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Apt also gets package distribution right, and it predates the app store by many years.

When I get a new Debian box, I just sudo apt-get install a list of my most-common programs and I'm off to the races.
> The impossible burger

This is a wheat and potato proteins based burger, where they add leghemoglobin grown in yeast, to give some of that bloody, irony taste. And coconut oil for fat.

If you're in New York City area or New Jersey, or Chicago area, your nearest White Castle probably has the "impossible slider" for $1.99.
The headline probably wasn't chosen by the author, and is pretty bad. The minor headline is actually quite good:

> Although there is merit in recognizing how we resemble our primate relatives, sometimes we need to understand what sets our species apart.

That's 100% true. Both sides are right.

But it's not just the headline which is bad. The author goes too far in one direction:

> The argument goes that if warfare, sexual coercion, male aggression, the creation and use of tools, hunting, and other patterns show up in both chimpanzees and humans, then these are evolutionarily old, shared traits. Thus, understanding the reasons behind these behaviors in chimps can offer insight into similar behaviors in humans. This premise is nice, but it is mostly wrong.

No, as the previous sentence says, it can offer insight - not complete answers, but some amount of insight. How much is still very open to debate.

> We have evolved the capacity to be the most compassionate, the cruelest, the most creative, and the most destructive of all life on this planet.

The first two - most compassionate, cruelest - are an overly anthropocentric perspective. It would take extraordinary evidence to claim that humans are more compassionate than all other animals. And that's just not likely to be true - why would it?

> Racism and global climate change are not explained by our shared history with chimpanzees, nor are gender diversity

No, some amount of them probably are explained that way.
Here's a realistic scenario. I pay for CoolApp. It works fine even though CoolApp2 is live on the store. I get a new phone. I go to download CoolApp, but it's no longer available. If I want to use CoolApp, I must use CoolApp2.

I'm not expecting CoolApp to be forever supported. CoolApp works fine for my use case, so I planned on continually using CoolApp until it made sense for me to upgrade. But now that CoolApp2 is the only version available, I have to buy the newer version alongside my new device. If I turn on my old phone, I can still use CoolApp without skipping a beat. I think that's what the other commenter was getting at.
GDPR is the sole reason I'm actually able to delete accounts reliably on every website I visit. That I'm actually able to retrieve my username from websites where I previously had deleted my account but where I want to recreate it (cf. https://twitter.com/Adys/status/1011637415893766144).

It's actually served me to know why some company I've never heard about has my personal data on file. It's empowered me to ask them what they have on me, and to tell them to fuck off with it if I don't like it.

GDPR is fucking amazing and as a business owner impacted by GDPR, I am proud to comply with it. Just as many people are proud to pay their taxes because of what is done with them.

Edit: Depressing to see people are downvoting real world experience in favour of FUD.
I mean, that's a fair point that I completely support, but I was thinking of the cases where the 'new' version has no new features other than a name change.
>> he wants to design a halting program and find the class of programs for which it works.

> Yes, I understand that. And what I'm saying is: you can't do that.

Not sure if it's relevant, but it's certainly possible to define an approximate halting-problem-decider, then figure out what it does and doesn't work for.

For example, a trivial implementation which checks if the given program is equal to `42`, outputs "halts" if it is, outputs "don't know" if it isn't. The space of programs it works for is { `42` }, the space of programs it doesn't work for is `remove(42, enumerateAllPrograms)`
The jumping/portia spiders are the coolest. Cracked.com had an article on diabolical insects with them featured in it.

http://www.cracked.com/article_109_natures-6-most-diabolical...

I'll excerpt the relevant part for folks that are squeamish or at work given Cracked is a bit NSFW:

"Each individual Portia employs their own unique and vast arsenal of dastardly impersonations to trick, ensnare and consume their prey. A Portia spider might strum a pattern on a strand to impersonate the buzzing of a fly caught in another spider's web, while a different spider of the same exact species might opt to catch a real fly to throw in the web and, while the prey spider is distracted, sneak up behind it. It may pretend to be inanimate by moving only in the wind, it may observe and duplicate another spider's entire mating ritual or sometimes it might even build a complete web of its own that attaches to its victim's, thereby creating a trap out of the spider's own trap."

They're just too friggin' smart! I make sure nobody squashes them at my house so they do their important work of eating other spiders.

One time I watched one do a nice ambush. Target spider had a web in the corner it almost always sat on. The invisible, jumping spider apparently waited until the target descended from its web to (I guess) start extending it. Jumping spider ran out of nowhere full-speed across ceiling, jumped past web onto that single strand, and started climbing down at spider. Brief battle ensued. The jumping spider was literally sitting between the target's ass and web with nowhere for it to go. It dropped a few inches to create distance. Then, just cut its own supporting line to drop off the ceiling abandoning its original web. Jumping spider climbed back up it going back where it came from. Fun to watch.
A few months ago I bought a new TCL TV here in China. I was amazed when, using it as an external monitor, an ad popped up over the screen which required using the TV remote to dismiss. Never buying TCL again.
Von Neumann died before he finished writing this book.

Another unfinished work of his that's worth checking out is Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata where he introduces his conception of self-replicating automata [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_universal_construc...
On the one hand, AppStore/Package Management models allow you to do that, on the other hand applications that aren't in the store/repo may as well not exist.

To me, part of what makes PCs "Personal Computers" is that I don't need to go through some third party to distribute or acquire software. I don't need anyone's blessing, and I don't need to jump through hoops rooting the device or compiling from source, I just do it because it's my computer.

If all Windows applications were PortableApps, all you'd have to do when getting a new computer is copy over the directories where your applications are stored. Installs are a copy, uninstalls are a delete.
This already happens. Sites that vest their entire survival in user-generated content take a big risk, because the brand will become associated in people's minds (though personal experience or hearsay) with the behavior of particular elements in the community. While people will have different experiences, some good, some bad, the reputation of the site will keep some away.

Platforms that host communities that are editorially distinct -- like Discord, Reddit, even 4chan -- insulate some of the mayhem that radiates out of one channel from completely spoiling others. Tumblr (and Twitter) have no such mechanism, they don't have "Channels" or "Groups", all content is propagated through follows, reblogs, and un-namespaced public tags. Communities exist solely in the minds of their participants, but are not enforced or enabled by any platform feature, and thus are both trivially infiltrated, and offer no protection from the goings-on of the wider ecosystem. The only way to seek refuge from this to leave the platform altogether.
Well if Chimps can't then Baboons sure as hell can. Have a read of A Primate's Memoir by Robert Sapolsky. The vast majority of human social and politic interactions are stereotypical of almost all primates, the only difference is that we have the gall to think that walking erect seems to have freed us from our vicious primate past. Spend some time watching a group of primates or work with a group of them over time as I did a number of years ago, and you will start to see that humans behave in almost the exact same way, our brains lie to us about our motivations so we are obivious to the fact that we are acting from ancient primate social instincts, and worse you get stuff like this piece which pulls on the old great chain of being.

Chips may not have governments, as the author says, but I suggest that he go back an take an introductory course in political science, because our entire understanding of modern political structures is founded on the idea that in some sense all politics are family politics (in group behavior). Macaques, chimps, baboons, and many more have extremely well studied and understood family group politics.

One of the steps on the road to enlightenment is the realization that the monkey on your back is you.
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100% THIS. Great details here. Glad to see this posted and we need to make as many people aware of the details in your post as possible.
The VERY first thing the LG television I bought did was show me an advertisement. I had to blocked its MAC address from the router.
It is not obligatory to like it. Few grand works are truly flawless. The ideas underneath are entertaining, and informing, and made me think (I got to read a pre-publication proof copy in the UK on the brink of University Computer Science degree)

Sure, it could have been shorter. I bet if you cut any bit, somebody out there would complain it was missing.
Not so fast. There is IP over HDMI[1] or something so at least some smart-TVs might be able to use internet connection of PS4 or AV receiver or some other gadget in ARC/HDMI chain that is connected to internet.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/new-hdmi-standard-brings-internet-...
> web apps seem to be JUST barely now getting there when it comes to app quality, polish.

True. And this is the time for Apple to support and reach parity with other browser vendors on emerging Web features. Unless their true intent is to unfairly drive devs and users to the app store,
That's the scenario I was thinking of. I think most of the debate on this thread is my use of 'non-scrupulous' to describe that scenario. Which is fair.
You mean "open cell security foam" of course. It means the same thing but sounds better for marketing.
> But then millions of users have still to potentially pull the data from the feedreader, because they can't implement WebSub

This is worth pointing out directly: Yes, of course. You always do have to transmit the data to the actual reader. But those are users of the feedreader, they do not contact the source at all.

The advantage of this scheme is that data is transported exactly as often as necessary and as fast as possible, unlike when data is polled.

It has no relation to a CDN I see. A CDN would mean the source has not to handle the incoming traffic, or less of it, but a CDN does not enable push nor reduces it the traffic between CDN and feedreader server.
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Why can't you just say "you will possibly regret it" or even "you will probably regret it"?

It's not inevitable that people will regret going with Discord, Slack, or Skype. Most people won't.
Yes, 1.1 percent of the average of the highest three years you were paid during your service for each year you worked. So if you did 30 years, you’d make 33 percent pension. That’s on top of the employer match that the government does if you contribute to the Thrift Savings Plan, an ultra low expenses IRA plan for military and federal civilians.
The movie did a pretty good job of framing it: TV for children was not caring, and was not educational. It was predominately clowns and violence.

Fred Rogers saw the power in doing something different, and eloquently expressed that to the committee... although it's a little scary how much power that one man on the committee seemed to have over this incredibly powerful resource for children and adults.
>Literally stepped over human feces getting off the bus yesterday. There are alot of non conformists here.

The fact that you didn't step in it makes that a good day in SF
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Please, provide a source as a proof that "Platforms like Facebook already use protocols like this for their content propagation".

> It is not. Also, Websub does not change anything for clients just directly fetching the RSS feed

Indeed, it simply adds a middleman between the content producer and the final consumer.
How was your networking experience? Any exp running within Enterprise VPN? Private image repos in the network?

And if you needed to leave GKE to another provider or packaged , how would that look?

Thanks for any answers!
Seriously, fuck that guy.

> Drive.AI founder Andrew Ng, a former Baidu executive and one of the industry’s most prominent boosters, argues the problem is less about building a perfect driving system than training bystanders to anticipate self-driving behavior. In other words, we can make roads safe for the cars instead of the other way around.

I'm not going to give up on crosswalks just so you can make money on your shmancy new cars.
I had this scenario with my Vizio, too (I mentioned it above). I got the new remote amd they had replaced Chromecast firmware with their own smart tv junk that required TOS acceptance for monitoring. I had to ban my own tv from using the network ever again.

I assume Google is reporting on my Chromecast usage, but Vizio doing unaccepted updates to essentially brick my tv unless I agree to be monitored? That’s a step or two too far.
All due respect, have you used any of the Autopilot clones? There are endless debates about what's better on paper, but everybody I know who's actually used them says Autopilot is much more mature. Comma.ai seems to be right on their tail, but it's an aftermarket system requiring a fair bit of DIY (so it's not very accessible yet for most end users). Tesla was first to market with auto steering, and seems to have the most mature offering, so framing them as the market leader seems pretty accurate to me.
Anyone live in eastern Australia? ;)
>Orange County (if that zoning bill ever gets passed)

lol

>Austin

Texas.

>Salt Lake City

Mormons.

>Probably Portland.

Bingo.
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Well if an app has been abandoned then it's abandoned and there's nothing anyone can do. But if makers of 'CoolApp' release 'CoolApp2' with support for newer devices then I think that's entirely reasonable to remove the original version and ask users to pay for the upgrade.
Not to mention Mr Rogers convinced the committee pretty quick. The video is on Youtube and a great watch.
Unbiased algorithmic redistricting with no humans involved? It would be the perfect result.

The politicians would never allow it.
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Thank you very much. My how things have changed ... and still haven't caught up. Granted as another user says, Apple has no reason to push apps off the store to the web now considering the insane cash flow.
Natural selection likely favored kids that were good at climbing. Best strategy to stay away from some predators, until they were big enough to wield weapons (sticks, throw stones?) and come down from the trees.
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> This is a good thing. These areas are not places where you want to "move fast and break things."

Nobody wants anybody to "move fast and break things":

https://xkcd.com/1428/

That was the motto of one jerk who nobody likes, who incidentally runs a multi-billion dollar company and not a small business, whose company has since disavowed it, and is in general not how small businesses actually operate.

You don't want doctors to "move fast and break things" but you also don't want them to spend 95% of their time filling out paperwork so that medicine becomes so expensive that people go untreated because they can't afford it, or it bankrupts the government.

You don't want Nazi experiments but you do want a cure for cancer. There is a trade off here. If you choose wrong people die, no matter which wrong you choose. Which is why the correct solution has more to do with informed consent and less to do with massive regulatory burdens that exclude small entities, increase costs and deter participation.
That's true however you have more control over an external STB than you do your TV with all of it's integrated features.

If your TV has a microphone then in order to use it you must accept that they may record everything you say. You can always purchase a different brand/model however you might also be sacrificing features (e.g. All LG OLED TVs have mics in the remotes). Some STBs include microphones with their remotes but many do not, you have a choice.

Most vendors do not regularly update their smart TV firmware or require the user to update it manually via a USB stick. On the other hand, vendors of STBs regularly update the firmware on their devices. From a security perspective I'd rather connect a STB to the internet than a smart TV.
Thank you, this is the space I'm wanting to work in - maximising the number of programs that can be decided. I'm just not sure what kind of logic I could use for such a system.
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Cool. You should go for it. Having studied Sanskrit earlier for some years, I can say that it is a fun and interesting language to learn, and also not very difficult, since the grammar is very regular and systematic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit#Grammar

(That's a scholarly article, don't go by it, though you could skim it, just giving it for background info. Try out the language instead.)

There are a handful of rules, and the rest of the stuff builds upon that, the way programs build upon the handful of syntax and semantic rules about statements in programming language.

An interesting point mentioned in the article is that "Word order is free" in Sanskrit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_order

While not a linguist myself, I've noticed that the meanings of sentences in Sanskrit seem to be intelligible and mean the same, even if you switch some of the words around. I don't know if that is true for any other languages.

I wonder if that point has any connection with the concept of context-free grammars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-free_grammar
> that beget the end of slavery in the developed world.

Where did you learn this? This is absolutely wrong. Most developed nations had abolished slavery before the US did. A few, like the Ottoman Empire and Brazil was later, but to frame the US as a front-runner is absurd.
I agree that we need to get people to be realistic, but I disagree that we should just be saying "tough shit" to an entire generation that got thrown under the bus by a mixture of predatory student loan practices and well-meaning adults who did more harm than good attempting to provide guidance.
Ouch. Thanks.
> Galileo famously (and likely apocryphally) demonstrated the principal by dropping lead balls of different weights off the Leaning Tower of Pisa and observing them hit the ground at the same time.

This never made sense to me as something you'd need to test, once the question had been considered.

Imagine 1000 cannonballs all connected to each other with threads. The result is a single object with 1000x the mass of a cannonball. Would you expect it to fall faster?
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Sure. Heck, they could go back to approving of slavery, which was theologically justified in a number of times and places. But when I say evangelicals may return to historical norms, I mean relative to other Christians in other well-off societies over the last hundred years or so.
Good to see some folks using my 'irixboot' utility in the wild. Looks like it worked!

Also, the whole process by which the Development CD image is extracted could have been easily handled by irixboot and you can use irixboot as a 'dist' install source within the already-installed OS.
Except that's not correct. If you've purchased CoolApp you can always re-install it via the previous purchases section of the App Store, even if the developer has removed it from sale. So you can continue using CoolApp as long as it continues to work on your iOS version and device.
What you are proposing is by definition not real time, it is not scalable (not on the source side, not on the client side, and not traffic wise), and it is not fast enough for things like getting notified of a new chat message where this scheme can be used as well. And people do want real time there, and often enough for news as well.
I would suggest travel over most of these. Particularly if you live in a fairly inward looking society like the US. Forget SF - live in another country, learn another language while your brain is still plastic enough to become truly fluent, understand your own culture by spending time among others, realise how fortunate you are to be born in a developed country.
Wikipedia's "Random Article" button is pretty fun:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

Eventually you'll find something interesting and can random walk deeper.

I often mash it a bit at the bus stop.
Originally coined by a Nostalgia Critic episode. Surprised to see it referenced on HN.
> As for the library … with a few similarities to Smalltalk ones.

And the recapitulation of emulated versus native Smalltalk UIs, with Swing versus SWT.
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Not specific to code : that is the Pareto principle.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Wire

"One distinctive feature of the bus is the possibility of using only two wires: data and ground. To accomplish this, 1-Wire devices include an 800 pF capacitor to store charge and power the device during periods when the data line is active."

You can buy devices that put an entire JVM inside a two-terminal component, of similar physical size.
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Smart TVs usually have a full blown operating system they have to boot. It's similar to booting a Roku, Apple TV, or your Smartphone.
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Right. This presumably is also why library e-book collections contain a finite number of "copies" (licenses) of each book, and if all those copies are checked out, anyone else who wants the book is put on a waiting list. They're allowed to loan the copies they've paid for already, but not to make additional copies.
For which the answer from the program is "I don't know".
The whole idea of directly eating insects is stupid. They can be fed to animals we normally eat (e.g. fish). The advantage is that insects can process stuff that we would otherwise throw away, and are very efficient.