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Whats the issue with using 500mb memory? I have 8gb on a 5 year old computer.
AFAIK, the SEC does not require publishing unit volume figures.
> Why would 50/50 gender parity across all industries ever be a desirable goal?

If women and men "are indeed biologically identical in their job preferences" you could argue a good measure for real equality of opportunity would be 50/50 parity across industries. Because given a fair shake everyone would be evenly distributed across all industries (since we have the same preferences).
"You can do what you want, but you can't want what you want."

- Lawrence of Arabia
Philosophy is also much more formal than it was 1000 years ago (e.g. compare [1] to [2]). Indeed, the formalization of mathematics was driven by philosophers trying to put mathematical reasoning on an adequate foundation.

[1] https://mally.stanford.edu/Papers/ontological.pdf

[2] https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/anselm-proslogium.asp
Never mind Electron. Soon it will become normal to install web apps on desktop, directly from the browser—it will be basically a website rendered in a separate window without any browser UI. That system will not have Electron’s memory problems.
You make it sound like you, the user, have a choice in the matter.

You're not "making something available" and they're not asking you for permission. They taking it if they want it and you can't do anything about it.

I think that's what people object to most, the loss of freedom to say no, this is mine, it's private and I control who has access to it.
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Verizon plans to revamp its units: Oath becomes separate segment
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> Philosophy to me is a kind of fanciful thinking.

Then you don't properly understand philosophy.

One thing philosophy does is help you construct valid arguments and to recognize fallacies, which are very useful, practical skills.

I took a course on logic as part of my undergrad degree, and it was there that I learned about De Morgan's laws -- which I use frequently when I'm programming.

Moral philosophers confront some really big issues, but they're not all bizarre hypotheticals. Many of them have real-world consequences, such as the debate over euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Philosophy is not all about navel-gazing. It's unfortunate that so many people hold mistaken views about it.
> it was strange to see so many accomplished, professional women in a culture that gave women no special treatment whatsoever.

The evidence was in front of you here too: women broke into law and medicine which were arguably the professions with the most prestigious "boy's club" status, and they did it with little help once it was legal.

The idea that a bunch of "neckbeards" with keyboards could scare away women from STEM is bordering on the absurd.
That is not the scientific method at all. The point of science is to make a plausible conjecture and try to prove it false. When you honestly can't falsify your conjecture, then you put some faith in it as a good explanation. This is a logically sound way to try and understand the universe, but you never prove or verify anything - you just get plausible beliefs. Math has proofs, and trusting someone else is politics.
> homes weren't priced as investments, they were priced as products

Careful there, you really need to understand the difference between an investment and a product.

I bought a very nice lawn tractor as an "investment" so I wouldn't have to pay someone to mow my lawn.

The land your home is on is always an investment. Land doesn't depreciate like a product does.

But even then, when you use the term investment, I think you conflate "for profit" versus better deal. A home can be an investment as long as you have a tangible benefit over renting. That can be anything from lower long-term cost, to having the exact kind of living space you want.

For example: I owned a home for a little over 3 years before I had to move. We sold it for inflation + cost of some improvements, and at the end it was slightly cheaper than renting... But we enjoyed the house so much more, and the house was in much better condition than a rental. We were able to do things like install an electric car charger and central air conditioning; things that would be much more difficult in a rental situation.
I think you're being quite disrespectful in claiming that Bohm's theory is only appealing to "non technical" people, because it hides "scary" parts.

The appeal of Bohm is that it results in QM that is deterministic, without needing to resort to ill-defined notions of collapse.

I'm quite sure "hiding the scary equations" has absolutely zero to do with it, and it honestly comes across as offensive to suggest that it is.
Closest to a password killer I've used so far is the built-in iCloud Keychain. My iPhone and MacBook both have access to the same passwords and most of the are randomly generated.
Consider: Mallory wants to access Alice's account on a website.

1. Mallory enters Alice's username and a random password

2. Website sends back Alice's plaintext password to be checked client side

3. Mallory inspects network traffic and retrieves Alice's plaintext password

It's also bad if the hash is sent back; now Mallory can run all sorts of attacks on the hash itself without worrying about rate limits or any other protection the site operator could implement.
Hah. And with any luck some of your light fingered guests help you reduce your collection.

But seriously I think the appeal of these things also reflects a completely different lifestyle. These days if you really think you'll have unexpected overnight guests you'll have a sleeper sofa instead of a Murphy Bed. My wife collects Singer Featherweight portable electric sewing machines. With the low cost of new and used clothes plus so few learning to sew I can't think of anything more absurdly useless. Although in her defense she's made use of it herself I don't think anyone under 40 would have any use for it unless they're trying to start a retro YouTube channel.
Why should employment be treated as a shroud?

If you spend the majority of your time working to abuse your fellow man, I don't respect that, and see no reason why I should.

That is not, and should not be accepted as, a "normal life".

Advertising companies are a disease.
I think you're right, and that's what makes Apple such a historically powerful company. They're the most valuable public company on the planet and there are still things where I'm like "if they just did this they could be so much bigger."

That's insanely impressive; to be honest, would you rather the situation be "they're the largest company on the planet and they're extracting all the growth opportunities in the market that I can see?"
I currently work in an environment where I don't have access to a password manager, yet I am expected to have unique passwords for each service, and rotate passwords every month, and am not allowed to store passwords somewhere. Of course, this method requires you to remember more passwords than practically possible.

If all accounts would have sane restrictions on the password it would become trivial to have something both secure and convenient. I have been looking for a system that allows me to:
1. Does not require me to remember an absurd amount of information.
2. Allows me to login to services, even from other devices.
3. Has a unique password for each service (so that it is not disastrous if one password leaks).

We could have one master password, use site and username (and maybe a counter, to make it easy to rotate passwords) as salt, and use a hashing or password derivation algorithm to derive a unique password for each service. This would only require you to pick and remember a strong master password.
Pains of not being a mammal. Turns out if your children's lives don't depend on your filtered blood, protection and teaching skills, evolution doesn't optimize for you not starving after your reproductive organs mature. Fascinating.
Glad you at least have a sense of humour, even if perhaps your critical thinking is lacking - it's likely you're just not motivated or interested enough in the topic to be able to have a deeper conversation around it, yet still replying as if you're somehow an expert on it or more knowledgable/experienced about it than I am.
And what would that be? Because it is lispy? Or because of the restrictive GNU licenses?
I don't believe so, I remember learning about Public Key Infrastructure a while ago. It's one of those things (kind of like git) where there is a steep learning curve up front, but once you understand it seems simple.

A password manager on the other hand is just a place to store credentials. Credentials is a concept that most people understand. A password manager in this context could be as simple as a text file on your desktop (not a great idea), or the one included with your browser (a little better, but make sure you set a master password), but if you want more features there are more sophisticated options available.
Internal turmoil and a shrinking audience have pushed HQ Trivia to the brink
"These answers to age-old questions are popular right now, so I'm just going to declare 'Problem solved!' and attribute it to philosophical progress".

That's some hard-hitting philosophy right there.
I'm curious, where do you work now and who are your clients? I worked in Asia and the work culture with the Chinese (mainlanders) and those of Chinese-descent (Chinese Malaysians, Chinese Singaporean) was more challenging than working with Americans.

When I was in advertising, stories of people working and staying (as in sleeping over) during the weekends was not uncommon. Clients would call me at 11pm asking for a concall with my staff. 12 hours a day for weeks on end, including working weekends, were common place.

We were able to hire great talent just by promising that we'd never ask our staff to work weekends and hardly ever after 7pm on a workday. We had mostly US clients so that was an easy thing for us to day.

This culture shifted a bit when stories of young agency people in Hong Kong and other Asian cities dying from exhaustion became a big deal 4-5 years ago. But its still very workaholic culture.

Don't get me wrong, Americans work insane hours compared to Indonesians or the French, but parts of Asia is a whole other level of madness.
Why do you think of equality as equal outcome? Instead of equal opportunity.
Or you can just distribute the apps without using the platform's payment processor.

No one says you have to use Apple's payment processor. Direct users to sign up on your website and then have them download the apps free of charge.

Btw; So does Google and Microsoft. They all take a cut of every app sale. The difference is the rate they take out.

Oh, for Apple, it's 30% the first year of the sub only, it goes down to 15% after that.
> what regulation forces a company to report how much it sells of X?

That's not what was asked. What was asked is if they can just change what they usually report because it looks bad.
What they can do is simply buy up companies that have already built leading positions in emerging tech markets. When you have such fat stacks of cash sitting around, it's an easy growth strategy.
> ...perhaps its best to leave the field of sex differences to experts who continue to study but do not have the answers or data to draw any conclusions.

A difficulty here is the substantial liberal bias in social sciences[1]. How can we avoid it affecting the outcomes of their studies?

[1]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-social-science...
Online video and Maps.

Markets that started before the iPhone and when Apple was collaborating very closely with Google.

Apple let Google win in those markets without opposition and then Google stabbed Apple in the back with Android.

Reminder that the original iOS versions had YouTube built in, and Google Maps.
Weird to me how a certain type of mind sees "Political Correctness" in everything they don't like. It's a very conspiratorial mindset.
> For women every day, those negative experiences are the difference from men that keep them from being in the industry.

That's conjecture that isn't supported by any evidence. And in fact, there's considerable evidence that women don't choose STEM for far more fundamental reasons.

The very existence of the gender equality paradox, and the fact that women have achieved gender parity in fields they actually care about but which were arguably even more sexist, like medicine and law, and did it without people fawning over whether they are having "negative experiences", completely undermines your narrative.
"I thought X would get me Y and being disappointed."

This is most of us, most of the time, in most endeavours, and I don't think it's a gender thing.
I don't think the author has discovered user generated content before.
“High five” in Java
I am bad at the economy thing so I have a question:

Is Apple increasing the price of iPhones to keep up with revenue growth ?
My mom, my little brother and I also have Ankylosing spondylitis and in my country we get free and the best possible treatment. With that in mind, there is no cure and there is not even much effort put into research of a cure. But with a good treatment plan your daily life quality can improve a lot.

I have earlier asked my doctor about stem cell treatment, but my doctor says this is very experimental and lacks a good amount of good research. And since Ankylosing Spondylitis isn't exactly life threatening, it is not worth it.

Currently I take NSAIDs, especially newer medicines like Vimovo https://www.vimovo.com/ helps a lot, but is not something you should take every day. I take it mostly during the long winter months here in Norway, because low temperature makes me really stiff. Chat with your doctor about options here. My mom get tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNFα) blockers, she says it helps her, but I've said no for now as I don't want to weaken my immune system and I can live with the pain I have now.

Another thing that really helps is regular exercise, you probably already know about it, but you are probably also like me, that just starting with exercise is just difficult. Anyway, you should exercise 3-4 times a week with minimum 30 minutes of sweating. For me it helps a lot when my back is really stiff. And as part of our awesome public health treatment we all get 4 weeks of sick leave annually. Where we travel as group to Turkey / Spain and go through an exercise plan. That is really something that has helped me to still be able to work 100%, You should do something similar even if it cost you money.
You should chat with the former founders of Etacts W10.
Unfortunately you can't install tracking protection for their desktop app, so you'll have to mess with a Pi-Hole or modifying your hosts file or something...
I've had some experience with Humira for my Psoreasis. I have been able to be off the meds for almost 5 years, after around 9 months on it, due to work circumstances, that made it impossible for the self-injections.
What about a throwaway email? Does that leak device data?

(This whole thing reminds me of “Your post advocates a ... approach to spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why...” And maybe warrants a similar parody.)
It was a surprise to see the Glaucus atlanticus photo. Didn't expected to see this 'blue dragon' in a kelp forest. Always photogenic and always dangerous.

A living proof that molluscs can be very alien in its own ways.
If Netflix wasn't already such a over-inflated company (P/E of 110), they would outright buy the company.
> One of the things I miss most about working for Microsoft was all the great internal tooling

Like what? I am not trying to be snarky here. I honestly would like your feedback. From my perspective Linux is way better than Microsoft in this regard, but maybe I am just looking at/using the wrong MS tools?
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That's also multiplied by the number of tabs that you have open. A medium tab is right now taking up 200mb and so is Amazon. I have over 3 browser windows open with many tabs and need to use extensions to auto kills tabs so that the OS doesn't end up into swap space territory. I also run Android Studio and an emulator on the side which compete for memory.
For sure? I skimmed the whole thing and couldn’t immediately find any other jokes. Seems an odd choice to throw in one random deadpan comment about the coincidence of 31 being near a power of two.
As a professional diesel mechanic, I find most of the points in this article pretty difficult to understand outside the context of, say, Hollywood? or maybe iPhones? Do programmers really have to show this kind of reckless drive? This hasnt been a thing in tradecraft since...forever i dont think...and if it is, its punished pretty severely.

An example: if im rebuilding the idler and pitman assembly on a fourteen ton truck, theres no hustle. there is no competition to do it "the fastest." You do it right, because if that assembly fails in a turn you could cause a pretty horrible accident. Depending on what that professional driver hauls (benzene, chlorine, pesticides, etc...), you might find your "hustle" on the evening news as the police evacuate some poor suburb.

If you're writing a web application, shouldnt you take care to make sure its secure and well written? Just because nobody had to pick hair out of a windshield doesnt mean a hacked webapp doesnt ruin just as many lives.
Apple already has a smart home initiative; what am I missing?

There were early complaints that Apple was making too many demands on manufacturers with regards to security, but given the utter shitshow that is IoT these days, it sure seems like it was a good idea.
I think the editor was just one of the 16KB ROMS. But you are right. Wordwise was an incredible text editor and it also fitted in a 16KB ROM.

32KB was the total RAM you had on a BBC Micro B.
>> advertising workers themselves have drunk the Koolaid that used to only be peddled to consumers

Please don't blame the victim. The slaves have no choice, they have to dance like their masters require them to. The "choice" to quit their jobs simply doesn't exist since there are fewer and fewer jobs for more and more hungry and desperate poor (payed just to live to another paycheck, making sure they end up in the streets should they put up some resistance at the pressure to dance as they are told).
Show me on this doll of the org chart where the responsibility was abdicated.

If you're a summer intern, sure, you can go home and feel good about getting extra credit. If you're the CEO who pushes dark patterns and chooses to sacrifice security for profit, you should toss-and-turn at night. But at which point can we say, "you, the person who knowingly implemented this piece of shit pattern that enables malware to be delivered straight into my machine, did a bad thing, and are personally culpable"?
Excuse my peevishness, but your attitude is typical of programmers who decide to dabble in "nice formatting". I downloaded the epub book in the expectation that the typography would be a shambles, and it was.

I get that this is a hobby for you. But the arrogance and vanity of software folks who think they can do typographic design (without any training, eye for type, or respect for the real skill and tradition of typography) just leads to bad results.

This goes very much for http://sile-typesetter.org as well, for example.

I probably sound completely intolerant. What I'm trying to say is: your smugness is misplaced.
Interesting. I choose to manually pay all my bills, and avoid monthly subscriptions for things. This allows me to see billing shenanigans as soon as companies attempt them, rather than months later. Comcast just recently raised my bill by 15% or so because that's what they do, and I was able to avoid it before paying it. With auto-pay I would have just kept paying the higher rate. I also try to manually pay everything to avoid forgetting subscriptions, like OP mentioned.
SoftBank CEO says Khashoggi killing may have impact on Saudi-backed Vision Fund
Feedback to my new idea/app QLinks
Also never loading and getting CORS errors but not sure what preload is.

Failed to load https://node0.preload.ipfs.io/api/v0/refs?r=true&arg=QmccRaH...: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'https://vitriol.co' is therefore not allowed access. If an opaque response serves your needs, set the request's mode to 'no-cors' to fetch the resource with CORS disabled.
Why is this different from all of the other "stay connected with your true circle of friends" apps that we (as a tech-based community) keep pumping out as The Answer to Social Media™?
Great idea. This way when this powerful gigantic entity will screw up, or worse, misbehave, all your life will be destroyed at once. It's very efficient !
I think you're unnecessarily dismissive of pilot waves and people who accept them. There are plenty of compelling properties of pilot wave theories, like a proper accounting of measurement.

Even John Bell of Bell's theorem suggested that the greatest problem facing physics was integrating the non-locality of QM with relativity, and the fact that pilot waves place this non-locality front and centre is a feature not a bug, because other interpretations can more easily sweep this under the rug only for difficulties to show up later.

Also, there are many perfectly fine relativistic extensions of pilot wave theories, so that claim is factually incorrect. They haven't settled on a canonical one, but pilot wave physicists get probably 0.01% of the funding of other physics work, so that's hardly surprising.
Memory problems aren't inherent to electron, they are inherent to html/js apps and you can also see that in chrome by opening up your task manager. Even small websites with minimal content end up taking 100+mb in memory.
It has always been possible to install web apps from browser, chrome has supported it since a number of years but they haven't caught on as much.
Proving the legitimacy of a photo or video is a great problem to try to solve in the age of "fake news" accusations and extremely powerful editing software.
Yes. Units sold is down across the market and Apple is no exception, but Apple’s revenue is at record highs.
And it's a partner with Tableau? Yeah that sounds pretty good! Thanks for the tip.
Ask for Their Thoughts
The Subway Bomber’s Journey to 42nd Street, Captured on Camera
I do similar where I have 60 tabs and 5 windows open, a few servers, text editors, etc...

But I can always close tabs.
A pre-print is what it is: a version you put online before actually publishing your paper in a conference or a journal. In no field whatsoever an online pre-print is considered equivalent or sufficient compared to a peer-reviewed publication. I wonder which field you are talking about. We're talking about pay to publish here, not pay to read.
I know that environment well, you pretty much have to come up with a hash function you can do in your head. Is it secure? Maybe you can pull it off. I think most people can't, and that's what leads to people writing down passwords.
I concur. This used to happen to my system but appears to have been fixed. The last few updates did not reinstall unwanted apps and they have remained uninstalled.

The fact that the stuff is even there to begin with leaves a bad taste in my mouth still, but glad to see the OS is now properly respecting the opt-out at the very least
My wife had HSCT to treat MS a year and a half ago. So far some symptoms went away, others stayed, but most importantly she hasn't got worse. Fingers crossed it will stay that way.
Any idea what Humira costs with an "average" insurance in the US?
Yes Hackernews is useful