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Speaking as an analytic number theorist, the branch of math of which the Lindelof Hypothesis is part, could you tell us what you personally think of the paper?

(Let's try to avoid just gratuitous negativity:
https://blog.ycombinator.com/new-hacker-news-guideline/ )

I read the paper after you linked it and it seems serious. Fokas is the guy who invented the Fokas Method - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fokas_method

Structurally this is what my impression is of the paper (I don't understand the math):

The result seemed very well-presented, includes background and a 2-page inroduction, summarizes the derivation of the main result from page 5-12, derives its main theorems and lemmas used, and then from p. 50-52 summarizes it all again. Finally three appendices in 4 pages provide some numerical verification (a sanity check) and an acknowledgment section says "This project would not have been completed without the crucial contribution of Kostis Kalimeris. Kostis has studied extensively the classical techniques for the estimation of single and multiple exponential sums; these techniques are used extensively in our joint paper with Kostis [KF] and some of the results of this paper are used in section 6. Furthermore, Kostis has checked the entire manuscript and has made important contributions to the completion of some of the results presented here." There are another 7 paragraphs of acknowledgments going back more than 3 years, and finally 3 pages of references, including to private correspondence and preprints.

The affiliations on the paper are Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, and Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California.

Additionally, this researcher has a proven track record, his Wikipedia article says:

>He has made seminal contributions in a remarkably broad range of areas which include: symmetries, integrable nonlinear PDEs, Painleve' equations and random matrices, models for leukemia and protein folding, electro-magneto-enchephalography, nuclear imaging, and relativistic gravity. Also, he has introduced a completely new method for solving boundary value problems known as the Fokas method, which has been acclaimed as the most important development in the analytical treatment of PDEs since the introduction of the Fourier transform

He is the winner of the Naylor prize (past winners include Roger Penrose, 1991 and Stephen Hawking, 1999, among others) and holds 7 honorary doctorates (right side of his Wikipedia page.)
That's actually quite subjective. I've had it on the desktop on and off for decades and it's constantly been a source of unhappiness. Linux had been the solid rock for me, and MacOS was good for a while.
I feel the same.

Especially the endless Update-hell in Windows which regularly and spontaneously brakes things and consumes hours and hours of your time.

Never experienced this on my Macs.
(Of course nothing is 100% perfect, but the difference is huge in my experience.)
A MicroSD reader would be fairly useless.

Outside of phones, MicroSD isn't really used, and nobody uses MicroSD for transferring files.

SD cards are still the standard format for cameras, which are the main use case for SD card slots.
The GC already needs to sweep through the whole allocated memory to find the unreacheble objects to be freed. Flipping a bit while doing this isnt a big deal.
This amazing airbag contains neither air nor bags! But I really can't think of a better, clearer word for it.
Remember, our country founded as a place for storing bad, bad, Britons. In the long run, it doesn't seem to do much harm.
Were you unable to find a boxed retail copy of the old version online?
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The hardware seems to be the killer for many of us: battery, fit and finish, and most importantly the trackpad/keyboard.

My mbp is having the common keyboard issues and while looking at replacements I can’t find anything remotely close that balances what I need. :/
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It's the number pad that's in the wrong place. It should not be on the laptop.

I've got a HP with a number pad because no 15" model doesn't have one. I never use it (the number pad) but I have to shift the whole machine to the right to have the touchpad and the "real" keyboard in front of me. So most of the vern is on the right of my eyes. Great design!
So what do they do, exactly? Install Linux and then resell?
BBC releases its computer history archive
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I love it. I always have my Mac terminal set to Homebrew to make me feel and look like a cool hacker - and to match my Matrix screensaver, of course.

I was thinking of switching to primary Linux desktop soon, so I'll be sure to install this.
> The Apple one was a pain. Command line tools are almost but not quite right (zcat in particular just doesn't work)

That's because it's BSD, and are you sure you don't want gzcat?
Gimme a break. Their comment is clearly not shallow, nor dismissive and is raising a legitimate, albeit fairly mundane, point in my opinion. And I’m sure we can all try to hold ourselves to a high enough standard to not initiate an “ideological debate war” over that sort of comment.
In fact that question did pop up in my mind too, and hence I did upvote the other commenter's question asking about that.

But I find it curious that why you're pressing on interrogating me like this. Why the inquisition?
I loathe faceID. I cannot use my phone at a table without having to pick it up every five minutes.
I'm curious what you use them for? I've always prefered WASD for directions (too many games in my youth!), and always saw the arrow keys as a waste of space, too far away to use regularly.
Cool. I'm in. What sort of proof do you want me to provide?
This irks me as well. Even if it has a numpad, I’d still prefer the trackpad be in the middle.
Thanks for giving us an example of a stereotypical HN comment!
Like going in a time machine!

For example this show was I believe responsible for the founding* of Inmos, where I worked in the 1980s : https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio....

*More accurately : the _funding_ of..
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The technique is public, but actually finding dumpable fares is left as an exercise to the reader.
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LOL. Please, tell me what the alternatives are. I’ve only been doing commercial embedded product design for 15 years. Tell me all about how one time you saw a got for “embedded rust” or something.
Oh wow, I didn't know this either. Looks like the change happened in June 2017, so roughly in the last year:

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/06/21/applecare-plus-mac-ipho...
who can't tell me how to implement cycle detection

You should read this before asking that again http://www.nihlos.com/2009/05/04/stupid-interview-questions/

When my Macbook Pro is "locked" it flashes an image of the desktop screen just before switching to the login prompt.

Same with my Mac Mini on the lock screen. Very easy to start a camera going (say an iPhone) waggle the mouse and get a screenshot of any locked Mac.
Humans, oddly enough, have a pretty insatiable appetite for not dying.

You can build someone a 10 bedroom mansion and then offer to give them a 20 bedroom mansion instead, and they might say, "Thanks, but 10 bedrooms is quite enough." But people generally won't say no if you can offer them a longer lifespan and/or an increase in quality of life.

Incidentally, if retirement age is fixed, increases in longevity lead to a higher proportion of society that is only consuming but not producing. Unless you want a decrease in standard of living, you have to compensate somehow, be it increases in efficiency, rapid population growth, or raising the retirement age. If you raise the retirement age, then medicine needs to help make sure most people are not only alive but can also actually be fit to work at age 70-80.
No, it is the proper response to unverified claims of scientific breakthrough.
I'm with you here — no generation of MB/MBP has ever had full-sized up/down arrow keys [1][2]. I guess perhaps people are meaning how the left/right arrow keys went from being half-sized to full-sized? I'd like to half my half-sized left/right back...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook
But none of those changes cost them money. According to the article this is eating away their margin.
Well I guess you can disprove particular forms of simulation - e.g. since a computer with 16GB RAM can be adequately simulated, we can reject the notion that the current universe is simulated on a computer with 16GB RAM or less.

> The idea that quantum fields exist in multiple states simultaneously until observed become evidence for a simulation,

How is that evidence? Current physics can model that without relying on a simulation hypothesis. Adding a simulation hypothesis does not simplify the model, and it is unfalsifiable.
I thought the "face recognition" on Android 3 years ago was 2D and easily fooled with a likeness printed on a piece of paper? Not exactly equivalent, like a lot of "specs" that don't stand up to deeper inspection.

> What Android hardware severely lacks is manufacturers that aren't bound and determined to destroy their products with shitware.

This, plus lack of/severely delayed software updates in the face of critical security bugs.
I like machines that are built to take a beating.

My penultimate laptop was an HP Mini 101; I only replaced it on a whim, and still use it from time to time. The keys have been worn to be smooth, concave and most are missing the printed text. When I last opened it up to add an SSD a suprising amount of sand came pouring out; having been taken to many beaches, tossed in bags, and generally used outdoors it had accumulated a huge amount of extra material.

I now use a Thinkpad X140e; it's got a rubberized shock-protected shell and a reinforced body. The keys are in a similar state, the body is cracked and taped together from wear, and it's fallen down several flights of stairs and fallen from great heights. (Thanks, kids!) Too many liquids have spilled on it.

The combined cost of both these machines and the replacement batteries, new RAM, larger disks that I've added to them is less than that of any mac; and they've taken a hell of a beating.

Running Linux, of course.
Great point. Webmail is a product that was massively adopted compared to regular clients.
> This is a huge deal, if true.

What's the potential benefit to humanity that could come about if this is true, without any other dependencies, over the next 30 years?
I was at a bar on the Las Vegas strip not too long ago, and even they had some form of 'resort fee/tax'. I was really taken aback. I'm not sure the legal ramifications but I should have refused to pay.
That's cold blooded. I'm sure a lot of good people were financially devastated by that poor decision. A hopelessly bleak existence can do a lot to your capacity for rational thought. A few people I know asked me if I thought they should invest in Bitcoin at the time. I'm thankful my answer was consistently 'nope'!
Stretched would be more accurate.
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It isn't just airlines. Other industries have discovered this dark pattern (presumably there is a class in "Dr Evil MBA" where they teach it).

E.g look at your phone bill.
We have no idea if your org is 4 people or 4 million people to draw any conclusions from the absolute numbers ;)
Shock absorbers. Impact buffers. Phone springs. Bouncy bumpers. Splat stoppers. Impact immunity. Crash catcher.
> Usually, "shut down" implies that the company failed.

Of course it failed, from the standpoint of the VCs, at least. It just didn't run out of cash.

That doesn't say anything one way or the other about the business model of taking a percentage of salary, which is what is under discussion.

> It says right in the article that WeWork offered the founder $5M in comp

Again, not particularly relevant, other than an indication that the founder thought that money "now" was a much better deal than risking it on that startup's business model.

> If that's not selling out, I don't know what is.

I'm not confused as to the usual meaning of the term. I'm just confused at to the significance to the conversation.

> unprincipled opportunism.

Even this doesn't make any sense to me, since the primary principle at play is making money, on all sides. Nobody was swindled here. Investment in startups hardly translates to indentured servitude.
I didn't have problem with MacBook Pro 2017 keyboard regarding dust. My major problem is, it is noisy. Using it in library is a huge hassle. It totally disturbs everyone around me.
That must have been so miserable for the tiny fraction of people who didn't smoke.
That’s not normal behavior (random sounds, slow startup and wake). You should check the event viewer for errors, something is wrong with your system. I’ve had problems like that in the past with bad drivers. Once the driver was upgraded the problems went away.
Nope, if you go over it’s just $45 — not an additional $45.

AT&T offers unlimited for $50? I’m seeing “$70 and up” on their website. There’s no line access fee or anything?
No,i agree with parent. What is so damn hard about picking a recipe and then ordering produce/goods from your local grocery accordingly? It seems wasteful to use a service like that purely for convenience.
Have mac book air from 2013. Went through all OS upgrades with no reinstalls. Even upgraded SSD from 128 to 512 with flawless backup from timecapsule. Can't even image this happening on windows...
Yes, there is such a thing as a full-stack engineer. They'll cost you a lot of money (or equity), but will spare you from herding an entire room of specialists early on.

As products and teams scale up, cross-stack expertise becomes far less valuable than domain expertise and institutional knowledge.

This post also leaves off another area that I'd expect of a senior full-stack developer: Infrastructure/Ops.
> it may have positive benefits for Chinese citizens because government officials can be blacklisted for corrupt behaviour

I understand the Guardian's reporter needs to report what people said, but for the love of god, could they please stop giving support to this absurd notion that "corruption" crackdowns in China have anything to do with corruption? They are almost always about power consolidation.
Estimates are interesting and I encourage anybody to play with the statistics to see how it works. There are 2 scenarios you need to consider. First is the scenario where the stake holder asks for something, the thing is possible (i.e. it's a matter of working on it until it's done), they don't change their mind, the team doesn't have some kind of emotional incident (like people refusing to work together, someone having a serious health issue, etc). In that case you can split down the overall task into many sub-tasks and estimate each one. Each sub-task estimate will have a high variance, but the more sub-tasks you break it down into, the less variance the resulting overall estimate will have.

The key thing to understand is that while the overall variance will be small, you don't know what the multiplier will be. For teams that you are familiar with, technology that you are familiar with, etc, etc, in my experience people do tend to come out with about the same overall multiplier. Different teams are vastly different, though. I've had teams that operated anywhere from 0.5x (i.e. they overestimated by a factor of 2) to 4.0x (i.e. they underestimated by a factor of 4). It's always best to keep measuring your team's performance to figure out what the best multiplier to use (this is what's known as "load average" in some "agile" systems -- the inverse is "velocity"). Care must be taken to dissuade people from trying to optimise the load average/velocity because it will undermine your estimations -- usually I don't tell people what it is.

Now the other scenario is also fascinating, but requires much less statistics to understand well. Basically this is when the stake holder constantly inserts urgent requests, or cancels tasks mid-development because they thought of something better. Or when your team sits around for 5 days arguing about whether to indent with spaces or tabs. Or upper management decides to "accelerate" the process by constantly inserting new members into the team. Or someone intentionally tries to sabotage your project because they have a "competing" project in the company (or possibly just because they see you as a threat to their eventually triumphant march to the heights of the org chart). Or your lead developer decides that today is the day to institute a national "bring a firearm to work" day. In those cases your schedule is fiction, no matter what process you used to create it.

BTW, all of those things have happened on teams I was on in my career :-). Incidentally, not having a firing pin in a weapon is not considered evidence that it was "just a joke", strangely enough...
Mine is still going strong. Second Apple product I ever bought (first was an iPod many, many years back), and since I've been a bit of a convert! The battery only lasts about 2-3 hours now, so I replaced it with a new model last year. It did have issues with one of the keys but it seems to have come right. I much prefer the 4 USB-C ports over the array of various different ports on the 2012 rMBP, especially because I can plug the charger into either side, but I do miss magsafe a little.
The project’s Github page is a better link: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

It’s available for Mac even though the blog post doesn’t mention it.
Uh, that's not robbing, that is breaking and entering combined with, most often, plain theft. It might be that US law includes this in the definition of robbery, but German law seems to distinguish clearly.
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How about a social eCommerce script for your online marketplace
online marketplace to be more user-friendly, social eCommerce script can help you to design your online multi-vendor marketplace or an online shopping cart to be more powerful on factors like user-friendly, usability and stability.
I don't think that having the keyboard be a millimeter thicker would add a lot of weight.
Python 3.7 was just released, and 2.7 is to reach end-of-life/sunset in 2020 after they already gave it a five year extension. As the linked PEP 404 makes clear, there will be no 2.8.

Several recent conversations indicated that none from that small sample have actual plans to migrate. Google App Engine still offers 2.7, for instance, further feeding the addiction.

I wonder whether the inevitable migration could become an opportunity to get other languages in the door at companies like that-- e.g., those using App Engine on 2.7. Yes, most will take the path of least resistance and go to 3.x with business as usual.

However, will some turn this into an opportunity at their companies to overhaul now-legacy code? Change major frameworks? Perhaps consider newer languages like Rust or Elixir?
A rubberized case wouldn't protect as much. ie, the phone feels more impact from a similar fall except for maybe multi-story drops where most cases don't do anything anyway. Also, this protects the screen from falling onto an uneven surface (think gravel) whereas a rubber case won't help at all, even if it includes one of those annoying plastic screen covers
Sustained inbreed on a small island is a very common way for apex predators to become extinct and there are lots of examples from around the world of this happening after the last ice age.

100 might be OK for a short drop (~150 is considered the bottom end for most populations), but sustain a population at 50 breeding pairs for a few hundred generations and every allele in the population will end up homozygous though genetic drift.
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Shock absorber? In any case, I'd like to see higher drop tests. Wonder if it would have helped a week ago, when I dropped my phone while rock climbing and it shattered on a slab ~150 ft below.
In Israel you can get unlimited minutes + text + 30GB data for $10 a month. If you want to include around 200-300 minutes to call out of the country you can get to $13 dollar. The premium packages cost $30 and include calls + data when abroad. All that on an LTE network.
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You're trying really hard to find a connection between implementing a GC and debugging memory leaks... and failing.

The whole freaking point of a GC like say Java's is that an average programmer can use it without having to understand how exactly it's implemented.
Of course it won't hurt to know that, but it's not at all mandatory knowledge.

One just has to know which situations the GC can't cope with and avoid them. For Java there's at least one open source dedicated tool for finding leaks, it nicely explains what one needs to know.
math is generally written left-to-right
Yeah, updates is why I really dislike Windows. The rest I can live with. I prefer Ubuntu + i3 or Mac OS X, but if I have to use Windows, then it’s mostly doable besides the updates. Be it updates to the OS or Visual Studio (which is why I do use it; Xamarin); random breakage and it takes far too long and happens far too often.
Hey Siri! Are you listening to me?

(I know, it's more nuanced than that, but the "my phone is a always-on microphone" isn't accurate either)
Free marketing? Apple takes a 30% cut from purchases and charges $99 a year. Google charges a $25 flat fee and also takes a 30% cut. This is not free!

That being said, I see your point that app developers are beholden to the platform. I kind of side with the platform here; the play store has a lot of shitty apps that probably deserve a ranking shakeup.

If it turns out to be a bug, that would be unfortunate, but if it’s just a couple of knockoff apps complaining about google cleaning up the store, then good riddance.
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Canvasblocker on Firefox.

https://github.com/kkapsner/CanvasBlocker/releases

Its a never ending against marketing parasites.
Its not the same article
I appreciate the fact that HN is really lightweight, but the HTML and CSS are still pretty bloated for what they do.

e.g. Nested layout tables, using images for padding, multiple media queries to set comment widths, repeated font-family definitions — all unnecessary.
Perhaps it's "secret" in the sense of tricks known to any expert in a subject.

Much like the secret to more-easily peeled hard-boiled eggs is to put the eggs in cold water before you boil it. Or like baking soda is the secret to shrimp with a firm texture.
That's just not how pure mathematics works.

For instance, imagine asking that same question about Euler's totient function 50 years before RSA was developed.

I am sure that there are countless other examples where a seemingly useless theorem aided in a practical problem decades or centuries later.
You are right, I got that backwards
If you need different methods to fool machines and humans, it means that they aren't really thinking in the same way.
It is not that I don’t think oral story don’t have value (they are entertaining), I just don’t think they contain any facts after a few generation. Myths are fiction.
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The Pixel 2 camera absolutely destroys the iPhone X. I have both and I've done a lot of side by side comparisons and my results jibe with all the online reviews that pick the Pixel. Apple is way behind here.

And that's on the back camera. On the front facing camera the quality gap is even bigger.