skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One reason this won't cause a blip in the news is because it's really sensationalist and biased.

The article implies that the government was totally wrong about Abu Zubaydah and, therefore, he was totally innocent But to prove that the article cites to the court memo that says the US government doesn't alleged Zubaydah was a member of al Qaeda.

But the government still alleged he ran an independent terrorist training camp that was affiliated with al Qaeda. The gov't just didn't "contend that Petitioner was a 'member' of al-Qaida in the sense of having sworn bayat (allegiance) or having otherwise satisfied any formal criteria that either Petitioner or al-Qaida may have considered necessary for inclusion in al~Qaida. Nor is the Government detaining Petitioner based on any allegation that Petitioner views himself as part of al-Qaida as a matter of subjective personal conscience, ideology, or worldview. Rather, Respondent's detention of Petitioner is based on conduct and actions that establish Petitioner was 'part of' hostile forces and 'substantially supported' those forces."
Ask HN: How to deal with old system – Windows XP
tl;dr: Most of customers have old system - windows XP. How (or what it best way) to handle this situation and ensure GUI app which will communicate with embedded hardware. What you would do?

Long story: I am cooperating with guys from small local "startup". They developed embedded device for coffee-shops, restaurants etc. My job was to create Windows app as interface with their device. I decided for C# and .NET 4.0. due to .NET classes. (C# is much closer to me than Java)

Recently they observed that most of new customers have old system - windows XP, which is currently end-of-life. Coffee shops and restaurant use virtual cash register running on windows XP. App is running fine on Windows 7 and higher. XP is not able to deal with app.

Coffee shop/restaurants bought computer 10 years ago with pre-installed system, then installed virtual cash register. They don't have any motive for upgrade since it works without any issue. New system (7,8 etc) require new hardware, then new virtual cash register etc etc. Cost of upgrade is huge in terms of returned value.

Question is: How to handle situation to have:

> windows app as interface for embedded hardware

> to be able to use windows notifications and .NET classes

> running universally against wide range of windows (also unsupported but working) systems? <-- main issues and the most problematic.

From my experiences and brief investigation are possible solutions:

> Java (personal aversion)

> C/C++ (lot of coding in comparison to C#)

> web app with embedded browser-frame to some windows form (just idea, no experience, don't know what issues can expect from this)

What do you think? Appreciate your thoughts and insights.
No, thats not at all what it is. There are regulatory and legal reasons why netflix content (even specific content) isnt available everywhere. Its not discriminatory.

Its simple entitlement. Don't try to confuse the issue by making it about some kind of discriminatory issue. A business has to have licences to operate in a country, there are many stipulations and there is a cost involved with those stipulations, netflix has no oblication to jump through legal hurdles and pay more money so everyone can enjoy their content.

I work for a global company - one who works in the digital realm and makes AAA games... trust me, I deal with these things. You'd be surprised the effort for a US company to sell their product/service in china...
Except inflation... "The same price as it has always been" over a long period (like, say, the 90s) is actually a substantial price drop.

$1500 in 1995 is about $2300 today. A $1500 computer today is ~35% cheaper than the "same price" computer from before.

Having been a gaming rig builder since around that time, high-end performance desktops have gotten way cheaper, with more realistic performance tiers to boot.
What with one thing and another I've long since lost the collection of polyhedral dice I accumulated as a teenager. And I don't have time in my life for RPGs. But I have a modest collection of dice stashed away. Including weird-ass ones like big transparent D10s with smaller red D10s inside.

They're just kind of... totems, I guess. Symbols of the kind of nerd I am.

I have absolutely no earthly use for this damn thing. But I ordered one. And a set of these folks' interestingly-shaped d4/8/12/24/60, as well. And their "numerically balanced" d20. I may never use any of these dice. But there is a part of me that is intensely satisfied by owning them.
No typo. A year ago they had authorized $140 billion, and had already repurchased more than $80 billion.

https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/04/27Apple-Expands-Cap...

($175 million would be less than three hundredths of one percent of Apple's market cap.)
Extremely angry with the state of academic CS research right now
I disagree for three reasons:

First, there is a strong economic case that, if an activity harms society as a whole, policies that raise the cost of that activity to a level commensurate with that harm are good policies.

Second, it has been demonstrated time and again that keeping gas prices low is an ineffective and wasteful way to help the poor.

Third, as the price of gas rises the value of older, less efficient cars falls, so buyers of second-hand cars won't be too badly affected. Of course, it's a different matter for those who already own an inefficient car.
Well, I'm sure he could explain it all to you. If you take his 4-day course, of course. Seating is limited. Reserve your spot for a paltry fee of $5000.

And the best part is, you can access his slides later. Through an OWASP and OASIS-approved highly-scalable and enterprise-y SOAP API which is extremely easy to consume, as long as you use his Enterprise Scalability Patterns Application Block (it's well-documnented in his 890-page book, which is a must-buy).
And for kids. My daughter loves it.
IMHO biggest Android advantage is being open. Hardware and software is obviously better on iOS, but being closed platform I keep getting disappointed every week because I can't do x or y.

I doubt that many people base their purchasing decisions on this though.
Exploring Tesla's Supercharger Network with Beaker Notebooks
I agree about VR and AR.

As for the rest: wearables hadn't had a really strong use case - so it's either a niche or a fashion/status object - and maybe that's what will limit growth even when size/batteries gets solved ?

IOT: cost is definitely a huge barrier, but will it be that huge deal ? or just another feature in the stuff we already buy - sold to us through the same big companies, with a few specialized products ?

And 3D printing - don't you think a 1-day Amazon 3 printing with the most optimal processes will win, for most consumers ?
So now instead of buying a single DAC in my phone, I have to buy a DAC for every set of speakers and headphones I ever want to plug in to it?
Golang HL7 Library
Initial steps toward DRM on the audio path?
> Most of the people will go to apple store if they need a fix for their device instead of going to a local repair shop which will void their warranty.

It really depends on the location of the shop. There are a ton of people who don't live anywhere close to an Apple Store.
Well, one of the Brussels attacks happened right next to the some of the EU buildings – that’s more targeted than most drone strikes.
From other side, kids are often artists.
>I left the valley in 1991, right before the "web 1.0" bubble burst.

Huh? I think you have the wrong year!

The web existed in 1991, but it was still . . . embryonic. No one had yet made any money on it.
I think that Apple would be wise to invest a few billion in solving the fundamental problem of batter life. That is the key missing ingredient for everything else we want in the future for mobile tech.
>"I do find their lack of acquisitions strange given how much capital they are sitting on."

A) They average like 5-8 per year which is pretty standard among their peers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...

B) I said to Steve, “What should he do?” and Steve said to me, “He should focus on his knitting. Not try to do everything. Do one thing well.”
>I left the valley in 1991, right before the "web 1.0" bubble burst.

The web existed in 1991, but it was still . . . embryonic. I think you mean 2001.
Groovy seems to work fine for Netflix.
Between changing the name from "stable" to "current", and announcing the end of support for 0.10 and 0.12, I'm glad they are really pushing after adoption of modern versions of node forward.
Perhaps in small part due to recent FBI case?
Twitter Crashes After Slashing Revenue Forecast
Or it's just gadget saturation in general. My MBP from a few years ago works great. Some of the older iPads I have at work are just fine. The iPhone 6/6+ also works just great. At some point, the marginal utility of a new device just isn't there. It is what happens as markets mature.
I am not sure about the valuation having a lot of growth priced in, given that Apple's current P/E ratio is 11. In comparison, Google's is 30, Facebook's 84. Even Berkshire Hathaway's is 15.
I've never really been able to get Dropbox to cooperate with Linux, even when I've used Ubuntu. I'm surprised none of these cloud services have made an Electron cloud application for their services now that Electron and nw.js are more common these days.
No, but I spoke with an elementary school teacher at a Hackathon in 2015 and he introduced me to the concept of computational thinking which I think should be taught in the class room.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_thinking
You have ten seconds to comply...
AR and VR should become one, and hardware shall be fully untetherd, extremely powerful and energy efficient.

A long way to go, but we'll be there eventually :)
More competitive pricing would reduce margins. Apple has chosen to pursue high margins and high profits rather than market share. That's how it accumulated roughly $200 billion in cash.
USB seems a lot more flimsy than 3.5mm.
Thanks for the link to passwordstore.org. Fantastic piece of software!
i love the title of this. I feel so bad for him. I mean, the watch ruined his _entire_ year.
I don't get it. What does this gain over just releasing it themselves? Are you limited in how often you are able to release financial statements?
Of course he would say that -- he wants a pipeline of cheap labor.

But it is not a basic skill. Not everyone has an aptitude for it and very few have the desire.

But I do think everybody should know more about computers and networks than most people do now.
This magazine (and its similarly-named rival) sometimes calls to mind Nelson Muntz's comment: "I can think of at least two things wrong with that title."
Linus' Law loses water when you consider using formal specifications, model checking, and -- if you have the budget and time -- proof. These systems and languages have come a long way and are far better than any human at checking your work and telling you where you are making mistakes.

Model checking in particular, in my limited experience using it, is effective at this.

You can eliminate many (not all... nothing's perfect) of these rules of thumb with a little math and analysis[0].

[0] https://www.amazon.ca/Programming-1990s-Introduction-Calcula...
>Industry signaling a strong desire..

Is this the same industry that gave us the HDMI "blessing" ?

"The headphones, audio cables and the jack adapters are too cheap.. We can solve that !"
That seems unlikely to have had such a big impact in such a short period of time.
Is it stupid to still use v0.12 ? Last time I've checked I've had compatibility issues with all new (now old) io.js versions.
I don't think buyers had much choice in colors. We're a dev shop and we couldn't get basic silver / grey devices with the specs we wanted. All they had was gold or pink.
Well it is gonna suck not being able to charge your phone while listening to music
"Apple may be reaching the saturation point (of the products it currently sells) among potential customers in some countries"
They're working on it: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=1569
The Jenkins 2.0 overview page has screenshots and details: https://jenkins.io/2.0/

It also explicitly mentions backwards compatibility:

> Jenkins 2 is a drop-in replacement of the Jenkins 1.x series of releases and fully backward compatible. There is practically no reason not to upgrade!
Industry signaling a strong desire to move from analog to digital

Which industry would that be, I wonder? The audio hardware industry, or the content creation industry?
It probably doesn't help that the subsidy model has completely changed. But personally, I think iPhone performance has hit a point where one doesn't really feel the need to upgrade right away. I was so ready to upgrade when the contract on my 4 expired. It was really a pain to use after a couple of years. But my 5S has now lasted me two and a half years and other than wishing I had more storage capacity, there's really nothing compelling in the new models for me to want to upgrade. The build quality and battery are so good that I don't feel like it's even getting worn out. The better cameras would be nice, but otherwise? I just can't justify the cost, much as I'd like to, so long as my 5S keeps performing.

I do think Apple needs to focus their money and efforts on improving their services and software integration. There's a lot to like in Apple services, but there's a lot of rough edges and weird gaps, and too often I feel like apps get written and then abandoned. If you bundle an app, it should have a dedicated team that keeps making it better, faster, easier to use all the time.

I also feel like Apple has a real chance to make a mark on the home automation market if they chose to do so. The best stuff out there is still pretty bad, and pretty much all of it spies on you. Based on how they've been adding context-aware features to iPhone in a very privacy-conscious way, Apple is the one company I would still trust to actually try to do home automation in a way that respects my privacy. And they have the money to invest in making it happen. But while I'm sure their hardware would be well-made, can they raise their software polish to the same level?
WePay is taken just about everywhere now, even at mom and pop drink stands. It isn't as impossible as one thinks it is, but maybe not in the states.
The internet is a global connection where the concept of "countries" don't even make sense. They only exist on the internet, because we put them there. Packets don't magically change when they cross borders, why should the content?
BlockQuicksort: How Branch Mispredictions Don't Affect Quicksort
Initial release of IdeaSpace – Open source CMS for the virtual reality web
Ah, thanks. Kind of a hard to parse sentence; I read it as buying back $175bn this quarter. Which would be 30% of their market cap and represent all their cash on hand.
"Industry Signaling a strong desire to move
from analog to digital"... which "industry"?

"New digital audio needs to offer significant value at higher end" ... Intel market segmentation at its finest.

Long rein analog.

Looks like they missed a few groups in the job cuts.
There is something fundamentally wrong with our system that "growth" is used as the main metric for assessing business success. It's growth for the sake of growth (and more $), and not deploying business to solve hard customer problems and to make the world a little bit better.
This is false. Tim just said on the call that users are upgrading to the 6s at a higher rate than they did for the 5s.
Xiaomi's redmi series can last a day of heavy use and even 2 days with lighter use. So i wonder why isn't this solved for others already.
Apparently Apple and a Chinese company is the whole industry.
Drone Guesser
Everything is a Dog and Pony Show but sometimes you want to bark but you don't want the Show that goes with barking.

So you leak the bark and maintain an official "No Barking" policy.
I think that's dangerous. Religion is a valid player on the field of public policy and they should be free to comment. In a government by the people, if the people choose to put weight on religious advice or concerns, that's completely valid. They don't need to reason by an arbitrary governmental standard that excludes something they believe in.

Even the restrictions on political speech for religious organizations in the US are worrisome (they lose their tax exemption if they explicitly endorse a specific candidate or party in an election).
Can Apple become a bank?
Finding a Home on the Slack App Directory
Innovation had little to do with this, US cellphone companies stopped heavily subsidizing phones. Apple's profits dropped.
A seminal piece from that author, and is still relevant 8 years later.
Why do you think the era is over? Are people buying less cellphones and laptops?
I'll concede a bit: the Gentoo neckbeard is indeed longer.
Ignoring of course the fact that the most important parts of Android is not open source (Google Play Services, which is at the centre of a very misguided EU anti trust case), just because Android is 'open' it doesn't mean you can do more things on it. If something is possible on Android that's because of a design decision that Google took. Besides, what happens when you run iNot someone that you can't so on Android? You going to download the source code and make a change and flash it to your decide? I doubt it.
Every reputable company in the world tries to make it as easy as possible to report abusive customers. That's the oil that greases the global internetworking machinery. Friendly sysadmins is the only reason we have the Internet today.

Just look at the links above. They even boast about what lengths they'll go to to destroy the network for everybody, what resources they'll spare to destroy your competitor's operation, even what they'll charge for it. To defer these cases to the justice system is a travesty. Just imagine if Google did that with all the spammers in GMail, "yeah, whatever, write to the legal team". Email would be completely unusable.

Sure, globally we can carry one or two parasites on the system. And if you don't host these booters some Russian bulletproof hosting will. But being "just an engineer" doesn't absolve you of anything.
Welp.

Here is to hoping for AMD's zen.

USB audio is nice but it's also nice to not have to buy a new headset or new DAC for my new box.

Edit: spec says analog audio over usb so, there's that.
Is “Emojigeddon” upon us? Some old-time Unicode members believe so
Personally I'm not interested in the watch, but the iPad Pro is far from me-too. The display on the 9.7" is outstanding, the pencil is top notch, it's light, powerful, sounds great. At this point Apple is just knocking it out of the park in tablets on every front. Nobody else makes anything that comes close.
Ruby 2.3.1 Released
Apple Pencil is pretty incredibly and trumps the stylus offered by Microsoft IMHO.
Occam's razor has more priority than Hanlon's razor.

Sometimes assuming just a tiny bit of malice can account for layers and layers of presumed stupidity.
It takes some of the fun away not to give everyone their own die to throw.
Blizzard: Allowing pirate WoW servers would “damage [our] rights”
A little late on the reply, but then again, so were you. :-) Disappointing that it was a Dodge. Back in the original Dart days, at least one comedian commented, "in the event of nuclear war, two things will be left: cockroaches and Dodge Darts", nodding to their near-indestructability. (Though rust appeared to be their Kryptonite.)

If I do buy a car again I'll definitely do more research on reliability repair and service costs.

I'll save you the trouble: Toyota. Boring as hell, and with "boring" come reliability and low maintenance. I seriously worry sometimes that I'm forgetting something on our Scion (a rebadged Toyota Echo) because it so rarely requires attention. And Toyotas have been known for reliability for decades. The old SR22 engine is the stuff of legend. Assuming Hondas are as good as they were 30 years ago when I last owned one, and are as reliable as their modern motorcycles, they would probably be a good bet as well.
I think I'm going to print this out in a big font and hang it in my office.
Apple doesn't innovate terribly much, there were smart phones before the iPhone, the iPhone was just a better one. There were tablets before the iPad and the iPad was just a better tablet.

Apple's strength isn't in coming up with NEW things, I would say quite the opposite as they're usually very late into any given market. Apple's strength is coming up with products that are better than the ones that came before, in their Apple-y way.
You may be able to use a cheap VPS, and use that as a proxy server to your account. Though, keep an eye on how much data is allowed, and if the VPS/Cloud host actually tracks data usage.
Was bitten many times by this one while coding stuff in Scala.
Whatever Babel is worth, between "hate this" and "stupid coworkers" that, this whole comment screams "unprofessional" and/or newbie.
As noted elsewhere, bipyramids and trapezohedra can have unlimited (even) numbers of sides - not very practical though.
du -A for the "apparent" size.
So if Google, Apple, and Twitter are down, and Facebook exceeds expectations, what does that mean? Guess we'll know tomorrow.
Um, what? You can order whatever color you would like:

http://www.apple.com/shop/buy-iphone/iphone6s
Mobile shell but not mobile website...
Those small vehicles (kei cars) were reported to be under attack during the TPP trade agreement negociations because they had special tax breaks.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/01/27/business/lower-t...
How does xbps compare to Nix?
I'll say this: Amazon Echo cut Apple's growth balls right off. That's a $2b revenue business Siri can kiss goodbye.
> doesn’t end here. BigQuery has background processes that constantly look at all the stored data and check if it can be optimized even further. Perhaps initially data was loaded in small chunks, and without seeing all the data, some decisions were not globally optimal. Or perhaps some parameters of the system have changed, and there are new opportunities for storage restructuring. Or perhaps, Capacitor models got more trained and tuned, and it possible to enhance existing data. Whatever the case might be, when the system detects an opportunity to improve storage, it kickstarts data conversion tasks. These tasks do not compete with queries for resources, they run completely in parallel, and don’t degrade query performance. Once the new, optimized storage is complete, it atomically replaces old storage data — without interfering with running queries. Old data will be garbage-collected later.

I wonder if they could share more details on how this is handled.
Artists (e.g. Gabe of Penny Arcade fame) were saying similar things about MS's Surface Pro 3 years ago: https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2013/02/22/the-ms-sur...

Is the iPad Pro a big improvement on that?
Instead of metal weights[1], headphones will contain batteries so first you'll charge your headphones and then your phone will charge off the headphones.

[1] https://blog.bolt.io/how-it-s-made-series-beats-by-dre-154aa...
It's not a binary dichotomy between electric and ICE vehicles. The proliferation of SUVs is a completely preposterous phenomenon in an era where smaller, lighter, more fuel-efficient cars should be the norm.
>Its newest smartphone, the four-inch iPhone SE, went on sale in late March, too late to affect the most recent quarterly results, but analysts hope to get more insight into how it is selling.

Went to the Apple Store in my large metro and they were out of almost every model. The associate searched other stores and there wasn't much within 1500 miles. Anecdotal, but it looks like the demand is outpacing the supply of the iPhone SE. It'll be interesting to see the sales numbers.
Ask HN: What if Tx edu sys used idle compute resources to mine Bitcoin..?
...and turned over generated bitcoin to teachers.