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I wish Stripe interface was more friendly. Looking at Freshbooks and Stripe, Freshbooks makes it look so simple and nice. Any plans to make your user interface more friendly to casual users who are not devs? Thanks.
The number of "non-technical" people is only shrinking every single day. Why would they continue to design hardware for everyone just to cater to a constantly shrinking minority demographic?
Wow, that brings back memories. The company behind that, Euclideon, is apparently now in the "hologram" business. Watch their video, it's exactly what you would expect from their earlier ones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjPWk0UhKDQ
>Also for AI-safety it is important to begin interfacing between between digital and neural as early as possible.

I see no evidence that we're going to get anything like machine consciousness in the near future. Moore's law was going to get it for us, but... that isn't looking so clear anymore. Sure, machines can do more and more tasks that used to be human-only... but there's not a clear path from that to consciousness.

On the other hand, speculative brain surgery is super dangerous, and shouldn't be done to people who are too young to give informed consent.

All that said, I'd personally be willing to take some significant risk myself, if it gave me a credible chance at a useful neural interface. But I'm an adult; I think it would be ridiculously unethical to make that decision for an infant. Even as an adult, I would personally need a lot more education than I currently have to decide what was 'credible' at this point.
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And the rules defining what is 'clearly erroneous' and what is not is intentionally made vague because arbitrage of this clause makes the exchanges money.
Backups are fine because they are short-lived. You obviously have a reasonable amount of time to implement a request for deletion, say a week or two.

If you are keeping year-old “backups”, that’s actually an archive. The difference shouldn’t be too difficult to understand because year-old data is obviously useless if you have restore your database.
I always just sign my name and consider it acting as an authorized agent.
Another article that mentions the $35k Model 3, which is vaporware. The Model 3 starts at $49k, $54k with autopilot.
I don't know anything about Solaris Zones, but I'm guessing that the FreeBSD jails wouldn't help with the problem in the article. It's still the same kernel running in the jail, so the fadvise calls are going to bottleneck in the same place.
This is exactly the thinking behind it and I'm so glad to see someone that gets it. It's one of the reasons why Windows is so hard for people to use, even when they use it regularly for their jobs. So much of the core functionality isn't discoverable because it's hidden behind right-clicks and ribbon menus. 3D Touch and the Touch Bar are for users that are already comfortable with the core where they can use that technology for efficiencies and additions.
>but NOAA couldn’t approve the use of the cameras in time. (Reviews can take up to 120 days, NOAA says.)

When you can refuel and relaunch the rocket faster than the government can decide if you're allowed to take a selfie, you might be living in the future.
Again this depends, you're more describing corporate capitalism, most small businesses don't go through these processes and might become worker coops to survive if can't pay wages or if nobody good enough to take over even if its a profitable and expanding small chain.(speak from personal experience)

Its pretty oversimplized to describe the capital acquistion process, small businesses can last 20 or 30 years without any actual outside investment. Most small businesses dont become corporations that require extensive outside investment because its hard, thus your case is only certain if every small business becomes a corporation through outside investment but it doesnt occur everytime and is only an edge case.
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I've cooked the Beyond burger for family (who normally hate the veggie burgers I thrust upon them) and they all really liked it. Not quite meat, but they were open to eating it regularly as an alternative. I've had better beyond burgers than Impossible burgers, but that may depend on the restaurant and it's style.
I have an old friend from college who, at that time, was already blind. Since then, illness has robbed her of her hearing.

Having something like this where she can read, and her husband can see the same written content would be invaluable to their relationship.

Forwarding this article to the couple.
Because it's the one we built all our cities in?

It seems like an obvious answer: everything currently is built around current water levels +/- a meter or two.

10m extra of water does really bad things to a lot of costal cities. 10m less kills off a lot of shipping harbors and logistical networks.
But this is all at the very high end -- you see in manhattan that houses people actually live in sell at half the $/f2 that unused "investment" properties do.

I suspect that the discrepancy in the $/sqft ranges is more about the property quality and scarcity at that range; you pay a premium for an 8,000 sq. foot duplex with a terrace that overlooks central park and has world-class finishes and amenities because there are far fewer of them than ultra-wealthy people who want them.
Some analysts think this may actually be a "good thing" for FB long-term.

They are "salivating" at the lower priced FB shares.

Large cash reserves, no debt and superior competitive positioning.

Are they missing anything?

Source:

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4161213-facebook-concerns-o...
The right to demand deletion has actually been the law for several years now. I run a small online retailer with a few thousand customers. In 10 of business, I’ve seen one or two such requests. It takes about half a minute to anonymize the data we store.
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Some clang code:

// ISO/IEC TR 18037 S5.3 (amending C99 6.7.3): "A function type shall not be
// qualified by an address-space qualifier."
if (Type->isFunctionType()) {
S.Diag(Attr.getLoc(), diag::err_attribute_address_function_type);
Attr.setInvalid();
return;
}

The comment justifies the code in a way that the code itself never could.
It’s stored hashed with 1000 iterations of PBKDF1: https://github.com/gwatts/pinfinder/blob/a3e1d1b709ad6c9a109...

Note that this tool extracts the hash from a decrypted iTunes backup. That contains (nearly) all the device data, so by the time an attacker has that, they aren’t going to need much else.

Apple could bind it to the hardware if they wanted to, but that’s going above and beyond, which I’m not sure is any use here.
Agreed that MIT should be careful taking money from big donors with obvious agendas. When the Koches put money into universities, it typically has strings attached - they get some say in hiring faculty that align with their agenda, for example.

Here's more discussion of the Koch strategy to put money into universities, including MIT, in an effort to buy ideological support for their political goals (which are to destroy government to cut billionaires' taxes.)

http://www.unkochmycampus.org/

From Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-2...

From the Chronicle of Higher Ed: https://apicciano.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2017/12/21/the-chronic...
I agree and find it so weird to hear so many people complaining on here and I am a developer. I never liked the function keys and never cared for them specifically because you have to memorize the functions for each numbered key and then, once you do, you're tied to that specific piece of software. If you ever want to try something new, you're stuck memorizing a completely different set of key mappings. To me, the Touch Bar is incredibly useful and, if I really need to do some work where I absolutely need function keys, I can just plug in a regular keyboard.

No one I know complains about the Touch Bar except people on Reddit and HN and I know tons of people with the new laptops. I also don't understand the hate for the new keyboards but that's a whole other rabbit hole to go down.
I seem to recall reading that farming is comparable statistically to mining, or even more dangerous. It's pretty much among the top most dangerous occupations, at any rate. Which is consistent with how historically people have given up farming to work in the seemingly brutal sweatshops in cities, whether in the US and Europe, or in the Third World.

Anecdotally, my grandfather died some time after being burned in a conflagration related to cleaning something with gasoline, and none of his children became farmers. One daughter went to college and became a computer programmer, another started a delivery business, his son went to work for a VA hospital, and his wife sold the farm and became a nurse after her husband died.

It's hard to imagine conditions that predate your parents' time, and most people at this point are probably more than one generation away from their farming ancestors.
Ah, I see it's time to deploy https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt again. I'm always sad that that document has aged so well.
If your VM call to `fadvise` is not calling the underlying host kernel operation, is it even working?
sure is quiet in here.
I'm surprised that on one of the posts where the usernames and passwords are just pasted, nobody on the Cisco forum said "hey, maybe don't do that?"
Startups like PreVeil are trying to address this with servers that don't have access to your data.
tyres, bonnet, lorry, debt financing: some things lost in translation.
I disagree completely. The Touch Bar is invaluable for me in Final Cut and the tools I use for development also use the Touch Bar. I like iTerms use of the Touch Bar. Just because it doesn't work for you doesn't mean it doesn't work for other "pros".
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Wow, I forgot Hal practically did wrote a book. :)

I was on the Windows Shell side, sitting in a lot of schema meetings where products couldn't figure out how to combine their incompatible complex existing schemas into one new WinFS schema that would be understandable to anyone, and in a lot of other meetings where I was sort of a negotiation translator, decoding user interface concepts for the SQL team and SQL concepts for the Shell team, though their priorities were wildly different.

The common theme throughout was that it was pretty clear none of the product teams saw any reason they should go through unknown years of effort and compatibility hell, delaying the feature roadmap for their product, just to fulfill Bill's desire for this abstract notion of Integrated Storage. So these meetings went on interminably to make Bill and David and Bob and Jim happy, while none of the participants outside the WinFS team itself saw any point to the exercise.

It was not a pleasant experience, but I learned a lot about how a large organization works! (A reason I'm no longer in one.)
I'm not sure about that. I'm fine with hierarchical file system and links for my projects (desktop or explorer side bar). I tried few times to make use of macOS tags, but I didn't find them useful. I guess, for people who work with actual documents, it might be different. For me all those systems trying to be smart end up showing me billions of .class files from my build directories and wasting cycles trying to index them.
My friend who majored in biomed kept getting passed over during her job search. Turns out all the biomed companies just wanted to hire mechanical engineers. (She did eventually find a job in her field.)

I guess it's analogous to the data science degrees popping up today. Will be interesting to see if it ends up as a fad degree or a legitimate career path.
Did Neveu ever take a detour into physics? There is a well-known QFT model with his name on it.

Incidentally, I have a copy of Loeve's old probability textbook - I wonder if it is too out of date to be any use.
"This video contains content from BandaiChannel, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds"

It bothers me that crossing an invisible line in the ground blocks access to stuff that others can see simply by standing on a different patch of dirt.

(With the added irony that this is a Japanese show, in the Japanese language, and I am physically in Japan at the moment.)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598858095/system-shock...
Nice! This looks just like https://logojoy.com/ which makes a lot of money doing this
The ability to have functions available to any piece of software that make that software more convenient for professionals who use those functions every day. Scrubbing a video or timeline in Final Cut, for example, is not possible with Fn keys but makes my job infinitely easier for editing.
Dumb question, but would the asteroid belt count as a ring around the sun?

Never thought about it before until I read your comment, so I thought someone more knowledgeable than me could provide some insight here.
It’s a bunch of self-important get-rich-quick goons, putzing around with wi-fi enabled juicers and chatting on their iPhones about anti-aging meal replacement supplements.

What more would you expect.
Do you have a source for that? According to https://mashable.com/2017/08/01/tesla-model-3-true-cost-more..., the Model 3 only costs $49,000 if you buy it with an extra-large battery pack and Autopilot. Those are cool, of course, but it's still a perfectly usable car without them (220 mile range). The base price is indeed $35,000, and that doesn't include tax incentives or any other "cheating".
can't tell if you are downvoted by TSLA owners or people who paid the reservation fee and are in denial.
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My standard Chase ATM card can be used at stores as either credit or debit. Some payment terminals say "enter PIN for debit, or press continue for credit". Some don't, but at at least one store, despite the prompt just saying "Enter PIN", I was able to pay by pressing continue without entering a PIN, so I think the terminal has the same functionality, just not advertised.
This is the same federal / central bank which has banned or demonetised their own currency and killed economy.
Life as a blind person is littered with questions like this. Quite often, braille signage is one of those things a sighted companion points out, usually just because of the "hey, look at this!" factor. I go through life expecting that places won't have braille signs, or if they do, I'll look like an idiot trying to find them anyway so I expect not to use them. There are some places that often have similar layouts (e.g. hotels) where this situation could be taken advantage of - if hotels had braille signs for room numbers it would make it easier to navigate. But I've never stayed in a hotel that did.

There are other issues, for example an airport might have a special assistance desk for disabled travellers but you need assistance to find or reach it.
you can't fix a bad article citing another bad article.
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If money was originally distributed magically - by an amoral higher entity of some sort - would you be in favor of some democratically decided redistribution afterward to make it a little more fair? What if you had to decide the answer to that before you found out how much in lifetime earnings you'd be randomly assigned?

The unfortunate fact of our world is that, statistically, very few people escape their demographic and psychographic destiny. You can predict a 6 year old kids earnings as an adult fairly well from a mix of their birth geography, parents income, an iq test, and the marshmallow test. Some level of redistribution, that still rewards capitalist endeavors, makes sense in a society as unfair as ours.
People did learn "don't stick your face in the thresher" and that's exactly why across cultures and in different time periods since the industrial revolution they migrated to the cities, because even the sweatshops we consider barbaric were better. In school, we learn about how terrible child labor was when it was unregulated, and how children were maimed and died in factories. But child labor was taken for granted on the farm, so of course it wasn't questioned when industrialization came at first. I have a picture of my mom as a little girl on a huge tractor in the 1940s. I didn't grow up on a farm, but her attitude towards power equipment when I was a kid was to tell me to read the manual, whether it was a power mower or a chainsaw or whatever.
>No reason for it

Not true. The new MacBook screens are LED backlit. The shining Apple would show through the display if they kept it and it literally offers nothing of value except a visual and a battery drain.
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The President has no direct role in building a wall on the Mexican border. But I do believe he has some influence over the matter...
And, in the case of the Lolo Peak fire, my parents are one of two households that are footing the cost of the firefighters major fuck-up of setting the back-burn that nearly took out an entire neighborhood.

My parents lost nearly everything except 2 vehicles and the pets. The fire started on federal land, and federal officials set the fire that burned down my parents' house.

No compensation to them, yet, except from their insurance.

I know back-burns are not precise, but given that the fed took preventative measures sure as bulldozing a multimile fire line and laying pipe to power sprinklers, then they set the fire and didn't turn the sprinklers on, feels like arson to me. Also, that they started it at one of the worst times of the day. Everyone in Montana knows that winds pick up in the afternoon. When did they start the back-burn? Roughly 1-2pm local, depending on conditions. That's usually about the cutoff for regional slash burns. By cutoff, I don't mean start, I mean, they have to be stopped by then.

Coupled with reports from neighbors, that refused to evacuate, that fire fighters stood by and simply watched while 2 houses & a neighborhood water system burned to the ground.

Am I pissed? Of course. I think there was a huge failure of management in this fire. Will my parents every be properly be compensated? I doubt it. They, and the rest of my family, have lost a lot due to federal mismanagement.

My parents' house was not lost due to a wild fire. It was lost due to federal action to combat a wild fire, and they fucked it up.
System of governance is different to a state. Anarchists are against the state but not necessarily against government, as long as that government's power comes from voluntary association and not by coercion.
The only version you can buy right now includes the extra-large battery pack and the premium interior, which adds up to $49k.

Source: my reservation number has come up and that’s my only option.
If they will pay equally skilled co-workers a SF rate, why shouldn't they pay you the same?

Another way to put that is why should you get paid the "raising a family" money that another co-worker might get if you don't have a s/o and kids?
I'm so sad this was never taught again. It's the most useful MOOC I've taken, and it motivated me to start using pyspark on a daily basis. I would say the class is better for learning pyspark than actual data science concepts though.
>No one really cares about privacy now

I spoke with several non-tech people about the facebook fiasco.

The issue is that even a brilliant neurosurgeon does not understand the TOS he has signed with Facebook and what they entail.

Surely, there is some naïveté from people that don't expect facebook to do much with their data, but tech has also failed to teach users about this.

Even self proclaimed privacy champions routinely make you sign dozen of pages of ToS that are updated on a whim.
The odds of one object soon colliding with another object in particular are extreme, but this is a kind of 'birthday paradox' situation. I cant figure it out at hand, but one satellite out of thousands might end up with the same 'birthday' as another not too infrequently.
The matter is not entirely clear from the article. Surely they aren't banning individuals from holding bit coins? What does regulated entities even mean: I don't think they mean bitcoin exchanges because they aren't regulated; probably it means banks.
> Designing weapons to defeat Hitler could easily be justified, cause Hitler

You can't just decide to make weapons when Hitler shows up. You need to be ready before Hitler shows up.

> But designing weapons to, say, better fight the Iraq War?

I'm no fan of the Iraq war. However, if we are going to fight the Iraq war, i'd certainly like us to have say, better targeted munitions, and I think Iraqi civilians would too.

> Furthering drone strike technology?

I'm a huge fan of drone strikes, so yes, to that one. That isn't to say i'm a huge fan of their indiscriminate use, of course. But if you're going to do some targeted killings, why not use drones? It exposes our soldiers to less risk, and allows for better, dispassionate targeting aided by automated tools. I think that's a great thing.

Now, I do disagree at the margin with some of the policy choices about how drones have been used. But if someone is going to have the best drones, you'd better believe I want that someone to be the USG.

> Given that there was no need for that at all, I can't say that's ethical.

You're conflating the choice to go to war with the technology to facilitate that war. They are not the same thing. The choice to to war was a mistake. But once the choice has been made, ensuring that victory is swift and precise is absolutely ethical.
No, you're not wrong. That said, I don't think this is a competition aimed at people with a beginner level knowledge of machine/deep learning. I don't believe there is currently any MOOC that is going to hold your hand from 0 to expert. Given the current state of the field, I believe the only surefire path towards this level of knowledge is either university education or a /lot/ of reading.
>The fact that these features are so undiscoverable proves the point, I think.

Why? These aren't features that your average, every day pro users would ever need. You're complaining about discoverability for an advanced feature that maybe 10 or 20% of the user base will use.
Just write. Stop procrastinating on HN, and type this:

mkdir doc && $EDITOR doc/index.md
I like the term "shooting brake" - seems crazy today, but makes sense when you know the history.
Sorry for asking a naive Q. Could you tell why it is way too late?
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In the cortex at least there have been reports of DCX+ NCAM+ cells that are arrested in an immature state, meaning they are not necessarily newly generated, just stuck in "standby" mode.
I have always just said "we are moving to an area that you do not service" and that's the end of that.

The worst is at the freakin' grocery store. If you have to go to the aisle with a cashier, they ask for your store-brand 'saver[slash-spyware] card'. If you tell them you don't have one it's usually followed by a "would you like to sign up..." "No, thank you." and then a "Can I have your phone number" at that point I'm annoyed. I am just trying to buy some Golden Grahams here lady you don't need my phone number, no I'm not giving you that.

I actually had one poor girl look at me like a lost puppy at this point. I don't think she'd ever had anyone decline before - and that scares the hell out of me. She had no idea what to do, the register wouldn't continue the transaction without inputting a phone number. After a few seconds of her staring at me bewildered I had to suggest she try just holding her finger down on the 1 key.
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A lone CR is certainly more odd than a LF...LF is implicitly a new line. CR by definition is a return to the beginning of the line; literally NOT the end of the line!

Who would choose 'beginning of line' to mean 'end of line'?? Oh, Apple :)