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> Imagine you’re investing in Apple in 1980. There is plenty of risk involved and you’re still not sure this Jobs kid has what it takes, but do you like the idea? The mission? The product?

This is delusional. From Apple's Wikipedia:

"Between September 1977 and September 1980, yearly sales grew from $775,000 to $118 million, an average annual growth rate of 533%"

They were selling products that people wanted for profit. Comparing ICOs to this is ludicrous and seems to me to encapsulate the hazy thinking of this entire sector.
Respecting privacy is about not pulling user data without consent. The problem here is about control, i.e. not pushing content to users without consent.

@MoCo, you might think the (marketing) key for the (economic viability in the) future is privacy. I tend to agree. Currently, privacy has to be enforced because people are not in control. For everyone to be able to choose a satisfying level of privacy, we need tools we can control and education (poke @MoFo).

IMHO, what we (power?) users (influencers?) need is control. Hence the problem with the recent lack of support of legacy addons. While we can understand it from a security/privacy/technical point of view, it nevertheless goes in the wrong direction WRT control (shaping your tool for a specific usage).

That's a shame that you, we, can't imagine something better and make it available.
I've recently played through the game "Soma" which had a similar concept. Warning spoilers:

The main character goes to a doctor to get his brain scanned following a car crash. After the brain scan he wakes up in a distant future and discovers that his brain scan was used as a sort of programming template and that there are many (modified) versions of him living on in robots. Throughout the game this has many more implications.

Also at the dawn of humankind the earth sends out a satellite called the Ark which houses some kind of simulated reality inhabited by the brain scans of selected humans since earth has become uninhabitable.
This post wasn't about answering those questions, that they have done already elsewhere (some of it linked in the article, even). This was about how they will make sure not to use SHIELD to do the same in the future.
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>>I'm not sure why Kodak didn't piggyback of an existing blockchain like Ethereum.

This will be built on top of Ethereum.
the manual might be closer to 900,000 pages

Knowing a thing or two about neurophysiology, this seems like a vast underestimation (since a biology book should also cover that, likely most complicated of all, topic). So vast I wouldn't even dare putting a number on it, because there is so much we don't know about the brain, it is hard to even estimate how much we don't know. (Which by the way also puts some AI claims regarding replication of brain functionality in a different light)
The question then is how to avoid alert fatigue [1]. "Component" is also a fairly ill-defined term, I think.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm_fatigue
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“One of my philosophies of building companies is the importance of velocity,”

True. And the key to keep (increasing) velocity is momentum. I believe the fundamentals to that is infrastructure. Once you get to the "flywheel stage" of an AI company (http://nicodjimenez.github.io/2018/01/25/stages.html), experimentation becomes so easy that new models can be rolled out nightly.
Recent Android to iPhone switcher here.

>System settings are more customizable

I don’t know exactly what you mean by system settings, but iOS has a decent settings system. Android’s settings page UI is better, but iOS has a really impressive range of settings especially if you go into the accessibility menu. It has all sorts of detailed changes you can make to the UI and control scheme for the phone.

>Keyboard can be replaced by 3rd party app.

iOS has this now.

There are some things I miss from Android - one is the notification LED. Accessibility sets will let you use the flash as a notification light, but it’s a little bit more than I need.

Face ID is fantastic. I love how it sensors my message notifications until I look directly at the screen (this is configurable).
Is this the same discipline that thinks Columbus was from Northeastern Spain?

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

Toilet paper.
I'm using word "dunno" for that.
> most of the simple things in a user unfriendly way

Care to elaborate? The thing I value about Android is how I can setup the things "my way" vs. "Johnny Ive" way and so make important things far more simple to do than on iPhone.

Also interesting that you chose to test waters with sub par hardware vs. going top of the line Samsung. Both Google and OnePlus are well known to have hardware reliability issues.
> This means somebody sold BTC for billions of USDT (instead USD!). Who is doing this?

Bitfinex themselves? There’s no reason to assume that all the people buying USDT aren’t affiliated with the issuer(s) in some way.
I've updated my profile.
>>Minority ownership in a random company owned by a former fraudster and 3% of the tokens with their own name on it? So many things wrong with this.

The article doesn't say he's a former fraudster. It's irresponsible to throw these kinds of accusations around without solid evidence.
Pixel team is now in-house as Google closes $1.1B HTC deal
Hi Jeremy, thank you so much for your great effort, it helps me a lot.

Would you release a new version for the part2 course this year? I haven't started the part2 yet, but I heard that the part2 course is using the new Pytorch based library already.
Google closes $1.1B deal for HTC design talent
I wasn't talking about sending data back being blurry, but about the line between code "being installed together with Firefox" and code "just being part of Firefox".
Seems silly to exfiltrate the data during a quiet time instead of a busier time of day where it should go unnoticed? "Hidden in plain sight"
Probably, not so much. The amounts of ingredients and composition of ingredients in energy drinks are just stupid. I see now a trend of "health" drinks that actually seem sensible, though a bit more pricey. Like magnesium, ginseng and vitamins.

The problem with energy drinks is that they're alike to a bottle of all things that may be fuel, combined. I've seen recently a tin of Monster that had 0.5g of caffeine. That's insane. And caffeine pills are even more insane. You can drop 1g of caffeine like it's M&Ms.

At this rate we're going to have coke and amphetamine in those next year. And, you know, you can go on a limb and say that some of the modified amphetamines or phenidatess or what not maybe should be on the market. In Canada they have effedrine in OTC supplements and people don't die from overdose.

But the thing is, we either demonise or just assume something is safe. How many people knows that acetaminophen (APAP, paracetamol) is liver toxic? And how many people knows that NAC is the antidote (N-acetylo-cysteine, popular OTC expectorant)?
Are those worse than political ads paid in dollars?
But but but it’s designed in California :(
I was under the impression that all of those transfers at some point ended up on an FTP server at the federal reserve before they were cleared.
We have plenty of editors to choose from but we might use a Editor which has VSCode/Atom features+customization and vim performance.
Not just that, but many editors have a client/server architecture for the editor itself as well.

Quickly scanning Emacs "NEWS" files, the first mention I found of emacsclient dates back to between '86 and '92. I'm pretty sure it's older. This was added as an option exactly because it is more efficient and leaner to start a separate UI than starting a separate editor instance each time, and adds very little bloat (on my system, emacsclient is a 23KB binary), and it adds so little latency as to not be noticeable.
IIRC, the "energy" may affect up to 3 below pixels (left, right, center), so each pixel of a removed seam requires re-calculations downwards in the shape of a funnel going to the left and right with a maximum of 45°. In the worst case, this means re-calculatable pixels are in the form of a triangle with a top row pixel as its tip and a 90° angle there.

So, for a landscape-oriented image of aspect ratio 2:1 that would mean re-calculating up to 50% of its pixels. For narrower ones, that percentage is even higher, so not too much to gain.
Fair enough, very reasonable advice. I've updated my profile with contact info.
C++ is not more complex that its competitors like Haskell or Rust.
And Who?
It helps to have a good language to attract those people.
yeah, it's more like a theoretical option, because rooting voids warranty, plus you have to have technical knowledge how to do it. It is difficult to imagine my dad rooting phone :)
Samsung is now the world’s biggest chipmaker
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I am interested what innovative features are offered on other flagship phones that are not available for iPhone users?
My impression is that smartphones matured enough not to have any major breakthroughs in recent years.
That said Face ID is magic.
Have you ever wondered why you’re always so angry? I looked at your comment history and your bio... sheesh man, please seek out a mental health professional. It’s not normal. I’m gonna take a wild guess that you have had lower back pain for years too. Not trying to be a prick, just a wake up.
As long as there's a reasonable way for others to provide opt-in TV show extensions as well (otherwise it's not a neutral conduit again), sure.
There is no simpler lesson than "don't install unexpected software on your users machines".

So simple. So obvious. So necessary, if you value privacy.

Yet they have not acknowledged the mistake or shown any signs of willing to listen to the complaints - their entire explanation is about something else that people weren't even aware of!

Given the level of feedback and the intelligence of the recipients, this is unlikely to be a mistake or a coincidence. It is reasonable to conclude they fully intend to repeat this behaviour in future.
No wonder the US pressured Verizon to stop selling Huawei phones completely. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-30/verizon-i...

I can feel the tensions between the West and China heating up notch by notch now.. It's a bit uncomfortable.

I even feel a personal dampening on what I will say publicly about China on social media, just because of hypothetical tech/travel opportunities, and I don't even live there.

The CCP banned hip hop music in the country the other day, and they're pressuring the Hong Kong courts to make guilty rulings against democracy dissidents: https://www.wsj.com/articles/beijing-attacks-hong-kongs-rule...

It feels like there could possibly be more larger scale problems going forward and I'm slightly jittery.
Dutch HR startup Talmundo secures €1.3M for the international expansion
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I get the speculation that we might be better off with three- or five-point harnesses, but I don't get the complaints about the design of the belt and buckle itself. It's bad because it's out of style or something?

I can't think of a more user-friendly solution to the problem it's actually trying to solve. I wouldn't trade the reel system with low profile plastic-encased push-button buckles in my car for it, but I'm not interested in digging around between the cushions for whatever proprietary design the particular cabin manufacturer of the plane I'm on has come up with, I want something standard that's right in front of me in plain view. And I don't want a reel system either. Every reel system made for public use I've seen has had way too much friction and way too little spring tension to even make sense. And not being able to see the state of the belt and reel tensioning doesn't seem very safe either.
OK, I'm doing the same here thst I usually "preach" against. So here's the TL;DR:

I find the usual "karma", reputation or any similar system basically pointless (not only here), for some very simple reasons:

* To gain karma, one has to post some popular links. You don't need to generate content, but only find it. One can posts few popular links and immediately feel validated. This one is HN specific and could easily be fixed: E.g. if links that get upvotd would not increase karma only by one or two points. Links would retain the upvotes, not users. Users themselves would gain karma through comments, or other text-based contribution. (Of course this goes against HN's busniess interest: Engagement is easier generated when it's an easy source of meaningless rewards.)

* Upvoting anonymously has the potential to turn the site into a hype-aggregator. Hive mind decides, there is no justification. This makes the usual "popular content" (hype) even more popular (overhype), while anything meaningful becomes increasingly hard to find on the internet. (There are several resources available on what makes a post/article popular, it is rarely the amount of though or critical thinking applied to writing it. And I'm not even talking about cat-videos.) Fortunately HN is not like this, not yet, but there's a lot of "debris" that gets upvoted for whatever reason. (Still, a lot of good stuff, so there is hope. Personally, I think that is due to people commenting quite actively.)

* Down-voting anonymously carries the risk to create a toxic environment. It's the simplest form of trolling: No face, no name, no reason, no justification, just press a button. But even when there is, toxicity can take over. StackOverflow suffers from the same [1].

One obvious (part-)solution would be to both of the above, to only allow up/down-voting via comments. This would still enable the more determined troll/hype-seeker, but many would be discouraged when they would actually have to voice whatever concern/enthusiasm they have about whatever they like/dislike. Obviously this is once again counterproductive in terms of total engagement, and such sites value that more than meaningful engagement, so it cannot be fixed.

The bottom-line is, the whole karma/reputation/upvote/like/clap system is a good idea in an ideal environment. It's designed to give an opportunuty to democratically decide what's allowed to float. But both the design and its users are less-than-ideal:

* The design itself does not encourage meaningful debate, it rather discourages it, although this differs from site to site. (Even where it's encouraged, the diversity of allowed opinions is curbed by the hive-mind of the site in question).

* The users themselves often use it for a way of self-validation, narcissistic self-indulgence, or just plain old attention seeking and hoarding, etc.

So that is why.

[1] http://archive.is/kTKqG
So if North Korea launches one of their ICBMs into LEO with a billion metal pellets, would it be the end of the space age?
Sublime text is quite close to that.
> [...] responsibility for anyone [...]

Might become a problem too. Who is responsible? We all are!
Facebook bans ads for cryptocurrencies and ICOs
I hope this fund wont be limited by only ML, but also will work on formal logic approaches.
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You are allowed to express your opinion but if you want others to take it seriously make some good points.

There is no need for a history lesson, you can shout about Xerox all you want but in the end It took Job/Apple to make the UI popular.
The Jaffer-Humphreys test: A Bechdel test for museums
Well... Nordics have had a generation of good, effective governance. Ie, the hospitals, schools and such are run quite well as are state finances. I think that's the key thing others are jealous of. I would say that is more of a democratic success than a socialist one.

Economically in those countries and much of central Europe (notably Germany), large old companies, their unions and government are merged to some extent or at least highly cooperative. The result is a sort of company based welfarism in exchange for incumbent protection. Good and bad aspects to that, but it takes a lot of stress out of the system. It's very hard to fire people. It's also hard to build new large companies.

I'm not sure if the system is transferable elsewhere or even buildable if it doesn't already exist. You can't just conjure up a Siemens.

It's certainly not Marxist, itd probably be classed as right wing structurally if we go by the terms of the late 19th.
There’s probably an order of magnitude more software that was written 5-10 years ago that lost money but the software devs were still paid for.
If we don't have the skillset then let that money stimulate growth there.

For one-off projects, all you're doing is spending a bunch of money training people, who will then mostly likely move to places where there are long-term jobs.

Investing in the creation of new industries might be a good endeavor for a government, but it should be dictated by a strategy, not by its occasional needs.
I apologize if i sounded condescending, and coming from a BFSI background myself, it was such a relief to write software systems in Java after years of C++.
I agree "C++ code need not be complex", but the language itself is so designed that most often than not, you end up heading down a slippery slope.
All I was saying was that you didn't need to speculate, not that it was the right way to present the data.
Fair enough.

I'm buying this reasoning as evidence towards the hypothesis that they indeed redeem some amounts of USD.

All the other things I've read so far suggests this will turn into a game of musical chairs - some amount of people who make the wire orders first will get redeemed, and the rest will be out of luck.
Having used c++ for many years, this does not come across as a ringing endorsement for looking into Haskell or Rust.

I'm quite happy with my current gig using Go. Looking back, the culture of complexity surrounding c++ is obvious, but talking with my peers who have only ever done c++ - it's like they have Stockholm Syndrome.
With the reach that they would have at a low price point and the ability to match that to your other purchase, I’d love to get that data and look into behaviours that trigger cancer or are correlated with faster remission.

Cheap medicine is good medicine because it’s data-rich medicine.
Andrew Wakefield, the man who published the fraudulent "vaccines cause autism" paper, was a medical researcher. Do we then discount all other medical researchers?
Hell, that post[0] is linked in the first paragraph.

[0] https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/update-looking-glass-add/
> C++, on the other hand, seems to have been designed by compiler writers for their own enjoyment and/or job security.

If that were the case, the Edison Design Group (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_Design_Group) wouldn't exist. It exists because compiler writers don't want to have to deal with parsing C++.

(Then there's Dinkumware, which serves the same purpose for library functions.)
The Marxists in Labour are few and far between and far to the left of Corbyn. The fantasy that Labour is heavily skewed towards Marxist is just that. Most Labour MPs are more opposed to Marxism than to the Tories, and unlike most social democratic parties in Europe, Labour has never had a tradition of Marxism (though it has been more left wing that today) - there has been a schism between Marxism and more methodist inspired socialism in the UK dating back to before Labour was founded.

> And of course Corbyn is completely out of whack with his membership, being pro-Brexit while the party is heavily for Remain.

He voted Remain, campaigned for Remain, and made it clear he'd vote Remain again (unlike May who "refuses to answer hypothetical questions" for fear of angering people). On what basis do you claim he is pro-Brexit?

Brexit, however is official party policy that he does not have authority to alter on his own and is obliged by party rules to follow, for the simple reason that it'd be political suicide for Labour to oppose is as long as the majority of those Labour seats that are at risk are in Leave heavy areas. Labour has the choice between continuing down that route and try to moderate the Tories and hopefully get more room to maneuver and a shot at government, or start pushing a Remain line and lose rather than gain seats next election - Labours Remain-heavy constituencies are mostly seats that are safe.

> Remain effectively doesn't have democratic representation, and nor does the business-focused middle ground.

We agree on that, but that is the cost we pay for an undemocratic electoral system - if Labour where to go Remain, it would not make a difference - Labour would simply lose a ton of seats.
I think you misunderstand his points.

> I have never seen anyone celebrating paying taxes.

He doesn't claim that people do that, he says people should do that (if there is a reason).

> The actual divide is between conservative and leftist

I think you're wrong. There is left/right divide and liberal/conservative divide. The latter deals with the size and definition of the ingroup, the former with the inequalities within the ingroup.

> claiming they hate democracy (=government)

Democracy is not the same thing as government.
That's really neat!

With my tongue somewhat-in-cheek, I wanted to point you that you may want to be careful with that sample pic of the Eiffel Tower at night!

See: https://petapixel.com/2017/10/14/photos-eiffel-tower-night-i...
Are you serious? Multithreadjng is not Parallelism. It’s not about processing an image in the UI thread, it’s about making that processing faster on the background thread that picks up the work. Don’t get me wrong but lots of people still write iterators, for loops and single threaded functions. Parallel algorithms are hard
Violence against unionism is not the only reason, far from it. Labour movements declined also in countries that never had powerful anti-union forces.

Today, in many places, unions have developed into primarily civil servant organizations.
THIS is the reason IMO too. C++ has taken on the very difficult task of remaining broadly compatible with C and with legacy features while at the same time has continuously evolved over the decades, incorporating whatever was the state of the art at that time, without new features breaking old code. That is not an easy task without increasing complexity.
I'd be very careful with the claim that you are willing to put up with bugs.

Bugs in language or compiler will make the language useless for any project which is expected to work.

I'm gonna be bold any say that you nor anyone else would put up with it. There's enough bug in one's own code, there is rarely any space for unreliable infrastructure.
Try a cloud one, completely different product