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I love Gates' persuasiveness.

"What you are doing is fantastic. You are giving a high percentage and doing it in a very efficient way to causes you have thought deeply about.

The key benefit of your getting involved in the pledge would be having people learn more from your example both in your pledge letter and your participation in the yearly events. We believe the more people we get involved the stronger the effort will be and the more people who will join.

You are right that the Giving Pledge allows people to join in who don’t give until their will comes into action. Since people don’t know when they will die it is a bit difficult to make the timing of their giving super specific.

You are also right that some people set up foundations without a strong focus or leadership and with high overhead."
Some reasons why you shouldn't anymore (CGP Grey):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUS9mM8Xbbw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wC42HgLA4k

Even in the UK, where the concept originates, a lot of people view it as a bad idea. The issue right now is that nobody can agree what to change it to, since people gravitate towards the voting system that helps them in the next election cycle (and the big two want it to remain a two-party system).
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I was thinking that too. But I wonder if Apple sees an opportunity to become the Intel of ARM chips - mobile and desktop, at least.
is ibm big iron still not computers right now?>
Is anybody aware of good books/resources on machine learning/data science in Matlab?

My SO has been trying to learn ML to further her work for a couple months now, and has had a hard time with it. She quite intelligent, but isn't a terribly experienced programmer (she's been writing Matlab for a couple years now, but mostly in a scientific setting)... Either way, I suspect part of the problem is that most of the explanations usually are in a language unfamiliar to her, and expect her to learn or translate it in addition to the concepts.
The first two cases you mention are about communicating with a specific real world organization. You can implement it using ipns, but it's inherently centralized.

The last one is a no. Well actually yes if you just poll a file, but that's not practical on a large scale. You need an external communication channel to implement that. It's possible to have that be fully distributed as well though, as in tox. You need this external communication channel to implement a lot of things anyway, so it would probably be part of the platform that forms around the idea of a distributed web.
Earnest question then: what do you see as the bleeding edge of technology? Where is that happening? What companies are doing it?
>And, not only did he call them on it, he did it in a very public fashion, and in a manner to which the only real rejoinder is a smear campaign against him.

Effectively, "nuh-uh! Uhh...YOU'RE racist!"
"Disillusioned" is a catch-all for so many different things though.

One might be upset at hearing about corrupt practices or "it's not what you know it's who you know" politics, because that's all we hear about in the news and on TV shows (because that's the salacious part of politics).

One might be upset at having no effective voice because of the two-party system and the sheer size of the electorate in each state: If I'm a libertarian or a national socialist or a communist, I have no real representation in government.

One might be disillusioned that the above points don't actually reflect how democracy works, and that the real hard work of legislation comes from things the public doesn't get to see: Cultivating relationships; the give and take of favors and votes; saying yes to something that's slightly against your principles so that you can get a reciprocal yes for something important to you later on.

Disillusionment is too big a thing to make me stop voting. The best way to change the system is to use it, and that means I need to vote, despite each of the above points. The next best way to change the system is to bring about revolution that replaces it, and that is a singularity that nobody can see beyond, and that recent history has not shown to work.
Nah, HN is totally fine with humor. But it has to actually be funny.

Unfortunately, for unfunny people, it's easy to confuse this with "no humor allowed."
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...and in that sense they act hypocritically. Its a fair cop.

The Anarchist claim is nonsense. They want no government, because it would be better. Yet when they get a free chance to act out that scenario (taking care of things on their own) still they call on the man. In what way would it hurt them to NOT call the cops after they've been mugged? They've already paid the taxes, so no marginal cost. It would let them enjoy the experience of their utopian society with no further cost to them.

I call that hypocrisy to the max.
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Tell that to the big companies who use it in production right now. Microsoft, Netflix, PayPal, Walmart.
Hillary actually has a vague idea of how the world works, at least.
The maturity, stubbornness, and cultural confidence of all discussion participants is quite refreshing. I wish I could learn to communicate across cultures this well and still get stuff done!
Not quite. I think that HN is such a diverse group, its hard to tell sarcasm from a straight answer. Especially in a text forum. So its darned confusing.
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The key sentence is: "the [current] architecture wastes time and energy rediscovering facts that the compiler already knew."

If Apple does something here it's going to be for the watch, not Macs. Pushing the envelope of efficiency for the watch is where it becomes worth it to make this kind of (otherwise insane) investment. It's also a relatively simpler stack, so more feasible.
At this point, everyone's threat model should include a well funded government. Of course, like everything else, you have to weigh convenience against the cost of security. At some point you have to throw your hands up in the air and say "whatever!" if they want to find something against me, they will surely find it. I think it was Cardinal Richeleu who was supposed to have said "Find me 6 lines by the most honest man and I will find in them something to have him hanged." [I paraphrase]
we have UL labels, energy star ratings, and various organic labels. Why not have some form of repairable rating system that people can place on electronic products?
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Chris Lattner is the "Apple guys" now, so..
The book is not listed at http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/

Also the PDF has a link to a notorious ebook pirate platform on every page. If you really believe content on college pages is legal, you must be very naive. I've never seen a naive webmaster that uses domain privacy though.
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I agree on this one. For now it's stuff like Riftmax where you can run around and chat with people's avatars or watch a movie in the same virtual theater with others. Eventually, with better and cheaper/more common depth cameras we'll start to see recording and live streaming of environments and users for the first real VR telepresence. It's a ways off but communication, VR movies, and live entertainment are my bet for the things that will drive mass adoption.

Just like smart phones, it wasn't the early devices with clunky hardware, high price tags, and cool features that drove mass adoption. It was the move toward ergonomics and ease of use with a core set of common functions that turned it from a techie thing into something ubiquitous.
As a system shell? In theory, perhaps. But migrating a typical Linux/bsd distribution away from having any dependency in the shell would be a major undertaking. While some distributions already ship with only shell/busybox.
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For Apple to develop an ISA they would have to develop a CPU. Something they don't do inhouse.

Up until now the CPUs have been designed by ARM. Cores like Swift for example were not developed at Apple, but rather at ARM.

The likelihood of ARM releasing a chip into the wild with a non-ARM ISA is not all that great, since the ARM ISA is what ARM makes all of its living from.

Until the day where Apple is capable of creating a CPU by themselves there will be no Apple ISA.
Please let this be an example of how not to give feedback to an open source project, should give a lot of credit to the maintainers and other contributors for dealing with that respectfully and productively.
Why didnt Apple just ask authors to submit source code?
Well, now we know who the 4chan candidate is ...

This is the sort of guy they can rally around and at least keep him up in the polls.
Or accidentally cut yourself on the housing or tools, for that matter.
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People moving doesn't affect turnout calculations by more than a percent, right? We get 20% turnout because, really, four out of five folks aren't voting. Not because we didn't calculate it right.

And I object to 'rational reasons' and 'do care' in the same sentence. Either they mean to vote or they don't. Pretending to care and making excuses equals 'don't care'.
In that case, does HaskellR interfere with copy-on-modify in R, for example does it increment the reference count of R objects, then try to decrement them (which R doesn't or didn't really support), leaving those objects appearing to be multiply-referenced, and therefore forcing unnecessary copies as we see in plain R?
Unless everyone just ignores DMCA requests and they become unenforceable.
Trump is a fairly serious candidate now. No, I don't think he'll get the nomination, but I think there are going to be a lot of backroom deals here to make sure he doesn't run third-party and spoil the election for the GOP. I'm sure some more "legitimate" members of the GOP are trying to get his endorsement as well, which will strengthen his negotiation position.

What he's trying to get is unknown, but he may get something like a cabinet-level position. Secretary of State Donald Trump should give all voters a moment of pause.
This is more of an issue with Safari than anything else - Apple's slow speed at keeping up with web standards is reasonably well documented (http://nolanlawson.com/2015/06/30/safari-is-the-new-ie/) (note: this article generated a fair amount of controversy when it was originally posted on HN)

I've just tried this site in the very newest OSX Safari and it looks dreadful. Disappointing.
Thats perhaps why he says in the interview it's not important to write all the tests out in detail right there and then, but the discussion between the developer, business person and tester is the important part. (paraphrased)
The answer is simple, very, very simple.

Lightsabers would be more fun.
I am guessing that probability is close to zero. The presidential race is a multi-stage contest. Trump happens to be good at working the current stage, but his current actions will eventually catch up to him later. I used to be a big fan of the show Survivor. Russell Hantz had a similar run: twice in a row he made it all the way to the end, but because of how he got there he could not actually win the grand prize. Trump is similar: he is going to pull a lot of stunts, get lots of attention and spend lots of money. Then the rubber meets the road and he'll lose. The real question is whether he is going to be the Republican nominee, because if he is then they'll be handing the victory over to the Democrats. My guess is that like many vanity candidates before Trump, he'll fizzle out before the primaries, but if he does make it even more hilarity will ensue.
Slight correction: Facebook still does not own Snapchat. It is still an independent company.
We are an (almost) completely node.js team and are having quite a bit of success using it for microservices. gRPC makes communication fast and easy, while Docker and Kubernetes make deployment and composition just as simple.
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Many minimal distributions have only the shell installed - which make it (still) relevant for provisioning/bootstrap etc.

Personally I'd much rather maintain a shell script than a perl script - but that's just because I know shell better. Maybe shell is the first language people would program without learning it (js being the second)?
"Cheap WiFi" implies to me that they would still be charging users for access. Reselling a connection is obviously against their terms of service. Community organizations will probably have better luck simply paying for connections, and then running open access points to provide free access to the community.
cucumber? what is this, 2013?

rspec + capybara is much more enjoyable and maintainable. Maintaining a cucumber test suit is basically a nightmare. I hate writing tests for it, I hate fixing tests in it when they break, and i hate the random cucumber exceptions that cause random failures. and should you come to a point where you want to optimize the test suit performance, good luck!

cucumber is good if you're not the one writing or maintaining the tests. You just have to have a DSL that the test maintainers can use, and they handle writing and maintaining. But thats it.

If the devs are the ones who have to write the tests, as is far more common; then interfacing with capybara directly is much much better than bringing cucumber into the mix. I used to be into cucumber, but once i switched over to a leaner approach i found testing was much easier and more enjoyable.
This turned out to be not a bug, but a feature: removing the requirement for permanent, stable addresses made a large-scale hypertext system something that could actually be implemented. (Unlike Xanadu.)

Here we are, more than twenty years later, and a hypertext system with permanent, stable addresses is still so rare in the real world that creating one will get you on the front page of Hacker News. The "crappy" Web, meanwhile, is the foundation of modern commerce, culture and communications.

If that's crappy, I hope to God I can make something crappy someday.
Just to echo your point: This is an interesting proposal more because of the ability to use for photonic information applications (quantum gates and such) then for light-sabers.

Fair warning to those looking at the original paper: I have my PhD as an experimentalist in this field, and it took me a while to work through what they were proposing :)
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First-past-the-post voting is mathematically incapable of anything other than highly polarized politics:

http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/
It can't be president unless it's 35 or older (and a citizen of the United States, which is also difficult for a cat) but I don't know of any age requirement for running.
It is a big joke; the video is intended to be humorous. I'm not sure what about it could be interpreted as chilling.
I'd say both. There's lots of sarcasm that gets missed, and also lots of unfunny attempts at humor that are obvious in their nature.
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That quote, while true, doesn't tell the whole story. Families with school-age children will normally locate on the Kansas side of the border and send their children to the public schools there. Right or wrong (I'm not in a position to say) the Missouri schools have a very bad reputation. If you're thinking about buying a house on the Missouri side of the border, you factor in the cost of sending all your kids to private school.
This isn't really a fair comparison. File-sharing has marginal costs close to zero, so wide distribution becomes essentially free. Public libraries must hold an inventory that can only be increased by paying for another copy of the book, movie, etc.

If public libraries had their own printing presses and loaned out copies they printed from some master edition this would be a fairer analogy, but in this case libraries would effectively be stealing from the publishers and authors, as file sharing sites are currently.
"doesn't matter in what manner was it spoken"

It's frustrating when people say this over and over. It certainly matters when the way it was spoken was antagonistic and rude. And I don't believe as this person states is an issue of cultural relativism, just a jerk wanting to be a jerk.
Without doing the math - Djokovic is such a strong player that even if he's only returning a quarter of your serves, meaning you're 3/4's of the way to winning your set (I don't tennis, sorry if I'm getting the terms wrong), he's still probably going to beat you.
Do the entire internet a favour and un-implement it.
You can also draw an analogy with cars. When I was in college, I drove several 1970's Chevy Trucks. All big block 350 engines. It broke down several times and all I had to do was to visit the local junkyard, go get a part from a junker truck for under $50, and within a few hours, I was able to fix my truck. These days, no way you could that with a truck bought as far back as 1995.

This is the same issue with smartphones. Back in the day, it was easy to get your phone fixed. I ran both a Verizon and a Nextel service shop. The carriers were more than happy to provide training and access to tools and parts. For a mom and pop shop it took several hundred dollars for tools and a good starting point with parts (antennas, replacement screens, keyboards, flips, and main boards). Then you had a list of what they charged for each repair. Parts and costs and a set price for repairs.

The carriers really don't see this as a revenue driver anymore and dropped their service centers. Now you see other "unathorized" shops springing up that handle repairs these days. the problem is the cost of the parts. A display assembly for an LG2 is somewhere in the neighborhood of $75.00. Add in labor and now you're around $125-$150 to get your screen fixed. Not bad, but most people balk at those prices and simply opt to trash their phone and find something on craigslist or ebay.

Until the carriers get back involved, it's an expensive proposition (on both sides of the equation) to do phone repair.
We used to do this and it caused a lot of issues. Shrinkwrap is a must to keep versions stable. NPM and network unreliability can cause failed installs, as well as other issues.

Our first major improvement to this work flow was a tar of the app with all of the dependencies coupled with `npm rebuild` after unpacking. This worked quite well.

However, recently, we have switched to using Docker to generated this sealed packages which is working great.
This guy is being a dick, yeah, but still it wasn't that hard to actually tell him where he can find what he is looking for - without any comments that he should read the code, open a pull request or anything.

So I did: https://github.com/gionkunz/chartist-js/issues/409#issuecomm...
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Okay, I'm in.

The Democrat Party has almost made it its official platform to make it very easy for non-citizens to vote; since they're most likely to vote Democrat. They support a holiday for elections; only because it would make it easier for a part of their base to vote, not because of any benefit to voters in general. They come up with all sorts of excuses to keep people on electoral rolls; whether they should be or not. They raise the bogey (boogeyman?) of Republicans raising the bogey of "voter fraud" each and every election; even though there has been voter fraud throughout the country's history and used to be part of the platform of Progressives of the past. Edit: meaning Progressives of the past were fighting voter fraud, which many Progressives of today claim doesn't exist.

Give us some more. It's easy to provide the cynical but plausible reverse when demonizing people according to group identity/accusations thrown out there for polarizing political drama.

And before anyone jumps the gun, as often happens in these cases because people can be silly, these comments may or may not reflect my personal political views.

EDIT: you forgot the Social Security scare the Democrats accuse the Republicans from time-to-time to get old people to vote Democrat. Or is that one played out?
> Apple would need a very good reason to produce their own ISA

I think it's pretty much a no-brainer for them to at least try. They have so much cash available that spending a few billion dollars on a moonshot has little downside and crazy potential upside.

When they push Intel to advance on some front, those benefits are enjoyed by Apple competitors as well. If Apple brings it all in-house, they can try to stay a generation ahead of Intel. With the amount of money they have to throw at the problem, they could starve Intel of some key talent and hurting Intel will hurts Apple's competitors.
There is a continuing theme here. It's not about warrants or jurisdictions or cooperation. Its secrecy. They don't want to ask for help from Ireland because they want to do things in secret. They don't really want to get a warrant either, but MS can and has required at least that much. End to end encryption bothers them, not because it's unbreakable, but because they'd need to get a warrant to search the persons stuff at the end node - and that would violate their ability to snoop in secret. Granted, once you search one guys stuff, the other bad guys will know you're on to them. But at the end of the day the agenda seems to be a desire for secrecy (and autonomy). There are pros and cons to that, I'm just pointing out what they're really after.
> Put the blame..

I was just trying to deflect the blame from Flash. ;)

But yeah, HTML's woes were due to browsers not cooperating, but then until their lunch was getting eaten I don't suppose they had any incentive to. To me, the Story of the Open Web is one that validates both standardization and proprietary innovation, in that sense.
Well, nice functionality without good documentation is an absolute waste, so I can understand why this guy is getting wound up.
The password preamble included the string `FOOLPR`. If I recall correctly, I just did a search for `FOOL` on a whim and it turned up only a few results.
The problem with that, at least in the case of Rosetta, is that the QuickTransit technology underlying it got bought by IBM and disappeared from the open market, so doing that trick again would be...a moderate time+cost sink.

Wiki for QuickTransit seems to think that a number of prominent people from Transitive hopped to ARM and Apple (which might be telling, given the claims of the original post), but has no citations.
People who usually criticise in an open source project* are usually the people who are lazy to do this stuff themselves.
That's such a glib saying that has no relevance here.
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Oh wait you are. That's what taxes are used for.
For Apple to develop an ISA they would have to develop a CPU. Something they don't do inhouse.

Apple owns PA Semiconductors which employs some of the smartest and most experienced CPU designers in the business.
The point is that moving away from free government provided WIFI does nothing to prevent the US government from getting anything they want, and it is dangerous and irresponsible to suggest otherwise. We know this because the US doesn't have government provided WIFI and they have an estimated 3 to 12 exabytes of planned storage at the Utah Data Center. (Where 5 exabytes would be "all the words ever spoken by humans").
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