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Current Samsung flagships in both the Galaxy S and Galaxy Note lines have all of those except the IR emitter and replaceable battery; S6 / Note5 dropped the expandable storage, but it was restored in the S7/Note7 generation.

As more and more remotes are RF rather than IR (and more and more of the things that have remotes can also be controlled by mobile apps), the utility of an IR blaster is dropping; while I, too, would like to see them come back, I don't really think it's likely.

I don't think removable batteries are coming back either; the current ones are serviceable, just not conveniently swappable in daily use. But the daily use use case of removable batteries is more than adequately served for most users by battery packs (including battery cases) on the market now, so it's too little utility to too few users to justify compromising other features on a flagship.
Hi. Guy who does the autoscaling code here at Epic. It's really fun to watch the graphs of how many server sessions we have in a region at any given time over the course of a day.
But I don't think that trait would be discoverable in CS grads more often than boot camp grads. If it is, and you get a reliable source of candidates from CS grads, why not just filter on that and not bother with the time spent interviewing boot camp grads? And I'm not sure a couple of courses would change that in a person. That's distinctly out of the technical set of qualities.
Thank you, this is great work.

While implementing the UI for a medical device I had the disappointing experience of having to work with a UX company that designed an interface that relied almost exclusively on colors to indicate results and state (red, green, orange, blue, yellow...). When I pointed out that the color blind would not be able to understand their color-based system they refused to make any changes -- not even adding distinct icons for distinct results. These people claim to be UX specialists for medical devices.
Is Chromecast support only on Android? Or will it work on Mac too?
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Maybe it is not polite to talk about but I do not think most of Epic systems, or any generic IT employee can simply be hired by Google if they are willing to move where Google offices are present.

Most people I know in IT industry understand this deeply even if not talk openly that their 1/4-1/2 of Google pay is decent case scenario. It is also reinforced by the fact average salary for software engineer in valley is about $120K and not $500K + unlimited meals, bus rides and what not.

People here are select bunch and talk about 500K pay so often, it starts to look common when clearly it is not.
I hire for a small startup, so maybe this isn't how it works at the big companies, but I certainly wouldn't dock points for this. I think it shows initiative, and at worst I wouldn't care one way or the other.

The only way I could imagine it being a red flag is that sometimes people put things on their resumes that aren't real accomplishments (like things they did in high school, or the fact that they know how to use MS Word) and it makes me wonder if there are so few worthwhile things for them to talk about that they use filler like that. But even then I pretty much just ignore it.
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>...The infringement claims were thrown out earlier than that (September 2017, IIRC).

According to the article, the infringement claims were dropped after Waymo was notified of the USPTO reexamination that was going to be done due to Swildens filing the ex parte reexamination request.

>...So he took the unusual step of challenging the 936 patent himself, filing what is called an ex-parte reexamination request. He gathered the prior art he had discovered, completed reams of paperwork, and pulled together his detailed arguments into a 101-page document that he filed with the USPTO on August 1.

Waymo dropped the claims relating to the 936 patent on Sep 13.

>...Swildens, naturally, thinks his reexamination request played a role. He notes that USPTO had a phone interview with Waymo’s lawyers a few days before, on September 8, at which the examiners presumably told Waymo that a reexamination of the 936 would be going ahead. If the reexamination started while the patent was being actively litigated, Uber and the court would have to be informed.

https://www.wired.com/story/eric-swildens-uber-waymo-lawsuit...
One of the few commercials Linux software that I use. If you want to try out a free older version, try here: http://www.freeoffice.com/en/

[I am not direct or indirect affiliated with the company. Just a happy user]
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+1 I really wish we could choose our carrier, and reward those that do a good job. I used to have a way better experience with UPS then Fedex, the difference was huge because I would have to go to the Fedex warehouse to pick up my package (long story, Fedex was pretty bad in my area). But I have no control over who delivers it.

The Amazon delivery guys are way worse. I never know when something is coming, even if it says out for delivery I might not get it for days. Every time I need something for a trip that I buy 3 business days early, with 2 day prime shipping, I don't get it before I have to leave.

I gave up trying to complain, you could review the seller, but not the delivery service. Hopefully they have changed that. I used to only shop on Amazon for pretty much everything. Now I decide if I should get it from a local store instead. When I need something that is time sensitive, I definitely get it from a brick and mortar store.

The worst is that while UPS will leave the packages on my doorstep (and knock on the door), the off-brand Amazon delivery guys tend to leave the package in front of my garage door because it is closer. One of these days I'm going to drive over something expensive by accident.
I've had a stammer since childhood, I'm a covert stammerer so I try my best to hide it and substitute words that I know I'm going to stammer / block on, most people probably don't realise that I have a stammer. I think it started when I was transitioning from primary school to middle school which was a very stressful and daunting time.

Throughout my life my speech has gone up and down. Mainly the quality of my speech has a positive correlation with how comfortable / confident I'm feeling.

I've had speech therapy in the past and learnt techniques that help a lot but it only really works if you're prepared to spend a large chunk of your day practising and preparing for speaking situations.

Any kind of stammer has a massive impact on your life because you can't express yourself and be the person you really are. I feel like the impact hasn't been as great in my professional life because in most programming jobs your performance is primarily based on the quality of your code. However I should probably be a bit further up the career ladder, I have the knowledge but not the communication skills.

I feel a great deal of shame / embarrassment / frustration as a stammer but having said that everyone has problems in their life and I'm thankful and grateful that I've got good health.

To anyone reading this and those that have already commented, please don't hesitate to contact me - my details are on my HN profile.
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> A coding bootcamp person could perform as well as a CS graduate if he or she took 2 more courses:

> 1. Data Structures and Algorithms

> 2. Probability and Statistics.

> You could take them at either a community college or online for minimal expense.

Are there any specific online courses for these subjects that you recommend?
I like plex, despite its mysterious failures during streaming (dropped wifi, stuttering on old-generation chromecast). The UI is clear, easy for me to organize, and sub-organize things for my kids to use.

Story time: this past summer I wanted to travel from Canada to Florida (3 days 2 nights) with just me and two young kids. To save on airfair I decided to drive. I bought myself the dlink DIR-505, one of those vehicle power bars, packed my laptop running plex, plugged in my portable drive that houses all my media, and I had a mobile hotspot the kids connected to from each of their devices to watch movies using plex, it was intuitive enough for them to use. With each having headphones, I even streamed my music to the car's bluetooth using plex. We went for 12hrs on our longest day, it was a huge relief from the boredom at times.

I've never had a problem with subtitles though, can you explain what you mean?
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No one knows.
> Being poor and white is still an advantage over poor and Latino/Black. Look at conviction rates at criminal trials for example.

No argument, but is that really justification for wealthy urban whites to go around shouting about "white privilege" to poor rural whites? I mean, if you feel that way, continue, but I can guarantee you it won't be a net positive for our country, black or white.
Hyperparameter optimization for neural networks can be insanely expensive though[1], to the point where there are even startups (e.g: SigOpt) that do this.
[1] https://twitter.com/beenwrekt/status/961263599674150912
Specifically, a package of 3 bars of Cetaphil soap in my local walmart is less than 10$ to walk out the door with. Compare that to prices on amazon that range from the same price as in store, to over $20 with shipping excluded!

Another example, this time a slightly more bulk item, is ramen noodles [0]. They are around 20 cents a noodle in local stores, while amazon lists them around 50 cents per noodle (even in large 36 packs)

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Maruchan-chicken-noodle-soup-pack/dp/...
Waymo became a minor investor in Uber in future can vote for Uber to buy or rent it's cars. If I recall correctly Google ventures was an early investor in Uber as well. So Alphabet might own a lot more of Uber once it's Ipo
Nope. No creative counting. Those are our real numbers.
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Is it really that insane? There is already a plethora of companies working with IOTA. No one knows much about the status of JINN due to prospective NDAs that would prevent any sort of chip production deals from becoming public. Companies are actively seeking out the foundation to see how they can become involved, not vice versa.

An IOTA efficient IoT device would simply have a tiny JINN ASIC to perform the PoW necessary to attach a transaction to the tangle.

I will add that I did mis-speak in that sentence. The hardware is not necessarily required, but will make the PoW for IoT devices negligible in terms of both transaction attachment times and energy usage. The tangle is expected to be running smoothly without the coordinator before any adoption of JINN hardware takes place.
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It was nearly correct in my case: While getting a BS in ChemE at CU Boulder, I also earned a got a minor in chemistry and biochemistry (and inorganic chemistry, but I was only allowed two minors for whatever reason).
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The Rust language community has recently released a case study on Skylight and how Rust has been a competitive advantage for them.[0]

[0] https://www.rust-lang.org/pdfs/Rust-Tilde-Whitepaper.pdf
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This is just called "inbound" and "outbound" for Boston.

It is a bit confusing because there is two stops in the city that are as far in as you can go so you can't label the directions this way from there, and you the definition of in and out flips after you pass there.
Using dotmesh to commit container volumes like git
This is an interesting strategy. The "build a service for internal use, then make it a service" strategy worked for them with AWS and web stores, but it failed for Amazon Fresh (but they are trying to turn it around with Whole Foods), and now they're trying again with shipping logistics.

Personally I've found them so-so, and certainly not great. I frequently get calls from drivers that are lost that can't find my new-ish street and need some help. It's certainly fine that the first one gets lost, but when the second one gets lost it's apparent that the organization isn't building up any knowledge about hard-to-find customers. This is a moat they could build, but they're not interested.
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Also, because software developers are like soldiers or litigation lawyers. The more other people have, the more you will need.

If company X is your competitor, and they employ 10 software developers, sooner or later, whatever it is they're working on will release, and that might provide X with a massive competitive advantage over you. So you have to hire your own people to keep up with your side of the arms race. And sometimes, a brand new person comes along with a bunch of software folks to create company Y, and they devastate both you and X within their first 5 years.
Chromecast isn't free software. You need google sdk, which obviously a project like vlc can't use.
Ohhh I like this. The idea of having sub-project level boilerplate is great. i.e. being able to generate components or whatever rather than a whole project like you'd see with Yeoman. There's probably a ton of stuff like this out there that I'm unaware of, but I like the simplicity of this project.

The Redux case mentioned in the docs is what sold me. http://www.hygen.io/redux
Yup. Understanding fundamental computer science is a good example of the Dunning-Kruger effect. If you don't understand it, you likely don't even realize that you're missing something important.
The anti-semitic conspiracy theory memes have spread to the Telegraph: https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2018/02/nick-...

Brexit advocacy has caused the British press to abandon the last vestiges of impartiality or connection to facts. It's going to be all "crush the saboteurs / financiers / international cosmopolitans" from here on out.
It's insulting to all the people who are doctors/lawyers/any number of other fields where the degree is just the entry point to being able to work in it.
I studied Electrical Engineering in college and I've been a professional programmer for 10 years. EE is much harder.
I've found that all of the Lyft drivers here (also Seattle) that start conversations drive as a side thing. I have no statistics, but it appears you don't either.
Oh, I don't buy day to day grocery store stuff on Amazon.
They said " electromagnetic signal ". Isn't light an electromagnetic signal?
> If you want to know just how hard programming is, try teaching it to someone.

Continuing with the example from the article: law and medicine are also hard. Try teaching those to the same set of people.

> Programmers have to remember a vast amount of domain knowledge.

Programmers are not at all unique in their need to understand significant domain knowledge. Essentially every knowledge-based field, including those with licensing barriers to entry, also have this requirement (and arguably to a greater extent).

> And I hope you have been keeping your knowledge up-to-date because the answer in 2018 is very different to the answer in 2008.

Lawyers and doctors must also keep current with their field and the industry in general. If anything, the degree to which they must keep up with their respective fields seems to be a difference of degree when compared to software developers, not of category.

I don’t think any of this difficulty is the reason why programming enjoys high salaries, because (circling back to the article’s thesis), it isn’t distinct from other fields with higher barriers to entry in that respect.
Which online course on data structures and algorithms did you take?
As obnoxious as randomly pulsating RGB led's are, it seems like a great way to defeat data exfiltration with status LED's of any kind. I'm also curious why air-gapped data centers don't blast the air-waves both inside and outside of the faraday cages with randomized signal noise.
Thanks for posting the link. Donating was so easy I actually did it (glad to help with $20) :))).
Of course it doesn't use CSS and JS, none of those existed back in 1992 when the website was made.

However, content using CSS1 and javascript 1.0 standards (1996?) should also work in modern browsers; but I couldn't easily find any sites that actually use them and haven't been updated for the last 20+ years to test it; the sites from e.g. 1997-1999 seem to avoid it like the plague since back then you couldn't rely on CSS1 and javascript 1.0 being properly supported.

So yes, just as modern browsers support all web technologies since their very start - a CSS3 compliant browser should be compatible also with CSS2 and CSS1 (20+years old), I'm quite convinced that 20 years into future when we might have CSS 5 or 6, the current CSS3 content will also work as well. New javascript doesn't work on ancient browsers, but ancient javascript works well in modern browsers, that's a core design principle of the web standards - we build them for compatibility.
I'm surprised you see Evolution as a solution

Before I switched away from Gnome I had Evolution set up. It was slow, you couldn't make more than one operation at a time and notifications worked randomly. Even if you had new email, Evolution sometimes decided not to notify you for days. Reminders and synchronization of calendar and tasks were even worse.
If you regularly have troubles with AMZL failing to deliver packages, look into Amazon Lockers. I always get my Amazon packages delivered to a locker. 0% chance of failed delivery, 0% change of a package getting stolen.

It might be a little inconvenient to not have your stuff delivered to your door, but the inconvenience is trumped by the peace of mind.

Though personally, I'm lucky that my daily commute passes right by a locker, so there's no inconvenience.
No, easterly. Bottom right corner of the map.
#4 really is amazing. vlc is probably the ONLY application that I took with me when switching from Windows to Mac/Linux 10+ years ago. It's as essential to my multimedia computing as vim is to my text editing.
"Would people consider a colour photograph as encoding four dimensional information when its pixels are represented as (x, y, brightness, colour) for example?"

Actually, yes, they do. Computer vision people will envision a photograph as containing the number of dimensions equal to the number of independent numbers used to describe it, so a 1000x1000 RGB image would be considered 3,000,000-dimensional. This is perfectly routine in that world.

Writing would be considered n-dimensional. http://www.mathwords.com/n/n_dimensions.htm In non-math terms you'd probably be justified in saying the question is ill-defined, as what constitutes an orthogonal vector component in a piece of writing is not something that has an universally-obvious answer. But it's not that there are 0 possibilities, it is that there is very many.

In a nutshell, the word "dimension" does not simply describe 3-dimensional space, and all other uses are somehow wrong. Dimension applies to any independent element of a vector, and using it to describe spacetime is a tiny, tiny subset of the valid uses of the term. Another very common example is that describing the movement of a free floating in space rigid body is a twelve dimensional value; you need to describe x, y, and z (or equivalant), you need to describe the rotation around x, y, and z, and then you need to describe the velocity of each of those components. That's 12 dimensions. In fact, it's 12 dreadfully mundane dimensions.

Incidentally, not included in valid uses of the term is the sci-fi sense of the term; "parallel dimension" is an oxymoron as it expands to "parallel perpendicular measurement", and "alternate dimension", especially with the idea that it is somehow "like" ours but just slightly different, is just a common scifi trope that is gibberish in real terms. I'd say that if one's concept of dimension isn't, as I said, "dreadfully mundane", it's not set up correctly. It's really a boring term; all the ways in which sci-fi makes it sound exciting or mysterious are not part of the real term.

If you'd like to recover some of the sense of wonder associated with the term, I'd recommend learning about what it means to have a fractional dimension, in real mathematics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB9n2gHsHN4
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It's confusing that people keep saying Thunderbird is separate from Mozilla but here we have a blog post posted on Mozilla's blog.
Good to hear you considered it already. However I’m afraid you may be putting too much emphasis on the UX. My case is singular but here’s why I feel that way.

I’ve stayed in a dozen or so hotels that have given me an iPad with apps for room service book spa appointments etc. Probably close to a month of time total.

I never look at. Ok I have twice. Because they said there was an app of local business (I quickly bounced and opened yelp on my device). Usually I toss it on my table or nightstand and never touch it. So, how do you change that behavior? The fact that I have my own devices is key. Mine is set up how I like it. Why would I use yours? I’m not casually using your device and then maybe stumble into the food app to order room service.

The tv however I use casually multiple times a day in a hotel. Usually around times that coincide with meal times, if I’m in room at all. I am always exposed to services like spa food etc. I just need a easy way to book at that moment. Picking up a foreign tablet to do so is a bad UX IMO.

Most guests are not tech oriented people. The advantage of a slick tablet UI isn’t going to win you much. Providing the right functionality at the right time in a half as good way will be more valuable.

Of course this is all conjecture and personal opinion but wanted to give my two cents. Good luck with the demo and I hope you get good feedback / roi
Still not as good as dead Winamp for music.
>Then do the right thing and set Social Security as a guarantee at the same age for everyone.

You have to take in consideration a few factors governing the original social security age limits. IE Life expectancy was significantly less. People live on average quite a bit longer now, addressing that reality isn't a bad idea.

The other thing to consider is the money we're paying in now isn't being saved for our benefit later. It's being used to pay the benefits of current retirees. Not to mention the money that current retirees paid into the system 20, 30, 40 years ago is a pittance to what they're drawing now.

I mean I like the idea of social security. A lot of people do, it's become ingrained in our national expectation. But in the same token, a lot of people don't have realistic thoughts about it. And we're going to need it to evolve with the realities of our culture. Longer lifespans, real cost of living, etc are all real issues that can't be ignored and expect Social Security to chug on perpetually.
It's amazing how judicial system works fast in the USA. In my country both companies would go bankrupt and would still be suing each other due to sunk cost fallacy.
The comments from the original post[1] of this are still quite relevant. I feel like I've seen this link posted here several times (much more recently than 2009), but I can't find the links.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=466845