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The latest Gmail revamp is more touch-friendly than it used to be, especially in Edge (despite Gmail's increasingly obnoxious insistence that you should only use Chrome).

The article suggests that the Mail app will never have ads for Office 365 users. Office 365 Home is often a good deal for a Surface owner anyway, as it boosts your OneDrive space, and gives you up to date copies of all the Office programs, and stuff like that.
How long until Microsoft starts inserting ads into our Github repos?
I experience a sense of euphoria if I stay up late enough - I wonder how common that experience is...
The amount of bandwidth available to a single aircraft would be much larger than it is today with this system.
I don't know if it's a myth but, I've always heard consultants say that Oracle is run like a bank by bankers, even by Oracle consultants.

A lot of lock-ins, contracts and security... for Oracle.
Funny, I had the same thought before reading. one day xkcd [0] will be considered a profit, that day is coming.

[0] https://xkcd.com/1361/
Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" has the space marines using "kiloseconds" and "megaseconds" conversationally, and it was always tricky for me to convert those to hours and minutes in my head accurately.
It seems quite a few people have been turned off by the recent mac book pro fiasco as well.
If you were willing to pay > $1000 for software and services there was no reason for companies to maintain an Ad business.

I don't think this is true, but if it is, please provide a link to prove the assertion.

I doubt that companies are selling software at a loss with the intent to make it up in ad revenue. They're selling the software at a profit, and then getting ad revenue for additional profit.

All this just to "maximize revenue potential" for a bunch of faceless investment funds.
to be entirely fair, it's not how we teach math and logic to students and readers, but all our axioms (which we still can't verify) are the result of abductive reasoning. Sometimes we discovered that a specific abductive reasoning was superfluous and could be derived from other axioms, turning the ex-axiom into a theorem. So the current axiomatic systems and their applications seem entirely deductive usages, but the axioms are in fact still of an abductive nature... this is much more visible in domains like physics, where the teeth of time has not yet gnawed as thoroughly as in the foundations of mathematics...

Edit: just adding: Some day physics might appear like an entirely deductive system (apart from a very small set of axioms or postulates), and hard to discern from the field of mathematics
As far as international law is concerned, I doubt it. Sputnik was transmitting the entire time it overflew the US.
In scientific literature we do typically use one particular preferred time unit (second being the SI units) and then exponentiating properly (eg optically driven metal to insulator transition in V2O3 occurs in 1.3 picoseconds (10^-12 s), desorption of atmospheric gasses from CoPc thin film in vacuum takes ~10^5 s (~1 day)).
Google Replaces Diane Green with Thomas Kurian as CEO of Google Cloud
I feel like we're diluting the atrocity of shitty ads when we refer to anything and everything as an ad.

Netflix's above-the-fold, skippable "Now Showing" preview on the homepage can't be compared to the unskippable videos that Amazon and Hulu force you to watch. Hell, it even remembers that you muted it. And it only plays if you sit there staring at it.

Since almost all of Netflix's competitors force you to watch ads after you click play, I'm pretty happy with what Netflix does. Seems like a perfectly fair trade-off to me.

If you don't like it, just add ".billboard-row" to your content blocker. I bet you haven't. I bet you kinda like it. ;)
Microsoft’s Building a Disc-Less Xbox One for Release in 2019
Congrats to the team at Pachyderm!
Not the OP but my most recent attempt to ditch Windows on my gaming desktop ~6 months ago was tripped up when I discovered that core software like file managers and such still crash or wig out constantly (it's always been that way, I simply used to put up with stuff like that, just hoped that had changed since I'd been away) and generally basic interactions (e.g. drag & drop) are still inconsistent and buggy. This on Ubuntu which is allegedly relatively polished. Tried KDE and Gnome both (Gnome's performance was also terrible, incidentally).

And all of it looked pretty bad. I'm a fan of (though not insistent upon using) "ugly" old school interfaces, so it's not that it wasn't "flat" or "beautiful" enough or whatever the current trend is, just lacking consistency and the result of a whole bunch of small, poorly-chosen defaults adding up to a big stew of gross. I could overlook that if it weren't also crash-prone and janky as hell, but it is.

So I'm still stuck on Mac for anything serious, and my gaming desktop sits in storage because I can't be bothered these days to screw with either Windows post-10 or Linux. Sigh.

FWIW my favorite desktop I've ever used, as far as core software, stability, desktop UI/X, compared to its contemporaries, was BeOS.
You have this opinion because you haven’t used a good desktop client yet.

I use Mailmate. It’s everything I wanted Thunderbird to be.
I almost feel like that's out of scope for your project. The "plus/minus" dynamic plays out organically on places like IRC, Stackoverflow, etc. Whereas finding an equal is somewhat harder.
Try this: http://buckets.grayhatwarfare.com
We've added a “leadership” to the title to help clarify.
It's mostly dominated by biotech and defense jobs out here. You can find plenty of startup jobs but obviously the number of openings is nowhere near SF, where I came from.

Carlsbad up north is another hotspot with lots of tech startups.
Why don't you like package managers?
AppFS is a package manager for Linux that exists and solves all these problems, except the "putting them on different disks", which it doesn't prevent you from doing but it doesn't really make any sense either.

http://appfs.rkeene.org/
Yes, and water freezing is a totally arbitrary value.

Fahrenheit is scaled such that 0 is about the coldest it gets where I live, and 100 is about the hottest. (Very approximately, but close enough). That strikes me as a lot nicer in practice (since 99% of the time people are talking about temperature, it’s related to weather) than something based on the physical properties of a particular substance.

Also water freezing at 0 and boiling at 100 is only valid for a specific, non-metric, air pressure.
For me, email is absolutely mission critical. $40 is an absolute steal for the software I use the most in my business & spend lots of time in every day personally. It's cheaper than Sublime Text too.

If you do feel that's a lot, try the demo first to see if you like it, and maybe wait for Black Friday in case they have a sale.
> Most undergraduate students aren't ready to participate in research.

Part of the reason may be that most undergraduate students didn't enroll to university to do research; they came for the degree they need to have a shot at getting better-paying jobs. Reintroducing vocational schools and making university research-focused again could help increase research-readiness of undergraduates.
Not likely. The issues were far deeper than cash flow.

The new business was primarily one and done visitors anyway. By the time you've made the trip to the foodie Mecca of Portland and traveled across town to try the "country's best burger" would you really be deterred by a $15 price tag vs $10?
How much would you have to raise the price to make that work? How do you do this without forever alienating your loyal local customers once you have successfully chased the hordes away?
John Wharton is known as the architect of the Intel 8051. For many years he was a principal contributor to Microprocessor Report offering insightful and sometimes humorous views on computers and computer architecture. He was a primary organizer for the annual iconic Asilomar Microprocessor Workshop, an influential invitational conference which brought designers and architects from companies and academia together for informal technical discussions. He also spent several years as co-host and co-organizer of the Stanford EE380 Computer Systems Colloquium. He was a friend.
Most comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18470501.
Unless you think Assange is an international legal expert I don't really get your point.. His behavior seemed rational for a man who kicked a bee hive unless you don't believe in bees.
>How precisely does revealing the hidden reality suddenly reduce how pleasing something is to the senses?

How "pleasing something is to the senses" is a complex phenomenon, not some crude constant -- and it's subjective basis has a lot of interplay with eras, norms, goals, and lots of other stuff, including how we feel and what we know about it.

When you know how the "sausage is made" you can like it less, even to the point of affective how pleasant the taste is to you.
> How do you prove to the politicians that a particular scientific investment is worth it?

You vote someone who is already convinced of it.
300 million is a lot of money, I wonder if it would have been better spent elsewhere
He's going to be used as the heavy-hitter salesman that goes around and says "I see you're using Oracle, I know Oracle, trust me when I say GCP will meet your needs" and he'll have tremendous credibility saying that.
Quickly scanning comments I do not think anyone else has brought up: administrative bloat.

More money is being spent on science, but is more money actually making it through the administrative bloat encumbering most institutions to the actual performance of research?

Anecdotally, I have a colleague who has received funding from the NSF and the amount of regulations and paperwork and various travel and meeting-related obligations related to the funding soak up so much of the actual dollar amount supplied. (You have to use your funding dollars to satisfy the various required meetings, travel, and paperwork-filling.) The constraints are so ridiculous that satisfying them consumes nearly all the resources the NSF provided, and the little that remains is actually not sufficient to perform the research with. Worse, he has now wasted months of his time satisfying various oversight requirements administrated by both the NSF and the research institution he works in, leaving him an unreasonably small amount of time to actually achieve any significant progress on his work. Once this round of funding dries up, he will be left with no choice but to repeat the process in order to secure some more funding to continue to barely make progress on his stated research goal.

If I had to make up a number to describe the dollar efficiency of research funding, in some cases I might assert it is negative: Not only is it just being soaked up by self-serving, efficiency-draining administrative requirements, it literally destroys the most valuable resource (time!), leaving the researcher with none to actually engage in their subject matter of expertise.
The link seems down.

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Are they on Coursera or edX? Or are they on they're own platform?

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Ahh! Looks like are hosted own their own sites. I will take a look at adding these. If you want, you can email me (admin@stacks.courses) a way to contact you and I can give you an update when I have added these.
if civilization fails....how we are going to measure these things? Or then, we'll have bigger problems so who cares
It's possible this guy doesn't like Oracle culture either, and it's why he left Oracle. I mean, in a an infinite universe and all that.
I only read personal mail in the web browser, its too much to maintain a mail app if you have to do more than enter much more than enter your username and password.
You have various lisps at your disposal, with my favourite Guile offering a full working Concurrent ML implementation instead of the almost-CML offered by Go.
How Can Blockchain Safeguard Entertainment Industry from Piracy?
A tad OT, but I'd note that the issue is also contingent on one's world view.

Christianity (the religion with which I'm most familiar) holds that each individual is ultimately held accountable by/to God for his/her behaviour.

EDIT FOR CLARIFICATION: I'm not claiming that Christian doctrine is against governments being in instrument of justice. I'm simply pointing out that in Christian doctrine, every individual will also face God's justice after he/she is dead. Which is quite different from saying they will "never" face justice.

I have no desire to start a HN flamewar regarding whether or not that Christian doctrine is accurate.

Why, then, did I post this comment at all? Because (as I mentioned in another comment), the parent made a claim with a suppressed premise that certain Christianity (and perhaps Judaism, Islam, etc.) doctrines are factually inaccurate. I considered that noteworthy.
and I guess delayed signalling implies mental time travel and consciousness, which being special and mysterious to us implies an expensive process - but maybe consciousness isn't expensive, and maybe it can be of only certain discrete things (like whatever bees might be conscious of).

Dogs like yours are undoubtedly conscious.
>Also, this is not a matter of what we "like" or "dislike". It's a matter of how reality is or isn't, and what we like or dislike has no bearing on that.

What we know about how reality is or isn't has a very big impact on what we like or dislike.
Agree, the purpose of education is to build people up. It should be academically broad, and consisting of other character building activities so that when someone leaves an institution they are a much "better" or at least more developed person than when they came. Not destroy their psyche while at the same time imparting a few useful skills.
So You Want to Be a Pentester?
Funny since they were banned from making anything aerospace related after WWII.
I'm pretty good at Python and do most of my work in it nowadays, but if I need to make a data visualization, I still go to R just for ggplot2. Nothing currently in Python compares (not even the "ggplot2 port"), and it takes an order of magnitude longer to make a comparable viz.
Enjoyed the article. This reminds me a lot of what Groupon used to do to restaurants in the early days. They would just get slammed by hundreds of crabby people looking to one and done them for a half priced meal. Obviously as Groupon became more ubiquitous this lessened, but I do vividly remember going to a hot dog and burger place and finding the two owner-operators absolutely miserable as a line of 20 people formed out their door.

Back to the article: seems this is why Shake Shack succeeded and prospered with one store being inundated by customers. I'm sure this place has a lot of smart money wanting to use their name and recipe. Maybe not such a bad outcome?
You almost sound like you think the New York Times is a communist front organisation.
No, we didn't get free opioid samples. I can't imagine many docs got paid, either (I certainly got neither, nor would I have accepted them). What we actually got was a tsunami of alleged literature that said we should be doing more about non-malignant pain and that addiction was a minor risk. And, well, most of us bought it. Of course, look at who turned out to be behind it.
Seriously you can charge for a piece of software or you can put ads in it. I'm fine with either. But don't do both.

Exactly how many dollars more would I have to pay for the Win10 license to not see ads? I'd like that thanks.
I already made it clear that I totally agree metric should be standard in engineering or scientific applications. I wasn’t aware that this isn’t the case in the US — thanks for the info. I believe it is at least 95% the case in the US and I think we should make every effort to get that to 100%.

I still stand by my argument that it does not matter much for everyday life.
Odd choices... since 1000 seconds is ~17 minutes and 1M seconds is 4.6 hours.
I have a feeling we're rapidly going towards most paid services having ads.

This is why I won't subscribe to Hulu. If I'm paying for it, I'm not going to watch ads unless I absolutely have to. And "absolutely have to" is why I pay for satellite TV. Can't wait until I move to a place with OTA TV again. I don't mind watching ads on broadcast TV because it's free.
We've seen a big shift over the last 75 years or so from most science being funded by corporate research to most science being funded by government agencies.
Are there similar stories of promising tech companies that achieved overnight fame but couldn't handle it and shut down?
As opposed imperial constants? How is a foot standardized anyway? I suspect most manufactures rely on SI metrics for that.
These books are must for every HR and startup co-founders
It is opening for me..
When the big, fatal limousine crash happened in New York a few weeks back, it seemed like there were GoFundMes being shared around Facebook before any details of the accident were released. I saw at least 6 different campaigns being shared at the same time the news outlets were beginning coverage.

It looks like now GFM has created a special page for the "event", and over half a million has been donated.

I can't even put into words why this makes me uncomfortable, but something about it feels skeevy. It's difficult to have a rational conversation about it without detracting from the tragedy itself.
:D

I would visit this place a couple times per year.

It was a place you took someone to for a special time. And when done that way, as it was done for me (Thanks Joe P), the need to respect that seems obvious, built right in.

With life being how it is sometimes, it has been a while.

Damn. This story makes me sad.
Interestingly, a week can roughly be approximated as 10k minutes (with an error of less than 1%).
I am sure this is going to happen.

For anyone curious about vscode, there is a fork called "VSCodium" which is vscode without any telemetry shit in it.

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium
What "nose dive"? It has never been better.
Also in the book "A Deepness in the Sky" by Vernor Vinge. In the beginning of the book there was a convenient chart for converting to our customary earthly time units.
So...How many Planck's is one Kilogram then?

>The mass of the international prototype of the kilogram m(K) is equal to 1 kg within a
relative standard uncertainty equal to that of the recommended value of h at the time this Resolution was adopted, namely 1.0 × 10-8 and that in the future its value will be determined experimentally,

Is the Planck simply the most standard deviation the kilogram can stray from now?
I liked 8.1 because they compartmentalized the new junk—with a start menu replacement app (of which there were many), you could get away with never touching the Metro apps and just using a faster, cleaner, more secure version of Windows 7.
Is there a reason to why google is doing this? From what I get from my friends Google has issues with employee growth and it's pretty easy to stagnate. If google keeps going outside for leadership roles then is it overlooking capable internal employees?
I think "entering in a few details about 10 years ago into Mail.app" is a little hard to describe as "maintain".

I have to go to far more effort for my email accounts that are still web based, having to sign in every so often and do the 2fa dance.
1. The correlation between surveillance increase and crime decrease does not prove causation.
2. As noted in the article video survelliance is not the same as facial recognition. The latter is far more powerful.
It's odd to me that so many people seem to dislike this comment. My experience with MacOS has gotten more and more negative with each update. I upgraded to Mojave a few weeks ago (because the OS would not stop nagging me to) and I've had nothing but problems since.
Give the locals a loyalty card that gives them half-price burgers.
With Amazon in Europe it's especially bad because if you accidentally buy something from an FBA vendor, you won't get a proper VAT invoice. And this makes accounting a pain in the ass.

Every other online store sends you a proper invoice. But FBA vendors will send you sketchy invoices that make it clear they aren't paying their taxes. Which is bad, because that means as a business customer you're on the hook....
> Just hoping the secondary ones are NOT also made from platinum

They are. They are made identically to the primary.
Elementary is a great project. I am about to build a box for a single mother with two kids and I am thinking about using elementary for it because of its ease of use and similarity to mac.
You could say the same thing about most Imperial units, but most people still prefer the metric system.
"I see you're building an app with a shopping cart. Why not just sell your wares on Shopify!"
My wife recently ordered five storage boxes. They arrived in two packages on the same day. One package neatly fit four of the boxes. The other package was large enough for five, and contained one storage box and a excessive amount of packing material. Not an Amazon purchase, so it must be an industry issue.
>but it doesn't really make any sense either.

I don't need every program on my SSD. Makes perfect sense.
This post is of course talking about the difference between MLE and MAP estimation. Consider the converse case: you flip a coin once and observe it is heads. Do you then conclude that the probability of heads is 100%? No, because even though you have data supporting that claim, you also have a strong prior belief in what your probability of heads should roughly be. This is encoded in the beta distribution, as mentioned in the article
Could you please stop creating throwaways to break the guidelines with? We'll ban the main account if you keep on.
Chief Architect.
Cubase.
Photoshop, InDesign.
Games that don’t work in Wine (eg Fortnite)
Epic, Allscripts, Cerner frontends.
That's great and all, and I'm sure he'll be very successful at that, but what if he also tries to develop some products?
I don't disagree, as I've been to both places in the past year scoping it out. But what has me intrigued about Tulsa is how far they are going to improve the area.

Let's assume this experiment works, and they draw 200 high-wage tech and creative class workers to the area. Over time, a community forms, startups are launched, and investments are drawn to the area. Quality of life improves, and it draws more of these workers and there's a sort of multiplier effect that transforms the area.

IMO Dallas and/or Austin would be a no-brainer but the cost of living has shot up dramatically in the past few years. But in the end, I guess you get what you pay for.
I used to work right next to Union Square in San Francisco, and the restaurant right across the street would give us a 'locals' card that would get us $5 off the crazy high prices. That way, locals could eat a normal meal but they could keep the tourist traffic at a reasonable level.
> 1M seconds is 4.6 hours.

Really? :)
Steam support for linux is really going places. I mostly play indie games and older games (so nothing too resource intensive) and Steam's custom wine distribution has been handling them really well. I think I might wipe my windows partition in the next month or so.
Love this project! Git for data is such a brilliant concept
Altair hands down. I've tried and worked with a lot of those in data analysis, Altair just seems like 'magic'.

What should be easy is easy, what is hard is still possible - for me it's the perfect mix. The only (but a big one) drawdown is the peformance implication of the JSON generated for chart - over 50k lines of raw data for chart, you start to feel the lag.
I've never heard anyone claim that as the reason for its superiority. Metric is superior because it makes sense as a system.
It doesn't say why they need this for azure.
There are a couple biotech companies working on less resistant drugs for Aspergillosis (such as Scynexis and Cidara Therapeutics). That being said, they're just in trials, and probably 2-4 years from commercialization.