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Yes, customs has legal authority to search all of your belongings which includes the files, emails, photos, text messages, etc on your devices.

My only other option was to forfeit my computer. Since I like my computer and don't do anything illegal I allowed them to violate my privacy so I could keep my computer. After they had a good look I was on my way.

From what I understand, the process has changed. These days they just image your hard drive and you're on your way after that. Then they upload your drive to a cloud system that looks through it for illegal activity. No joke. Again, you can forfeit your computer or phone but they will still try to image the drive.
That doesn’t actually change the cost of the policy.

Repurposing an asset you spent $X to build is the same as spending $X on a new asset for that purpose, minus any depreciation you took up till that point.

To your point, if road costs continue to be the status quo, then 1/4 of what you spent on roads should now be covered by bus fares. That would make the buses impossibly expensive.

I’m sure that people who like riding public transit buses would love this policy, because your taking an already highly subsidized (loss leading) form of transportation and making it an order of magnitude more subsidized by giving them free private roads to ride on.
You seem distracted by the use of the word “dollars”. No need to be so literal, they’re just using them as an abstract unit of value. It can be replaced with milligrams of gold or Satoshis without loss of meaning.
The Gita is a triumph of Indian literature. Intriguingly, Gandhi held the Gita in great esteem and interpreted the warfare it depicts as fundamentally spiritual.
Blog post is a copy of the abstract of a $12 article. https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Famp0000422

Nothing to see here.
Garbage collection was deprecated almost immediately after it was released and has never been supported on iOS (which let’s be honest is the target for 95% of all cocoa developers)
Can someone knowledgable please give us examples of real life use of PCA. Not could be used here could be used there kind of toy exmaples but actual use.
Agreed, I don’t need to stand to ensure my teams concise in their update. The parking lot concept is a great way to shorten meeting and politely interrupt people when they are long winded.
Well, and, technically, if the world can survive longer and have better water, because of a shift in how we make food, then yes, it's healthier for you too - even if you don't eat it!
I wonder how remote will change this.
If you want to argue Apple is handling this poorly from a community perspective, you'll find no argument with me.

The reason Apple is doing this in this poor way is that they seem to want to push Metal as the answer. They want incentives for developers to move to Metal by making their lives more difficult on OpenGL, because even with libraries those libraries must be maintained and included. They don't want to bear responsibility for this legacy. I'm explaining, not defending.

This is the direct opposite to the Linux ecosystem, where Gallium3D not only facilitates both OpenGL and Vulkan, but has had attempted Direct3D implementations in the past. Yet another case where Linux has the "everything and the kitchen sink approach", and Apple just flat out dictates a single choice to everybody. That attitude sometimes helps Apple, but sometimes it doesn't.
If I knew how to type a Sid James dirty chuckle I would. ;)
> my classic Dualit 4 slice toaster

--- which is around $300 and still selling. I think we need to rethink the reasons that the Sunbeam was discontinued.
Unfortunately ccache does not help with swift.
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The link to the original paper is dead, here is it.

* The Gita of J. Robert Oppenheimer

https://web.archive.org/web/20131126020921/http://www.amphil...
This is Hacker News, not Hacker Noon.
Is canola oil pressed without chemicals? I can't find anything about that...
...Political?
> I've searched for RFCs but I couldn't find any standard, and not even a defacto standard.

How about RFC 4880 - OpenPGP Message Format[1]?

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880
Context: The authors software website: https://www.TurtleSoft.com

A screenshot: https://www.turtlesoft.com/Accounting-Software.html#Chart_Of...

I want to be respectful to an indie developer, but think it’s worth considering the kind of niche he works in (guessing windows -centric) and probably does more high touch sales.

I want to also guess that many of the people on that thread are from an older generation of developers, might be worth considering what the tradeoffs have been in language improvements that have attracted more people to writing software compared to the authors in that thread saying C++ is all they need.
This is about contradicting the powers that be, not martial arts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong#Persecution
There’s more than meets the eyes when it comes to the Nvidia/Apple situation. From what I’ve heard a big part of Apple’s problem has to do with the quality of Nvidia’s drivers — Apple is requiring that a bar be met, and Nvidia isn’t meeting it.

I can’t verify this claim, but given my personal experience it makes perfect sense. I run a 980 Ti alongside a 950 in my hackintosh tower and graphical glitches on the desktop happen pretty regularly despite both cards being perfectly healthy.

The other thing is that historically, Apple has been unwilling to differentiate the drivers between consumer and workstation cards because generally speaking that concept is kind of silly. Everybody should have workstation-class stability, not just those who shell out 3-5x more cash for a workstation card. It’s obvious why Nvidia would take issue with this,
Merriam Webster:

> Gentleperson -- a gentleman or lady

I wouldn't say it rolls off the tongue well, but it's technically correct usage.
Well my issue is I have no use for a Mac, I’m a Linux user.
I've exclusively fried stuff in EVOO all my life. I fill my deep fryer with EVOO. It's perfectly fine.
Cheques and faxes died with the phone booth 20 years ago in Europe and the developed world outside the US, right?
Apple dropped security updates on El Capitan with release of Mojave. El Capitan is supported on MacBooks from 2009. I think it's time to upgrade.
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I don't believe it's happening here unless we want to count the Rust Evangelism Strike Force. If it were then you would have noticed or people doing analysis on the public data would have posted reports of accounts involved and how their activity is coordinated. Look at all the posts over the years breaking down what gets to the front page and who posts it. It's not as if there aren't users who are actually paying attention. Actual campaigns have been active on Facebook, Twitter and Reddit, and indeed there are reports making specific and detailed accusations beyond "I don't like your comment history".

Joking aside, I believe that the minimum standard for a "influence operation" is where "operators" use a greater number of sock puppet accounts in a centrally coordinated manner to dominate the discussion forum. There has to be deception: pretending to be multiple people.

If I ever see activity that appears to meet that standard I'll report my evidence of it to the admins, trust they will take appropriate action if necessary, and continue to assume everyone who doesn't agree with me is a reasonable person acting in good faith.
> If we can agree that the VAT is levied because the government has added some value to each product sold (value added tax..

What value has the government added to consumer products I purchase in the store, particularly in the USA where tax rates vary from state to state, county to county, or even city to city? There is no national sales tax here, but consumer regulation is still a thing, and factors into the base price of goods.

I’m still genuinely interested in what value you see the government adding, but I think this might be why Americans and Europeans are disagreeing here.
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They don't give an example, they express their impression rather than providing contrary data.
Circle items VS awkwardly typing on a tiny screen where you can't see the whole form
Ask a 50+ person to choose between large "screen" and manual big circling motion vs phone typing
But if the rich people and their kids never spend their money, than it might as well not exist, right? Once they spend it they pay the tax otherwise it's just a number that grows with investments and doesn't give them anything else.
Why did the British not colonize Nepal?
Regressive taxes are bad because they place a higher burden on people least able to pay versus those with more income to pay the tax.
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Margarine is poison. Margarine is not food.

Animals, insects, mold or bacteria, will NOT eat margarine.

It's not even digestible.
Yeah, something about this study just feels like it will ultimately end up as an example in an article covering the replication crisis or something.
Are you a Malaysian perchance?
You can always buy and sell them in person for cash. Like how you buy drugs.

The point is the government can severely hurt Bitcoin adoption by making it illegal, but it cannot completely shut it down.
Startup options are better than they look (2017)
Many comments here by people who would have said the iPhone was impossible, or Tesla could never succeed. Or that the iPhone is actually bad or a Tesla is actually bad.

Not a lot of facts though. Such gleeful negativism in our gene pool.

"Just because you don't know how to do something doesn't mean you can't."
You are falling into a common trap these days. There is a difference between API (remember the I stands for interface) and implementation. There is no reason a vendor can't completely change how drivers work without the application having any idea. There is nothing about the API that says it needs to push complexity onto the driver, but you are describing these implementations as inevitability.
I’m working on a case study of the project that I’m going to submit to a journal with my professor.

Basically our approach is to use eeg, eye movements and head movements to let patients control an arm with the goal of making them more independent.
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70% would be a great number. Usually 90%+ of startups fail.
Not surprised, when I saw the heavyweights all part of Libra, I think this was their intention all along. They hoped that it would fail, I wouldn't be surprised if behind the scenes they lobbied against it. They seem to have latched onto it so if it took off they won't be left behind. It was really order seeing companies like MasterCard & PayPal as part of it.
I don't disagree about DNS leaks being a separate problem, that doesn't change anything about what I said though.
This is a supremely good comment.
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Calafornian state department insist on cheques or cash. Now I live in Europe I cannot issues cheques, and I cannot mail cash internationally via courier (law). So how the Dickens do I get my children's birth certificates apostilled (born in US)?

(Ans use a person I trust in the US, but without a social network it's beauracratically impossible)
You're correct but these examples mean extreme caution and mistrust are warranted against anybody advocating any such steps.
I know, I know ... deep stuff. But, I read the Gita (German translation) and - frankly speaking - I was quite underwhelmed and didn't see the big deal about it. It's a rather dull and repetitive story about a guy going to war and having a chat over it with some Hindu god. The famous quotes masterfully recited by Dr. Oppenheimer are not being built up to - they just appear out of nowhere. My conclusion is that this pamphlet is rather overrated, though, no doubt plays historically an important role in Hindu religion and philosophy.

I know this is an unpopular opinion as among a part of the tech crowd it seems be en vogue to engage in cargo cult spirituality by dwelling on literature which has been endorsed by reputed personalities.
Furthermore, from the start Carbon was intended as a transitionary solution and Apple told devs this many many times. Carbon apps were supposed to be the bubblegum-and-duct-tape answer for holding users over while you worked on your Cocoa version. It’s not Win32 or MFC and Apple never claimed it was.
I wish they would just open source Cocoa (AppKit) if they're going to just abandon it. There were some really good ideas in there, and I think it could possibly develop an active community to continue experimenting with them.

IMO the problem this time around isn't the pivot, but the absolute half-heartedness of the pivot: two half-finished solutions: Swift UI and Catalyst, neither of which works very well yet, and this after about 5 years of pitiful development on Cocoa proper while simultaneously asking people to kind of switch to Swift. So it really feels like 3 half pivots in those 5 years, all to end up with something less polished than Cocoa in its heyday.

I really respect anyone who put up with working on Cocoa apps the last 5 years. The documentation has been sparse to non-existent on new features (often times for a year or longer your best bet was to wade through a WWDC video to get any information at all), coupled with a really miserable Mac App Store experience that was forced on you. It's really sad that when you would find some bug in Cocoa, unlike in the past, you could basically determine that this was it, as everything feels end of the line and thus not likely to be fixed.
This one has a latch that prevents that. To fire the second time you have to remove the toast (it’s mentioned near the end of the video).
Decisional or organizational, if you prefer. This is about teams at Microsoft fighting, top levels failing to come up with an agreed upon way forward and quality control departments lacking any standard for design coherence.
Another egregious example: Frontier Communications adds a $3.99 "Internet Infrastructure Surcharge" for internet service, on top of the advertised price. But internet infrastructure is what the advertised price is for, so why isn't it already included in the price?

The underlying problem is that the US does not have a true democracy. The government here works for big businesses, not "of the people, by the people, and for the people". EU is much closer to being a true democracy.
Absolutely devilish.
And yet we're still waiting for our Arcologies.
Why Japan lost its comparative advantage in producing electronic parts
Correlation not causation..nothing to see here.
Ask HN: Best Tools to Visualize Poems
Specifically, we would like to show the use of certain words (locations, emotions) across different poems by the same author. In this case, it would be in chinese, so many of the very easy-to-use tools don't work. I've looked into LaTex packages that would work for this, but couldn't really find any.
If the bugs eat the crops, there isnt any crawled over food left.
It was satire, I was only kidding. As of this time I believe about 0% of posts here are manipulated. It's not to say we're not all exposed to propaganda and spin all the time, just that HN is not a forum that makes sense to target - it's too small.
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The post you're responding to did not confuse the two.
A recent Canadian example:

> The data being broadcast includes the patients name, age, gender marker, diagnosis, their attending doctor and room number. Other broadcasts regarding medical tests such as x-rays are often associated with a patients last name or medical number, exposing their progression through hospital departments.

https://openprivacy.ca/blog/2019/09/09/open-privacy-discover...
What attacks do you believe it enables?
Sales taxes are definitely regressive (as that word is used by policy makers) because low-income people spend closer to 100% of their income than high-income people. The definition of regressive is a tax that takes up a larger percentage of income for low-income than high income.

Source: I used to be a tax lawyer.
I don't care. The games can be streamed without the cards data also being public.

No self respecting player should agree to that. There is no real security that way. Everybody knows that. What we can get is good, but never perfect.

Poker has been plagued by bots already. Prior to that, a family member, who can play at top ranks, made insane money online. Bill Frist made that difficult where I live, so we transitioned to table play. Medical issues made that tough...

I put that there because we have played this game. (I am solid, by their teaching and do play on occasion today)

There is the player choice to tell. Sometimes it makes sense not to, and nobody else needs to know.

Publishing card data devalues the game. Makes it less.

A game streamed old school tells anyone watching all they really need to know. From there, start to play. That tells them more.

I do not like the card data being published. Yes, players consent. They shouldn't, but their call.

Same as I get to talk it down. I wonder what Brunson would think about this. I bet not much.

We all have our reasons.
they didn't give an example but simply made an assertion, one that by the way is likely wrong, given that the East of England is generally upheld as an example of good mobility(https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2018/fe...), compared to the rest of the country.
I certainly heard that chuckle when reading that line

Keeping this on topic, Sid probably had one of these
> There’s more than meets the eyes when it comes to the Nvidia/Apple situation. From what I’ve heard a big part of Apple’s problem has to do with the quality of Nvidia’s drivers — Apple is requiring that a bet be met, and Nvidia isn’t meeting it.

Then Apple needs to dig down into their pocket, maybe they’ve got some extra money there, and solve this problem.
we generally discount the ideas of "tinfoil" people because their ideas have a very low signal-to-noise ratio. if you say all kinds of crazy stuff, some of it will eventually be true. this doesn't make it a good idea to conduct your life as if these claims were true. you'll be prepared for the small number of conspiracy theories that turn out to be true, but you'll likely incur a far larger cost by avoiding all sorts of threats that aren't actually real. maybe there's a guy outside waiting to kill me when I go out to lunch. it's possible, but it's much more likely that I'll die of starvation if I avoid him by never going outside.

when it comes to the government in particular, if it's possible to do X and it's possible to keep X secret, they're probably already doing it. if X is relevant to you, you should certainly take it into account regarding your threat model, but you should probably mitigate known risks first.
Would they accept a wire transfer or Western Union?
What kind of an idiot compares ONE suicide in the us to hundreds in chinese companies? Seriously, do you think that is comparable?
The data structure doesn’t help with causal inference.

Reading the abstract, it looks like the authors are trying to make a causal argument: people are more likely to improve their economic standing because they moved to a walkable city.

OP pointed out that this could be due to self-selection of people with the potential of upward mobility to walkable cities. This would lead to spurious correlation between economic mobility and walkability. That is, a third variable (a potential candidate, awareness of climate change) could explain both upward mobility (usually, climate change awareness correlates with education level) and economic mobility (education correlates with higher wages).
In the area of chemoinformatice, in order to discover new types of chemical to address some disease one approach is to associate members of a large chemical database with some coordinate space and consider those chemicals which fall in some sense close to known useful pharmaceuticals. (As a simple example, let's say molecular weight along one axis, polarizability along another, number of hydrogen bond donors/acceptors, rotatable bonds, radius of gyration, and perhaps hundreds more) But there are problems with such a high dimensional space[1] particularly if one wants to do some useful statistics, cluster analysis, etc. So enter PCA as a means to lower the dimensionality to something more tractable. At the same time it gives you eigenvalues with a sense of what your target "cares" about among known chemical descriptors (low variability along one axis might indicate relative importance) versus physical factors with more permissible variation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_dimensionality
Terrifying! At least the Sunbeam toaster in his video had a mechanism that requires the toast be removed before the cycle can start again (~11:25 in the video).
Thinking of all the possible ways something can fail and mitigating them can be difficult but I feel like leaving the toast in should have been an obvious one.
Do you expect an entire research paper in a single HN comment?
Except we live in a world where YouTube videos are interrupted by photogenic hipsters selling sunglasses made of titanium and hand cut, old school soap.

Recreating this toaster is exactly the kind of thing I hope that set gets around to.

Plus, there are toasters that cost more than my tablet which don’t have this feature. If you can make a toaster that infuriatingly stupidly expensive and sell it, you can sure as hell afford to make a workalike [of] this mechanism.
Past experience shows that this does not happen until countries reach a certain level of wealth. We'll get there as a planet eventually.
Because 1728 is an incredibly surprising number, showing up most prominently at the center of elliptic curves, modular forms, and L-functions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-invariant

And 1729 is 1728 + 1. Not even kidding, that is a thing that happens.
Ah, I see. Then I shall counter: London has pretty good upward mobility.
You could literally fry in olive oil, it's just too expensive...

Depends on where you are. If in the USA, maybe it is, and be prepared for much worse: Mr. Trump is threatening with 25% minimum tariff for our oil. Funny that it's some kind of retaliation for Airbus, while Airbus finally will be spared. In the bright side, it should be even cheaper for us.
If I understand this correctly, it seems like the researchers were just stimulating vocal areas of the bird brains--which to me seems like an entirely different thing than implanting memories into the bird's brain. If you stimulate my motor cortex in a way that makes me kick my leg, it would be a little silly to say that you implanted a memory of me kicking--the memory is something that occurs after the fact. Maybe the original article makes this distinction a little clearer?
Where are you getting your data from? I'm an avid cook and have always thought EVOO to be a low smoke point oil, especially compared to something like peanut oil.

I did a quick search and found this:
https://www.seriouseats.com/2014/05/cooking-fats-101-whats-a...

which suggests that EVOO has a relatively low smoke point compared to sunflower and peanut oil.

I'm still open to other numbers though, since I'm not sure what study if any these numbers come from.
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Are you implying that consumption is a bad thing and we should discourage it? That would put consumption taxes in the category of Pigovian taxes [1] in your eyes. If that is the case, and other sales tax supporters agree with you, then it's not obvious from this discussion.

In my experience, it's generally been the case that rich people are anti-consumption, at least on a personal level. Poor people often splurge on luxuries to relieve some of the pressure of grinding poverty. They buy things to signal status in order to attract a partner. A sales tax on luxuries like this is effectively a wealth transfer from the poor to the rich, not altogether dissimilar to government-run lotteries which fund scholarships.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax