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iPhone Market share (~11%) and unit sales of iPhones are flat compared to last year on a no-growth market. Service and Mac sales seem to be dependent on iPhone sales.

Quarter by quarter Apple turns into a one trick pony where most income depends on the success of their smartphone market share of ~15 +- 4%.

If there were a novel approach to smartphones/mobile computing - Apple/iPhone would look a lot like RIM/Blackberry in 2010/2011 where sales and revenues (services) skyrocketed yet analysts were warning us. Yet there's to tech rising to kill smartphones. So Apple is safe for some years ahead.

Welcome to trillion+ valuation AAPL.
I'd like to try the new multicore from Intel. The dual core with HT on my XPS 13 is total trash when throwing at it more than a couple of tasks. And I am not the only one with this issue at work where we use a mix of Fedora 27/28 and Ubuntu 17.10/18.04. The only redeeming aspect of this otherwise overprices machine is the screen. Although I just wished the screen would be flushed with the bezel like for the touch screen version.
s390x is subject to speculative execution attacks, just like x86_64. Your position appears to be rooted in superstition, rather than facts.
> But keep in mind that the 'red flag days' I'm describing where PG&E would cut power are not days where fires are actually burning in the area - just days where fires are more likely to start.

Ahh, that makes more sense. I was thinking about situations where there would be fires burning in the immediate vicinity, so perhaps dangers from overheating (explosion?) or firefighters/emergency responders having to clear areas quickly, etc.
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We know generally what the rates are and the statement above is accurate: "Most people that care get a substantial portion of those fees back (either as cash or rewards)"
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I think they actually do get a property tax break because it's farmland.
It is not only in Brazil. There are some kind of parties that requires lots of preparation by the host and does not have a strict event that requires everyone to be there at the same time. Cocktail parties for example, or barbecues in most of the world. The author of the article is just showing 1) lack of manners with the host, 2) lack of culture by not understanding what a barbecue party is, 3) bigotry towards brazilians.

Host a feijoada in Rio and you can be sure all your friends will be there on time for the meal.
I use a VPN with a hosts file that is composed of EasyList etc for my phone. It saves me money and battery.
Why is the meat so much bigger given its only twice the weight?
Right, because Darwin is based on BSD.
NB: at least in Denmark, micro-switches were not known as "Cherry switches". American bias much? (Similarly for "Kleenex", "Q-tip", "Xerox", all of which are known by they generic names in Denmark and, AFAIK, the rest of Europe).
Yup, Amazon is the most unlikable tech giant
In the pre-monetized web, yes the tech guys made things right without money extracted from the web.

Standards & many applications that implemented them (including commercial) were attempted to be designed to make online computer use possible and beneficial. This is the domain of academics, committees, and concerned individuals creating the means of useful computing & communication, outside of parasitic desperation to inject unnecessary rent-seeking lock-ins into everybody's lives.
Oooh boy. I think I might return some confusion to you. I don't think the fees would vary between two Visa Signature cards, if the issuing banks decided to deliver different perks. To the merchant, and the processor, they're both Visa Signature cards, and will be priced according to the fee schedule agreed upon.
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Honking won't mean much if it comes from a robot. People won't care about that.

License plates photos may help, but will the car send each of these to the police automatically? Police can quickly get swamped then by these reports from self driving cars.
I live in the UK, and that's kinda what I mean - since that rule was brought in, such things are basically unheard of.

The most you can get these days seems to be Avios or Amex rewards points.
Usually that means if he has 25 customers a day, he tells the tax man about 10.
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Let's hope this start a trend for taller screen. Arguing Ad Vitam Eternam with procurement for the extra 120px of the dell screen U line above 24" is tiring.
I have another generic one, but it's trivial to 3D print your own. However, I found that it didn't actually inform how I would like the key when used in anger. Only actually using it in a keyboard would do that.

So far I'm using three different (non-Cherry) MX keys: lightest and linear for the weakest fingers which are typically modifiers, heaviest for the center row strong fingers.
Because it makes more people click on the link.
If it can save 40k lives per year it’s in any case a no-brainer.
Ask all the millions of people that have a relative killed by a car if they would care at all.
Edit: also it is pretty curious that you are against testing self driving cars because they might kill someone during the testing, while you are perfectly fine with 40k people killed per year and you are concerned about the privacy of the people.
I’ll tell you a secret. A dead person couldn’t care less about his privacy.
Discord, slack, and many other realtime chat tools have the same set of problems.

There is little distinction between the trivial and the critical. It's difficult to organize information into a memory.

Email allows better archival use.

A wiki, better yet.

Unfortunately, as soon as a team uses slack, email usage and wiki maintenance seem to begin to decay.
Since when is doing something efficiently and non-wastefully not a good idea for its own sake?

When the effort to optimize something would be better spent elsewhere.

On the web there are two important points. First, bandwidth isn't always abundant so optimising is worthwhile, and secondly optimising is effectively a negative cost if you just don't include wasteful features in the first place - building optimally is less effort than building wastefully.
I wish people felt the same about going to space as I do. I think that if we were more knowledge focused as a species that we'd be racing to the stars which would mean an insanely different mentality than the 'tow the line' kind of thing I think we have nowadays.
Here they required installing a data logger which is really a Raspberry Pi running a web server + a USB to RS-485 adaptor. It was required for warranty beyond the legal minimum because they want to monitor the environment temperature in the room where the inverter is installed. However it is not on the public network and does not call home.
I was expecting C with ncurses, but what I found was javascript.
In Truman Capote's history of a Kansas massacre, In Cold Blood, he mentions that purely fortuitously the father/husband of the murdered family had taken out a life insurance policy on himself a few days before. The insurance agent had accepted his check, but told him that the policy was not in force until the check cleared. At the time of the family was killed, the check had not yet cleared. The agent called his supervisor as soon as he heard the news about the murders and asked whether the insurer would pay. The supervisor said without hesitation, "Of course we will."

This to me is one of the finest examples of living the spirit of the contract, rather than wriggling off responsibilities because you can legally do so.

At the same time, I have to wonder how many insurers today would so quickly affirm their intention to pay in such a circumstance.
Haha, yeah that's what I always expected, and that's why some of us found the claim surprising (and hence why I'm trying to drill down into it). I can see it being technically possible, but from a practical standpoint, it would be very surprising for me if it actually happens.
Walmart has had similar spates in the past. They stopped accepting Visa at various Canadian stores last year when negotiating rates with Visa.
I would have expected an improvement on the font panel (https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...), which already has recents and favorites, and even allows one to make custom collections (for example one for a custormer’s style guide)
I could run a marathon if I put in the effort. The reason I "can't" is truthfully that I can't be arsed

Well, so could any human being. I've run a bunch of Marathons, and I've personally seen people with no legs complete them. The only significant difference between those who have completed a Marathon and those who haven't is who could be arsed to do it. But I don't think that extrapolates to any human endeavour. Highly motivated people can work their entire lives and something, and still fail.
> the ads are well done and blend in with the webpage

That's called "native advertisement" and it's supposed to trick you into thinking you're reading a genuine article instead of an ad. I actively avoid sites that do this.

> In fact people used to sift through the Sunday NYT simply for the ads.

Back when people couldn't google for stuff, and the ads were useful because they mostly came from local businesses you actually needed once in a while.
One problem I have with my XPS 13 is the keyboard. It's too small for me to type without making lots of errors (I'm used to the size of keyboards on 14 inch laptops and full size pcs). Also the feel of the keys has no click and feels stiff. I often don't push the left shift properly due to the stiffness.
> The web was intended to be

I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous. You cannot say what the web was intended to be because you had no hand in inventing it. You do not know the mind of Tim Berners-Lee.

In fact, I argue the opposite - he had a vision of a global hyperlinked information system. While he wanted the protocol itself to be free (a move away from gopher), the information itself had no such protections. And that is precisely what we have today; it doesn't cost anything to use the WWW protocol. His vision has been fulfilled.

Now, the information (the content) itself is another matter. IP laws exist for a reason, people want to be paid for the content they create. They have ownership of that content. Whether it's the latest episode of game of thrones, a video game IP, or a book I wrote, the law protects my intellectual property. If I want to charge for access to that content, I'm more than within my legal right. Whether it's accessed over WWW, a cable box, or purchased from a book store, it makes no difference to my legal protections.
Here I am quoting another comment:

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Richard Feynman on Brazil:

1. “That evening I went for a walk in town, and came upon a small crowd of people standing around a great big rectangular hole in the road—it had been “dug for sewer pipes, or something—and there, sitting exactly in the hole, was a car. It was marvelous: it fitted absolutely perfectly, with its roof level with the road. The workmen hadn’t bothered to put up any signs at the end of the day, and the guy had simply driven into it. I noticed a difference: When we’d dig a hole, there’d be all kinds of detour signs and flashing lights to protect us. There, they dig the hole, and when they’re finished for the day, they just leave.”
'
It's really nice!

However, I can't stop thinking "tuberculosis".
Not really, Thinkpads are known for being built like trucks since the 90s.
Grocers are being squeezed from all sides. Walmart and Target are spending lots of money to take dry goods market share — they will spend $8 to ship you a little box of onion dip. Costco and BJs pull in families.

Amazon is doing all of the stuff they are doing.

Kroger is bigger, but lacks the scale of the giants. And most grocery stores are regional affairs whose footprint is limited by their distribution network and who cannot raise money because why would you when the competition is a behemoth like Amazon who can lose billions to get market share.
Running marathon is not healthy. It is abusing your body more then is healthy for it. Additionally, people with zero relevant health problems for normal life can still have conditions that prevents them to run marathon. Whether joint normally-non-conditions or hearth normally-non-conditions or I dont know what.

Also, training for marathon requires a lot of time and there is opportunity cost there. I will not blame father for spending his time with kids instead of training for marathon or what not. Nor someone who spends time educating himself rather then physically training. Or reading book, washing dishes or just having time consuming job.

The motivational quotes are told to make people feel good.
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I don't think you can get around using 2PC in a distributed OLTP database, e.g. Spanner also uses 2PC for distributed transactions across shards. Fortunately, the overhead is not really that high because the prepare and commit messages are sent to all nodes in parallel. It only adds one extra network round trip. It does lower per session throughput a bit, but you can always get better throughput by creating more sessions.
You make a very dubious moral argument when you imply that preventing one death can justify another death. That assumption is not at all obvious.

If taken to be true, it can potentially be used to justify any random murder.
I like how nobody replies to this thread with anything except "Bernie Bros is sexist! Just as bad as a foreign power throwing an election!".

A+ discussion, guys. Say, isn't that a copy of Pravda over there? What, did you read a script?
The greatest attraction of MX is that the selection of keycaps (pimpmykeyboard PBT keys are awesome) and compatible clones. The biggest drawback is that it's a pretty big and tall key. I hope ML becomes more popular as an alternative.
https://ycharts.com/companies/KR/gross_profit_margin

>20% gross margin
Because any public forum needs some form of moderation, or you end up with 4chan, where it’s just bad actors trying to fuck with everyone else. The best places for discussion in the BBS and web forum days were the ones that were heavily moderated.
If I remember correctly, HN's data dump included a made_front_page flag (not exact name). Also, XGBoost includes a feature that attempts to normalize against imbalanced classes. As for thresholds, there's only including submissions with at least average +/- standard_deviation votes.
I wholeheartedly agree with this on a b2b case.

But I have an impression that "wiggle-room" contracts are not scaleable, when you need to have the same contract with multiple parties with a significant chance of having an "adversary" among them.
Are those lead batteries or lithium? A lithium battery pack is about 10 times lighter, and 2-3 times smaller, than a lead battery pack that can store the same energy.
I was able to find the law I was thinking of, and it was passed in 1956, so not terribly recent, no.

Apparently it's because the BHCA defines banks as entities marketing both checking accounts and commercial loans, and Discover Bank makes no commercial loans and is thus not, under the terms of that law, technically an actual bank.

(Also, apparently the BHCA restricts banks from operating across state lines, too.)
I make flying simulator for the military, pilots use my software to learn how to fly with a Panavia Tornado.

I know how hard they train, how much they know and how hard it is to crash. I know a plane can land gracefully by itself, that there are at least three redundant navigation systems and at least two landing system, and that on a civil plane all these systems are duplicated because there is more space to put them. I know a plane can land with only one engine, and in some cases with no engines at all.

I know that when I fly I'm one inch to certain death, but I also know that that's an inch I'm very hardly going to cross.

I know all this but sometimes I'm anxious too. I guess it's normal, I just have to think rationaly or not think at all with a book or a good sleep.
Following the rules is better than say, merging into a bus and hoping it moves or basically anything the Uber cars did ever. But following the rules when it's totally safe to bend them means trips in a self-driving car take longer than trips where a skilled human is driving, which lowers potential accpetance.
Which news sources? How did you find the ones that still provide RSS? How much of it do you actually read?
Extreme programmers were dogmatic about specific development practices like unit testing and for that and other reasons XP has fallen out of favor.
Scrum and Kanban seem to be the big winners.

Unit testing is really bad at catching concurrency errors, interactions between components, domain errors and undefined behavior.

I admit that verification based on temporal logic (like used by TLA or SPIN) is a solid helper when designing algorithms involving concurrency, but at the same time I must also admit that I've never seen it used. Typical concurrency taming strategies I've seen in the past include using higher level primitives (like a thread pool where jobs can be enqueued) or taking and adapting code written by an expert (e.g Anthony Williams has some C++ examples in his book).

Race conditions are much more frequent in my experience. In fact I'm so biased towards finding those that I was frustratedly wondering how a race condition could happen in the example if everything is synchronized :)
Proving that a multi-threaded work queue is correct and using that might be a good tactic, assuming there isn't such a primitive available. But if a program is designed around locks and sharing, that becomes much harder to model. Sooner or later such a program will be in a broken state.
i did somewhat the same thing. it introduced me to programming... i thought how about multiple start indices and fixed width? you can then compress the list of start indices in the same manner until you reach sufficient compression :D
Reading mode on safari does this.
As a Microsoft and all the closed-source software hater, I feel reassured
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> Despite the pain, I still think Walmart should’ve acquired and rebranded a bank, and offered financial products.

They do, outside the US. They operate Walmart Canada Bank (and issue Walmart Mastercards), although they've recently sold it.
I was under the impression cattle require a lot of water, is that incorrect?
Like taskwarrior, then? (but the layout is nicer)
huh? do other creatures not inhabit space?

does a creature need to have a concept of value in order to value things?
So many merchants do have their own cards, many offer incentives better than available rewards cards, but managing more than a handful of accounts quickly gets very tedious. Especially if you move, or change your checking account, or otherwise need to notify all your accounts.
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A little off-topic: Are the Waymo cars absolutely huge or are the two women in the first picture just tiny?
Mentioned already, but let me repeat: mynoise.net. Huge range of excellent noise blocking sounds.
Yeah this seems like a reasonable thing that might have happened. Putting it this way, it's still a bad thing but it's nothing of significance to SolarCity's overall performance or bottom line.
The market in China is way bigger. Just look at their Population.
This isn't really a fair comparison. I mean, 1.2 billions vs 400 million?
RealForce represent! haha :D
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That does sound plausible and also not newsworthy :-)
Likewise, the StubHub app sucks up all of your contacts, location details, and even personal calendar data.

It's so far, we have to carry an additional "blank" device for use with these mandatory app situations.

For a contrasting example, Moviepass leaves your contacts and calendar alone.
Heh, if you look at the JS console while loading cnn.com you'll see the following:

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I think it depends. When I got married, we had the option of having tiered one with lower levels fake and sheet cake cut behind the scenes for the majority of the guests, or full tiered cake.

We had a full tiered cake, no fake parts involved. If I remember correctly, downside to non fake tiered cake is that you are limited by types of tiers you can have, "softer" cake types cannot be used as one of the lower tiers.

Oh, and it's cheaper to have fake lower levels.
I am using a 4GB RAM HP Probook for the last 5 years (Student Artifact). You have to be very disciplined to use it though. I never open more than 10 tabs on the browser. While programming and testing, I generally close the browser. Use only lightweight WM. Avoid using JS based UI. My stack is vim/emacs (sorry) + a compiler (clang/rustc/sbcl) or perl/python + zsh/bash (userspace) + a terminal emulator + occasional firefox + wget/curl and weechat

I read pdfs with emacs. My computer's pretty fast wrt my peer's higher spec machine (16GB) with VS Code, Slack, Chrome and whatnot.. But he does play games better!
I agree. Similar thing applies to laws in general; I usually compare this "wiggle room" to grease in the gearbox. Without it, the gears of justice will stop turning, or even break down completely.

Putting perfect laws as code is essentially a humanlike-AI-complete problem. That is, the necessary code would also have to implicitly and completely implement our intuitions about morality, and the mechanisms behind emotions and suffering. We can't do that, so we need some wiggle room, to enable humans to be humane.
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Howdy neighbor! I'm not far away. I really like the Meadow Lake and Old Man Mountain area.

It should be about 45 minutes flat from Truckee to Nevada City over 20. The road you took is a nice drive, but yeah, that intersection at Tyler Foote is no joke. If you take the wrong turn there, you'll end up like that woman that got stuck in mud for a few days in the middle of a storm 11 miles out in the middle of nowhere.
"VMS included a utility called BACKUP long before Microsoft developed NT's backup utility."

Did Microsoft ever create a backup utility? I can't remember who did the NT 3.51, but 4.0 used Seagate Software for the backup app.
An Egyptologist told me there are enough unstudied papyri in archives to keep all researchers occupied for the next 100 years. Basically there is no need to dig anymore - the limiting factor is not finding the scrolls, it is studying them to figure out if they contain anything interesting.
This was built in '17:
https://intoli.com/blog/hacker-news-title-tool/

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14400603
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"Writing an (sic) incredible copy is probably the fastest and greatest way to increase your sales as well as your conversion rates. However, the majority of companies does (sic) it terrible (sic)."

Terrible, indeed.
Here's an implementation of precisely that, as a filesystem:

https://github.com/philipl/pifs

Discussed here previously (2014):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8018818
Yes this is my experience as well, JavaScript is often the key antagonist. Unfortunately many websites require JavaScript to function