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I thought the script to Interstellar was lovely and profound, while that of Gravity (a movie with which it's often compared) was ridiculous and obviously written by someone who had no idea how physics worked.

To each their own.
still surprising that God possessed several developers just to force them to implement such a feature in specific browsers.

i think the EU should open another case of favoritism and give out penalties against these browser vendors. Thats definitely an unfair advantage if God is helping in their development.
the same overheating planet

California-specific fuels have less energy per unit volume, requiring more to be burned per mile, which results in worsened production of CO2 and other greenhouse gases in order to slightly reduce oxides of nitrogen.

Global warming is not an argument in favor of CA's policy.
Yes, he can. But here is the problem: the front bus has most likely the most passengers and therefore the lowest chance of skipping a stop ;-)
> Every dollar that the state takes away from people, in order to invest in itself, that is one less dollar that each person has to decide how THEY would want that dollar to be invested.

Indeed - because it's not necessarily an investment for one's own maximum gain - it's an investment in communal infrastructure where, yes, others might profit more from than you. However, in return, you might also profit from the contributions of others.

> Also, even IF it is "proved" that a public investment has better returns than a private one, you also need to take into account that you are taking money from someone else, and there are moral questions about how much money we should be taking from other people.

If we're starting with moral questions we should also discuss how morally justifiable it is to raise the price on products which buyers absolutely need but where they don't have an alternative. (E.g., recent pharmaceutical price hikes). This seems just as well "taking money from other people", except that it's done without any justification at all and, unlike taxes, you don't even in theory have any say about how high the prices should go or how the money is spent.

> I believe that it is OK to take some money from people, but certainly not all of it

Who was even proposing that?
A single cherry-picked university in the UK may disagree, but what I said is generally true for American universities. When I was a grad student in physics, everyone pretty much took 5-6 years at minimum; this was true for every single grad school I got in to.

I've heard that universities across the pond have different tracks for grad students, so that might be responsible for the discrepancy.
As I commented elsewhere, passing is not always an option in Pittsburgh.

> Pittsburgh, however, as an unusual misfeature in that the single bus lane goes the wrong way against one way traffic (3 lanes of cars going one way--1 lane of bus going the opposite) for a non-trivial amount of length flagged as "hotspots".
What about non-fiction?
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I suspect this isn’t as easy as you think. Where I am (Seattle) an empty bus overtaking a full one isn’t really feasible given traffic and lane size considerations.
This is exactly why i've bought a car stereo with android that also has normal volume buttons on the side etc, most of them handle everything by touch but a normal button is still a lot easier, better feedback..
I could believe the first. Income taxes became high in California only after Proposition 13. New York on the other hand has been the largest US city since the colonial era.
1. US had the longest period of high growth when taxation was "overwhelming" (post-war boom).

2. Several developed countries have "overwhelming taxation", yet quite high economic growth and are among the world's top 10 regarding human development.

3. Developing countries will have to increase their taxation. That's how development works: you get a bigger and more effective state that can offer advanced services reliably.

4. Almost all underdeveloped countries, on the contrary, have weak states that can barely collect taxes.
I believe the term you're looking for is reciprocity failure[1] (or schwarzschild effect), though apparently it doesn't happen with digital sensors - only film. Noise becomes an issue in similar situations, but it's not affected by the number of photons hitting the sensor.

Correction: Shot noise[2] is related to the number of photons hitting the sensor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocity_(photography)#Reci...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_noise
and thus read lots of textual information.

I don't think that follows. If you use Instagram, YouTube, Imgur, 9GAG, and such, you barely need to read any text. Same for Facebook, depending on the people you follow.
To front-End developers: I wrote a lib to help manage Media Queries in JS
I got a Samsung S9 from work. Holy shit those images are sharp.

Yeah at night the software cheats like hell but still.

And while my mobile phone has tones of great features (super slow etc.) my DSLR is heavy and autofocus is okayisch.

I really expect something good from Canons upcoming 90D otherwise i'm not sure how long hobby people will keep using DSLRs.

Of course there are differences in bokey, low light performance, macro, tele etc. but i was very impressed what a Samsung S9 can do now already. I can't imagine that they will stop and you can do a lot with software.
To be clear, it's not house prices that are the problem—it's land prices.

The problem and its solution were identified by Henry George in his book Progress and Poverty (1879).

Seriously, look him up. It's a shame that his work is not better known.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_and_Poverty
They do.

* https://netbsd.org/releases/formal-8/NetBSD-8.0.html (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17582199)
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The existence of de-mosaicing doesn't stop the question from being answered, it just means different use cases get different amounts of quality.

Since they listed the image element size as .8 micrometers, we can do simple math to see that they're quoting the biggest possible number. There are 48M small color cells, 12M big color cells, and 3M RGGB cells. So your luma data is amazing, and your chroma data is garbage.
Contributions are welcome !

It also has first-class integration with VueJS
OTOH there is a saying if voting really changed anything they would make it illegal.
You can phish someone by getting their username/password, using that to log in to the targetted service, and then convincing the user to type their 6 digit 2FA code into the phishing page.

If they plug in their hardware token, the browser will give the token the real domain name which won't match the legitimate domain name, so the attacker can't use the response from the key to log in.
The human eye is enormous compared to a smartphone camera, and the retina is still larger than the 1 inch squared sensor he mentioned. What exactly are you talking about?
You might be referring to the dark current, which is the noise floor for any signal coming out of the CCD. There doesn't need to be an activation threshold of a particular number of photons (maybe there is, though?) for the dark current to reduce your signal to noise ratio.
In that case, why does it need to be closed-source? If a business is paying for something like this, they probably would rather pay for a support contract than hire a guy to try and keep it running.
Did you find a way to do this that didn't require paying per-minute to (e.g.) Twilio for the call forwarding back to your cell phone?
You've short-circuited by assuming the threat model is a bad guy breaks into 1Password. But there's no reason to insist upon this very unlikely threat model, there are other threats that _really happen_ in which having both OTP and a password under 1Password saves you.

Getting obsessed with a single unlikely threat leads to doing things that are actively counter-productive, because in your single threat model they didn't make any difference and you forgot that real bad guys aren't obliged to attack where you've put most effort into defence.
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Is the intermediate representation documented/described somewhere?
And Tesla's 2025 bonds trade at 88 cents on the dollar right now.
Years back more smaller sensor were worse than one larger sensor was due to on sensor circuits. With BSI the difference decreased significantly.
What did they make you pay for when you moved from OH to KY?
Afaik they are mostly illegal, at least where I live.
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Who is this "we"? I know lots of people who play music recreationally. Same with drawing, painting and many other arts.
you never had raw access to flash, those are NVME(variant specific to apple) drives
I totally agree with you that reporting facts in as an objective way as possible is the end goal.

Not "have to inject their personal feelings" but "inadvertently inject bias".

The trouble with cognitive bias is that you can't see you have it. I have it, you have it, we all have it. If your brain refuses to let you know something (because of some shortcut that your brain takes to process information), you physically can't report it. If you think that something is very self-evident from the facts that are reported, you might not mention it, but you might be wrong not to.

But once again: I think we agree that facts matter, and the main purpose of journalism is to present the facts in an understandable way.
It is showing an underlying trend of continued growth, but the sharpest growth segment is that of the fines!

The growth in fines will likely continue, given their sheer size and the GDPR. YouTube's continued movement away from being a "dumb pipe" and towards a curatorial role may also become a point of regulatory concern.
What's not to like indeed? With FLOSS you get access to rewrite the code to suit your needs, independence from the provider, possibility to create as many copies as needed (no volume licensing)...

And most importantly, a guarantee that any paid investment to improve the code will be available in the future, no matter what happens to the original provider company. If you pay for closed source instead, the company going bankrupt may convert those investments into sunk cost.

You don't seem to understand that, by being closed source, your product lacks all those desirable properties. Having a strong desire for those benefits which disqualifies any product not complying with them, seems perfectly rational, it's just that they have a different balance of values and benefits from yours, which apparently only value the provided features.
Police in India plays a game on both sides of good and bad, they only take sides after its clear who is winning.

Its a standard tactic among police in India with regards to any crime/criminal.

Its very common for them to work for the the criminals. I remember a few years back there was an anti-corruption raid on a police inspectors home(in Koramangala, Bangalore) and in the gold jewelry recovered many residents complained it was the same jewelry stolen from their home a few years back. In short, the police helped the thieves to steal(provide information, logistical support and guard the home while the thief is stealing) and shared the spoils :) :)

Here is one more such case: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/police-he...

Recently there was a journalist whose scooter was stolen by the cops and was caught on CCTV.

In these cases the cops would have been paid off, its only when the crime becomes intolerable and larger media attention catches on do they act per law. Some times they even pay off the judges in lower courts.
Technically it isn’t bunching if it is for different routes. The standard industry definition for bunching as I understand it is when multiple buses for the same route are bunched up.

As is hinted at by the paper, bunching is generally caused by factors such as traffic which makes it hard to actually eliminate. Transit agencies have tried various solutions to the problem and it is very much a work in progress. One thing I have noticed is that transit agencies tend to have sub-optimal data for their service so they tend to be slow at fixing scheduling related issues.
I have an S8, and I actually stopped using my aging Canon 450D as the pictures it takes are so good (and I'm only taking family pics these days). As long as you don't need to zoom, the quality of the images modern phones can take really is incredible.
Outlook was designed and built in an era were just a few emails were ever sent/received in a day. It does not cope well with the deluge of mails common to today's corporate world. I think there now is an opportunity for other players here, as Google have shown.
soldering few pcie lines is not worth 10mil
And your Android phone will forever nag you to switch back.
This is the control panel in my pickup: http://www.1factoryradio.com/2010-ford-f-150-pickup-radio-te...

So many glorious buttons with unique raised labels. But just about everything you actually need to manipulate is controlled by the four large knobs. If you need to change the clock or mess with the equalizer, that is modal, but I have to pull out and read the manual to remember how that works anyway...

My friend has a newer Edge and it's all touchscreen. You need a copilot to adjust the AC.
From my Ford Focus' manual:

Note: The system only operates when the engine is warm and the outside temperature is between 0ºC (32ºF) and 30ºC (86ºF)
You mean like suspend-to-RAM?
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Well, duh.

This has been known in aviation for decades. It's called the "head-down time" problem.[1] There are Boeing studies at least back to 1979 on this. It's why combat aircraft have heads-up displays. Pilot training is big on minimizing head-down time. There are multiple crash reports where the pilot or pilots were looking at something on the panels too intently and not looking outside enough.

Aviation deals with this in several ways. Combat aircraft have heads-up displays and "hands on throttle and stick" layouts, with all the important buttons on the throttle and stick. The car version of that is putting controls on steering wheel buttons and stalks, and putting the important displays on the rear view mirror or directly in front of the driver.

Aviation also uses "cruise mode" as a dividing line. Below 10,000 feet, commercial aircraft have strict rules on unnecessary chatter and distractions in the cockpit. The crew must be focused on takeoff or landing. Above 10,000 feet, things are more relaxed. One could make a distinction between urban and open road driving for cars, but it's not clear it would help.

Watch "Children of the Magenta".[2] This is an American Airlines chief pilot talking to his pilots.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=YTAoEX4LiAUC&pg=PA254

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN41LvuSz10
This would imply a vast additional amount of biomass production, which would place its own load on the environment in loss of biodiversity, run off pollution etc.
Ah, maybe that’s the formal definition. But it’s still frustrating to be at a bus waiting for a late bus and then see a 61A, B, and C all in a line, knowing that any of them will get you to dinner :P
Exactly we don't use public images, build everything on top of CentOS in house.
I was thinking specifically of a case mentioned previously here on HN, where someone cancelled a monthly scheduled partial stock-liquidation event on corporate-internal news that the company's value would change. IIRC the law said that this was insider trading: there was an evidence trail proving that the trade would have been executed, if not for corporate-internal knowledge.

I guess you could phrase this more clearly as: never investigating a trade in the first place can't be insider trading; but proposing/planning/scheduling a trade and then cancelling that trade, can be insider trading. Where, as well, choosing to execute a competing trade can be considered to cancel the trade that would have been executed in its place.
I think they rely on smartphones, especially for basic maths or asking others for help.

I'm disappointed that countries set such a high barrier to entry for immigrants (TOEFL level 6.5-7) when local people probably can't even achieve the same.
just deleted mine (which I hadn't used in years anyways).
> as cameras with frame rates higher than (I believe) 1M fps are ITAR controlled.

I'm curious what's the reason for that. I can understand that extremely high resolution could be used for intelligence purposes/high quality satellite images, but high frame rates?
It sounds like they force you to use a phone/email code when you log in from a new device? Or am I reading that wrong.
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I'd need to migrate to many little scripts and tools and occasionally play a game or use the latest photoshop...
> "Why can't the world be simple?" is "Because the world is complex."

"Because the world is political, and any change will be bitterly fought by those who are impacted to the point of inventing whole national mythologies."

Really now, centralized collection of taxes, even in the face of different local rates, is a standard feature of the civilized world. It works in countries with gun rights, it works in socialist countries, in advanced and poor countries, it's not a cultural aspect.
His point was, what if you DID NOT do the crime?

If I were arrested and charged for a crime I did not do, having to choose between 6 months guilty (_and a felon for life_), or the chance of zero-or-20 years would be Very Difficult. On the one hand, I don't have the money to pay for a good attorney -- which means I'm more likely to lose, bankrupt my family, screw any chance of retirement, etc. On the other hand, pleading guilty to a crime which I know I am innocent of rankles me because of the injustice, but it also is the (game theory wise one) choice that gets me back to my family faster. (Of course then, being a felon, good luck getting a job, so my chances of a good life later are also totally messed up.)

You're looking at this from the perspective of someone who is guilty, and Might Get Away With it. Of course a plea makes sense there. Try looking at it from the perspective of someone falsely accused, though, whose option is either a public defender or being falsely convicted.
Shouldn't the fiscal equalisation strategy result in better infrastructure and more incentives for businesses and people to move to smaller states? It seems like the market is focused entirely on Sydney and Melbourne, and it's orders of magnitude more difficult to find a good job elsewhere.
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I tried with limited success on a very old laptop (on the previous release):

* USB drives didn't come up correctly - it couldn't see anything past the "root" hub (as an end user it was just a USB port on the laptop).

* Wasn't able to connect to the internet using either the Belkin wireless card or the standard ethernet port.

* Stability was relatively impressive, didn't handle lack of RAM too gracefully though.

As there wasn't an easy way to get any kind of media into the laptop, I gave up. Getting either of those working well could at least extend the usefulness to being a great writing machine. Gvim + LaTeX and I'll be fully away.

Half the time I think a person wanting to rip off Windows (I know, I know) would be better off writing a Windows 95/98 looking X11 window manager and hacking it to only use Wine. Seemingly for free you would get tonnes of hardware support and the obvious benefits of Wine. You could even emulate the "upgrade whilst shutting down" behaviour to update Linux underneath. I think you could quickly end up with something that would pass at first glance.
Well, maybe you should consider banning cars from the city center then. ;-)

I mean, where I live, busses manage to overtake in a one lane for each direction scenario (which is theoretically complicated, but works out in practice as traffics lights can give you chances to use the opposite lane). Nevertheless, what is important is that the front bus waits until the busses behind him have taken the lead. Otherwise there will be very few opportunities to safely overtake the front bus.
> Obviously the overall experience on an iPhone is better than a blackberry

How is this obvious? My impression is that this only applies to casual users, i.e. Apple designs UIs mainly for lowly skilled users whereas others focus more on mid-range or power users.
Writing from a seatbelt-less 1968 VW Bus where every corner of the vehicle is visible and where the dashboard has just the speedometer and a couple of warning lights:

"Why digital maps in cars don't work"

"Why backup cameras in cars don't work"

"Why carphones in cars don't work"

"Why CD players in cars don't work"

"Why climate controls in cars don't work"

"Why cup holders in cars don't work"

"Why electric windows in cars don't work"

"Why cigarette lighters in cars don't work"

I think the Tesla big screen is the future and any talk of adding in gazillions of allegedly tactile buttons is defeatist.

Maybe it would be better if new drivers had VW Bus mode, i.e. no distractions, not even a map.

Then the features could be unlocked over time. Or the car could make you pull over to access the full menu system. If you are barrelling down the road at 70 miles per hour then you shouldn't be able to touch anything or be shown anything superfluous.

If you then pull over into the service station then the display should then kick into life, show more than the basics and become interactive.

Such a system could be adaptive, based on conditions different gadgetry could be shown. This would be a different design ethos to 'infotainment' and would require regulation or insurance premium fixes to make it a thing.
Agreed. I have Carplay in my car, but lucky most of the controls are via good old fashioned buttons and twiddly knobs. I sat in a Tesla for the first time about a month ago, and was astounded at just how cluttered and horribly designed (lack of visual heirarchy) the big screen was. I'll stick with the physical buttons thanks.

Even with the simplified Carplay interface I find my eye straying from the road too often, frankly. I do find the voice controls useful, though.
"The world is complex" is too often used as an excuse to stop thinking. Yes, it's complex, but then show me the complexity.
Many companies sell software to do US taxes for you and an automated system would shut them down overnight so they spend a lot of money blocking any changes to make tax easy.
Your great parable is from Nassim Taleb’s The Black Swan
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17526695
It doesn't have to be always an option. The bunch is moving so it is enough if every third stop offers an overtaking opportunity.

But yes, that going against the flow doesn't make overtakings any easier.
Innocent people plead guilty all the time though.
This is one of the reasons I dislike always-on screens in pubs. Instead of engaging with my friends we're all drawn to the tv screens, even when there's nothing interesting playing. It takes more effort for everyone to stay in the conversation.
Getting 7% isn't that hard in other parts of the developing world that don't have a preference for gold.

It hurts a bit seeing a saving account that has better performance than my risky equities investments.
Germany goes even further. The authorities collect tax for the religious organizations since 1919. If you're a Roman Catholic moving to Germany, suddenly you're faced with 8-9% of extra income tax.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_tax#Germany
Also the cost of living makes being a PhD student in London almost untenable - I started in Edinburgh before mastering out and at least there one could live pretty well on the stipend.
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