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> "...and thanks to Adam Curtis, Brian Eno never had to work again..."

It is good to be critical of things you like. This is actually pretty funny satire, and will hopefully make me think the next time I watch a Youtube video that's just unrelated stock footage to disguise a talking head.

...I still like Adam Curtis though.
The notch is a literal non-issue that only people who don’t actually use this damn device seem to complain about or even notice. I for one am happy that an entire strip of nearly-useless status icons has been shifted upward into the extra area afforded by the notch. The number of times I notice it in a given month easily rounds to zero.
"as efficiently as possible"

There is no such obligation.

Or rather, how do you define "utilize"?

In terms of transport efficiency, buses and light rail carry more people than cars.

And if only self-driving cars are allowed on the roads, what of bicycles, pedestrians, people on wheelchairs, and horses?

We used to play on the roads when I was a kid, being careful to watch out for cars. That's part of "utilize", is it not?

There are also other categories of roads, like scenic highways, which have a different utility function than efficiency. Some neighborhoods have back alleys for garage access, garbage pickup, and the like.
Installation of the addon was not opt-in. Receiving any form of promotional content was opt-in via about:config. There is an open conduit; anybody else could offer an addon.

So I agree that it was not neutral, because there was more of a barrier to other advertisers than to Mr. Roboto. The right thing would be to have hosted the addon on addons.mozilla.org, same as for anyone else.

But it's not a dramatically uneven playing field, given that an open conduit does exist and the reception of any actual advertising was opt-in. (I'm not saying it was ok; it wasn't. But it's not as black and white as you are saying.)
I also wouldn't be surprised if an external vendor will build LTS releases for a fee. That's a pretty common and successful model that would solve this problem easily.
Predictions without a specific timeframe aren't very useful. For a random variable on an infinite domain, all outcomes will eventually be true.
I'm using Google Sites. Previously, I wrote plain HTML, but just the most basic sort, that most browsers will typically format into something readable, even if not beautiful.

You're right, I mean a static site -- one that cannot run a server side script.

At its most basic level, you can pay me by going to PayPal and telling them to send money to my account. PP takes your credit card info. I get an e-mail, and my PP account shows a log of transactions. Then I click on "create shipping label," and it creates a shipping label (USPS or UPS) to the customer's address.

At a slightly higher level, PP will generate a "add to cart" button in the form of HTML that you paste into your web page. But it does the same thing as sending money to my account -- it just looks a bit more professional and maybe less confusing.

This is for a gadget, but for enthusiasts in an area where people are not typically tech savvy, and don't feel put off by a site that doesn't look professionally maintained.

Edit: I should note that despite seeming sketchy, a lot of trust is built into PP's buyer and seller protection policies. If I try to screw around with you in any way, PayPal will happily reverse the transaction.
Is this a technology-related position? I'm surprised to see it here.
Same here. In fact, I landed here right now from Digg Reader.

Reading the HN feed using RSS is much nicer than going to the main page.
I was thinking of putting some of my crypto money to ETH, but after the huge parity multisig bug (and the fact that I'm using multisig to secure my BTC) and finding out that the ,,most secure Ethereum wallet'' has no testing for the multisig wallet that it has (and all the hard forks that I don't agree with), I decided that I never want to touch ETH.

Meanwhile Schnorr signatures and Lightning network are amazing scaling solutions for BTC (of course right now you have to dig into the details to understand why)
Did it pass the Senate or just the House? I can't tell from that page.
Not to mention, cases are for personalization.
Nooooooooo! I never managed to try the service but their team and mission was awesome.
Internationally they went from losing $1.3 billion in 2016 to $3 billion in 2017.

It's like they're using all the profit from AWS to buy gasoline and matches to burn piles of cash overseas.
I'll take a look. Thanks. If nothing else, offering two payment options would be good for the very small fraction of customers who have had a bad experience with PP for whatever reason.
The normal Apple analysis people/sites have been discussing this. You can run into things where Apple likes to have multiple suppliers, so maybe they decide to cut their order with supplier A by 50% because they don’t think they’re doing well enough where they can get a better price somewhere else.

Supplier A talks to a friend in the media and all of a sudden the story is that Apple has a big problem because their new phone isn’t selling.

What no one is saying (possibly because as we all know Apple like secrecy and repolish them) is that supplier B had a 30% increase in orders from Apple, or supplier C is now coming online when they weren’t involved before.

Since we don’t have the whole picture, it’s hard to know what’s actually going on outside of effectively one rumor.

Or it could be stock manipulation.
I think this goes back philosophically to the theories of Marshall McLuhan, specifically The Medium is the Message.

Take for example, YouTube. And I do me YouTube, not video. YouTube isn't video. Video doesn't allow annotations (although those are thankfully going away), or referencing other videos, or references to the comments or description. Although some of these things exist on other video services, they're pretty much the defacto standard people think about in relation to YouTube. Their format has changed the way we interact with video.

It's almost the ultimate circle come-round from the concepts in Videodrome.
I have this problem too. I have the problem that even though I admire the complexity and the hopping from location to location, to me it's the fact that it's spun into a narrative that makes me feel uncomfortable that some people will treat it like it's more than a hypothetical narrative.

I haven't found any events that were not real or were convincingly disputed in the Adam Curtis films I've seen. Some of the claims of causation and responsibility are a little more disputed -- the bit where it is claimed it was really Syria behind the attacks blamed on Libya ignores the fact that others claim it was Iran stands out for me.

I tend to view it like a history documentary. You can't really trust it because it will be a narrative account and so many of the events in history are dependent on the greater context for a deeper understanding. But it's probably fine for an idea of what you should look into.

In the case of most history documentaries they take the narrative they think is the easiest for the audience to understand as they go through things that happened. The narrative makes it more interesting at the expense of academic rigour.

In the case of Adam Curtis films I often feel that he is trying to find the most mind-bending narrative and choosing events to suit that. Other times I get the impression that he is choosing key bits of archive footage he likes and finding a narrative to fit that. Personally I'm fine with this because I have no expectation for him to cover events across a time span or even chronologically.

The truth is that events happen. Sometimes those events don't even happen for a reason. Other times they happen for a reason. Sometimes the reason that seems most obvious afterwards was never even entertained at the time. The real world isn't a narrative, it's much more complex than that.
Presumably, computers can get better at driving cars while humans cannot, so eventually computers will win this particular competition like they've won on chess, go, and tons of other things.
The Medium is the Message
Early in my career as a developer, I worked, at two different companies, on two major large-scale, high-stakes projects, both of which failed spectacularly.

That was without a doubt some of my most valuable experience as a developer. I learned that a lot of what is passed off as conventional wisdom is pure bullshit. I learned that a lot of people focus too much on the latest and greatest tools, technologies, methodologies, etc., and too little on creating and shipping robust, well-crafted software.

For the latter half of my career, I've been calling the shots, and I've shipped a lot of code, and made a lot of money for myself and my employer, by staying focused on results and not getting distracted by the never-ending stream of bullshit that plagues my profession.
FWIW, Job also (allegedly, but probably didn't actually) said "real artists ship" [0].

[0] http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Real_Artists_Ship...
Honestly if they had kept the function row and put the Touch Bar above it instead of replacing it… I’m sure people would complain tons but I don’t think they would’ve had anywhere near the problems they’ve had.
The reason being (from my understanding) that the price of BTC has been pumped higher and higher by Buttfinex printing Tethers and using them to buy BTC. Essentially, they create value out of nothing, transfer that value into BTC, rinse and repeat. Therefor the high valuation you see in BTC is actually a lot of paper dollars that have no backing. This has been compounded many, many times. When it's found that Tether is insolvent, all that perceived value that's been pumped into BTC will dissolve, and the market (including all the alts that ride BTC's coat tails) will come crashing down.
The Internet does enable easier local business discovery. Where are all the new small businesses though? The latest Census data is from 2015 and shows the number of new small businesses created is at a level not seen since the mid-1970s:

http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/08/news/economy/us-startups-nea...

Whatever combination of factors is at work suppressing small business creation since the 2008 recession is not being overcome by the advantages you listed.
You are right, I was referring to the fact that cancer cells are rewarded as being "more fit" in the body than their neighbors. By gorging themselves on resources and disabling the body's mechanisms for slowing growth, they are rewarded with proliferation.
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More evidence of rent declines in Portland
There were a lot of rumors last year that Apple was shifting a lot of their supply to China and other Asian countries where they thought demand would be much higher relative to the US for the new model. That could explain it too.
Nope; it makes the let bindings. The job of reducing to a constant is better left to the processing of the let rather than duplicated in the macro.

If you have a compiler which can reduce (let ((x 3)) ((y 4)) (+ x y)) to 5, why replicate that in a macro.

If you do not have one (as is the case here), then it's better to work on getting one than compensating for it in macros.

Yet, with the following small change to compile-expr, whereby we avoid generating temps for constant expressions, we can at least get some nicer-looking output:

(defun compile-expr (rct expr)
(cond
((member expr rct.temps) expr)
((constantp expr) expr)
(t (let ((temp (allocate-temp rct)))
(push ^(,temp ,expr) rct.lets)
temp))))

1> (rpn-compile '(3 4 + 5 6 + *))
(let* ((#:g0266 (+ 4 3))
(#:g0267 (+ 6 5))
(#:g0268 (* #:g0267 #:g0266)))
#:g0268)
All design is compromise.

It's "weird looking" at the moment because Apple was the first[1] with the <cough> "courage" to do this in order to integrate what's basically a Kinect into the front of a phone. But phones are already showing up that copy this solution.

[1] Well, Essential did it, but didn't commit to the degree that Apple did.
Previous discussions:

- 10 months ago (112 points, 19 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13603570

- And a year ago (301 points, 136 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13603570
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At least Ethereum has a roadmap, some consensus on what needs to happen to achieve scale, and a decent track record of getting things done. Yes, I am aware some things are experimental and might not fully work out. But personally I haven't been particularly impressed with the development of Bitcoin in the last 2+ years.
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> And no ugly notch either.

And no Face ID camera. The "notch" was because of the Face ID components.

You're comparing apples and oranges.
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I have been using IRC for as long as you, I guess (mid 90's). And I am active on a large set of channels with very active and stable groups.

They're mostly centred around various technologies on Freenode, so I'd recommend you check there.
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ELI5 is an internet acronym for "Explain like I'm five (years old)". In this example, "secure_stuff" may well be a call to a function that does not return any value. Some functions are like that. But if it isn't, we no longer are sure that the code in the else branch of the loop won't be able to deduce what would be returned as the result, thanks to Intel, no thanks to Intel.

Shame on you.
Unfortunately this is the kinda stuff that creates red/blue divides.

I used to live somewhere I could drive the 12 miles to work without seeing another car. Telling people around there that they can't have their trucks because roads are a limited resource, would go over like a fart in a spacesuit.
In my opinion this is a bad documentary.

I see a lot of praise for it, but I see nothing but a disjointed, hard-to-follow argument, that feels like its backed by no (or irrelevant) facts. I leave the documentary feeling less enlightened, and more confused.

It almost feels like the narrative is written by a high-school student with no ability to focus, or refine an idea -- and linking random pieces of information together to push a narrative.

I think the Youtube video posted by user zajd in this thread perfectly lampoons Adam Curtis's style.
I think you have that backwards. Ethereum does significantly more transactions per day than Bitcoin, at cheaper cost.
I just bought a System76 and let the Mac languish on my desk. I lost years of my life trying to adjust to that terrible, terrible operating system. It hamstrings everything. Want to install X, well on linux you just apt-get or yum or whatever. Mac has HomeBrew and the other one. Unfortunately the documentation on how to best install that software installer changes, which leads to odd instabilities. Nothings as community supported as a result. Shortcuts are terrible because you have to constantly flex the hands in to hit Mac Key + whatever. Successive releases are buggy. I get betas being unstable, but whole releases have issues for about a month. All this for only an extra $600 per laptop with less ram.

Oh, speaking of RAM, OSX sucks at allocating it. Yes, yes, "unused RAM is wasted RAM". So is used swap on a SSD that's soldered to the frickin' frame of the laptop. Nothing says great use of time and resources like replacing the entire upper of the laptop. It's not an AR-15. These parts should be easily removed.
Chess and go are closed systems. And humans can get better at driving, especially if they have better tools. And really, if you want to maximize safety, you can just make cars safer and slower. Then it won't even matter how good of a driver you are.

But what computers are good at is not getting drunk, tired, and distracted.
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Hofstadter is still a boss. I felt like I was reading Metamagical Themas again.
Or just use the RSS feed. It also gives you a chronological views, and your reader will keep track of which ones you've already seen.
A beautiful solution to a completely arbitrary problem that they created. Much like needing a dongle to solve their created problem of removing the headphone port. Or needing updates to their operating systems to solve the problem they created with batteries. Are they still able to solve real problems now, instead of those created by themselves?
I think of Adam Curtis as a journalist. You may disagree with his facts or interpretation of them, but he tells an interesting story with his investigations.
Facebook is pinning its future on Stories, the idea it stole from Snapchat
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Apple does not expect you to use a case, though they will certainly sell you one. Virtually no Apple promotional media features people using iPhones in cases (they are always au naturale), and Jony Ive certainly does not use one.
As long as consumers’ media interaction channels are steadily showing growth on channels that Google et al deliver through, then I expect the SPOF to continue developing into a moat through network effect building. People’s preferences can change very slowly, and choice of media especially for social reasons looks like one of those cases. It is changing rapidly at the margins, but look how many are turning on a TV for the football game this Sunday.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16252372
Inspired me to install and try; about 350ms on my macbook pro. Much better than it used to be, but still more than you'd want for everyday commands (at least if you're picky about having your computer feel responsive, which I am). :-)
Their leather cases will help keep them on your armrest, too, because they peel into a tacky flaky mess within two months. Very cheap and nasty.