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Oracle removed JRE 10.0.2 download and released a broken Java 10.0.99 update
The Java preference panel in macOS just notified me that there's an update to Java 10 (supposedly version 10.0.99). I proceeded to "update", but it didn't actually install a new version. Instead, it asked me to remove my "outdated" version 10.0.2. I agreed to it, but the "installer" didn't end up installing a new version 10.0.99 after uninstalling 10.0.2. I also can't find the supposed version 10.0.99 on Oracle's website. The download links for JRE and JDK 10.0.2 dmg files are also dead now. So now I'm left without a JRE/JDK that I can freely use for commercial purpose (JDK 11 is licensed differently).
What is the professor's name?
NPR Money has a good podcast about this couple months ago.
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/01/634737852/epis...
Free tuition, low cost rent and board.

There are many serious economic effects of individual loading of debt for education:

$100 dollars saved for retirement in your 20's goes much much farther then $100 saved in your 40's when many will maybe end up paying off their loans...

Lets see how those loans interact with the economy in the next recession.
Non-shortened:

[0] https://medium.com/@InfinoMe/diabetes-time-to-resort-to-plas...

[1] https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/teflon-and-perfl...
There is the core install and then packages that you can add just as easily as apt-get.
In the case of sea salt, doesn’t the salt crystal form around a seed particle? The plastic particles are seeding the crystal, so do end up “inside” the grains.
As if half the customers aren't ordering iced coffee.
As an EU citizen, I've thought about this for a bit and I think that maybe it is more because the large companies being targets for regulation atm (FAANG) are not EU companies.

See for example how protective the US has been of Monsanto in the past and now that Bayer has swallowed it, lots of lawsuits are suddenly underway and scandals pop up.
A just has a kind of a buzzy feel to it. It's not something I can really quantify or prove, just a sort of synaesthetic sense. I would say that I feel it the strongest in the two octaves below middle C. It is basically true for any piano. I don't have a mapping for all 88 notes on a piano, and it's not like you could hand me a timbre and I could identify the corresponding pitch. The whole thing is shifty enough that I assume something else is actually going on and this is just the way that my conscious brain makes sense of it. But it is part of the way that I perceive pitch.
Fighting fake photos, one social stream at a time
All that stuff is the product of human systems, but what about the systems that produce the human?
Only because at the time that clause was written no one expected the relatively benign power to "make interstate commerce regular", i.e. to facilitate trade between the states, to be used as cover for absolutely any kind of interference in state affairs Washington can dream up—including actions which actively inhibit trade, or have precious little to do with interstate commerce in the first place—in preference to actually useful things like standardizing weights and measures and curbing fraud.
"How many mattress stores and Sonics does a town of 100,000 need?"

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/mattress-store-bubble/
Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish) Released
> One of the central contradictions of capitalism is that what makes it work — competition — is also what capitalists want to get rid of the most.

The subtext of this, that capitalism is bad (and perhaps socialism is better) is pretty disingenuous. The only reason non-competes work is because we don't have pure capitalism (I'm not arguing for that, it'd be bad, but) the government is stepping in and saying you have to follow the rules of this contract which are not in your best interest.
I hate to say it because a Trump is an embarrassing, non-presidential, ignorant buffoon, but some of his policies are very good and are actually helping small businesses. This is an example of it. He is willing, whether he fully understands it or not, to touch the third rail and do things that wiser politicians would never do, but is incredibly frustrating. This is a perfect example of this. I have two friends who are impacted by this and have been complaining about this for years.
A few questions I've had for a while:

First, if a reasonably high performance processor is going to use register renaming anyway, why not have split register files be an implementation detail? Tiny embedded processors can do without register renaming and have a single register file. Higher performance implementations can use split register files dedicated to functional units. Very few pieces of code both need large numbers of integers and large numbers of floating point numbers.

Second, on architectures designed with 4-operand fused multiply-add (FMA4) from the start, and a zero-register (like the Alpha's r31, SPARC's g0, MPIPS's r0, etc.), why not make the zero-register instead an identity-element-register that acts as a zero when adding/substracting and a one when multiplying/dividing? An architecture could optimize an FMA to a simple add, a simple multiply, or simply a move (depending on identity-element-register usage) in the decode stage, or a minimal area FPGA implementation could just run the full FMA. This avoids using up valuable opcodes for these 3 operations that can just be viewed as special cases of FMA. Move: rA = 1.0 * rC + 0.0. Add: rA = 1.0 * rC + rD. Multiply: rA = rB * rC + 0.0. FMA: rA = rB * rC + rD.
I didn't know KenM browsed Hacker News.
You're absolutely, completely right. Eisenhower famously hated war, death, and military spending. He utterly loathed it and considered it a drain on humanity.

With that said, it's worth considering that Eisenhower might not have agreed with this:

> no one should be profiting from “increasing the lethality” of the military

Accepting the utility of a military tends to mean accepting that it needs to be competitive in order to achieve the foreign policy goals that go with having a military. This often means incrementally increasing its lethality, and some people are going to make money along the way. Unless we think metal refineries and medical supplies producers and everything else in the supply chain should be operated on a strict non-profit basis.

In short, you are still completely correct! It might be worth considering being careful to avoid overinterpreting President Eisenhower is all.
Yes, it is incorrect. Using Chrome on Android also sends the exact same information as Chrome on iOS.
Imputed income is not taxable in the United States, according to Wikipedia.
I mean, there's no denying that the Linux ecosystem is a mess from a cohesion perspective, but I think it's a bit unfair to come to this conclusion without taking more into account. As far as server operating systems go, nothing is more battletested than Linux today, and nothing really has a more complete offering.

OpenBSD is great, of course, but my favorite thing about open source is the cross collaboration. Rather than dump literal decades of constant refinement to Linux and it's ecosystem because OpenBSD is much more elegant seems unwise. There are things Linux and the general Linux stacks could learn from OpenBSD (and should.)

I don't think the world would be better if OpenBSD were in the position Linux is in today (though I have a hunch the security story around FOSS stacks would be better.) I think there is a lot of good that Linux can do with its more fast-and-loose organizational structure.
What do you propose instead of the "idiotic" idea? An extended ground campaign? Sending fighters without the range along?

It was a grim decision, but it was effective as they did reach their targets and perform the mission.
How would an employer react if the roles were reversed, i.e. the employer can't hire another programmer for two years if you, a programmer, leave? Ridiculous of course, which shows why it is just as ridiculous for an employee to have to agree to a non-compete.
Gotta say though, the OSification of browsers has been the greatest thing to happen for Linux compatibility. We can talk about efficiency and purity and integration and things but hot damn a decade ago I would have never thought I would be able to run so many apps without any sort of friction.
> why you could not create code parameterised over the sizes of the arguments

If I understand correctly, that's what BitC was trying to do, but the extreme complexity of the compilation model was cited as one of the reasons the project failed.

The postmortem is here I think, but I can't access it right now:

http://www.coyotos.org/pipermail/bitc-dev/2012-March/003300....
Horrible things are happening in Yemen, but I’m not sure why you say it’s a clear example of something the [implicitily, US?] military is doing that is clearly bad.

I say this as someone who has ranged from medium to full-throated opposed to essentially every adventure undertaken by the US military and CIA in the past 50 years or so.

The militants on both sides seem really bad in Yemen.
Except how do I install pipenv in the first place?

Or why do I need to use pipenv to install pipsi so pipsi can manage my virtualenv environments.
What about salt from salt mines? Is it safe?
I think that last part is especially true.

Due to school and forced reading assingments, reading gets associated too often with work or boring assignments.
I always long for a life of idleness but financial constraints and my personal life are preventing it. I often dream of owning a house in the country with a few acres of land so I can live a life of seclusion, spending my days pottering about and indulging in hobbies.

I find that these days I rarely get any significant time to myself without interruptions of some kind. Like the article suggests this stifles my creativity because I can't think deeply enough about a subject before I'm distracted. It's true with my current lifestyle I get more done but it's less meaningful.
Corollary statistic: Microplastics found in 90% of HN posts
How would growing up in a household with only ebooks, or a household with only physical books make a difference? (Assuming an equal number of both)
The letter sounds like something written by a small number of radical employees, because it was.

Most of those "450 signatures" never saw the letter prior to distribution. There were some pragmatic debates without consensus, many bringing up your concerns, then silence, then this gets sent out of nowhere. If the signatories had been consulted prior to distribution, I wouldn't be surprised if the number fell to... maybe 10?

This really reflects our political sphere. Partisans ignoring even the input of allies, blindly charging forward with irrational demands, and alienating rather than convincing the moderate majority. They operate as if this is a movie, where the hero makes a grand statement and instantly win support...
The question is: Why can't a new party come up? Is it due to the system itself or the "will of the people"?

The other question is: How democratic are those parties? - he primaries seem as such ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Some of this might be correct in _red's jurisdiction but every assertion is incorrect in my state. Who knows about your jurisdiction? IAAL but IANYL
Perhaps completely irrelevant as long as an equal number are read?
True, but there are potentially much larger economic and social costs incurred when people remain oblivious of something that is harmful. Playing it safe is likely worth the cost, even if we pay for a lot of false positives along the way.
> I totally expected it to default to the assumption that eating the plastic is by default harmful via magic

I agree, as an optimist I believe that consuming inorganic compounds is by default healthy!

More seriously, I believe we should be very concerned about chemicals with unknown biological effects entering our food supply.
I highly recommend eating at Wursthall in San Mateo. It's J. Kenji López-Alt's (from Serious Eats, author of The Food Lab) restaurant.
Doesn't that just install into a global-to-the-user path? Isn't one of the things we're trying to avoid is conflicts between these tools. For example, pip is now more freely breaking compatibility. I now need to ensure if my different packaging tools are compatible with my version of pip all installed in my user location.
It's really important that you did this, and even more important that you document that you did it. I know it probably seems obvious, but an agreement is more than a piece of paper that someone has signed. Written contracts _help_ to determine intention, but they can be superseded by oral contracts if the intention of the contract changes.

I once sat as a juror on a pretty nasty trial involving a contract where both parties disputed over the signature. We had to sit through days of testimony from professional handwriting forensics specialists over who they thought had signed a particular agreement. Was the signature valid, or was it forged?

In the end, it didn't matter. The two parties acted in such a way to form a different oral contract, and it was their actions which lead to the jury determining the outcome of the trial. The contract was a piece of the puzzle, but it's not the _only_ piece of the puzzle. One party acted in a way as to misrepresent what was in the written contract, and that was used to determine fault.
Search intent matters and FB + Google ads are shown in different contexts. Of course the FB vs Google comparison in aggregate is useful but performance varies across markets and also depends on the attribution model.
Yeah, they clearly aren't important for the software industry, with the success of California. Yet in Washington State all we hear is that they are really important, all big companies support them.
In the US the "beauty" of unenforceable agreements is that the employee still has to be afraid of them because a lawsuit will be expensive. Not everyone has a few thousand dollars lying around for a lawyer and the time to pursue the case. This gives the company a huge advantage and an incentive to sneak in such clauses.
Likewise, Alexander Rush (http://nlp.seas.harvard.edu/rush.html) at HarvardNLP provides an excellent web page, "The Annotated Transformer" (http://nlp.seas.harvard.edu/2018/04/03/attention.html), which basically provides a line by line discussion of the code and how it relates to the Transformer model.

* Code for The Annotated Transformer blog post (GitHub): https://github.com/harvardnlp/annotated-transformer

Rush also presents a workshop paper on this model (http://aclweb.org/anthology/W18-2509).

Of course all of that is in reference to the original Google Brain/Research paper, "Attention Is All You Need"

* arXiv landing page: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

* PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf
can't an mba be a hacker?
Yeah, but that would require a person use a different phone number, right? Or are you saying the customer just forwards all of their calls to Twilio which... somehow forwards it back without the call getting forwarded?
I live in that neighborhood, and as the article says it looked like it was mostly a ton of turnover. There's a lot of it on Newbury, which is a problem in its own right, and the places that remain are largely regional and national chains. The costs are also driving people to move to other neighborhood and towns, with Eastie, Somerville, and Southie growing much more than the traditionally desirable neighborhoods in Boston.

Anecdotally, the company my wife works for has a presence on Newbury, they're a large national chain, and the store (a flagship) has one of the lower sales volumes in the entire region, despite being one of the most expensive rents the company holds. The problem is manifold here - rising business rents pushing businesses out, rising residential rents pushing people that aren't tourists out, and likely more that I'm less familiar with.
There are lots of errors when it comes to reproducing the build on other machines. Pip install -r requirements.txt does not guarantee that you will install the same version of packages on a new machine, and in fact, you will typically not.
And FB video works for some people too... Depending on how you define "works" :)
It probably had more to do with viewing them as a threat (which they were) than as food.
The Tories changed this in the British Nationality Act 1981. We are now citizens, not subjects.
Same issue and might even explain it better: They took the client-side implementation and effective state machine, flipped it around, and called it good.
L.A.'s Most Derided Piece of Public Art Is About to Light Up Again
Developer here. Thank you for a really good explanation! That's exactly what Funded does.

You can have 'virtual accounts' to put aside money for future payments. With this concept, you'll know the true remaining balance in your checking/savings accounts. Funded even takes into account your credit card balance.

Hope everyone gives it a shot. Available on App Store for free!
> Basically, some people think men should have a right to abdicate responsibility for a pregnancy at least up to a certain point.

Are there any specific plans for this that are not harmful to the child or society?
Huh, OpenDNS blocks this due to "a security threat that was discovered by the Cisco Umbrella security researchers."
Doesn't this vary by state? I would be wary of giving what looks like legal advice.
FWIW, this idea is what philosophers call "the repugnant conclusion", and the problem it presents is largely unsolved in normative ethics. It's one reason that I don't think formal ethical reasoning is a useful activity: in the end, we do what feels right or wrong, and we can't reason ourselves into a feeling.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/repugnant-conclusion/
The game physics look very inspired by Robocode[1]. Great work! I wonder if months of work could yield similar results to what was seen there, with neural networks and dodging and prediction of enemies.

1. https://robocode.sf.net
As a child in a boarding school I actually got to grow up in a literal library. I would say most of what I am today, the good parts, come from me getting the opportunity to be among books, and that too of such diverse nature.
On a VPS, full disk encryption is not effective because the keys can be dumped from the hypervisor.
No I'm thinking for like 7-8 year olds. I was doing C++ at age 11, but it was substantially easier because already had a few years of Pascal under my belt.
fwiw : faq re non-competes in Oregon : https://www.oregon.gov/boli/TA/Pages/ta_faq_noncompete.aspx

interestingly, this item:

<snip snip>

In order to be valid, noncompetition agreements must meet the following criteria pursuant to ORS 653.295:

- The employee is exempt from minimum wage and overtime as a “white collar” employee (i.e., he or she fits into either the executive, administrative or professional exemption);

- At termination, the employee’s annual salary and commissions exceed the median family income for a family of four as determined by the U.S. Census Bureau;

- The employer has what is called a “protectable” interest. This means that the employee will have access to trade secrets or competitively sensitive confidential business or professional information, such as product development, product launch, marketing or sales plans and strategies;

- The agreement is entered into at the beginning of employment (or bona fide advancement), and the employer has provided a written notice to the employee - at least two weeks before employment begins - that a noncompetition agreement will be required; and

- The agreement is not effective for longer than 18 months from the date of the employee’s termination.

</snip snip>
I've always thought of lawyers like software developers in this case.

If you give either of them carte blanche, they will tend to create overly complex and expensive systems. It's not even malicious or self-serving (at least I'd like to think it's not), but more that their jobs revolve around "edge cases", and without something to reel them back they will try their hardest to cover them all.

I wonder if the software development adage of "good software is defined by what it does, great software is defined by what it doesn't do" applies to law?
According to the ratio of public comments accepted by the FCC, the "many" who think the net is evolving are something like 3%
Or it could be only a correlation. Smart parents have books, but they also have smart children.
Not in the United States.
US is not a democracy, it's a republic AFAIK. The design philosophy behind the architechture of US Government is explicitly that it is not a democracy.
They have just a bit of traction...that's pretty hard to replace
There's a decent amount of evidence that prior to the 17th century people in many parts of Europe would break their sleep up into 2 chunks of about equal length.
I think what's really nice with pairing is that you can have feature ownership and spread knowledge really easily.

The way I've done it in the past is that a feature will have an "anchor" or someone who owns it. They'll work on most of it and be in charge of interfacing with product on how it should work.

That person would switch pairs every day, working with a few people who then pick up some of that context. Being hit by a bus is the classic example, but a more realistic one is that the person goes on vacation. Now, instead of just being 1 person with deep context on that feature, there's potentially a few others that will know it well enough to solve the problem.

The people that are constantly switching will eventually own a feature and won't have to multitask all the time. Also, when you're pairing with someone, you get to share some of the focus with that other person, which I've found to make switching contexts a lot easier.
Do you carry an ice bucket when walking around town?
Another explanation is that the geometric designs are depictions of entoptic phenomena or phosphenes that are seen during trance states. There is remarkable similarity in these designs between groups of ancient people separated by thousands of miles and years: e.g. Australian Aborigines and San in Africa.

The Signs of All Times: Entoptic Phenomena in Upper Palaeolithic Art
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/203629

Entoptic Imagery and Altered States of Consciousness
http://entheology.com/research/entoptic-imagery-and-altered-...
We are about to release an open-source extension for PostgreSQL that will help with the bloat problem you mentioned here, at least for continuous updates like high volume aggregation (see: pipelinedb.com). PipelineDB will be refactored as a standard PostgreSQL extension this month. Continuous aggregation can help with the bloat problem for use cases where you only need aggregated / summary data, like realtime reporting & monitoring.
Back in college our OS course used OpenBSD and I had a great time learning kernel development. Too bad I'm heavily invested in Arch right now!
Ah the usual HN tecno-optimism.

1) The human body (and other lifeforms) evolved to adapt to substances found in the environment. That's why a number of synthetic substances are carcinogenic or otherwise toxic.

2) Microplastics contain a very wide variety of plastics. It's extremely unlikely that they are all healthy or neutral.

3) A number of types of plastic are known carcinogens and have been phased out.

4) Given this, he cautionary principle mandates to treat the as harmful by default, unless proven otherwise. There's a reason why drug and food approval processes exist.