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>> If mobile phones adopted Web technologies

Sigh. I must be old.

I've already lived through 2 major initiatives to do just this first with Palm OS and more recently FireFox OS. We all see the benefit from a developer standpoint but as an absolute, positively web-first proponent I really don't see the motivation for the device manufacturers. Why would it be in the interest of any incumbent to increase app portability? Also, the vision of the web OS as the "great leveler" really breaks down when you start trying to utilize things like location and the camera and NFC, etc. Even within just Palm OS devices this was a major problem. Each new model needed new APIs to the underlying hardware, app updates and a bunch of checks for functionality. It was the worst parts of web development, all the time.
That’s not what your comment says. It says that the rate of success of startups which already have $50m valuations is less than 3.8%.
That only works if you're lucky enough to not regularly need a pocket full of coins to e.g. use the washers in the next-door laundromat.
You haven't needed iTunes for anything except putting your own music on your device since iOS 5 in the summer of 2011.

You can even do that without iTunes if you pay $25 a year for iTunes Match.
I think it's kinda like Google working with Android as an open source project. Google makes money on Android primarily by using Android as a means of delivering the Google ecosystem. They don't care that it's open source because they don't make money by selling it.

Apple could do the same thing with maps. Support a robust open mapping initiative to make sure their primary business (selling iPhones and other devices) has a solid platform for emerging technologies like AR. Making sure they have a solid maps offering supports the Apple (aka iPhone) ecosystem.

Also similarly to Google, they can still push plenty of proprietary things on top of the open parts of the initiative.
Managing state in React with Unstated
The fiber-seeking backhoe strikes again
People seem to easily forget the American government reaction to the civil rights movement, anti-Vietnam War movement, and so much more. Violence, coercion, intimidation and breaking its own laws without consequence are the American modus operandi. How did fire-hosing, beating, jailing and murdering black people not prove this? How about tear gas and dogs being let loose on protesting students? The conduct of the FBI during the Red Scare? Iran Contra?

How about what Snowden revealed? Torture after 9-11?

A little time passes and people get back to calling anyone who thinks that a militarize police force isn’t a good thing un-American and kooky.
> I think you've misunderstood what's happening here. Zerodium, the company mentioned in this article, is an exploit broker. They buy vulnerabilities from researchers, then sell them on to government intelligence agencies. The entire purpose of their business is to undermine the security of the tools we use.

It's not only Zerodium there are a lot of government contractors who buy/fund attack research especially in things like Theoretical Cryptography, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Formal Verification.

> They incentivise researchers to publish vulnerabilities rather than selling them to spies. They're a necessary evil to keep zero-day vulnerabilities out of the hands of oppressive regimes. It's not nice, but that's just the world we live in.

I think it's quite interesting that we don't see Bug bounties for things like Theoretical Cryptography like Quantum-safe encryption, Formal Verification, and the like. But hasn't there been cases where Bug bounties have been subverted for evil or are just broken entirely.

> The Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative has created a secure financial foundation for critical open source projects.

For critical open source projects hasn't there been an increase in Formal Verification and more Theoretical approaches to security ?
Here's a use case: I was in NYC the other day, and GPS doesn't really work on the sidewalks in Manhattan. I was trying to find the Empire State Building, but I couldn't see it from where I was. I knew I was in the right vicinity, but the GPS kept hopping from block to block and I had no idea.

I had to look at the street signs and compare to the map on my phone to determine where I was and where I needed to go.

"Why do you need to see the name of the street" is a really odd question to me.
Dollar bills take up almost no space, and are easier to handle than coins. Aside from durability, why would you switch?
There's no such thing as society. The world's just a bunch of people.
Pardon me, I was confused about who was delta hedging what with Abra, given the paucity of non-linear anything around cryptocurrencies.
Darkpool orders don't show while pending but once filled they show in the historical trades dataset.
They should sell ads on the back of the penny.

"A Penny Save is a Penny Earned - Chase Bank"

A durable, historical, innovative new channel that also makes minting pennies profitable. Everyone loved collecting those state quarters they made a few years back.

Of course, if this is successful we can move upstream to other coins and eventually dollar bills. Alternatively, we could allow rich people to put their face on the penny instead of that old president guy on there now.

Just the media exposure alone to be the first company to sponsor the penny would probably yield a positive ROI.

And think about how jealous the CEO of McDonalds will be when forced to dispense Burger King branded coins from their automated robot cash registers.
Those costs have been driven down by Stripe and cash isn’t without its own costs. I used to favor cash myself but a couple of local businesses here recently started requesting credit cards because it’s cheaper than dealing with counterfeiting.
> If they would talk about how "both sides of the aisle" were doing this, it would make it non-partisan

He told the reporter that never before had he been asked to actually lie.

There is a difference between truthful statements that deflect attention from one place to another and outright lies (be they lies of omission or commission), and it would be a counterfactual interpretation of the interview to report he said both sides of the aisle asked him to lie. They didn’t. That’s why he resigned, because this was something new and different and serious.

[edit to add the quotation for context]
I am reminded of why Abraham Lincoln decided to stop writing scathing reviews of his cohorts after one angry target challenged him to a duel which could have cost him his life. [0]

[0] http://mentalfloss.com/article/12382/time-abraham-lincoln-an...
> You can't imagine the freedom you feel when you discard your first handful of change!

I get this from gambling, actually. A $20 haircut or $30 dinner feels like nothing compared to blowing $2300 at a casino so I never complain about petty expenses. It annoys me to hear people in my life (who have healthy incomes) complain about the costs of things or talk about saving a few bucks at costco. It just doesn't matter.

But ironically I do keep my change!
Is this true?
Cash management has a definite cost, but it is just an assumed cost of doing business.
They are similar in that they are examples of systemic changes though, which seems to be the the author's point.

The argument is not about comparing dollars to meters.
Fun fact - in Bermuda they paint their roofs exclusively white. Though that isn't necessarily for heat conservation, they use their roof to catch rain water for household use.
That's definitely such an underspecified claim that it's not even wrong. Fast as C under what conditions?

I've personally found that a lot of Go's marketing is, if not misleading, outright false. As an example: https://blog.plan99.net/modern-garbage-collection-911ef4f8bd...
Jeez, at least throw it on the street to make someone’s day. Why the trash?
Balance is key. I've been toking for over 10 years because it honestly does something for me. Sifting out other issues has helped me re-establish a healthier relationship with cannabis. I am now a medical patient in Florida, and I also take melatonin at night to help me sleep normally.

If you try to live a healthy lifestyle (eat well, exercise, water, sleep), cannabis is a great supplement. Just don't make it the point.

That said, I have not written a line of code that was not cannabis-influenced since before 2004
Maps is to Apple as G+ was to Google. Apple doesn't want to do it, they have to do it. They're afraid that without that category of data (in this case location, in G+'s case social versus Facebook), their overall product line won't be able to compete.
Yeah. But it's not a tech solution. Society needs to change in the opposite direction we are going, but that will not happen. :)
Were there any distinct early warning signs that could have flagged others to what was going on? I have friends who, post-legalization, are naturally enthusiastic. Want to know the warning signs unique to cannabis addiction I can keep an eye out for.
I want to know if it is possible.
A very real thing is that weed is a crutch for depression here in the states.
As a numismatist, I cringe. But I also understand the frustration.

I actually enjoy getting coins. I always check them for key dates. For example, any quarter or dime 1964 or older has a decent amount of silver content, and can easily be flipped for a couple bucks each.
Unless I missed something, the victim noticed that the killer was harassing people online, called him a dummy, and complained to Hatena blog to have them shut down his accounts. I just do not see any sense in which it's meaningfully true that they're "both victims." From what I can see here, "Hagex" was basically a lite Brian Krebs.
Despite the scientific method giving rise to the fact-based ever-improving test-able body of work we call Science.. that doesn’t stop people from creating their own religions and beliefs based on it.
Hmm that definitely qualifies this one as a dupe, but the discussion is unusually substantive so I guess we'll leave it up.
There's no such thing as a person. Organic matter's just a bunch of atoms.
Yes. http://komonews.com/news/offbeat/bothell-police-dont-call-91...
> There is nothing Apple can do to preserve their Chinese user's privacy against their own government. Either they stay in China and allow the government to access their citizen's data, or they leave China and another phone manufacturer will allow the government to access their citizen's data.

Apple could absolutely leave China if they really cared about privacy; the backlash against the govt would be huge - your argument "but if we're not abusing your privacy, someone else might instead!" just backs the claim that Apple is doing it by choice, and their own free will. Both are doing it for money.
The problem is that some of these activities that deliver gratification - drinking alcohol, drinking coffee, smoking weed, playing video games - can be physiologically addicting. You might not realize your habit has become an addiction until you're already addicted.
just recently Google Maps on Android started acting like its clueless about its location for the first 100 feet of travel. God forbid you pull up to a gas station on a corner of an intersection. No way in hell it will figure out which way to go to get back on the highway. Must drive for a minute in a random direction for Google Maps to figure out where you are, which way you are headed and which way your destination is.
The second windows support is ready I'm going to start poking around with crystal for game dev stuff, cross platform UI, desktop apps, electron replacement, among other things.
Once you have those properties, the inability of any given computational model (even a super-Turing model) to solve its own halting problem is just a matter of logic, as schoen said.

This seems to assume that logic provides some form of undeniable truth but I am not sure that this is the case. Sure, every system of logic is hopefully consistent and you can use it to derive true statements within it by simply playing a game of symbol manipulation, and in that sense the system is a source of undeniable truth. But when we are using logic to reason about the real world, we need the real world and the logic we use to be compatible. Classical logic works great in the classical world but quantum mechanics seems to push it to its limits. You can certainly still use it if you are careful, but it seems no longer a really good fit once you no longer have your particles either here or there, either spin up or spin down.

So logic seems much more like physics if you want to apply it to the real world instead of just using it for the fun of symbol manipulation. There are systems of logic that are useful to describe the world and there are ones that are less useful or probably even ones yielding wrong conclusions about the real world. Long story short, I am not sure that we can conclude that there will be halting problems for super-Turing machines because we can not be sure what kind of logic would be adequate to describe those machines. Not that I consider this a likely scenario or whatever, I just think we have to be more careful when saying something is just a matter of logic.
Keras + MxNet is far better. It's faster, you get multi-gpu out of the box, and it's reaaaally easy to export to ONNX for fast inference elsewhere.
The tight trading with USD may actually be an indication of trust in Tether. It indicates that at least one entity has enough confidence that it is worth exactly $1 that they are willing to buy or sell whenever it fluctuates from that price.

If that trust is ever lost, or there are questions about solvency, I'd expect the price of Tether to drop very quickly.
>But it means I have no way of getting new clients.

Dude... we have the most powerful tool invented: Internet.

If you are good, and you say you are and I have no reasons to doubt it, you'll get a job.

I might get downvoted... but that is the truth.
if he died there why would you remove him?
What does "linear" mean to you? Integration is linear[1]. The Hilbert space of all the functions you care about is linear[2]. Life is locally linear[3]. So maybe "non-linear" is just a red herring.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linearity_of_integration

2. Not really but close enough.

3. I don't know what I mean either, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_time-invariant_theory is interesting anyway.
I would see killing someone for criticism as large threat to free speech, way bigger then protests or account deletion.

I don't think criticising someone is comparable to texting and driving.
Url changed from http://time.com/5325424/video-president-roosevelt-walking/, which points to this.
> in my experience Comcast's network, technicians, and support people are the best in the business.

in the context of US based ISP 'businesses', that's like saying 'the smartest kid on the short bus'
That would massively benefit OSM, and if OSM became Apple Maps/Google Maps calibre resource it would also benefit other OSM users including potentially Apple's competitors, but how would it benefit Apple?

Bear in mind if malicious entries got into OSM and made their way into Apple's data, guess who eats the smelly sandwitch for that?
I believe section 1.2.1 of Scott's P ?= NP survey addresses your question:

https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/pnp.pdf
Kiwi Farms, the web's biggest community of stalkers (2016)
This is entirely disingenuous, the United States Constitution explicitly allows the federal government to run a post office (Article 1, Section 8).
This! Nobody that uses Tether wants it to be more or less than exactly 1 USD. Its value (its utility, its function) is to equal 1 USD. Anyone placing an order way above or below 1 USD can expect it to never fille and even if it did, the market would correct immediately because it is in the interest of the majority to be tethered to the dollar.
Atom behaves pretty well with it. What problems are you having with VSCode? That's what I use.
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It's like the shabby gate to Apple's walled garden paradise. You need it to get data into and out from your iPhone, iPod, iPad, to access Apple Music, and probably other things related to iCloud services.
The flip side is also true, many people believe incautious victims of crime got what the deserved.

I don’t believe they are the same people but don’t have data to back that up.
The afflicted Linux devices will be spoiling the commons, even if they can still get their own data sent without stalling.

Instead of combining frames for more efficient use of the available wireless channel they will be sending an individual frame per packet and degrading the total useful capacity of the channel. Wikipedia asserts in its WiFi frame aggregation article that the overhead of a packet can be greater than the actual data of the packet on high speed WiFi.
Adidas US breach may have exposed millions of customers' personal info
Try canvassing the real world and plugging yourself on reddit without identifying your IRL self in your ad.
Crystal's definitely up there, faster than java at least for most workloads. That can be improved much further by innovating on the GC.
That is one of the worst arguments I’ve ever heard. Apple (or any other company) can’t refuse the law of the land. Had they refused, the Chinese government would simply have told them to pack their bags. Someone else would have replaced Apple and the users would still be in the same position.

Apple can go against prevalent business practices, other companies etc, but they can’t go against the law. And they shouldn’t even try! Do you really want a corporation having enough power to go against the law? If you live in a country where someone (including the government) can legally force you to forego your privacy, there is literally nothing you can do - except try and get the laws changed - something you may not have the power to do - even in a democracy.

The difference between Apple and Google is that Google is doing things which may not be desirable despite no law compelling them to. If the US government (or any other government) manages to pass a law which says that Apple must turn over all the user data they have - or that they must collect certain types of data, there is nothing Apple can do other than comply - or shut shop. The sole reason other Apple can resist other countries’ governments is because no one has passed laws similar to China yet. There are people who resist the passage of such laws - something that is not the case with China. Apple (or any corporation) is not going to war with a nation state over the rights of the said nation state.
Hey, Scott! Love your book, Quantum Computing Since Democritus. There is one section which confused me, in the Quantum chapter (https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html). I have two questions:

1) You say applying the unitary operation is the quantum analogue of "taking a coin and flipping it" - what do you mean by this? Could we think of, for example, a pair of slits as applying this transformation on a photon qbit being sent through them, so it's now in superposition with regard to which slit it went through?

2) What does it mean when you say there are two paths to |1>? I understand this section is getting at the physical underpinnings of this mathematical model, but I can't quite wrap my head around how there are two "paths". My mind is stuck thinking of the Bloch sphere as a state machine you can deterministically hop around by applying unitary transformations.

P.S. I did a talk called Quantum Computing for Computer Science which covers everything up to the one-bit Deutsch Oracle problem in 1.5 hours; I found that presenting quantum algorithms as running on a "unit circle state machine" (basically 2d Bloch sphere by restricting states to real numbers) was a very effective way to explain the subject to software engineers! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_Riqjdh2oM)
Great to see Mike Ash still writing for his Friday Q&A, though of course at a reduced frequency.
I think they erred on how they calculated the time. things like throw ins, free kicks etc are within gameplay so not counted against the clock. Very american footballish to view 'futbol' time.
That seems very unethical, doesn't it? Hiding information that would make a client definitely not choose you, so that they would choose you?
Perhaps that is the case, but what bothers me is that these arguments are often put forth as an argument for continuing to use the criminal justice system to address the problem.
People struggled for 40 years to make a blue LED.

Even if quantum computers required near zero temperatures, superconductors and such stuff, there is no reason why you couldn't have all that in a no-serviceable-parts-inside box if the economic incentives were strong enough.
Since people are asking a lot about Google / Apple Maps differences -- how does Apple Maps handle elevation? Google Maps often seems to send me up and down the same really steep (and often poorly maintained) narrow streets when I'm driving, which is more dangerous and stressful for me.
As someone familiar with hasbara units and finding it only economic that such things would operate to defend a rich patron country, I'm curious to know why I should assume this question is posed by a Venezuelan
You claim this, but cash has its own costs. Such as running the risk of getting robbed, wrong change (and the retailer losing out), a safe, the costs and time included in physically getting the cash to the bank - either by employees driving it or paying a service to do it. Having enough change on hand can be an issue.

Now, I don't know if all of this equals out to the same as the credit card fees, but it isn't like cash is cost-free.
This sounds like a fair description of the events that unfolded.

My first comment (the heavily downvoted one) was written with the assumption that OP was replying only to the headline.
Rewards Points Targeted by Teens in Hack of 500K Accounts
That you experience significant physical withdrawal symptoms from marijuana certainty calls into question the street wisdom that pot isn’t (physically) addicting.
But foreach is a function.

The weird thing about your pattern is that class.a() and class.b() may have side effects and don’t seem to depend on i at all. If I were to optimize this loop or even make it parallel, then I’m certainly missing some information. Some information that could be captured by another expression.