skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Define your market more broadly. The iPhone itself is an example of this. Desktop computers don't have much growth? Well, what else could a computer be besides a desktop?
It's certainly simple to use; it has fewer customizable features out of the box than any distro I've ever seen.

I primarily install it on adults' whose children have left home and older people's computers (which are disproportionately devices powerful enough to run Vista but with <4GB RAM), put the three or four apps they need in Plank, integrate their email, and transfer over their bookmarks and contacts, and leave them to it. I don't even tell them it's Linux.

It runs well on older hardware, has excellent support, and looks nice. Besides Skype's shit Linux support, it's a perfect platform for them to digitally reconnect with family and friends without having to worry about any unnecessary details.

For it's downsides, it's less responsive than OS X, or animations and actions don't feel as tight, and it really doesn't want to be tinkered with. As a general use OS, though, it's pretty complete.
It might be worth trying to get to 4.2.0, which was the first LTS [1] release (due to the change in versioning, that's only six months older than 4.2.0).

1: https://nodesource.com/blog/essential-steps-long-term-suppor...
Regsvr32/64 flaw allows remote code execution on Windows 7/8/10
Anti-ROP mechanism in libc
Well for starters "leaks" are a hell of a lot more interesting than financial statements regarding generating buzz.
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.

Not sure I understand. How do you grow revenue unless you're producing something that someone wants, presumably because it solves a problem and makes the world better?

If I were a company I'd pay a lot of money to find other ways to grow!
> Most places you just put money without knowing
what is going.
Wevest is an open book. Once you start to
mirror someone, you are able to see the
investments and companies they choose,
and compare them to your portfolio to
the best of your interests.

Read the above aloud. You need some copywriting help. The design of the site was credible enough.
That program is really only appealing to the people who upgrade their phone ever year, which has got to be a small part of the market. Lucrative to Apple, I'm sure.
In the end, Joy will understand what your say and you can give it tasks to do. Like a real human assistant. So no need to create and configure a complex marketing automation solution. Anyone can have an assistant without particular knowledge.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11575497.

One can make a case for either article being better, but the other discussion was higher on the front page, and people obviously consider this an important story.
Not sure how Nest's products are relevant here; they are owned by Google, not Apple. Unless you are saying that there has been no interesting Next Big Thing in the entire consumer hardware/device space? In which case I'm not sure how the reference to Sony is relevant?
I don't know what became of it, but at one point there was a DARPA initiative to do just that for military convoys. The reasoning was that automated trucks would allow soldiers to treat the convoy as a "dumb herd" that would follow and be overseen by a squad of heavily armed and armored "sheepdogs". This would improve protection for soldiers, while simultaneously improving the efficiency of battlefield logistics.
Coding is one of the necessary skills to engineering softwares.
Because, you know, computing is not restricted to engineering problems. People occasionally use computers for all other weird things, like counting _money_. Or formatting text.
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HP Data Protec, Remote Code Execution, Remote Unauthorized Disclosure of Info
We went through rolling d100 using three d10. One die determined which of the other two was the tens die. It was odd, but some people thought it gave them an edge and why argue with a harmless tweak?
The challenge is still that you can build ANYTHING in China and if you can get the same quality and lower prices significantly, why would you choose a middle of the road solution in the US? I think the cost differential still overrides any sort of boost you might have from having a Made in the USA stamp on the machine.
I think that's a different issue.
Based on the information on the website, xbps has some good features (such as building from source using containers to isolate the build process), but it doesn't have the same type of functional approach as Nix. Void looks like a decent entry in the Arch/Gentoo stable, which means its good for staying on the cutting edge. NixOS is more useful if you're going to be spinning up multiple containers/VMs, which benefits from the stability and consistency of the Nix approach. YMMV.
Dunno why you're being downvoted, we're still undoing years of misleading from artists impressions of dinosaurs.
A Call to Action/Expression for LGBTQ people in tech. And a neat domain hack
Seattle is pretty much game over
I am an academic who works on zero-knowledge proofs; as far as I can tell, this system has nothing to do with the Turing-award winning concept of "zero-knowledge."
Based on the information on the website, my opinion is that the author is gratuitously appropriating the term "zero-knowledge" here.
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One could argue a "leak" creates more buzz? A bigger sense of momentum and out-performance?
Also they'd face less scrutiny if the there's some creativity in the numbers. "It's just an internal document, you can't blame us".

I could also think of a scenario where there's some internal conflict and somebody wanted to get the numbers released. Tho ofc it wouldn't be "in PostMates' best interest" anymore perhaps.
I've been using Feedbin very happily, myself. Contra a lot of people here, I almost never can't find a feed when I want one.

Reader's neglect and eventual shutdown were annoying, but hardly heartbreaking. I miss the massive search history, but that's all.
This is the next google
Yeah... The moment you see a windows process called "Wool department" that restarts itself you unplug your computer and rebuild it from scratch.
Has anyone worked on anything similar in the past, or have any insights on growing something like this? We realize its an uphill battle since there's the chicken and egg problem, and at the same time we'll need to convince businesses to use this platform over others who currently have all the users but little features (think FB's Messenger). There is also a variety of different industries that require different approaches (restaurants, food chains, home handywork, professional services, hair salons, etc).
In this thread: lots of people making unfounded assumuptions and drawing dumb conclusions when anyone who has been paying attention knew this was coming as Apple even said so last quarter.

The last year quarter was buoyed by previous quarter supply constraints causing a lot more sales in many categories and products.

It's not that this quarter was bad (it was fine) it's that last years quarter was SO GOOD and last quarter had no major supply constraints that we see this.

Basically - Apple has got so good at the supply chain it's hurting their numbers for quarters with no new releases.

But sure, start speculating about [insert your favorite phone] and writing screeds about phone subsidies/performance/innovation/whatever. It won't be right... but you'll feel better I guess.
>As a matter of fact, our system had to face penetration tests conducted by Ernst and Young, a big 4 Auditing Firm

I really can't tell whether this is serious or just Poe's law in action.
Concourse is pretty sweet. I enjoy it more than my experiences with Jenkins.

FD: I work at Pivotal (but not on Concourse), the makers of concourse.
Please don't rewrite titles when the original is neither misleading nor linkbait. This is a rule here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

The submitted title was "Volkswagen seriously made a PowerPoint deck on how to cheat emissions tests". That's more linkbait, which is driving the wrong way down a one-way street.
I'll get right on that thanks!
IBM Magtape Reference Card (circa 1966)
A whole new product line. See GE for an example of a company that has figured out how to just keep growing.
> the most resilient USB

At the cost of the devices it's supposed to connect together[0]. When you have to think about having to add cryptographic signatures and verification to cables[1], I cannot see the connectivity standard you built as safe.

0: https://www.amazon.com/review/R2XDBFUD9CTN2R/ref=cm_cr_rdp_p...

1: http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2016/04/13/usb-type-c-...
You've basically just given a link for 90% of the HA in my house. I don't have the SmartThings hub, I have the Wink hub (for better or worse- I'd give it a B+). I slowly replaced most of the switches in my house room by room as the fancy struck me by just being bored on a Saturday and driving down to Lowe's/Home Depot and picking up a Z-Wave switch or two.

I replaced a few outlets here and there with Z-Wave outlets so that I could have a lamp come on w/ the overhead light because we have a couple of big rooms with crappy overhead lights. Also because it was interesting.

The garage door status/opener is a hodgepodge of my own making (basically an Arduino plugged into an NRF chip to talk w/ my RPi that is plugged into a vpn into AWS to get Lambda comms from Alexa events and Wink API events).

Excluding the hardware and code I built, it was as simple as replacing outlets and switches in the house- which are probably pages 5 and 6 of the things you should know if you live in a house that you have to take care of.
+1 for Drone.io [https://github.com/drone/drone]
The old Cannon/Amphenol connectors are still my favorite, and they supposedly go back to the 30s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIL-DTL-5015
Docker ID: tautologistics
Thank you in advance....
They are rumored to be interested in cars
Clarifying the C memory object model
I don't know. My iPhone 5s recently died. I went to the Apple store. I looked at the new models. I looked at the version they have that looks like the 5s with better mechanics. I paid $269US for a replacement iPhone 5s. I just couldn't figure out a reason to upgrade. I have the same problem with the iPad. I'll probably upgrade at some point, but the battery life isn't better (and in fact I'd have to repurchase all of the extra phone-sleeve type batteries I have to buy due to Apple's inability to comprehend there are customers that care more about convenience than slimness and weight), and of course storage capacity (which hasn't really changed).

I can't be that unusual a customer. I think a lot of people are just done upgrading. For a while there in 2009/11/13 (or was it 10/12/14?) every time you upgraded it really did make a difference... a "quantum leap" in technology. Now, I feel like upgrading just changed the style (and unfortunately accessories) of my phone. Rumor is the 7 is going to do away with standard headsets. That would be a deal breaker for me. I am fatigued of not only replacing the phone, but the $300 in accessories it takes to power/add accessories/run the phone every 2 years.

This whole subject around quarterly earnings at Apple always makes me think about this larger trend here called peak stuff. Material consumption is falling in Western countries. Steve Howard did that great interview on the subject on NPR: http://www.npr.org/2016/01/22/464013718/ikea-executive-on-wh...

Apple's products were the pinnacle of aspirations besides a car or home in much of the world, and now... well... they're less so. Still popular, still great products, but maybe there is starting to be some fatigue. It's probably good. Anyone who things unlimited growth as a model on a planet with finite resources is still living in the 20th century anyways.

Maybe that's contributing.
Seeking refuge from unsafe JavaScript
Seems like they copied K5? http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2015/08/09/robots-deploye...
Yes, there is a huge difference.

I bet people like Rosa Parks, MLK, etc... people who paid dearly for Equal rights would be so upset that you've lowered the meaning of that word to simple movies...

Being treated differently, being cast aside and being held back from success because of your race, that you cant change, that you had no control of aquiring - is nowhere near not being able to watch a movie because of legal restrictions of where you live. How do you possibly consider those things even remotely similar?
How does sharing such stats imply achieving "arbitrary numbers" in any sense?

I am pointing at data showing a large disparity in tech employment relative to the population. Women are equally as capable as men when it comes to tech, so we should expect equal representation. We don't get equal representation because of existing cultural biases against women in this field.

It's the same reason we don't get equal representation of men in many "women's" fields where men are clearly as capable as women.
I don't think the OP is disagreeing with Zuck. He seems to want to open a dialog and hear responses from people that write code.
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> "Humans are quite stupid in many ways, compared to computers. Let's start with the most obvious: they can't count. Ask a human to raise 3425 to the power of 542 and watch them sit there for hours trying to work it out. Ridiculous"

I hope this guy is just trolling, but in case he is not, this is a tired argument that should be debunked once and for all.

The brain in the course of seemingly mundane activities (interpreting what we see, for instance) effectively performs a stupendous amount of complex calculations per second [1]

What people confuse is conscious calculations vs effective calculations.[2] The brain does not need to output intermediate results of basic operations because that is not it's computational objective.

I was actually a bit disappointed at the shallowness of the article; from the title I was expecting maybe a discussion of how complex even the very concept of intelligence is, and how speed of calculations does not necessarily equate to intelligence.

[1] http://gizmodo.com/an-83-000-processor-supercomputer-only-ma...

[2] http://chrisfwestbury.blogspot.com/2014/06/on-processing-spe...
Because the public likes pretty pictures, and NASA needs the public to be excited about space exploration.
Nor Debian Stable's version of OpenSSL. At work, we use Debian stable with openssl picked specifically from unstable. apt-pinning FTW!
Washington Redskins Appeal to SCOTUS on Trademark, Tie Case to the Slants
It seems like the interesting portion of this will be how the response to that panic button is organized.

Nothing is mentioned about that. it’d be really easy to send a geolocation to an endpoint somewhere.

It almost seems like a practical joke without going into the effort required to coordinate the response. Might as well require these on all keyboards.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00887KUPW/ref=cm_cr_arp_mb_bd...
But there's a bit of an arms race problem, people are afraid of being crushed by those gas-guzzling SUVs, which makes them want to buy equally huge vehicles for protection... Depressed fuel prices likely aren't helping either, if people had to pay more to fill their large tanks, they might also be looking longingly at something electric.
I'm glad Apple has some competition with Android. I made the switch to Android after I got multiple "dud" iPhone 6's which stopped working after a few days.
Atwood: "Any application that can be written in JavaScript will eventually be written in JavaScript"

Zawinski: "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can." s/mial/API etc

And I can't find this one (IBM study?) "Adding 10% of features increases cost by 100%"
True. It may mean that, but there is zero evidence to back up ManlyBread's claim aside from his anecdotal evidence.
It would be interesting to see how companies like Apple will comply with this request. AFAIK, the feature would be embedded in hardware by pressing power button 3 times it would trigger the GPS and connect to law enforcement. If India can convince all OEMs to implement this feature and implements infrastructure around it nationwide then I agree it has the possibility to reduce rape incidents tremendously.
Modern DNA shows ‘explosions’ of the male population thousands of years ago
>a straightforward way to price-segment to account for (immense) income disparities across the world //

There's price expectation and competition to take account of too.
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I think it's more cost effective to start a new bank.

But why would they. It's a lot of trouble, and being a bank gives you the right to lend in money from the public.

It's still possible to provide payment services without being a bank.

I think they could more or less buy VISA and pay in cash, and that makes more sense if you want to make money on retail payments.
The watch is interesting. I think you can argue that the whole idea is fundamentally flawed (operating a miniscule touchscreen with your greasy paws), but you can also argue that incremental improvements could change a lot of minds.

A faster CPU, a thinner device (the first gen Apple Watch is huge), and more useful software are clear areas of potential improvement. I think there's a hypothetical wrist-mounted computer which could be really great, but the Watch obviously isn't there yet.
Here we are back at the varying definition of "security".

The encryption will defend against NSA style "grab everything, sort it out later" attacks.

but it will not defend against targeted attacks where someone had compromised the remote sender somehow.

The former is a boon for most people vs the present state, the latter is a hairy problem that has been with us since we first started sorting ourselves into ingroups and outgroups (how do you know that the email is not sent by someone with a gun pointed to their head?).

Or as i was reminded by a different comment: perfect becomes the enemy of good.
Ask HN: Would you purchase ceopursuit.com?
I've this domain unused and willing to sale it to have some side funds to pay the bills. If interested please contact.
I can't wait for the day that putting 0 human drivers on the road is a PR positive, because no road tripping families are put at risk.
Does it show as a line item on the monthly invoice, or in the fine print of the contract?

Here in QC/Canada it's basically "90$/month for the 2 year upgrade" or "65$/month for BYOD".
The requirement for ALPN is a client-side requirement. Chrome is dropping NPN and moving to ALPN in recent releases[0].

0: http://blog.chromium.org/2016/02/transitioning-from-spdy-to-...
Npm doesn't actually enforce this field, unless engine-strict is set (off by default).
> I don't anticipate mixed use (driverless + drivers) ever happening.

but it already has?!

I mean there are already self driving cars being tested on public roads. Technically not driverless, but almost.
My guess is most natural growth curves are exponential at early times, inflect, then reach asymptotic behavior.
This simple idea has been helping me a lot in the past projects.

The performance gain from columnar storage is the compression ratio. And by ordering similar attributes together, it is going to greatly reducing the entropy between rows, which in turn leads to high compression and better performance.

The trick is to smartly select the which column you are going to have all the rows sorted upon.

I my previous company, we are using Redshift to encode 1 billions rows, and the simple change to let the table sorted by user_id reduce the whole table size by 50%, that is half a TB of disk storage, the improvement is nothing more but jaw-dropping. I think Google here just takes this trick into a more systematic method, which is really neat.

To point out, in columnar storage system, take ordering into account. Try some ordering that you feel could maximize the redundancy between rows, usually it is going to be primary id that is most representative of the underlying data. You don't need to have a fancy system like this one to leverage this power idea, it could apply to all columnar systems.
In your experience what's the usual time between battery replacements?

That's been the only "killer" for phones for me. With a decent case I feel like they otherwise last forever.

My personal upgrade cycle usually involves someone else's (ex: spouse or parent) phone breaking, giving them mine, and buying a new one. Otherwise I'd probably still be on an iPhone 4.
Surely they should work the way they work in ES6?

Any solution that requires extra work (file extension, another file to maintain) is a non-starter.

Frankly it should work how Babel transpiles it - because there's no reason for it not to.
Google drive has had this feature for a while. Your Google docs are essentially shortcuts to the cloud.

Im glad Dropbox is releasing this, I think it's very useful, but man is it trumped up. They have officially crossed chasm into the mainstream, when there is more marketing hype than technological innovation in a new release.
Might inflation due to quantitative easing, for example, be at least partially responsible for the higher valuations we see today?
Show HN: Minimal command line time tracking
Okay so...my class is doing the test now but ms.james just send me a email saying that we not suppose to do the test so...do i stop my kids and just do some other work or do i just let them finish the test and then not put it in the grade book but just put it in for credit work space,what do i do im so....lost rn help me plz
Apple has no one to blame but themselves (history may be rhyming here) if they lose that market. Apple had many, many quarters where they sat on Siri and did not open it up to developers via an API, and could have killed Echo in the cradle.
Having instances that are running wrong version of code is a symptom of
brittle administration process. You should not put a bandaid, but develop
a process that can't go awry (which probably means you need a seasoned
sysadmin to help you with that).
What Your 20's are really for
It doesn't change your experience but it might change the applicability - it could just as easily be an indicator of ATT & Best Buy's inventory policy.
13 years. It started in ~2003 that JavaScript as a whole was being approached differently. By 2006 a LOT had changed.

In 2008 V8 was released and 2009 Node was released. But that is merely the newest epoch of the current wave.

JavaScript has been taken seriously by those paying attention for ~13 years. They've been building the web with it while others complain about it.

So sorry, I rounded up by 2 years. But hyperbolic? Not really.
Neat idea. Do you know why it missed Nantucket? (Gets heavy mention in Moby Dick).
Beagle 2: most detailed images yet of lost Mars lander revealed
How are they cold storage paper wallets?

They certainly aren't paper. They also aren't cold, being on a networked computer.

I don't like victim-blaming, especially because this is really a usability issue for crypto, but I have never heard anyone say that a pw protected .rar file is appropriate security. If you're going to make a significant investment into crypto, I just don't understand how you can ignore all the security advice.
Vote was at: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/5648
If you are doing some sort of illegal activity, it's best to not use a service attached to your home IP address (there are plenty of free wifi hotspots around) or your credit card information.

No matter what a VPN provider says, there's always a way it will get tracked back to you
VR is still about 10 years away before it moves into the mainstream. Currently it's just looking like a gaming accessory and has a long way to go before it's much more