jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Core Graphics, Quartz, and Core Animation are essentially the same across Mac OS X and iOS. OS X supports OpenGL; iOS supports OpenGL ES. OS X has AppKit; iOS has UIKit. OS X also has Core Image.

The balkanization of desktop Linux and Android makes no sense to me. The Surface Graphics Library and Surface Manager on Android needs to converge with desktop Linux.
http://developer.android.com/guide/basics/what-is-android.ht...
The title and article are not clearly written IMHO. What they mean is that the brain has more molecular switches than the number of transistors (switches) of all computers. Some numbers:

* 1.25e14 synapses in a brain
* they discovered each synapse has 1000 molecular switches
* so 1.25e17 molecular switches in a brain
* a post-2005 CPU has 1e8 transistors or so (2010 CPUs barely hit 1e9 transistors)
* I estimate 1e9 computers on earth
* so 1e17 transistors in all CPUs
* 1.25e17 > 1e17 so the statement is right
if you compare history curriculum of different countries, you'll notice that it is already happening, everywhere. Check WWII history, for example, in Japan and China, WWI in Turkey and Armenia, etc...
Yes. Over the last five years I've supported replication on hundreds of servers, powering sites you've probably used. I've had to clean up after crashes with unsynched binlogs, writes that completed partially on master, corrupted relay logs, failed hubs, and endless inconsistencies for a myriad of reasons.

Guess what, things have gotten incrementally better and continue to improve. Bugs get found and fixed. MySQL replication is mature enough to power huge sites like Twitter, Facebook, and countless others. There has been exactly one PostgreSQL release that supports replication suitable for read scaling.
There is a small paragraph about the Riemann-tensor.
I wonder how people are measuring this "skill shortage"?
From a recent hiring session, we decided to forgo the outside recruiters and simply post to Stack Exchange's job site, along with Node's and a couple others... though the number of resumes we saw was a bit smaller (about a dozen over a week), the hit:miss ratio was much better in terms of those who could pass a fizz-buzz challenge (figuratively).

A few years ago, I sat in phone screen rotation at a very major company for technical screening... I was constantly amazed how many people will put "expert" next to a technology they barely knew. It's rough being on either side of the table, no matter where you are.
Selling it
Excellent reply.
The poll is dumb. Me and Erin have roughly the same agreement. But if you don't have that agreement --- and especially if you're in divorce proceedings --- what possible valid reason can you have for accessing someone else's email account?

Every time issues like this come up, somebody makes the point that someone else is a moron for {using a crappy password,using a shared machine,not knowing how to stop SQL injection,not knowing how uninitialized variable exploits work,not knowing to suppress all exceptions when decrypting untrusted ciphertext}. No. Unless it is your job to know these things, not knowing them does not make you a moron. The thinnest veneer of a security mechanism is sufficient to protect the privacy of your accounts under the law, which is exactly how it should be.
"but they picked a battle against the entire industry" - That's an excellent point which is often ignored. When you set yourself up to do everything on your own (OS, CPU, Other hardware design etc. in case of Apple) that poses serious scalability challenges and it of course exposes you to more and more competition from all directions.

They are basically pissing off everyone - so they still don't have a free navigation app with turn-by-turn to compete with Google and they will struggle for some time to get that done. Now they got to do their own ads too. Own CPU too - so it's going to be longer than competitors to get a great dual core ARM CPU out. I understand there are different teams and Apple can hire as many people as they want but in reality it just doesn't scale in the long term. (They still need to shuffle teams between OS X and iOS as far as I can tell.)

But Apple knows they cannot play the numbers game - so they will stay a #2 or #3 and get away with it by increasing their profitability - that's a no brainer. But how it affects their competence in delivering new features and hardware advances against competitors - that remains to be seen.
In the 90s Apple went for maximizing profits without any regards to market share, and they had bunch of CEOs who didn't understand computers.

Todays Apple has a fantastic production and supply chain, and a CEO who is way way better.

Instead of looking at Macs in the 90s, the pundits should look at the iPod domination in the last 10 years and how the iPad currently completely outsells the very few competitors.

Look at how MS tried to enter the mp3 player market, and have completely failed. Their latest phones failed too. Why do anybody expect them to be able to get anywhere when they have a CEO who doesn't understand consumers but only enterprise sales?

tl;dr: the pundits should talk with their kids and teenagers.
> “The guy is a hacker. It was password protected, he had wonderful skills and was highly trained.”

> ... after finding her password written in a book next to their shared laptop.
It sounds like this could be handled using smart playlists with abuse of the comments section to store extra metadata.
The bigger you are, the clearer it becomes if you have gender biases in your hiring, pay or advancement. Walmart is a current example.

eg. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/04/business/04lawsuit.html?_r...
If you want to run the AVR examples and don't have a physical target checkout simavr:

https://github.com/buserror/simavr
Slack is a tremendous collaborative tool for teams. WhatsApp is a tremendous tool to send photos to Grandma. I think they both have different target markets in mind.
When I don't understand a concept, I go back to the last milestone and try to understand it.
After doing that a few times if I am still not clear with it then I jump to the very beginning and try to grasp it(I do this because chances are that I may not have understood a few concept along the line).
By this point, I still may not understand the concept but I would definitely know when can I understand it(i.e. the prerequisites to understand this) so I move forward and when the time is correct I would jump back to this topic.
Show me the evidence? In Amsterdam, where this is a thing, a large percentage of the girls are actually trafficked. Of course they deny it, because to accuse a pimp means severe repercussions either for herself or family back home.
Yeah. Alpha and beta radiation is normally harmless unless it's inside your body. Uranium is far more hazardous as a toxic metal than as a radioactive material. Yes--stay away from anyplace depleted uranium rounds were used or depleted uranium armor was hit. Stay away for chemical reasons, not nuclear ones.
What users are looking for Russia propaganda?
I understand the sentiment but it's somewhat ironic saying this on a site like this. Ads, tracking, military. Plenty of them around here
>The wind turbine spins because of an analog of lift - without “lift” it won’t spin.

Thinking about it, that does make perfect sense, but just intuitively, I would think say, making a blade that had a flat side perpendicular to the wind direction would work, because the force can still be imparted to the blade. I can also intuitively surmise why that wouldn't work for a plane though.

When dealing with a plane, you want to generate force perpendicular to the wing (i.e. up when the plane is moving horizontally), but in a turbine you want the force to be in the same direction as the blade is moving. I feel like I must be missing something.
Are you trying to combine WebSockets or realtime communication with Django? I'd look at Cody Soyland's excellent work on this. http://codysoyland.com/2011/feb/6/evented-django-part-one-so... or look at the Django example in gevent-socketio https://github.com/abourget/gevent-socketio
Two separate questions conflated together:

1) Why aren't there more women in positions of authority?
2) Why are the majority of people in authority incompetent?

The answer to the second is probably that people get promoted exactly one level above their ability. The answer to the former is the real problem, and I suspect that if you solve that you'd still have a world run by a bunch of idiots, it's just that 50% of them would be female.
> Be it about him calling Zune the iPhone killer, or much prior to that claiming it in the media that no one would ever wan tto buy an iPhone.

Really though, do you think the CEO should say anything different?

"Yeah, our Zune isn't too bad, but the iPod is still better."
Let's not forget equating conservatives with chauvinists.
>a very niche market of 100% native mobile development

I mean, it also works for native desktop development. And is there really an issue with that? Objective-C basically had no reason to exist beyond iOS/Mac programming and at least now we don't have god damn [myString stringByAppendingString:@"another string"].
It's a shame. I had high hopes at the beginning that S4TF - and the investment in Swift from Google - would help Swift break out of the iOS ghetto and cement it as a mainstream language.

Swift's a delightful language to use. It has a lot of the nice things about Rust's type system, but is a heck of a lot easier to use at the expense of a bit of performance. For a lot of use cases, I think this is a great value proposition. ML/data science is a great example where practitioners could benefit from a more grown-up type system than what Python has on offer, but would still be able to keep low level details at arms length.

I think Serverless would be another ideal use-case for Swift, where the productivity, clarity and correctness tools it offers would be a huge benefit.

Some very interesting things came out of the S4TF project - like the work on autodiff, and python interop. It's a shame the project never really seemed to get legs, it seems like it just languished for years with no clear direction.

These days I do most of my work in Rust, and I'm happy to do so because the tooling, community, and ecosystem is really amazing. But there are a lot of language concepts and features I miss from swift. I guess it goes to show that the governance and availability of a language have a lot more to do with adoption than the merits of the language itself.
Good point, although I felt it was more than normal in this case. Having my meta comment on top is also no good, hopefully it can be demoted somehow. Will try to flag this thread.
> She exercises 5x/week

What kind of exercise: cardio, yoga, resistance/weight training, other? There have been a number of studies showing that regular weight training improves cholesterol numbers (1,2) and I have seen it personally. Regular weight training causes cells to repair/recycle their cholesterol, removing it from the bloodstream. (Cardio may or may not do this as well but I'm a proponent of weight training as the foundation of health.)

Also: after reading the article, I think that cholesterol turnover rate is the key here. Cholesterol that is regularly used up and replaced does not have time to damage your vascular system like cholesterol that hangs around and hardens on your walls.

1) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24174305/ -- Differential effects of aerobic exercise, resistance training and combined exercise modalities on cholesterol and the lipid profile: review, synthesis and recommendations

2) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33343671/ -- Regular training has a greater effect on aerobic capacity, fasting blood glucose and blood lipids in obese adolescent males compared to irregular training
Sorry! I was trying to be neutral in my wording - personally I want it to be less.

And I like you response - stopping specific instances of discrimination are how I believe we should approach this problem. However, in your other post you pointed to a single statistic that hides an enormous amount of complexity. I assume since you presented that statistic as evidence of a problem, you know what the correct statistic should be. How are you able to tell there's a problem if you don't know what the correct answer is? (this is the part I'm currently struggling with myself)
https://twitter.com/profannieoakley/status/13577684086710272... "I turned my art history students loose with a make-your-own-Bayeux Tapestry app."
My companies MDM software would freak out if I did that. So much of it is tied to the specific serial number of the machine, as well as various baked in management of push notifications for profile updates and the like being tied to the device itself through Apple.
Impressionable readers should be aware that the initial supposition ("the only violence was caused by a group of antifa...") is acutely counterfactual. Rioters have largely been unshy about documenting the experience on social media and many have been identified, including prominent alt-right community members such as Jake Angeli, the face-painted viking-looking guy known as the "QAnon Shaman", and Baked Alaska, who livestreamed the damn thing.

Source: https://www.vox.com/recode/22218963/capitol-photos-legal-cha..., and if you don't like Vox there's confirmation of this stuff all over Twitter; just search.
Quite a lot of folks use 3G at work to avoid monitoring and/or the corporate firewall.
None of the ones I know are that simple - but Check out Heritrix at http://crawler.archive.org and Nutch at http://nutch.apache.org Also worth checking out is http://80legs.com
Me too. But I have to hand it to the Op. This is one of the best Rick Rolls I have ever witnessed.
Agree, removing the need for any special editor support would be great, even if offered as a compiler option. Makes the detection of JS a non-issue too.
Wouldn't matter. Cardiac stress tests usually use technetium or some other radioactive tracer which remains in the body for a day or two after the test. That means that, for the next day or so, you are a "radiation hazard" (not really, but the dosimeters don't know the difference, or at least that's what I was told by the radiation control officer).
It's interesting that "stress causes ulcers" keeps coming up again and again, this one is clearly a favorite among a lot of scientists.
We don't expect casual users to understand. If there is anything like this built into the basic product, it wont involve anything more than maybe asking if a user wants a feature. Everything should just work.
Instead, let's fill the front page with posts about not filling the front page with Facebook posts.

Soapbox posts telling the rest of the community what to do and/or not to do are way worse. Instead of a bunch of Facebook noise, we have Facebook noise AND the don't-post-about-Facebook noise. Great.
Do you have very large pockets?
My year the puzzle was called "Giramacristo's puzzle."

And Luis ended up telling everyone he was going to give them 0's and they'd take a huge hit in their grade, but he ended up not actually factoring that into the grades.
In my personal opinion, there is a big shift towards the cloud. Making tools for companies that haven't yet made the shift isn't a good idea.
Hunting at 70 yards? All the bowhunters at my club practice below 50 yards.
...would probably be too loud (esp with the required torque)...

Maybe not. What if the window opened over a period of 2-3 minutes? You would also have a more stable system.
Join them.
Yeah, except when you have a painfully generic name, of which a Google search for brings up a wikipedia result for dead sculptors and dead links for defense attorneys.
> I recall reading an article linked from HK a few months back written by an Android OS developer who seemed to think it was a fairly solid crack at the problem.

And if they missed a use case (always possible) but still decide against general-purpose background threads (à la android/webos) they can always add a service or two for what they missed.

> What would you do differently?

I'm guessing he'd just go with desktop-type multitasking, not considering the resources exhaustion issues inherent to a mobile platform.
Quotes without context are misleading, thank you for linking the original.
The poster you're responding to is correct. Michael Arrington uses heavy rhetoric, so we should probably translate "handouts" to mean expensive economic intervention which benefits an industry. Silicon Valley's fundamental innovations were driven by government research and intervention, through the military.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/02/technology/02darpa.html?_r...

Arrington actually argues in favor of heavy government intervention: high speed trains, subsidized computers for children, etc. Just not the kind which might conceivably worry Silicon Valley investors.

I agree with some of the article's stances -- like on net neutrality and probably copyright.
"He literally shut completely down, and for a about 5 minutes just sat there with his eyes closed, breathing. I tried getting his attention, but he was completely catatonic."

When I was much younger (middle school) I had a friend who did this. I always wondered about this particular behavior. Anybody here know anything about why this happens?
By 15% you actually now (as of next year) mean 20% + 3.8% + (state tax, such as California's 10.3%)
I agree a few years ago I had to pick up Pl/1G to look after one of BT's Billing Systems took me all of a week.
Isn't a large part of punishments for committing crimes deterrence? I fail to see how that is irrelevant here.
The word "I" showed up in both of those sentences. To most users, unifying all of their data adds a lot of value.

Google reads my GMails from major airlines, and shows me when my next flight is when I Google Search for "when is my next flight". The flight also just pops up on Google Now on my Android phone. It also knows where I am, and where the airport is, so it tells me how long it will take to drive there.

When I Google search for La Cucaracha on my desktop, when I walk out to my car and look at my phone, it automatically suggests Navigating to La Cucaracha.

When I Subscribe to a YouTube video, it automatically shows up in my GMail as a feed.

I find value in these things, and I'm sorry you don't.
I am guessing it has to be a supernova on account of there being many novae discovered/observed each year.
Technical job interviews as traditionally run in silicon valley culture are completely bogus. Many different better ways exist, one of which is the short-term contract work (with an eye towards full time hire). For my company, pretty early in my first conversation with a potential hire, I tell them that the hiring process will never involve having to write code on a whiteboard. I intend to keep it that way whether I'm the CEO of my startup or just a lowly interviewer drone in a big corp from now on.
I find it very bizarre that you don't see a need to keep out people who are overconfident. Are you afraid of people less confident than you? Would that deter you even if they demonstrate "superior technical skills" (whatever that means)?

Confidence gives you the strength to get up and go to the interview. It tells you you're competent enough to get the job even if you freeze a couple of times.

Overconfidence tells you you can't make mistakes. It tells you you have "superior technical skills", and that freezing up is only something that happens to lesser mortals.
I also get very anxious during exams and always make silly mistakes.
It saddens me to see some some interviewers on this thread that naively believe that the kind of stress a person feels during an exam (especially one where the tester is sitting in front of you and watching your every move) is the same kind of stress you might experience while trying to fix some problem in front of your computer.
Which will produce better companies.
China is building 400 nuclear reactors over the next 30 years, that would do it.
No (assuming it isn't a subpoena, which this isn't).

Yes.

He has just as much position to whip off a letter to Steve Jobs as anyone else, though his letterhead means he's probably less likely to receive a "no big deal" response.

That's for the voters in Minnesota to decide.
You can never be sure the next one won't be a 1!
>While that may be true, you don't hear it nearly as much when a Repub or Tory is in the executive office.

Well, that's a textbook example of confirmation bias. There was an awful lot of news about NSLs & friends when GW Bush was in office. He signed the damn Patriot Act!

That said, this is all besides the point. In my opinion it is pretty much irrelevant to focus on individual actors or even political parties when thinking about the failings of government. We are not talking about a 10-man sports team. We are talking about a system, a giant system of processes and incentives, the outcome of which is our experience of government.

Favouring or disfavouring individuals is like a gambler constantly choosing his "lucky" pokey machine. Or blaming/acclaiming a single soldier for the outcome of a war. In fact, it is programming or process which determines both these things. We have to start thinking about the larger picture.
As the author of the article, I think they are allowed this type of replies...
Not sure about the country thing, but I did notice that these were hardware patents, not software. This may be more of a problem then it looks at first glance...
> He seems to do alright.

Did, RIP Jobs. Also he was Steve Jobs, who created multiple multi-billion dollar companies, he would have been a success had he taken a burger flipping class.

There was only one Steve Jobs.
I see terror arrests, but not a great deal of terror convictions. Given the way newspapers work I'd expect them to be all over this.

the public is never told of the exact details of what they were plotting because otherwise that would defeat the purpose of averting a terror attack

That's not how rule of law works! If someone is accused of a crime, it is vitally important that it be described and proved in public at a trial.

We've been round this in Northern Ireland. Diplock courts, internment, etc. It's not justice and it just breeds resentment. It's completely critical to the long term success of antiterrorism that British muslims do not feel that they're going to be victims of arbitary arrest and detention.
These hordes of extremely naive people that are so easily fooled: if they exist, why should they be allowed to vote at all in the first place?
Excluding the transaction fees problem you mentioned (which cryptocurrencies also have -- while it might not be 4% it's definitely not 0%), all of the uses you listed are really just one use-case -- uncensorable transactions. Don't get me wrong, that's a very good feature of cryptocurrencies (assuming that you have the ability to transform crypto back to real money on the other end), but you should be aware that your list of use-cases is only one element long.

I also want to point out that the use-case of "get your money out of the country" is not exactly perfect for Bitcoin because of how volatile it is (imagine if someone had to get their money out during December 2017).
She got hold of a "big passport"; to me that implies some mafia/secret service was involved and she likely wanted to blend in with her new identity.
With many of your posts having been read by me, I don't notice much use of the ablative absolute.
I today agree, that devs being part of the creative process and not being drones leads to more happiness and has a lot of upside: they bring new ideas to the table, are more invested in the solution and feel owner ship -> quality of outcome is better.

However, in my experience working on a big product with multiple teams, the main problems with devs getting creative is

(a) the consistency of the user experience suffers badly

(b) the overall architecture erodes as everybody builds particular solutions fitting their specific problem

I am not sure what the best way is to reconcile Dev happiness and (a,b) in this context.