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It's possible that google does it differently than other electronics devices manufacturers that I worked for, but I can't imagine someone putting something like this on device without some concrete plans on how it will be used.
Pretty cool, seeing the battery status is pretty cool. I wouldn't do this but seeing the battery status tempts me to come up with ways to run it down faster just to test it out. Anyone else think the same thought?
Ugh.

The “worst case” is the part referring to the upper bound. Big-O is referring to the “order” of the run time, meaning the largest term in the formula for large n.

Again, everyone knows this if they know Big-O at all. I am intentionally not being picky and pedantic with my words, because the context of this thread was people complaining about unnecessary formality and unnecessary and unhelpful over-concern about academic correctness rather than practicality. There is no widespread misconception, but there are people who like to wax philosophical and try to demonstrate their superior knowledge...

My side intention was to detail why @rafiki6 might have been incorrect without knowing it, since they claimed correctness and complained about downvotes.
Those changes only represent progress if they represent preference choice. However I very much doubt that most people are preferring to have living standards lower than their parents.

In order to evaluate preferences you need to observer Choice.
Is this Sean F? :) I replied to your comment on Reddit and signed up for the waiting list. I'm really hopeful Opal fulfils this desperately-needed slot. Keeping my fingers crossed.
None of your comparisons are apt because desktops are not smartphones.

An android phone is just as portable and has all of the same features as an Apple phone. The only day to day difference is having access to the apple ecosystem.

It’s nothing but a minor inconvenience to switch between android and iOS. The same can’t be said for any of your other comparisons.
How do you sit in on classes?

Do you actually just show up? Or do you have to audit the class and register, but for free?
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This paper cites the one Scott argues against.
Yeah, I'll probably put in a removal request for my G+ profile as well. I hadn't the heart to delete it myself, but I was looking forward to the social history purge that the shutdown represented.

Obviously I have a Takeout download with my own content, but I don't really see any need for the Internet Archive to maintain a copy of it.
Thank you.

This was a real eye opener to me too which sounds fucking stupid in hindsight.
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Not exactly. The people who saw their premiums rise the most as a percentage of their income as a result of the ACA were mostly low income.
That’s not how society works.
Yeah Matt Levine made that point this week -- the damaged party in this case is the university, who had admission slots basically resold in a different market
I don't know why you've decided to tell everyone in this thread that they're wrong and how the government is oppressing you with taxes to find a social safety net but your really need to understand and acknowledge that your anecdotes are not helpful and they are not indicative of the health care system in this country at large.

I can state similar anecdotes of people I know having gone bankrupt due to medical debt or having died due to inability to afford care at the time (what with having no income for almost two years). "The government" did not step in to completely or even mostly cover life saving yet expensive long term care.
The rules for you and I are not the same rules for Google.
> I'd argue that the drawn out deaths of those MMOs shows how creatively bankrupt the MMO market is - people aren't leaving for new MMOs, they're staying with old ones till they get bored, because there's nothing better out there.

Indeed. I like MMOs, but there's just nothing up my alley at this point and I'm waiting for the revival of a 15 year old game (WoW Classic) or the spiritual successor of an even older game (Pantheon).
To be fair, this person would likely qualify for Medicaid in the U.S. Also, in Ontario there's a healthcare-specific tax which is not eligible for credits like normal income tax, but instead uses a standard deduction like the U.S. Federal income tax.
I don't see much of a difference. There still is a popularity game and it's played with corporations, not people. Though I agree that it's not necessarily a bad thing in comparison.
One thing to be mindful of is the roast date.

Whole Foods might be better at this than others (I'm not sure) but many grocery stores, even high-end specialty ones, have coffee sitting on their shelves that was roasted 3–6 months ago. Even worse, sometimes the roast date will be omitted from the bag entirely (or replaced by an arbitrary made-up "best by" date) because the coffee is embarrassingly old.

A good third wave shop will sell beans with a roast date of about a week or less. Most baristas recommend beans tasting best when used within 2–3 weeks of roast date.

I suspect you'll get much fresher beans ordering through a service like Bottomless that drop ships directly from the roaster. It might be something you've never thought about until you've tasted the difference between freshly roasted vs not. Not everyone cares about freshness but it's very important to me.
> many of the densest cities are the most expensive

I don't think the causation runs from dense to expensive. It's desirability that is causing both density and expensiveness.

What do you think has a larger influence on housing prices than protectionist zoning and other regulations that severly restrict supply?
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Some people never use them.

Collapsed chatbox icon is an improvement but it still comes at a cost: requires network connections, takes some screen space and could be considered a distraction.
GDPR is good for you. It is for your benefit to be able choose what is stored on the website about you.

It is the websites that are making the banner look so annoying just to make you quickly click "OK, I agree" button.
The best forecasts are always provided by market indicators. And these indicators seem to be agreeing that we are in stagnation territory, though we might still manage to achieve a nice "soft landing" that doesn't lead to slipping into an outright recession.
it might be in large future apartment buildings where the necessary robotics are built in during construction
Meekro your pattern of saying the university is a victim here is laughable, almost like you're being paid to propagate it. You said yourself the University has been involved in this type of behavior for decades (centuries?) - employees like Athletic Directors, who also represent the University like admissions deans do it behind their back and its all of a sudden fraud against the University? Bullhonkey my good man
That income stream is what lets prestigious universities like the Ivies give great financial aid. Many people graduate from them with paying zero tuition.

I can certainly complain about the efficiency with which this income is used and there are minor changes I would like to see to make this more transparent and clearly ethical, but it would be disingenuous to pretend they do not offer some of the best financial aid in the US.
Canada definitely isn't mirror universe America where everything is good instead of bad, we have a ton of our own chronic social issues (such as housing affordability).
All those wires! You should checkout dirtypcb.com to get yourself a cheap pcb for your boards, that will make the it very special and longer lasting for you. Designing PCB with eagle on mac or kicad on linux are great software to design PCBs.
In an ideal world, school is great. But, in a real world, it monopolizes knowledge and makes a huge propaganda that it is the only way to learn. We have been doing this propaganda for decades.

Then, parents, who don't know any better, think that they need to send their kids to colleges at all cost. They don't even care much about which college or which subject it is. Then, some business capitalizes on that by making a low-quality college. Then, we have this strange issue with student's debt where the student is not really hireable.

I talked to my colleagues at Google anonymously through Blind. And a few, even at Google, said (and many agreed) that either they took the student loan or they became a drug dealer (or something equally bad). I was quite surprised that even googlers would hold this kind of views.

I agree though that being $xx,xxx in debt is better than being a drug dealer. But, in my opinion, those cannot possibly be the only two choices. I didn't grow up in US, so maybe I don't understand the situation here.
The thread is about a solar powered site and energy use.
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I think you're pushing it too far, even my parent's generation is confused how culture changed from a lot of social interactions to barely nothing. They had radio/phone/tv (a lot lot less of course) but the social quality was still present.

I agree with your conclusion though.
> I'd be interested in knowing whether you could point me to a state that explicitly says not updating your address is a misdemeanor.

Sure. It's a misdemeanor in Minnesota (171.11): http://mncourts.gov/mncourtsgov/media/scao_library/Statewide...

I was also going to say North Carolina, but it appears they've changed it: http://www.theeastcarolinian.com/news/article_5137386e-2256-...
His anecdote refuted the point he was responding to, which inaccurately stated that only emergency care is covered. Medicaid covers long term care for poor people. (In 18 mostly southern states Medicaid doesn’t cover childless adults, but that encompasses a distinct minority of the population of poor people even in those states. In the other states Medicaid covers everyone below a certain income level). Most people who fall into the “went bankrupt from medical bills” category are ones who weren’t poor before the medical bills and didn’t qualify for Medicaid.
No personal attacks, please.

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Do they keep that speed 24/7?
I hate articles that call people experts and then build their argument on the assumption that the expert can’t be wrong
It seems to me that the primary way that average people can get ahead (at least in America, I'm less familiar with other countries) is by investing; which requires growth. If that went away, I'd be afraid that new generations or people who aren't from rich families would be stuck.

I wonder if there are any thinkers that have developed a plan for prosperity without growth that doesn't rely on utopianism?
I would just wish these widgets would remains as inconspicuous as possble, but remains easily available. If it pops up while I browsing the website for info, I already hate it.

I wish chat support was offered more, I hate calling Dell Support for a technical issue.. last time I used some kind of chat with the it was for customer service/sales, and told me I had to call for tech support. It would have been easier to send pictures through the chat, oh well.
This is definitely one of the most ridiculous points about the American system.

Medicare for all already exists, it just requires that you quit your job (forever if you have a chronic medical issue) sell your house and assets and stop paying taxes, or having productive input into the economy entirely.

What kind of sense does that make?
Adding data to consider: The Gini coefficient is one measure of inequality.

World Bank shows 1980=34.6 and 2016=41.5 for United States.
The opposite is true and it's driving out lower income people.

Which would reduce viewpoint diversity. Please check your reading comprehension. You seem to have gotten it 180 degrees in the wrong direction.
I wonder how these would be interpreted with the author's point that:

"Liberal readers preferred basic science (physics, astronomy, zoology), while conservatives went for applied and commercial science (criminology, medicine, geophysics). 'It seems like conservatives are happy to draw on science associated with economic growth—that’s what they want from science,' Evans said. “Science is more like Star Trek for liberals: traveling through worlds, searching for new meanings, searching for yourself.'"

I'm curious how these examples would be categorized: when going down the list, how would a "liberal" and "conservative" group, in general, think about each example; as basic science or as applied/commercial science?
Doesn’t Ghostery have serious privacy issues?
Please keep personal attacks off this site.

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> goes to the trouble of professional typesetting

Calling people’s use of LaTeX to type their homework “professional typesetting” seems like a stretch. Professional typesetting would be something like: send your hand-written manuscript to a full-time typesetter, and wait for them to do the work.

A better description would be “goes to the trouble of using math typesetting software designed by experts”. But is this really so strange? People use even more sophisticated software than that for making image collages of cats with mustaches, for modeling platonic solids, for adding their favorite song to a frivolous home movie, ....
So you’re saying you want to give discounts to people who choose small houses with no years just because they have no yard? I can get behind that. That would encourage people to buy small properties which solves both the water and real estate problems.
That's not accurate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler%27s_fallacy
Have a gander at comedian Jimmy Dore's take on Rachel Maddow:

https://www.youtube.com/user/TYTComedy/search?query=Rachel+M...

Jimmy is a Bernie guy by the way, not a Trump guy. I recommend any Democrat who is confident in their beliefs to spend some time watching him to see if your information feed might be overlooking some information or perspectives.

EDIT: it's interesting, although not surprising, that simply offering an alternative perspective results in downvotes.
That is unfortunately how a ton of americans think however. Lots of people would rather set $100 on fire than have $50 help people they don't like.
I would also ask: "What about the musicians?" After all, music degrees are heavily vocational. But the music vocation itself is overcrowded unlike engineering or medicine.

The article cites as evidence the large disparity in value between three and four years of college. This is much more prevalent in engineering than in music. Taking three years of college music study, or learning it informally, will in fact prepare you for a music career. I know people who have done it.

In my view, the need to make special exceptions for certain college majors weakens the signaling hypothesis.

Disclaimer: One of my kids is a music major, and I earn part of my income as a musician.
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Why I don't collapse it? I find the solution above better, since I still really find it annoying.
If for some reason a majority of citizens in those countries vote to join Russia, then sure why not.
For sake of argument: Might NIMBY sentiment actually be due to insufficient regulations? I'd be a lot more comfortable with someone building near me if I was confident that they weren't going to build some soulless concrete eyesore.
This is very wise advice, and I can especially appreciate the layer of empathy: empower engineers to add to their toolchain (mgmt or technical).

To complement this thinking, however, I also expect a leader to align engineers to business priorities. There is a fine line to walk in balancing the growth of engineers with the needs of a business. I expect engineers with certain years of experience to understand that as professionals we are hired to address these needs.

Of course there is also the flip side of this alignment: aligning the business to the real (vs. imagined) capabilities or investment needed.
There's a CPU load average and some other stats here: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/power.html

Running the Qualsys SSL server test against the site does appear to raise the 15 minute load average several points, though it's hard to say if it's just it being on HN doing that by itself.

I assume it would have to be pretty cloudy to affect the charge level.
As someone who went to medical school more than 20 years ago, it wasn't that much different other than people using "question banks" in order to help them pass the tests. There were plenty of prep books for preparing for the USMLE and board specific exams (for rotations in the third year).
If this is a personal attack, then I'd say every third sentence from Stallman is a personal attack.
> Besides, you should be breastfeeding

Not everyone can. And you get an incredible amount of shit from basically everyone in society if you don't. We even had one nurse call formula poison.
In my mind, I probably took this too literally. Suppose only half the keys you pressed actual put a letter into the document, etc. It'd be far less useful.

The 80-20 rule applies to software: 20% of the feature set is used 80% of the time. Mid-way through development, it's likely the 20% may not be complete. It was a poor analogy.
> But.. this:

> `5 + Complex(2, 3)`

> should also work. Which requires either scala's `implicit` system or python's take on this, involving `__rplus__`. These operations introduce their own complications.

Or the way C++ handles this: being able to define operators as free functions (though you could alternatively define an implicit conversion).
Every chat widget that's popped up has been accompanied by a sound for me, which is incredibly irritating.
This makes so little sense in relation to the actual content of the article and even the very clear title, I almost wonder if Russian troll farms now trying to infect Hacker News.
Not if the employer is rational, and instead simply asks to see your transcripts. A list of courses completed (with grades) from a respected school is much more informative about someone's skills than a degree.

Credentialism is a poor surrogate for showing your work.
As long as they take federal grants/loans the dept of education will have a sit down with them. The interesting point will be if the NCAA steps in or not as this was an abuse of the student athlete admission procedures. To me this screams a lack of institutional control; if coaches are being bribed and faking credentials and the school never picks up on it it looks bad. That could be a punishment of loss of scholarships or up to the famous death penalty. I’d imagine the ncaa will try to sidestep this issue as much as possible as USC and Texas are football schools and it would cripple the university. For those interested in learning more about college athletics, the ncaa clearing house and what not, I’d highly recommend the book: “Beer & Circus”. There’s a lot you don’t know about the ncaa and sports at large universities.
I wonder if the study was actually focusing on Mushrooms and brain decline, or on a broader set of topics (other foods, lifestyle etc.). If it's the latter, that might just be a small part of a large dataset, thus the result of p-fishing.
Affirmative. It's not just that there are advanced application frameworks like React and Angular -- it's also that browsers are more standards compliant, and standard APIs have evolved in recent years to cover much of the gap that jQuery once usefully filled.
Consolidation, optimization, and related vertical integration in manufacturing leaves people out of the value chain. Many roles will eventually evaporate without competition and/or new advancements. In general, growth follows an S-curve with market saturation and consolidation eventually inhibiting growth. I beleive it will get harder and harder to afford "more and better stuff" over the long term with the way our economic system is set up. I encourage people to take a look at the concept of binary economics which was fathered by Louise Kelso; his ideas gave rise to employee stock ownership programs. My ultimate point is: Labor will eventually evaporate and we, as individuals, should look towards ownership and invest our wealth in companies who will ultimately own production and services.
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#2 should not be lumped in with UBI since the costs wildly fluctuate between people. A 25-year-old person will have fewer preventive checkups than a retiree or a small child. And people with chronic diseases have way higher recurring medical expenses than people without. My bookkeeping shows that I spend two weeks' worth of salary per year on medications, most of which is for keeping my chronic ailments in check.
I think we'll eliminate pipes (e.g traditional homes) before that happens.. we might as well be living in the fully sci-fi speculated future where nanobots control all physical structure and we have near-infinite power sources
"Organic" labeling is the victim of regulatory capture. eg raise the bar via organic certification, thereby favoring the bigger players.

Same as it ever was.

I mostly buy bulk and staples (less processed foods). Also favor local, co-ops, and farmers markets. But it's not very practical. I wish I had better options, strategies.
Wrong.

The author wrote a similar piece during Obama's tenure with the same thesis that economic experts are routinely underestimating economic weakness.
It's what happens when you don't have to prove your expertness with measurable metrics.
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I wasn't crazy about that line, but basically, sines and cosines make much less sense over say, the rational numbers, whereas polynomials work just fine. They're the most general "nice" function one can define over an arbitrary commutative ring.

This is rather a tautology since polynomials are exactly defined this way. I can imagine that if we built a (fictional) number system rather on properties of the Fourier transformation, sines and cosines would be very natural operations that would have a deep generelization when sufficiently abstracted.
If there's a group of you try pooling your money together to do bulk grocery buying. I used to do this with my equally poor neighbors when I was barely scratching a living. Often we could come up with $120 each and buy enough staples to last the entire month, of quality food direct from farms and wholesalers and other things, like towells, socks, ect. I probably would have been forced to live off beans and rice otherwise. This is definitely something somebody could make an app for or organize: community group buys for laundry soap, vegetables, ect to keep monthly costs for living down. The more people included in the group buy the cheaper the cost. I still do this but in the form of CSA boxes which are delivered weekly and I split it with a neighbor. NY has these too, can probably find a much cheaper one than this https://localrootsnyc.com/
Async/await is just syntactic sugar for Promises.

A CS bar exam should just assess fundamentals -- if you have a good CS base, and problem-solving skills, you will adapt with the times as technology changes. Then, it wouldn't need to be updated to include new ES6 functionality. Besides, someone who does back-end Java doesn't need to concern themselves with language change to JavaScript. That's another reason why such an exam should be generic.

I'm honestly surprised nobody has tried to make that a thing. It'd save companies so much in time and effort if they could just say "yup, this person has the credential".