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Are these projects characterizing the timing of these chips also? Or just stealing the timing data from the vendor tools?

Anyway this has famously been done in the past. A company called NeoCAD reverse engineered Xilinx FPGAs in the early 90s and produced place and route tools that produced better results than Xilinx's own tools. Xilinx eventually bought them, and their tools became the basis for Xilinx Foundation and ISE. NeoCAD also targeted AT&T's FPGAs, which eventually became Lattice FPGAs. You will still see some NeoCAD references in the Lattice Diamond tools command outputs...

Relevant USENET thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.arch.fpga/WwsoA...

(look for message from Eric Dellinger...)

(also, I miss USENET..)
The notch is now a status symbol. Sure, the notch is a clear usability sacrifice, but for 12 months the presence of a notch was synonymous with having [arguably] the best phone. Google's pixel offering captures this perfectly: the pixel 3 is notchless, you need to pay the money for the XL to get your notch.
Your co-founder is one of my favorite people, we were good friends in high-school. I'm super proud of you guys whenever I see divshot mentioned. :)
Hi, OP of the actual article here!

Thanks for summarizing this here. This is spot on. And of course I'm being a bit hyperbolic -- like I said, the median American still gets to build wealth. Just not as much as their parents. Or their parents' parents.

The only "expectation" I took as a granted was that a given person not-so-far-from-the-median can build Wealth in America. If you're willing to set THAT one lower, then perhaps there is no problem now or on the horizon...

I commented elsewhere that it doesn't seem to me that "Economic Surplus" / "Building Wealth" is an axiom of any system. So perhaps that expectation should in fact be lowered. But that's certainly not something my peers or I are willing to do. Thus the race.
What if Bloomberg knew that it was the NSA, but also knew that reporting it was the NSA could get them into trouble, so the deliberately reported it was the Chinese as disinformation and legal cover to publish the story?
Motorola's Moto G series is in the $200-$300 price range and run vanilla Android with one or two apps pre-installed. I'm big fan of my Moto G5s.

https://productdork.com/t/moto-g5s-plus-review/13
What's the point of classifying national security threats?
You claimed that nobody else was able to get so close to the edges due to Apple's patents. I was pointing out that Samsung already gets as close or closer to the left/right hand edges before the X was even announced.

While they didn't go fully to the top or bottom, that doesn't alter how the technology itself would work. If they can get close to the horizontal edges, they can get close to the vertical edges.
It's no coincidence that so many phones are adopting the notch right after Apple, like so many other design trends.
Fair enough.

> I just disagree with this whole idea that there HAS to be some "missing hole" that phones fill.

I don't think there is one either. I think there's a general sense of ennui growing in our society that is partly responsible here.
A lot of people here are skeptical, saying basically "if people don't want to be addicted to technology they should just stop using it", but I think that's simplistic.

You could say the same thing about eating, "if you're not happy with your weight then just stop eating so much" The fact that's technically true doesn't mean there's no market for diet books or people should have to do it all on their own. Weight watchers, for example, has a 4B market cap.
For research in particular, I'd suggest a Pipfile.lock. That will ensure that the packages installed match exactly, not just by version number.
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I have a cheap pair of polarised aviators I got from eBay that have the same effect as these glasses. I'm guessing when they were made, the lens material was oriented wrong during cutting -- vertical instead of horizontal, and thus cutting out screens. I like wearing them, though I don't entirely trust them as sunglasses. And when I get a call, I have to lift them to be able to see my phone's screen.
Yes. iPhone 6s is what I’m sticking with until they double the battery life (in real use, not watching a video) or do something else I might actually care about.
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Regardless of what happens on the bottom, without the top notch the total screen area is smaller; with it it is larger. Isn't having more total screen area a plausible enough reason to do it?
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The death of the Nexus / privacy concerns is why I'm tempted to flee to Apple. I've never used an iPhone but if I'm gonna pay top dollar for a Google branded type phone .... why not consider an iPhone / the privacy concerns I have and etc too?

All the other Android manufactures have been so hit and miss I'm not really interested in them as an alternative.
I knew a dozen people working on Amazon Go for like 4 years before it launched. Not one person leaked, even internally, what the hell they were building. Just that it was awesome and I should come join their team.

Somehow, Amazon is really good at keeping secrets.
Furthermore, it's not clear that this can really be implemented in a reasonable way

Which is why RAII in a language without exceptions is inappropriate for a resource which has a status on closeout.
How would the government get in contact with the engineers who discovered the hack without going through their managers, the CISO, etc. ?
If it is classified and a cleared employee at Amazon/Apple/etc. blabbled there would be life altering consequences for them.
Rule of thumb.

If you have a chance to see Damian Conway talk, do. I don't care if you aren't interested in the topic. I don't care if you think you'll be lost in 5 minutes. Just go.

You won't regret it. I promise.
Except our Nexus 10 only got up to Android 5.1.1. Our iPad 2 released the year before reached iOS 9. Our Nexus 7 (1st gen) slowly ground to a halt due to flash wear.
Product page is a mess - why no simple 1 page per item that shows whats new rather multiple articles spread out over different links? I had to go to theverge to understand what was launched
I didn't say it didn't have a bezel at all. But at 8.12mm, the bezel on an S9 is almost half the height of the iPhone notch.

And all Android phones have a bottom bezel.
I have considered it and, seeing such pizza made many times, I discounted it. They use the same ingredients you'd buy to put in your sandwitch; the same ingredients you get in "local cousine" when you travel.
> I don't know if there's an elegant way to solve this.

It could take a callback. Then for any given file handle, if you don't care that the write failed you can ignore it; if you care but can't sensibly respond, you can panic; if you can sensibly respond you can do it inline or schedule work to be done somewhere with a longer lifetime than the file handle.
It would be pretty extraordinary for the government to sue a company for cooperating with the government.

A company has to follow court orders. The government would have to sue itself.
I never knew how much noise the AC made in my office until I got noise cancelling headsets. After my first week of using them I noticed how loud the HVAC fans really are.

One thing I did notice was I have to pop my ears when I have the noise cancelling on. A few times it also made me feel nauseous when I turned them on.
I don't think that's true. Apple has been the major holdout on OLED for a while, and they're now into their second year of using it.
Just like gravity, its not the influx of cash that causes fear, its the sudden stop at the end.
This smells like a Snowden/Wikileaks strategy. Publish the first article expecting the major players to deny and discredit, but then publish more info after the fact to not only reveal the spying but trap all the big players in their lies.
Interesting, but they look too much at 'share' and perhaps don't focus on the 'total pie', which as everyone ought to know, does not have a fixed size. "It's not a zero-sum game" in other words.
I don't have any personal experience with this, but I saw this article about Google killing the headphone jack:

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3284186/mobile/bring-back-th...

Yeah, Apple killed headphone jacks on the iPhone. But they also:

1) Gave you lightning headphones that work on all iPhones

2) Have 3rd party lightning headphones that all work on all iPhones

3) Gave you a lightning to 3.5mm headphone adapter that worked on all iPhones with whatever regular 3.5mm headphones you previously used with your phones

4) Made better bluetooth earbuds for moving away from wired headphones entirely

Android manufacturers have not matched that with USB-C audio. They just copied "Step 0) Remove the headphone jack."
There’s a lot of market research readily available, admittedly of questionable quality. But the more reliable weather vane is estimating when Apple will launch their smartglasses. Add 5 years to that for when glasses disrupt smartphones. At the rate Apple is buying up AR and VR companies you can expect them to launch in late 2019 or 2020.
I think the main point is that there wouldn't be any new development in ocean-side cities if people believed the sensationalism, not that everyone would take up farming.
It's like the worst possible scenario. Could it be this will be a wakeup call to the people that work on these systems? I doubt it, based on government procurement strategies like we saw with the website for obama care.
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I recall conversations with some uber-rich individuals in those dark, early days of the financial crisis, and I was struck by their pessimism. These people didn't have their money in Lehman, and yea they took a huge haircut in the stock market – but they were still insanely wealthy. And yet, the news of the day put a rain cloud over their heads and they started making emotionally-fueled decisions about tightening up on this investment, or that investment...

And then, on the other hand, there were a few folks who saw it as a massive opportunity, who fully expected things to recover even if it took a while, and – this is key – didn't radically change their approach to things.

Guess who did better?

The piece of advice that really stands out in this article is "have a safety net, ideally one year's worth of expenses." Advice that's good for any of us.

I have friends in the music industry, and there's been a few instances of people getting these really big advances. Then come the big, expensive sushi dinners, flashy parties, etc. It looks like the record company is picking up the check... but not really. The artist is on the hook.

I think there's a lesson there for startup founders too. If the fundamentals aren't there, it can be hidden by a lot of frothy cash floating around. That cash can be addictive, and people get used to a certain quality of life. Retaining control means knowing when to say no to taking on more than you actually need. If you let money people inflate your balloon further than it should go because they need a huge balloon to pass along to someone else, ask yourself whether it's really good for your company.
The alley fight scene is one of the funniest scenes ever made. I watch clips of it occasionally and it never fails to make me laugh. What is remarkable about it though is that it's also chock full of cultural commentary.
Would love to know when I can get the Pixel 3 from sombebody besides Verizon or Google. Google keeps shipping us empty boxes and has shut down our network guy's personal account. We even had the fedex guy witness opening the third empty box. Fedex says it's Google's fault, Google says we're stealing phones.

So, we can't get it until they start selling from anybody besides Google or Verizon. Sounds like that will be November first.
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This is just the slate page, which is remarkably similar to the iPad Pro 12"/Surface Pro.

The re-imagined Chrome OS looks in the screen shots that they "imagined" what it would look like to implement an iOS UX on ChromeOS :-). Only half joking because most UX people I know tell me that if you set the parameters tightly enough you get the same kind of product out the other end[1].

Seems like it will be seriously challenged to land in an already pretty hotly contested space, but we'll have three entrants (four if Samsung revives the Galaxy Tab) the Surface Pro 6, the iPad Pro 2018, and the Google Pixel slate. Fun times for gadget lovers.

[1] This was also the saving grace of the Lotus 123 / Borland "look and feel" case for spreadsheets.
It's like Google looked at the iPhone X and said "yep, people really seem to dig those notches - we'll make our's EVEN BIGGER!"

The Pixel 3 XL leaks looked so bad, I really thought it would end up being a troll. Nope.

Nothing compelling or exciting, yet so many questions...

o Do people really need a tablet that you can't take with you?

o Why the notch and that huge chin?

o Can't phone speakers be thinner?

o So, you're just going to keep those underwhelming ear-buds from last year?

Google, stick to Software.
Christ, being happy for “2 years of Android os updates” reminds me how awful is the android ecosystem.
IPhone 5s, a phone from 5 years ago is running the latest iOS without any problem.
It's very possible Steve wouldn't know, both owing to past precedent (see SmokeyJ's comment on Alex Stamos) and owing to whether or not he's cleared.
POTUS has also explicitly stated China is meddling in the 2018 election, against him and Republicans, and assigned a motive.

“They do not want me or us to win because I am the first president ever to challenge China on trade,”

And converse to the calm of China, he is impulsive and has floated the idea of selective defaults on Treasury securities. And he has ample experience with this himself. It is in the realm of ridiculous conspiracy theories, but POTUS is a walking pile of ridiculous conspiracies theories, so why is defaulting on only Chinese owned securities more ridiculous than nuking Pyongyong? (Of course, only one of those can actually be contained.)
Can no one come up with a better design than Apple? I get it, the notch "works", but isn't there something else or distinctive?
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* IM: we use IRC. Yes, we know it's old. But we can and do run our own IRC server.
* Video: Zoom
* Source control: Github + github issues/pull requests
* Project management: Github
* Email: they're all kind of the same, as long as you can manage an org (all *@example.com addresses), it's good.
* Time tracking: custom OS X menubar application
* Fun stuff: some native apps/bots/etc. for sharing jokes/memes/screenshots/reaction gifs that we wrote to help build more a sense of camaraderie since we all live so far apart and in vastly different timezones.

We've been doing this for ~7 years now, so we're probably doing a few things right :)

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The BMCs on the newest Supermicro servers are from ASPEED. The X10 models have the AST2400 [0] and the X11 models have the AST2500 [1]. They have ARM CPUs and run, basically, an embedded Linux.

If you wanted to "backdoor" motherboards that shipped with these BMCs, wouldn't it would be much easier to just install your own "customized" version of the firmware on them? It certainly seems that it'd be much more difficult to incorporate another device into the system.

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[1]: https://www.aspeedtech.com/products.php?fPath=20&rId=440
I've had a site on the free tier for about a month now and have had zero issues. Page speed is great. It was easy to set up. I don't have a need for any of the paid features anytime soon and don't plan on upgrading. I've been recommending them to anyone who will listen.

It almost seems too good to be true but as other people have pointed out when its just static content their costs are so low. Since I don't use anything special on their platform, if anything ever happens migrating away should be a breeze too.
mergers & acquisitions fail about half the time (somewhere between 40% and 60%, from what i remember from business school). it's often either a failure to merge cultures or a failure to read the market, rather than a technology or operations failure (although those do also occur, but less frequently).

despite this, CEOs keep pushing for them because it's such a feather in the cap, both for the splashiness of the event and the ability to manage a larger enterprise (not to mention the extra cash and non-cash compensation).
Thanks for your response. We grew to the point where we needed someone to take over a role of management. And someone who isn’t that good at coding that’s getting the role. It’s interesting, I’m the one who still clearing most code reviews or designing hard projects. I’ll definitely keep in mind the severance packages negotiations if I go to a bigger company.
Me too. Funny thing is, I'm pretty old.
Actually makes me respect Samsung a bit more for sticking to their guns and continuing to poke fun at the notch, rightly or wrongly.

Yes, they've done their fair share of copying from Apple, but lately they seem to actually believe in their own ideas.
They probably mean the Nokia 7 Plus, which I also own. It's a fantastic phone and you get so much for you money! Seriously, I've owned the Nexus 4, 5, 5X and 6P and this is my favourite out of them all.
Does Netlify support 2FA for paid tiers? Their settings page is really clear about some features being available in certain plans (and btw I love this, it's really clear and it's not very aggressive of an upsell / not obnoxious), but there is no such callout for 2FA.

This is one critical feature that github pages has over Netlify. Github's 2FA is really nice, actually; you can add multiple U2F keys and you can also use TOTP and/or SMS if you want, all at the same time.
Really? I love my Pixel 2. First phone I haven't rooted (so I can underclock and get a decent battery life). I'm curious what problems you have had (and if I might expect them. But I've had this for awhile now)

And I don't see myself buying the Pixel 3. Just seems like a $100 price increase for lower aesthetics. I can't see any meaningful differences in this new phone.
The original Bloomberg article features images of a 6-terminal chip.

https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i0hZ31udMZ_...

https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i9VdsjZLS_P...
Google unveils the Pixel 3 XL, with a 6.3-inch screen and an $899 price tag
> as many 9s to the likelihood of success as possible

If that were the actual mission of the FAA, that would be easy to accomplish with near-infinite 9s: Stop flying entirely, ban all flying machines of all types. You'd have zero aviation incidents if there was no aviation.

There are a finite number of 9s that are needed before the cost of adding more safety is detrimental to humanity.

And note that I do work in a field where my work could kill someone if it messes up. I build industrial equipment, typically to ISO 13849 PLd or PLe standards - that's 7 nines of probability that there will be no dangerous failure in any given hour, which requires reliable components, fault sensing/fault tolerant safety controllers, and redundant wiring .

I could make equipment I produce more safe, if that was my only goal. For example, each E-stop button has two contacts and two pairs of wires in parallel which monitor its state, and this button removes power from the machine by turning off two contactors in series. If any one of these components should fail - a contact on the E-stop gets shorted out, or a contactor gets welded closed - the system will detect this and remove energy from the system. I could, in theory, make this "more safe" with three pairs of wires and three contactors in series. But while I've had to fight hard against those who try to reduce the safety level in favor of production efficiency, I've never tried to add a third set of redundant contacts.

In the end, an operator standing next to the E-stop button and supplying one of my robots outside the safety gate and light curtain means that there are 6 guys who are not using high-power hand tools to do what the robot is doing. Adding excessive 9s to this system means not that people are safer, instead there's less automation and the world is worse off.

A simple registration process, knowledge test, and inexpensive transponders on RC aircraft would make the world a better place. Requiring hundreds of hours of training and certification, and adding prohibitively expensive transponders, would kill off RC aviation. I want you to fly in a plane safely. That's harder to do if your pilot didn't grow up at the model airfield.
This is the best solution I’ve heard yet. On the one hand I can’t believe apple would make such a strong categorical denial of it wasn’t a false story. At the same time, a Bloomberg reporter is not going to risk a career unless they had strong conviction with their sources and Bloomberg is not going to risk their reputation unless they felt the sources were solid and fully vetted.
That is a great list, and the paper that accompanies it is a must-read. Note that to make sense of the list (to put it in context, and what all the abbreviations stand for, etc), it is best to read the paper by Knuth. That's "The Errors of TeX", also reprinted in Literate Programming. (The DOI of the paper is 10.1002/spe.4380190702 and that may help one find and read it.) Just the abbreviations are also given in https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb10-4/tb26knut.pdf but the paper is much more.