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> There is no plausible scenario in which Intel drops their prices far enough for this one to be close.

"No plausible scenario." Just put that one on a T shirt and come back in a year. The tech industry is littered with the graves of hardware products that got close to being great but ultimately didn't work out. And you're comparing it to a year-old mature product literally stocked at Amazon.
Your analysis leaves much to be desired, though, as it comes perilously close to equating "we can't prevent 100% of fatalities" with "we shouldn't care about, learn from, or make changes in response to a fatality".

What the Uber crash has shown us is mostly the willingness of people on HN to excuse Silicon Valley darlings even when they actually demonstrably kill people.
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Really disappointing to hear. I was super excited last year when Essential announced their foray into the smartphone hardware business -- always exciting to see new entrants, especially one founded by Andy Rubin nonetheless.

Also worth noting is that Essential phone (v1.0; 2017) was the first device to include a notch around the front camera -- a revolutionary feature and a head-turner at the time, with other big players following suite down the year. [0]

I'd personally be pleased if Essential gets credit at least for making top centered notches on smartphone devices mainstream; would now be interesting to see how they approach their AOSP-based OS given the abrupt end to their 'hardware manufacturer' ambitions.

As many others have already pointed out, Essential's (relative) failure shows how saturated and competitive smartphone hardware industry has become -- with barriers of entry being unimaginably high -- for even a multiple VC funded startup.

[0] https://mashable.com/2017/05/30/essential-phone-android-andy...
Thanks for posting, turns out one of these was mine. I forgot that it existed. 1213 days of uptime, still running Debian Wheezy (don't worry, i'm bringing it up to date now)
>>> I went to the physics department and asked for a list of types of mathematical mistakes that are common.

A couple of ideas. First, ask the students. Second, see if you can join in the grading of physics exams, as an observer.

20 years ago, I spent a semester as an adjunct, teaching electrodynamics in the electrical engineering department at a big university. The same semester, I also taught two sections of the freshman college algebra course.

I'm going to make some educated guesses here. The math that's used in physics isn't really high level, but because you're using math en route to something else, you have to be fluent enough that it's not an obstacle to understanding the physics concepts. So for me, just being able to crank through algebraic manipulation using odd symbols and getting it right were important.

My EE students used a handful of basic differential equations that were actually given short shrift in the math curriculum, namely simple linear equations that are conveniently solved using complex exponentials. An example would be any kind of wave phenomena. Being able to bounce back and forth between time space and frequency space got my EE students hung up.

I agree with you about the college math topics. As I understand it, certain topics have to be covered in order to meet the accreditation requirements, which makes it hard to develop new curriculum at the lowest levels where it's the most needed.

I think that for students who aren't going to be STEM majors, I'd rather spend the same course time getting them fluent with Excel. That's how they're going to do math anyway.
I helped assemble a Donkey car at the ARM event in Seattle last week, it’s really quite elegant in the efficiency of its approach. A couple hours from unboxing to self-driving if the top parts are already printed.

https://twitter.com/choongng/status/997339031586271233?s=21
It's Milanković actually, and that guy also has his own entry on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milutin_Milankovi%C4%87

I'm repeating myself again here, but it's funny to see when your nickname on HN suddenly becomes relevant.

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EDIT: Just because it is apparently not clear enough.
No, this is not a coincidence, no, my real name is not milankovic or similar, and yes, I've chosen my handle in honor of this scientist.
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But you are right, I am completely with you in regard to this certain point:

> The change in orbital shape was already known as one of the Milankovitch cycles

It was already known, yeah. Or so I (we?) assumed. I'm just some poor slob who visited an ordinary school, not an astronomer, not special in any other way, and I still remember that we learned this stuff back then. Astronomy 101.

I bring this up in a comment here, and all I get is downvotes. Which tells a lot about HN, I think.

The context of climate change, now that is the really interesting question. I am really fascinated to see that Milankovic is finally becoming more relevant today. (Ask about a famous Serbian scientist, and everyone can mention Tesla. Ask for the next one, and observe. But that's a good test, to see who really gives a damn about science)

Interestingly, I did a Ctrl+F on that NYT article for the name, and nothing came up.
They even fail to mention the relevance to climate change at all, which is, as everyone knows, totally not an important current issue in, well, 2018; and maybe it is just me, but one would assume that this could be something newsworthy.
Again, the fake news NYT utterly fails once more. I should really not be surprised at this point.
Thanks to Brexit, there is going to be a similar GDPR law for the UK.

Interesting times these are.
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So when Musk started making cars, this was part of a cabal of other entrenched electric car makers oppressing big-carbon auto?

Ditto, rocketry, he was part of that old boys club that didn't care to innovate, was he?

The subsidy figures seem to be fantasy as well, but would be worth stating if they were true.

I think Snopes dot com needs one more article.
What they did was increase the "regular" price of retail goods above what competition would charge, apply a "discount" if you have a Kroger card, and then you get this "cheaper" price. They even put how much you would have "saved" on your receipt if you didn't have a card but that's vs inflated prices others don't charge. At one point, their "regular" price for milk was at convenience store levels with sale price just over Walmart. These fake discounts should be considered straight-up fraud. That's not to say they don't have plenty of real ones but you'd have to look carefully to know. There's yellow tags everywhere. So, about all of it is cheaper than Walmart or a similar competitor at that moment, right? Nope.

The other thing they did with Kroger card was price discrimination. The regulations apparently were about the price of items rather than what people paid for them. These are technically two different things. The way that works is they learn that certain people will keep buying specific things. They use this data from their card profile to deny them coupons or other discounts while they give them to other people. They've got a lot of profiling tricks for adding or denying discounts. I'd say more consumers take a hit than benefit since there were previously coupons for all of them in the papers or what they mailed out. They're also mailing out fewer coupons with lower amounts, too, now that they've rolled out digital coupons tied to profile data from card.

So, many of the sales are fake. The line about what people would've saved versus Walmart is fake. Most of the coupons are for brand-name items that already overcharge you anyway. The good generics are cheaper much of the time. The gas discount and recall notices are about the best benefits of the Kroger card. The best coupons they gave me discount per order, department, etc letting me spend on whatever I wanted. Those could probably be delivered based on survey data without tracking.

Summary: the Kroger card is mostly a fraud designed to trick people into thinking they're getting discounts, give them coupons for more expensive stuff, give them less coupons that would make things cheaper, and otherwise make profit on surveillance of them. There's benefit but most selling points are layers of lies. This is why I prefer either no loyalty cards or them limited to stuff having nothing to do with pricing. Preferably by law to increase competitiveness and reduce risk to consumers.
There is one important aspect of this re-trial many of you are missing. The case was already decided years ago against Samsung -- there is nothing more to debate on that end, however absurd the decision.

Now the new jury decided that those frivolous infringements amount to most of Samsung's entire profit. In another word, Apple's hometown jury decided that Apple's patents rounded corners drove market demand for Samsung's infringed device almost single-handedly - not their brilliants displays, battery, or even wireless radio functionality.

Needlessly to say, not only is it ridiculous to say that those frivolous few design components amounts to almost all of Samsung's profit, this also sets extremely dangerous legal precedence. I could only imagine what future patent trolls with absurd design patents are going to look like now -- and, of course, Apple won't be immune to this either. I can't imagine any sane mind wanting this outcome (and yes that includes Apple's own counsel).
They’re suspending and barring him from walking the stage on graduation day. He has a 3.9 GPA.

We’re struggling with school gun violence and massive student debt, yet this school is concerned with a craigslist ad? What a bunch of self serious desk jockeys.

The correct response would be to giggle and move on.
So the government created a organization to help with commercialization of space, I don't see how this will help because launch costs are still high and they still have to go through the FAA to launch. Yes launch prices will come down but it's still it's still probably 10-20 years before costs are low enough to reach anything the size of the ISS is even feasible for anything other than governments.
"In the spring of 2017, Rosen put a team of engineers on “lockdown,” a Facebook practice in which people drop everything to solve a problem. The problem was dire indeed: People were using Facebook Live, a video-streaming service that had just launched, to announce their intention to kill themselves, and even to stream themselves doing it."

While I've got some strong feelings about Facebook and their actions... that's got to be a frightful experience, creating a system where you realize people are sharing their suicide on. There's nothing about being a technology company that makes you capable of dealing with such an issue but there it is and now you have to act.
I feel like a whole new world has just opened up before me. I have a rasp pi, what is the route with least technical barriers for me to get into this and start tinkering?
Citizenship doesn't affect things. Place of residence does. If he lived in the US (or other non-EU country), then there's no way to claim any EU jurisdiction. (In this specific case: it looks like he does live in the UK.)

Similarly for GDPR, it's not much use for anyone living in the US, even if they have EU citizenship, if they sign up for services while in the US.
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Wait.. are you serious?

Guess I should consider myself lucky that I had a physics teacher who taught us about the thing that we stand on and live on, what it is, where it is, what's around and how our solar system works.

Ha, I am really shocked now. Honestly, I can't believe this. I should probably not dare to ask someone on HN if they ever heard about the Milk Way or something.
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Aww. If only there was an archive of it somewhere... (I'm curious if there is)
Print 1 to 10, as a comma-separated list.

In e.g. Scala, you can do that:

print( 1 to 10 mkString "," )

It's not 100% human language/grammar, but close (and you have auto-completion using IDE). Why would you need another DSL?

(Not trying to bash Avail, nor promote Scala, just curious for its usecases)
A conference for Slack developers?

I think it may be time to pump the breaks on the developer conference train.

We have so many options for telecommuting and should encourage more conferences to take advantage of that on a grander scale.
> If you look at other peoples videos of that street at night on youtube it's well lit.

I don't think you can look at videos and judge the level of illumination well; their videos could be more or less accurate than Uber's, and what I see depends on codecs, video drivers, my monitor, etc. Also, any video can easily be edited these days.

Is there a way to precisely measure the illumination besides a light meter? Maybe we can use astronomers' tricks and measure it in relation to objects with known levels of illumination. Much more importantly, I'm not even sure what properties of light we're talking about - brightness? saturation? frequencies? - nor which properties matter how much for vision, for computer vision, and for the sensors used by Uber's car in particular.

I'm not taking a side; I'm saying I have yet to see reliable information on the matter, or even a precise definition of the question.
This: http://www.allgeneralizationsarefalse.com/wp-content/uploads...
A quick peek and it appears they're using pure css!
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and let's not forget Obama who reversed Samsung's win in ITC.
Do what you need to to make yourself happy.

If you don't, you'll be dead soon, or dead inside. And either way that's not sending a good message to your children.

You should show them a happy life, and if you need to make changes at home or at work, than do that—no matter how hard it is.
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> feasible for anything other than governments.

if there's profit involved, then it will be feasible for other entities than gov'ts. For example, if a useful mineral that's hard to obtain is found on the moon (unlikely as it is...), mining and processing it into goods might be the impetus for such a change.
And then also goes in to detail about small scale iso-thermal setups that have negligible thermal losses. Apparently "author did not mention" actually means "I did not read the article".
> Not sure why sciter gets ignored in this space.

Because it's proprietary software, and $8,600 gives you the right to request features and see the source for a year.
No it’s not. The way big companies are dealing with the GDPR is to ask their lawyers what to do. The lawyers define compliance very expansively since they’re not the ones doing the work and they are the ones who will be blamed if the EU comes after the company. So they say, “every single trace of anything related to user data must be purged.” So the company asks every engineering team to fill out a 200 point checklist about what they are doing with user data.

So, unless you’re saying that “Pinterest’s site reliability team can’t answer question 192 about how user data is deleted from the incident management system logs when an event is traced” is a “huge red flag” then you are exaggerating the issue.
Did they actually need to know Bieber's friend count both accurately and in real time?

I would expect that for top Twitter accounts like his, you could get a very good approximation by logging events that increment or decrement the friend count, and using the rates those events are occurring and the last known exact friend count to forecast the current friend count. That would not be exact, but I bet you could get it close enough that users would not see anything off about it.
Not to mention that this scent is virtually identical to any wheat and salt-based paste you can whip up in your kitchen...
Yes, well, that's a nice idea in theory. In practice, you could get over 10x (sometimes 100x) the rps off a box running the new, JVM-based services vs their Rails-equivalents. Orders of magnitude probably matter a little less when you're well-funded and have hundreds of servers, but when you are thinking about trying to go public and your bottom line is being scrutinized and you have 10's of thousands of servers, it starts to matter.
This too. An electric car would simple decelerate by letting off the gas pedal and having the regen kick in. On a gas car this would be equivalent to a partial braking.

Shouldn't the brake application be not boolean but 0-100% strength based on confidence levels?
OnePlus wasn't an individual company working from scratch, they have immense support from Oppo for R&D.
Yes, entrance to Angkor Wat could be considered a valid example of a foreigner tax (for those that don't know, entrance is free for Cambodian citizens). But I was more referring to drunken old men who think that their pineapple was overpriced by 25 cents.
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Apple's argument could be primary purpose.

A general RDP app would stream your entire desktop; exactly what happens on the desktop is outside of the purview of the app.

This Steam Link app is designed to stream Steam, but can be kinda/sorta halfway backed into streaming the remote desktop. It's primary purpose is to stream the Steam "Big Picture" UI -- which prominently features an independent store -- in addition to any PC games that run through Steam. If Valve were to remove the store links, this would be a very different discussion.

It's similar to how Apple wouldn't allow something like the Kindle app to "just" direct users to an in-app web-view or deep-link to content in the system browser to avoid paying Apple -- if you're selling a digital good on an iOS/tvOS platform, you need to pay the 30% gatekeeper's fee.
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The fail whale image was retired over 4 years ago now because it almost never showed up anymore. That should tell you enough.
What will they do when they find out phpBB and WordPress are written in PHP?
Re: the last paragraph; judging something for what you want it to be rather than for what it is defeats the purpose of engaging with those media.
What do you mean by fundamental here? For studying astronomy at an university? Then yes, agreed, but I am wondering about the very basic understanding of the principles at all, are you implying that kids today don't learn this anymore? You know, what our solar system is, what the earth is, and it's, well, shape..
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These anecdotes remind me of stories where someone asks a genie for a wish, and the genie technically grants it but in a way that is not what the wisher intended. For example, (cribbed from another thread), "I want to be rich". So the genie renames you to Richard. Ironically a very religious buddy of mine claimed that I as a software engineer am in part responsible for releasing a "Jinn", which could have unintended consequences for humanity.
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What bias? That came straight out of Apple's own testimony/court doc's.

No, Apple doesn't have to go after every single mobile device makers and Apple went only after the major players. Initially it was HTC, which angered Steve Jobs so much that he declared a thermonuclear war on Android -- Samsung was an afterthought. Apple settled with HTC after HTC counter-sued with LTE wireless patents. Samsung likewise counter-sued and won, but Obama reversed the ruling to save Apple.
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The Milky Way is a candy bar, everyone knows that!

By your nick, I'm not surprised you know about Milankovitch cycles.
I love how you assume by default it's the fault of my wife who you don't even know and not Apple quality control.

I feel the urge to defend my wife because you attacked her, although I don't know you and I should not care the least about personal attacks from people on the internet.

But we can't leave the internet to haters.

My wife is the most careful person I know. Her electronic devices always go into protection bags, are handled with the most care and look new after 10 years of usage.
While I believe 'plain English' type programming languages are a great concept, the reality is that it just introduces far more ambiguity into the mix, and you are just left trying to guess what the language designer's vagaries are.

I came across this years ago when trying to get to grips with the then new fangled Ruby language. I kept having to go back to the documentation to remember the best way to convert a string to all uppercase... was it:

str.upper
str.uppercase
str.ucase
str.upcase
str.capitalize (<- Don't even get me started on the regional differences of 'ise' vs 'ize' between US and UK English variants)
???

Even here, I would probably start using Avail, then in a few weeks I would be scratching my head and asking, was it:

Print 1 to 10, as a comma-separated list

or

Display 1-10, in CSV format
Neither of you are right. The EU is not going to go out guns blazing with $20m fines for small companies. They’re also not going to host a drum circle for companies to harmoniously join the movement towards better user privacy. They’re going to get some big fines out there on big companies (who doesn’t love free money) and also go after smaller companies actively doing bad things with user data. Yes, they could, but in the same way that the person standing at the bus with you could punch you in the face. It might happen, but realistically, it probably won’t, and you’re probably not actively prepping for it.
You're getting downvoted, but this is one of the arguments for going with unikernels.
This is no different than R-Play though. A Remote Play app for iOS to connect to a Playstation 4 which is allowed on the App Store.
I just assumed all mammalian milk contains lactose.

This chart[1] seems to support my assumption. Interestingly it looks like Kangaroo milk might be okay for lactose intolerant folk.

1. http://ansci.illinois.edu/static/ansc438/Milkcompsynth/milkc...
That’s a fair point, I had not considered the micro transaction aspect.
Given the project's goals, TOR cannot operate release versioning, interoperability, and backward compatibility like a "normal" open source project.

Old versions need to be something akin to a burnable one-time-pad, that gets burnt when deemed more vulnerable than it's up-versioned, more secure replacement.

In many ways, this kind of sucks as an idea, but in pragmatic terms, I just really wouldn't want idiots relaying traffic I'd feel paranoid about, in ways that'd cause me to lose sleep at night.

That said, I don't even think the routing protocol has honest merit. The idea that you should place an all-consuming degree of trust in the honor system surrounding exit node operators having total access to plain-text traffic is beyond-the-pale in its stupidity.

No one can field a satisfactory answer for me, regarding why it's okay that exit node operators have access to plain-text traffic.

Oh, because traffic analysis
is hard, and most exit node
operators are amateur hobbyists.

or maybe

That's just the way it works.
You can't make TOR work any
other way.

That's basically what I hear. It's the HAM radio excuse put another way. HAM radio has utility, bause we think it's neat. You don't need to worry, because it's free for everyone to use.

Okay, but that's not what TOR is trying to accomplish.
Avail does not seem to have dependent types. The term 'dependent type' is overused. It means that the type system must allow the compile-time type of an expression to depend on the run-time value. This is not totally decidable. Most type systems, including advanced ones, such as Haskell's, do not have this property. Avail seems no different.
That's pretty much the norm in India.
They should also beef up the brakes with a "big brake kit" to aid stopping power in that 1.3 sec window on every autonomous car.
This answer is both boring, and entirely correct. Good work!