skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite, looking at the slides.

It finishes up with two slides of "tough lessons" basically explaining why it failed as a phone OS, and then "what's next?" containing connected device plans. So it's pretty well in line with the announcement.
Their shareholders probably don't mind - their share price is up 50+% today. http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=VHC+Interactive#{"range":...
I think the reason for this is that Jobs actually was a software man more than a hardware man. For hardware he had Ives.

Now that this combination is gone their software is slowly but surely going bad.

But another bigger issue is that Apple is still focusing too much on user interaction rather than system interaction.

The real advantages which we are gaining from technology is not a better input format or navigation scheme, but rather the use of weaker or stronger algorithms to remove the need for the user to interact with their machines.
> For example, "back in the day" browsers sucked, like really bad.

I'm reminded of Mitch Hedberg: "I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to too."
Only, Mondo isn't even a bank, yet. From the FAQ [1], "your money will be held in a separate, protected account by Wirecard, our issuing bank".

As Matt Levine keeps pointing out [2], "Tech businesses trying to disrupt finance tend to think that they are solving a technical or data or customer service problem, but the problems of finance are always and everywhere regulatory problems."

[1] https://getmondo.co.uk/faq/
[2] http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-06-19/bitcoin-buc...
It is even worse every time Apple pushes out a major iOS release.
XUL is insecure legacy tech. There isn't a coherent argument otherwise: XUL is insecure in that it gives addons all the power of the browser, and XUL is legacy, unspecified, single-implementation-wedded XML stuff from the '90s whose functionality has been entirely superseded by HTML at this point. The idea that nothing can be insecure and legacy unless the new alternatives support absolutely everything the old technology did is absurd: that would prevent us from calling DOS "obsolete and legacy" because apps running in ring 0 can do things that apps running in ring 3 can't.

XUL may well be insecure legacy tech that performs a useful task for you, and that's why care is being taken to make sure the important extensions continue to work in the new Web Extensions world.
Pijul 0.2 version control system rewritten in Rust
If these were companies that actually did something, instead of waste everyone's time and resources, you'd have a point.
Not an expert on EU or UK law, but it seems odd to me that a ruling by a UN panel would have any effect on Assange's legal status. Perhaps it is just cover for him to live in a non-EU country and fight extradition?
Last I've done frontend dev was 2012, now I am doing frontend for a new project and while it's gotten much better, it's very overwhelming.

I had to familiarize myself with react, es6, babel + plugin, scss, redux & its concepts, react-router, npm and its packages, material-ui, browsersync, eslint and that's just to get started. Now that's a lot.

By the time I am comfortable in that arena something new would have replaced them.
The problem is this is a fantasy historically ,the government works for the rich (capitalists) its a capitalist government.

Copyright law is a case in point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#/...
Understood, just to be on the safe side, I'll rename such symbol when I see them in future posts. Thanks!
It's fine for researchers to go look for other causes. It's not fine to expect that they will disregard what we already know. Well-supported scientific theories should be used to constrain the search space when addressing new problems, otherwise we'll get stuck re-proving the same basic things over and over again.

If every epidemiological study causes us to question everything we thought we knew, it's going to be hard to make any progress on health improvements. This is certainly not the first study to find health correlations with cell phones, and it won't be the last.
TVs are monitors with a variety of extra features -- at a minimum, a tuner, but lots of others are normal now.

But you can get commercial displays which are just TV-likr monitors without the extra features. It doesn't take much online searching to find them; consumer retail outlets, however, don't carry them because they aren't what the industry thinks most consumers want.
"...never give up rolling hose, never give up tools, ..."

This certainly provides insight into the deaths of 27 wildland firefighters who died disregarding orders to drop their heavy tools (so they could outrun a wildfire):

"Drop Your Tools: An Allegory for Organizational Studies" by Karl Weick at http://www19.homepage.villanova.edu/gregory.gull/MBA8510.htm...
Don't forget early OS X. So slow it was nearly unusable until performance improvements in 10.3.
Depending on the model, Linux drivers do exist, even if they aren't all in mainline kernels yet. Just a week ago I booted [1] on my Surface Pro 3 from a pendisk (didn't even need to disable secure boot) and pretty much everything just worked, including the pen, touchscreen, type cover and sound. Note that Linux Mint is much closer to Ubuntu than Chakra, which is based on Arch Linux.

The only thing that didn't work so well was sleep (only slept the first time); that's sometimes the case even with "normal" PCs, I'm sure that can be sorted out given enough effort.

The situation is not so good with the Surface Pro 4... a matter of time, I guess. I've been reading even Microsoft is yet to get Windows working perfectly on it, so...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceLinux/comments/3w8du2/outoft...
Millions upon millions of workers are on their feet for 8+ hours a day. Imagine that!

Guy can't stand up for more than 4 hours, writes complaints on Medium. Articles like this are why the tech industry gets a bad name.
I've switched to the Basic HTML version full-time. It's way, way faster, even having to reload the entire page for most actions (remember when the whole point of AJAX was faster webpages?). I miss a few features, but it's not even close to being worth using the many-times-slower interface and associated higher system load to get those back. Some of those features (inline "track this package" links in Amazon emails in the mailbox view, for instance) shouldn't require javascript/AJAX at all, but are simply absent, which is frustrating, but again, it's still worth it.

Plus I can, you know, close the tab. One of the worst things about these enormous "javascript applications" is the high startup time (remember how much we hated Flash intros with loading screens?) that leads to leaving the tab open, which means that tab's disgustingly-high memory use is a constant rather than only occasional cost (I'm looking at you, Asana!)
Agreed that existential threats are the most critical. Could argue that terrorism combined with bio/nuclear is an existential threat, but then the real threat is bio/nuclear more than terrorism.

But regarding CAS, I feel we should focus on low threat primarily and shouldn’t be using expensive jets to fill the roll. In fact, I would fund low intensity conflicts through SOCOM and let them choose the assets they want, not what big military wants to provide (i.e. the super tacano vs fighter jets).

In the event that we find ourselves in an existential threat war (really only two countries I can think of), other factors such as Nuclear, Space, Cyber, and Air Supremacy are so much more important than high threat CAS. In my mind, high threat CAS and manned Strike aren’t the best use of resources to fight this war
anyway that won't work because.. you thought you were buying that software eh? Nope, you are just licensing it.. You thought you might buy a john deere tractor? Nope.. you just licensed the right to use it. sure, you might own the axle nuts but not the software that drives the engine. You say they can't sell the patent? Oh thats ok, they will just license it..

the real problem is that simple & obvious processes are granted patents by the US patent office, and that is what needs to be fixed first.
Shoptiques (YC W12) is looking to bring in killer Senior Engineer
So, are there anyone that are working on developing FFOS further? If not, it's dead for all practical purposes. Just like WebOS is dead even though that was open sourced as well.

I'm not excited at all to see what they do with connected devices, because I expect them (and their partners) to have a go at it for a couple of years and then shut it down when the next shiny new market opportunity appears.

I have no idea why Firefox would have an advantage in this space over Google/Android. I'd also trust them more, but I just don't see it.
I believe the article was suggesting foreign intelligence agents could set up an ad-hoc surveillance network this way. It would be much more difficult for them to gain a position directly between the stores and the Internet.
That doesn't matter, that's the point.

Having the Swedish government and Theresa May assent to an extradition can never be easier than having only the Swedish government assenting to it.

Even if she really did "whatever the US tells her to" Assange wouldn't lose the smallest thing.
I don't understand their branding. I'd love to buy "The Ubuntu Tablet", I don't really want to buy a "BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition". It doesn't sound like I'm getting something from Canonical, but instead some alternate edition of a device by a company I don't know of. Especially since this is the only model being launched, why not offer a definitive edition?

It's like if Google had called the "Google Nexus 6" the "Huawei Nexus 6P Android Edition"
I glanced briefly over your posts and it seems that you're dealing with a complex system. The trouble with those is that you can't just break it down to a simple prototype, because by simplifying it you lose exactly the properties you're interested in.

Actually building it, requires a solution to a couple of hard problems, which themselve pull in even more. So the longer you work on it, the slower you make any progress and the easier it is to get lost just by the sheer range of ways to tackle it.

However, somehow those complex ones are just way more interesting for myself, I pick them every time over "the simple things", but the result is, that I too can't show any visible progress, because it's not done yet and no simple prototype can show/imitate the system as a whole.
If you ever discover a sound methodology for these kinds of problem, please tell me about it.
Sunshine acquires the leader in mobile atmospheric data, PressureNet
>A debt jubilee would do a lot to restore confidence, because everyone will be able to stop looking nervously at everyone else's obligations and wondering if they're going to be able to meet them.

Oh yeah, I'm sure the creditors will be highly confident about future lending after a jubilee, because they went from wondering if debt will be repaid...to knowing it won't.

Where do people come up with this stuff?
I came across this document when I was looking for more information about the "ardis brothers tool." My search didn't turn up much about the ardis tool but was worth the effort after I stumbled on this gem.
Here are some more proactive approaches that would support their desired perception of caring about the browsing safety of their users:

* How about updating the radio buttons that appear when you "report this ad" to include "deceptive" as the reason for the report

* DoubleClick (by Google) serves the majority of these "Download now" ads that I've seen on sites that cater to the general public. Don't let advertisers run these ads. Do. Not. Allow. Many of them have "start download" in the plain text of the ad unit, and others are easily found by a bit of OCR on an image ad unit.

Please do not give me a Google-branded poncho (telling me how amazing it is with an infomercial about its revolutionary Dry Living Experience™) when you could patch the leaky roof to truly create a Dry Living Experience.
A New Force Touch Home Button Makes Sense
How many of the sites that were illegitimately blocked can afford to sue Google? How many can afford to win against Google's top notch legal team?
> including proprietary services (e.g. Pocket) forcing the creation of the Icecat fork.

What? GNU IceCat has nothing to do with Pocket. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_IceCat#Origins_of_the_name
> including proprietary services (e.g. Pocket) forcing the creation of the Icecat fork.

The search bar is an equally proprietary backend service, and pretty much universally funds Mozilla, but I don't hear many complaints about it.
I don't agree. The request for more information should not be disdained. It was neither dismissive nor unprofessional.
Is it only their software? I don't really see their hardware as first class anymore either.

Looking at Apple laptops, the newest Intel processor I can get is a 5th gen Broadwell, and it's only in the 13" retina. The 15" retina has 4th gen Haswell. And the 13" pro? Some old processor from 2012. 6th gen Skylake is shipping everywhere from every other laptop manufacturer.

The 13" Macbook Air still has a sub-HD display. (1440x900) Yet, I can now get a 4K display on a Razer Blade Stealth with 100% Adobe RGB at a competitive price. Even their 'retina' laptops are low res by comparison.

The only hardware they have that looks reasonably impressive at the moment is the iMac 5K, but that's a desktop.
"charges were mysteriously resurrected by a different prosecutor" is incorrect. The women appealed the prosecutor's original decision, which is their right under Swedish law. A new prosecutor looked at the case and decided to reverse that decision. Nothing "mysterious"... just the normal workings of a justice system.

One key part of what Assange is accused of is initiating sex with a person who was asleep. This is a crime in many countries (Sweden, Canada, UK) that have specific legislation around consent (the UK laws actually include "sleep" in their language about consent).
OSX updates are driven by iOS updates, which are the main revenue generators. Apple must release iOS every year to follow phone releases; OSX has to follow suit in order to support iOS "integration" features (Handoff, Photos etc etc).

Because release cycles are so short, test cycles are shorter as well; and of course new hardware is tested first (and foremost), so updates to older hardware will see more bugs, and updates are always buggier anyway (because it's harder for developers to predict the state of your system pre-migration).

I certainly see the yearly release cycle for OSX as being a big factor for the perceived fall in quality. In addition, there is probably a glut of "peak Air", people who switched to Mac when the Air was unrivalled and have not bought anything since. Their hardware is less and less tested with each update, so they're feeling the pinch. Apple don't care, because they want new money from them.
That's an interesting point about randomness. You could implement a bogo-ish sort that's fully deterministic. Instead of randomly shuffling, iterate through all possible permutations of the input. Assuming the input contains no duplicates, there are n! permutations and one which is sorted, so your average running time will be n n!/2, which matches bogosort.

Of course, in this age of cloud computing, we really should be using more modern terrible sorting techniques such as stacksort: https://gkoberger.github.io/stacksort/
Training and investigating Residual Nets
>But the healthcare industry basically NEVER met the assumptions necessary for a free market to exist in the first place.

Please expound on the history of this (the "NEVER" part)and also enumerate on what the "assumptions necessary" are.

>Just look at the way people on the right talk about removing Obamacare and letting the "free market" do its thing.

Obviously the removal of Obamacare would be insufficient to produce a free market in health care and it would take a lot more repealing of laws (many at the state level) before a free market could "do its thing".

>Capitalism has become synonymous in the collective mind with "don't make laws, laws are government interference and socialism."

I'm not so sure there is any majority which claims this. I find much more common the idea that most of society's problems are caused by capitalism, caused by a "market failure", or that free enterprise is insufficient to resolve said problem and the only solution is government action.
So in other words, on this subject nobody is mistaken, nobody suffers from cognitive dissonance, and all disagreement happens because those who disagree with you are manipulative liars?
Knowing what other companies are actually offering for compensation without actually pursuing an offer. Sites like salary.com and glassdoor are helpful but I don't have a ton of faith in their numbers.

EDIT: I want to be certain what I think and claim is market rate is in fact market rate.
I don't quite get why the author thinks has to be a binary either. Standing up for 8 hours a day has its health consequences too (if not more).

When I sourced my desk at IKEA I spent an extra $20 on a bar-height chair that folds up. I can stand when I want and sit when I want. The trick is to alternate actively.
Seems like taking a Nexus 7 and gutting its OS simply to make a privacy-conscious eReader is a waste of a perfectly good tablet. Wouldn't it be easier and probably cheaper just to get a "dumb" e-reader (i.e. some kind of Kobo)?
Adding more tools generally adds more complexity...
Asking for facts/figures is not adversarial.
In the end, it boils down to whether firms in a given industry have increasing or decreasing returns to scale. For example, there are no hairdresser empires as this tends to be a profession that can already be operated efficiently at a small scale. Other sectors, especially those with high fixed costs, tend to produce monopolies.
> they need to grow the world’s biggest company every quarter to keep Wall Street happy, ...

And there's the biggest issue right there. Even more so for other companies.
During my time at CMU, my favorite thing was that professors would occasionally teach passion courses. Although when these types of courses would pop up you'd have to take them then and there otherwise miss the opportunity all together. Scanning the course list you'd see many classes that sounded interesting but after a year or two would realize that many might never be taught during your time there.
If they won in court against Apple, they're not a "patent troll". They invented something which Apple copied.

Apple has patented, and tried to enforce, the claim that they have the exclusive right to devices with a screen on the front and round corners.[1] They lost, but they're still litigating that.

[1] http://fortune.com/2015/08/19/apple-patents-rounded-corners/
My AdWords account was suspended a few days ago because of, I presume at least, this: https://www.rackforms.com/rackforms-express-for-wordpress.ph...

A popup in AdWords says I've violated "Unsupported content free desktop software". RackForms Express is a free version of my flagship product, that one actually being advertised.

You're feelings may very well differ, but if I've clicked on a link, organic or ad, and I get offered a solution to the problem I was seeking an answer for, that seem like a pretty good deal. If nothing else, this differentiation may well be the difference between getting a sale or not.

The appeal process is to fill out this form: https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/contact/advertise_s..., but from my reading in Google's product forms this doesn't always work. If this fails, the end result will be to remove free software from the net.

We're all for blocking those horrible "Download Firefox" ads, but this change, and the resulting aftermath, feels...I don't know, dangerous. If the end result is small companies like mine pulling valuable resources from the web, I think we all loose.

Fingers crossed my appeal goes through.
A Simple Python ORM for CouchDB and Couchbase Sync Gateway
This is ridiculous. After years of avoiding standing for continuous periods, the author tries standing for a few hours, can't do it, and then thinks it's worth sharing with the world?

Try standing a little longer - you realize people generally get better at physical things as they try them?
Martin Shkreli takes Fifth, blasts 'imbecile' lawmakers
As a programmer, I have skills to build basically anything, but I don't have any ideas for what to build. If someone gave me an idea that would really capture my imagination, I would really appreciate it.

("Yet Another Ad Network" doesn't capture my imagination)
$100K revenue != $100K profit.
My hunch is that someday Assange will be extradited to Sweden (or go on his own volition), the Swedish prosecutor will interrogate him, and shortly afterwards (hours or days) he will be set free. And nobody will kidnap him.

And then he can wonder if his self-imposed imprisonment was worth it.
>Savings accounts are FDIC insured up to $250,000

So? Do you think that this sort of insurance is free, and can be called upon without economic consequence?
> By stopping the ads in AdSense rogue advertisers would just change to a different ad network

The sites that "everyday folk" browse are much more likely to be running ads from the AdSense network. Forcing the rogue advertisers to place ads on a smaller network serves to cost them (money or time) without the reward of the revenue they'd otherwise get from AdSense-enabled drive-bys.
>I think the charges against Assange are weak, but that he should face them. I don't believe he ever will, though.

He hasn't really been allowed to, there's no need for him to be present in Sweden to face those charges.
I thought I had clicked on the wrong link.
I lost several playlists with a recent ITunes update. Newer upgrades of iTunes have not helped.

Given how basic the concept of a playlist is to iTunes, I was surprised to find this was not fixed immediately.
Anecdotal * 2 = still anecdotal, but my 1st gen moto g has never given me any problems with Maps, other than being a little laggy from time to time.

Samsung?
> Same for clock apps.

That's where the alarm is, and personally I use it several times a day, to wake me up and to remember the occasional meeting or random events I would otherwise forget about.

I hate ios Photos, mostly because of the white backgrounds however.
The tablet also says "33 photos taken". Maybe there's a significance to the number 33?
Perfect information is not required for a free market. Market efficiency is related to information availability though. That is, perfect information and zero cost transactions are some of the requirements for a maximally efficient market, but a market can be "good" or "good enough" to outperform other systems without perfect information (which is impossible), or zero cost transactions.
We’re here just trying to keep afloat! :)
GitHub: Two years of bounties
iTunes sucks everywhere. And it's a horrible UX that it's needed for syncing an iPhone. A better UX would be just to plug it in and move things around.
Probably anecdotal but the default podcast software has been crashing a ton lately.
This is why I have a sit/stand desk. Often I'll start the day sitting, then once I've achieved a good flow, I'll switch to standing (usually in the early afternoon).
>Now I'm 30, and I just want the damn thing to f'ing work reliably. I don't need rounded corners, or transparency, or animations or even a desktop background.

Exactly. Sounds like you agree with nextos:

> A nice Linux set up with minimal software (e.g. xmonad, mutt, emacs or vim) is a joy to use
Yes let's rehash this conversation every 2 weeks

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10880604
> Waiting for the other party to deliver a citation on a platter puts the exchange on hold until that point,

which is why if you're making a non-trivial claim, the claimant should take an extra minute to paste his source.