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Nexus 5 was not a tank in my experience.

On mine the plastic frame cracked between the power button and the volume control (I think a reasonably common problem with this phone, I've never had a frame crack on any other phone). After that one button gets stuck on, which makes phone cycle reboot - OK - I can workaround that. Then the microphone went bad: that is caused by the crack causing pressure on the micro-connector which causes an electrical issue. That wasted more time and eventually my workaround for that issue failed.

I have had close experience with 5 different Nexus devices, and 4 of the 5 had nasty failure modes.

The Nexus line has been far less reliable than the iOS devices I have had experience with, and all the Apple devices got far more security updates over their useful life. Note: I usually use Android phones and iPad tablets (although I have also personally had iPhones and Android tablets).
I've always felt that Ruby was the language that got closest to natural language or to natural pseudo-code while retaining conciseness and not getting overly verbose. I hope more new languages are heavily influenced by Ruby or go further towards being highly readable and concise.
How does this mesh with the gingivitis correlation?
I was just setting up a slightly older System76 desktop this evening when I came across how they handle firmware updates [1]. That's very impressive to me, showing concern about only using blobs when there's no other option, being transparent about signing, and explaining their QA process, not to mention the whole utility being open-sourced. That's worlds ahead of any other OEM PC manufacturer I've ever seen.

[1] https://github.com/system76/firmware-update
I’d love to see UPI expand its capabilities. It’s one of the most innovative fintech products I’ve seen in a while especially when it gives you way more privacy and safety than plastic.
> Each matrix is run through edge-detection and object-detection algorithms, and the resultant data is then run through more algorithms to match and compare objects between the two images. Finally, once objects have been matched up, a parallax algorithm determines their 3d positioning.

Where is your information coming from, and can you point me to a stereo algorithm that uses object detection?
people have gone to ridiculous lengths to get the steam version of their games before.They treat it like a profile page. I don't think this thread realizes that
Y'all, please never post university press releases about single scientific studies. They are the worst thing. Every major human problem has been declared solved by one of them. They are even worse than posting single scientific study papers themselves at the time of publication, and that's still pretty bad, because of the overwhelming incentive to create exciting studies that are wrong, and our current inability to notice the same due to limitations of peer review in catching results that were created by some form of chance.

This result looks very exciting and if it replicates and is built upon in five years' time then we can all talk about it then, you know?

I note that Science Translational Medicine's impact factor is not awesome. But even that doesn't mean much to me: lately it feels like _Science_ and _Nature_ are in fact especially likely to collect results that are very exciting and also wrong, because they feel like they're the best journals so their results should be surprising.
My Nexus 5 was also fantastic.

And then I heard the horror stories of everyone in my office who, having had a great experience with the N5, went and bought a Pixel.
A good primer on prions: http://www.prionalliance.org/2013/11/26/what-are-prions/
Likely true, at least in a direct sense, but Stanford does give a nearly three-fold preference to legacy applicants. Alumni are more likely to donate to Stanford than non-alumni.

https://stanfordmag.org/contents/what-it-takes
Tesla is certainly on the knifes edge... they must be extremely confident
I'm not sure why you place so much importance on this seemingly small detail that, as far as I can tell, doesn't really have a broader contextual impact. That being said, without knowing more about the situation, it's completely believable that the prosecutor's office would not initiate legal action based on rumours in the news, especially since there have been so many rumours and predictions around what the Ecuadorian embassy intends to do with Assange and when they intend to do it.

It really does look to me like you are grasping at straws, but maybe I've missed something.
It really does not play on iOS, as in it's replaced by a crossed-out play symbol.
How does a protein come to be misfolded? Is it a random mutation that happens to be self-propagating? Is it different between alzheimers and other ones like mad cow?
A lot of people buy housing with the idea that the house they live in is somehow an investment. This is also what was discussed in the article. Long term, this is not sustainable. If you rent out property, then it makes sense you can make more than inflation, but if you live in the house, you should have the same ROI as income growth in your area.
In the context of overall mission goals, the mission for the misnamed 'autopilot' of Tesla is to be safer than humans.

Moreover, while the car industry certainly produces safer cars than ever before, a huge number of deaths are auto related, so there's already some general acceptance that people will die.

I think a better example is Virgin Galactic, where several people have died (one on a flight, three on the ground explosion), while the project mission continues. Then again, VG still isn't flying commercial flights.

I don't know how to interpret that in terms of NASA's proposed non-risk-taking.
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Exactly. It surprises me how many people don't understand the basic economics of scarcity. There has to be some rationing factor. In a free market this is price. If you remove price, it will be something else besides price, such as a lottery, how politically connected you are, or something else. The only real solution that doesn't result in shortages is to increase supply (build more housing).
Prions remind me of ice-nine.
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The following excerpt is the crux of the author’s argument regarding DM, & it points to the dark elephant in the room that a lot of physicists are bothered by but don’t want to discuss:

“It's perhaps worth stopping to ask why astrophysicists hypothesize dark matter to be everywhere in the universe? The answer lies in a peculiar feature of cosmological physics that is not often remarked. For a crucial function of theories such as dark matter, dark energy and inflation, which each in its own way is tied to the big bang paradigm, is not to describe known empirical phenomena but rather to maintain the mathematical coherence of the framework itself while accounting for discrepant observations. Fundamentally, they are names for something that must exist insofar as the framework is assumed to be universally valid.”
Well, when you’re an authority on prions everything looks like a prion disease.
I still see Rails as perhaps one of the best frameworks to start a new generic web project in. The out-of-the-box functionality is just so perfectly tuned, and the fact that they're focusing on features that appeal to larger applications just shows how Rails has helped companies grow.
Does lidar have anything to do with the redundancy?
As far as I'm concerned as a consumer lacking region locking (as currently implemented at least) is a big positive because I can buy games for friends. Steam won't let you gift games to people in other regions at all which I don't understand - if there's regional price differences shouldn't I at least be able to purchase my gift at whatever the highest price of the two is?
You could probably achieve this with an IDE that understands your rich text comments (maybe code them in JSON or base64 binary). To me it seems like a pure presentation problem.
In fairness, they wrote something that could end up in the media. Who wants that kind of attention?

Googler in Bay Area here, non-throwaway account. Don't know enough about the situation to comment on any of the details or form an opinion, but I can attest to the fact that I didn't really notice the sit-in, for better or worse.

Not to detract from or endorse anyone's opinion, I'm just bothered by the weird conspiracy vibe in this thread. I signed the Dragonfly letter so it feels like posting a small anecdote to Hacker News is relatively benign, but maybe I'm naive :)

(My opinions here, not my employers. You know the drill.)
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Isn't steam the reason thousands of windows games work out of the box on mac and linux though? Wine wasn't as awesome as it is now without valve's involvement
I like this idea.

It could take literate programming [1] to the next level. Existing tools like docco [2] can output beautiful documentation [3] with comments set alongside code. The language/editor described above would allow us to input code in the same side-by-side format.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming

[2]: https://github.com/jashkenas/docco

[3]: https://underscorejs.org/docs/underscore.html
> lately it feels like _Science_ and _Nature_ are in fact especially likely to collect results that are very exciting and also wrong, because they feel like they're the best journals so their results should be surprising.

I believe this is accurate on all counts.

Slate Star Codex put the issue fairly pithily: there's only one way to get surprising-if-true results that isn't surprising.
What did you replace it with? I also use a N5.
Unfortunately users just don't care in most cases. The app stores have taught a generation of users that software should be free so the pressure is on developers to build things in the cheapest way possible. In most cases that takes real native apps off the table. I particularly blame Apple here for being so successful at commoditizing software in order to sell their hardware. This might come back to bite them now that their hardware sales are slowing though.

In markets where users are still willing to pay a premium you still see high quality native apps. Ableton Live is $750, but plenty of users are happy to pay that because you can't build Live with javascript and html.
I loved playing World of Goo when it came out.

And nothing has made me feel older than finding out it's 10 years old. I would have been like... 4 years? 5 at the most? Wow.

Congrats to them!
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That’s baloney and obviously wrong based on eyesight.
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FYI I have a Nokia 7+ and it is fairly good for giving a pure Google experience ("Android One"), without being quite so expensive.

Also HMD Global seem to be reliable at giving the security updates OTA.

I haven't looked at the newer Nokia 7.1.
I think you're joking, but just in case you're not (and for those reading): when you use a mortgage to buy a house, you own the house completely, and the bank owns it not at all. It's your property. That's why you can use it to secure the loan of the mortgage.

If you fail to satisfy your mortgage agreement with the bank, then yes, they can take the house from you in a foreclosure. But until then, it's yours, not theirs.
I read the C&D article when it came out last year. Pretty sure it was linked from HN actually. They ran some tests with a few cars driving into inflatable vehicle decoys. As I recall they found the systems would fail as often as not.

I was speaking in terms of this crash, which was not a primary collision with another vehicle, when I said that AEB will not activate for stationary objects at speed.

The ACC will activate for a stationary vehicle at speed, but will not save you entirely at even modest speed. At 70mph even ACC can drive right into a stationary vehicle.

These systems often work by sharing the ACC sensors and lock onto and track vehicles. This is why C&D discusses specifically the case of a lead vehicle swerving to reveal a stopped vehicle, and how some systems fail to acquire the stopped vehicle in time to provide any brake input at all;

> Volvo's owner's manuals outline a target-switching problem for adaptive cruise control (ACC), the convenience feature that relies on the same sensors as AEB.

(C&D did not test drive a Volvo for that test, but they did review the Volvo system and comment on it)

It would not be fair to take the C&D testing with inflatable vehicle decoys, and use that to claim Tesla is behind by not activating AEB into a narrow profile partial forward obstruction (parallel jersey barrier).

Partial forward obstruction of a non-car object is the absolute worst case for false positives, because this roughly translates into “any signal at all on the forward sensor”.

I’ll try to find sample images of what the sensor data looks like under normal operating conditions and when looking at narrow profile forward obstructions.

This is a very tricky edge case. A bird can fly in front of you. Water can splash up from the car in front of you. An empty trash bag floating up in the air after being run over by a car in front of you.

I did not mean to imply ACC or even AEB will not slow down a car heading for a rear end collision with another stopped car. I was speaking about this event specifically. I apologize for not being more clear in my 1 sentence original reply.
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I’m surprised! An evil company doing evil things!
It's no only the university course / curriculum, but the environment is also very important. You have colleagues with whom you can discuss and learn. Online forums are still not as good as that!
How so? I'm legitimately asking- I find Windows 10's Start Menu, of all things, to be way better on win10 than win7, especially in Enterprise deployments.
Sure, but if you’ve got the processing it’s pretty easy.
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Property tax? Do you really own something that someone else can take away?

And why would renting not work in old age? It works fine, its a value exchange and the money that ive saved for my old age in various investment vehicles will typically outperform most real estate investments.
cheesymuffin's comment is downvoted, but I think he's on to something. It would be very odd to consider inflammation of the brain to be a cause of any problem, because inflammation is a symptom of something else.
Considering that an API is a mere symbolic/semantic gateway closer to a mathematical expression, I'm sorry, your interpretation would seem to be more useless. Nothing says the underlying functionality exposed by an API has to functionally line up. I could implement a persistence layer through Pair(K. V) or any other myriad sets of logic, but just because I use that set characters to render that API in a virtual machine, I should be open to extortion?

Programming languages, and API's in particular are useless alone. This is just an attempt to try to monetize a gigantic segment, which if allowed will lead to an inevitable fracturing of just about every semantic convention behind an ever growing wall of lawfare.

It's bloody math. Stop trying to treat it like a bloody Widget.

For God's sake, you're saying Oracle should be able to gatekeep

Pair(K key, V value).

Great. So as long as anyone uses that Oracle gets to sue them? Great way to hobble the industry.

Or are you seriously going to try to make the argument that all we need to do is change the package names/method signatures of the entire JDK without altering it structurally and we're gold?

This is a space where legalese starts to enter its' own butthole without reconciling what you're trying to do with what you're actually doing.
Gotta find some way to keep the population occupied with something “meaningful” as you automate away their jobs while providing longer lifespans!
There’s also Paddle and Fastspring. With stripe et al you are the merchant of record but with the above two they are the merchant of record. For people who are new to receiving payments, like me, this was a big revelation.

Receiving payments is just the tip of the iceberg. There’s tax, vat, handling fraud, chargebacks and other compliances, not to mention more headaches if your place of incorporation is different than your place of business/where most transactions occur.

Depends on how much you want to handle. If you want to handle chargebacks/fraud on your own, Stripe is great. If you want to offload that responsibility, then you need someone like paddle and fastspring.

I’m currently still evaluating what I want and do not want to deal with but this little piece Iof information might help someone in need.
You can't do much against an engineer willing to weld and cut their way through the parts.

Similarly, we can't do anything about people using a soldering iron to make customizations to their motherboards. Everything that happens, it's on them.
I used an iOS view source app and pulled the webm url, and played it with VLC for iOS.

https://yukari.sr.ht/wio.webm
I'm not familiar with the term.
A couple of months ago they didn't even support regional pricing. Still doubt they support domestic cards. With so many news on hacks on epic account, I've never heard of abyone being thrilled to create an epic account
Are you dying soon? If not, there's no deadline. If the people you know did a cool thing at 20 or 21, and you do a cool thing at 24 or 25 (or 45 or 55 or 65 or ...), it is still cool, is it not?

It seems clear that you aren't actually interested primarily in sound the cool things, but doing more cool things earlier than peers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost

why do they have to hold on to some hope of price incrase just because they bought a house. Instead of having the freedom to choose the best investment like everyone else.

Sure hold on to it if you really think its the best investment for your money( i really doubt detroit house is best you can do with your money), not because of some sentimental value.
I don’t think it’s fair to compare renting a room to buying an apartment (even a studio), but you don’t need to do that.

Right now, most properties in manhattan rent for less than their monthly carrying costs (including HOA fees). People have traditionally justified it via the mortgage interest and SALT tax deductions, but congress just blew the latter all to hell, and it’s making properties about 30% too expensive...

So many units have priced in the SALT tax deductions! The rent/buy calculation was borderline before, but now it’s just comically bad.
The actual study is here: "Aβ and tau prion-like activities decline with longevity in the Alzheimer’s disease human brain" < https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/11/490/eaat8462 >
Tesla made some very big claims in their recent autonomy day event- basically, they claimed that they are years ahead of competitors, while operating on "hard" mode (no lidar). And yet, a number of participants in the short autonomy day demo rides claimed that the support driver had to disengage the autopilot.

Has Tesla provided any evidence which shows evidence that they are in fact far beyond competitors?
Sure it’s laggier but with dedicated silicon that’s a non-issue.

Fact is vision is more than adequate. And lidar is literally blind.
I think they meant that Berkeley and Stanford are the hardest to get into, not that they are necessarily the 'best'. I would assume that anyone who got into Stanford or Berkeley could get into any other school in California.
Total compensation progression at prop trading firms?
I'm starting a job with a reputable prop trading firm (think Two Sigma, Jane Street). I was hoping someone could shed some light onto the total compensation progression for a software engineer at one of these firms.

At what point can a SWE at one of these firms expect to hit 250k, 500k, 750k, and 1M total comp?

Thanks!
Because they bet wrong. It happens.
> The US still has a huge Navy compared to China

At this point the most likely result of Sino-American naval conflict would be a bloody stalemate. Missiles really change the equation for surface ships as the article correctly points out. I would not like to be on a US carrier anywhere near the Chinese coast in the event of a war. They are likely to end up like the Prince of Wales and Repulse. [1]

On the other hand it does not seem likely that the Chinese fleet could deal with US submarines, so it's not clear how they could protect their own shipping.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_Prince_of_Wales_and...
Or "U$C", which ages very well.
I expect programming to trend towards being more declarative. Developers will state what they want and it will be up to the interpreter/compiler to come up with the most efficient solution.
I have purchased two Lenovo T580 laptops within the last year, and both worked flawlessly with Fedora with zero tweaking. Both machines are running great so far. An older Lenovo I've had for a few years did have a hard drive die, but Lenovos are so easy to service that it was cake to replace the drive. If anyone from Lenovo is reading this, thank you for making it so easy to service the laptop for a user.

I have had a few Dells and I think hardware-wise it is the best, but that dual video card setup never worked quite right. Also until Fedora 29 came out (with a newer kernel) the only distro that I could install was the stock Ubuntu that came with the laptop (which didn't have full disk encryption, unfortunately).

I would recommend a Lenovo T580 or Dell XPS 15/5520. I think the Dell hardware is actually nicer than Apple, which is a high compliment.
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