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>Currently, I can go to the App Store, install any app, and be about 99.9% confident that the app will do me (or my technologically illiterate mother) absolutely no harm.

That's the problem though. That last 0.1% is difficult, and Facebook (which, if your technologically illiterate mother doesn't have it installed, many others do) has been repeatedly shown to do harm to their users. Yet they're still on the apple app store.
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Today gedit has twice memory footprint of a tricked out Emacs, however.
It might be possible for them to argue this on the basis of a volume discount.
I'm not saying it would, but saying "absolutely no harm" seems a bit hyperbolic.
Ask HN: How to track my own personal data as detailed as Google?
It is no surprise that google and other big co's are tracking us. A snippet in this video[1] posted yesterday where (looked like JSON data) was being pushed to googles servers on when someone was walking vs. running etc.

How can I track my own data as detailed as google? I want to know when i'm walking vs driving, heatmap of where I walk everyday, and a breakdown of websites I visit/how much time I spend on youtube etc. Again, I only want this info for myself for personal growth and better tracking of my time. I also know that a lot of different apps could do this, but I want to have everything under one hood, built by me. What would be the best way to go about this?

*Advanced beginner in python if that helps

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0G6mUyIgyg
But then you would also need to explain things like vestigal elements in humans, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_vestigiality. This is all neatly explained by evolution.

For eample, why do humans have a tail bone? Why have muscles attached to the ear that can not move it? Why have wisdom teeth? And there is about a dozen of these things in humans that have no discernable purpose in humans but have a similarity with things in other animals that do serve a purpose.

Evolution gives a model to explain this. Humans evolved from ape-like creatures that had a tail, humans have evolved not to grow the tail but have not quite lost the tail bone. Humans evolved from ape-like creatures that could move their ears. Humans didn't need that and so ears have become fixed without detriment, but have not yet lost the muscles. etc.
There’s no need to open the App Store. I agree with you that it misses the point of having a store in the first place.

What is needed is a big red button that makes it easy to sideload an app (download a file and run it) and explains the implications to the user.
I don't see how it's google's responsibility to babysit people. This guy might be a complete asshl, but he didn't seem like he coerced anyone, or harassed them into sleeping with him or having kids with him.
Of all the problems Guile Emacs might have fixed, performance on Windows is not one I considered.
I think it would have to exploit a vulnerability in Android’s sandboxing mechanism (not hard considering how many people can’t or don’t update) to be able to become separate from its parent application. Win32 doesn’t do any kind of app sandboxing at all.
Normal income tax. It starts ticking at the time of vesting. Capital gains comes into play if you sell it for a price different than what it vested for.
I am just sad that ReasonML doesn't seem to take off. I guess because of the JS interop is not as smooth. This language is even better in my opinion. Just looking at the list of its features [1] and it's syntax is so beautiful, the pattern matching being so powerful [2]. And it's based on OCaml, no null and undefined but an option type.

[1] https://reasonml.github.io/docs/en/what-and-why

[2] https://reasonml.github.io/docs/en/pattern-matching
I went down a bit of a rabbit hole with this yesterday. It's interesting--there's clearly some parts of the poem that are effective and lasting, while other parts aren't.

"thought was H20 was H2SO4" is identical in all the variants I found after the mid-20th-century. Most, but not all, have "What he thought was H20 was H2SO4". It seems like they "perfected" that part and it hasn't really changed since.

But the rest is very changeable--a few variants mention chemists and most mention a male name of some sort, but most have nothing else in common.
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if you are serious about switching go for spacemacs... it's an emacs that is tuned to be pretty good out of the box and caters mainly toward vim users.
Even in the wonderland of fiber, South Korea, fiber to the home has slowed down and fiber to the building is common. Korea Telecom still has lots of coaxial setups they stretch into gigabit speeds using 1:N connections. Gigabit penetration in Seoul was still below 50% few years back, much lower elsewhere.

Btw. Fiber has no latency advantage. What you need is servers at edge in both use cases.
I don't think the problem is finding somewhere to put the heat, but to get it out in the first place. The article says the heat is currently vented into the street.
This is not news.

The timing of the sales was predetermined under what is known as a 10b5-1 plan[1], named after an SEC regulation that allows company insiders to avoid insider trading charges by setting up a schedule of sales in advance (typically a year).

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rule-10b5-1.asp
> The one advance that might finally challenge the 'no silver bullet' rule is machine learning.

Machine learning can't even predict a simple binary proportion ratio. No, it's not a silver bullet.
Vesting is a taxable event. You pay income tax on the amount.
Selling is a taxable event, you pay capital gains on sell price minus vest price.
If you sell immediately, the diff between sell and vest will be very close to zero, but it wont be zero, so you pay capital gains or erite capital loss...

Capital loss is tricky because of wash salrs rules, so likely you won't be able to write off...
I wonder if the GDPR covers this under the right of explanation (if it happens to someone in the EU), or was the decision made against a non-human app who has no rights to violate?
Please quote properly, like this:

> The electrical resistance problem

> In October of last year an IBM-led team of researchers reported a solution to the electrical resistance problem. In a typical configuration metal contacts are attached to the top or the sides of the CNT. The team from IBM placed the contacts at the ends of the nanotube. They also joined the nanotube to the metallic components of the integrated circuit with a molybdenum-based carbide.

> Intel current top-of-the-line chips operate at a 14 nm scale and Intel plans to introduce 10 nm chips in 2017. The team from IBM built a CNT transistor that showed no increase in electrical resistance with contact lengths from 300 nm to less than 10 nm.

Your quote is unreadable on mobile, and annoying on desktop because of scrolling.
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>There was a huge campaign against man made global warming, and its worked, a significant amount of people believe its a hoax.

Hell, the Southpark guys did and made fun of it for years... and now they're like "wait a minute, it is real, our bad"

>Over the last two episodes, Parker and Stone have attempted to correct the mistake they made over a decade ago, as the boys beg Gore to help them fight the destruction of ManBearPig. While in 2006's South Park climate change was some silly myth, now it's a very real horror that most people still choose to ignore.

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>South Park has never been one to say it was wrong. It's a show that will gladly stand by its depictions of everything from suicide to terrorist attacks and the prophet Muhammad. So, to admit it was wrong about its take on climate change 12 years ago is a surprising sign of maturity.

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a25127458/south-par...
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I think a lot of their problems stem from outsourcing most of their customer service to poorly trained and poorly compensated contractors. Plus there seems like there's a firewall between actual Googlers who could make changes and communications from outside customers/devs/etc, and they're so insulated from the outside that they don't know the situation on the ground.
Not to mention spending years on Theranos' board, I guess he gets a free pass for letting Elizabeth Holmes play him like a fiddle.

https://www.axios.com/mattis-theranos-1521137535-f08d8b9b-78...
I've seen implementations of ACME's plumber as Emacs modes, I haven't seen implementations of Emacs in ACME.

ACME's plumber is very cool, and allows very easy customization of how some things work. Much easier than these things typically are in Emacs. But this behavior is implementable in Emacs (I wish it were standard), and lots of things that are hard-coded in ACME are fully customizable in Emacs.
For RSUs typically the amount vested is taxed as income. Often the broker sells shares to cover this and withholds the money for taxes. At that point your basis is the value of the stock on the day it vested. As always, be sure to check with your accountant/tax professional for your own situation.
RSUs (Restricted Stock Units) are taxed as income when they vest.

Typically shares are withheld to pay the tax before you ever see them. I.e. if your tax rate is 50% and you're getting an award of 100 shares, you'll only receive 50 shares in your account.

After that the shares are treated as if you'd purchased them at market rate. If you sell them immediately, there's no capital gain and no further tax to pay.
It might become a TV show https://www.slashfilm.com/masters-of-doom-series/
That camera design..
[Politics]

That was why I liked the CNN debates in July. (Democratic presidential primary candidates in the US.) The moderators kept the debate on topic and politely (as best as they could) cut off the candidates when they went off topic.

The next day, a lot of the political coverage complained that the moderators got in the way too much! Sigh.
I absolutely agree about the Surface Pro 4 keyboard: I've been using one as my personal laptop for the last 3,5 years and I absolutely love it. Although I must say the keyboard on my girlfriend's Surface Laptop feels slightly better though.
>the people with insider knowledge are trying to bail from the market

1. Is there any evidence that these insiders are good at market timing?

2. It would be illegal, risky and stupid for the CEO of one of the biggest companies in the world to dump stock on obvious insider knowledge. Do you really believe Tim Cooke is going to stake his entire coproate reputation for another few million bucks when he's already filthy rich? Maybe, but I'm skeptical.
I have a very similar story. I had an AdMod ad running on my free app, and all of a sudden the account was deleted in a few hours just before it was time to get my earnings. Google had no responses and were unreachable and I just gave up.

After this I found this has happened to 1000s of people and I realize how massively powerful this company is and they're using AI/bots to make decisions. I've now moved away from Google as much as I can and I warn others of their monopolistic practices and lack of care toward customers.
Strap your phone to a drone and let it fly around in walking speed so where remote.
How did I leave this comment here without any memory of doing it?
>> How was early Machine Learning different from statistics?

Some of the very early work in machine learning, in the 1950's and '60s was
not statistical. The first "artificial neuron", the Pitts & McCulloch neuron,
from 1938 was a propositional logic circuit. Arthur Samuel's 1952
checkers-playing programs used a classical minimax search with alpha-beta
pruning.

Machine learning in the '70s and '80s was for the most part not statistical,
but logic-based, in keeping with the then-current trend for logic-based AI.
Early algorithms did not use gradient descent or other statistical methods and
the models they learned were sets of logic rules, and not the parameters of
continuous functions.

For instance, a lot of work from that time focused on learning decision lists
and decision trees, the latter of which are best remembered today. The focus
on rules probably followed from the realisation of the problems with knowledge
acquisition for expert systems, that were the first big success of AI.

You can find examples of machine learning research from those times in the
work of researchers like Ryszard Michalski, Ross Quinlan (know for C4.5 and
IDR and the first-order inductive learner FOIL), (the) Stuart Russel, Tom
Mitchell, and others.
What's the over/under on this "update" of the "algorithm" taking at least until 2020?
Unfortunately I haven't found a way of detecting activities, but I started recording all my locations with GPSLogger[1] to GPX and store them on my server. So now I need to either find or create a way of navigating/searching/visualizing/analyzing all my history. I haven't found how to do that yet but at least I have the raw data to do it.

[1] https://gpslogger.app/
Here it sounds like the malicious code was in the advertising SDK itself, so ad blocking at the network level wouldn't necessarily have helped.
You're assuming this will wind up being like DNA.

Given the history of every other technique the cops have ever used to solve crime I'm betting it's gonna wind up somewhere between forensic bite mark analysis and eyewitness testimony (i.e. not worth shit unless you've got a lot of other stuff to corroborate it). Of course a generation of prosecutors will get to make their careers on this kind of crap before it gets debunked.
He talks about AGI at https://youtu.be/udlMSe5-zP8?t=2776

I wonder if all the really smart people who think AGI is around the corner know something I don't. Well, clearly they know a lot of things that I don't, but I wonder if there's some decisive piece of information I'm missing. I'm a "strict materialist" too, but that doesn't mean I think we can build a brain or a sun or a planet or etc within X years, it just means that I think it's technically possible to build those things.

I don't see how we get from "neural net that's really good at identifying objects" to "general intelligence". The emphasis on computational power also makes no sense to me. If we had infinite compute today, what steps would you take to build AGI? Does anyone have any good ideas about that?

Sometimes I wonder if AGI (and the concept of a "technological singularity") isn't just "intelligent design for people with north of 140 IQ". Maybe really smart people tend to develop a blindspot for really hard problems (because they've solved so many of them so effectively).
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No more than when I liquidate 0.5% of my net worth.

(Zuck's funding his foundation, incidentally, and has been for years. https://www.vox.com/2018/2/14/17012846/mark-zuckerberg-faceb...)
His first bullet point is probably the most practical thing I know about logging. Log lines are useless without context especially when the lines are interleaved. But this is easily fixed just by prefixing them with a context id that you filter on later. This requires no frameworks and even works with unstructured text logging.

Super simple, super useful, not everyone does it.
I started declining small meetings that don't meet this bar. First, I'll reply with, "what's your agenda." If I get a flippant answer, I decline. It pisses my boss off, but it's extremely effective.

Flippant answer: "I'd like to talk to you about [product / project / job title]"
C Suite at google? like these guys are some type of mafia? This happens with rich, powerful men everywhere world over. I'm reminded of the bill burr bit, if a lot of women are throwing themselves at you, i wonder how many men would be able to be faithful.
Markel, not Merkel.

No, fronting is not reinsurance. It's basically a licensed insurance company that is "leasing out" its license/assisting in regulatory/filing matters for a small percentage of the premium.

Tesla doesn't want to set up an actual insurance company, so it's easier to reuse an existing one.

Almost certainly there is a reinsurer involved as well (that hasn't been publicly disclosed), as Tesla likely doesn't have excess capital available to fund the surplus requirements for this auto insurance line.

https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2019/05/02/52...
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Ugh, no. Intelligent Design strikes again I see. Almost everything in that article is wrong (and also, the same tired pseudoscientific arguments), starting from the fact he claims "Darwinism" is a "credo". Also, Stephen Meyer is not brilliant and he is a quack.

Also, a Computer Science professor has no business arguing about evolution. Or rather, his opinion is as informed as yours or mine, i.e. not very.
I don't think that Google's monopoly on the android setup is unwarranted. They both developed the OS software and host an app store where they decide what gets sold in this store - the same way that Apple does or Microsoft does on windows with its windows store.

> I should be able to install whatever app I want, without having to jailbreak my phone and deal with warranty nonsense from the manufacturer. Just like my computer, which I can also install whatever software I want on it.

I don't know too much about how the Apple/iPhone ecosystem works, but in both Android and in Windows you can generally download apps from locations other than the ones specifically sanctioned by Google/Microsoft without repercussions (android does have the setting you manually have to enable first before downloading external APK's). Google definitely does control an overwhelming share of the app download market, but that's because it has marketed itself well, it works well enough that users don't go looking for other stores, and there haven't been too many alternative stores that have sufficiently marketed themselves to general Android users (F-Droid is a cool concept, but the general Android user is more concerned with "getting an app that does x" than "getting an app that does x and the source code is available")
The important part of what he said was "providing the output that you get in the terminal". Simply stating "I got an error" and expecting the developer(s) to use clairvoyance to glean further detail is far from a helpful way to report a problem. Perhaps dropping the details in a pastebin site and linking to that would be a possible alternative? Or just including the error message here if it is short enough, though HN shouldn't really be used as a tech support channel.
> You're changing what I said.

Your comment "Most notably he claimed the moon landing was a hoax." is vague about whether Rogan recently has stated the moon landing is a hoax. I've added your full quote in my reply to let people judge for themselves.

Further:

> pushed the moon landing was a hoax.

is not the same as:

> It's also not hard to find evidence of that... he claims NASA's footage was faked

He does believe some of the footage was faked - there are indeed inconsistencies there that aren't very well explained. That's not the same thing as believing the moon landing didn't occur, which was Joe back in Fear Factor / NewsRadio era. He's 52 now.
It's just an optimization/convenience to use Google services for push notifications, no?
> the politicians who wanted Brexit have whipped up immigration into such a ridiculous issue that giving entry to any extra group seems inconceivable

Idunno man, I don't think hardly anyone would have a problem with tens or hundreds of thousands of largely civilized, decent, educated people entering Britain; provided it was not in addition to what they're used to from other places. At least, this is what I gather from speaking a lot with Brexiters and marginal remainers.
The real problem here is that Google does this even when we use double quotes and the verbatim option :-/

I switched to DDG a while ago, -it is about as good as Google now, much thanks to Googles own effort ower the last decade to nerf its own search engine.

Since they are now about equal I use the one that doesn't track me and doesn't support Google.
Recently, my Amazon payments account was banned from doing anything out of the blue. I called the customer service and they said they would forward my issue ot the correct people and I would receive a response on what was going on.

A day later, I receive an automated email stating that they were "unable to confirm my account information" and that "I will not be able to transact in the future". I was given absolutely zero info on why they were unable to verify me or any corrective actions I could take to fix it.
The center for the book (https://sfcb.org) in San Francisco offers intro to letterpress classes, which I cannot recommend enough.

Being able to go from layout to printed paper so directly and viscerally is fantastic. If you've ever raged at InDesign or Microsoft Word, the physical embodiment of type, spacers, etc. feels like getting a glass of cold water in hell.

Of course it comes with its own tedium (can't Cmd + Z, can't just download new fonts, etc.), and I wouldn't advocate that anyone but specialty shops do a majority of their work on a letterpress; but having poured many frustrated hours into InDesign and its buggy features, it felt like a liberation to be able to control things physically.

To a degree, I feel like introduction to typography should be taught on a letterpress. You develop a much stronger feel for what's going on, and you physically grok what a baseline, em, en, etc. are. In my typography classes, students got confused by these notions because the definitions got muddied by the various software interpretation and implementations of it over the years (and the professor didn't do a great job at clearing it up either).

Having used the original thing first, the software implementations (and the liberties they took) became much easier to understand for me.
Did you see their press release this morning?

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/08/apple-offers-customer...

> New Independent Repair Provider Program Expands Genuine Parts Access to More Repair Businesses

> Cupertino, California — Apple today announced a new repair program, offering customers additional options for the most common out-of-warranty iPhone repairs. Apple will provide more independent repair businesses — large or small — with the same genuine parts, tools, training, repair manuals and diagnostics as its Apple Authorized Service Providers (AASPs). The program is launching in the US with plans to expand to other countries.

> “To better meet our customers’ needs, we’re making it easier for independent providers across the US to tap into the same resources as our Apple Authorized Service Provider network,” said Jeff Williams, Apple’s chief operating officer. “When a repair is needed, a customer should have confidence the repair is done right. We believe the safest and most reliable repair is one handled by a trained technician using genuine parts that have been properly engineered and rigorously tested.”

For "most common out-of-warranty iPhone repairs" I'd bet they're talking about batteries and screens. Especially alongside the recent "battery health" change where it only gives stats for Apple's batteries.
Which was their killer feature. Yahoo!™ Was great if you knew what curated content you already wanted.

But if you wanted some esoteric, bizarrely specific thing indexed on a single page on a single site, you went with Google.

They're turning into Yahoo.
> Sun, Aug 25, 05:21 PM EDT: Google Play Team > After reviewing your appeal, we have confirmed our initial decision and will not be able to reinstate your developer account.

I think I might of missed it but, did they even appeal? The hell is Google doing saying they did if they didn't? I would sure hope this is some sort of grounds of defamation or some related law, claiming someone said something they didn't even say is pretty awful. I wish people would start suing the hell out of Google for their obviously ridiculous hostile behavior, looks like we have dozens upon dozens of companies that could band together too.