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I feel the same way, but in reverse.

I've been using iOS since the iPhone 3G and have built apps for it. I know iOS inside out. I recently started a new job where the vast majority of our customers use Android. I therefore chose my work phone to be Android, so I could use the same platform that our customers use.

Wow - is it confusing! Nothing is intuitive, and I genuinely find it very hard to use and get into a rhythm with. It's a Galaxy S9, so hardly a "bad" Android phone.

My takeaway is that so much of the way we use our devices, especially our phones, becomes muscle memory. Android is not badly designed, neither is iOS, it's just that I've built up a decade's worth of muscle memory, coming from hundreds of interactions a day with the device, that switching to a different paradigm is going to feel jarring.
People drive to Redbox locations to rent DVDs from vending machines. I think you're overestimating the amount of effort it takes to buy DVDs on eBay.
Yeah, that was kind of the point. You have a car because the alternative is absurd rent or absurd travel times. You lost the tutoring money because that's how the world works. Income streams disappear, without a real reason.

This is honestly pretty accurate as simulators go. There might be technical flaws but the feel is there. The actual numbers you control are $40-50 variances, while the costs are an order of magnitude higher. Getting ahead in that scenario is virtually impossible. You might save an extra month's worth of expenses every year, if you budget flawlessly and don't give in to a single indulgence.
50% of Americans aren't also below the poverty line, they can afford to drive.
You're assuming colonization is needed, when in reality we are just another species and are nothing to the universe on the cosmic scale. And yet, relative to the pointless wars and countless trillions spent primate-posturing, putting humans on a second floating rock is just as, if not more, sensible.

For me, it's something inspiring, a grand adventure, and may allow us to confirm the presence of life outside of our own globe. That alone would pay the cost of tickets, since shattering the illusion that our globe is the only one endowed with life by a creator, that is an outcome devoutly to be wished by rational beings.
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That is not at all true if you're anywhere near an urban center.
Heh, I guess it's an eye of the beholder thing. Not long ago I bought a banjo, and since banjo things have been on my mind, as soon as I saw the picture, I thought, that is a spiked lute.
It can't be simpler but the questions are not simple?

So don't ask them. Default to a non privacy invading mode. Ask the questions later of people who wants the features.

I don't buy "this is the pinnacle of ease of use" and we can't get further.
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Totally serious, languages should have a single indexing scheme, and it should start at 0. All other choices make you a Toilet Person.
I'm guessing that's a bit of hyperbole, since new sliderules are still available for purchase today. Obviously manufacture of sliderules dropped precipitously, but there's still a niche market for them.
I got a free coffee mug. Is that payment?
One possible reason: Shenzhen is an economic behemoth that's also a new city (it was basically a fishing village until the 80s), which mean it has fewer 'old hands' there and is relatively free of corruption and socially more liberal (by Mainland standards). In other words, the Communist Party is less influential there than in other major urban centers. Under the reign of Uncle Xi this might be frowned upon.
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> This theory [jam avoidance] could be easily debunked for the simple reason that “er” is the fourth most common letter pairing in the English language

Argh, no. E and R are separated by D, 4, and C. It would be nice if someone writing about typewriters actually looked at one.

The bar-adjacent letter pairs, from most to least frequent¹, are MI BY CR NU HN XE HM AZ DC GB ZW VT FV SX.

¹ https://gist.github.com/lydell/c439049abac2c9226e53
Have you been to DFW?
"weird" is right

That such a potentially damaging allegation has not been met with a more forceful (read: lawyerly) response is "weird". That this dropped in one publication with quite a bit of detail is "weird". The timing of the responses, the rumors of trouble at SuperMicro, the timeframe of the alleged compromised boards. It's all weird.

I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop on this one.
Here's my question: where is the software that circumvents internet spying and censorship? Where's the user friendly decentralized end-to-end encrypted software? Closest I'm aware of is tox.chat, but it hasn't been audited and it isn't really that user friendly. In the modern era of the internet, I really think such software is going to be needed.
Not to continue too far down this rabbit hole here, but I wouldn't worry about the temperature of a garage as much as I'd worry about really dirty air.

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/03/23/too-...
FWIW, Motorola is very slow with software updates. My G5 plus is currently still on Android 7.0 on the June (!) 2018 security patch level and this is usual. I think that an update to 8.1 is around the corner, but they've promised an update to Oreo for over a year now...
Only after apple was caught red-handed slowing down older phones to entice users to upgrade.
> if you're anywhere near an urban center.

This isn't true even in most urban centers.
The key diff between a lawyer and a knowledgeable lay person is the nature of the duty owed by each. There is no reason that a normal literate person can't become an expert in a given legal topic, given similar levels of exposure and repetition. But the lawyer has special duties and privileges. One reason that lawyers (and legalistic non-lawyers) have this OCD "not your lawyer / not legal advice" verbal tic is the wish to be clear about when the attorney-client relationship is in play. I don't want anyone to think I owe them that duty.

It's not just a matter of "only lawyers can understand this area". Because, given exposure to the same matters, the same laws, regulators, etc., lay business people can become just as expert in legal analysis. They should still hire an attorney, of course, just as a NBA star still has a coach, the Pope a confessor, etc. etc.
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By reduce profitability, do you mean increase losses because they have literally never made money on it. Keep hammering them down and Google will eventually shut it down.
I'm less worried about uglifying URLs, and more about the 404 stuff that a few other people have posted about now. It never occurred to me that there'd be more than an extremely minimal number of sites that would error out when receiving extra query params.

That's a new one for me, I need to make sure I remember it in the future. From what I'm seeing online, it's not even necessarily considered bad practice, so... I dunno anymore.

But agreed, Facebook should back this out.
Spoken like a true Californian.
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That's true for a few, specific urban centers in the US - NYC, DC, SF, Seattle, etc. - but there are plenty of urban areas in the US with really poor public transit systems.
This is well-put.

I expected our AI overlords to be robots and talking computers.

I didn't expect AI to be a set of algorithms used to subtly manipulate peoples' thinking in such a way they don't even notice. Orwell would have had a field day with surveillance capitalism.
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Most likely near the Punggol area.
Because chances are people who are systematically impoverished are also not properly educated on how to exercise birth control in effective manners, or don't have the resources to access abortion services (especially in states where there are less than a handful of clinics that offer the services in the first place of have regulations explicitly to limit a woman's bodily autonomy rights), or had children before the breadwinner of the family was put in jail or otherwise lost their jobs due to the disproportionate choice in law enforcement in USA.

There is, in fact, a massive confluence of reasons why poor people end up having children, and shaming them for doing so instead of helping those reasons will not help anyone.
Cult activities — they teach exclusion and isolation of their members against non-subscribers. Submission of financial independence of members, they must actually tithe of 10% their wage to the cult and this is actually audited by them; they hate the LGBT community (they are hateful anti-gay cult); tax free status, they make big dollars from victims and pay nothing toward society. Evil scum.
And it hardly even touches on the development and mental health impacts on a child (or yourself) in those cases—like forgoing school trips or learning opportunities.
I don't see these things going anywhere without AR.
To calculate the gradient of a function R^n -> R^m, forward-mode AD is preferable if n << m, while reverse-mode is faster for n >> m.

From this it should be clear why machine learning uses reverse-mode.

On the other hand, forward-mode is better for e.g. calculating the tangent of a high-dimensional curve (i.e. R -> R^n).
The Protestant Reformation is exclusively a modern project. When I use the word ancient, I truly mean old. Much older than the high Middle Ages.
No, we don't. You might want to, but nobody else cares.
It's a little silly that people seem to find Chomsky hard to understand, when he himself accuses 'theory' of being hard to understand. But it should come of no surprise that people unfamiliar with the problems and terminology of a field think it's all nonsense.

So here is a counter-question: I wonder if there's an Einstein bot that generates random Einstein-sounding nonsense.
It’s interesting though that the way calculus is classically taught does not make this obvious.
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Alas, being below the poverty line and being able to live in a place where you don’t need a car rarely go together.
The next step would be a libel lawsuit against Bloomberg

I'm waiting for the libel lawsuit. The absence of one is something I can't reconcile and leads me to thinking perhaps Apple doesn't want to through the discovery process for such a lawsuit which leads me to wonder why they wouldn't...
I'm French and in France I can assure you that I mostly heard musicians being very outspoken in support of the law. That's the whole "exception culturelle française" for better or worse. France is very protectionist of its cultural industry.

But you're right that newspaper definitely favor the law as well which is a problem for unbiased reporting.
50% of Americans are in poverty or low income though. Probably worse since this data too.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/census-data-half-of-us-poor-or-...
I would put the "blame" on this shift onto successful, adult cartoons like South Park and Family Guy which took satire and 'offensive comedy" to a new level. Suddenly The Simpsons seemed old, slow and out of touch compared to the new generation.

The downside to all this satire (I've only realized recently), is that younger audiences (and even older folks) don't always recognize it, and take the jokes too literally. I believe this has helped to 'normalize' extremist views and has helped fuel the anti-political correct movement.
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It was always a hit and miss with IVs for me. Sometimes they installed it perfectly, other times it started hurting within an hour. I guess it also highly depended on the nurse - some also had a lot of trouble taking my blood, others consistently got it done within 15 seconds.

I was never asked about hand dominance so during surgery they actually put the IV in my dominant hand and hit a nerve. I couldn't use my dominant hand for a month.
I think the ring is brilliant actually. It's a practical solution to the many UI problems inherent with this medium.
Is it ever smart to turn down an early acquisition offer?
Because JS runs on the browser, so anything else is less portable.
Here is a simpler syntax:

fn accumulate tuples: &[(&'a Str, &Fn(i32) -> Bool)], i: i32 -> t
where
t: Monoid + From &'a Str + From String,

this is how Haskell with lifetimes and borrowing would look like (if arguments were not curried)
> My G5 plus is currently still on Android 7.0 on the June (!) 2018 security patch level. I think that an update to 8.1

Not as bad as most Samsung phones, I got no update at all to Samsung S4 and S4 mini and these were the last Samsungs I bought. I have Moto G4 now and a few weeks ago I got patches for last BT and WiFi KRACK attacks, better late then never I guess? My next phone will be Motorola too, it's bloat free, runs fast after 2 years, and now it will be easier to fix.
> What web framework are you using?

I can't imagine the web framework is the bottleneck...
Re: #7: it's true! Why in the hand? Because if you put it in the antecubital fossa, you force the patient to keep their arm straight so as not to cause the IV to infiltrate by bending the elbow — this effectively makes the arm unusable. By putting the IV in the back of the hand, you enable full use of that arm. In regards to your hospital experience with the two IVs you had: it's impossible to predict how long an IV will remain functional. In regards to which side to place the IV, in the ER you can omit this nicety: as we/they say, "any port in a storm."
> where is the software that circumvents internet spying and censorship?

1.) https://geti2p.net/

2.) https://www.torproject.org

3.) https://openprivacy.ca/blog/2018/06/28/announcing-cwtch/

Tor is an obvious choice here and has penetrated the mainstream when Gawker ran that article on Silk Road. Now and then newspapers run sensationalist articles on the Dark Web in an attempt to wake up the masses about Tor and its famous (unsecure) Browser Bundle.
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>You lost the tutoring money because that's how the world works. Income streams disappear, without a real reason...

Wish I could upvote this bit more.

One thing that gets us into trouble financially more than anything else is our belief that revenue streams will not go away. They DO go away. (And often at the most inopportune times.)
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It explains why you have a car, something like "because the infrastructure is insufficient", you might not agree in your locality but it's reasonable. Note also in order to work you may need to have car.

Once when we had no car we took public transport to the opposite side of town to visit the cinema .. it was 2 hours each way because of connections, afterwards we walked a few-hundred metres to the stop and waited in the rain and wind for the bus back, the wait was so long for the connecting bus that we walked the last 2 miles. Fun! We never tried it again. I've done the journey on foot since, only took 1h30m; 15mins by car, parking is free. (In a large UK town.)
Some of the top writers I picked out (Bill Oakley, Josh Weinstein, David X/S Cohen) are involved in it, but I agree it's not great.
I always get a little annoyed when articles don't just get to the point (what are endoterrestrials and talking only about them) instead of making me feel like I'm reading a novel. Thanks to your post, though, now I think I understand that it's to appeal to a wider audience (wonder if it works), and maybe to get some more appreciation or admiration for the people involved.
I'm also running this setup. Works near-flawlessly for hosting my dozen or so personal email categories
I'm curious where the display actually shows up in your eye line. One of the nice parts of Glass was the notifications never showed up directly in your line of sight, but up and to the right. Glass was a little too far out of the way, but I'm not sure I want them interfering with what I'm looking at.
Given the fact that the Protestant Reformation encompasses roughly a quarter of the lifespan of the Christian church, I'm not sure it's fair to call it "exclusively modern".
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And they said sorry and let users disable it. FWIW disabling it makes my phone turn off when I'm using it in cold so they had their reasons. Not only that, they released ios12 which makes my iphone 6 feel like new again, which is unprecedented in other OSes.
Dual numbers don't have efficiency concerns in a language like Julia where the dispatching occurs at compile time, so basically you get the same compiled code as you'd want from source-to-source transformations. The issue though is that all functions have to be generic. Dual numbers is a very easy form to allow the user to add their own overloads though and take advantage of how the AD works: this is much harder with source-to-source since you'd have to actually modify the AST transform. So there's a trade-off here in what is flexible.

But yes, dual numbers only do forward mode. However, slightly related is tracker types, like ReverseDiff.jl or Flux.jl's Tracker, where you essentially push a type forward through the code similarly to a dual number, and use this to build the computational graph which you then run backwards with the chain rule.
Such deja vu! This was my life for years.
Although that date is all over the Internet, I don't believe it and some detailed timelines for individual companies suggest a few years later. [1] [ADDED: As the sibling notes, I'm sure at least cheap slide rules were available perhaps even today. But that date is plausible for "in the US."]

They were killed off pretty quickly though. When I started college in fall on 1975 I got a TI scientific calculator which was somewhere around $100-$200. (It was required.) Prices were in sharp decline. A five function TI calculator was about the same price the year before. A year or two later an older HP model (which were higher-end calculators) was also about the same amount.

Calculators were fairly expensive at first but remember that slide rules weren't useful for adding and for a lot of calculations anyway. [They're not precise enough for everything.] So once engineers, in particular, switched to calculators, there wasn't much of a market for slide rules.

[1] http://www.sliderulemuseum.com/SR_Dates.htm
People on eBay are selling these Soviet pocket-watch style rotary slide rules:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kuzdjy3HpWg

I think they were made into the 80s.
I laughed, but try playing the guitar solo in Drop-D from the track _Wonder_ for 10m while the preacher gets excited and leads an extended prayer :D Holy hand cramps batman
Won't you spend the difference on extra rent, though?
This is so absurdly misanthropic that I can't possibly believe you're being serious.
The issue is that because banks operate on an interstate level they won't risk getting their hands dirty with weed money until congress legalizes it full stop. This creates a situation that all these businesses need to operate in cash like 1980's drug dealers or find some credit union that solely operates in the state.

During my visit of Portland the cashier of one the dispensaries described to me all the additional security measures they had to take including building a bank vault in the store. During tax season they have to hire private security and armed guards with armored vehicles to transfer duffel bags full of cash to the department of revenue who then penalizes them an additional fee for paying in large sums of cash. This is ironic because the department of state then has to go on a hiring spree and needs to purchase equipment to count out this massive amount of cash (probably millions once add up all the dispensaries).

Its a big waste of money since all the hires and equipment are unnecessary once you realize that 99% of all other businesses just pay via wire or check. I also can't imagine how much money is spent by the business trying to keep track of all the loose cash.
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Ask HN: Google offered 70k USD per year for L4 (outside USA). Why is it so low?
I am in Taiwan and months ago I rejected an offer from Google. The reason is the total package of 70K USD seems low for a job grade of L4.

I understand the salary varies depends on geography but 70K is like one third payment Google US employees earn. Not to mention Google Taiwan has its office in Taipei 101 and Taipei is one of the world's most expensive cities. Like house price, Taipei’s house price-to-income ratio is 15.5 now. A old apartment (~1000 sq. ft) without elevator can cost you 1 million USD. The affordability is just low with that salary.

I went through 5 rounds in on-site interview like others and expected a Google-league package but was suprised the recruiter insinulated that Google would only provide like 10% increase of candidate's current salary.

I would like to know is the situation similar outside US?
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Isn't that mostly due to the square/cube nature of scaling things? E.g. your wing area changes with the square of your scaling factor, but your mass changes with the cube of your scaling factor?
Potentially it was bad writers, yes. But this data does not prove this; it just shows that some writers tenure correspond with worse episodes. But so does for example the year, or potentially many other influencing factors.
I believe he is the Visual Basic product champion.
> $45,000

Enough said. We're talking about someone making under $20k here. At $45k you can easily afford a car.
It's probably not in the lede of the article because it may not be a significant factor. From what I can tell in the police scene photo [0], the windshield isn't tinted (AFAIK it is not legal to have the entire windshield tinted). The car was parked on a busy neighborhood street for 1 week, in which there were at least 2 days it would have been illegally parked because of street cleaning. He didn't get ticketed, which likely means traffic cops saw him in there and assumed he was just napping. From the article:

> Traffic officers who write parking tickets most likely passed by him at least twice, on days that his car was parked illegally. Officers looking for violators on street-cleaning days — on East 12th Street, those days were Tuesday and Friday — routinely ignore vehicles when the driver is sitting inside. Mr. Weglarz’s vehicle received no tickets on the Tuesday or Friday when it was parked illegally, suggesting an officer might have seen him and assumed he was just another idle driver.

[0] https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/10/02/nyregion/00body2/...
I disagree. They got rid of all the features that were creepy about Google Glass, focused the marketing on fashion, and narrowed the functionality to an easily usable UX. I suspect there are plenty of people that would pay $1k for these.
What does T-Mobile know about hardware repairability? They’re a carrier aren’t they? They don’t have anything to do with any hardware.
The distinction I’ve heard is called Roman law (continental) versus common law (UK, its colonies and empire).