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Apple Battles App Store Malware Outbreak (2015)
This author:

“Luddites did not hate machines, they only hated and smashed certain machines at certain factories in certain situations.”

Also this author:

“The KKK did not discriminate against all black people. Only certain black people at certain times for certain reasons.”

The idea that they are going to carve up the phrase “Luddite” in such a surgical way to make it prove whatever point they are trying to make here is pretty funny to me.

Did they smash machines to protect their wages or not?

The reason this article is even on the front page in the first place is that we are already in a Neo-Luddite period featuring socialism reworded as “Universal Basic Income” (no people, it really is just “socialism” you don’t need another phrase for it) and the scare tactics being used to promote it (automation and robots).

The social mood is swinging Luddite, the reason people are voting this up is because they feel the need to justify what is becoming a common opinion: Tech is bad, we must regulate it, it is a threat, we must burn all tech to the ground and tax it as hard as possible.

Go ahead and hate tech, but don’t try to pawn off this pretzel logic on us.
Exactly. Eurovision is not related to the European Union. Technically, it doesn't even have anything to do with Europe; Australia have been competing in recent years.

Eligibility simply requires the country to have a broadcaster that is a member of the European Broadcasting Union.
"Scratch your own itch." This is a commonly used phrase used to memorably convey the idea that you should write a program which solves a problem that you have, rather than one which you think other people might have.
When spies hack journalism
Ask HN: What are your criteria for selecting cofounders?
Currently, I'm a single founder with an idea for an initiative. It's not exactly a startup yet but might become one in its later stages. On what basis should I select co-founders, and if I might need them?
You: Look what I did with k8s

Top voted reply: You had to use a thing to do what you want, and that thing isn't even supported any more. [Either I was hallucinating at the time and imagined it, or there was a reply that got deleted]

I think you've just quite nicely demonstrated the original authors point.
Can anyone clarify if this is a possibility for apt packages as well? As far as I understand, there are 4 types of apt repositories (for Ubuntu): Main, Universe, Restricted, Multiverse.

I guess Main is safe since it's handled by Canonical, but the rest?

Moreover, a lot of installers simply add a custom repository to sources.list.

What are some good practices for a novice user, regarding apt?
Draining the manual-page swamp
Docker was never made for security, only for isolation and it can have vulnerabilities.
As a UI/UX Designer I design with this audience in mind.

Though working with one is a bit annoying. Hey let’s design it this way it’s simpler umm no I don’t know how to code it that new way let’s do it the way I know. Sigh.
Well as a lazy arch user i installed pacaur and just use official and AUR sources without much checking. It's just convenient that there's an AUR for everything
Thank you for the extra sources! The Monarrez paper supports my point: "the mean district desegregates a little".

The Richards paper, on the other hand, claims in the abstract that gerrymandering "generally exacerbates segregation". I wasn't sure how to reconcile this claim with Monarrez's paper, the graph from my comment, as well as https://mobile.twitter.com/alv9n/status/950388285318328321 (from the articles author).

So I read the Richards paper, and now I can't reconcile why it explicitly contradicts its abstract (and your claim) in multiple places:

> Interestingly, gerrymandering was
inversely related to segregation, such that districts with higher levels of segregation were less gerrymandered than less segregated districts.
..

> Indeed, in the only direct
examination of the effects of educational gerrymandering, Clark (1987) con-
cluded that gerrymandering of attendance zone boundaries in Topeka in the
1950s and 1960s were either neutral or desegregative in nature.

The results of her paper show a minuscule mean effect on school segregation due to gerrymandering: between 0.001% (ie 0.00001)and 0.003% mean increase in the level of segregation, with an outlier of 0.006% for Asian-White segregation.

As I mention above, this contradicts the findings from the other papers discussed. But even if we take this paper as our source of truth, it still seems like residential segregation is responsible for the vast majority of district segregation, and that the total magnitude of the gerrymandering effect is tiny.
"Make it" without "make it pretty" leads to things that are raw and unadorned; French for raw is brut; the design school-of-thought based on rawness (no design is still a design) is called brutalism; you just described it perfectly; thank you and good night.
> Can somebody explain why Affordable Rent exists?

Because in large US cities, housing is artificially scarce (and thus pathologically expensive). This artificial scarcity is enforced by zoning laws; which prohibit SROs, rooming houses, and apartments with small floor areas, medium/high-rise apartments, non-family roommates, short-term rentals, buildings above a certain height; whilst requiring stuff like parking, solar panels on the roof, and minimum lot/room/floor areas (that have no justification in genuine safety concerns -- these are all regulations that mandate a certain level of aesthetic/luxury qualities).

The people who have a financial interest in maintaining these zoning laws (which prohibit/delay/obstruct construction of any kind of dense/tall/small/inexpensive housing, of the kind that exist without any problem in actual proper, non-US cities) are single-family homeowners who are making serious money off this artificial scarcity situation.

In this system, subsidised housing (which is generally inaccessible without decade-long waitlists, and meeting extremely narrow criteria (such as having proof of income that's in a narrow range between "low enough to qualify" but also "high enough to be twice the subsidised rent")) has a role as a safety valve to prevent enough coordination that could pose risk to this artificial-scarcity regime. This is not idle theorising -- it worked exactly like that to kill SB827 (a CA state law that would have preempted height limits encoded in local zoning law in areas very close to a subway/train/bus station); where "advocates" for subsidised housing concern-trolled the thing to death with concerns about "displacement".
there's no mention of that in first few paragraphs
15,000 California tax filers provide one-quarter of all income taxes
Affordable Rent policies block the free market from increasing wages in the city. Instead of paying workers more, we've asked landlords to make up the difference between a living wage and a poverty one.
ISLISP was defined/implemented mostly outside of the US (exception, Kent Pitman, IIRC) and mostly by work from Europe&Japan. But that funding dried up long ago. One of its purposes was to have a Lisp standard outside of the USA, not controlled by US standards bodies and US vendors/users.

It's too much like Common Lisp and the standard itself is not bringing exciting stuff. It's nice in itself, but not really needed.

Can't remember anything in the language which really addresses the delivery topic - though I've never read the spec in depth.
It's not old school, it's standard practice in the ASIC design industry.

You mentioned those papers but you didn't link them, so I will have to guess that this is the one in order to address your comment:

- https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/white_papers/wp...

I guess the keyword here is "FPGA design". The author of the paper argues that the FPGA already offers an abstraction layer that allows the designer to ignore the problem for certain occasions in order to save up on area.

> The good news is that 99.99% of the time, the timing of the reset release really doesn't matter. (...) However, if you have ever had one of the circuits that doesn’t work the first time, then maybe you have encountered one of the 0.01% cases and have been unlucky enough to have released the reset at the wrong time.

> A design implemented in a Xilinx FPGA does not require insertion of a global reset network. For the vast majority of any design, the initialization state of all flip-flops and RAM following configuration is more comprehensive than any logical reset will ever be. There is no requirement to insert a reset for simulation because nothing will be undefined.

But it doesn't mean it is 100% correct as this design would be very poor if it was ever translated to an ASIC. I guess since this project is done with FPGA design in mind, the strict ASIC design rules don't apply here.
> measures to allow the right mix of people to live in the city.

So, human engineering, with totally good intentions. Can you define 'right mix of people' in a non-totalitarian way?
You sound like you‘re new to this business.
I believe it was Marcus Aurelius who wrote 'It is not little details that a man making a dumb joke should fear'.
To end up with systematic genetic differences in intelligence between large, ancient populations, the selective forces driving those differences would need to have been enormous.

You mean something like an Ice Age which affected Europe and Asia more than Africa ?
UK Police Are ~50% Less Likely to Search You for Drugs When It's Really Hot/Cold
Sounds like an acronym made up to make someone feel bad about the relatively good state of its society. Not really a fan of it.
I want to be a software engineer making FANG $, but live in the tiny Midwestern town I grew up in. It is unethical for society to not provide this for me.
The problem in SF is not that property developers don’t want to build high density housing. It’s local government and NIMBY-ism actively blocking and restricting it.
"Stone Age Economics" by Marshall Sahlins
I think that was the Apple III. You don't want to be dropping a CRT.
What if your family lives there?

What if you’re divorced and your children live there?

What if you don’t want to move your children away from their school and friends?

What if jobs in your profession aren’t available elsewhere?

What if you’re receiving medical treatment there that’s not available elsewhere?

What if you’re contractually obligated to be there?

There are a million reasons why someone might not be able to simply move to a new city. Nobody has a right to live in a particular building or neighborhood. But there should be somewhere for them to live within a city no matter what their income is. A city shouldn’t be allowed to ban classes of people.
honestly, I dont know. This stuff is usually negotiated in bulk, or as insurance. I would pay even $1000 if its an emergency. $150 on-site if parts are $50 is very reasonable price.

My point is that macbook is not easily serviceable machine.

On Dell I will replace battery myself in a few months, very easy.
What kind of society do you want to live in? Do you want walled gardens of luxe, and a ghetto outside for the cleaners?
That's exactly what I meant, thanks
Immigrants are a very large portion of Asian Americans. Immigrants are a very small portion of black Americans.

Black immigrants in the US have roughly the same level of financial success as Asian immigrants, they are just a much smaller portion of black Americans than Asian immigrants are of Asian Americans. The real difference is between immigrants and non-immigrants, not between black and Asian people.

Also, it's untrue that immigration law applies equally to all races. There are many aspects of immigration law that are different based on national origin. People from India and China are excluded from many ways of immigrating except for work visas.
Living in these places is definitely not a human right. But then again, neither is it necessary for us to allow you to live there either even if you can buy the most palatial home in the city. It cuts both ways.
"The model astronomers had about where things should be had to be updated"
A service that tells me what profitable product I should build.
The website version of the game was 150 KB.

You'd be hard pressed to find an engine or runtime (except electron as some people are saying it actually is..) to get a game like that (literally moving boxes and text) up to that size.

Even if he used static images and ttf fonts the size is way off. Pngs are a couple to couple dozen kilos a piece. Fonts are a few megs at most each. The single biggest font 'file' I know of/used for real (except for experiments people might do with the file formats) is Noto Sans CJK ttc file and it's not a single font but a collection (and it covers all of CJK[0] which is an insane range).

Entire Minecraft is under 300 megs and that includes the launcher, the language packs, and the entire JRE that is 140 megs in itself (!).

On gamejolt there is a (very nice) small low poly game called The Very Organized Thief, it was made in Unity3D and is just 13 megs in a zip (EDIT: and 35 unpacked).

I couldn't find a low poly game in Unreal Engine 4 nor one that is under 100-200 megs (EDIT: when packed) so maybe Unreal Engine 4 has that high static cost but I'm not sure right now.

In any case: 2048 taking over 100 megs is actually crazy, especially since it's a game so simple you can rewrite it in almost any engine overnight. He/she could have done at least that much.

[0] - https://www.google.com/get/noto/help/cjk/
3 hours is unbelievably fast. The incubation period for flu, cold is at least 1 day. Norovirus (which isn't what you had) can be as quick as 12 hours, but still normally 1-2 days.

(Eg, see the list at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incubation_period ).

It's more likely that you were infected a day or two previous, with nothing to do with your strawberries.

FWIW, http://fsi.colostate.edu/strawberries/ points out other infection routes through strawberries than just the harvester, including "contamination by sewage", and "Deer feces were implicated as the source of the strawberry contamination".
In the Art World, Is $100M the New $10M?
Give me a binary and I run it. Teach me to build the binary and I am fixing bugs for a lifetime.
The Apple touchpad is by far the best trackpad I've ever used on any laptop. By such a wide margin it's ridiculous. I never accidentally press it with my palm or have any other issues with it.

I agree fully that the keyboards are hot garbage, though. I can type well on them, they're just painful over time due to the harshness you mention.
With crouton, and now native linux support, absolutely
Yes, but for me it was the prog rock, as in Yes, King Crimson, Genesis et.al. That was in the elementary school, when others were listening to Nirvana and Cypress Hill.

Now of course my music taste has expanded to all the directions, from contemporary electronic to classical, jazz to stoner metal. I think there are always people in schools just not going with the flow when it's up to music. Sometimes it's hard, but later on you realize you still dig into the new stuff when your old peers just listen to the same songs as they did back in the school years.
I think you and I are saying exactly the same thing here. That's exactly what I meant by "they actually missed out on developing real, meaningful relationships with their kids."
>> rational

when it's about people, "rational" is the last thing we need. Empathy, sympathy, compassion is what you need.
I think the term is meant to draw attention to the fact that most study populations in psychology meet all of these criteria (a disproportionate number are college students, for example) and are statistically unrepresentative of the majority of humanity. Therefore their responses should be interpreted/extrapolated with caution - they are demographically "weird". It's not really intended to cast aspersions on the people themselves.
For packages with many votes this is somewhat fine, but you should still skim the PKGBUILD as the maintainers of even popular packages may change in time.
I just looked it up again, you're exactly right.

Yeah, sudden jolts really wouldn't be healthy for the stem on a CRT.
> the sharp edge of the laptop is uncomfortable to the wrists

This touches on a minor point I don't see brought up much: the corners of the notch to open the lid on the new Touch Bar MBP are surprisingly sharp, sharper than the previous generations. Combined with other similarly sharp, almost unfinished edges around the machine, I see this as a sign of Jony Ive's disdain for human users versus his aluminium designs.
This was the most frustrating thing for me. I have a new touchbar mac and iphone x and when i realized i needed a usb-c to lighting cable and went to the apple store in downtown sf they didn't have any in the store. this was ~6 months after the iphone came out so it wasn't even an initial rush related issue. crazy.
No. They wouldn’t. They’d just allow the quality of government services to degrade.

Example: every city the United States.

It’s like saying “traffic is good because it forces to government to build more roads.” No, it does not.
And that’s why you should usually build your own images, and only trust docker images from the same people whose binaries you’d also trust with all your data.

(e.g. a docker image from RedHat may be okay, one from zhenghe8 likely not)
You can't measure intelligence, you can only measure skills. Any test you devise can be practiced to improve scores.

Besides, it's hard even to define intelligence. Is Einstein more intelligent than Mozart? Our usual approach is to say "I know intelligence when I see it" but that usually results in arguments from personal incredulity.
Outside of hardware in Shenzhen. No where. There's going to be a huge shift were people realize that location for the most part is not that important. With the internet you can link up with people around the world. Great products have been built by remote teams. All remote teams are growing and becoming more common. Why limit yourself to a location?
If those people start being forced to move out, you'll quickly find that salaries will rise to compensate.

Supply and demand is very simple.

Keeping rents artificially cheap is just a backdoor way of keeping salaries artificially low.
I can’t believe The Expanse is more expensive per episode than Westworld for example. It all feels so cheaply produced. The books are awesome btw.
That's great to hear because I'm about to buy a T480s and my main reason is I've heard such great things about the keyboard!
Love his music, respect his thinking, hate that he sold out to Hillary Clinton as she cheated Bernie.
Is Prefix of String in Table? A Journey into SIMD String Processing
Smartphone vs featurephone vs dumbphone isn't relevant here. All have potential to be geo-located by a service like this.
it's also much easier to stay dry, and thus warm, at -30 than at -2
What kind of place do you think you will belong to? what characteristics are you looking for? For me, it was the hacker and demo scene in my teen years. There was no money involved, it was all fun. Money changes the dynamic of things and people don't play nice since it's a zero sum game. The only environment that I see today like that is the open source scene, but unfortunately once a product gets popular it quickly get's commercialized.
Oh, wow! Do they sell the 13" anywhere? That'd be very tempting...

(fwiw, pasting in the corresponding model numbers into the URL gave me no such luck)
The people who work in that city shouldn’t be forced to commute 3 hours in and out?
I don’t think matches the spec that the new line has the same number of leading spaces as the surrounding lines
No, I think such observations are valid. I mainly tried to add that even for me, a long time Lisp user, GNU Emacs / SLIME is not the primary tool. There are a few groups and a large and visible group is using SBCL + GNU Emacs + SLIME. But there are other groups.
... written in 1986 when terrorist bombs were common in many countries including the UK and Spain, and the Unabomber was active in the US. Terrorism did not begin in 2001.
I don't understand why this deserves a class action lawsuit. Sure, it's not a great design, but is it bad enough to sue over? All companies release flawed products all the time
What a perfectly rational explanation. Thank you for not instantly appealing to vague notions of social justice.

Dishearteningly, however, people still do this. When people demand affordable rent but do not get it, many still cry "injustice!". This seems to me to be counterproductive as it causes others to wonder what, if anything, such people do not consider to be a human right.

edit: accidentally left out "not" in first paragraph
Over stretched and weak back muscles plus over tense chest muscle contribute greatly to poor posture. How does that figure into the idea of retraining positional perception?
is this sarcasm? If not, do you have a reference?

The usual argument is that sf needs more housing supply to meet demand, period, let alone affordable housing.

Edit: see zkms, below.
Enough people with the right skillsets to fill the roles society needs to function.
This title makes it so that no one who doesn't already have a clue what this thing is will ignore it.

A better title might be:
"Nerves 1 released! Create bulletproof embedded software running on the Erlang VM"
Leveraging the type system to avoid mistakes
> we're about to lose the last of the people that lived through WWII.

And for a long time, I've felt that the lessons learned from WWII would be promptly forgotten once the vets died off. It's damn infuriating to see it actually happen, though.

Sadly, the rise of despots like Putin, Trump, Duterte, Xi, Orban, etc. (not to mention the Brexit fiasco) is not a surprise to me. I figured this would happen once enough of the vets died off. [Lack of faith in humanity? Me? Yeah, exactly.]

(US-centric) Frank Zappa's later albums carried the motto, "Register to vote before it's too late." Too bad that there were so many people back then who were either too cool to show up at the ballot box when they were needed most (think 1980), or decided that outright fascism served their interests best.
And something we witnessed during the Arab Spring.
I cuently have tree keys acting up. It's a pain in the ass and as much as I've loved Apple poducts fo almost 3 years, I'm eady to give them the old eave o.

Translation: I currently have three keys acting up. It's a pain in the ass and as much as I've loved Apple products for almost 30 years, I'm ready to give them the old heave ho.
One more confirmation that Ubuntu cannot be recommended anymore.
Better than just living with bugs for a lifetime IMHO.
Weird, after rereading the article, it seems like I may have imagined that part.
"give a man a lump of sugru..."
A PhD does not make you an academic, working in the field does. Not to say that academic == talented.
Git submodules revisited
20000 calories? That must be american calories. If we subtract 2000 kcal for general upkeep that's still the equivalent of pedaling on an ergo at 220 watts for a continuous 24 hours. Half the population can't sustain that for a mere 20 minutes.

Why can't they? Because it exceeds their maximum rate of oxygen consumption. That also tells us they can't in any scenario burn that many calories in a day.
Wouldn't I be able to afford a 500k mortgage for a 45 mins away house?
That looks like the very same heli-drone! I had not heard of the series, thank you.
Related, here is a simple 10 minute video by Weinstein where he gives a nice framework of his approach and its significance on how we approach science:
http://bigthink.com/videos/eric-weinstein-after-einstein-we-...
It makes more sense to share it with colleagues and work out the bugs, before releasing it to a wider audience.
> I didn't have the general impression that they slanted the actual news. After Murdoch bought it I lost faith in their reporting

There is (or was) a lot of internal conflict over what the reporters feel is favorable coverage of Trump.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wall+street+journal+trump+coverage...