skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That consistency is phenomenally important for the user.

I had a quick skim, Elementary talk good sense. It's this apparent trivia that makes the experience. Like can dialogue text be copied, or how a menu opens, and why. Or what shortcut keys to use and when. Or always use the default file open as it'll automatically upgrade visuals and at least some capability when the next OS release comes along. :)

Play along and the user will know how to print, open, copy, preview and a hundred other things on the first ever use of your new program leaving them just to learn the unique new thing.

I kept my Amiga Guidelines phonebook[1] for years after the machine was effectively dead as the principles and explanations were still sound. The Apple Guidelines[2] were worth owning whether you used a Mac or not, again for the principles, and would often get recommended. I had a copy years before I ever touched a Mac! Life got simpler when they were all online.

I don't think it matters where you take cues from, so long as you are internally consistent, and apps carry on that consistency.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/AMIGA-User-Interface-Style-Guide/dp/02...
[2] http://www.amazon.com/Macintosh-Human-Interface-Guidelines-C...
But Icarus is also a synthesizer. Does verilator do synthesis?
Also a strong female figure from the seventh century: St Hilda of Whitby. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda_of_Whitby
Yeah, I know, but that's the specific calculation I was replying to — icebraining's figure of people per square meter of land.

This subthread veered off from the original linked post about broadband speed in general to discuss how upcoming "5G" cellular service is expected[1] to support 100 devices per square meter - that means per square meter of coverage area, regardless of how many floors are stacked up on that square meter. E.g., Mbps/m².

[1]: http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/wireless/telecom-experts-pl...
It's the distinction between what's optimal for the user vs. the company.

It's completely reasonable to not like being profiled based on arbitrary features. The question is: what alternatives are there to preventing fraud?
If I pirated these games just to see their copy protection, could I successfully argue fair use in court?
"Perfect forward secrecy" requires synchronous key exchange. The compromise that signal protocol makes is for forward secrecy to "eventually repair" itself while in the meanwhile a limited number of messages are potentially vulnerable. That is one of the novel feature of the protocol and it is what allows for async communication without some central server doing all the key mgmt (central key mgmt doesn't have this problem because it's actually synchronous).

I am not a cryptographer.
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Redfin offers partial buyer's commission refunds, as well. That way you still have a realtor to help you some if you're new to the area.

Redfin's realtors are generally pretty tech savvy as well - prefer email to phone, responsive to email, etc.
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Since you know of it, if you're ever around and would like to grab a pint feel frre to send me an email at james@jimminy.me
Because the dangers of information ownership seems to be the single solitary thing the guy has ever been right about, ever, as evidenced in part by that video which I thought sufficed as a standalone answer.
Fascinating; thanks for sharing.
If that is wrong, what is right?

Should the police instead do less efficient completely random searches? Should the taxpayers hire more police officers to make up for this loss in efficiency?

Should businesses accept losses from fraud to placate your feelings?

While it may not feel very good to be sending signals that associate you with crime, that is a cost you have to accept of sending those signals.

In the case of police searches, I think attention would be better spent on making them more humane, rather than less racist.
When you pick up a piece of a company, you pick up assets AND liabilities. I'm not sure how it could work any other way.

If a "lifetime warranty" can define lifetime as "until we don't want it to live any longer", then it lacks meaning. But unless they can get away with such a claim, they acquired the liabilities of those warranties and should honor them.
Who else? :) It was this one:

https://domino.research.ibm.com/library/cyberdig.nsf/papers/...

One of the founders and best performers of INFOSEC, Paul Karger, was on that project. Later did their smartcard OS, Caernarvon, for an anticipated EAL7 evaluation. In the past, he did MULTICS security evaluation and VAX VMM Security kernel among other things.

Far as HWMAC, they sort of just dropped it on us in 2011 and I haven't heard about it since. (shrugs) Meanwhile, Cambridge already has FreeBSD running on the CHERI processor with code available and a less-aggressive, legal team. :)
I'd prefer a nice fuzzy logic rule set with some variable speed on the heat/fans.
Business people I deal with are highly aware Macro issues. If you ask them what they think of things like minimum wages or other regulatory costs their usual concern is that their' particular entity doesn't suffer an unfair burden.

Academic Economists know pretty much nothing of Macro.
From The Verge, "Nest says it may offer 'compensation' to Revolv users for disabling smart home hub:"

http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/5/11374358/nest-revolv-smart-...
So what you're saying is a company can buy another and get all of its assets and none of it's liabilities? Wow that's a win-win situation!
These comments are all so clichéd aimed straight at the HN audience.

A reporter seems to be reporting about a child reporter who is doing something noteworthy. Sensationalist reporters, HN commenters showed them!

There exists a reporter who wrote about it. OMG, get out the sarcasm we get to be condescending, the world is reporting a story about a child reporter.

Why can't we take things as they are. It's very cool that Tom Jackman is writing stories. It's an interesting slant for his readers that he's writing about a child. Leave it at that.

:)
The fact that software drives everything now means that we never quite own the product we initially purchased. I remember thinking this a year or two ago when Samsung dropped from my Smart TV an app for a streaming service that I used quite a bit.

While this Nest situation is an extreme case, we're now always one update away from products being altered in ways that make them very different from what we originally purchased.
The WebRTC implementation found at webrtc.org, which is used by Chrome, can also be used by mobile apps, including iOS. It's BSD licensed and used by many mobile apps.

(I work on the WebRTC team)
Please make sure that the window has focus. If the boat is not moving, then the controls won't do anything other than rotate the sail and the rudder (which is very subtle).
I never understood the need for anything beyond a standard programmable thermostat. M-F turn on/off depending on temp and then Sat/Sun do something slightly different because I'm here. I end up messing with thermostat maybe 4-5 times/year at most?
Replace them with Z-Wave or Zigbee products instead. There are a lot of hubs out there which don't require cloud connectivity or a monthly connection.
FYI for the GitLab guys: 404 pages are being served without a Content-Type header (e.g. http://pages.gitlab.io/404/ -- shows HTML in plain text).
If you excavate any square yard of ocean you'll find a bunch of sharks' teeth in the sediment. They're like tree rings for ocean paleoclimatology. They're 'high tech' (in the sense that an apex predator uses them), effective and constantly being replaced.

Now do the same thing with a landfill and you'll find generations of silicon doodads in the strata.

My point: we shouldn't be too surprised when things are disposable. Sharks' teeth aren't useful after they fall out. Companies can't be supporting ten generations of gadgets.
Man, as much as I admire and respect his intelligence, sometimes Gruber can be quite unreasonable.
Are all of these indicators available "over the wire" in browser fingerprinting?

can you tell cpu from browser finger printing?

and cookie age? is he talking about cross-domain cookies from the ad networks?
No, see this criticism of Esperanto phonemes: http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto/#b

Its choices are large, irregular, unclearly defined and basically Eastern Polish.
Payroll taxes are 7.65% until social security cuts out, not 4.25%.
Surely this is illegal? If a Nest tech turned up at your door and when let in to do "service" he took a hammer to the device destroying it, people would be suing left and right for property damage. Surely this is just the same?
I don't know why you've been downvoted, as you're absolutely correct. A defective thermostat can easily shorten the lifetime of your HVAC system. If your furnace itself is already defective, a buggy thermostat could even cause it to overheat and start a house fire.

EDIT: to those who mention the hobbyist scene, consider that such projects are not necessarily trivial, and that getting it wrong remains potentially catastrophic. I believe the parent's point still stands.
Java has a nontrivial number of modeling/statistics/analytic libraries and frameworks. This would suggests some adoption at least in some circles. Though I'd suspect workflow is a little different for interpreters and Java in this space, i.e. interactive vs non-interactive.
Get rid of this notion that everything in a startup has to be done yesterday.

Totally agree. If you can't iterate, you're either in a niche like manufacturing (where your USP had better trump 2 weeks lead time, or your business plan is rotten anyway), or you're simply doing it wrong.

Right now parenthood is incompatible with startups - how can we change this and make startups better for young parents as well who for now will just always try to get corporate jobs?

I have a 2 year old and am a work at home dad. My wife and I share responsibilities and launching and relaunching some of our own businesses at our own pace. We find that this works a lot better than working for others. I just came back from a 1.5 hour mountain bike trip, had some homebaked sourdough (learned yesterday) and spent some time with my daughter. Now I am preparing to dig in to work for awhile. This afternoon I will take a break at 3PM to go play a new RPG, Blades in the Dark, for a few hours, in a local pub. Life is good. (Of course, we live in China and overheads aren't San Francisco or London, but that's by design. London also has no mountain biking, and the climate here is closer to high altitude LA.)

Life's too short to commute. See also, article in an Australian paper on this subject this morning: http://www.smh.com.au/money/tree-change-for-families-financi...
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>You should say it 'works sometimes'.

1st and 3rd examples work from PowerShell.
Damn Interesting has a piece on the race to produce the first liquid hydrogen over a century ago:

http://www.damninteresting.com/absolute-zero-is-0k/

From the article: "He did so with the full awareness that he was among the last of a disappearing breed—the “classical physicists” who had the luxury of simply banging on matter until it did interesting Newtonian things."
It's also possible that they used Gerrit before those features were added which was maybe two years ago.
Energy-Interference-free Debugging for Intermittent Energy-Harvesting Computers [pdf]
There's a classic talk by vmg that explains GitHub's philosophy really well: http://devslovebacon.com/conferences/bacon-2013/talks/my-mom... (it gets webscale around the 15 minute mark)
I had a model S on order but canceled due to this single issue. This will not be as much an issue for the model 3 because due to price the expectations are (or should be) much lower. For 105k for an S I'd kind of like to compare it to an S-class or 7 series or A8. They all crush the S for the interior.
I am sure she has better content than Buzz Feed
This is not a sign that "news organizations should try harder" (quoting another comment).

It's a sign that good local news is not profitable to produce — e.g. a failure of the free market to provide a critical public good. As a corollary, it's a sign that a prerequisite of functional democracy is failing.

One potential solution is directly government funded news, but then the government can control the news, which is a potentially worse scenario!

A more effective alternative might be a universal tax rebate of say $100, which can only be allocated to news organizations. (though of course there are lots fiddly details to make this actually work)
Can a web server get a list of plugins installed by the client? That can't be right, can it?
That is 170 TFLOPS Rpeak (theoretical performance assuming you could find a workload that doesn't need to wait for data movement) at half precision vs. 137 TFLOPS Rmax (usable performance on a dummy linear algebra problem) at double precision. No, it would not top the list.
If you had Autopilot, then sitting in traffic is going to bias you even more! That's really where it shines. I mean, traffic sucks no matter what, but the ability to just tell the car to handle and sit back and relax is pretty amazing.

Of course, I don't know if that really counts as bias, since sitting in traffic is actually a representative task.
Feel free to insert "as we know it", because I do not believe that the pre-1980s internet is recognizably the same thing. I will not strongly argue the point since I wasn't there.

But to clarify on the salient part, I was trying to say that UNIX diverged (successfully) from what came before it, and the CRLF behaviour was from the teletype era that the early internet started in. My point about UNIX being a building block of the (modern) internet was more about pointing out that if UNIX could diverge from that and be a key component of the internet, it's absurd to think that Windows could not.

I can definitely understand how you got where you did from what I said, though.
I believe is perception, I follow several women careers in tech and honestly it is just because they rock in the technical department and not because they are women, funny enough they don't write about "women in tech" (or at least I haven't seen them doing that) so if you are not searching in their particular area of expertise then you might not notice them.

Caitie McCaffrey and Hilary Mason comes to my mind but there are many more.
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I appreciate the clarification - I was not aware of that detail, which is an important distinction to make.
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Most of the big tech companies have Berkeley buses. You don't have to work in SF/Oakland if you live in Berkeley.
No it doesn't. It translates the verilog source into C which it compiles to a native executable for simulation.
Perhaps not creative, but wayyyyy back in the 80's, Atari games on floppy could be protected by a sector on the floppy that couldn't be read. If you tried to copy the disk, it'd fail at that one.

The Atari "dual density" disk drives (1050's) had a dial (maybe a potentiometer) to adjust the speed. A friend of mine sawed a door on the top of the case so he could get to it. With that and some custom software these could be copied.

The software would detect the bad sector, alert the user, the user could slow down the drive to "ridiculous (slow) speed", the software would write a "good" sector at later unreadable speeds, then alert the user again to speed the drive back up to normal speed. If memory serves, the software had a disk speed check with it, just for this purpose.
F# maybe?

http://fslab.org/
That would make much more sense. Thanks! The PCI bandwidth must be fairly limited. 4x 100G Infiniband is 64x PCIe lanes, out of 80x lanes available.
I feel like this is all a bit dramatic. It's not too big a deal to deactivate something that isn't supported anymore. Can't security issues arise from unsupported hardware/software after all? There must be some reason.

Also, nobody's walking into anyone's house... these comparisons are so over the top. Even if it is unfair (and I see the point, it is somewhat irritating) can we stop with the rampant and out of control use of slippery slope arguments? I feel like that's all I read anymore—slippery slopes happening everywhere with everything.

Also, why has nobody asked or investigated as to why they want to brick hardware intentionally? Let's figure that out before we go crazy about this.
Ferrari production is single-digit thousands at most, they can't have anything like this sort of demand.
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In the UK, many homes and older office buildings still have traditional bi-metal mechanical thermostats. For typical domestic applications they work just fine.

For finer control of room temps, people often use mechanical radiator thermostats. They work just fine too.

New electronic models are usually just a thermistor with some analogue hysteresis. They work fine as well.

I might expect something with the extras you're describing to appear in a new office building, but in the UK at least adding PID and/or some kind of learning system to a domestic thermostat is overkill.

Generally, simple solutions are less likely to go badly wrong.

That's the tragic irony of Nest. The design is great, but the added value offered by a buggy and overcomplex implementation is negative.
> Nest didn't build this product - Revolv did. And they banked their company on its success and lost. Nest might be alive and healthy but it doesn't seem right to say they somehow acted dishonestly just because they picked up the pieces of a failed company but didn't want to prop up a product which nobody wanted.

When you buy a company, you inherit its customers as well as its assets. If you decide that you don't need those customers and can afford to alienate them, that's your decision to make, but you don't get to blame the previous owners for your own actions.
What makes Nest's actions deplorable is not just that they don't want to support and maintain the product; they are also deliberately destroying pieces of hardware purchased and owned by customers.
DEC's usage likely comes from Teletypes, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline#History
YC's indirect influence, by shaping culture, seems to be even greater than its direct effect. I haven't been through YC, but they've had a positive influence on my life, just observing from afar.

Their contribution to the culture of startups, awareness of the importance of "nice people", creating the alumni network, fostering a supportive and intensely creative atmosphere within YC during the launch phase, diffusing good ideas and practices. Jessica, as part of the YC leadership (especially with PG's support and encouragement), has been central to that, both figuring it out and getting it all to actually work day-to-day.

Beyond the core YC team, this cultural progress has been possible because of a broad receptivity in the generation of potential founders that have flocked to YC. If Paul & Jessica had been alone in their attitude, they never would have developed momentum. It's been part of a generational shift in attitudes towards business, and I love that.

So thank you both Paul & Jessica for being so open about YC, and for having an attitude of service, and to everyone who has worked together with them! Here's to future generations of idealist entrepreneurs.
The risk with highly saturated colors is they're more difficult to reproduce accurately in cross-media applications, namely print media.

Grays are easy to reproduce in cross-media applications, in theory. In practice, there's so much variation in displays and print, and human vision is sensitive to achromatic colors, the error is essentially guaranteed and it will be noticeable. So you're almost always better off with colors that aren't achromatic, aren't highly saturated, and aren't memory colors, like skin tones.
A site operator. It isn't censorship for someone to decide who they want to talk to.

CF is simply giving site owners levers to use if they so choose. While I am a strong supporter of Tor, privacy, and anonymity, CF has done nothing wrong here by allowing site operators to selectively choose who they wish to serve to.
i agree! the full stack needs to be opened.
Clearly passing a game doesn't mean hired right?
The actors who play journalist on TV news and the well indoctrinated writers who fill Newspapers on behalf of wealthy owners have no integrity at all.

This young woman does; Glen Greenwald, Dan Ellsberg, Bernstein & Woodward do.

Telling truth to power is hard labour, maybe jailtime & surveillance, or intimidation to reveal sources.

Real journalism is only produced by a passion for truth, it is dangerous work.

There are few true believers among those who choose the title journalist.

Journalism is not about money; rather determination & cojones.
I met Jessica when I interviewed at YC (Summer 2014 batch). She was very nice in addition to extremely intelligent, of course. She was smiling the entire time and made a clear effort to make me less nervous. I hope she enjoys the recharge!
nest is doing the world a favor. we need to learn the lesson of closed hardware sooner rather than later.
Why is #1 an issue?
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That's a very neat hack you have there, I'd never thought of that.

However, this question:

> What feature do you think I'll benefit the most from, if I decide to switch to Org Mode?

To me, that's like asking, "What feature do you think I'll benefit the most from if I decide to switch from paper to a computer?"

What you have there is syntax highlighting and folding, which is a big improvement over simple text editing.

But Org is a system for capturing, manipulating, and exporting structured data that happens to be stored in plain-text. It's also a tool for literate programming, literate devops, and reproducible research. It's also a tool for writing documents, books, blogs, etc. It's also a PIM/organizer, time-tracker, habit-tracker... The list goes on and on. Org is basically whatever you want or need it to be. You get out of it what you put into it, and it's with you for the long haul, always becoming more powerful and adaptable.

The community is also very friendly. Just check out the mailing list if you need any help.
Not really. Not a lot at least.
Don't these pieces of hardware rely on their service being provided? Their service is what they want to shut down, after all; this can't have started from a desire to brick hardware devices.
The 170 TFLOPs number that NVIDIA gives out is for FP16, while the Top 10 list gives its number for for FP64. The P100 that makes up this NVIDIA box gives about 5.3TFLOPs per card, or a total of 42.4TFLOPs for the whole box.

Sure, you can say that deep learning doesn't need FP64, but it is REALLY unfair to compare this to anything on the TOP500 list, especially when you consider the fact that this is not balanced in terms of memory size or bandwidth (in relation to the number of FLOPs) when you compare it to any real supercomputer class system.
You can mount drives at empty directories in other drives, just like Unix. I have C: on an SSD and mount a HDD at C:\Stuff

I remember one installer that didn't understand this (I think it was Steam) and concluded it wouldn't install to C:\Stuff\foo because there was insufficient disk space under C: - it was looking at the free space of C: (the SSD) instead of C:\Stuff .

There's also plenty software out there that confuses volumes with drives and tries to enumerate the latter when it should be enumerating the former.
Rewriting the Host header in this way requires a non-free CloudFlare plan.
How do they know that fraudsters with fresh cookies and no referrer history aren't just in private browser mode? Sounds like the server would view them as the same in most cases.
Probably would have been a good idea to sell the bridge before burning it.