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Chipotle’s Mandatory Arbitration Agreements Are Backfiring Spectacularly
New York Times misinterpreted what “access” means in latest Facebook freakout
+1 for deterministic, I use (and wrote) MemPa: https://hackernoon.com/how-i-manage-my-passwords-technical-v...
Are you really arguing that the language is not “good”? Sure, there are things not to like about it, but the widespread adoption of Go as a systems programming language is evidence alone that it is a “good” language.

Good is such an ambiguous term that I’m not sure it’s even worth using. For one person, only esoteric languages like Haskell are “good”, for another person, Python or Javascript are “good” enough.
> Such as?

Shadow profiles for example.
My one concern with pass is that it doesn't encrypt filenames; it's a real pity, as that's an information leak itself.
Absolutely not. See my top level comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18737321
Okay, so we've gone from "this is a national disgrace" to "everyone's doing it now" real fast.
Could someone explain to me what this is used for ?

I know what Mechanical Turk is. I know what "annotation" is (and I'm proud of it) but beyond that I don't understand what this is useful for.

Thanks.
I'm not a programmer. My job has different hour requirements than a typical salaried position.. Sometimes I work 4 hours one day, sometimes 20+ hours. The variability is exciting, almost like a slot machine, some days I get lucky and have a lot of work all day which means more money to spend, other days the work isn't there and I go home by noon (which I consider also being lucky) to play with the kids, work on home projects, go shopping, hang out with wife, watch Netflix/YouTube.

I have gotten so much enjoyment from work and the income it generates that I have decided to put my major hobbies/travel on hold. Maybe if tax law changes in the future punish me for high productivity, then I might cut back and do more non job activities.

I would imagine it is hard for a programmer to maintain this schedule because the pay isn't on the same basis as mine (eat what you kill versus salary). However, certain other aspects of a 7 day workweek apply to being a programmer: if you get tired and don't want to continue working, you can just go home and work on it the next day. No Friday crunch time. No pre vacation crunch time. Every day is more relaxed because you just took two major deadlines off your schedule: Fridays and vacations.
It was really the EEC that has created this environment - not the EU as we know it, i.e. Treaty of Lisbon.

So you're arguing on my behalf: an 'EEC-like' Union would be very popular all around, and as you point out yourself 'helps with stability'.

A full on political union I suggest is the opposite of stability.

I think the EU should be 'thrown out' only because it cannot be reformed, but that a set of treaties could preserve the best parts of it - particularly those issues related to trade, some degree of tax harmonization and the ability to create some EU-level policies or regulations.

It's sad frankly because the EU is actually 'mostly good' - but it has existential flaws.

It's going to be a tough few decades in Europe.
That most likely has nothing to do with it. These sort of things happen with previous relationships of some faculty with academics inside Google. There is no "long term" play of let's quash the competitors.

Higher ranked schools are often better at research as well, you can get more bang for your buck than lesser ranked schools.
If Facebook’s developer teams have faster build times, they can create more horrible, unethical, revenue generating features per hour.
FB could have kept Buck for themselves but chose not to.
One might also wonder how long it took Java to respond to user complaints, and I would suspect Go core team has been much faster addressing these issues and responding to developers.
Mxyzptlk. No, wait: Kltpzyxm.
I go back and forth on government regulation in the domains of the FCC. On the one hand, you have the BBC, which seems to produce interesting TV when compared to all the fluff on US TV, however, it also banned airing certain things back in the day. The BBC does well here where it can be chosen, but the Brits didn't have much choice. I remember visiting my cousins in Ireland and England in 1984, and my cousin in England only had three or four channels. Some could argue that FCC regulation led to what we have today (not Netflix and other variants) on broadcast television. I found this podcast interesting on the subject of the FCC:

https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/free-thoughts/sad-hi...
The fact that stupid people spend a lot of money on the lottery is a feature, not a bug. It allows us to extract much needed tax revenue from them without them even realizing it. Because of this, they're happier with government than they would be if they were taxed directly. This reduces the risk of extremist (communist, socialist, nazi, etc) politicians sweeping into power by riding the discontent of the masses.
I have high hopes for Electron. In some regards, it feels like the new Java. I remember in the early days, using Eclipse and thinking how bad the performance was, but appreciated all the functionality it brought, despite being written in Java. Now days, I am in love with the JetBrains IDEs, and don't think twice about the fact they are Java. The performance is great, and they look good (IMHO). I suspect that in the future we will feel the same way about Electron apps.
I think the innovation is entirely focused on making the narrative of game more cinematic. The way dynamic gameplay lines up perfectly with cut scenes... and stuff like that.

I can understand why those innovations don't really count for a lot of hardcore gamers. You are typically looking for innovations in AI, persistent world features (memory optimization), game decisions that effect the world and game play (branching trees).

RDR2 isn't a revolution from a technology perspective. But it's revolutionary from an artistic one.

The attention to detail in animal behavior is my favorite part about the game. I'm sure there are many geniuses at Rockstar but what made this game was beautiful craftsmanship.

I think when this game eventually gets the VR remake like Skyrim recently did, people will be able to appreciate how much went into this game. People will be revisiting it for a long time.
> Wow, fascinating article.

Indeed. Outstanding work :)

> I'm a little surprised that the bullet has left the barrel before the rifle recoils, but I guess that makes sense with the differences in mass.

That puzzles me too. I mean, once the bullet has left the barrel, what force could be accelerating the rifle?

Two possibilities came to mind. One was ongoing gas expansion, but that seems unlikely, because the chamber pressure is small after 2.5 msec.

The other is something mechanical about the rifle. Could the barrel stretch, as the bullet is exiting? And then contract afterward? Or maybe some elasticity in the attachment of the barrel?
I didn't find any apps in the repository. This works for apps you write yourself. You just run "electron ." in the directory with the app's source code.

You can probably unbundle thirdparty apps, becuase what electron apps are, are basically "electron" + "other code/resources". But I've never even seen someone else's electron app distribution package, so I don't know how hard/easy it would be. And I wouldn't trust it anyway, if the code is transpiled/minified/unreadable.

I run all my electron apps using a shared runtime.
Thanks for the explanation. I immediately assumed he was using a phone or something that similarly forced auto mode.
>If this is ok with thermodynamics then so is using lenses.

It's okay because solar panels are not perfectly efficient while lenses are, in theory, perfectly efficient. That efficiency loss is in essence the "cost" of moving heat from a colder to a hotter place. I'm guessing, but don't quote me on it, that solar panel efficiency is related to the temperature of the sun and the local environment just like any other heat engine.
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You can't trust any of this when it comes to mobile networks, they control the domain and have to play by their rules.

Example? I used to work at a company that made femtocells, basically small 3g base stations. All 2 way radios are a co-operative medium, i.e. shouting 'fire' in a crowded room raises the noise floor for everybody so they all need to shout.

We had hundreds of handsets for testing so knew when a particular model/brand/firmware version wasn't working to spec. We'd shoot an email to the manufacturer to get it sorted. Most were fine, but the one that never responded? A certain fruit related company.
I strongly suspect they are referring to Mastery by Robert Greene
2018 Race Reports – a first year of running
These images are beautiful.

They remind me of a few times when I’ve been able to see the patterns the wind creates, to visualise wind.

First up was strong winds in the desert, whipping sand off the dunes and creating patterns in the air.

Second was in Canada, during light snow fall. A thin layer of snow, dust like, was on the roads. And the cars / winds would whip it up to about 10 cm’s off the road. It enabled the visualisation of both the wind and the air being pushed around by cars and trucks. I found it mesmerising.

Usually it’s only visible through clouds, and it’s mostly static, unless the wind is incredibly strong.

Does anyone have other situations where they’ve been able to see wind? Or other usually invisible phenomena?
I was wondering about this too. After all, human beings have produced temperatures that were hotter than the sun's surface and almost all of the energy that we used to do that ultimately came from the sun (except for very small components that came from nuclear reactions on Earth and geothermal energy, which also comes from nuclear reactions inside Earth).

I think that this issue is addressed by footnote 2

> And, more specifically, everything [lenses and mirrors] do is fully reversible—which means you can add them in without increasing the entropy of the system.

Presumably we can't say the same of the electrical devices that we use to collect, store, and transmit sunlight, or to create high temperatures from this stored energy. For example, if you use a "lunar panel" to store energy in a battery and then heat something on an electric stove, many of the components in this process will not be reversible, differently from mirrors and lenses. (Putting a hot object on top of the stove won't cause the lunar panel to emit light back in the direction of the moon!)

So I think footnote 2 is actually very important, because it's not that we can never use any energy source to create something hotter than that source, it's that we can never do so using only reversible processes, including purely passive optics.
I only do index funds, (Target funds with 401k and VTI in brokerage).

This is a long term play, I suspect I'm a bit down right now but I deliberately don't look at it often :)

I stay away from individual stocks.
London, hyperoptic, unlimited gigabit (1gn up and down)

There have been months when I’ve pulled terabytes (deep learning datasets in and out of London datacenter to home)

About £60ish a month

Static IP available for small amount

Not over entire city but expanding

Very happy with service (no affiliation)

No downtime

Not sure what their policy is on running servers, but I had to ask them to enable something their side before I could ssh home, so there might be restrictions
Antennagate was not overblown. It had substantial effects on my reception — to the point of no service. I was forced to use a case, and then forgot about the problem until next time I removed the case. Apple’s software fix, still there to this day, is to make it appear that I have service when I do not.
> developing in modern C++ is not much slower than in a scripting language.

Is this accurate? I haven't written C++ since freshmen year of college and it was very cumbersome then.
I dunno, vscode is packed with features, and Xcode has almost always given me a few minutes of beach ball cursor or crashes.

But the comparison should be about how mac-like the applications are. if vscode or xcode are outliers, some other electron or Mac apps could be compared.
Why tie the two policies together? Gamified savings accounts seems like a good idea on its own.
RAM wasn't the problem, that's the whole point.
Tangential: I find networking (both wifi and cellular) to be one of the most problematic parts in a smartphone. These are quite literally the things that make a smartphone. This may be OS and device specific, but with AOSP on a pixel, these are my common issues: 1) Frequent wifi disconnects 2) Phone shows connected to both wifi and cellular but internet doesn't work 3) Cellular data is supposed to be always on but doesn't work as intended 4) Wifi-Calling drops call if wifi disconnects (which is probably a combination of 1 and 3). 4) Phone prefers shitty wifi (for eg. while driving by near an AP) over cellular. Does everyone have some variation of these problems ? Have iphones solved these for good ?
>Ur-Quan Masters is a 100% faithful remake

It's based on the 3DO version, which has different dialogue in some places. This makes the game noticeably more difficult, because you are only told the general area of a certain mandatory quest item, not the exact location as in the original PC version. This also makes it IMO more boring, because the only way to find the item without spoilers is repeatedly checking planets at a time when you probably have enough minerals already.
The difference is that a lens is a reversible system, whereas using energy from solar panels to melt iron is not. If you don't have a reversible system it is perfectly possible to take energy from a cold object and make a hot object hotter, but you cannot do this reversibly.
How many people can find 5 CEOs to shadow 1-2 times a year?
I've never used WU, but I'm guessing that they don't divert all payments that go unclaimed for 90 days into their advertising budget.
Colossus 237: Apollo 8 Flight Software
Quilts, Tiles, Knuth, and the Music of Elliott Carter (2017)
So your argument is seriously that regulating satellite launches is akin to alcohol prohibition? Do you think that's a reasonable comparison?
Holiday Asteroid Imaged with NASA Radar
I can't tell if this is sarcasm (and you know something I don't), or you're being serious. I would agree if you're being serious, despite the lack of news coverage, based on a few points:

- $1.7B raised in ICO: This is far more than has ever been raised in any other ICO. I also think it says something about investor optimism. I'd bet that this was a data point in Facebook's decision to do something similar with WhatsApp.

- Telegram's development team: Some of the best in the world. They've done a lot with a few highly talented programmers and mathematicians.

- 200,000,000+ monthly active users as of March 2018.
And is that is a bad thing? The work still gets released and can be used by anyone.
Google's android does, and there are specific services in the OS for that, such as vz* sprint* tm* and carrier config/services. There are also a bunch of Qualcomm services running that to various things.

So my question was - I don't have any of that stuff on my phone, with a custom rooted rom, and those services disabled/removed. Simple test now - if I set my phone to 2G, it connects to 2G with full bars, and says 2G. If I set it to LTE, it says LTE and displays 1 bar. Also, every time I reboot the phone, it pop us "carrier config failed."

This makes me believe this likely applies to phones bought from a carrier and not re-flashed. The fact is, if you for some reason buy a phone from a carrier, you are buying into their ecosystem, and for people like that - most people, this 5G icon is what they want, because to them it means faster than the 4G icon on that phone, so I don't see an issue here.
I tried more than once to get my head round irssi, then I tried Weechat and found it much easier to get along with - now I use it every day (plus its excellent documentation is a bonus).
bitter rivalry over who can make the best space game

That doesn't sound quite right. For all of SC's seemingly infinite problems, Chris Roberts has actually shipped a whole bunch of beloved classics. Derek Smart has not.
Well yeah, I'd agree that he wouldn't. Most of the specialness comes at the application level: He gets nothing out of specific blend of garbage collection, allocation options, typing, and green threading that sorta defines go.
For others who wish to skip over the vaguely-related background info which takes up a quarter of the article, search for "In the days after the Carancas meteorite struck the altiplano."

The article implies that arsenic kicked out of the water table by the meteorite was the probable cause of the illness.
What's FFE?

Whether or not you liked E:D, it's still a fully released game that felt polished, albeit shallow.

But that's besides the point. Parent poster was drawing equivalencies between the two games' release timings, and my point is those equivalencies aren't actually comparable.
what if you have skeletons in your closet (infidelity, drug use, fetishes, etc.), and China used them as leverage to get you to do stuff against your employer?
Paul Schatz: Facebook is a $90-$100 stock by 2020
Nothing specific. You can do it with electron executables downloaded from the official website.

Just run them, and drag'n'drop directories with the application's source code onto the electron window, or create desktop shortcuts that run "C:\somewhere\electron.exe C:\your\app\dir".
Solar panels lose energy to heat in this case, so entropy does not decrease.
You’re still making a decision to slow feature development for the relatively small risk that your cloud provider goes under.

Personally I’d rather just pick the most popular platform as a better decision to hedge against the risk.
Very different subsidies.

The companies that built solar power generation in 2004 got a guarantee of a certain price for x years, and a guarantee that the people who built in 2005 would get a lower price. IIRC the price decrease was set in advance. In effect a market introduction price, for a limited time. The sums are low/high until the market introduction ends, and the producers knew that as long as they could innovate 10%/year they'd make a profit. (Except that the actual number wasn't 10%.)

The companies that ran coal mines got a subsidy with no defined end-by date, and one cannot by any stretch of the imagination call it "market introduction aid" or "conditional on 10%/year innovation".
SEC Goes After Robo Advisers for the First Time
> My understanding is that there are not very strong theoretical underpinnings to most of the machine learning techniques in use today.

Yes, particularly with regards to generalization. There's a large number of theorists racing to explain that.
Not precisely. They took advantage of sub-pixels but still needed more (sub-)pixel width per letter.
> cloud sea with blue skies above

https://vimeo.com/22439234

When I was a kid and on La Gomera, we rode a bus across the island to get to our ferry very early in the morning, over mountains on very windy roads, and seeing the sun rise above the clouds... well, it's my first memory of being moved in this deep yet light way (sublime is just the word) by something I saw in nature, and I shall never forget it :)
Don't you get the feeling on vacation that you dread coming back to work? Do you dread the time you're on vacation that you know you're losing on potential income (or not taking care of chores at home)?

I used to take 8+ weeks of vacation, and honestly those years dragged on and on, and my time on vacation was less and less enjoyable because of the dread of coming back to work and the lost income. Now? I'm happy, every single day. I find much more enjoyment every night when I'm home from work because I'm earning good money and I can cherish the respite from the daily work.

1-2 weeks off at a time is just too much time away from work. I think the desire to get away from work is there only because the 5 day on, 2 day off weekly grind is so jarring to the psyche that you absolutely need the extra week off to recover. I'm copacetic working 7/365.
Can't we have a lottery that, as a prize, provides basic income? Then at least we can use it to do experiments with the concept of UBI.
Beauty and the Beast I'm skeptical about, but have no particular way to refute.

Sleeping Beauty and Snow White were compiled in those works, not originally created there. Hell, "Volksmärchen" means "folk fairy tales." The very name tells you that Musäus didn't claim them as original creations, he was writing down what people had been telling each other for centuries orally.
It's about the degree of harm. Spreading glitter and fart spray in somebody's car doesn't really hurt anybody, and it's very unlikely anyone would prosecute over it, no matter what the circumstances were. Breaking someone's legs is very different in the eyes of the law.

Booby traps are generally illegal because they are indiscriminate. It may be justified self-defense to hurt somebody, even to a crippling or lethal level, if you knew it was necessary to save your life or prevent some other serious violent felony. Booby traps could harm anyone, regardless of their intent. If you were to set up a shotgun trap to fire on anybody who opens your door wrong, for example, it might kill a burglar or rapist. Or it might kill a fireman, cop, paramedic, pushy salesman, handyman, etc. Even if you don't want some of the previous in your home, you can't shoot them to keep them out, at least not without requesting them to leave and going through a chain of escalation first. Even booby traps that aren't that harmful could cause a lot more damage than expected if somebody very old, very young, disabled, or otherwise more physically vulnerable happens into them.

So you can (at least in the US) defend your home yourself with an appropriate amount of force, including lethal force if the situation calls for it. But only because it's you making a reasonable judgement about the appropriateness of the force involved. You can't set a booby trap to harm anyone who goes to the wrong place, regardless of who they are or what their intent is.
It took me longer than I admit to realize that "8=16" or "12=32" meant literally nothing.
Regular money can't be sent peer-to-peer and independently of the banking infrastructure/governments. Questionable utility, yes, but this is the value proposition. FacebookCoin would achieve these objectives far better than the grassroots coins. So no one would need to use the grassroots coins for any practical, non-ideological reasons.

This article probably isn't true, but something like it is going to happen someday.
> I can cover the entire surface of the earth with solar panels to harvest the moon light and use the combined electricity to melt iron. If this is ok with thermodynamics then so is using lenses.

There's a difference. By going through solar panels you would increase entropy because the conversion of sunlight to electricity can't be 100% efficient[1]. And if you allow the solar panels to heat up too much because of that waste heat, then that efficiency will drop further.

If a lens could heat a point to a temperature higher than the sun, then there'd be no such loss and you'd be magically decreasing entropy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic_efficiency_limit
I'm not so sure about this.

Imagine you had a large cloud of planar mirrors, each, specifically can be aimed at any given point --even points that overlap.

While I agree that you cannot focus a whole image to a smaller area than the diffraction limit allows for a continuous lens surface, if you omit diffraction, mirrors could certainly do it.
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