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American corporations are tools for people in much the same way that monarchies were tools for people. It pretty much is a tool that's only useful for those with the means to make the most use of it. Small businesses often can't use it to the fullest abilities because to do so requires an army of lawyers and accountants who are able to find every advantage possible. Playing to the rule book is especially advantageous when you get to write the rule book. The other problem is that corporations have more legal rights and power and are considered people in legal terms.

Using another example. Indentured servitude used to be a completely valid legal contract that benefited both sides. The reason it went away was because those writing the contracts started treating it like legal slavery.

The reason people go after corporations is because they are the ones in control of the government and what exactly will going after the people who own the corporations do? They often have private armies, write their own laws, and essentially function as royalty.
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I don't disagree that water is probably a unique solvent, and you make a good point about the distribution of the elements. But once we get into nucleic acids I think we're once again into the territory of applying constraints based on our own experience.

Good answer though.
Why don't they use removable batteries?
You've got to first start by finding something that you're interested in. As long as you're interested in something then you should be able to find a sub-area which hasn't been discussed quite as much as you'd like or discussed in a manner that you like.

Write for yourself to help learn a skill and improve your ability to write future articles.
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Guess I'm on the moderators' radar.

For a crowd that likes to consider itself the internet's intelligentsia, HN readers at large seem surprisingly ignorant of the fact that since technology is a human endeavor, politics and tech are forever inextricably linked.

Thus, the blanket ban on political articles only makes sense for articles that have no technological aspect.

Surveillance of journalists, pervasive state- and corporate-enabled surveillance at that, is exactly what HN should be discussing.

But I guess it's easier to just stick our heads in the sand, not think too hard about where our paycheck comes from, and discuss the latest Electron Bloatware as a Service.
I'm only going by what I just read on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_core , but it seems like a core only works by being magnetic itself. Note that "air core" is a term of art; if there's a nonmagnetic (e.g. plastic or ceramic) core it's still called "air core".
Yeah, I roast at home and I get the most delicious natural process Ethiopian Sidama beans at like $5/pound. It would really be a bummer if those suddenly skyrocketed in price and became harder to obtain...
> Is smartphone addiction really a thing that needs this constant coverage?

The reporters have smartphone addiction addiction. Deep down, they want to cover something else but...they...just...can't. :-)
About that 'interstellar asteroid'
I wouldn't worry about whether someone else has written about a topic.

Worry about being the best written explanation.

For instance patio11 has gathered a huge blog audience, and he didn't do that by writing about things no one else had written about, or knowing more then everyone else.

But his writing is fucking amazing, and that's why I can read 20 pages of his writing while being barely able to make it through 3 paragraphs of other authors.
I read a similar article in 1995 about how MySQL was going to put Oracle out of business.

Oracle now owns MySQL.

I live in Austin, Texas and definitely do not work for Oracle. However they have plans to hire 10,000 people here. For reference, that number represents 40% of Facebook’s headcount. Apple, another old-guard company (Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison were great friends), is doing something similar.

For all of Oracle’s badness, there is a certain Trump-like authenticity to them. They kind of know their bad, and they just keep on keeping on. Facebook, meanwhile, had to shove it down our throats how awesome and beautiful and world-connecting they were.
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What issues has Ethereum run into as PoW? I've only heard about contract vulnerabilities.
Well, the idea that "nobody really uses it in practice" doesn't hold up to the evidence in this thread, eh? It's used and under active development. I think it lacks hype. :-)

> Do you think this might be more useful as a module to solve logic puzzles, rather than as a complete language by itself?

I was thinking about it this morning and I came to the conclusion that Prolog really is AI. They did it. We have AI already and most of us just failed to notice. The Unification algorithm at the heart of Prolog (I'm not an expert!) is pretty much what your brain does when you solve logical puzzles and problems. We have a machine that can think.

The way I think of Prolog is as a super-calculator that can be applied to a huge range of problems and tasks. (One thing to be aware of is that if you have a Prolog-shaped problem and try to solve it in some other language you'll likely wind up reinventing some portion of Prolog in that language! If you look up solutions to the Zebra Puzzle written in other languages you'll see that most of them proceed by implementing some sort of logic solver that resembles a crude Prolog.) There may be practical real-world issues in performance or interfacing for a given application, but in general I'd say that good ol' Prolog is vastly underutilized. (Put another way, we're working harder than we should be.)
I thought the section heading "Why is the coil the secret sauce?" seemed very dubious (as is acknowledged), but it's been long enough since I've done electronics that I can't contradict it in any way.

But an analysis that focuses on the very low resistance of the wire and ignores the back EMF from moving the pendulum seems wrong.
If the app stores want honest reviews, they have to be the ones to request them, on a fixed schedule after someone downloads an app. Allowing the apps themselves to forward users to the app store review interface is an invitation to game the system in exactly the manner mentioned.

Whether grossly dishonest or slightly misleading, the mere fact that we can be arguing over how scummy the pattern may be is a symptom of the failure of the app stores to manage their own review systems. When one seller games the system to get more 5-star reviews, that's them being dishonest. When everyone has a 4.5-star rating on every product, that's the ratings system being lazy and useless. (Looking at you, in particular, Amazon.)

An honest internal review would publish the results on the developer's website, and leave all the app stores out of it, no matter what the user rating might be.
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It's just a joke really.
Sorry, that's nuts. That might be why many Americans do it, but most of the world does it by choice, and virtually nobody regrets it. And once your children are beyond the infant stage where there is some (as TFA notes, sub-lightning-strike) danger, there is none.

It sounds shitty when you don't actually have kids, but once you have them and try it, it's just kind of like oh, I see. It is self-evidently great for the kids, and it also doesn't really limit your adult life much (you can just get up when they are asleep, and come back when you're sleepy).

Anyway, avoiding training babies to sleep alone certainly not "the only reason people do it", or even a reason most people do it (although it does have that benefit).
In the Linux kernel, the mitigation is applied for sandboxed processes, which makes sense.

Note that no microcode updates are needed for AMD, while they're needed for Intel.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
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FastMail for mail
Office 365 for office

Don't use Google, diversify with better products in each category.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17121811 (172 points by brandon 19 hours ago | 20 comments)
I really liked Elm a lot, but the issue for me was that composing components is a shit show. You have to add variants to the root Msg type for every single subpage and have it dispatch to the right update/view functions.

Doesn’t that make sense, though?

An app in Elm is some kind of state + messages that change the state. Since the state is usually too big to fit in a single structure, you break it down recursively into progressively smaller substates. These again have some messages that mutate the state.

Now, doesn’t it make sense to send the “child” messages through the parents? You shouldn’t command the children directly, you should always tell the parent to tell the child do this and that. At least in our [Swift, not Elm] app that makes sense, composes well and keeps the model simple to think about.
X-chromosome inactivation is a type of an epigenetic change. It is one of many that happen throughout the body - I would say there are very few cells in our bodies that have the same epigenetic markup. We've known about this for a while.

The article discusses genetic post-meiotic changes that propagate differentially through the body. We knew it happened for a while now too, but it was always presented as a curiosity or an anomaly. We are now learning that it is much more common than we anticipated. Like presented in the article, it might actually explain some clinical phenotypes as well.
Only if the fixed costs are not a large part of the price.
> so [block,item] is enough, but global indexes will require [partition,block,item]).

That's probably the easier bit, I'd guess that adjusting a lot of the relevant in-memory structures to share relations, uniqueness checks across relations, adjusting the locking-model to deal with multiple underlying relations etc. is going to be more work.
There's no particular reason that a recursive CTE should be that slow. Some are, but it's not too hard to write any kind of query to go as slow as you want to make it go.
"You keep hammering on this claim, except it's clear Janus doesn't believe that he's benefiting from it."

Again, if this is what he believed, then he would be suing to get out of the bargaining unit.

The entire suit is a scam to weaken the power of unions. If the union has to act on behalf of you, but you don't have to pay, then very, very few people are going to actually pay for the union, and it will die.
This is because, in decentralized networks that obstinately refuse to grant any special authority to third parties, accurately enforcing time synchronization is no simple matter.

That depends on what you’re going for. The concept of time is actually a local phenomenon, as relativity shows. To compare whether events A and B happened first, you must first trace some path from A and B to a third party C (maybe C = A or B if you really want) and then ask C which came first.

We had to deal with this when building our DLT. See this: https://intercoin.org/technology.pdf
For systems where you can guarantee that no untrusted code runs I'd rather have the faster processor.
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I'm amazed at how much we still don't know about our human body. Engineering in other areas, like computer sciences, is much easier because we understand the fundamental concept behind it. But in bioengineering or pharmacy, a lot of them are trial and error, and serendipity, because I think we simply don't really understand how the cell actually work in details yet. [0]

[0] One discussion about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16079735
Godzilla has the amazon A and Z for eyes.. and the Amazon smile, but upside down. XD
Again, yes, you can. You are free to choose your job based on the conditions of the job.
Can someone explain the grammar behind the title? It feels wrong, but the fact that it presumably passed NYT's copyediting leads me to believe it is correct.

What's the "it" referring to in the title?

The body? But the body itself has no DNA to properly speak of.

A single cell? That is not what the article is saying.

Trying to use the same construct for a different sentence:

"Every person in this room should have worn a suit. Except he didn't" -> a single person in the room didn't wear a suit, and I am probably looking at him while saying this.

"Every person in this room should have worn a suit. Except they didn't" -> there are several people in the room who didn't wear a suit, this feels closer to the meaning of the piece's title?
It would be really cool to see the median home price to family income plotted as a topographical map.

Not that we don't all expect it but you'd basically get mountain ranges on the coasts. The really interesting thing would be to look at it over time and see when and how fast the "mountain ranges" develop. Obviously the trend it generally upward but it would be interesting to see when and how fast prices increase in various locales and see if that correlates with anything else.
Maybe, but that will still be very hard. After the collision a lot of the debris will still be moving at a speed and direction comparable to the asteroid's original trajectory. Because the asteroid will have the greater mass, you'll find it'll be the net exporter of inertia into the impact mass.

On top of that, making the rendezvous at such an extreme difference of speed will be very difficult.
PoW is leader based consensus. It’s slow and can’t handle millions of simultaneous payments. Why do new distributed ledger technologies still prefer to use it, when there are other, far faster consensus algorithms out there?
Linux actually applies a mitigation that is applied for sandboxed processes only by default to mitigate Variant 4.

For Variant 3A, well, it's another Meltdown and will be handled as such.
Google authenticator generates those hashes from a plaintext key stored on device in a SQLite database. If you can read /data, then you can generate any hashes that Google Authenticator can.
"It's not morally offensive to profit from the mistakes of a commercial entity. I'd guess that a large portions of companies are ultimately in this class."

I would find it morally offensive but I'm a naive country bumpkin I guess. I have pointed out something that was mispriced rather than profit from their error. It cost me something like ~$50-100 extra but I slept better.
Chocolate husk tea is also a tasty switch up. You can have it hot without milk or sugar and it won't be bitter. It has a nice flavor and a little of the theobromine kick.

One example: http://tisano.com/
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I'm looking forward to everyone understanding this. In the field, we've known that somatic mosaicism is important for decades. (And there was the bombshell somatic retrotransposition within the brain discovery back in 2011 [1]) that showed that more active rearrangements were happening.) But public understanding of scientific issues takes time. I think they're starting to know that sexual orientation and transgender identity are driven by biochemical processes, and that took decades as well.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature10531
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It also has "	First 100 live credentials in Development free".
Very well put. I've made a very similar point to HN mods in the past and it was arrogantly rebuffed. They just don't perceive the distinction you describe.

I think many HN readers agree with the point you make, but a vocal and influential minority (as well as the mods) do not.
You aren't writing HTML in React and there are a number of libraries to replace writing CSS
Riiiight? The road to hell is paved with "abstract concepts".

And now, for spine-tingling thrills... (shines a flashlight under his face)

Synthetic Biology Startups!

(campers all scream)
Can you talk more about your Craft Commerce experience? I really like the CMS but I’m nervous about Commerce because there are so few integration plugins.
I think the point is that "security" isn't absolute, its always relative to some threat model. But if untrusted code isn't a part of your threat model then you might prefer the performance benefits.
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Don’t organs, limbs, spots and stripes form in a fetus due to epigenetics?
This makes me almost want to write web code again - compared to things like React and Angular 1-2-3-4-5-6.
I think that is UX done right. Very impressed that they have tactile context aware buttons and knobs. I would pay for something like that in a phone as a skin or a case.
Definitely possible. Just more nuanced than the approach suggested in the article.
Both. I'll sometimes get a bill payment and immediate notice, "oh hey that's higher than usual. I ought to see why"

Also when I travel, it saves my butt all the time. Its how I detected a hotel totally screwing up the accomodation bill. Also gives me insight into exchange rate so I don't fool myself on prices.

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Can’t you just call out to the JS world using the ports feature?
Thus, the blanket ban on political articles only makes sense for articles that have no technological aspect.

Whether something is worth talking about is distinct from whether the discussion that observably occurs was worthwhile.

Political discussions usually descend into arguments about competing values. People have different interpretations of the trade-offs, and the friction turns into a lot of heat, without much light.
>>>In both cases, this hack presents a strong argument for tending towards sticking to things proven to work and to be wary of overcomplicating things and thereby introducing unnecessary risks when people’s financial assets are involved. Which, I suppose, means two points for team Bitcoin.

What? The same bitcoin that is betting everything on an untested and incredibly complex second-layer protocol called "lightning network" instead of just scaling with larger blocks?
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Currently, I use the Moment App on the iOS to keep track of how much time I spend on my phone and it has been immensely useful. Though it only captures my usage and can't actively help me reduce my smartphone usage.

I love the ability to batch up the notifications. In my ideal world, I would get notifications at 8AM, 12pm, 5pm and 9pm. And that's all.

I am jealous of the Android platform that it is possible to create an app like Siempo. I don't think iOS has an API to create a comparable experience.

I wonder what plans do Siempo team have for iOS.
> it is also likely to cannibalize sales of the Model S so the net benefit to the bottom line might be negligible

I'm skeptical of this. This is like saying that BMW's 1-series cannibalizes sales of its 3-series. There's a huge difference in comfort, space, performance, and practicality between the Model S and the 3. If a Model S is at all within your budget, even the base Model S is going to be a whole lot more car than almost any Model 3.

Beyond that, there's easy ways for Tesla to sweeten the deal. For me, Tesla offering free supercharging on the Model S but not on the Model 3 had me order a Model S immediately.
> which makes all female animals mosaic

Nitpicking: We have the XY system but birds have the ZW system where the male birds have the chromosomes ZZ and the female birds have the chromosomes ZW (More info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-determination_system )

I still can't find out if in this case the male birds have a random inactive Z and are mosaic. I guess that there is something similar, but I'm not sure.
> The article isn't talking about coffee grounds though, but about the fruit that is produced by coffee plants around the seeds.

I know it's not, which is why I responded with "So I can't...".

If you just read the headline, you might assume it's referring to used coffee grounds.
I think we can do a lot better than the industry standard TOTP 2fa system anyway. TOTP involves sending plaintext private keys around during setup.
Cause reporters need to eat too?
Oracle's email marketing uses similar tactics to scammers. Several people at my company got emails that went something like:

"Hi I'm ___ and I'm the new account rep for the services you have with us...."

We don't have any services with them, so this certainly raised an eyebrow. Did someone open an account with them in our name? Did someone at my company subscribe to their services without me knowing?

Discovering this was actually a sales phishing tactic certainly cemented us never wanting to do business with their cloud services.
Asking a company to please not sell something doesn't seem like a scalable approach. As long as there's a market someone will try to enter it. Either make it illegal for companies to sell this technology or illegal for police departments to buy it. It's a political matter.
RIP to anyone who clicked that link without ad block.

The app is a cool concept but I don't see it ever taking off. They broadly assume that people want to be distanced from their phones, which I'm sure most don't. There is nothing wrong with enjoying technology. Yes I check my phone at last once every few minutes when I'm at home, does that made me an "addict"? I'm not checking social media, I'm just browsing through the things I have installed to pass the time or have some laughs. Add on the fact that this is a paid app once it releases, who is actually going to pay for an app to inconvenience them? Some of the features are noble, such as forcefully blocking notifications until user specified times, and putting a more human catered UI for apps in. I applaud the effort, but I just can't see this taking off and becoming a best seller. Sure many people will pay for it, but it won't reach as many people as they are hoping.

EDIT: Adding on some more thoughts
There are absolutely people who have unhealthy addictions to phones. I have a nephew who is staring at his phone screen nearly every waking moment. Every minute he doesn't have a phone in his hands he is whining. That is a new generation of smartphone addiction that I don't think most current adults have. Do you think these type of people want to forcefully have that addiction helped? Do you think they'd actually pay money to inconvenience themselves?

I agree with whoever said that app notifications need to be catered to. It might not work well with generic settings. Allow all and deny all for apps isn't doing much. I agree with the other fellow who also chimed in about smartphone addiction really not being a newsworthy topic. It's not something that can really be fixed at large. Even getting a small number of individuals to break their truly unhealthy smartphone addiction seems near impossible.
> my professional hedge

Sorry, but what does this mean exactly?
To be honest, all these advancements in plane efficiency and design, is irrelevant to me, as a passenger.

Why? Because the airlines will continue to cram you like a sardine in a can, and will give you barely any sitting space on the plane.

Unless of course, you pay for it, to fly first class, or business class.

And to the capitalists, then this is perfect. It's exactly what a market economy system is all about. You as the consumer, get what you pay for.

What is troubling is flying coach on a long haul international flight, that lasts for over 10 hours. There just isn't any room to move around in your seat. Sleeping during the plane is uncomfortable, if can even do so. And good luck if you end up sitting in the middle. Nobody wants to sit in the middle.

If there is one thing that the FAA should regulate, it is the minimum space allotted to flying coach on a flight. Give us back some human decency please.
We could have shorter pipelines ;)