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> Even small things have value, and one of the few good things about massive corporations is they have the resources to do a lot small things well. When you have 85,000 employees, focus is overrated.

I like to think I understand the sentiment, but I think the reality is a bit more nuanced than that.

Inbox and GMail in all likeliness are in the same product area (PA) and thus at some point in the chain they report to the same person.

That being the case, if Inbox takes even 1/2 the time of this manager that GMail takes, then it's really not worth it because GMail easily has more than 10x the users.

My guess is that they will try to take all the things people liked about Inbox and bring them to GMail over time. They probably want to shut down Inbox before that happens so they can use more engineering resources to make that transition more quickly and also so that the tech stack is simpler by not having to support two different products.
A large segment of the population is wrapped up in consuming celebrity culture. Most of us will never know or meet these people and have little reason to know the particulars of their lives but they are a marketable product due to human nature.
> Latin was the Lingua Franca of science until the 17th Century, or 1300 years after the collapse of the Roman Empire

That Latin persisted for 1300 hundred years after the fall of Rome has more to do with the Roman Church than the Roman Empire. European universities were essentially religious institutions until the renaissance.
Let me put it this way: if you want to have a real productive discussion on data privacy, you want the head lawyer who, despite Senate grandstanding, probably does make legal decisions for the company.

You don't want the guy who thinks that google, probably uses version control software, but doesn't know what it is.

The ic didn't want a decision maker, they wanted a heel.
I was just about to say basically the same thing. This move only reinforces the same thing that really the only consumer products that are safe are Gmail and Docs (G Suite, essentially). Anything else is basically a psychological experiment into how humans deal with loss of a beloved technology.
This makes me wonder if games that "require" the player to read the manual first can be played by a similar agent with/without reading the manual.

Or perhaps even more difficult are the games that even humans struggle to play through to the end due to "cryptic gameplay elements" (of which there are a lot of examples in Atari games).
> They want figureheads.

They also want to to get either the ritual validation of voluntary submission or the opportunity for theatrical (but fundamentally dishonest) complaint about non-compliance; if it was really important to have the specific witnesses there, they would forgo both and issue compulsory legislative subpoenas, which is fully within their power.

By not doing so, they are, in fact, saying they don't consider the testimony of the invited witness all that important to the legislative function, so the theatrics around the decision not to accept the voluntary invitation are clearly unwarranted.
Don't forget, the lot of ideas that Apple took to make the iPhone where mostly built off a bunch of other ideas them self.

I find us in a strange new era of people using the past as a way to diminish the now. I grow tired of people pushing the notion that we today must pay for the sins and attribute success to past generations.

If we go far enough back I am sure if the wheel had never been invented we would have none of what we have today and would still be smashing rocks around in a cave.
So because of one example, you are attributing criminal behavior to a whole group of people? Sounds like textbook racism to me.
Quantify those issues. At the scale of millions of people (I'm going to assume your 50 million was a typo, not that you're innumerate or gullible), one must quantify.

If 100 people out of 100,000 who migrate cause problems, and they are all fleeing intolerable living conditions, then the only reasonable way you can say that all 100,000 should be shut out is if you value the welfare of the 99,900 so low that it is outweighed by the social harm caused by the 100 even after taking into account the benefits of migration.
In previous reports of delays in Tesla production I had assumed that the delays were in vehicle assembly. This article asserts that battery production was a major bottleneck, and that the provider of their equipment is getting them a version that’s three times as fast and cheaper to run. I wonder how much of this price point is just cheaper faster equipment?
On the iPhone X they moved Control Center to the top right corner, swipe down from the battery/wifi icons. They had to move it because the bottom swipe was repurposed to do the home button's job.

In iOS 12 they're pushing this change out to iPads as well, instead of keeping Control Center in with the app switcher. I don't mind this because I'm not trying to 1-hand my iPad while I'm walking around, so there's always a finger that can reach the top corner.

I'm not sure about existing iPhones w/ home buttons in iOS 12, I've only been running the beta on my iPad.
>Oh yes the police had to arrest him.

Yea, I mean, a tenant of a just society is equal enforcement of the law.

>All of them could have walked away and said: "Fuck that law, I'm not enforcing it."

That's not a goal. That's a serious problem. Even if you think the law is unjust. You need to change the law, you can't just not enforce it.

You're arguing for something you would be horrified to have.
Wasn't Sunspot a solar observatory? Wouldn't its telescope be set up for light levels that would make viewing anything on the ground rather problematic?
That's a good analogy. Pencil (or pen) and paper go at human speed, like a bicycle, and have no artificial constraints (glyphs available for writing, for example).

I still use notebooks for some things. You can draw in a notebook (and yes, I know you can draw on a computer, but in many ways it is more involved). The link between thought and recording is much tighter than on a computer.

It would be interesting to look at how our tools shape and limit our thinking.
I used to argue the same - that an iPhone is not an invention - after all Nokia, Samsung and HTC had phones that are just as capable with applications as the iPhone was and some had good music applications and others had good productivity apps. Then I saw my mom - someone who has never used a computer before - learn to use a tablet. Everything was intuitive for her. TBC, that was an android but everything that makes it intuitive came from the iPhone. The whole interface introduced by iOS - touch is a major factor but not the only one - is just intuitive for a lot of people.
- Make sure the jobs that are available are serious roles at real companies and not contract gigs sourced via body-farming consultancies.
Microsoft's Windows 10 October update will kill of Disk Cleanup
Sony Compact phones although are powerful on the spec sheet, they usually perform badly in comparison to SE, specially on the camera department.
I realized a bit ago that my news intake was from almost entirely left wing sources, so I started adding The American Conservative. I agree. Good site, and the comments are moderated, so they don't head straight into the sewer that other sites do.
I was already a 'power' Gmail user when Inbox was released. I had developed muscle-memory for prob 20 keyboard shortcuts and used Gmail mouse-free, had dozens of labels, used a slew of Gmail Labs, and had given up using an external email client (used Gmail in a browser exclusively).

Yet when Inbox came along, it was incredibly useful, especially on my phone. It was my choice of app for quickly digesting email on-the-go. I stopped using the Gmail app.

But conversely on the desktop, I remained a Gmail user and never used Inbox.

I understand that the rumors are that Bundles are coming to Gmail which is good and necessary. I can only hope that it's as seamless in the mobile app as it is now in Inbox.

Long live Inbox!
Does that include libstdc++ or just libgcc? In any case, I guess you could always use libc++ instead.
The influence started with the rise of the British Empire. Obviously English wasn't dominant at that point the way it is now, but still internationally influential.
The problem in javascript seems more an ideological one where programmers instantly reach for a package that has multiple dependencies of which those dependencies have even more dependencies.

There's this culture of not caring about bloat it seems in the vast majority of javascript projects. left_pad comes to the mind as the poster boy for this stuff.
> Everything else is extremely common in nature- lithium is present in every water supply since it's a natural component of salt. Carbon is obviously everywhere, even in elemental forms.

The problem with carbon is not the element, but the molecules. Plastic is largely made of carbon, but doesn't belong in nature.
Android 9 Pie, thoroughly reviewed
Yup - bisphenol-a containing resins are the precise lining that is used to prevent the aluminum from getting eaten by the carbonic acid.

There was also this fascinating study showing that BPA drove liver fat accumulation much more profoundly than fructose, which I find interesting. Both are clearly bad, but futzing with hormones is especially bad : https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0300483X120036...
Very interesting story! Reading about arrhythmia always gives me anxiety, this story even more so because now I'm thinking my elevated anxiety can cause a feedback loop that makes my heart beat differently causing even more anxiety until I ultimately go into cardiac arrest. LOL I'M FINE THOUGH!
GCC is not the only C++ compiler around.
Since subcosmos won't answer, I'll take a guess: Spy satellites.
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That doesn't help answer the question at all.
The ptogressive base makes arguments for it. They make arguments against ICE, make arguments agaist enforcing immigration laws, make arguments for “sanctuary cities”. What other country, even poor countries who, for consistency’s sake, should espouse such policy had such policies? Most othet countries I’ve been to the police have the power to deport; depening on case, on the spot. I have known of people who worked abroad who were given hours to arrange for their stuff and get out after staying beyond their visas.
I thought that was half the point of all the early gigafactory PR? He anticipated having many more of them than his companies needed.
Ask HN: Questions to ask during a phone interview
This morning I had a call with a recruiter for a senior position at apple, after we talk he said to send him the CV and he then talked with the manager that is hiring at apple. He said that this manager wants to have an introductory interview at the phone tomorrow and he recommended to prepare some questions so I could look more interesting.

The problem is that Apple is a big company and is full of information about the working environment on glassdoor, so I'm not sure what I could ask that I will not find online
I seriously doubt this AI can play games like Adventure, Raiders of the Lost Ark or the Swordquest series, where there is no score tally and a complex sequence of actions is needed to win the game.
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>>somewhat alarming since both Russia and Azerbaijan, countries with comparatively poor records on human rights, are signatories.

So you admit it's ineffective then?
I have always wondered which one is better:

1. Contribute early on little by little
2. Contribute nothing to very little for a while amassing huge fortunes (and compound interest magic), then donate big.

Pretty much the same question as lump sum vs dollar cost averaging in investing.

Have there been studies on this?
What's an ARG?

Huh... TIL: An alternate reality game (ARG) is an interactive networked narrative that uses the real world as a platform and employs transmedia storytelling to deliver a story that may be altered by players' ideas or actions.
That he subverted democracy by threatening the Seattle city council as they attempted to address their homelessness crisis makes me skeptical of this effort. I doubt we can do much to fix the underlying issues in a context where billionaires can intimidate governments into surrendering power to their unilateral, authoritarian control.
>The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.

This just isn't true. The rest is garbage in, garbage out.
A Neural Network That Can Explain It's Inferences
If you know about it, it's a felony to talk about it. That particular one was a huge omission that might have shifted national debate in a different direction, esp who U.S. would target in a war or sanction. I still remember the advertisements on the radio talking about how great Saudi Arabia is and how good buddies we are. Be a different picture if U.S. media said they were a huge sponsor of violent religion and terrorism with that part of 9/11 report highlighted for all to see.

Definitely an example of mandated censorship, corruption, and maybe some kind of conspiracy. Maybe protecting politicians' and Saudi's interests at everyone else's expense. Even if it kills a bunch of us. If that's how they use the power, they don't deserve to have it.
Static/dynamic is obviously a gradient. I find it a bit sad that it always seems to be either or these days, either no types or a full blown static generic type system.

I'm all for the ability to type variables and functions, as long as I'm still allowed to be exactly as precise as I feel like.

Many would call that static typing, since there are types in the code that the compiler consumes. But my own attempts [0] at building such languages tell me that the result is still more dynamic than most.

[0] https://github.com/codr4life/snabl
> I have learned the hard way that "open source" is not sufficient, it should actually also be a product (meaning the owner cares a lot about external opinions).

There are open source projects that succeed because, aside from being good enough, they also have big corps behind them: TypeScript, Dart, Go, Flow, Kotlin, etc.

But there are also open source (often free software) projects that succeed because they're great and are community-focused and community-supported: Python, Haxe, Julia, etc.
It's a useful ingredient in some explosives.
Charter negotiating with NY to avoid being kicked out of the state
On the other hand we are having a fantastic discussion on battery chemistry and recycling courtesy of hwillis in this thread.

I always upvote things that yield an interesting didcussion.
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It is all about complexity, there is no added value for a caraker to produce their own seats. It is eating up resources and management attention. Both of which would have been better put behind the production ramp and the technical side of an EV car.

There is a reason for the specialized nature of the car industry. Regardless, had Teslas aim been to revolutionize the way cars are built I agree with a newly concieved vertical integration being a good idea. But that was not the initial goal, was it? Mission creep was never a good thing.

That being said I personally hope that Tesla manages the turn around, it's just that I'm not so optimistic anymore.
While it's true (sibling comments) that this is indeed mentioned in the article, it's well into the body, about two-thirds down. This strikes me as extremely relevant information: Page acts "as if [he] had only so many words left to speak." (ftfa)

Why would he waste his breath, if it's actually limited? The mistake here wasn't in Page not showing up--it was in _nobody_ showing up.
Good, we are over-using them to the point they may become unusable in the future.
Comment récupérer mon compte Facebook
Phishing for political secrets: Hackers take aim at midterm campaigns
Maybe time to move to a watch? ;-)

Seriously, if the watch had a camera, I would leave my phone at home.
There are better disk management tools. This utility is usually very slow and ineffective.
IMO Space Gray was the best option on the SE because it's the only one that had black bezels on the front. The white glass with a thin black border around the screen area always looked disjointed to me on the other colors.

For some reason I don't mind it on my iPad, but iPhones I think the black bezels look a lot better ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

iPhone XR with colored cases and black bezel is looking good though!
You shouldn't. It's an internal Google video. So unless you're a conspiracy theorist who thinks it was faked, it should be eye opening.
Hacker Noon Acquires Crypto Disrupted, the Podcast by Trent Lapinski
Yeah for years that was a conversation about trying to sever the connection with ColdFusion, since it's definitely not one of the kewl kid languages.
This idea is called accelerationism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism
I use Hazel to continuously trim downloads. Every time a file is 14 days old it is moved into a 'review' folder and I get a notification about it. This gives me a steady stream of old files to either delete or move into a proper folder.

Sure I could do it in the download folder directly as well, but in reality I had to go through 100s of files every few months which can be annoying.

I wrote about it a few years ago here and I do it still http://jontelang.com/blog/2015/08/17/hazel-is-great.html
One of the additional appeals of English, is that no one cares if you do it poorly. I have seen foreign born CTO's of billion dollar American companies who have difficulty with subject verb agreement -- and no one cares. In general, we're not uptight about loan words and shifting usage, accents are so common, as long as you're intelligible it's not a big deal.
Wow... this was worth the watch - thank you!

awesome lol at https://youtu.be/ajGX7odA87k?t=1540 (tldr - feeding gratuitously racist input to ML twitter bot 'TayTweets'
> we present one novel possible explanation for the four-person conversation size constraint.

But we're not going to tell you in the abstract.
For Tesla the cases are steel, but that's a tiny cost. The cost drivers are nickel, cobalt, and graphite in that order. Nickel stabilized lately but is still subject to fluctuations in demand- entirely at the whim of stainless steel, the main consumer. Cobalt is anyone's guess, but is usually fairly stable and batteries still aren't the largest consumer (IIRC, but it's very close). Graphite is pretty stable because >40% is synthetic. It's a somewhat nasty process that requires a lot of acids and tons of energy, but it's nothing special.

Nickel is a worry. Cobalt is unlikely to be a concern for tariffs since it would probably help China to tax it. Graphite might be under threat too since it's made in both the US and China.

Other materials like lithium or organics are unlikely to be taxed or are manufactured at large scale.
> As a layperson it's possible to understand every mechanical part of your bike, and even fix them yourself with some effort.

That's part of the real joy for me - "hmm... something is making a noise" and then you can tinker until the noise goes away. There's learning feedback still available on a bike.
We probably need some of that to balance the torrent of anti Tesla article
Okay...so they didn't fall that trick...but I get the impression that all they want is the opportunity to grill the top executive. The best that can happen is that said executive will apologize, prostrate, etc and the show goes on...
Then they should have invited the actual experts on the topic at these companies. Google, again, says they offered someone to speak and were told it could only be Page. What if they told Facebook it could only be Mark and not Sheryl?

Either way, if they actually wanted the CEO of Google, that happens to be Sundar Pichai, not Larry Page (he's the CEO of the holding company).
It always amazes me how life handles exceptions, this kind of studies remind me of QA testers trying to break my code. Scientists being the testers, the body being the application, and DNA being the code.
Dates for Drupal 7 and 8 end of life and Drupal 9 release
Apple removes bought movies from iTunes library
They can't. You're still superior and always will be until human extinction or slavery. Speaking of slavery, how did you get here?
Its a coverup to prevent the public from learning that the sun is actually flat.
I keep a 2-liter bottle of Coca-Kola around for a small serving (8-ounces) of coca leaf and kola nut in the mid-afternoon period, after lunch & before dinner.

"Coca-tea" ;)
> If you look at real purchasing power, California ranks #37

That's not PPP. It's a measure created by the Tax Foundation think tank and published by AEI, both of which obviously have an ideological agenda. Their results seem questionable to me: New York is in the bottom half, and Oregon and Hawaii are below impoverished Mississippi.

I'd prefer to use numbers from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis. Here [1] is a table of results pretty much straight from there. (You can find the simple methodology if you scroll down.) According to that data, California's per-capita income rank actually goes up when you take cost of living into account.

[1]: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/economy/2018/05/10/cost...
I don’t agree with Bezos on a few things, but this is big. It’s about time companies care for their down and out compatriots.

Progressives make all kinds of noise and virtue signal for people outside our care, but where the rubber meets the road, they fall short on helping fellow Americans—this is a nice start. Let’s see where it goes.

Wonder if he’ll get Bernie to contribute (tongue in cheek)
I'd wondered about this when I heard Google wasn't sending any of their top brass. In my experience, it's very out of character for Google's top leadership to not predict when people are going to be pissed off about a decision. And it was stupendously easy to tell that Congress would be pissed off by this decision - when I mentioned the news to my wife she was like "You can do that? Just stand up Congress?"

I'm reminded of Margaery Tyrell's line from the season 6 finale of Game of Thrones. "Cersei understands the consequences of her absence, and she is absent anyway, which means that she does not intend to suffer those consequences."

Lest we start panicking, I don't think that this necessarily means we're all going to die in a fireball of wildfyre (though that could happen anyway). But it's likely Google actually welcomes regulation, because it will entrench their position and serve as a barrier to any new competitors emerging. They know that neither the average Congressperson nor their constituents understand economics, and so will likely pass legislation that harms Google's unborn competitors far more than it harms Google.
Thanks for the link. I haven't seen the book, but I know when I took a computational physics class as an undergrad (~25 years ago), there was a definite overlap between the modeling necessary to understand stellar collapse, and the modeling necessary to build better nuclear weapons.