skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"For those unaware, CloudFlare was providing proxy shielding of ISIS's propaganda websites"

If the business owner was Christian and decided to ban pro-gay marriage websites, would you be fine with this?

The problem is that when we start deciding who gets the freedom of expression/speech, it starts to erode the rights of anyone that doesn't agree with the status quo..and the people with the most money and power get to decide what speech is moral/immoral.

HN is a good example of it in action. Even comments slightly off the standard SF ideals gets down voted and silenced.

It's a scary time for our country because it's almost like we are slipping into fascism. If you have an opinion that is against the current narrative, you get silenced, your career is ruined, and your life is destroyed. Bullying is also okay in this situation. Nobody can just disagree anymore. Opponents need to be forced into submission.

See: The ex-mozilla CEO and the guy that shot cecil the lion.

I think it's great that the CEO of CloudFlare took this stance. It takes a lot of balls and I know when the time comes, my speech will also be protected.
Do we really "suspend our disbelief"? I don't think we're naive 50s tv viewers in this day and age.

If anything gets us is not us believing the ad, but just getting pumped with the nice visuals and subtle suggestions (so more subsconscius manipulation than convincing us).
You know, I've heard this argument on customers not caring about this or that oversimplification or about this or that restriction or about customizations or about poor grandmas and so forth.

But you know, numbers don't lie. iOS is not the dominant design. And guess what I have on my Android? A file manager, going hand in hand with uTorrent and VLC. And guess how I'm copying music on my phone? It's not through iTunes, thank god for that.

That said the iPad Pro is a device that intrigues me, since with the stylus and the keyboard if might actually be more useful than a paperstand.
This is excellent, honestly. We recently moved a few billion requests each month behind CloudFlare and our metrics show that our median user (in terms of load time) had their assets loaded almost 40% faster. It's also worth noting that CloudFlare is the only reputable CDN that currently supports SPDY, and is (purportedly) actively working to turn on HTTP/2. Compare that to a company like Akamai that's still advertising Edge Side Includes like they're new and innovative and the year is 2004.
Also let's not forget the better aspect ratio of the iPad - this has always been my biggest gripe with the Surface besides the IMO terrible UX of Win8. Win10 could become a much better deal if they can pull off Desktop / Touch UI integration properly, so far there are still many edge cases to fix from what I hear.

On the other hand, as long as we don't know how good the Apple pencil is for writing (e.g. palm recognition), it's quite unclear how well suited the iPad Pro really is. A year from now the Pro tablet market will look very competitive I think, but for now it's still too much of a toy for my taste.
Yikes. I had a C64 for years, but never used GEOS. My memories of the speed of the 1541 are not fond memories...
I don't think so. Amazon has always been about being everywhere, no matter what devices you use. So I'd be surprised if Amazon doesn't release a (Prime) Video app soon. And it should be ok for Apple too, since they allow an equivalent app on iOS.
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Not necessarily: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_evaluation#Control_struct...
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no persistent storage sounds really brutal. Does that mean even NSUserDefaults will lose data after a task switch? No save game states if you're offline? What's the point of offering a 64gb model if apps can't store anything?
Current understanding is that they are two different diseases, but this paper hints that Alheimer's could possibly be caused by the misfolded prion present in CJD. The mechanism of CJD is fairly well understood while the mechanism(s) of Alzheimer's are more out in the open. Someone else could probably confirm with more confidence than I can.
FireTV is pretty awesome. By far the best FireOS product. I love voice search via the Android app. It's actually the only voice recognition software I use. Games aren't very interesting, but I am extremely dubious of AppleTV stealing much market share from the consoles. It'll be big screen versions of Candy Crush.
This is a bit terse [0], but still very cool. I used to love to follow all of the new CPUs from the various vendors to see how they compared in performance, wattage, transistor count, etc. by following The CPU Info Center at Berkeley. Sadly, the site was abandoned around 2004 and removed some time after, but you can still see some of the content if you search archive.org for http://bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu/cic (dig back to the spikes in 2005 or so).
My favorite was watching the Alpha... every time HP's PA-RISC would bump past it, DEC would release either a new generation or maybe just bump the clock in the Alpha and completely blow it away. Hungry beasts though... and way out of my budget when they were being made.
It would be neat to see a chart like that with modern CPUs - shame they abandoned the site.

0 - It has very short descriptions for each stage. There's not quite enough info to understand the "whys". Like it states that the 6501 was dropped after the threat of a lawsuit, but doesn't explain that it was because of it being pin-(and I believe signal)-compatible with the 6800, which the 6502 was not.
I don't really understand what you're trying to get at, but the concurrency abstractions/safety in Rust is static, there's little-to-no dynamic cost over the raw C/C++ APIs. And, in fact, the checks mean that one can sometimes be more aggressive about what designs can be used, without risking weird runtime corruption.
can anyone comment on the level of affluence that would have been needed in victorian times to meet the standard of living depicted?
Nope. That's the reason for wrapping THEN and ELSE inside lambdas, to delay the evaluation until after one of them is selected. Try it.

[UPDATE]

You have to make some minor tweaks to my original code to make it work. Here's a fully tested version:

(defun _true (then else) then)

(defun _false (then else) else)

(defmacro _if (condition then else)
`(funcall (funcall ,condition (lambda () ,then) (lambda () ,else))))

(setf (get t 'altboolean) '_true)

(setf (get nil 'altboolean) '_false)

(defun ->altboolean (condition) (get condition 'altboolean))

(defun _fact (n)
(_if (->altboolean (<= n 1)) 1 (* n (_fact (1- n)))))
for the discovery part of the pharma industry, open source version of pipeline pilot

http://accelrys.com/products/collaborative-science/biovia-pi...

We already had Knime, but that is Java-based and I believe it only has a desktop interface ( http://tech.knime.org/getting-started )
I was in a similar boat, I developed something for PTA/educators, it was unexpectedly very popular, people were telling me I should make a product out of it.

After a lot of thinking, I realized that there was demand, but there just wasn't a market there. PTAs and schools just don't have the money to support it. However, I identified some other similar markets (corporate trainings, private classes and workshops, etc) where I could adapt the product to and it think make a viable startup if I wanted to.

I don't know if I'm right, like any startup it would be a ton of work, and I have other things I want to spend my time on, but my advice is to use the education audience as a testing ground to see what works and define features, and then find a similar market to make a product.

Also, be aware the the response to a prototype can be pretty misleading. People are often super excited by a prototype but then strangely disinterested once you've built the actual thing. Use the high school markets to actually prove the concept and make sure that it works.
"It is just as easy to explain things correctly, in terms of time slowing down near a massive object, and world-lines trying to maximize their proper time with given fixed endpoints"

Could you explain it to me this way?
Tactical nuclear weapons are designed for uses like destroying enemy forces on the battlefield -- like short-range missiles, small bombs, artillery shells, and emplaced area-denial weapons (sometimes called "nuclear land mines").

As opposed to strategic nuclear weapons, which are designed for uses like destroying enemy industrial capacity, key resource infrastructure, military command and control facilities, and population centers.
I have been interested in this stuff since I saw a presentation on SDR by the folks at Ettus Research (and their amazing SDR setup). I eventually bought a HackRF One from Greatscott Gadgets to play with and it, like the BladeRF can cover a lot of ground with a pretty wide chunk (its only 20Mhz bandwidth generally but this has not been a limitation so far). So far I've been looking at beacons and other iOT type things, and decoding the remote control to my ceiling fan (fun). Very fun stuff to look at the spectrum and see what is there.
Good thing I never bother installing one.
I've been waiting three months to get a dedicated 5M line with 8 static IP address, installed and working in my Shenzhen company office. The fixed line has been run, other hardware installed in my office, but the ISP can only tell me "sorry, just waiting for government approval". Meanwhile, our email works like crap and website blocked when visiting from China. I try to bring my email and website hosting in country on a server in my own office and still can't get any support.
It's probably not another OS in the traditional sense, but a different set of ObjC/Swift frameworks that are TV / set-top box relevant
The Mail App features can.

If the feature was considered important enough to complicate the UI there'd be an option or optimized App for the task, otherwise no-one thought it was important or cared enough to support it.
>I think Microsoft's strategy is going to lead to more productive and therefore better enterprise devices.

If that were true, SP3 should have been a huge hit by now. It's not.
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Can you do that without moving parts?
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Thanks to Google Docs/Sheets?
Your point of view, although no doubt sincere, appears not to work out so well in practice.

Wikimedia is going through CoC discussions at present. So far it breaks down as:

* literally all the women think a proper and enforceable CoC is a good idea

* about half the men concur

* the other half of the men don't see what's in it for them and consider it very important to say so, repeatedly, lots and lots, just in case anyone didn't hear them the first several times.

Very few take it as far as you do here; I'll go so far as to say I'm glad about that.
I'm sorry, I know it makes me an awful person, but I absolutely loathe the author and her husband. There are people starving around the world, dying because of lack of basic medical care, clean water, etc. Whatever they do in their own home, they live in a society and world of the 21st century. What they are doing is like the worst form of privileged hipsterism I can imagine.
Even with these sorts of optimizations, bandwidth is finite.
Person-hours of actual use; app purchase & use; web use; user satisfaction.

For example, if you're developing a business website, iOS dominates the market, because optimizing for Android is nigh impossible, and iOS users have more money, and spend more money (on average, your market segment may differ, mine does).

Or, if you're considering making an app, iOS dominates the market, because Android users don't like using apps, much less paying for them.
Yes. Phased arrays are just that.
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Business use a dev license, then deploy their own apps via side-loading. Standard practice by now. And "own" apps is becoming a very loose definition, 3rd party develops, then signs with corp key.
“When cheap modern things in our lives inevitably broke, we replaced them with sturdy historic equivalents instead of more disposable modern trash.”

There it is, the inevitable disdain, the hallmark of the chronic hipster.
This works great until it doesn't. Sometimes when you try using the "Share" or "Open In..." buttons, the medium you want to use is not an option. If that's the case, there is no way to manually change it. For example: we have guys who use iPads instead of PCs. When we were first implementing this, we discovered that even though they had Excel for iPad installed, you couldn't open an Excel document attached to an email in Excel. The Open In... dialogue didn't offer Excel as an option. I ended up just using Numbers instead, which brought its own problems (like not fully supporting the .xlsx format).
Snarky reference to this amazing blog post by the Soylent inventor:

http://robrhinehart.com/?p=1331

It uses less water to order new clothes from cheap labor in China than to launder them, so therefore the right thing to do is to buy new clothes and ... donate the old ones to charity where ... magically they don't have to be washed???

If this was from anyone other than the guy who thought inventing Soylent was a good idea, I'd call it a masterful work of satire.
Designing a database like an archaeologist
And then and "I'm {thrilled|so excited} to be here today to announce..."

This time there was more thrill... a lot of thrill.
It very much depends on the department. For example, most NSF & State supported departments (like astronomy) draw a 9-month salary. Many if not most NIH funded positions, like those in medical schools or schools of public health, are 12-month positions. There are lots of those positions, they're just somewhat less visible.
Well cars get better every year, so do appliances, so does just about every consumer product if you're not talking about Walmart-type "price is all that matters" stuff.

I don't think it's remarkable at all. It would be remarkable if they weren't getting better year after year.
I'm finding the article hilarious as a father. Let's see how long she maintains this production if she ever has kids. Have fun scrubbing cloth diapers out in a bucket.
> > I think Microsoft's strategy is going to lead to more productive and therefore better enterprise devices.

> If that were true, SP3 should have been a huge hit by now.

That doesn't follow.

"Is going to" does not imply "has" and "has" does not imply "has, and also the market in general has already realized and responded to this fact".
+1. I pump the ATV via optical out into an external DAC and then onto my amp. The HDMI out is used purely for video. I don't want or need my audio path traveling over HDMI.
Here it mentions XML and Javascript which is, um... different. https://developer.apple.com/tvos/
I'm not torn. She's crazy.
How does the ethos of "I can do what I want with my tech" interact with this problem?

I guess it's analogous to saying "it's your stereo. Play what you like, but keep it down after 10PM or your neighbors will report you."
Not everyone wants what the new ATV is offering. I have no desire for games, more apps, siri, etc., and as such am not willing to pay > $99 for it. For how I use it, the (soon to be) old-gen ATV is perfect and now it'll cost even less!
May I ask what kind of development tools are available on the ipad? What is the dev workflow? I am very interested in this and hope this becomes more and more common as tablets evolve to support development. But havent seen anything serious enough yet.
The Federal Circuit's idiocy in the Oracle case aside, it's well established that copyrights don't cover methods of operation such as APIs or instruction sets. It's also well established that patents do, and that's what ARM licenses. Also they bundle mask works and copyrightable HDL code.
>An infinite loop is a deadlock

It isn't. I don't know what else to say:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadlock
It was bound to happen sooner or later... It's good that they are doing this. I wonder how their conversion will be compared to all the sites that started with paid from the beginning.
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Unless you're living in the woods right now I don't think you have any moral authority here.
The minute they have a medical emergency it will be straight back into the arms of modern technology.
I've seen a few documentaries on this device (though not sure if I've seen this one yet... just started watching), and I find it absolutely amazing. It always makes me wonder just how much technology has been developed and lost (and how many times this has happened) due to events like the burnings of the library of Alexandria (for example) and others we may not even know have happened. The fact that this device is more intricate and more accurately "machined" (for lack of a better term) than was thought possible for its age just proves we don't know just how far back some of what we consider to be modern developments go.
I don't know.. maybe compare their carbon footprint and yours? It's easy to create an arbitrary moral high ground. Harder to notice how arbitrary they are.
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> I absolutely loathe the author and her husband.

...

> What they are doing is like the worst form of privileged hipsterism I can imagine.

Why such intense dislike? They may be odd, but they're not hurting you or anybody else. What's wrong with them doing what makes them happy? I just don't understand all the hipster hate.

> There are people starving around the world, dying because of lack of basic medical care, clean water, etc.

What does that have to do with this?
> What they are doing is like the worst form of privileged hipsterism I can imagine.

And yet it impedes your own way of life...how exactly? If this couple were to stop living the life they chose to live, and instead lived exactly like you or I, how in the world would that improve the lives of starving, sick people in other countries, let alone their own?

The cognitive dissonance in your comment is staggering.
Our heat comes from 19th-century gas heaters and from an antique kerosene space heater

Hope they at least make an allowance for a carbon monoxide detector.
Just saying it's painful. :)

For example, try using https://github.com/serde-rs/serde without nightly.

Possible? Totally.

A right pain compared to using nightly? That too.
It is about 14% lighter.
The video on the Lego implementation explains the mechanics of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLPVCJjTNgk
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They are different, but related. Some symptoms of CJD can be similar to symptoms of other progressive neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer’s or Huntington’s disease. However, CJD causes unique changes in brain tissue which can be seen at autopsy. It also tends to cause more rapid deterioration of a person’s abilities than Alzheimer’s disease or most other types of dementia.
In that case, how does the room disappear?
A key component of being middle class in the Victorian era was enthusiastically embracing new technology! A Victorian would kick your ass for not using a smartphone if it's available to you.
If there were a fully functional iTerm2 port with the capability to remap caps to escape on a Bluetooth keyboard, I'd never need a laptop again.
I'm betting the defaults actually are stored on the device, but the system doesn't offer any way to access the file itself.
The traditional wisdom and this article are mostly orthogonal.

To hit one of the complexity walls in this article you need to be consistently doing certain things right until your project becomes large enough that you hit new types of scaling problems. That isn't a day to day productivity issue. That's a project lifecycle issue.

That said, there are claims about how language features and project scale interact. People have strong opinions, but I do not think that anyone has studied this rigorously. That said, I know plenty of successful 2+ million line projects that exist in C. I've seen data suggestive that projects written in scripting languages fall apart at that scale.

So the traditional wisdom suggests that a 100k project written in Python will cost the same as 100k lines of C, and does more. However there are projects that you don't want to write in Python. Really.
Huh, I thought the 'Reformat to Dart Style' option in IntelliJ was using dartfmt and I was so disappointed at its output I stopped using it. Just went and tried dartfmt from the command line after reading this - dartfmt is significantly better. Fun to hear the approach that went into it.

For anyone that hasn't tried it, grab the Dart SDK and the IntellIJ Dart plugin. Takes less than 5 minutes to setup. It's been a great platform for building server side stuff - I haven't tried it for front end web stuff. It took about 3 reads of the language tour (https://www.dartlang.org/docs/dart-up-and-running/ch02.html) and about a week and I already felt very comfortable with the entire platform.
> I encourage you to look over the code before dismissing it as "definitely too much runtime."

I encourage you to take a look at ongoing work on coroutines in Rust, which was the part of my comment where I didn't dismiss your point.

I think the portion of my comment you quoted was taken out of context.
Right, Apple decided it wasn't important so that means it isn't important?

Being on an e-mail thread where someone says "hey, can you e-mail over that spreadsheet?" is hardly rare. Things like this are the reason why the iPad has not been a huge success as a productivity tool.
I don't know. The sheer amount of effort they put in replicating artifacts and mundanities of everyday Victorian life is admirable, but there's no way I can ignore the fact that their use of networked computers stands out like a complete blot.

It's hilarious how she notes she's never owned a cell phone, but ignores that crucial detail.

(They maintain a website at thisvictorianlife.com and Sarah A. Chrisman appears to have a Facebook page, so I'm extrapolating that they use computers.)

Looking at some of the pictures on their site is eery. Here they are dressed in Victorian attire... with a landline telephone in the background. [1]

The exercise here isn't Victorian life, it's an odd retrofuturism at best - lots of clashing between anachronistic time periods.

[1] http://www.thisvictorianlife.com/leisure-activities.html
To each their own. I loath your pessimism and judgement more than the author and her husband. In fact, I find their efforts ambitious, albeit peculiar and boring at times.