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How is that different than computer science? The only people I know that were successful at my unknown state college were people who were geeks and either already knew how to program or took an interest in it outside of class.
Minor exploration of the sentence "Before the computer became ubiquitous, index cards were the tools of all academics and researchers."

Some academics used edge-notched punched cards, which is a sort of index card with manual mechanical selection ability. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge-notched_card and http://kk.org/thetechnium/one-dead-media/ .

These were used until the 1980s. The contents for the Whole Earth Catalog in the 1970s was organized with them.

A smaller number of academics and researchers used interior-notched punched cards (eg, the well-known IBM punched card) with sorting/selection machines and not computers. I think these can no longer be called index cards.
Yes, my point being - there is no gain in electrifying that part and more risk in cases you mentioned.
The entire bluetooth ecosystem is an enigma, and I say that as someone that has spent the last couple of years professionally developing embedded systems primarily using Nordic Semiconductor parts, one of the flagship companies of the industry.

It is one of the most reviled protocols by developers, when they are the users. Yet, the basic goal of Bluetooth has always been to vertically integrate the entire OSI model, from Application to Physical to Application. So one might say they've taken a bigger bite than they can stomach.

I haven't dabbled with 5 yet, but I believe I could effectively tutor any HNer in 4.2, if they were willing to put the effort that learning anything worthwhile requires.

One of the largest paradigm shifts coming from the TCP/IP stack world, to the Bluetooth world, is that you are inherently creating application level "software", but since its highly embedded, "firmware" developers end up doing a big chunk of that work. Ew.

For instance in BLE, or Bluetooth Low Energy, to integrate a heart rate monitoring application, the Bluetooth specification defines a heart rate service. As the name implies, the heart rate service encapsulates all of the information that is pertinent to monitoring hearts, given sufficient sensors.

A service is made up of characteristics. As the name implies, characteristics are data structures that encapsulate a single piece of information that would likely be useful at the application level. In the case of our heart rate monitor, it is simply the frequency at which your heart beats. Your heart rate.

In the parlance of Model View Controller, the actual sensor logic to provide that heart rate, is traditional embedded development, and out of the scope of Bluetooth.

However, that Model's main deliverable to our microController is that heart rate. We don't care how he got it, we trust him to measure hearts.

At least in Nordic's implementations, and I would assume others, there is a callback you register, associated with each characteristic. This callback's job is to transfer the heart rate from the model, to the user of said heart. So the callback is calling the highest level client call into the model, uint16_t myHeartRate = getHeartRate(); Then the heart rate value is given to the radio subsystem firmware, which is almost always code written and owned by the chip vendor, whether thats TI, or Nordic, or whoever.

So, in summary, if you find that you've focussed on the View side of the MVC world for your entire career, you will likely find both the model and the controller very confusing. Your first instinct, like all novices, will be to say "I'll show these guys how its done". So you'll eschew your own Design Patterns, and attempt to bring the model and the controller back into the view. Let me know how that works out. On the other hand, if you accept that iPhones and Androids are actually just Views, you may come to realize that a separation of concerns was a pretty ok idea after all.
This is very helpful.

My wife likes watching cooking shows but it is more about the competition and elimination/personalities than the technical side of the cooking etc.

I like to cook, she doesn't really - she bakes so it works out okay as a team - and I kind of watch along but these links are way more relevant to me personally.

Appreciate it!
When I don't sign up for Facebook or LinkedIn, but they do get my data because some user of theirs has my contact info[0], that's when they become pretty much equal to Equifax from an ethical perspective.

[0] LinkedIn with its dark pattern of getting access to people's emails and Facebook with its upload of contact lists on older Android devices.
Yeah, I had the same thought. It didn’t cost them anything.

Also shout out to the people whose first involvement with politics was to say “fuck you stay out of my community”. I’m sure they’ll be sticking around to help with constructive alternate solutions to the problem.
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Really? You couldn't come up with a SFW name for what otherwise looks like a clever idea?
I 100% agree with this approach. The problem with GDPR is the following:

- big corporations which do collect the data will lawyer up and still collect data they do

- small companies will do whatever they can do and they will bet that enforcement is going to be sparse

- the enforcement will be non-existent

So nothing will change. The GDPR will not improve privacy, not improve users knowledge who is collecting what, will give false sense of privacy for some users, etc.
Fine, that's not my problem them. I'm safe in my city Y.
Here is Frenkel giving a talk on the geometric Langlands program [1]. I wouldn't say it is "accessible", but if you have seen some physics maybe give it a go.

[1] "What Do Fermat's Last Theorem and Electro-magnetic Duality Have in Common?" http://online.itp.ucsb.edu/online/bblunch/frenkel/
A 10 year old ThinkPad does me just fine.
Does this essentially force companies to charge for services in the EU then? The only reason FB, Google, etc even offer "free" services is because they make money on the backend utilizing the data they collect. If everyone can say "don't collect my data but also keep my service free", I'm not sure how a business can remain viable in the EU without charging some type of subscription or micro-transaction fee.

Maybe this is how the whole web-based fee structure should have been setup in the first place but it's not the current deal we have in place. How difficult will it be to shift an entire industry (and consumer mindset) to a vastly different fee structure?
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I develop on a Lenovo IdeaPad 120S ($249 in 2018). The plastic body is of higher build quality than my last $600 aluminum Acer. The trick is to live with less software altogether. If you scoff at 4GB RAM and 1.10GHz Celeron, remember that it only took 64kb and 0.043MHz to get to the moon. If you scoff at that statement, re-evaluate your life. "It's the Indian, not the arrow."

https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Apollo-11-The-compute...
It sounds like there are two security flaws:
1. No email verification upon account creation.
2. No sign in requirement when updating payment info (which seems absurd)
Mostly yes, people are locked into their brand through the lens mount and it's pretty expensive to switch. In some ways mirrorless hasn't been considered as good as SLR, with focusing and battery life, though this has been improved a lot recently. Some others still talk about weather sealing, which Sony seems to be lacking - but this is not a inherent flaw in mirrorless systems, but a choice by Sony.

If Canon and Nikon start making full-frame mirrorless cameras, I think we'll start to see a switch, especially if they neglect their SLR bodies and lenses.

I could see silent shooting becoming a requirement in press & some sports, which would essentially accelerate a change to mirrorless in the pro market. Video is another driver for mirrorless, since it can't use the mirror anyway (except in SLT cameras).
I don't understand - won't this process fail when the person signs up for "jameshfisher+netflix@gmail.com"? Netflix will send a confirmation email to the real jameshfisher@gmail.com, and not confirm it, and so Netflix won't create the account. Things stop at this point.
Well, I think that is the best part. There is no need nor usefulness of greedy parasitic companies.
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I switched from MBP 2010 to Windows 10 after using it for 6 +years only because of disappointing MBP updates with higher price tags. I was so confused that it took me several months to decide. I got a good bargain for HP Envy x360 15.6" (i5 7200 with 8GB DDR4 and 256SSD). And I never looked back.

WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) for windows 10 is definitely one of the major reasons I haven't looked back at the crappy new MBP lineup. Although I miss the long battery life of MBP, I get a lot more in exchange (tablet mode, excellent touch screen etc.)
> That would assume that the homeless were caused by / came from Irving.

Something can be your responsibility even if it's not your fault. Particular people with particular problems is a local issue. Particular tent cities hurting particular parks or businesses is also a local issue. Go ask a local social worker or police officer. They know everyone on a first name basis. They just don't have anywhere to go with their information.

> Problem is nobody wants them, yet no one will enact policies that will solve the problem.

So instead of shifting responsibility in one way or another, local governments and communities need to organize more around these issues. It's true that it's a huge problem, arguably one that will never get solved completely, but the local governments need to start by getting the word out about the particular needs they have: studies, funding, legal frameworks, training, coordination systems, etc.

This is the kind of targeted Medicaid expansion that should be discussed, especially since mental health is in the news so much these days.
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We have been buying the P51 for our engineering and accounting staff. They are a great size, nice keyboard and screen and everything. We run Windows 10 on them, so I don't know how they fare with Linux. There have been issues with Lenovo pushing driver updates and goofy stuff like that, and the USB-C dock is next to useless (but I don't think that is specific to Lenovo)

We ended up just buying the regular docks (the previous model docks won't work)
The only plausible near-term renewable-energy flight option I can see is hydrogen fuel cells powering electric planes.

The equipment is heavy, but compressed liquid hydrogen is both producible from renewable sources and has a significantly higher energy/weight ratio than traditional fuel. It would require a few advances in fuel cell technology, but that's totally plausible.
It's a thinkpad. Why not use the track point? I guess it's down to personal taste but that phrasing was weird.
I also use Focus so I don’t think it’s that. Maybe A/B testing gone terribly wrong?
I'm sticking to the XPS family for years now and a - for me very important - thing that rarely gets mentioned is the stunning support you can book with the machine. It's usually something around EUR 200-250 for 4-5 years and you'll get a worldwide coverage on the next business day, no matter what. I had issues with my current XPS in a beach house in Portugal earlier last year due to the sand being everywhere in the flat. A short call later I had a technician driving 3h from Lisbon to my place to fix the cooling system, no questions asked.

The XPS 1530 I had before that had some issues with the GPU, Nvidia had some problems with the 8xxx series back then. I had to call them twice to replace the GPU without any problems. Also if your charger has an issue they usually send you a new one with UPS over night.

Even though it might be declining a bit compared to what you could ask from them 5 years ago I think the support is still stellar and well woth considering if you're moving around once in a while.
my bad:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_hypothesis
That was a great project. I saw it when it popped up on Hacker News.
We’re getting there with motorcycles too- they are expensive but starting to get useable ranges with today’s battery tech:
http://www.zeromotorcycles.com/range/

Plus, they sound like pod racers from the future.
Yes, there are multiple Python libraries for wrangling Excel files as well as good built-in CSV support via the stdlib's csv module - which, despite its name, can actually support DSV (Delimited Separated Values), which is a generalization of CSV. The csv module also has a dialects feature with attributes like settable delimiters (which is how you get the DSV support) and quoting. And since Python's built-in data structures like lists, dicts, tuples and sets are great for munging data, you can get a lot done with just that, plus the benefit of Python's readability and productivity.
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The author mentioned Scrivener, which does have an excellent card view.
Do you mind describing how you use index cards for project management? As a younger person, I don't have have the habit of using index cards at all.

Whenever I use it, I can't help but feel bothered by the finality of the act of writing in ink. Since we only use index cards when the task becomes too complex to hold in our brain, it also means that we often need to re-organize our thoughts about the task several times. The act of writing (as opposed to typing in a computer) doesn't seem conducive to that kind or re-oganization.
Why "sadly"?
Article says that the electric powered planes need shorter runways, why is that?
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Interesting feedback, but the deed is already done.

Also it worked well for him. Thus, I assume any method would be met with your derision.

Not to mention there are natural english versions of the Bible, so you are casting that one.
It seems incredibly excessive to me unless your business model is harvesting personal data. I work at a rather larger SME (multi channel retailer/wholesaler) and we are spending almost nothing. But then we were not doing anything creepy with our customer data before. We are updating some documentation and will ditch some old data we don't need any more, reword the privacy policy on our website etc. I am not apportioning any direct cost to GDPR as these are all things that need attention periodically anyway.
If you talk to the group, their answer to drug addiction is its their fault for starting drugs. For family support, they had none when the came here and had very little opportunity too. My mom's first job was an sewing machine operator in a garment shop in Halifax. My wife's mom had barely finished grade 8 school.

Note that this is my oberservation of their views only.
No - I would pay for TV which is class A. Sure the TV manufacturer will need to buy data from company from class D - but they already do that.
I’m afraid this is one of those cases where the Pandora’s box has already been opened. At a massive scale you could allow a data breach of bad data, like experian pretends to lose data but the data are fake. I sometimes wonder if that’s what the opm breach was all about, but that’s giving way too much credit.
Seems promising as a friend and family member to a few people with them. Too bad the article is behind a paywall. Links anyone? Thanks!
Probably not when the same word has 5 meanings depending on context.
Literally anything new is better
Quote “the research team found that they could suppress autoimmunity in mice with an antibiotic or a vaccine aimed at E. gallinarum.”

The titles vague to the point of clickbait.

On topic, there is much going on with bacteria. My hunch is this could be a large research area for the next couple decades. We’re talking about a system composed of trillions of individuals and an unknown (but large) number of species and all their interactions. I’m sure there will be bacterial “combinations” that in certain situations are helpful and others deadly, for instance.
I do think a few "heads on pikes" in the media will make enforcement a lot easier afterwards.
In English at least, the corresponding Greek letter is normally spelled "upsilon", which is obviously similar. The "psilon" in both "upsilon" and "epsilon" meant somethign like "simple" in Greek. So these letters were the "simple u" and "simple e". (Similarly with "omicron" and "omega", you can probably guess what size of "o" those were. :) Not sure if there are other cool facts about the Greek letters, for example those ending with "eta".
My dad would they they weren't persecuted like he was. His biggest mistake was talking too long to a foreign academic who was giving a lecture at the university where he was.
Thankfully, you can replace it with a _50 touchpad.
Part of the problem for Nikon was that their old lenses were built to last forever, so they did. I just got a new Nikon DSLR, and I've had Nikons since the 1970s. So The fact that I can grab my AI-S lenses (but sadly not the even older pre-AI lenses) and go out and shoot is cool. And I've never felt drawn to Canon. A while ago I did acquire a Hasselblad, but that's a different story entirely.
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The example I give of a problem in 5-Whys analysis deals with Snowden's leak of classified materials.

One RCA ends up dealing with how computer system security doesn't match up with organizational security, another ends up with the problems of outsourcing security, a third concerns the dissonance between internal and public views of American military policy, and so on.

Every single one ends up with a very different resolution. As the article quotes, "5W tends to diverge after the second or third question."
Oh wow - I would not want to work there ever. I understand the need for some security but this seems just over the top.
How the data is used is at least as important as what data is collected.

I'm fine with a smart speaker securely storing my voice data in the cloud to provide me with personalised speech recognition. I'm not OK with that data being sold to a fraudster who wants to phone my bank and impersonate me. If you classify based on data collection alone, then both these scenarios would result in a "class D" rating.
I am a person who joined the Windows team at Microsoft in early 90s. So I am as far from am Apple fanboy as you get. So believe me when I say there is NO alternative to the MBP if the touchpad is critical to your usage. If your dont care about the touchpad then there are many
> If we came here with very little (my parents arrived with $200 in their pockets), worked hard, and eventually became successful then why can't other people do the same.

such logic error is called "survival bias" - they only look at those who didn't fail by the system.
> "If called promptly, then there shouldn't be many patients that we can't get to the right care within a suitable timeframe."

I worked with stroke centers, doctors, etc in building stroke access systems, and that doesn't fly with reality.

Number 1, is that its hard for patients to recognize they are having a stroke. so "If called promptly" is a bit of unrealistic idealism.

Although they say 4 hours, tPA administered after 1 hour has lost most of its benefit, and places that can do thrombectomy 24/7 (in US dedicated stroke centers) is not numerous. You are losing a lot of that hour just for time for the helicopter to warm up, find a spot, and land + your ambulance time getting to /stabilizing the patient.

I'm sure the patients on your beat had suitable access, but that's a bit of selectivity bias no? In the US, although the majority of the population is within the golden hour, there are still a ton of population that does not have access to a stroke center. I find it extremely hard to believe that this is not the case in Australia - where I have heard stories of people getting a finger cut off and having to drive 3 hours to the nearest hospital.
My above comment is in support of that opinion.
What change? Canon or Nikon’s DSLR’s have been dropping due to a lack o “breakthroughs” in the industry. If they made a camera with a “smart” setting that adapts to the current conditions, make it easy to use, make it easy to sync with smartphones, and price it at 400-500 dollars, it could be a must-have for Instagram addicts.
Beware the latest model - the X280. They removed the SATA ports and you can no longer upgrade the RAM
> energy density of batteries vs. fuel

For short-haul flights, this matters a lot less.
If anyone else is apalled by the various parents talking about censoring their children's video/internet access and everyone just going along with it: you're not alone. I can't offer anything else encouraging, but at least know that you're not the only person in the world that recognizes this as child abuse.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/266240/global-revenue-of...

blackberry has emerged from it's crysalis to become the final form of all failed software companies - patent troll...
Somewhat randomly, I've been working with a mathematician that has convinced me to study the Langlands program with him. I feel ill-equipped for the journey, having boycotted number theory ever since they tried to get me to learn the multiplication table. But on the other hand, there is plenty of geometry involved! Who would have thought that the dodecahedron is involved with solving the quintic? It really does seem like this area (the Langlands program) is at a vast nexus of many different branches of mathematics. It's intense.
"boustrophedon" sounds extremely useful. Too bad that practice didn't remain. I always find my eyes loose track of where the next row starts, especially with small text and/or wide screens/paper.
I recent got a 15 inch Dell Precision. I’m running a recent Ubuntu. I don’t recommend.

It constantly throttles the CPI. I get lots of PCIe recoverable errors. The USB bus runs out of available throughout. Plugging anything Displaylink is a disaster.

The camera/microphone is below the screen, which sucks more than I expected.

It takes 2 hands to open the laptop.

It is possible to plug in the power supply such that computer thinks it is charging but it actually drains the battery.
A related YouTube video about the subject: https://youtu.be/ql0Op1VcELw
Like Volkswagen diesel emission scandal? Where is the enforcement after that? Car companies can still shop around Eu and get their emission standards certified in Malta or some other less fortunate EU country.
Netflix should validate the email account. But, also, when you get the email to update the invalid credit card information and you click on the link, shouldn't Netflix force you to Sign In? This kind of security step is already common to thwart attack vectors where someone finds your computer unlocked and tries to reset your password on you. Google does this when you go to accounts.google.com. They always verify it is you sitting in front of the computer. So getting back to the Netflix situation, once you click on the link to update your credit care info you won't know the password for the rogue account and it's not your account UUID or whatever so I'm assuming Netflix is smart enough to make you prove it's you by entering the password. But you won't know the password. If you were tempted to click Forgot Password and go through all that rigamarole, then you hijacked the attacker's account. I guess what I'm trying to say is, most of the issue here should already be solved by appropriate defenses against different types of attacks. No?
Yes if the housing and services are equally distributed in all the neighborhoods. Each region/city should host an proportional number of homeless.
His seminal paper, Problems in the Theory of Automorphic Forms is here:

https://publications.ias.edu/sites/default/files/problems-in...
But that will never happen in the USA due to the influence of the oil industry.
Of course, but that is their point of view.