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I'm aware that people didn't like Mayer's vision or decisions at Yahoo -- I'm not one to judge because I didn't use any Yahoo products during her time there, except for Tumblr and Flickr, both of which were either left alone or made some incremental improvements.

What I'm confused about in particular is why the author feels the need to snarkily slam Meyer here. Obviously she's not involved with Google's current decisions on Finance. And I'm pretty sure she wasn't involved with shutting Picasa down, which happened in early 2016. I've read articles about Mayer not being a popular manager at Google, or getting along with the chain of command, but I don't recall her being a prime mover in shutting products down while at GOogle

So why does she deserve snark when clearly there are Google executives who actually made and oversaw the decisions to shut down Picasa and Finance? Instead of doing the simple Googling needed to find who are currently the product leads, the author appears to throw in a lazy non-sequitur of Fuck Marissa Mayer, amirite?.

As for it being rooted in sexism -- who knows? It is kind of bizarre that the one Googler the author chooses to call out by name is not only a woman, but a woman who hasn't been at Google for the past 6 years.
> I have always subscribed to the adage that one is as old as they feel; and I don’t feel old.

You don't feel old? How about if I told you that a child born when you turned 18 is now a sophomore in college. If you had a kid when you were 18, he'd be 19 now. Or if you knew any girl in high school who had a kid, that kid would be in his 20s right now. Feel old yet?

> However, increasingly, I see I’m not as fit as I once was. This is the inevitable process of ageing,

As my grandpa said, aging is a slow decay. You are slowly rotting and you and your clothes will get that unmistakable old people smell.

> Again, I feel young, in the sense that I’m still impetuous about my career and still have aspirations of doing something I enjoy, rather than something that pays the bills.

It's like that cat stevens song says "For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not".

That is getting old.
I'm pretty sure they didn't remove firewire from the MacBook line until the Retina came out, which had USB 3 and Thunderbolt. Both of which are faster than Firewire.
Same here.

Notch, no home button, no Touch ID is what made me avoid the X and go with the 8. I'll probably keep this phone for a long time.
You hit the nail on the head.

The method they are using is take advantage of the size and complexity of our society -- if they make subtle changes in small silos within our society, we will fail to notice as very few people watch the world at such a macro-level.

> people's neglect of these issues

SJ Res 34 was a prime example -- most major social mediums attempted to censor it among other things from the general society. Now, ISPs are allowed to harvest and sell your data to the highest bidder. Terrible.

How can we fix this?

1. Vote for the right people.

2. Write them letters (not emails) telling them how much they suck if they don't do things for the benefit of people.

3. Stop using things like youtube etc. This gives WAY TOO MUCH narrative power to the overlords running those sites (and their overlords who control them -- do you seriously think the Alex Jones thing was a bunch of unique, coincidental decisions to ban Alex Jones independent of what any other site will do given that they all cut him collectively, at the same time? I'm not in any way saying his rhetoric is good or not -- but he was censored, and his free speech was blocked).

4. Understand that the constitution was a draft of laws from a long time ago and our overall makeup/structure of society has changed -- we really need to make new laws to keep society safe, secure and prosperous.
What's the context of this quote? When I search it on Google one of the front page results is actually this HN comment. It's hard to find more information about GK Chesterton's broader point.
FTA - "The interesting thing about the 52 Hertz whale isn’t its loneliness. After all, it can’t be lonely; loneliness is a man-made condition."

I find this rather presumptuous. Whales are highly intelligent animals. To allege that they can't be lonely erodes author's credibility.
You mean steal someone elses exploit?
Absolutely agreed. The notch is just terrible. I'd much rather there just be a little bit bigger bezel up at the top.

I think it will go away eventually, but then I said that about the camera bump too (another terrible design choice).
I was being sarcastic about it being a monstrosity that caused depression, as stated by parent comment. :-)
1) Sure it depends on where your priorities are. If you really need that security, you probably just won't use either the finger printer nor the FaceID and just type a password. But let's be honest here: the feature is being liked/used as a fast login bypass rather then for security reasons. I don't use it at all. Neither on the IPhone nor on my private Android.

2) Well yeah, many years ago many thing where crap. I don't understand your count excample. I have to tap is as many times as I want/many apps I have. You have to do the same for iOS for the few options you get there.

3) I don't know about Samsung or Huawei because I don't have one. I can buy my hardware from a producer I trust or like.

Did you ever ask yourself where that "odd feeling" actually come from? Because complaining about "too many options" (same done above by a different commenter) seems quite odd to me.
Thanks for the feedback! You have a point about the opening paragraph, do you have a better suggestion? The GDPR has a lot of "edge cases", which is why we placed the FAQ on the homepage and reference it throughout. The email template was reviewed by legal experts, I'd love hear your specific concerns. This is a free and open source project, maybe you can open an issue or a pull request on our github repo? Link is in the about page.
I've wondered if you could do something like that at airports that have problems with crosswinds. Could you build tall walls on both sides of the runway to block crosswinds?

I'd expect there would be turbulence around the entrance to the walled area which might be dangerous, but that could probably be addressed be having the walls flair out near and beyond the end of the runway, and also past the end have the height ramp down to 0 instead of just stopping abruptly.
"It was a good description to say that it was a game, a very interesting game one could play. Whenever one solved one of the little problems, one could write a paper about it. It was very easy in those days for any second-rate physicist to do first-rate work. There has not been such a glorious time since then. It is very difficult now for a first-rate physicist to do second-rate work." P.A.M. Dirac.

The quote is about physics, but it certainly also applies to medicine. All the low hanging fruits have been picked. The problem now is not the lack of talent, funding, interest or dedication: it's the lack of fruits.
Suitcase nuclear device
‘Optical rocket’ created with intense laser light
One important difference is that XML was never anything like the "get rich quick" scheme that Blockchain and Bitcoin are today, so it didn't attract such a huge number of charlatans and scammers. It was more of a "get shit done quick" scheme, but it never attracted scum like Brock Pierce and his ilk, the way Bitcoin does.
> A child which is comfortable with and who seeks solitude is literally worrisome for most parents today.

That is probably because success in society requires socialization. A child eschewing social interaction for solitude is missing the opportunity to fail socially when stakes are relatively low (even if they feel world-ending to the child). I don't want my child to go play with friends because I'm concerned about suicide or school shootings. I want my child to go out and play because I'm concerned about career networks, personal safety, and a lasting support network outside of me.
Thanks for the feedback, we've launched not too long ago. We'll be removing the requirement to provide a home address in the near future.
What's the jumping off point at which a gathering of like-minded people becomes a cult? Can "cult" be used to describe religious groups (or very zealous factional groups) without the pejorative connotations of the colloquial term? Or is "cult" basically a universally negative appellation?
You are right. It is possible. I did have to write a bit of code to get the work done correctly and he seemed satisfied with the progress, but I may have done it inefficiently and he was encouraging.
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You mean all of this time Android users were bragging about how Android gave you the capabilities of using third party browsers, iOS only let you put wrappers around Safari, and holding up Firefox as an example, Firefox on Android was doing the same thing - just using an Android web view?
Tesla Model 3 Stolen Using Social Engineering
There’s one more state — a new kind of “alone connectedness” that most people seem to prefer, which has been fostered and magnified by the Internet and social platforms (I include HN as one of those).

Without even communicating with others, even if there are known people in physical proximity, many people feel connected just by being “lurkers” in their favorite corners of the Internet. This is not like passive watching of (live) TV, but is a bit more of a controlled and conscious exercise. So connectedness (as an oppposite of loneliness) is not just about actively interacting with others, but being in a place where relatable people exist. The same applies to outings too. Just being anywhere where other people seem to be is enough to feel it.
You can measure samples of the waveform, but the tricky part is how the waveform changes with temperature and aging of the e-ink panel to produce minimal ghosting under all conditions.
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Thanks. Brilliant article too.
Yup. I normally wouldn't complain but once you've had RSI you'll notice that the state of things is that ergonomics are rarely taken into account and your options when it comes to good ergonomic input devices are limited.
Tesla Model 3 vs. Amtrak's Acela Express: The Electric Future Acid Test
Oh come on. Shoehorning EVERYTHING into a one dimensional array of characters is a terrible idea. That is why Bourne Shell is a piece of shit, and PowerShell rocks.
I cannot notice any delay at 100+ wpm, but one thing I had to get used to is typing key combinations faster/holding the key for the right duration, I still lift a bit too fast a few times per week, f.e. getting 'a instead of A, but it is definitely becoming second nature, and even if I cannot eliminate it completely the ergonomics of home row shift, and other handy dual function keys, makes it still totally worth it for me.
"Popular speculation about californium as a weapon material has usually centered on Cf-252 due to its neutron-emitting celebrity. Its comparatively short half-life (for weapons purposes), intense and penetrating neutron radioactivity, and high thermal output make it quite unsuitable for this however."

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Nwfaq/Nfaq6.html#nfaq6.2

Also, 6.9cm isn't that far from the 10cm needed with Plutonium...
Unconventional bootstrapping
Intel Architecture Instruction Set Extensions and Future Features [pdf]
Guy Goes to Mysteriously Evacuated Sunspot Observatory and Walks Around
I've been working on PKAuth, which addresses this problem (not at the TLS level though). I wrote a short blog post [1] with a demo video about the underlying protocol. I'd appreciate any feedback!

[1] https://pkauth.com/blog/post/2018/08/27/announcing-pkap
I'm not even sure what the author means. The experience of loneliness I have isn't some artificial construct created by other humans, even if my loneliness is due a lack of interaction with other humans. And lots of social animals can experience loneliness.
Screen persistance with zero power can be a pretty big deal. It's always nice (ish) when my Kindle has the 'your battery is dead' screen on when I go to use it, so I know what's going on even before I try to turn it on.

Other than that, it's hard to compare because nobody makes large monochrome lcd displays. Monochrome is actually a feature for the intended use: newspapers and books use a pretty limited amount of color, so you get improved pixel density and geometry without having to split pixels into colors.

OLED won't work for dark text on a light background, and tends to be rather expensive -- I can't imagine a Kindle sized device with an oled display for less than $200, so that limits it to the high end models.
There could be a replenishing or beneficial aspect of hurricanes on land. By depriving a particular region of an occasional hurricane, we might unknowingly be setting up an ecological disaster.

Just like how we worked hard to prevent wildfires and then realized that wildfires have a rejuvenating and positive effect on forests and the local environment.

Now tornadoes. That seems like the mosquito of storms. It doesn't seem to serve any purpose. Wouldn't mind if we got rid of or could direct tornadoes to save lives and resources.
3D touch has gone. It's not on some of the newer models. Didn't last very long at all.
Also note that none of those things turn off the borrow checker. Which is the point of the article.
None of those are related to anything in the post you're replying to. What point are you trying to make?
This is an enchanting game. If you are interested in the code, I found the github and the author was generous to share the source code for educational purposes https://github.com/mattdesl/bellwoods
Ask HN: Does anyone here use Keybase Teams?
I was recently looking at Keybase Teams. [0]
Looks like a terrific product, does anyone here use it as an alternative to Slack?

[0] https://keybase.io/team/hners
No I'm not and I think I've made that fairly clear in this thread.
Something About Poco F1 Camera and Google Camera
It's possible to cycle 11 miles in about 35 minutes. Make the most of the good weather. You will be fitter, healthier, less stressed, less polluting, and after the initial outlay for a new bike and all the gear, save money on vehicle, insurance, and fuel.
Any DNA?

Might these be recent enough to bring back?
Yes, the delay is random. According to the manual, this was validated with experts Rabbis and is congruent with the way things should be done on Sabbath.
I think its going to be selectively shared, with much unshared. The results for human interaction will be very annoying. The next time you see someone at the airport playing a game on their phone with the volume maxed, imagine them dancing around and waving their hands in the air. That will be AR.
I think you may be right, because I had the same exact thought, and I haven’t watched the wat video in a couple years.

Great video, especially for anyone new to dynamic typing.
I guess this is the problem I mention in my code here: https://github.com/s-macke/Interplanetary-Postal-Service/blo...

For the sake of optics I use wrong boundary conditions for the colored part of the fluid (transport equation).

The right solution would be to copy the density[]-grids and apply the wrong boundary conditions on them and then draw the image with it.
I think the primary argument for Rust advocates here is that what you describe is only possible by using explicitly "unsafe" code (i.e. code using the "unsafe" block that is required).

The weakness of this argument is exposed in your comment also: in libraries "unsafe" is often hidden behind an abstraction. To take a simple example, consider the standard Rust Vec: plenty of "unsafe" code resides in this object, but you'll rarely if ever see "unsafe" wrap typical vector operations ("unsafe { myvec[0] }"). Partial mitigation is that this does reduce the surface area where one might have to look if odd behaviors start to appear in a Rust program.

Overall it's still a net benefit.
For a PID loop, you'd need to be able to measure the position and velocity of the black dots. Velocity seems very hard. You could conceivably measure the position with a camera looking at the image, but will people want an ebook reader with a camera sticking out in front?
I'm shocked, but not surprised.
Sure, I didn't mean to imply that running dynamically generated code was slow (although, as you point out, that's usually done by generating new code, not tweaking existing code). I meant that it's slow to modify code as you execute it — like the MIX subroutine return system where you poke the subroutine return address into the return instruction when you enter the subroutine, or the Johnniac array indexing system where you modify the address in the instruction instead of indirecting the memory access through a CPU register. Not that you should program that way if it were fast.
There is not going to be any Pu left over after you initiate fusion on 10x the mass of the primary worth of DT right next to it. The amount of fast neutrons that releases will fission every last heavy atom found in the core. This is precisely why arbitrarily large bombs can be made arbitrarily clean. As you increase the proportion of energy produced by fusion, you reduce not just the proportional fallout in relation to the size of the bomb, but the total amount of fallout.

The second problem is of course those very energetic neutrons -- to make them not activate enough material to produce even worse fallout, you need to wrap the bomb in something that absorbs them and produces something benign.

Also, just as a minor nit that always bothers me: Plutonium is never your problem with fallout. If a bomb goes off or a reactor burns, the other things that are released will always be many orders of magnitude more dangerous than the plutonium. No-one has ever died of, and no-one will ever die of cancer because of plutonium released in a nuclear explosion, reactor leak or a reactor failure; simply because to have enough exposure to plutonium for that to be likely, you will have developed a thousand other cancers caused by other, more dangerous isotopes that you would also have been exposed to.

(People might have died cancers they got from working on plutonium for bomb, rtg or other use, but that was only possible because the plutonium was first separated from the more dangerous isotopes and well purified.)
> How can we fix this?

> 1. Vote for the right people.

> 2. Write them letters (not emails) telling them how much they suck if they don't do things for the benefit of people.

I believe a prerequisite for these is more awareness among the people who vote. The ones in power don’t seem to care. The ones who care about privacy are not numerous enough (depends on the country) to vote the right people into power or get any traction on legislation and enforcement of laws.

I still feel that the Edward Snowden revelations didn’t achieve much at all in terms of real and long lasting change (perhaps my expectations are too high).

At the same time, I don’t mean to imply that we’re not seeing more awareness and concern from the masses. We need this to be accelerated and for the masses to be energized to take action. Lots of work to do still!
We haven't brought back the passenger pigeon or the Carolina Parakeet yet and both went extinct at the Cincinnati Zoo in the early 20th Century.
There's still fallout and there's the problem of nuclear proliferation.

There's a reason the world looks in askance when nations start enriching uranium, even if it can be used for good.
I find it interesting that they positon newlisp as being "for embedded systems", because from everything I've read it requires a Unix system to run on.

Anyone here running newlisp on a microcontroller or similar and able to comment?
Would it be possible to automate the opt-out process, so that the user has to fill out a form only once?
I believe a better title is easily achievable e.g. “Show HN: An interactive breakpoint Python library” to avoid confusion (I also thought about that talk).
> I understand that critical aspect but being faced with an IPhone that is unable to sync mails from the exchange server for several OS versions already is what I'd consider a critical issue and problem.

Can you clarify this a bit? I don't really understand the problem - I have an Exchange server synced on my iPhone and there are no problems.
If only we could guarantee immediate segfaults.
The founders were capable engineers, i am sure one of their next gigs will stick.

Hi buddy, if you are seeing this :)
Mostly because any android phone worth buying (apart for from Nokia or Samsung) is basically an iPhone X clone, notch and all, without the ecosystem and software support provided by Apple to ensure that the notch works. Any sort of software support for the notch landed in Android 9. How many phones with the notch have that version? Absolutely zero.

And unlike iPhone, no Android phone has any justifiable reason for the notch.
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I think that theory boils down to margins.

The people making zillions of phones make a fraction of the margin Apple does on it's cool phones.
Agree. Apple marches to its own tune. But it’s also sad that it ignores passionate users who have been evangelizing its products.
... on an Android device, so-called "anonymous" advertising identifiers that collect activity data on apps and third-party web page visits can get associated with a user's real Google identity by the passing of device-level identification information to Google servers.

IMHO this is even more disturbing than the sheer frequency of data transmission.

But, I don't know if this is Google's intention or merely an inadvertent result of disorganization in the teams that deploy the many backend services operated by Google for android.
But CS pays, and engineering doesn’t. If you plan on getting a job, that engineering degree is worthless when you’re at a whiteboard and the interviewer is asking some canonical CS question requiring implementation of a data structure that you don’t know the name of. Also, engineering is hard, like, lifetime of accumulated knowledge hard. It’s true for CS as well, but there are so many kids running the show that it’ll never be expected of you. And that’s okay because CS problems are easy, at least the ones you’ll get paid to work on. Load a poorly-written web page faster, given infinite compute resources. A/B test the color of the button to get more clicks. Engineering problems are hard. Shoot down a nuclear missile going Mach 32. You’ll spend a thankless lifetime trying to learn enough about things like microwave phase shift jitter and electron transport dynamics in indium phosphide before you really understand how hard that is. Instead, just get a CS degree, and call yourself an engineer when you valiantly build the backend of the “Yo” app.