that the service policy of Samsung Cloud has changed. From February 6th, 2018, the following changes will be applied:

□ Service Policy Changes

- Target: App data for users who backed up apps on Samsung Cloud

- Changes: App data for 3rd party apps will no longer be backed up on Samsung cloud. After this change you will not be able to backup app data or restore it from a previous backup on Samsung cloud. Any existing data from previous backups will be deleted immediately in accordance with provisions of relevant statues and regulations. Users who need to back up app data should do so using Smart Switch or the backup and restore functionality of each third party application, if available.

- What is still supported ?
Samsung cloud will continue to support backup and sync of the following items and the data will continue to be available on Samsung Cloud
. Homescreen, app installation files, and other settings in mobile device
. Application’s setting and data for Samsung apps such as Contacts, Calendar, Internet, and Samsung Notes
. User data like Photos, Videos, Music, and Documents

□ Disposal of Personal Information

- After this change, Samsung will promptly destroy your personal information that was collected for the purpose of delivering the service. However, if there is the obligation to retain information in accordance with the provisions of the relevant statutes, the information shall be retained, and immediately destroyed after the expiration of the retention period prescribed by current and applicable regulations.

Customer Service
There is nothing wrong with that. But in this case there is, because it doesn't make her happy.
Programming with a Differentiable Forth Interpreter (2016)
Doubled my income and killed my commute by bailing from startups to work remote for a large company with early hours but it's only 8-9 hours a day not 14-20.
Gave away most of my furniture and electronics, packed the rest in a cheap storage unit and fled London to a pristine and mostly unoccupied south Indian beach, where I spent 5 months worth of mornings going for a swim before sitting down to remote freelance work, at a table overlooking the ocean.

It wasn't a perfect move (the working holiday part), but damn it's by far the best winter I've had in a decade. 10/10 would flee again!

Currently writing from Bangalore, had to head central for good Internet and power, and a quiet desk, but that's a story for another time.
It is not her, it is a random spotify artist releasing public property music recorded by himself, listen to the pieces in the articles it is definitely not it.
Ask HN: Interesting use cases of Blockchain?
Following the discussion here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16089069

of the benefits of blockchain technology,

what are some concrete/interesting use cases other than the currency speculation madness?
Help me review the first couple of beers
I quit Facebook too and feel much better.
> But did you know there is also a secret second implementation? String.compareTo is one of a few methods that is important enough to also get a special hand-rolled assembly version.

oooooh.

Is there a list somewhere of all the functions that have had such special treatment?
Anatomy of my safe room
Is Implementing Operational Transform Hard?
After 12 years and endless fights with Google, HubPages finds a buyer
Ask HN: Which pricing model would you recommend for a Puzzle Game?
Hello, I am making a mobile puzzle game where players use a very simple programming language to solve levels. The target audience is people who like challenging puzzles even if they are not programmers.

I am thinking of two options for the pricing model.
1. Paid app (something like $2.99)
2. Free app with a single iAP to unblock the advanced levels ($2.99 too). There will be a lot of free levels, but the advanced levels have additional elements non available in free levels.

Also, I am well aware the many people here don’t like the pay-to-win model. But because of the nature of the game, some users will be stuck for a long time and may abandon the game. So I am thinking of introducing an iAP to access the solution of a single level. It’s a paid feature in order to encourage players to find the solutions themselves.

Which pricing model would you recommend? And what do you think about offering solutions with iAP?
The Ponzi Software Development Scheme
Yep. I do the exact thing for a lot of network related things (dns lookups, http requests). I use this nifty library: https://github.com/jd/tenacity
Can any interviewers at Google or any of these large corporations share about how the interviewing process has changed in the last few years as now Cracking the Coding Interview, HackerRank/CodeWars/LeetCode, Glassdoor, mock interview sites, and even interview-prep bootcamps have become part of the curriculum for potential candidates to prepare for interviews? Do the companies find it as absurd as the candidates do?
k·256^211 + 99
Here comes, ONE cert to rule them all.
I wrote "The Github Threat" about this possible issue https://carlchenet.com/the-github-threat/
I figured out the 2nd part of this comment is talking about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16090274.

I can see this post fine; it's not "dead".

If you ever browse /newest and/or have showdead on you've probably seen the occasional genuine spam that turns up on here. I think the HN admins have a genuinely hard time with the current volume.

To deal with the current state of affairs Arc apparently has to be exceptionally aggressive, and I've seen it generates a very small stream of false negatives.

In future, open the post (click the timestamp) and click "vouch". If it stays [dead], hopefully enough other people also vouch for it.
You are probably right although C++ compilation can use a fair bit of processor, especially with parallel compilation (e.g. Qt jom). Not sure how frequent system calls are though.
I have colleagues and students that don't use smart phones. As much as I agree with your sentiment, the unfortunate truth is that right now there isn't a good drop in replacement that we could move to.

Signal is drop in for WhatsApp and I can tell everyone I talk to on WhatsApp to just contact me on Signal instead. What do I tell people to move to from EMail?
Visiting my family on the weekends, not giving myself a hard time for failing to do things that are optional, making sure I don't accidentally skip meals.
They did not displayed syptomps. They were able to to correctly guess other peoples emotions or imagine themselves in their situation. They did not had single minded obsession nor routines that must happen. You could negotiate with them easily. They were, otherwise said, normal.

Of course I might have missed some very mild case or something. And of course opposite, determining whether someone who kind of have some symptoms would be harder for non profesional. There were some where I suspect that and it did impacted work.

Nevertheless, majority of people were normal, well adjusted with ordinary social lives and ordinary undrstanding of humans. That includes assholes I met - when your jerkiness is limited to those under you and you are charismatic treasure to bosses, you not autistic.
The feature is called "intrinsics", this claims to be a list: https://gist.github.com/apangin/7a9b7062a4bd0cd41fcc
For the sake of the intriguing argument I'd go with Scott Adams' AI / singularity idea:

http://blog.dilbert.com/2014/04/09/how-the-robots-will-take-...

Basically, according to that argument Bitcoin and blockchains are an AI-conceived ploy to stabilise markets and eliminate irrational human behaviour from the equation.
Can PTSD Be Good for You?
You wrote:
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Although I ultimately disagree with some of the conclusions drawn at the end, (particularly:

"Because contemporary moral codes delineate women as vulnerable or marginalised, we stop seeing them as individuals with unique talents and idiosyncrasies, but as representatives of a victimised class."

Acknowledging that women are 'vulnerable or marginalised' shouldn't remove their individuality, you can easily have both
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How can you disagree with it? The author isn't saying this should happen, just that it does, even if this doesn't apply to you.
Don't forget It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Archer, or The League.
Recon is an information gathering and target identification tool using open-source inteligence (OSINT). So with this tool, you can find stuff :) which is important in terms of security.
They are suggesting that SF has a reactionary view to that notion.
Not serious: you pay for the game, and you have to solve the puzzles to recover your money :D
The question is if other societies also adopt the triangle for classes of people in the way the American society does.

Not all countries have "affirmative action" laws, which essentially codify victimhood large scale - and also beg the question in which other bucket everybody else belongs.

Add an intuitive and statist interpretation of the drama triangle (instead of acknowledging that the same persons can be in different roles at any given time) and you have a society of people rushing to demonstrate that they're not the aggressor, either by ending up protected ("victim") or protecting ("rescuer").
Taking a break to watch the sunset.

Praying and reading the Bible in the morning.

Biking to and from work.

Listening to music.

Chocolate.

9gag.

Visit the sick (there's a student club to play games with kids in the hospital), visit those in prison, feed the hungry (buy dinner for someone or invite & cook), welcome strangers into your home (CouchSurfing).

I attend the CouchSurfing meetup too, and church, but the social groups can bring stress sometimes, not only relieve it. Having several groups lets me vent the issues with one group to friends in another social circle.
Sorry, must of given off the wrong impression. I'm quite happy with FP in general, I'm just aware it is possible to write some pretty horrendous things. But yeah you are completely right about (4), at some point it doesn't seem like overkill anymore.
That’s most likely because neither node, mongo nor python actually use the optimisation features of cpus. Says a lot about their performance quality.
Decisiveness and resolutions
Some ethnic group has also successfully used the victim role for 70 years now.
There is actually a cost-efficient way to create affordable housing: create luxury housing. After rich people move in, less rich people will get to inhabit those older homes left behind. Restricting housing construction creates a backlog that must be worked through for the market to adjust fully. Some of the benefits of removing those restrictions are immediate, others take over time.
Well this sounds absolutely incredible, congratulations.

I'm curious, do you experience any loneliness? Presumably the internet facilitates communication with distant friends and family, but how about meeting people in meatspace?
Might be useful for cryptocurrency traders
SSRI
the cost of doing say a 180nm chip is somewhere around... USD $10,000. that's $10,000 per shot... and you end up with something around... maybe... 200mhz maximum? and consuming vast amounts of power, relative to today's technology?

here's the really interesting thing: i've been in touch with the head of the shakti team, madhu, and he tells me that the Indian Govt has basically given him CARTE BLANCH to design processors for primarily the indian market but also world-wide distribution.

the "catch"? due to Intel getting into bed with the NSA, the entire chip and its associated source code MUST be entirely libre, right down to the bedrock.

funnily enough, i don't have a problem with that... do you? :)

so in discussions with him last week (he is very busy on a tape-out deadline at the moment), he said that he would be happy to offer the open hardware community free access to the university's 180nm fab, to be able to do proof-of-concept testing, and that he also wants to make available his team and expertise to create an entirely libre RISC-V multi-core SoC. i have done a preliminary design here: http://rhombus-tech.net/riscv/shakti/m_class/

various foundries have offered free MVP samples, and various other companies have offered free access to tools that normally cost USD $80m to license. this on the basis that the Indian local market is so... INSANELY LARGE that they recognise that they will make literally billions of dollars over the next few years.

so it's getting very interesting.
The intrinsics for the HotSpot JVM are declared here: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk10/jdk10/hotspot/file/5ab7a67b...

(look for "java_lang_Math" for instance)
There was a leak.

Typing this from Ubuntu - still no updated kernels yet.
> The only real improvement is the replacement of the door opening button with a more intuitive door handle.

Actually, it's not an improvement. A door opening button is easy to operate with one hand; a handle needs two in order not to shift the microwave. At least all the microwaves I've seen have doors requiring noticeable amount of force to open. My guess is it's to avoid the situation in which a large dish rotating inside pushes on the doors and opens it.
The EC did its job

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority
I go to work, nothing special as most of the remote worker in (subdeveloped country with great weather). Actually in nothern Europe, where most of the days are just gray and I don't get enough sunlight.

I have a wife and a dog whose I share my life with, we play games in the sofa and eat together, maybe once a year we travel to explore new places. Sometimes routine is hard, but I can always count on them snd vice-versa.
Had to look that saying up [0], but it seems like it’s just a made-up thing to help people who aren’t scientists cope with that fact.

[0] https://www.snopes.com/science/bumblebees.asp
That may be interesting if there were a practical way to pay back customers in the app stores. At least more users will finish the game, which in itself is very satisfying after all the work I put in it :)
would you be interested - and self-motivated - to help get an entirely libre RISC-V SoC up and running, that has the building blocks of a VPU and also enough Vector Processing in some form to do decent 3D graphics as well? tools are paid for. access to foundries is available (20nm, 28nm, 40nm). engineering resources via the shakti project are also available. http://rhombus-tech.net/riscv/shakti/m_class/ if so do get in touch, luke.leighton@gmail.com
I hate this feeling of hopelessness regarding global warming. It feels like even if you were a billionaire/massive corp, at some point you would say "wow we should stop, or else there won't even be a world to spend this money in".
Presumably an in-order chip is slower than the sophisticated modern out-of-order processors around nowadays and faces marketing headwinds accorindgly. It's only fair to gain a marketing tailwind from the problmes caused by aggrssive speculation.
Hmm, isn't it more about a tendency of where interest is directed rather than cognitive ability? Girls do better than boys in school (1). Which is arguably also about motivation rather than ability. It seems that they are systematically discouraged to go towards a math/logic path though (2).

It's complicated. The truth seems to be more nuanced than what we have ever been able to fit into a single narrative.

(1) - https://www.education.com/reference/article/gender-academic-...

(2) - https://www.google.se/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/education/20...
Note that it is correctly typeset---as in the article---with no spaces around it.
> As defrosting most typically involves leftovers (rather than pre-packaged meals or ingredients), you will probably only know their weight, not how long it will take to defrost off the top of your head.

How would one know that? Do people routinely put leftovers on a scale before putting them into a microwave?
State of Renewable Energy in India
I know this because I've read Knuth's The TeXbook. I learnt so much about typography from that book. And yes I did find several places to use an em dash in my PhD thesis.
And a fourth is the minus symbol, in maths mode $-$.
No-one's ever been able to come up with a simple but efficient harness for a camel; there are no known pre-19th century ones. Whereas the horse collar is fundamentally just a padded loop, and was invented independently in Europe and China at least.
The name for this topic is fixed vs growth mindset:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindset#Fixed_and_growth

You'll see that and related phrases as buzzwords sometimes.
Having complex instructions is not the only way to make a complex processor. With a very simple ISA, to even come close to what a modern processor can do with a certain amount of time and power requires a ridiculously complicated design.

This is why Spectre is as ubiquitous as it is. Speculative execution is not a feature someone implements just for the sake of it.
I ran into some significant performance issues with Bleve during a weekend hackathon a few months ago. I was trying to index the stackoverflow data dump for fun and I couldn't get it to successfully complete. I'm guessing i was running into some boltdb related limitations but I didn't have the time to dig deeper before the party ended and I had to get back to the day job.

SQLite's FTS5 allowed me to load the entire data set without breaking a sweat, but query performance was unexpectedly poor for some combinations of terms with no apparent consistency, and it became unusable due to a temp table I couldn't work out how to avoid when attempting to search in descending primary key order.

It was many months ago now and I have forgotten some of the particulars but thought it might make an interesting jumping-off point for discussion about any ideas anyone might have for indexing 60gb of data into a flat file setup like Bleve or SQLite uses.

Would the new scorch experiment perform better with an index of that size than the boltdb backend?
Killing my Facebook Feed:

https://blog.mamota.net/posts/solving-facebook/
I think it's partially related to something akin to the prisoner's dilemma: it's a world-wide problem, and "we" might not want to take the financial hit for being the first in leading the cause.

I spent quite some time in South-East Asia the past few years, and when you see the sheer amount of boats that just dump all their trash in the ocean, and the sheer lack of awareness of the issue, it makes you hopeless. I come home, diligently recycling my trash, and I can't help but wonder whether this is all just a show, and not addressing any of the core issues that are needed to fix this.
2018 sounds a bit early. I'd say we'll be lucky to see engineering samples in 2019, generic availability in 2020.
There was a post to OpenBSD- tech list telling no BSDs were told anything. And a blog post from Canonical says that the patch will be available 9th January (IIRC).
Show HN: Papers I read and loved in 2017 (compilers and programming languages)
No, it's not. In Spanish his name is Cristobal Colón. Ask a Colombian if it's OK to spell the name of their country "Columbia." The answer is "no."
I got into the habit of double spacing because it does make the TeX source code easier to read (and I often do just read that, rather than the typeset document), and also because emacs has a number of sentence based commands for which it uses the double space as a sentence delimiter.
Psychologist every other week.

Meditate in the morning (10mins) and in the evening (20mins).

Pretty much would advise everybody to go to a psychologist regulalry, it really helped me to stay sane (had episodes when I was genuinely affraid of going mad)
>They did not displayed syptomps. They were able to to correctly guess other peoples emotions or imagine themselves in their situation. They did not had single minded obsession nor routines that must happen. You could negotiate with them easily. They were, otherwise said, normal.

High-functioning people with ASD invest enormous cognitive resources in passing for "normal". They memorise facial expressions and learn to decode them like hieroglyphics. They reverse-engineer social behaviour, learning to imitate normal behaviour and interpret the behaviour of others. They hide their stereotypies and preoccupations behind an affected facade.

The fact that someone looks "normal" doesn't mean that they don't have ASD, it may mean that they're managing their condition effectively in a hostile environment.
Co-authors wanted for an open math textbook
Thanks for the suggestion. I kind of already know that. But does c# has something like scrapy? Scrapy is really good for scraping, makes it really easy to write all kind of scrapers and the performance is excellent for something you hack up in 30min.
"Tragedy of the commons", it's called.
I think they meant social entrepreneurship in a do-good sort of way[0].

0. https://www.socent.io/
So it was actually my interest which they thought was "not consistent enough" across 6 interviews? :P
That's it I'm calling the cops!
Does anyone feel anti-social after a full day of programming? I always suspected that programming can temporarily reduce empathy at the end of the day. I don't have asperger's but I often feel a lot closer to that after a really intense day of speaking a machine's language.
WhatsApp is an ok substitute for Email in my opinion.

Sure, it is not open source and but federated. Signal, Wire, Matrix, etc should catch up in the next years.

What do you need from Email that a messenger lacks?
Dr. Douglas Berger sues patients who criticize him online
I would like to add that praising can backfire as well.

For example, if a child gets a good grade and you praise its intelligence instead of their work it seems that they won't put in the effort next time.[1]

1: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007....
Associative memory is a huge matrix of and gates in the comparator. But we are talking about buffering results of speculated reads after a predicted branch.

The density if load instructions in code is not particularly high on average. Also, all loads are subject to the same latencies, so that the chance that a speculative read completes before the blocking one is also low (must be cached in a higher level cache, I think).

Taken together, I would be surprised if more than about 10 speculative reads can successfully complete at all in that time frame, even though it is hundreds of cycles. So that would be around 1000 and gates and 1000 memory cells. Doesn't sound too big to me.
Quitting online.
> Having home/office-use microwaves work like this is basically akin to forcing an average office user expecting something like Microsoft Word, to write Markdown in Vim instead...

If that average office user is going to write something (or use a microwave) more than a few times in their lives, it's worth to force them, because the (very small) cost of additional learning is almost immediately offset by gained efficiency.

Alas, what matters is short-time thinking, so UIs are designed for sellability instead of helping people do their tasks correctly and efficiently.
The oceans are by far the most important eco system on the planet, they have tremendous capacity for healing and regeneration but once that gets pushed too far there may be no way back. And without the oceans alive the world will be hungry.

There are many bad things the Trump administration might be remembered for domestically but internationally the most visible decision was the withdrawal from the climate change accords and it may eventually make the USA a pariah state no matter what military might they have.
How many nuclear powered vessels would it take to generate and pump in sufficient oxygen?
Java uses UTF8 in latest release for strings without special characters.

http://www.baeldung.com/java-9-compact-string

UTF16 is not really a curse for languages that require it. String operations in non-English languages are very fast because of it, and most software these days has to deal with localization.
Awesome Math