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Do you think that Apple will be fined for not making the battery replaceable? I don't see this happen, and certainly not in the US.

My guess is that Apple will simply claim that they can't make the phone as small/thin when the battery has to be replaceable.
Still don't see the benefit of submerging and dealing with all of the engineering challenges that causes.

At 240kw of power consumption, that level of energy density must be using some sort of forced air/water cooling system.

So if you're already pumping/circulating the water from outside, what is the benefit of submersion? Why not just float it on the surface?
I don't deny that people sometimes make bad choices, and sometimes need help because of that. I'm just pointing out that there's a difference between involuntarily committing someone to a psychiatric hospital, forcing him to take drugs, electroshocking him, etc. and freeing him from slavery and I question whether the word help is appropriate for the former.
Didn't appear as an item for me yesterday at all - something's not right about that!
It was yesterday.
Out of curiosity. How many of us knows that swiping sideways quickly on the volume button changes the volume?

Ditto for brightness.
There is a great video lecture where a guy talks about how tough his committee was, and they denied a series of packets only to be told that the packets were theirs! Very reassuring.
The good news is that Trump promised a massive reinvestment in U.S. infrastructure. I'm sure that's right around the corner...
Sure, there's always a level of responsibility but at one point it becomes unfair and counter productive.
Sure it is, this is where the authors decided to publish. Straight business agreement.
It's been around for nearly 15 years. It's geared towards younger folks, folks with learning disabilities that might make it hard for them to read and people who are learning English as a second language.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_English_Wikipedia
> I like YouTube porn than those in porn sites

What do you consider YouTube porn? just asking for a friend
He's mentioned it publicly in several interviews. Whether or not he believes it is another thing.
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Almost noone in Europe is “forced displaced” as they would need to cross many fairly safe countries to get to the EU. So that’s their choice (a logical one, of course, as they’re pursuing a better standard of living, but a choice nevertheless).

The quote by Facebook is a big fat lie anyways. Protection of religion is a generally supported concept, even though it’s very much a choice, not fixed from birth.
Pay/benefits converted to USD and hours/week including commute time.

This then can be converted to a $/hr, and usually makes my decision.

Work is work, and I've never hated any job from retail to engineering.
It's strange, isn't it?

It's a ritual at this point: an anti-China post is submitted by adventured, rapidly voted up, and then filled with comments that are a competition to see who can denounce China the most.

What do you suppose the point is?

Is it a Trump thing?

It certainly wasn't always the case. There was a time when I happily shared HN with Chinese colleagues. Was that point, I wonder.
I've wondered about whether there was a sequel, given how Daemon ends.
Yes. The distinguishing feature of planned obsolescence is that the customer doesn't know the real design lifespan of the product. Just require companies to declare that and the problem goes away. Looks like the EU already does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence#Regulatio...
I guess it's an industry-wide problem. It would be illuminating to learn of any counter examples, where a big software company manages NOT to fall into this trap.
What have you compared that to?

The utility of using half a megawatt of power for something else would be a reasonable comparison. That's the power required for ~300 average sized homes. That sounds like a lot to me.
It's business, what does this have to do with classism, the authors were paid [1] to do this research and published it.

[1] Endocrine Society, Ralph S French Charitable Foundation, and Broad Reach Foundation.
The algorithm accounts for time.
I noticed that talk comes from a University. I understand thats a totally different domain of work.

Secondly, you are not inventing any algorithm there. You are only using algorithm invented by others.

Thirdly, you are only deciding what solution works better.

Lastly, in an interview you have to invent this algorithm in 45 minutes.

None of this involves you to invent a new algorithm. At least not in 45 minutes. I doubt if the person giving that talk himself did it so quickly.
So he's appointed commissars to overrule the professionals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commissar What could go wrong?

I was reading that a lot of corporate debt is in USD /EURO. So the loans are a lot more expensive now and many will go kaput.
https://www.ft.com/content/0661a1b0-9f08-11e8-85da-eeb7a9ce3...

"Last month Turk Telekom, a big telecoms group, announced a second-quarter loss of almost a billion lira as it was hit by a surge in the cost of financing foreign-currency debt.

And, then, in the space of a week, the lira lost a fifth of its value against the US dollar, as Turkey entered a full-blown currency crisis.

The slide has sorely hurt businesses that for years took advantage of longer maturities and lower interest rates to borrow in euros and dollars rather than Turkish lira."
There are a number of real issues with the emulation approach even now. Firstly, emulation isn't accurate - if you do floating point math in your application it will give you different results (within the tolerances of the OpenCL spec) on FPGA vs. CPU. So you can't test for correctness in the emulator.

A second more serious issue is that getting performance that justifies using an FPGA requires tuning very carefully to the architecture. This may mean adopting pipeline architectures that destroy emulator performance (there's still issues with the emulator identifying that the design patterns for shift registers in FPGA look like pointer fun on CPU rather than mammoth memcpys). So for a huge part of the design stage the emulator is basically useless- because it tells you nothing about what you care about, since the performance of the emulator is often negatively correlated with performance on FPGA. This is made worse if you're doing hardcore FPGA tricks like mixed precision arithmetic.

As you say though - the fact that timing is lost in the emulator also means you don't get a true idea of whether you have buffer overflows etc or lock-up. Adding debug into the actual design impacts the implementation on FPGA in a way that it doesn't for software - and is sometimes unintuitive.
How is him giving a public interview stating that belief considered "propaganda"?
Bumper Falls Off Brand New Tesla Model 3 After 30 Minutes and Some Rain
FF:TSW was more than 'look CGI' though, it was a failed movie, but there was a great deal of beauty in the landscape, characters etc. Epic was known for aesthetics mastery.
Thanks.

I agree that the original article here is annoying and unsubstantial. Might you have some better references or links on the the history of VAX/VMS development and some of the lineage you mentioned such as the RSX-11? Cheers.
This is most likely the case. It was either not built, or maintained to specification by contractors. This is an issue most of the time something fails like this. Remember, in construction, the engineers who designed it, aren't the ones who actually build it, it is contractors. Yes, there are a lot of compliance things like construction oversight and even using a 3rd party company to access the risk during the design and build itself.

This sounds like a case where the maintenance was not carried out properly. Or the procedure the contractors were doing was wrong. Then a storm came and it exceeded its limits.

Source: I'm not a civil engineer, but I've lived with one for some time and know a bit from conversation.

Edit: I don' mean to just say, "it's the contractors" fault. It could have been higher up with budget cuts and telling the contractors, don't do this because we don't want to spend the money. This is the exact reason of having a 3rd party firm monitoring it as far as risk assessment and compliance goes.

Another Edit: The civil engineer I live with said the rain or lighting should have had no effect, UNLESS it was a foundation issue. Which another commentator mentioned the foundation was undergoing maintenance at the time? Seems to be the most likely scenario.
Given that one of the fundamental objectives of the cryptocurrency movement is to devolve the power of monetary policy, issuance and supply leverage from the state to various 'decentralized' (weasel word of this century) groups, and thereby deprive the state of its power of taxation, I would think it in the interest of these regulators to pass the word along to those who do control monetary policy.
Who is "we"? Please, tell us more.
I think so, and apparently Austin did this at some point, but as far as I can tell the program is no longer active.
They're going to make a killing by bundling products to farmers, or they'll do what DuPont did and spin out part of Monsanto into a standalone company designed to burden that spinoff with as much debt and liability as possible.

See Chemours
none. please bring back the regular keys!
or, how my Pixel XL feels in my hand after about 10 minutes of use
Well 8% on the Turkish Lira made the front page of the FT as a record movement yesterday.
Linux isn't free of performance regressions with new architecture. There were patches last year to better support Epyc's NUMA.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-n...

It just seems that Linux avoided any regressions this year but Microsoft didn't.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_English_Wikipedia

It is an intentionally simplified version of English. Although, in this case, the meaning of the article seems to have been affected by the simplification. The English version makes it clear that this is a theoretical concept, whereas the Simple English version makes it sound like something concrete/absolute.
The problem is the customer on that side. The adult entertainment industry would love to use standard billing methods.

But what happens is that the customer invariably screams "I was hacked" when the line item comes on the bill. Then the chargeback happens anyway. Sure, the merchant isn't held financially liable for it, but they are still noted as having that chargeback. And they'll still hit that high percentage of "fraudulent charges".

And that's the real problem. Nobody will touch them because it costs too much to do so.
> I've heard many of my coworkers joke that if they went through the interview process again they'd probably fail.

I don't see how companies that claim it's hard to find talent can be OK with a system that would reject more than a small portion (<5%) of their current productive engineers.

Edit: fixed word sense ambiguity
Every FPGA I have used has offered their proprietary bloated incredibly expensive toolchain on Linux.

There's icestorm but the supported hardware is not exactly high performance, IIRC the biggest chips supported have around 8K LUTs.
I enjoy reading the storytelling if it is for an article based on the events. For example, there were few articles I read about Steele dossier. The articles did lot of flash back into Steele's early life as MI6 agent and his harassment in the hands of FSB etc etc. That was a fascinating read.
In an article about science though, I am not looking for a story, I am looking for data and the conclusions/recommendations.
I've put a LOT of thought into address cleaning! And yep - levenstein distance seems to be the way to go.

My current stack is:

1. Send addresses to https://smartystreets.com/ - They gave me a year's worth of unlimited geocoding for free. They also tokenize the addresses, but I had about a 50% success rate with them.

2. Tokenization raw addresses with https://github.com/datamade/usaddress.

3. Use a normalized levenstein distance algo to get ratio of difference.

4. Compare all of the addresses' levenstein distances with each other.

5. Apply logistical regression/gradient ascent algo to tickets by chaining heavilytypo'd addresses to less-typo'd and eventually to a static list of verified-correct addresses.

It works surprisingly well, but there are still a lot of problems that can't easily be solved:

1. Street types (st/ave/blvd/etc) are missing. So, when two addresses have the same street name, it's difficult to pair the two. It's still possible with some probability stuffs and matching the ticketers' paths to the nearest street.

2. Addresses have a LOT of one-off situations. For example, there's a street name called "Avenue A". The street name here is "Avenue", and the street type (usually st/ave/etc) is "A".

3. Lots of four letter streets make levenstein distance very difficult.

Glad you enjoyed it!
Wall Street wants to trust it's money to miners in China? The whole mining concept is ridiculous, but they have probably done stupider things so it could happen.
> "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."

And yet, there are so many instances where their is no ambiguity about the lies. They are simply bald-faced lies, and there is no doubt that they are indeed lies. And Facebook is quite aware that they are lies. And those lies get very widespread distribution on their platform. And those lies have real political consequences.

In the land of the deceived, Facebook is king. (And those who are good at spreading lies on their platform.)
> I agree that AI-powered surveillance is worrying, but it's not going to look like Stalin. It's going to look like something completely different.

China is in the hands of Xi now. So that entirely depends on what he's willing to do to try to retain power, and what he regards as necessary to pursue his vision. Dictators get increasingly paranoid and erratic with time, with few exceptions in the last several hundred years. Erdogan is the latest example of a dictator losing his mind and running a country into the ground to preserve his power and pursue his vision. That's in part because the people get tired of a leader over time, even in the best of circumstances. The only choice to maintain the position Xi has is to crack down more and more on the population, restrict them further and further. Eventually every squeak is perceived as a threat.

The real question is whether Xi leads them back to more Mao-like hyper authoritarian policies, to ensure his dictatorship and his vision for China. I'm skeptical it can end any other way, the path seems to have already been decided. The people that say China is different, are ignoring that this is no longer Deng's China, there has been a fundamental recent change in where they're going. China had to either continue liberalizing, or had to turn back, you can only float inbetween for so long. They chose (both Xi and the party that has handed him the reins).
Is there any mechanism like those olympics diving competition? i.e. the highest and lowest score are discarded.
> “When asked, Facebook officials told us only immutable characteristics and traits that people are born with warrant special protection. Being a migrant is not such a trait, therefore freedom of speech takes priority."

Oddly, to illustrate this, the article compared the words “Muslim” with “Migrant” noting one word is protected and one not. How is someone’s religious choice considered an immutable and “born with” trait?

EDIT

This is the trouble when you start to try to “moderate” content according to some moral, as opposed to legal, standard: you inevitably end up creating this huge, complicated tree of rules that are often inconsistent and conflict with themselves, need to be interpreted and argued about, and frequently require escalation to more senior people when there is disagreement.

I’d love to see the financial justification for all this expensive moderation.
How old were you at that time? Did you have to leave any dependents behind?

I did the same thing in my 20's, now, with family and kids, a large change like that would be much harder to pull off.
Planks Constant really changed my understanding of what the universe is made of.

Our physics and understanding of matter seems to be relevant under very specific conditions.

The moment we can make technology that can impact the smallest of sizes(if this is even possible), we might get an answer for what the universe is. Or maybe it would turn out to be "42" and it still wouldnt make sense.
Agreed. For us this is a communications/team fit exercise and not a technical exercise. It has done a good job of filtering out bad fits, like the guy who refused to talk to the women on our team regarding anything technical.
Indeed, I get so confused when seeing headlines like this, then I log into my kraken account (I only have like $100 worth of bitcoins but it's fun) to see what's up, and I see a graph like this https://i.imgur.com/kVW7XYx.png which basically just shows that it's "plummeted" back to the same level it was a month ago, which it was at for two months.. I don't see a reason to sell.

I originally bought bitcoin when they were $12, so when I see the articles about how much value it's losing my reaction is just kind of... well, it's still 100x higher than it was 5 years ago, and 10x than 2 years ago..

Anyways if you look at the global trend https://i.imgur.com/1w1X5bN.png I would say that the rate of falling from its ridiculous speculative high last year is decreasing, so maybe it's flattening out for a while..
350,000 phones were being into landfills every day in 2010. Fuck Apple's "thinnest phone ever", it's not worth the social cost. Dumb consumer vanity isn't the metric for optimization here.
"its only value"

It can be overvalued if the transaction volume reduces, even if it the price doesn't reduce much.

Some things will sell more if the price goes down, some others won't.
> Apple has had iCloud backup for some time now, including cloud camera rolls.

I believe Apple have the ability to read any data in an iCloud backup. The data on my phone include my password file, encrypted with an easy-to-type-on-a-screen-keyboard password, which means that it's not a high-entropy password. There's no way that I would allow a cloud provider access to that file.

Note, Apple do say on https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303 that it's all end-to-end encrypted and they cannot read the backup, but they also say 'To access your data on a new device, you might have to enter the passcode for an existing or former device,' which implies that if one loses a device then one can buy a new device and enter the old device's passcode — which means that Apple themselves could just try passcodes iteratively.

If it's possible for you to restore data from a lost device without typing in a high-entropy password, then it's possible for Apple to read the data without guessing a high-entropy password.
> While browsing a Ruby codebase’s config.rb recently, I saw several proc commands followed by bracketed subcommands and wondered if it was for some reason Tcl embedded into a Ruby script

The proc method in Ruby takes a Ruby block, which is delineated either by brackets or do...end. it has nothing to do with embedding Tcl.
It goes well beyond renewables. Even in Germany wind and solar are just not that expensive, it's a combination of subsides and failing to put aside money for decommissioning nuclear power plants.
he said the exact words many times in many of his speeches / rallies. this doesn't prove that he "actually believes" this though. it may be just one of his / his team's mind games to divert attention.

here is a turkish source (not even an opposition one): https://www.haberturk.com/erdogan-faiz-ne-kadar-dusuk-olursa...

just google "faiz enflasyon erdogan" (Which means interest rate, inflation, erdogan in turkish) and be amazed how many different instances he said it, and his ministers confirming his views.
Thanks. Appreciate for the links!
Alright, thanks! Seemed to have always went past me.
8th comment! woot! paint by numbers is flawed. strut strut.
After a quick search, this came up:

Foundations of Computer Science, full book: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/focs.html

Also turns out Skiena's website is a very large resource!

http://www.algorist.com/algorist.html
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Yeah, that's the trick. It isn't a technical exercise really. Its really a communication/team fit test.
Any recommended reading to know more about JIT and stuff. Something along tutorial for writing JIT compiled language from scratch.
Why all the excitement about artificial intelligence?
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There's a book called The Myth of Mental Illness[0] that deals with this issue at length. The author argues that many forms of what we call "mental illness" are not real illnesses at all, but extreme preferences that prevent people from successfully integrating in society. He's not saying that these behaviors are healthy or natural, but he makes the argument that because these behaviors arise from differences in preferences we shouldn't make treatment compulsory, in part because doing so abridges a person's rights to liberty and also because it's hard to "cure" someone who doesn't see their behavior as problematic.

If you're going to disagree with these arguments please realize that they are not my own. While I agree with much of what's in The Myth of Mental Illness, I don't agree with all of it. The above is obviously a very brief summary and leaves a lot unaddressed.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Mental_Illness
GPDR or whatever it's called requires it. So pretty much the entirety of the EU... Or companies with offices in the EU ... So if you're an EU citizen, you should have been notified by law.
> one of the fundamental objectives of the cryptocurrency movement is to devolve the power of monetary policy

Nobody at FINRA or the SEC cares about the power of monetary policy. The former being an industry group, it is actually somewhat in favor of letting banks sell Bitcoin (and related derivatives) to their clients. The people at the Federal Reserve, who actually control monetary policy, are mostly ignoring all this.
Here in the US, on every lottery and gambling advertisement, there is a small notice or disclaimer for gambling addiction hotlines.

So yeah, like you, I'm not buying the entire "because some people are addicted" angle either. We are sold addictive substances all the time.
Not that HN is a good venue for partisan bickering, but...

I think the GOP has been actively involved with voter suppression and manipulation since the outcome of the 2000 election. The whole push for touchscreen voting machines in the first place is to weaken the electoral process, imho. So no, they're not going to push for an all-paper system, and they'll resist such a push.

Democrats don't have an interest in actively undermining the verification of the voting process. Clean elections are better for them, generally, so they have no reason to be opposed.

So no, not a lower standard. Just different interests. If the Democrats had the kind of anti-democratic interests the GOP does, they'd be doing the same things the GOP does. But they don't, and distrust in the process of voting itself is a major problem with America today. Pushing for free, fair, and understandable elections is a political winner for Democrats.
You can actually make some sort of value arguments for some of the stuff. For example with bitcoin you can use the mining cost, or relate the value of the coins to the volume of transactions done using it. A consultancy called Quinlan did that and came up with about $1,800 as a value for bitcoin based on the current usage.
http://uk.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-price-to-tank-further-...
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