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Companies are entitled to put their bottom line first. Consumers are equally entitled to get upset when this goes against their interests. (And if they get very upset about it, the company might have to change.)
Why would any self-respecting hacker use Apple products? Truly baffling.
A Way to Detect Bias
Another way to improve the accident rate is the other side of the robocar argument wherein we, as humans, do a better job of driving and of watching/educating our kids.

I understand there are rules of the road and rights-of-way but a right-of-way for a pedestrian in a crosswalk with the walking signal is not going to stop a bus from running the light and killing the pedestrian.

Not that I'm blaming the pedestrian but it surely doesn't hurt to think defensively, look both ways and judge if that bus is going to be able to stop and act accordingly.
wow, can such title, with click-baityness level greater than of buzzfeed, be on the front page of hacker news?

the fact that GitLab is used by Fortune 500 companies is not news to me - totally expected and natural.
Don't buy walled platform devices if you're opposed to the walled garden strategy. Vote with your wallets.
Well, aside from being a different data structure with different characteristics that will be more or less suitable for a given computation, they share the same primary trait with vanilla tuples: they are immutable.

They also let you improve readability (as the article states), while being full compatible with the ordinary tuple api. In other words, I can make a named tuple where I think it will improve my own code, and then pass it into someone else's code that is expecting a tuple and it will work. If you had used a dict or somesuch in this scenario, you would have to do something to marshall the state back into a tuple before you could pass the data into some library that expects tuples, e.g. numpy or something.
I rather wondered the opposite direction: did someone come up with this after watching a "continuous" house gutter installer? who are forming it off a flat spool of sheet metal. https://www.google.com/search?q=house+gutter+machine+continu...
There are 26 million employees in the Fortune 500. If you manage to make a technology product that isn't being used by one of them, please let me know.
Why deny any content then? Each content creator is another opportunity to make money off of advertisements, etc. If there's a concern about adult or other objectionable content then put that behind a section people have to agree to view.
Compare that to medical or aviation regulations. The legal system has the potential to hurt people as much as these industries so it should have the level of regulation.
> My cat also does not have a dedicated tvOS channel.

Your cat could have a channel and would not be rejected, however. That's the key difference.
While you may have strong opinions, the reality of politics however is not as simple as you might like it to be. The article presents a solution that doesn't require significant political change by instead relying on private property and market forces.
Awesome to hear. Let me know if you have any further feedback.
SELinux made its public debut seventeen years ago, so it's not the best example of "recent" defensive work done by the NSA. ;)

To speak about SE for Android: I'm not sure how much weight I would lend to a few NSA employees helping Google/AOSP create SELinux profiles for Android. (It is recent work, though!)

I'm fairly certain that I would lend a lot of weight to public efforts to harden systems against the kinds of attacks that their TAO division launches.
I think this is an amazing idea but I need some help brainstorming... What are some viable ways to turn this into a business?
That's great to hear! Specifically, the lack of syntax highlighting on merge reviews is a killer feature. My team actually temporarily moved over to Phabricator, specifically for this feature.

- Currently the only way for someone to indicate that a merge request is good to merge is by contacting them outside of Gitlab or doing the upvote on the MR, which fascinatingly is only possible by commenting with a :+1: thumbs up

- Also multiple assignees on MRs

- Ability for anyone to add labels to an MR, not just the assignee

- On the index page listing MR's I've often felt like a solid improvement would be to show both author and assignee. I think Gitlab has alternated between one or the other a few times on this page but both seem to me to be pertinent information.
I wonder what Apple tries to accomplish by blocking a specific way of accessing freely available content - besides annoying security researchers. People who understand the talks are able to watch them anyway, even without the app. How inclined they now are to follow "responsible disclosure" procedures when it comes to Apple, remains to be seen...
Simple is terrific. I've been using it for about a year and 1/2. If you are already used to paying all your bills online, then this is right for you.
Sorry, I only just saw this message. I'd defintely offer to contribute if you're writing one alhough I'm not hugely familiar with many (but am with wysihtml5, quill and CKEditor).
They aren't necessarily using Apple products though - they're trying to make their content available to those who aren't hackers and are being denied.
Politics, city-building, and order from anarchy on a Minecraft server
I'd like to invite you into our world. Here's a map of the world so far: https://i.imgur.com/XE3uOXT.jpg

We've created a small, consumable world in which we have invited players to make their own cities, nations, and experiences. It is a total sandbox experience with admins intervening only if players cheat or hack. This is due to a unique plugin set that allows players to moderate the community by working together. We call this experiment, Devoted. http://reddit.com/r/Devoted

What started a little over two weeks ago can only be described as a representation of what it felt like when civilization began thousands and thousands of years ago. The server opened up and players descended upon the unmapped islands and well, started killing each other almost immediately. The first day there were about 300 murders. Players have settled down inside reinforced cities now though, built farms, and the killing has stopped. Now players who raid and grief almost immediately see bounties put up for their detainment.

We went from nomads roaming the plains, killing everything in sight, to a number of cities springing up on (https://i.imgur.com/i5mqhNx.jpg) what people have called 'Spawn Island'.

Even the islands were left to the players to name. Several of the geographic features on each of the custom world painted islands have been named by the players as well. (https://i.imgur.com/a0B3gt5.jpg)

What is next for the history of Devoted is entirely up to the players. We'd like you to come and try to make your mark, and hopefully end up in the history books. https://www.reddit.com/r/Devoted/wiki/index

Our plugins, Citadel, PrisonPearl, JukeAlert all allow the players to apply justice and law themselves. This creates judicial systems and a sense of order.

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Our subreddit is located here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Devoted/ - Here is a quick start guide for new players with more information on the plugins: https://www.reddit.com/r/Devoted/wiki/help
It was a relatively token amount, but as I said, I was reallllly poor, and I knew I was going to have to pay a sizeable fine. Because I was out of work, I had to make the choice not to pay that token amount.
How to Create MultiUSB: Bootable USB Flash with Many OS
I'm always wondering how Google's car will certify when new releases are made. Consider that an autonomous car will need X hours/miles of driving before it will be certified. Now, if Google updates 1 line of code, the whole certification process has to start all over.
Richard Stallman thinks work on HURD is unimportant and nothing more than an academic toy project. He is interested in the ethics and philosophy of software freedom, and the Linux kernel provides that when combined with adequate other completely free software. RMS has repeatedly said that he sees no real value in continuing the HURD project particularly and is much more interested in high priority things like free software replacements for Skype, free firmware, etc.
This kind of commentary helps users decide which companies to support. If Apple's behavior causes it to lose customers, it will change how it acts. So, it makes sense to be upset while acknowledging that Apple is profit-motivated.
Busybox removes support for systemd
How to reach to Y Combinator Alumni
Our startup is interviewing with Y Combinator in two weeks. I want to reach out to Y Combinator Alumni and understand what to expect in the interview. Is there any forum or group I should write to. Thanks!
It seems kinda weird that Dotty is referred as "Scala compiler" when the language Dotty compliles sounds fundamentally different from Scala. Bit like saying that DMD (the original dlang compiler) is an experimental compiler for C++?

> Dotty, a platform aimed to develop new technology for Scala tooling as well as try out new concepts for future Scala versions, has reached bootstrap status. This means that its compiler is written in Dotty and can compile itself, thus providing a drop-in replacement for the original one

I would imagine that self-hosting is fairly minor aspect of being a drop-in replacement of exising software compared to backwards compatibility.
I think the first footnote in this is extremely valid. It all depends on what performance metric the selection process is identifying compared to the performance metric you use to determine success.

I would suspect the larger issue is that people are probably much worse at identifying what performance metrics for selection convert to their respective performance for success.
sure, but you don't need to be at the limit to have that sort of instability. It becomes a bit more pronounced when there's less leeway, but it's not different in kind, only a little bit in magnitude.
Another interesting article about Tesla's Autopilot is this:
http://electrek.co/2015/10/30/the-autopilot-is-learning-fast...

It's learning. That is an interesting approach. I wonder how far they get by that.

I guess Google's car will also collect data and help Google to improve the performance. My impression so far was that it's mostly engineered work however, and not so much learned (in a machine learning way).
> Sure, there were spectacular crimes and notorious criminals, but they were notable more for their exceptionalism than anything else. The average citizen's life was rather boring, actually, which is why these edge cases got sensationalized.

I think for the most part your post is correct about the mindset of society, but my understanding is that exceptional crimes have actually decreased since those days; the difference being that the media in those days wanted to portray society as fairly well-ordered, while it now wishes to portray society as broken and fractured. Thus outlandish crimes were under-reported then and over-reported now.

There are also things like technological advances in communication and travel to account for. My great-parents probably didn't care much about a crime in New York or California, but I have friends and family throughout the country, and bad news anywhere may be of note to me.
5 commits a week sounds like a lot, actually. Nothing gets pushed without a code review and it's a rare code review that doesn't require some changes, which therefore require another test run, etc. You'd have to be working steadily and have some very responsive teammates in order to get a commit in every single work day.

At least, that's the way it worked when I was there. I sure as hell didn't get 5 commits in a week.
Product Hunt’s Community Is Priceless
but that would decrease price of coal, which would lead to other nations - particularly developing nations like china - to increase their consumption, thereby offsetting most of the ecological benefit from converting/building the natural gas plants.
Is there a quality laptop not bound to an ecosystem that doesn't come loaded with shitware? Of course I would just install over it, but I don't want to support those kinds of models either.

In mobile I suppose there is cyanogen. Anyone tried them recently?
I saw this tech presented at Compute Midwest (KC) a week ago and it was mind-blowing. It can do amazing things, including serving as a true EKG. The article seems to focus more on the blood speed measurement, perhaps because that's one of the more novel abilities of the device, but to answer the core of your question - it can already relay EKG-quality statistics about a potential heart condition.

Another exciting capability (IMO) was that they've also experimented using the sensor to emit specifically-tuned electrical pulses from the sensor into your skin, basically triggering a haptic response. So a haptic suit with VR goggles is now in the realm of possibility.
This same argument can be used to argue against any sort of consumer protection. (NB: I am not arguing for government intervention in this case.)

I have an extremely hard time seeing how it can possibly be beneficial to consumers for Apple to attempt to censor this kind of content. Even a "well, App Store censorship of jailbreaking talks is ultimately beneficial in the long run for consumers because Apple making more money means more R&D investment" sort of argument falls flat because nobody who could possibly make use of technical descriptions of jailbreak techniques would be in the slightest bit hindered by the availability of the content in the iOS App Store.
Zero surprise. Why is this even a story? Why would CCC even waste time developing for a closed platform. Focus on the free web, available on all devices... for now.
Friendly reminder to not use pastebin.com as they block all Tor users.
Scientists can now “squeeze” light – that could make computers much faster
The Tesla "autopilot" is comparable to what BMW[1] and Mercedes[2] have been shipping for years.

Self-driving is much harder. The first-order problems of driving on a empty road were solved by the DARPA Grand Challenge, ten years ago. The second-order problems involve dealing with other road users. That's hard, and that's what Google is working on, with considerable success. So is the CMU/Cadillac consortium, which has demonstrated their self driving car to politicians in Washington traffic.[3] Nobody seems to pay much attention to that effort, although they may be closer to a production product than anyone else. (Or not; Uber hired some of the people involved away from CMU.)

Self-driving cars need and have a lot more sensors than semi-auto cars. There's a lot more sensing to the sides and rear, and more forward sensing than just being able to detect the next obstacle ahead. Vision processing is far more elaborate. Google's vision system explicitly recognizes humans and bicycles.

Google's little 25MPH driverless car is a way for them to enter the market. At 25MPH, slamming on the brakes is a good solution to situations the system can't handle. Those things are going to be all over senior communities in a few years. Google already has higher-performance cars on the road; they can be seen all over Mountain View most days.

[1] http://www.bmw.com/com/en/insights/technology/connecteddrive...
[2] http://www.mercedes-benz-intelligent-drive.com/com/en/1_driv...
[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/dri...
Why Smart People Deserve More
Almost anytime that a technology is said to be a decade away or more from the researcher, you may as well take it to mean that it will never happen.
Apple wants to make money, Apple needs its customers to make money, upset customers are bad for Apple. Hence, getting upset is a way to influence Apple. It has worked before, it will work again.
Is there a poll you can link to?
> The feedback system in place in most countries seems to have been the press, but unfortunately that's mostly historical. In the past the press did a much better job of performing their role of the 'fourth estate'

I'm not sure I agree that it's worse now, but I don't have any data or research. Would you happen to know of any?

I think even at its best, the press doesn't have the resources to follow up on more than a tiny minority of cases.
China produces 41%+ of the global coal-based energy; the US produces less than 17%, and it dropped significantly between 2010-2012 (I don't have later data).

Buying coal has a global impact; ending US subsidies doesn't (in fact, it would make it cheaper to burn elsewhere).
> I'm talking specifically like portions of the trip like the driveway, getting out of the parking ramp, or navigating small alleyways where the car could be parked (where GPS could be weak in the city)

Relatively simple from a conceptual point of view: a human drives it the first time, and later times use sensors to apply basic rules and the original 'instructions' learned from driving it manually the first time.

Extend this to a network of cars sharing route information, and only a small sampling of the population ever needs to drive any given route manually.
> the lack of syntax highlighting on merge reviews is a killer feature

Creating an issue for this and scheduling it. I agree we need this for diffs => issue here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/3292

> Also multiple assignees on MRs

We solved this with the 'approvers' feature. We still want to only have a single assignee, as only a single person can click 'merge'.

> Ability for anyone to add labels to an MR, not just the assignee

This should be anyone with editing rights to the MR, such as masters. We're improving the UX to make this easier in GitLab 8.2 or 8.3 (also creating labels on the fly and quickly adding more).

> On the index page listing MR's I've often felt like a solid improvement would be to show both author and assignee. I think Gitlab has alternated between one or the other a few times on this page but both seem to me to be pertinent information.

Currently both are shown: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests

One is inline, the other as icon. Let me know how you think we can further improve this.
I should have been more clear here: all orders that come in in the time interval are resolved at the same time (or if that isn't possible, the order is randomized). It now doesn't matter if your order came in a minute or a second before the deadline.
Monetarists were fanning the fear of inflation at the start of quantitative easing 7 years ago. What inflation has happened since?

The fact of the matter is that (1) the inflation fears are far overstated. We are already injecting money into the economy, but we haven't seen inflation. All overt money financing would do is inject money through the people, instead of through banks. (2) A little inflation is good for the economy; that's exactly what we need to ward off a recession (3) The US can export inflation to other countries by virtue of being the reserve currency of the world. | These three points together should address your fear of hyperinflation. I suggest you read Friedman and Keynes, both of whom suggested overt money financing as a mechanism to boost the economy.

Your point about the poor dropping out of the work force is based in class bias. Would you say that quantitative easing with banks blowing up asset bubbles would have the rich people dropping out of the work force? No one says that. The poor are not intrinsically different than the rich; the rich continue working when they have basic necessities met, and so will the poor.
Posted 3 minutes earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10483751
> Each day on Product Hunt is a competition that’s fair and democratic. That’s what makes it so great. Competition encourages makers to bring their A game and when everyone must adhere to the same rules, the products that come out on top are more deserving of their position.

> We were fortunate that Hiten Shah, a friend of 500 Miles cofounder and CEO Viral Kadakia, agreed to submit our product. This made a huge difference. It helped get our product immediately in front of a lot of people as he is an influencer in the tech industry and has over 23K followers on Product Hunt. Special thanks to Hiten, our X factor, for submitting the 500 Miles on Product Hunt.

Heh.
This is awesome. What I also found really cool is that this inadvertently lets you "hear the sound" of chrome/firefox throttling the `setTimeout` calls when the tab is inactive [1]. Run one of the sorting algorithms in chrome or firefox and then switch to a new tab. You'll notice it slows down. Switch back and forth between the tabs and it's almost like you are conducting of the algorithm :)

[1] http://blog.pivotal.io/labs/labs/chrome-and-firefox-throttle...
I would think the certification might not exactly look like that. At least, they aren't going to release every revision if the certification is like that.

I sort of think they are collecting the super detailed sensor data so that they can play it back into new versions of their software and see if it notices things earlier and makes better choices and such. A mass market version needs to be able to function on environmental data (like a tree across the road), so I don't think they are building a perfect map to have as a crutch.
I'm a big fan of turning to empirical data where it's available. One case in point is the "Habanero" well dug in Australia as a pilot for an enhanced goethermal field. This is a nonsustainable proposition, with individual wells having a fixed life I don't recall offhand, though it's < 40 years.

The project's been plagued by multiple setbacks, for which some of the most candid accounts come from the company's own investor filings with the Australian government, though the upshot is:

* The whole durned thing done blowed up. There was a steam explosion which, putting things mildly, proved a substantial setback. Fortunately no one was killed.

* Power output of the pilot project has been scaled back tremendously. Again it's been a few years since I looked at this, but actual achieved output was 1/50th initial estimates.

* Costs were tremendously higher than initially anticipated. For achieved output, $30,000/kW, vs. about $4,000 kW for solar (less today).

* Schedule overruns, even accounting for accidents, were on the order of years.

Ah, turned up my earlier article, you can see that here:

https://reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1wpa90/how_not_to_...
Writing Monads in Scala with Spark-Notebook
Hello everyone and Happy Halloween,

I think that combining Scala, Spark-Notebook and Monads is both scary and stupid enough for Halloween :-)

http://blog.brakmic.com/writing-monads-in-scala-with-spark-notebook/

Have fun!
Okay, let's set the scene. Let's start here:

http://www.economicsinpictures.com/2011/09/size-of-financial...

The image on that page is striking, but this is the key sentence: "Shares and bonds are about the same value of world GDP, but derivatives trading and foreign currency transactions are ten and fifteen times bigger than world gdp.".

Derivatives are a broad field, but can be summarised as bets based on whether the value of something rises or falls (similar statements can be made about foreign currency markets). This money being made on derivative markets only changes the wealth of those making the trades, so unless a productive company is making the trades they are purely unproductive. In effect, it's gambling.

In addition, money only 'performs work' at the point of exchange, which is why it's important to measure transactions rather than available currency. The vast majority of money movement exists outside the productive economy. Even without touching the productive economy directly, these trades can have adverse effects on the productive economy (destabilisation being the most obvious example, e.g. financial crisis of 2007-08).

Any questions at this point?
Zen and Copper Pots
well at least it requires these global-warming-concerned billionaires to put their money where their mouth is, instead of by enforcing their beliefs on others via the political process.