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Awesome, Localytics :) You are doing great work and you have also been super helpful in the Serverless Framework community. Thank you!
Seems like you understand just fine.

Time is valuable. When writing an essay, the introductory paragraph is how the author gets the reader involved in it.

That line reads to me like bitterness, so I concluded that it wasn't worth my time to read any further.

And this being the internet, I felt it was worth my time to post a comment saying how I feel.

It wasn't my intent to post a comment about the other points in the article (which I obviously did not read).
Take a look at Kotlin and Ceylon and see for yourself. To me, they both embody picking the best features of Scala while leaving out the extra baggage.
>cannot be viewed if you are using an ad blocker.

Unless you pay for a subscription.

>Bye, Wired.

Which you can certainly choose to do.
Is it? English is not my main language. I must not be alone that have read this the way I did because my initial comment was upvoted a lot.

If the radar's bug required to reboot the entire plane, how would you write it without being redondant? "F-35 radar system has bug that requires hard reboot of the F-35 in flight"?
Seems the entire website has been replaced with the letter 'b'.

Probably just lots of traffic to blame
It's probably the case that barter economies only emerge in cultures that have a concept of money, so even this is a just-so story.
Chrome 48, Windows 10. I actually opened the task manager to see if some bg process was torturing the CPU after trying to scroll.
Sure, but a lot of people like to complain that snapchat/tinder/etc. are wastes of time or poor uses of talent when really they make a lot of people's lives a lot better.
Since when is a 4.4 GHz computer required to view a static presentation website?
This is a scary development. Why would a judge refuse a request to subpoena some files and a number? It's a much easier play, unfortunately, than the earlier attempt to force Apple to write some code.
A lot of the FB tech circa 2010 seemed to be reinvented versions of things ex-Google FB staff used. They've done a lot of innovation since then though.
can you share the info about these places where it is so cheap to eat?
One problem is finding VC capital: majority of VCs in SV don't know that hard-tech so they don't want to invest into something they are not familiar with.

On the other hand, the problem might be also that founders which base their startup on technology gave up too easily when looking for funding. So they gave up and get cozy and well paid job at Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, etc.

And YC application process does not help here: if something is "hard tech", then YC is probably not going to fund it. Why? There are so many application and people who are very very good at hard tech are not type of founders YC would like to invest in since they do not have great communication skills. So their YC application is probably confusing, there is no clear pitch, etc. They cannot explain their start up as "Uber for X" - since it is.... complicated.

In other words, if we get few founders who got rich and get into VC business because they did some hard-tech then we will have more hard tech companies. As of now, majority VCs did some social network / uber-for-X and that is how they got into VC business.
Kids that are far from normal was not the topic here though.

Also, why should it be only the one or the other? These are not mutually exclusive. Personally, I went to school and I was homeschooled at the same time.

Removing regular school from the equation is almost always a bad idea.
I am coming to the conclusion that these devices should be treated like every other URL on the web. It should have TLs with a proper cert, a global domain name, wifi, and access controlled by something well known like Openid/oauth. With native apps and CORS firewall traversal is solvable without special protocols and adaptors.
> Using a protocol invented before the internet to control devices on a semi-public network is insane.

Using Modbus may be insane, but Internet Protocol (IP) predates it by 5 years.
I worked in industrial automation for a few years and most of the software there is terribly outdated. It's definitely ripe for disruption. There are "firm tech" business ideas that involve building better sensing and control software for hard tech industries. Given the low cost of sensors and networking these days it's not prohibitively expensive.

I think making a hard tech product for consumers is still very hard, and those who succeed should be commended. People wanting to dip their toes in the water might consider things like building a factory management portal like Splunk that aggregates sensor data, or something that involves sensing and reporting rather than actuation. Actuation can be dangerous and therefore legally risky.
Good god, Ithaca, NY?!

When I was there it was actually one of the more friendly and cool communities I'd lived in. It's a bummer to think that it could have gone so downhill as to be hostile to cyclists, given the demographic.
Gold has been a currency. It isn't really any longer. Now it's almost an anti-currency.

If the dollar is a good medium of exchange and store of value, I have no need of gold. Dollars are considerably more convenient. But if the dollar isn't a good store of value (or I suspect it won't be in the future), then I can use gold as a store of value, for the reasons you stated. Gold therefore becomes my alternative to currency. Functionally, it's almost a short on currency.

But the currency has to be fairly bad for this to work. Example: Gold was $1700 maybe five years ago. (Can't get exact dates from Yahoo Finance's current site, so I'm working from memory.) It fell to $1050 maybe a year ago. Now it's $1200. That makes the dollar look like a pillar of stability.
Fun book indeed!

Your first example you won't typically run into until an introductory measure theory course.
I'm excited to hear the Rust news, but I don't want to make a "+1" comment or whatever, since that clutters the thread. There might be other people who feel the same.
I think there's a problem with this ((d) in particular) because you don't need a stable supply of gold per se, but a stable supply of all things fulfilling the other four properties, plus (d) independently.

So if you start finding smold or plold or frold (or creating bitcoin or smitcoin or whatever) that each has those five properties, currency-wise they're in essence all the same thing.

If they're all the same thing, just call them all "gold", (d) for this aggregate no longer holds. However there's no property that distinguishes one from the other as a currency, so you can't just "pick one" and move on. So essentially currency no longer exists.
You've probably also seen little kids - elementary school aged kids - running drugs for older siblings. People in your school were more than likely terrified of going to school unless they were aligned with the right gang. These experiences are extremely traumatic. So, I can understand why you have such a strong opinion about public schools.

If you're still in that community, please get out. It'll change your perspective when you realize that your experiences are not the norm by a long shot.

My daughter goes to public school. Her experience couldn't be further from my memories. Granted it's only elementary school, but there is no bullying. There's no fighting. Kids form their own groups like everywhere else. But, they live and let live. The school has good academics, a theater program, and a homegrown after school program for parents who can't afford a private one and and can't be there for pick up when school ends.

There's a wide spectrum of public school experiences. But, the ones my daughter is having are more the norm than your own.
Huh. News to me.
> Does anyone understand the connection between the iCloud password reset and the ability to get access to the iPhone?

I do.

Just to be clear it NEVER would have given them access to the phone. But the FBI claims to want the data on the phone. What iCloud would have allowed them to do is to connect the iPhone to a known WiFi network and have it backup-sync up to iCloud where the FBI could obtain it.

The problem is because they changed the iCloud password that caused the phone to fall out of sync with the service until the new password is entered, and to do that you need the pin.

The speculation has been that the FBI already has most of the key information on the phone (from NSA taps & existing iCloud backups) but this whole thing was never about protecting the public or getting key intelligence, it is a pretence to gain a backdoor or more importantly to establish legal precedent with a case that will gain public support/is sympathetic.
At the University of Waterloo Waterloo, the Velocity Venture Fund (http://velocity.uwaterloo.ca/funding/velocity-fund/) awards an additional $10k prize to a hardware team every term to help offset the additional cost, so they could end up walking away with $35k (as opposed to $25k for a software company).
if the FBI gains this ability then we are likely to see Apple devices fast tracked for government procurement and we are likely to see a raft of bad PR, government headaches, or both for Apple's international sales.
> We don't usually think of decoration as something that's worth a lot of money

The fashion and jewelry industries might disagree.
Limb amputation will not save the body I'm afraid. Interesting that they can't find buyers at any price for those resources.
No. Paste it into the Simple Writer, and there are many less simple words used.

https://www.xkcd.com/simplewriter/

And yes, I got that vibe, too. It's the same one I got when writing an article about encryption using it.
(c) easy to detect adulteration

http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2008-03/how-make-convincin...

(tungsten. Same density as gold. Wrap a tungsten bar in gold, and you pass weight, density, and surface chemical tests. W is much, much cheaper than gold most of the time.)
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First off, "genius" talent is by no means required.

Second, it should be something you really, really like doing. Like music is to a musician (or an audiophile), cooking (and watching people get off on your creations) is to a chef, sports training is to an athlete, etc.

And third, like anything else of true value in this life -- it will take a significant amount of time; in particular devoted to practice (and very importantly, play), especially solving (often obscure-seeming) problems on your own, just to scratch an itch, or to know that you can.

Easily a few thousand hours to attain what's called "mathematical maturity"[1], and probably somewhere on the order of the fabled 10,000 to obtain what might be called true expertise in the field. Which should (by itself) be no obstacle, if it's something you're really, really, really into.

Just like any other field, basically.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_maturity
No court would consider these 'some files and a number', they are critical Apple trade secrets. If anything, Apple should have an easier time arguing what's being asked of them is an unreasonable burden.
You're right. But a master key that can be used to load new software to password protected phones without entering your password first is a backdoor. Even if it wasn't intentionally put there to be used as a backdoor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backdoor_(computing)
Now if we all just stop focusing on how to make better CSS, we might actually create some new hard tech.
I completed it too just for fun. I never was contacted either. At the very least, an email saying 'congrats' would have been nice.
No. AFAICT, it's perceptual reverse-compression: ie, you look at a bad mp4 of a brick wall, and even though it's shitty, you mentally figure out the mass of pixels is a brick wall. Imagine if the computer actually re-added a crisp brick wall there.
Depends on what your dealing with. Many schools are built using cement that's radioactive enough to be detectable. So, we would call it radioactive waste if it was used near a reactor and not contaminated. But, if it was part of a school and exactly as radioactive then no problem.
Interesting. I'm assuming there will be areas that we are prohibited from imaging. Will these be limited to areas defined by the US Government or every government that Google works with?
In a truly cryptographically secure system, there wouldn't be a master key, and a signing key would not be able to enable access to private data. Security would be guaranteed by mathematics, not by the UI. The data would be encrypted in a fashion that even a modified OS would not be able to decrypt without a user-generated high-entropy passphrase or key that Apple does not have. If iPhones were truly secure, Apple would technically and mathematically be unable to help, and the FBI wouldn't have a case to begin with.
> if it bothers me too much I'd just make sure that the damn thing never gets online access

Which might be quite a challenge with some devices when your neighbors drown you in free WiFi.
Purchasing a Titan X for 1k is still quite painful if you do a startup with virtually no funding.

Source: I just did that.
In the same vein what would happen if Apple decided to destroy their master key and all backups?

Tim Cook would go to jail.
This graph shows that Scala grew from 0.02% market share to 0.08% in the last four years. The fact that it's at 0.08% after more than ten years in existence should be a concern for anyone interested in learning it.
My observation of kids with good jobs in high school was they would give up school for the money. (See also: college.) Why would your child want to be in boring old school when they can make $60/hour?
Twitter's Futures were developed when Scala's Futures weren't tail-recursive (and so not really production-quality). There's probably an item on the roadmap to port Finagle to using scala.concurrent.Future but I doubt it's high priority. The two support the same set of operations in any case - I doubt it'd be a huge problem for a beginner to translate one to the other.
"Unsavoury", as in?
They can keep doing it for ever, because the vast majority of people don't care. HN and the other internet tech rags represent the vocal minority.

The dystopian future isn't so future anymore, and things continue to play out much in the way that Huxley thought they would. For the most part, Orwell got it wrong. People will continue to let the government do what they will so long as they are entertained.
Is LinkedIn a desired place to work? I've never heard anyone clamoring to work there.
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Building hard core technology products is very risky and challenging for entrepreneurs. Complicating matters further, recent financial market volatility and sentiments being expressed in "Medium thought pieces about when the stock market is going to crash" are amping up the fear and uncertainty faced by newcomers.

It is therefore extremely encouraging and important to hear this message clearly and directly from Sam, that this is indeed a lucrative area worth pursuing and that there are investors who have the risk appetite to continue to fund such ventures.
If I dont know anything about developing AI specifically - but have an idea of how AI can help an industry, how could I go about making that hard idea something with merit/velocity/validity?
The signing key is (ideally) not even known by Apple, but instead held in a security appliance that can be unlocked with a threshold quorum of pass phrases.

It might not even be in the US. I know that the code signing action of Microsoft Windows was done (and perhaps is still done) in Peurto Rico, for tax reasons.
Flexbox is life-altering though.
That too, but also all foreign governments will have predecent for demanding the same capabilities. Apple might as well just strip out all security features if that occurs instead of wasting time catering to demands.
Ask HN: What wiki software does your company use for knowledge management?
Sounds like a desperate scramble to rebalance the portfolio which, reputationally, is far too long of last decade's, now-stalling, strategies. Problem is the brand is not 'hard tech', it's irredeemably soft tech. The brand is consumer biz disruption and social. YC is a short (if only it were listed) just like the rest of the web stack, for reasons of acute oversupply. It is woefully ill positioned on hard technologies. Kudos for trying, though! Heroic effort.
Sure, but that only serves to emphasize the difficulties faced by companies that need to do true R&D. Your typical HW startup has way more than 10k more costs than a typical SW startup.

(Yes, I know the issue is apps vs. tech, not SW vs. HW, but there are parallels)
Tungsten was first isolated in 18th century. Gold was already established by then.
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In a competition it's possible to wake up your competitor. I mean if you are going to play a tennis or football match the next day, you can bother your competitor to have an advantage.
FB may be trying to do more than that.

Based on the glaring flaws in the base product, I'm unconvinced it has the smarts to do any of those things well.
I think the reason these systems haven't been challenged yet is lack of knowledge. People tend to attack areas and industries that they know a lot about. This is why college hackathons have tons of dating, what to do, and delivery apps. It's their world.

If you don't have people coming out of the industrial automation space with a good understanding, it's hard to walk back in with a useful product.
> nobody is actually shipping software

What about Spark, Kafka and Akka? I actually think the Scala community is working very hard to improve user experience, it's just that they don't do in the expense of soundness.

As a ruby -> Scala developer, I don't miss DHH.
Given a completely static authentication realm like the rooms of a hotel, Modbus over TCP over IPSec would work just fine, and be transparent to the application. That sort of sounds like a good reason to be using Linux (Android) controllers in the first place; maybe they just forgot to enable it (or let go the installing contractors before their job was done, as soon as everything seemed to be "working.")
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This subject has received significant attention because as hard as it is to accept, it is all true. There has been a deliberate "Brave New World" effort to control the masses of democracies, under the assumption that leaving people to their own devices will ultimately result in chaos and destruction by someone else manipulating them (case in point: the Republican Party fiasco regarding Donald Trump)

If you are willing to see how your life and role as a passive consumer has been designed, watch the BBC documentary "Century of the Self," read Edward Bernays' "Crystallizing Public Opinion," and "Propaganda," and for an extra dose of depression, Noam Chomsky's "Profit Over People."

Sorry.
> Yes

Do you have any data showing acqui-hiring of $1 billion or more? I've never heard of such an amount and retention after an acquisition is really, really hard. Seems crazy to spend so much only to have people leave after 1-2 years (or less depending on the company).
If memory serves, style guides suggest putting the punctuation inside the quotation marks, even if the punctuation applies to the larger sentence.

Yeah, I've definitely seen that, but I've always thought of that as one of those controversial points where there's no real agreement. I feel like I remember this coming up on HN before and leading to quite a lot of discussion, although I might be mis-remembering.
Really? Rust was harder for me to adjust to by far. It seems like a moving target and the documentation I found was still lacking.
Curious HN behavior. I posted a link to the JODS journal and links to each of the four initial articles 10 days ago. All seemed to me to be worth the time to read, but despite intriguing titles and interesting content, they seem to have been mostly ignored. The WIRED review article, linked here, seems to garnered more interest than the real thing.
Are you in the Bay Area? In my circles they are known as a good place to work.

That said, I don't understand why they've hired so aggressively nor what all those employees do, but they have a nice campus, good pay, and good perks.
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What is a precedence rule in regex? You can either derive a string or you can't. Precedence problems result in ambiguity, there shouldn't be any ambiguity here
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Obviously 0 or 2/147. ^^
I'm not an expert on such things, but I believe people have been saying that the newer iPhones are more or less impossible to do this kind of thing for. The iPhone in question is old enough that it doesn't have the new security features apparently.
I may get down-voted for this, but here it goes...

Parenting rights can be revoked if there is enough evidence of potential damage to be inflicted upon the subjected children. I think the same should go for a lot of other things. People should not be let to freely teach or heal or whatnot without some minimum qualification when stakes are high enough, even it it's about their own children. Not when an actual free and qualified alternative option is available. You think you know better for your children, but if your children get damaged it's the society that will support the consequences when they'll grow up. The freedom to inflict damage upon others has to be limited even when others are our own children.
Supposed you work for a company in DE and UK gov try to compel you, just have someone outside the country revert changes.

Also, isn't the government bound by the Computer Misuse Act (and it's European and other foreign equivalents). That would make the coercion an illegal act.

Dare say there would be amendments intra UK but we'd need pan-European changes to be able to lawfully compel someone to access a [foreign] computer without authority
Puerto Rico is definitely within US federal jurisdiction.
Fallacy: you don't need to understand the internals of something to critique its utility.
Looks wonderful, perhaps, but plays wonderful it does not. There must have been 12 history items added to my back button before I was able to "scroll" down even a fraction of the page...
I haven't seen mention of this since the news first broke, but is the FBI not asking Google for the same permissions? Is it simply that the FBI requested this access from Apple first?
Between this and the $500mm investment by GM in Lyft [0], it's interesting to see the battle lines already being drawn in autonomous transport: Uber/Tesla vs. Lyft/GM.

[0]: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-general-motors-invested...
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Well, the warning from ghc gives you the inferred type, which can be helpful. Copying it in place blindly is not advised - it won't break, but something more specific might be better. And of course the compiler has no way of getting inferring what choice of type aliases will be most (correctly) communicative.
Exactly. Industrial automation also isn't sexy and manufacturing margins are small so the big dogs in the industry have limited R&D resources.

The upside is a lack of competition and a B2B environment. No need for a marketing department when you just have to attend a few industry trade shows a year.
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The value of gold depends on the supply of it. The value of silver depends on the supply of it. The value of gold does not depend on the supply of silver. The two are separate currencies.

So for a currency to be stable, its supply has to be stable. The supply of other things need not be.