skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"It feels a bit like we're sitting here with this 'money' abstraction and pretending that energy research is too expensive, when realistically, governments across the world have the might to make clean energy the next Apollo project. Why aren't they? That would be a fantastic legacy for any president/prime minister/whatever."

Apollo wasn't very successful. I say this as someone who is personally an aerospace nut, and owns every space or aviation documentary he can get his hands on.

Apollo succeeded in getting a dozen men to the moon, but it did not succeed in promoting the exploration of space, or creating a great deal of technological innovation which benefited the populace at large (for the amount of money spent). Apollo was also very unpopular, except for a little while between Apollo 9 and 12. Most of the population would have been happier with a new refrigerator or air conditioner, and those appliances would probably have had a better lasting impact (for a number of reasons).
The article states quite clearly that the numbers that were allegedly leaked to them are from last fall.
Out of the four you mentioned, only Chez has true posix threads.
That entire government from the traffic cop to Modi is corrupt as hell. You can't get cops to do their jobs without a bribe.
Need a passport? You're going to have cough up cash to get the paperwork you need. It's insane. And just so incredibly sad.

Plus because there are no traffic laws over there enforced its utter chaos on the roads. Jammed with cows, people, carts, cars, trucks etc. Everyone going their own way. Ignoring traffic lights, signs. Police or an ambulance could not reach even if they wanted to.

Contrast that to the US, where at least most of the country knows when you see emergency vehicle lights, you pull over to the far right lane or shoulder to clear room for them to get to the person that needs help.

It's night and day. Traffic laws need enforcing there hardcore. Although so do a lot of things. The country just needs the will power to do it.
They just released the refreshed MacBook, they'll probably wait for 2017 OR they'll do that on the new Pros that will be announced at WWDC.
Was working (didn't they just pull the plug on all their "unlimited" accounts?)
> Software development is still young. 30 years ago it really wasn't an industry and 50 it was pretty much an academic venture.

Pretty much that. We are still at paleolithic levels, even if progress has been fast.
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"They are now in the process of raising new funding, although we’re told they have at least half of the financing from the last round in the bank. Existing investors are expected to participate. Some are hoping that the company could eventually even IPO."
Or educate men in society that these things are wrong.
it looks a lot like the Knightscope K5, which is being billed as a security measure against school shootings. http://knightscope.com/ funny what each country is most afraid of...
Didn't you hear? All that money for research and public goods got sent down to Panama.
Depends. They're the quality leader of the hardware market, but that means they'll need to be present in new hardware markets.

This includes VR/AR, less someone else gets to the the brand reputation throne first (like HTC or Microsoft).
"If they broke the law and knew about it, then someone has to go to jail. That's how the law works..."

Hopefully the next time you break the law by willingly jaywalking there will be a cop around to take you to gaol.
It's not exactly front-and-center, though. There's some miniscule print that says how much the phone is, whereas the overall monthly cost is in giant numbers.
I really hope #2 gets traction. It's been disappointing to see the SE not do as well as I wanted it to. I'm not an iPhone owner myself but I'm hoping the SE popularizes the "small" form factor phone again.
The evidence that supports this statement:

"...this person received horrific threats because she's good at her job and out teaching others how to use an up-and-coming programming technology."

I'm not going to say it's not plausible that that is the reason like others are saying. Personally, I'm doubtful, but I'm willing to entertain that that actually is the reason.

Assuming that actually is the reason, what evidence supports that statement. Are there numerous troll comments that we can read with our own two eyes that unambiguously demonstrate that the trolls were motivated by her skill?

If there isn't, then I would expect the statement to be ""...this person received horrific threats."

Either there is evidence that supports the statement that begins with "because..." or there isn't. That evidence is clearly omitted.
> A good thing about USB Type-C headsets with MPUs is that they are going to be software upgradeable and could gain functionality over their lifespan.

yeah, unless it never happens, like it typically doesn't :(
... for a very odd definition of 'protect'. 'Protect' in this case is a handgun.

https://www.gunowners.org/wv26.htm

"... raw data from the 1979-1985 installments of the Justice Department's annual National Crime Victim Survey show that when a woman resists a stranger rape with a gun, the probability of completion was 0.1 percent and of victim injury 0.0 percent, compared to 31 percent and 40 percent, respectively, for all stranger rapes (Kleck, Social Problems, 1990)."
Sales faltering...just wait until the margins dip. Hardware margins the size Apple has enjoyed are incredibly rare and never have lasted with any company, period. Their hardware margins are on par, or even above many software vendors, which is just unsustainable. It's a great product, but the upgrade cycle is lengthening, and margins are going to fall. Same happened to the PC, same started to happen with the tablet, and the same will happen to the phone market.
>Regardless, it isn't my job to "fix" overweight people.

It's not your job to make judgemental comments on every single thread that mentions weight, but you never fail to do so.
Partially, Apple's metrics aren't that outlandish though. You could just use the age old price to earnings ratio and see it isn't wildly inflated, they make bank and speculators value it at 11 times said bank right now

The higher valuations of private companies IMO has little to do with quantitative easing. Despite any bubble talk, very little funding actually goes into these private companies. The S&P 500 returns nearly 1 trillion a year to shareholders via dividends, VCs put like 50 billion into these high growth startups.

Low interest rates from quantitative easing might contribute greatly, but I wouldn't say the inflation targets have much to do with it.
MoonyMoony?
My issue was with the term "Linux userspace". I agree with the sentiment that many components of a modern GNU/Linux system don't seem to like the idea of backwards compatibility.
Because only in the best Shells you will find a Pearl
You're both stuck on a nugget of truth - that it's obvious they don't want us blocking ads. Yes, it is.

But you haven't done anything to show an obligation, on my part, to view them. You've merely stated how you're so right about there being one.

What the sites are asking for is abusive - to use an open protocol for DRMed content. They're trying to have the benefits without the costs. Well, tough. If they want use DRM - let them use PDFs. Those contain mechanisms to prevent the manipulation of the content.

The web is an accessibility tool, not yet another marketing cesspool.
The most innovative thing Apple can do now to reverse the course of things is to decrease their outrageously high prices (especially in Europe) and phase out these ridiculous 16GB models.
It's true though. Being a cynic is all very well and perhaps even realistic, but it doesn't change the fact that the law ought to be applied.
I'd say battery life. I moved to Android for this reason. I can get a phone with around ~4000mAh battery vs 1715mAh on the 6S or 2750mAh on iPhone6S+.

Furthermore, my phone supports Qualcomm's Quick Charge tech which means plugging in the phone for a few minutes gives it a lot more charge.

Between these two points; my phone very very rarely runs out of battery. When I was on iOS it'd be almost every day.
The Identity of Statistics in Data Science
It was alright to use when they were putting in the Wacom digitizers. The N-Trig ones just aren't up to snuff. All my artist friends now just want an iPad Pro that runs full-blown Photoshop.
This is a slightly different result, actually - they're suggesting that these different variants are actually proteins of unrelated function. I'm not sure I buy this off a vast interaction study, which is a pretty artificial and noisy way to scan protein function, but it's a novel claim.
NSA mass surveillance so overwhelmed with data, it's useless, says whistleblower
It's an interesting case study in regulations not being complied with. I guess the lawmakers expected the car companies to take the financial and performance hit to meet the emissions standard. Instead the car companies cheated.

I imagine governments will be more careful in checking manufacturers are actually meeting standards after this.
Our view system has been like this from day one, so not growing pains, but it's possible our documentation wasn't as comprehensive early on.

> having templates that precompile to render functions is pretty magical, tbh. would personally love it if the view documentation reflected this on some level.

You mean like in our nicely formatted ExDocs? :)
The docs walk you through similar examples as I've posted here, but go more in depth.
https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/Phoenix.View.html
Businesses pay $100,000 to DDoS extortionists who never DDoS anyone
The guy advocates CMMI in other posts which is a bureaucratic nightmare to work under.

I think this guy isn't a developer, and fetishes over planning and really process driven development.
The government has decided to keep inflating the bubbles with capital injections that wind up temporarily keeping stocks afloat and ultimately wind up feeding insane real estate bubbles. This has gone on more or less for the last few years, starting with stimulus in 2008. Retail is already taking a huge hit on the ground (not just iPhone sales have dropped off), and once those bubbles pop...well, the government will do anything it can to keep that from happening, including inflating them higher (which can't work forever, right?).
Are these not distinct events? That was the "we're almost at 2.0" announcement, and this is an announcement that they've released 2.0.
Sorry, I'm only in first-year. I'll stop raping you sometime after exams. /s

If it's expected to work so well, why do banks have guards?
Or maybe they'll realize it's not too effective to tell companies how to make their products.
About the only two things i could see that might need changes for it, are longevity of the connector (make it last more insertions) and maybe making it thinner for devices that don't seem to want battery life in favor of being thinner/lighter.

Even then it'll still be a really hard sell because they've been improving the longevity for a half-century and it'll be hard for something else to come up to that kind of ease and reliability.
Rockefeller Chapel what with the tower that taller than any other structure on campus? Supposedly there is even a university mandate which forbids anything taller to ever be built on campus.
Also, how about the commons area in the student center- i.e Hutchinson Commons in the Reynolds Club. As you walk in, along the sides on the walls are portraits of the university's presidents. But dead center on the wall for all who enter to see is a much larger portrait of JDR- with his name and title "Founder". The man whom the commons and outside court is named after and who can accurately be described as the soul of the University of Chicago- Robert Maynard Hutchins- has his portrait regaled off to the side of the JDR centerpiece. lol @ "little evidence of philanthropy."
But aren't there just empirically way more plane crashed caused by pilot error than there are serious computer incidents resolved by pilots?
> It feels a bit like we're sitting here with this 'money' abstraction and pretending that energy research is too expensive, when realistically, governments across the world have the might to make clean energy the next Apollo project. Why aren't they?

I think we're scared we won't find a cheaper source of energy than fossil fuels. At least for a few generations. Confronting the reality that society will have a smaller energy budget going in the future compared with the past is a scary prospect for democracy, because it challenges a leg of the "growing pie" assumption.
Meet the man behind Googles doodles
Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Also, this is a dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11570395
I doubt anyone is spending serious money on audio DRM. The ship sailed, the standard for audio is non-DRM. Sure, there's streaming, but the vast majority of the music you can stream you can buy DRM free from pretty much anywhere. I don't think you can put that cat back in the bag.
Yeah, it's a sifferent company. I doubt Cisco could even afford an EDA vendor other than little Mentor. Parent is also wrong about Cadence being only one that can do each of the major jobs: all of them have products for that. Too many to keep travk of actually.

Mentor has an advantage since they acquired Tanner, best of the budget ones.
Things we wish we knew before going to Silicon Valley
For my current problem, I don't want the available inference methods to impose any restrictions on what sort of model I can write, so I'm using general PPL only.
I dunno - I have a hard time getting mad about that. I mean, the "cost" of those misleading artist's impressions as found in Jurassic Park and others (which were largely in line by the best scientific estimates at the time) is a few largely harmless misconceptions that many adults carry around. Conversely, the benefit is getting millions of children and adults excited about natural history, geology, biology and science in general. Sounds like a pretty good tradeoff to me.
Looks like the SE didn't matter. Interesting note from Apple conference call. "2:11 pm iPhone SE not included in these results, as it launched after the end of the quarter, but demand has been very strong. Demand exceeds supply, but we're working hard to meet demand. iPhone SE puts us in strategic plan to attract new customers."

Source - http://www.macrumors.com/2016/04/26/q2-2016-earnings/
This is admittedly anecdotal, but they seem to be driving at least some of their growth through dodgy tactics. Last time I stayed in a Vegas hotel, I went down in the morning and found a Postmates flyer on my car encouraging me to use their service while I was in town. I'm fairly certain that no large casino would give them permission to do this.

If they are doing this kind of thing in cities everywhere, I can see them growing pretty fast, as long as no one sues them or otherwise stops their "growth hacking" plans.
> There is something fundamentally wrong with our system that "growth" is used as the main metric for assessing business success.

Not only that, if there is no growth in the next few quarters Apple will be considered to be in "bad shape" which is insane when you consider the size of the company and its revenues.
I'll provide the text original to me from my other comment here as well:

When you can be found to have committed sexual assault over the top of your "victim"'s vociferous assurance that nothing of the kind happened, you need to read the sexual assault policy as if it will only ever be used to justify finding you responsible for sexual assault, because that is the case. Where there is ambiguity in the policy, it is fair to read it as if any formal proceeding will interpret it as far as is possible in favor of the accuser (or farther). And in the Minding the Campus report, 18 of 55 schools were found to have policies involving no stated threshold at all, while using language that is deliberately weaker than the legal standard for rape. At those schools, you are vulnerable to a claim of rape if the girl has had any amount of alcohol, just as you're vulnerable to a claim of rape by campus administration if the girl had nothing to drink, maintains an ongoing relationship with you, and makes the formal statement that you never raped her at any point.

If you want to appeal to the idea that vague policies are benign as long as they're applied reasonably in practice, then (a) this is a deeply misguided approach to a justice system, specifically designed to allow persecution on flimsy grounds of anyone disfavored, and (b) the facts are clear that, as applied, college sexual assault policies are being used to convict boys who have done nothing wrong. As cited in Emily Yoffe's article, one higher education insurer found that of the sexual-assault-related claims it paid from 2006 to 2010, 72% went to men suing their school for railroading them.
Even with such results the iPhone sells much better than "1% of the industry's total revenue".
Amazon sues alleged providers of fake reviews
The idea of 'cheap' makes increasingly less sense going forward as the abstraction of money falls apart due to automation.

What matters is EROEI with externalities included (e.g. energy cost of carbon capture or sea barriers or whatever).

But even if we play that game, in the UK we already pay something like a 75% combined tax rate (probably higher now) on car fuels. So we've already priced in 4x. And household electricity bills are generally trivial compared to stuff like land cost. We can, and will, afford it in monetary terms.
> Your claim was that innocent simply meant not found guilty, which is incorrect.

What I said is: "by definition, the people being tortured, not having been found guilty of any crime, are innocent". Which is not incorrect.

I'm going to assume you know the principle of innocent until proven guilty, since it was in my last reply, quoted from Cornell's Law site.

> the law assumes they're in that state until proven otherwise. That doesn't mean everyone presumed innocent is innocent.

Okay, point me to a legal principle akin to innocent until proven guilty that instead states might not be innocent even if they have not been found guilty.

> The word innocent is problematic for reasons I've explained.

That it's problematic for you does not make it problematic.
Are you implying that we should abolish pollution restrictions on car manufacturers?
Not necessarily. If a company makes a profit, then theoretically so do your shares, whether in terms of share price increase or dividends.
I have been an extremely happy Mosh user for a while now. The feature I am missing the most is port forwarding. I looked into adding it myself at some point, but it wasn't entirely trivial because of how Mosh bundles together network-related concepts and higher-level stuff like optimistic typing. There is even a small bounty on it, I think :) https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/337
>30 years ago it really wasn't an industry

30 years ago it was definitely an industry. The commercial games market exploded with the arrival of cheap 8-bit micros in the early 80s. Mini and mainframe application development has been around for a lot longer.

Commercial software development has been happening since the 1950s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEO_(computer)

"Sorted out" means that software doesn't fail in stupid, avoidable ways.

The current state of the industry is shockingly bad. But users have been trained to expect broken software, developers rarely have enough of quality ethic to care about those boring bug fixes, and management just wants more money.

So here we are.

Personally I blame Microsoft for gifting the industry with a tradition of bullshit EULAs that more or less said "We can ship any old bug-ridden crap we feel like, and we're not responsible if it blows up in your face and takes your business down. Besides, if something goes wrong it's clearly your fault for being too stupid and ignorant to use the software properly. Whatever - definitely not our fault, so don't even think about suing."

After the Pavlovian conditioning and Stockholm syndrome set in, it became impossible to expect consumer pushback.
Mitsubishi says it cheated on fuel tests for decades
I only mention Electron as an option since they don't attempt to get anything working, also I would mostly use these services on my own desktop, on a laptop I rather download files I need via a website interface directly.
Wow... I just learned that the singular of "dice" is "die".

http://grammarist.com/usage/dice-die/
Looks cool :)
(I'm looking at you, swipe-from-the-side-to-see-iMessage-timestamps!)

Wow, that is poor discoverability. Also, thanks so much -- I've been wanting that for ages. I never knew about it.
I agree. And, sometimes the "artist's impression" is fairly decent when it's done by someone with a technical background drawing (no pun intended) from actual scientific data to make educated guesses. I realize that isn't the norm, but I've seen a case of it.
Conspiracy Files: Who Shot Down MH17?
You don't need to say "or" here. We can both increase awareness among men AND help women protect themselves.
Oh boy, the amount of times I've tried to copy a URL or open a link in a new window... Now I know what's causing this annoyance!

Now how to turn it off...
While it's not new that genes can be associated with different products in distinct (and not directly related) body systems, the research begins to put this into context more generally.

The part that's always fascinated me is the potential massive permutation of protein interactions. For example, the proteins are commonly enzymes or components of cell membrane receptors. Variations in these kinds of proteins affect how other proteins can do their jobs, so multiplied over and over, the end results become wildly unpredictable.

In science the pace never stops, it just gets more and more interesting...
4Chan's Russian cousin used facial rec s/w to dox pornstars on social networks
Serious question: which one of you is working on the EMP cannon designs to fight all of these fascist robots?
> The human mind will probably have little to no value in the economy of the future. Machines will inevitably write the books, make the movies, make the music and publish the science.

That's... I'll be generous and call it an amazingly unlikely outcome.
Yeah, I had a 1st gen Moto G, I think it had comparable value to expensive high-end phones (for people who're not int big screens).

Now I have Nexus 5X, it costs less than half as much as top phones but I think it's actually better, at least for me - clean Android with timely updates, everything is smooth and fast, USB-C, good camera...
It is NOT worth hiring a few average people just for one brilliant person. First of all "brilliant" person is overrated, unless we're talking about hiring someone at a CTO level. One could be brilliant yet a perfect disaster for the company if he doesn't fit in, not to mention many other factors. Also you seem to think mediocre employees don't hurt the company but mediocre people hire/attract less than mediocre people, who in turn hires/attracts people even worse, and so on. As a startup you don't have that luxury. And the company culture goes to shit. I would never make that decision. I've had both cases, one of the employees was a brilliant guy but was lazy, and he fucked up the company culture by acting as a "role model". Soon everyone in the company started acting like him. I've also hired someone who didn't really fit in and was passive aggressive, and it was hard to communicate with him. Thinking back it wasn't because he was not talented, but because he just didn't care much (This is equivalent to having a mediocre employee). Because of this the entire team had hard time making decisions. When your team is small even one person can influence the culture in negative ways.
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Apple is still proportionally smaller than IBM, which achieved like 15% of S&P500 in 1985.