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You're right, a dashboard is a project for when you don't know if they can do anything useful.

I think the fault is actually the split between IT (a support function) and the product group, which often doesn't have/isn't allowed embedded devs.

IT managers are often toxic for delivering, never take ownership, SLA bullshit, too much PRINCE2 and ITIL.

If you can get developers embedded, huge wins are possible. But they have to bring the client with them, not code away in isolation.
I feel (as a non-philosopher who only casually reads) as though the question of empirical methods in philosophy comes down in large part to critiques of positivism, operationalism and therefore also the Frankfurt School's aim to synthesise the social, economic, historical, philosophical (if you'll bear with me) and juristic sciences in a total approach rather than restricting to one area. It seems that one could avoid the onus to pursue quantitative methodology by rephrasing the question not as an empirical one. Your example of the twenty texts seems to call for an empirical analysis, but perhaps identifying "common themes in the genre" might not, depending on how the point is elaborated. It's another discussion as to whether such a question should be answered with empirical methods. To me it's a mistake to conflate rigor with empirical analysis, but you seem to agree when you talk about mathematics. Philosophical arguments can be rigorous, but a lot of what counts as some flavor of philosophy (the synthesis mentioned above) is critical and some really does make the claim to be rigorous. So it seems there's now a choice: either to say philosophy is not a science because it is not rigorous (due to some of its elements), or to say that philosophy can be scientific, just as information theory or theoretical physics, or theoretical computer science can be scientific.

Many philosophers don't consider themselves scientists but I think this is at least in part because the mainstream conception of science really is empirical rather than rigorous analysis. In fact, even non-rigorous empirical analysis can pass for science. Depending on the area, I think that qualitative methodology can capture what quantitative can't, or where quantitative would be unreliable or impossible to use without changing the result significantly.

In a nutshell, philosophy can be scientific if a method is pursued rigorously, but a lot of what is called philosophy is critical theory which is important if not scientific (despite using qualitative and quantitative analyses where appropriate). I have a feeling that critical theorists would question the separation we're erecting between science and non-science, especially those who view critical theory as in part an artistic endeavor too.
There are plenty of good ways to do it, but the problem is there’s always going to be somebody that looses out. Of course none of those approaches are ”perfect” but even if somebody did come up with a perfect approach you can be certain that a bunch of issues will be manufactured overnight
If Apple did this then they wouldn't be able to offer a password reset feature, leading to user data loss. For a consumer-oriented company, data loss is unacceptable.
It's a bug if you've noticed the sort of unrepresentative and bizarre conclusions drawn by easily-brigaded public polls.
Generally true

But if some query takes 5 minutes to run and you can’t speed it up, you need to do something.

I cache a very few select queries that don’t need to be 100% accurate as scan a ton of rows.
Have you spoken with a professional about it?
This phone is something I'd see myself using in the future. This way you could really have a Linux desktop/laptop machine for work and a Linux phone where it's a lot easier to bridge the gap between the devices. Imagine the ability to use most of the features of your phone from a Linux PC like MacOS has some features of: quick Bluetooth tethering, USB tethering, answering to messages, calling someone, and more! But it's missing some key features imo like responding to phone notifications from your desktop, using IR blaster, using the Bluetooth on your phone if your PC doesn't have it, sleep mode that's synced, and so so so much more that I cannot even think of.

But for now, I cannot afford a phone like this. Not only because of its price for what you get. But also because I want my phone to "just work".
The question is, could you do more on this vs your 2016 mid-range phone?

If I install emacs with org-mode on this, arguably I can already do more than pretty much any task manager offered on platforms running on a more powerful hardware.
Protection of a generic word within particular context may be absolutely fair. Say, you made an OS, and called it "Pretzel". You can't go, and prohibit anyone to call their pretzels pretzels, but if some big corpo Shmoogle will create their own product called Pretzel OS, I'm pretty sure you'll be not ok with it. "Mc" is no different, if applied narrowly to burgers there's no reason why it can't be copyrighted, because within the context it's not in fact a generic term. Crazy behavior of copyright lawyers is a problem for sure, but a separate one.
I used to be skeptical of non-mainstream products like this. Late last year I bought a Linux laptop from System76 that was by far the most expensive laptop I have ever bought (mostly because it has a 1070 GPU for machine learning) but so far it has been a great experience.

I love my iPhone/Apple Watch combination with perfect interop with my MacBook but I can see myself buying something like a Librem 5 in the future. The biggest drawback would be giving up my Apple Watch: it has been a game changer for me to be able to leave my cellphone at home, sort of disconnected but people can still get ahold of me while I don’t spend time staring at my phone instead of enjoying the world around me.

I would like more information about hooking a Librem 5 up to a monitor and Bluetooth keyboard. Even with a lower power phone, for me it is a compelling idea to have just one device.
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It’s not even water cooler anymore it’s a Netflix monoculture.

Look at your twitter feed when Netflix releases something successful. It’s actually a bit scary how it’s the only thing so many people are consuming
>The very word "patent" means "open".

I was really surprised by that. So when Elizabeth I sold a patent for the monopoly of salt to some duke in order to raise gold for the crown the word "patent" meant that it was a public rather than a secret decree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_patent
OP here. Thanks for your comment. This design currently displays the exact time every 5 minutes. The 2 minutes before and after each exact time have "ish" appended to the time.

There are a couple of reasons for this approach:

1. I wanted to have a square clock face but was limited by the LED strip spacing I could source conveniently. This limited me to an approximate number of characters.

2. With this character limit, this was the simplest way to display times. Personally, I don't think this is the type of clock requires every minute precision. The qlocktwo (mentioned in other comments) has the exact time every 5 minutes with 4 LEDs to indicate the other 4 minutes. That wasn't my preference.

3. Other designs I've made as gifts in the past were physically larger and included a bunch of other times including:

- almost (for 2 minutes before an exact time)

- about (for 2 minutes after an exact time)

- ish ("randomly" replaces almost or about)

- plus a bunch of other exact times that could be made from the existing exact time lexicon

- It's Now

- as well as some other cool easter eggs

This larger design has a pretty cool lexicon (IMHO) but is much bigger and I couldn't fit it nicely on the stock wood material I could find. I didn't want to join planks of wood and I wanted this design to be square.

I'm working on a present for my wife that include "in paris" (she's a French teacher) that can be added to any time (and obviously including the math for the timezone offset).
First off comparing the UX of the C64 and DOS to a modern Linux shell is nuts.

I like my GUIs for a lot of things. Music playing for me almost requires album art. Instant messaging as well, I need avatars/pfps (I've always disliked IRC because of that). Checking log messages though? File management? Quick edits? Shell all the way.
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I think the practical idea is "flat pack" - smaller package for shipping. Of course, TE doing flat pack without an economy of scale is less about spatial efficiency and more about allowing their customers to build something themselves in order to feel a closer connection to the object (that's perfectly ok)
It really depends on the student. If one has great work ethics, the connection to the teacher doesn't really matter because one would learn regardless. Similarly, the student can also "just" respect the teacher in his position and for his knowledge and be animated to learn because of that.

Also, since the article mentions it...fear can have a really positive effect when it comes to learning something. One year, we had a teacher who made us stand up in the beginning of the class and he would then ask for vocabulary. You had only little time to answer and if you got it correct, you were allowed to sit down. Obviously, no one wanted to be the last one standing, especially in a class of 31. It was the best class I've ever had and I learned a lot.
It's not really addiction that worries me, it's habituation.

TV is absorbing, as a child with 3/4 channels there was often a time when the was nothing of interest and that helps one week interest elsewhere (aka boredom). If there's no point at which there's nothing interesting to watch it's easy to sit and absorb stimuli out of habit.

Maybe addiction can develop, does develop? If you do an action habitually you're still doing the same physically as perhaps you would as an addict.
Thanks for your feedback. That's a valid comment about ish persistence. However, I haven't noticed that during my own use.
It’s pretty sensationalist but I don’t disagree with the content of the message: by sticking with a float or flexbox-based grid system from a framework, you’re not learning the intricacies of newer tech like grid.

That being said, for most of my professional and personal work I only see grid as an incremental improvement over flex. It’s cool but time I spent learning it I could have just used what I already knew and create more things the customer actually cares about.
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> are they similar to the PGP subset of functionality on Yubikeys?

Yes.
I understand it as providing something akin to the "secure enclave" on the iPhone.
> also in javascript, it's very easy to roll out "frameworks"

Also worth mentioning that the switching costs for changing frameworks in JS is incredibly low. You can just load different JS files and presto - you can use a new framework. No servers to setup or anything like that
Am I understanding this correctly: LOAD DATA LOCAL is used to bulk load datasets (like CSV files) into a MySQL database from the client. Why is the file transfer initiated by the server, and not by the client? Is it because they wanted to cover cases where the server processes / simplifies the query, and after processing, it becomes evident that the file is not needed at all? If so, why isn't there an additional check on the client that the file requested by the server matches a file that was previously used in a LOAD DATA LOCAL query? Is it because there is no query processing / parsing on the client side at all (in case of string SQL queries)?
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> I still don't understand - you can still have a standalone executable if you want, nothing's stopping you!

Try it some time. See how much of your Linux Desktop software you can actually acquire that way without a whole lot of work.
Sure, and they purchase very expensive equipment to cover the peak bandwidth demand then spread out those capital costs in the form of a monthly bill.

If you want more bandwidth, it's "free" as long as there is room available, otherwise the whole chain needs to upgrade so as not to degrade the service of other customers. On a competitive market, the margins available and the prices should tend to go as tight as possible and the economics will lead to pay for usage.
OP here, for simplicity, my design allows for timezone selection but for user simplicity, the time server is not selectable. I think your suggestions is quite valid for many of the HN readers, but not for that audience I'm targeting.

thanks for your comment!
A way to diff would be amazing. Textual diff (these formulas changed) and visual (ie highlighting block formula differences).
And the iPhone is one of the few phones that do this.

The main selling point of the Librem5 however is that it is not a restricted platform like iOS is, baseband separation is just a nice bonus, (plus hw kill switches).
People don't worry about it because it just isn't a concern. The duty cycle of any particular lidar in any particular direction is very low and so for any two lidars they will have their beams pointed at the same place very infrequently. It happens but in order to, say, drive in the rain self driving cars need to be able to reject a certain amount of sensor noise. I've had a gagggle of robots using planar lidar, where the risk of interference is much higher, all work together in the same room together and not noticed any degradation in performance.

The reasons lidars are so useful it that they're very directional in a way that radar isn't. That means that an effective lidar jammer can't just emit enough to interfere when the lidar is pointed at it, it needs to cause every other object present to also emit that strongly. This is possible but will cause nearby people to catch fire, at which point it probably doesn't make sense to call the object a "lidar jammer".
With F# being a practical language for most tasks, and F* meshing well with it, this makes for a great combination of languages to know for verifiable programs. F* outputs F# (and OCaml), and C (Kremlin). Now you can have your low-level, systems programming, and your general PL along with some code verification and dependent types. I code F# on my iPad Pro with a full, live IDE called Continuous[1]. The author of Continuous basically forked the Roslyn compiler for iOS. Idris was my other contender for this niche, however, the F#/F* combo seems to be more practical especially if you want to do iOS/Android in addition to desktops.

[1]. http://continuous.codes/
Thank you! I'm constantly surprised at how many people spend an amazing amount of money on expensive TVs, cars, etc. Hopefully some of them will buy one of my clocks!
How was this lazy or the EU's ruling in any way sane or sensible at all?

Do the people who work at EUIPO ever walk down a city street? Do they live in the real world at all? Why did they even ask McDonald to submit ANY proof that they sell a product called a Big Mac when there has been saturation level coverage of the entire fast food market with this product brand for ... well, I'm pretty sure I don't remember a time when the Big Mac did not exist. So at least as long as I've been alive.

This appears to be a classic case of Kafka-esque bureaucracy, almost certainly politically motivated. No reasonable person would demand proof that McDonalds has a product called a Big Mac because if they've somehow lived in a cave for decades they could just walk down the street and verify it with their own eyes. The fact the the EU not only demanded this, but then rejected actual sales figures, marketing brochures and more as evidence, strongly suggests they wanted to whack McDonalds and nothing they could have submitted would have worked.
One issue I have is autoplay -- when a program stops you get a pause and time to think if you want to do something else. Which is why they don't let it stop ...

Continuous play is difficult with kids; you have to poll the TV viewing, rather than getting an interrupt. It's literally the only bit of Netflix I'm personally not happy with.
> The processor having half the power of my 2016 mid-range phone is concerning me a little

Same. I don't know how much the "Pure OS" changes things, but I've built some STB/OTT devices using Android on the i.MX A53 platform, and performance sure felt like a Galaxy S3 from 2013 or so. Slow enough that you'll really notice, even if your just doing some light web browsing or Twitter reading.

That level of performance was totally fine for our needs on that device. But as someone's daily driver phone, there might need to be some carefully set expectations. Even low end $200 Android smartphones today are noticeably faster than this.
I’m curious if the more people who catch Ebola increase the risk it becomes spreadable by an airborn vector. I assume that’s the case, but does anyone know?
Microsoft want’s to kill VBA but customers won’t allow that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Studio_Tools_for_Offi... may make sense for developers, but users like the ability to do things in the “wrong way”.
What is it with this concept of "(un)trusted servers" that people throw around here all the time that seems to build on the assumption that the world consists only of entities that are to be distrusted and those that should have full access to and control over all your information and resources?

No, just because I don't expect my client to kill me, does not mean that therefore there is no reason to be concerned about a rogue employee of theirs being able to gain access to any other of my clients' servers that I have access to by patching an exploit into their MySQL server.

Nor is it reasonable to assume that everyone is on top of their IT security and their infrastructure is only under their own control, and that includes your own organization once it grows beyond one or two people.

If that is the kind of mental model you are working with, your IT security probably is shit. Even the slightest external vulnerability anywhere in your systems or the systems of people whose systems you access/(co-)manage is going to grant an attacker total control over your organization if that is how you manage security.
> Why?

Because the parent had worked for Netflix.

> netflix is much more addictive, by design

Is it? I remember people being glued to TVs for ungodly amounts of time before Netflix.
I'm not in a position to judge what is right or wrong, but I feel like he could have done better than form an opinion on the tool based on the first sentence of the website, and then provided no comments on the actual tool itself.

He can write whatever he wants. Would benefit him a lot though to not be put off by the first 5 words of anything, and instead have patience to form a well rounded opinion of whatever he's looking at.
If this isn’t parody this looks like the beginning of s cult.
>its so easy to find something thats an unambiguous plus//

I think if you can walk in to a job in any area/industry you wish you're very fortunate. How?
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What I read is that most outbreaks spread a kind of linear while Ebola spreads exponetial.

That's what is scary about Ebola. And ofcourse the fact there is still no cure.
I bought two to replace the iPhone 4 and 4S that my wife and I use. Does anybody know if there is still a reasonable source for a battery case for this model? (I'd like to prolong the life of the internal battery.) Everything I'm seeing on Amazon is scaring the heck out of me-- tales of melting cases, dead batteries after a month, etc. I assume that I've just come to the party too late.
OP here. Nope, not mine. There are a TON of DIY kit versions, a few cheap plastic chinese versions, and one high end design from a german company. Probably you saw theirs. I wanted a warmer aesthetic with a different design approach. So I made my own.

I do all the word working and assembly myself. It's not a mass-produced thing from a factory in china. I do use some LED strips that are sourced from China, but I do all my own soldering of the controller board and LED strip connections.

I don't want to compete on price with the DIY/chinese factory kits. what I'm really selling is my time and thought and effort. I'm pretty proud of the quality of finish my design has.
I was going to use that motto for a completely different email with my faraway manager but I found that the more popular version was "Measure what's important, don't make important what you can measure." It's attributed to Robert McNamara https://www.azquotes.com/quote/613247
The language of statistics is indeed dishonest. In normal language "significant" has a meaning close to "large". What they mean in statistics is that there is a detectable signal, there is a 95% chance that the data is not pure noise.

They should call it "detectable", some people have suggested "discernible".

However, there is another fatal flaw to how p-values are used. They are usually used for rejecting infinitesimally small hypothesis. The null hypothesis is stated as "Effect exactly equals 0.00000000000...". In practice, there are no experiments that have exactly zero effect. There are always at least very small systematic bias due to imperfectly calibrated instruments or small methodological variations between researchers.

Even if you do everything else right, if you pre-register your study, with enough data, a null hypothesis test will always pick up on these small biases and make the results significant.

If you are looking to reject a null hypothesis, I can tell you in advance: all experiments have a non zero bias, all results are statistically significant p<0.000000001 with enough data. There, I just saved the scientific world a ton of money, they don't have to do all these experiments. Just reference this comment in your paper to show significance.

At least here, the language seems honest. Rejecting a null hypothesis correctly conveys the idea of having rejected nothing.

Using a Popperian approach is great, but you should reject a portion of the hypothesis space this is bigger than zero.
I really can't recommend Mastodon highly enough.

The interactions on there are just so much more organic than on Twitter. You get to actually have discussions with people, instead of aiming for as much snark as possible.
No matter what your backup tech is, if you have it all in a single location, you don't truly have a reliable backup.
> > Locking every iDevice by default so that it can’t be reused

> What?

A big problem when buying/selling used ipads is the "icloud lock". Essentially it's an anti-theft lock. But it's often frustrating in many non-theft cases.

If you buy an iPhone or iPad and it's not unregistered from the original owner's icloud account, there is no way to do that. At all. You cannot factory reset it. You cannot erase it's disk (it'll refuse to activate).

So this makes a great many iDevices useless. It does, I must say, prevent theft. It's certainly not a one-way street.
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No, OP is right. This isn't stability. By "stability" people mean government decisions are predictable and make sense, not that tiny EU companies can create big problems for major corporations by exploiting the bureaucracy.

What will CEOs of large American companies think when looking at this ruling? They will think the following:

"Everyone knows McDonalds makes a product called Big Mac. It's their primary burger product and has been a stable brand for decades. Europeans know this. I've been to Europe and eaten a Big Mac myself. Their usage of this brand should not have been in question to start with. Why was it in dispute? Then their lawyers submitted lots of documentation to satisfy the bureaucratic box tickers, and apparently that still wasn't enough. If a brand as big as McDonalds can't successfully keep their primary product trademarked in the EU, what chance do I have? Maybe I'll think twice before prioritising these markets."