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I get that. I haven't fully read the in and outs of Mastadon but from a glance, it reminds me of Wordpress with Pingbacks. Or quite simply RSS feeds, where user you follow is essentially subscribing to their feeds.

But all that aside, at the end of the day, if you "are" a user in one of the instances, you are still at the mercy of the owner's technical skills to make sure your data is safe.

If the owner one day decides he can't afford to pay his bills, or gets hacked and wipes out data, what would happen to all your posts? I believe it'd just disappear, but please do correct me if I'm wrong.
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Oh, what people do over here is "count up" to the amount. So if you give them 20€ for 18.45€, they go "5 cents to 18.50, 50 to 19, 1 euro and that's 20, here you go". That's a pretty fast method.
Most of the data is already public: https://blog.prepscholar.com/sat-scores-by-high-school-and-d...
So what's the best upgrade path from 1700X, 2700 or 2700X? 2700X sounds more like an upgrade from 1800X.
Yeah I had this thought too. Also, it seems like the proportion you lose would be less important than what's left, which they don't say they factored in.
If you can remotely control something, so can your enemy.
There is a problem that comes with operating at scale: yes, there are economies of scale, but they only work to your advantage when everything is running smoothly. When things are not running smoothly and you are for instance losing on every product sold those losses mount extremely rapidly. Car manufacturing is a scary undertaking for exactly that reason, especially in the Model 3 segment (where a certain amount of luxury is expected and fit and finish matter but the budget is much lower than for a luxury vehicle). There is not enough margin for error to fuck up your production, it will eat all the profits and then some.

That is why the problem of having 200 roadsters in a warehouse pales in comparison with the problem of having an assembly line that is supposed to crank out 5000 vehicles crank out 2500 (if that) instead. It means that you are losing money hand over fist, your capital expenditures and wages are identical but your income (if properly recognized) is half. This will totally wipe out your margins for quite a while to come. Car manufacturers have consolidated for a reason, even a small hickup can kill an otherwise healthy company.
I am arguing that classical physics can not in general predict human behavior.

That has nothing to do with determinism, and everything to do with incomplete information.

Your postulate was such:

It seems readily apparent that the future is not predictable solely using classical physics

That means the future is not deterministic, but our current standard model says otherwise on scales that matter for this kind of situation.

The inability to predict human behavior and other external events is entirely because of lack of complete knowledge about the system.

That doesn't mean it's not deterministic, nor unpredictable given the right knowledge.

You fundamentally misunderstand these concepts you are arguing, and again I recommend further reading before you continue to engage in such debates.
Right, they generally fail to take numerous factors into account. Once you start controlling for things (like choice) the gap quickly shrinks.
Idle hands are the devil's workshop.
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> As bad as things were for those who experienced a "negative wealth shock," they were even worse for Americans who didn't have any wealth in the first place.
It's possible to design a system that lets the government decrypt (essentially) everything. The same technology that lets you send a PGP e-mail with two recipients allows you to send a message that can be decrypted by the NSA as well as your recipient.

What's not possible is protecting against bad actors within government; preventing the oppressive governments from insisting on the same powers, allowing them to further oppress their citizens; and eliminating the backdoor-free encryption that evildoers will instantly move over to, which has to be eliminated if trained terrorists are the true targets of the back doors.

But it's possible legislators don't care about these issues as much as freedom advocates do.
I'm assuming they're asking for city-wide averages (they say "statistics" in the article), not individual results.
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Valuation isn't everything, people compare Tesla to other car makers and say "hey, they are way smaller and getting valued higher, what a sham!", what people should be looking at is Enterprise Value. GM has 10x the debt as Tesla, and 2x the Enterprise Value. People are worried about Tesla burning billions of dollars, if they were to solve this problem with level of debt GM has, they would have another $85B to spend.

Tesla has done the hard things, they've made a great product, they've created a ton of demand and they found an entry point into a really tough market to enter. If the biggest worry right now is their need for cash to scale, I'm very bullish on their future.
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It's actually public information, at least at a state level. Extrapolating that to the largest city in the state wouldn't be a hard process, and so I don't think it's concerning information if anonymized and aggregated.

Also, as a Bostonian, I really hope this will edge us over Atlanta and whatnot, as MA has the highest standardized test scores in the nation. Been waiting for ages for this city to become more of a tech center.
Oh interesting! Thanks for the link - will definitely be following that, I think it's a really good idea. My one fear is that some websites will try to trick users with dark patterns that their purchase is 1 time but will actually be a recurring subscription, but I'm sure if wallet confirmations make subscriptions clear that should be less of an issue.
I believe the first thing a developer should do, when wanting to use the new features of modern C++, is download a stable (current) release (in source format) of either Clang or GCC, compile and install it and proceed from there.

Then you can usually get around all of the incompatibilities.
Welcome to human society, where for thousands of years the masses are forced into negative feedback loops pushed by ruling elites

Today it’s jobs and economics

A break from thousands of years of Praise Jesus! Or some other Abrhamic BS, though it appears to be mounting an (attempt) at a comeback

Keep $minority from having a job so we can use them as a lazy target, humans keep existing in cavemen level feedback loops

Like what addition and subtraction are to math, these things are the repeatedly employed operators in human society

Marginalize, divide, demean, impoverish. Grown men with billions will cry over losing millions, and keep telling men and women with less to grow up and work harder after they just flushed their retirement or savings down the tubes on housing bubbles thus perpetuating the operations
Over the past few years, I've watched a few courses on Udacity, Coursera and EdX. I prefer taking ad-hoc courses to fill knowledge gaps (statistics, AI, programming, math, etc.), so I can't give a full review of the complete Nanodegrees, Certificates, XSeries, etc. I usually watch the lessons as needed without completing the entire course; mixing and matching MOOC courses with video learning sites (e.g. Datacamp, Youtube channels, Khan Academy, Egghead, etc.)

If I had to pick a MOOC platform, I prefer Udacity's more hands-on approach, but enjoy courses on EdX and Coursera. The quality of all three MOOC platforms is excellent. It's an amazing time for autodidacts!

If you're starting from scratch, without any background knowledge, the certificate programs with access to mentors are a great place to start. The curriculum is designed by industry professionals and/or experienced professors. This saves you time, keeps you focused and offers a place to get help when needed.
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They've already had a Kaby Lake MBP; there's a good chance they'll wait til CannonLake for the next one, which will.
And there is still this: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196683
How do you get "mobilized content" in Inoreader? My experience using both now is that Inoreader cuts off some of my longer feeds at the fold with a link to the site while Feedly displays the entire contents of every article.
Oh sure, but then you're in rescue territory. But that's not what we are talking about here, we are evaluating - or at least, I am trying to evaluate - how serious the problems are in isolation. That there will be some white knight is beyond a doubt for me even if things do go very wrong.
Programming is for everybody on Coursera. Taught with Python, extremely approachable for non programmers. Teaches you fun stuff including how to use sqlite and how to scrape websites, use JSON APIs, and more!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_X-47B

Unmanned, with autonomous carrier take offs, landings, and aerial refueling.
On the lighter side, a complete monopoly over your internet use.

On the darker side, I dunno... technocracy?
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This comment from another subthread is relevant to your observations:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16743502

Partial quote for your convenience: (read the full comment for sources and more).

> FB stopped being a "data sharing platform" when it muscled its way into becoming synonymous of "the internet" in much of the underdeveloped world. In many of these countries (including Myanmar) people can get a really cheap plan that offers next to nothing beyond "Facebook Free Basic", FB's walled garden (e.g for 3$/month you get 100mb of data + unlimited facebook). This is effectively a two-level Internet with FB being the obvious default.
Dan Boneh's Cryptography Part I on Coursera. Will we ever get Part II? Enrolling for Sept 2018 according to Coursera.
I think there is academic work done on this: when there is a lot of inequality, it can lead to social incohesion and instability.

I could be mistaken though.
Multiple automakers have good enough electric drivetrains to really shorten the time Tesla has to fix their production volume and fit & finish issues. If they don't execute this year their decade of brand building is not going to amount to a whole lot (maybe they have until midway through next year?).

The other automakers aren't pairing the drivetrains with big expensive batteries, so they aren't selling them with big expensive batteries, but there's also only so much consumer demand for $45,000+ electric vehicles.
Are there specific products you would be advertised to based on your SAT score?
"Learning How to Learn" (already cited) and "Critical Perspectives on Management" (by Rolf Strom-Olsen, available on Coursera, starts in 2 weeks!).
correct ... unfortunately this feature has been super hidden over time in the FB UX. It's almost impossible to figure out unless you already know about it. I find it super useful when I specifically want to segment my audience. Don't do it with everyone that I'm 'friends' with, but for example, I have a 'kids' list for every underage person I'm friends with (my kids, nephews, nieces, etc), and I will exclude them from a post if it's non-kid appropriate. But as you mention, it's a pain to do this for everyone.
huh, is there any way to find out why you were shadowbanned? some kind of request for information process?

Is this something which applies to my whole user account, or just this particular comment got flagged up?

Maybe questions I should send to the mods really.
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Would a government that has a CCTV on every street enact legislation to limit its surveillance abilities?

I agree that it's a good ideal, it's just incredibly naive to think that it will be achieved. Even if legislation were passed, it would very likely make things worse, in that the government wouldn't stop surveilling - they would just do it even more covertly.
Look what I found at the bottom of the article:
"Released under Creative Commons NoDerivatives License 4.0"

So you can distribute this freely, as long as you acknowledge the author.
And since it's content, not software, it's not imperative to allow modification. (Fair use still applies to critical responses)

You're being way too picky.
This is clearly wrong. Do you know who Mudge is? Check out the wikipedia page for him at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peiter_Zatko and note his degree.
Even this year's April Fool's event was called Circle of Trust and leans heavily on having groups of friends. Which, of course, sounds of so familiar.
> Who is getting the AMD integrated graphics CPUs then? Apple?

Doesn't really fit Apple's line. The 13" probably doesn't have the thermal headroom for it at all, and it's not an improvement on the discrete AMD stuff already used in the 15" MBP. Might work for a low-end 15" MBP, but it's not like it's a particularly cheap part, anyway.
It does not matter that the numbers are 'close to model S numbers', the Model 3 is far less profitable than the S ever was and you'd need to crank out a multiple of them on that line anyway to be in the black in the long term.

It surprises me that people think that making a budget car is easier than a luxury sedan. Make no mistake: successfully launching a budget vehicle is much harder than making a luxury vehicle.
Because at our heart we are monkeys and we're trained to feel 'that's not fair!!' when someone else is doing better than us.

But I agree with you that, for the most part, the rising tide of wealth has raised all ships. Inequality is a natural outgrowth of the massive influx of wealth.
It's several things. Desktops dissipate more heat, so sustained clocks are possible. Max Turbo is theoretical in most laptops. A decent example of this phenomenon is the m5 vs m7. Though the much is theoretical faster by double digits, in practice the clocks that those systems can sustain are identical (so save $100 by getting the m5).

Let's compare a 8550u and 8700k. The desktop has a base clock of 3.7 instead of 1.8. it has 12mb cache instead of 8mb. Twice the bus speed. Faster supported memory and more bandwidth. Desktop also has 16 pcie Lanes vs 4 (both can access more via the chipset, but then there's that bus bandwidth issue). Instruction and feature support is almost identical (except some things like vpro).

Sustained clocks, bandwidth, and more cache make a huge difference.
I'd imagine it's more content curation (i.e. prime video recommendations) and advertising products the kids would want to the parents in that area.

This vein of advertisement is governed by strict 'truth in advertising' standards, but not much else. Amazon has something for everyone and therefore doesn't need to worry about false claims - they just need to know what to put in front of you.
This guy checked his trash after it was picked up, then went to an under construction house and was surprised the dumpster was near where the construction was?

What's weirdly hard about any of that?
off topic: how much do you think a guy like Jeff Dean is worth? 18-19 years at Google, pre-IPO and a super-programmer. Keeping in mind that Google paid Anthony Levandowski $120 Mil and Uber way more than that (technically Uber bought his company and maybe a hard drive :))

More than $500 Mil?
You would likely benefit from buying a small vehicle like a motorscooter or electric bicycle, and working at a library or coffee shop
Can you forward me your CV on linkedin? https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-batorsky-1b883b27/
> As millennials age into their 30s and homeownership is on the rise, demographics are now moving against urban landlords.

> We know how and what to build when we're dealing with an influx of young urban renters. But what will they want as they age into their next phase of life, and how can policy makers meet their needs?

A lot of this article seems to be pinned on an unwritten idea that the suburbs are where you go when you want to grow up. This seems like a bit of a trap for developers and speculators, to me: at least in the city I live in, there has been some focus on urban development to provide services for families of all sizes.
25 points in less than 30 minutes - the rate at which it gets attention matters in the ranking AFAIK
Agreed, but that's the problem with going public. Once you do that you have to show numbers.
Intent. Let the SEC do its due diligence as well and see what turns up to determine culpability.
What may have happened in the recent Tesla Autopilot Crash
You don't need crypto or security expertise, just rhetoric. What are they not mentioning?

AFAICT "a backdoor" vs. "a backdoor that gives the FBI access while keeping both Putin and El Chapo out, and works on phones bought via mail order from China".
Except that I doubt anyone approaches a poker table not knowing they are entering a competition.

Ponzis prey on greedy, foolish people - some of whom actually believe the lies being promoted about it being a real investment. It's even worse in the cryptocurrency world, where fools are convinced that they are buying shares in mining operations or super-secret trading bots.
For me, it's 5-hour flights on planes that sometimes don't have working power plugs.
With housing inventory at an all time low, and the market at higher highs than peak bubble in 2006 (in most markets), this doesn't seem like a problem anyone needs to worry about at the moment.

Perhaps the solution to the 2006 mortgage crisis shouldn't have been to immediately and urgently reinflate the bubble. Oh well. Same story, different year. Maybe the fed can finally play with negative interest rates during the next downturn!
I feel like I know when I've eaten something unhealthful. Even feeling it in my burping afterwards feels like an indicator to me. I don't generally feel this way after a salad or drinking water.
I like the dialogue between Hastie and Tibshirani in their statistical learning course from Stanford [1]. I found the accompanying ISL book and c-cran depositories helpful for when I wanted to go deeper beyond the lecture.

[1]https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/HumanitiesandScience/S...
There is standardized calling conventions and symbol name mangling, but not the layout of STL types. Oh and even then, the ABI had to be changed when C++11 added rvalue references and move semantics.
Fist gen ryzen desktop had the same sot of teething troubles ever CPU has tbh, but they were somewhat moe publicised and a little bigger (not huge but bigger) due to the cleanroom design.
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I took the Programming Languages course on Coursera which is so far the best course for me. It changed the way I learn any new programming language.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages

I see that they have split the course into 2 parts.
We at EFF didn't appreciate this report that much when it came out last month: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/new-national-academy-s...
Hey HN,

I've been inspired by Michael Fogelman's Craft [1] and other links around here over the years to learn more about 3d graphics programming. comanche has been my path to learning. It can currently render 30 different maps - 29 of them were reverse engineered by Sebastian Macke [2] from the game Comanche (1992). There's no actual relation to the game, I just remember playing it as a kid and the file format is convenient (two pngs, one representing height, the other color). There is a lone map by me.

The goal is to build an actual game, but the focus will always be to have very readable source so that others can learn from it. I've written a blog post further describing the goals behind it as well as discussing the basics of graphics programming and the advantage of using WebGL [3]. There are plenty of links to resources for further learning and the post also includes links to 8 other projects in various languages (lisp, Go, Rust, C++, and Nim) in various states of completion.

Happy to accept questions, contributions, or (gulp) critiques. There's not a lot of optimization going on (some basic culling), but it should run fine on a modern GPU (though it did not run on my mobile phone). Some of the maps are smaller, should that help. It's not super impressive, but hopefully you find it interesting. Thanks!

1. https://github.com/fogleman/Craft

2. https://github.com/s-macke/VoxelSpace

3. http://lebo.io/2018/04/03/a-webgl-renderer.html

source: https://github.com/aaron-lebo/comanche
Why not use the app? That seems like a better investment of their time to optimize anyways.
I'm not too worried about Marzipan in the short term, I'm thinking the goal of that project might be to get devs who make pro apps on the mac side work on a codebase that they could easily port over to the iPad side seen as the iPad Pro is seriously lacking in app support compared to the Mac, because it's unprofitable to maintain them.

In the long term this is a play to push Cook's iPad Pro post-pc idea, yet again...
OR millennials are moving to the exurbs not because they want to, but because cities are too expensive when you have a family and don’t want roommates. Much of the rest of the world is happy to raise families in cities... why not here? The solution should be to build infrastructure and improve the schools in urban cores, not invest in suburbs.
But he didn't do any of this. If you are CSO or CISO or director, you dang well better know what gpg is, and how to quickly find someone in the organization who knows how to deal with it.
As a former smoker, I knew exactly how bad it was for me minutes after the initial high. Smoking is a perfect example, really.
Loss of wealth can be a good thing thought. A close friend who once was overweight, stressed, and in the line to have a stroke gave up on his career to become a travel photographer; Mostly he does some small gigs, but nothing close to his past live, as he's used to say.

Me otherwise, had a really bad time when I lost my job last year. The mind goes first and then the body follows the same path.
YouTube is full of fascinating stuff for all hobbies. But it's hard to find because there's no quality filter, only popularity filters that promote clickbait.
It's in the interests of the company to align those however - so these don't conflict. If your customer is healthier and lives longer because of your service, that is beneficial to both of you.
I guess the difference is where you started as well? If you put in $100K and it tanks to $8k, that sure is a lot more stressful than having $8k go to $200k, and then back to $40k.
Bit of both. Current Intel chips (including these ones) don't support LPDDR4. This is largely because Intel is at this point years behind on their roadmap; phone chips have supported LPDDR4 for a while. They support LPDDR3 and plain (non-low-power) DDR4. So if you want to go over 16GB, you have to use plain DDR4, and power usage, especially suspended power usage, suffers.

Next-gen Intel chips will support LPDDR4, making the whole thing a bit of a non-issue.
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