skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember that the Newton--which as a product concept was far ahead of its time--was developed and launched under Sculley. So was OpenDoc, the Apple "Advanced Technology Group," Quicktime, Quicktime VR, etc.

So I would not say that Apple failed to think about the future under Sculley. It's not easy to understand or describe why Jobs succeeded as wildly as he did in his 2nd tour at Apple. If it was, everyone would be doing it. :-)

One thing I rarely see discussed is the importance of the time in which Steve Jobs succeeded. The success we ascribe now, in hindsight, to Jobs' incredible leadership, might be in part the result of just a good match between what Jobs could do, and what could succeed in the market at that time.

His principles did not really change that much, actually--he always believed in owning as much of the tech stack as he could, and in producing integrated products with custom hardware and software. That approach was too expensive and inflexible to compete against Microsoft PCs the first time he was at Apple. It failed at NeXT. But it succeeded wildly the second time around, at Apple.

Would Apple be doing much better now under Steve Jobs' leadership? I don't think it's entirely clear. Some aspects of Apple's success continue to match up with Jobs' vision, but the areas in which Apple seems to have the most challenges--services and interoperable ecosystems--were never really Jobs' strong suits.
I'm not so sure this applies to most of the people. Trump is a very polarizing figure. There are segments of the population for whom what Trump says feels safe and good. At the same time, there are segments who feel outrage and disgust at what he says.
> just because they don't auto-link it is taking the word to new heights of rhetorical meaninglessness

Whatsapp not only blocks auto-linking, but they also prevent the link from being copied to the clipboard. "Censorship" sounds about right.
I happily browse the Web at 125% on a 27inch monitor because I like pages to be large, but if pages made double width windows have double size content it would be like sitting directly in front of a TV.
Curious if the facilitators are licensed clinicians.
Yeah, this doesn't really seem like a big deal. If people don't want to engage with you, don't engage with them. It's not like you would have had a meaningful conversation if trigger warnings didn't exist, they still would have ignored whatever you said.
You would think CSP would at least get a mention on these subjects and how well it integrates with present structure of how we allocate of energy and can complement for those who require use of molten salts for dispatchability… its not like we burn coal in our cars to power steam turbine anyways…
The idea of an always-on grid sized for peak demand is going to seem hopelessly anachronistic in just a few years. Third world power grids - frequent outages, sized for average load, cheap in every sense, barely regulated - are the future
> The problem comes when people panic and pull out their money in a recession,

This doesn't happen only because of panic.

In a recession, by definition, bad things happen: people lose cushy jobs, they end up uninsured just before an illness happens, very close relatives (parents, kids) fall on hard times them-selves and you have to bail them out etc etc. All these new problems require liquidity, which can be very easily obtained by selling your stocks, even if at a loss. Multiply this across the whole middle-class and the end-result won't be pretty.
I agree. I am not claiming my kids are geniuses. They are smarter than me I feel, but that's not saying much. :)
Back end as a Service Research
I am wondering how google (mentioned as an offset to bing) is going to handle the availability tweeking and facebooking feature. It will be interesting to see if my searches now reference some persons personal collection of data and take me away from page source. Search engines are all about recent/modified content and might go to the less official/slightly modified sources. The search engine communities are full of intelligent people, but I still can't get the same 5 pages from stack overflow showing up when I have a problem, no matter how I change the search terms. I usually end up going to the site and then going to the reference link in the answer.
OK. If you look again at my comments, I don't disagree with you. I only speculated that WhatsApp has a sound reason for not turning up to answer the claims and for not keeping a presence in Brazil. If Brazil wants to shut them down, then it should (and did) do it. However, the service has apparently been turned back on. Maybe you should run for President of Brazil if it's important to you.
This can cause an interesting dilemma if you assume that what people invest in makes a difference to the output.

It may make more sense selfishly to be in the low-energy group, but the overall returns might be lower the more people go that route.

A flawed car analogy: A driver and passenger will both travel the same distance, but the driver spends a lot more effort per mile.

So it might both be better for each individual to be low-energy yet better for everyone if people were more active.

It's an interestingly complex problem.
It still amazes me that here in silicon valley, no available electricity tariff reflects the timing of the supposed solar glut.
Perhaps. Though I wouldn't bet everything on the idea that a rising streak of overt anti-intellectualism has no relationship to education whatsoever.
This is the danger of only considering averages. Everyone on the passive side gets whatever return the market dictates. In a bad/recession year, this could be largely negative. They are not hedged against business cycle downturns.

Different individuals on the active side have wildly differing returns. The guy who invests in the hedge fund with 200% returns doesn't care about the 20, 2 fee structure he has to pay on his investment because he's made so much more than the passive guys. There will be large losers and large winners, but you have to pay table stakes (fees) to play and have your shot at winning those big returns.

Buffet is talking his book - a hugely diversified portfolio that basically represents and relies on the strength and growth of the American economy, as well as US government-mandated oligopolies like insurance.
Not really.

I'm a pirate. I have little compunctions about downloading whatever-have-you. Part is convenience, part is I've been burned before, part is I want to spend money on tangibles, part is literally just 'fuck you drm'.

Is it wrong? Well, it's certainly a tort. I'm not doing it for some morally superior good. I'm doing it for myself and my family.

We can curl in bed, and watch XYZ movie. And if it stinks, it gets the delete. I don't have to deal with any number of factors from screaming kids to DRM; I just double-click and it plays in VLC. I was watching MASH on netflix..... until they removed it from the live collections, 8th season in. Am I buying it? Nope. Downloading.

If anything, the biggest draw to me is open source stuffs. I can get and give it, and use it for my files. There's no reason for lock-in, so they play nice.

Edit: And yes, I do pay for Netflix. Bang for the buck, it ~is~ easier than finding links online. Even if I can't store and download locally, it's great for watching filler fluff I don't want a copy of. Media I want to have, I just download anyways.
Is it possible to generate BitCoins on quantum computer?
I prefer to have my browser maximized, though it's true too wide text is not easy too read.

I've noticed also that I don't like to read text that starts on the left of the screen.

The solution that works for me is to install a sidebar (on Firefox, AiOS add-on) and if text is too wide or starts too much on the left, I enable and resize sidebar accordingly :)
What was it in before?
In the code the link points to, I just see another C-like language.

What "good ideas" should I be looking at? I am not Oberon expert, but in any other language I'd say this code is pretty bad:

- logic errors: We keep going even if error occurs (none of the error checks have return in them).

- In two different source files, "System" is imported under two different names. Is this just to confuse the readers?

- Hardcoded string length (Mod.s:17). If someone to change the message, you have to be very careful to update the length.

- Arbitrary constants (why '2' in Mod.s:23)?
I think we're already seeing that in tech. Not just the coding schools which are still pretty young but online training such as Lynda and Pluralsight.

It will take much longer - if ever - for something like that to happen in law, medicine, and engineering but it's feasible. Remember, licensing and accreditation are still relatively new concepts..
Repository: https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore
State of the art desalination, reverse osmosis, doesn't heat the water it pushes it through semi-permeable membranes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_osmosis
Also re-issued recently for those who prefer physical books:

http://www.amazon.com/Oliver-Byrne-First-Elements-Euclid/dp/...
I'd say it's overly optimistic. If all you do is drop cash from helicopters, it is entirely possible that there is never enough of a sense of economic security to encourage the increased small business starts needed to reach a new equilibrium. That's why I don't think that UBI would work unless some of the benefit were supplied as basic goods and services rather than cash.

At minimum, the UBI provider would have to supply food, water, housing, sanitation, electricity, and network, along with the cash. Otherwise, between those necessities, incumbent suppliers could capture all the excess cash and send it right back to the owners.
In the rest of the world it is (and even in the us, 2018 is not so far out), so this statement is mostly true. ;)
All these years we had the buzzwords quantum and cloud separately. Today the buzzwords can finally merge to bring you quantum in the cloud. OMG, I predict the tech journalist will go crazy on this!!

A very similar quantum circuit simulator (in JS): http://www.davyw.com/quantum/?example=Grover%27s%20Algorithm

And now a shameless plug: If you want to learn quantum mechanics and quantum computing, you should check out my upcoming book on linear algebra: https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSguide2LA_previ... available via https://gum.co/noBSLA
> The body of water is historically and internationally known as the "Persian Gulf". Some Arab governments refer to it as the "Arabian Gulf" or "The Gulf", but neither term is recognized internationally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf
Why we mix up the names of people in our family
Rail storage is the cheaper, more versatile version of pumped hydro.

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/First-Grid-Scal...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11595195
I think the important fact there is that the music provider is independent of the "format provider". I.e. I can download an MP3 from itunes, and Apple has no control over which MP3 compatible device I move it to or play it on (or indeed that I even can move it beyond the "purchasing" device). Granted (legally) not all devices I want to play it on may be MP3 compatible when they technically could, but that restriction isn't Apples to (directly!) control.

In the rest of the world without silly software patents, it is free!
I love passive investing (vanguard admiral shares anyone??) but there are several things that I find lacking:

1. It's really boring. There's no earnings to follow, no products to watch, etc

2. You can't get rich from most indexes. The risk and reward is too low. It's unlikely to invest in a index that gives you a 10x return, though it does happen.

In the end I keep the bulk in a low fee composite index but I like to speculate with a little, even if I invariably lose money on the spec part. It's more fun.
Then I have a little quiz for you:

According to this documentation:

http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.1.2/Float.html#method-i-round

How do you explain?

2.1.2 :011 > 15.round(-1)
=> 20
Do you know when we'll have docs on the new Router?
Which is why a liquid emergency fund is the first recommendation for anyone trying to secure their personal finance situation.
Is that kind of "old money" an increasing or decreasing phenomenon?

I don't have the numbers, but it seems like a lot of the rich people that come to mind made most of their money during their lifetime.

Also, wealth naturally dissipates pretty quickly over generations. One reason is simple fan out. Another reason is that the children are likely to be less frugal, and there's s high chance that some descendants are downright reckless financially.
Not all text is about maximum readability at the expense of everything else. If there is a long doc that I need to scan to find out where the useful bit of info is, I want to see more on the screen, even if it goes against some study saying I don't want to. If I'm reading every word of something, maybe the oft referenced studies are valid. In any case, I would certainly prefer that I had the choice to lay it out how I prefer. When making a doc platform like this, it doesn't seem like a ton of work to cater to different opinions, even if they think the customer is wrong.
PR is an important part of a space program; especially one so bold. The Space Shuttle became a symbol for things other than its designed mission. This suit may be seen by billions of people and represent ideals and dreams on a worldwide scale.
Moog's new app gives you a $10,000 synth for $30
This has already sort of happened. We just have short memories.

1) Microsoft kills MSN Music in 2008, removing access from users who purchased albums.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2008/04/drm-su...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PlaysForSure

2) Amazon removes access to purchased Disney streaming videos for Christmas season:

https://torrentfreak.com/amazon-pulls-access-to-purchased-ch...

https://boingboing.net/2013/12/15/amazon-takes-away-access-t...

The industry has moved to more of a subscription model which helps soften the blow when something disappears.
I'd really like to see a Gruden NFL game myself
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They announced three products initially. Two Powerwall products (7kWh daily cycler and 10kWh emergency backup) and a grid scale product called Powerpack. The product that was canceled was the 10kWh emergency backup. They are still selling the grid scale Powerpack.
Agreed. The problem is the man page. Suggesting that one should read the source code instead of the man page is ridiculous. Might as well write your own kernel while you're at it if that's the case.
You might be interested in "Recovery College" from UK.

Here's a video from the Health foundation about it.

http://www.health.org.uk/recovery-college

There are two "Tackling stigma" campaigns you might be interested in. One is "Time to Change" from England. They have a range of great materials. (I've had some minor involvement with a Time to Change project): http://www.time-to-change.org.uk/

The other is the Australian "Soften the Fuck Up": http://softenthefckup.spurprojects.org/

Good luck! I'd be really interested to hear about the results.
How is this question answerable with the information given? How do we even know that's why you "failed" the interview?
Have you read Bell Curve?

It talks about completing college as potentially being an indicator or side effect of the things you cite, not the result. The author uses earlier versions of this study and its predecessors to analyze relationships: https://www.nlsinfo.org/content/cohorts/nlsy97
Well, circumvention of DRM by technical means is currently forbidden by copyright law. This isn't great, but I suspect it has an effect of moderating just how bad DRM is.

Remember that there are two reasons DRM is bad. The first is that it prevents you from doing things permitted by copyright law (e.g., fair use). The second is that it has unrelated side effects to your computing freedom. The recent batch of DRM, like streaming from Spotify, is nowhere near as bad for your computing freedom as stuff like Sony's rootkit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk... . The first downside is true of all DRM; the second is true of only some.

Because it is not legal to just have a GitHub project explaining how to break Spotify's DRM, there's no incentive for Spotify to be as malicious as Sony. Their DRM only has to be good enough to convince the publishers that it works. If we say that all copyright protection is off, and DRM stands or falls entirely on its technical strength, we encourage an arms race. There will be non-sketchy websites offering reliable and well-engineered DRM removal tools, and the labels will point to them and insist that Spotify step up their game.
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I just rode in an elevator and didn't see any Apple watch.
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Brace yourselves, Google is launching something social again...

This is why I have mad respect for Zuckerberg. He's willing to place gigantic bets (Instagram/WhatsApp) when and where it matters.
I hear this mentioned "hedge funds are for downturns" but why is it that hedges were getting demolished going into 2016? If they really do better in downturns then I would have expected better performance from hedge funds as a whole.
iPhone Warning Signs
>could provide it's own lesson/warning to future generations.

If we already know what lesson it would be, why wait?
My First Windows Driver: Creating the Pink Screen of Death
I think David Deutsch came up with some simple algorithms back in the early 90's that are exponentially faster in a QC. I don't know if they implemented Hadamard/XOR gates in this thing.
They discontinued the battery with the lower number of charges because the people actually prefer the more expensive one (per KWh) with higher number of charges.

Also the Powerwall is for home use. For utilities they offer Powerpacks, and they are already on sale:

https://www.teslamotors.com/powerpack/design
What is the rationale for Google doing this? How much money was this service costing them?
> In the code the link points to, I just see another C-like language.

To be fair Oberon's roots go back to Pascal and not C. Pascal predates C.

:)
You see a shortcoming of solar, I see a shortcoming of energy storage technology.

(I understand your actual point, and agree with it)
Could you provide an example or two of the sites that will be impacted, and how it will effect an average user? I'm not that familiar with this area.
> In a bad/recession year, this could be largely negative. They are not hedged against business cycle downturns.

This was the argument made by Protege Partners, when betting against Buffett in the great "index funds vs hedge funds" long bet [0]. It turns out that the index funds fared better — and they're mainly used for long-term investment, where the short-term macroeconomic ebbs don't have an impact on the overall return.

Of course the variance on the active side will be higher, but there are as many losers as they are winners, and much of it is due to simple randomness. Unless you're confident that you know more than other investors (for many people, including myself, we probably don't [1]), index funds, or "hugely diversified portfolios" are the way to go. Basically, no hedge fund is making those 200% returns you're speaking of, and even if some fund were, empirically it's more likely to be just noise. Look at the result so far of Buffett's bet on hedge funds. It speaks volumes.

[0] http://longbets.org/362/

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effec...
Can you use Spotify with you iPod classic? Can you iTunes movie work on your Android phone?

At some point, corporations convinced consumers that buying a whole service contract everytime you play a song is more convenient than just playing a song.

Also, phone sensors contain vital biometric data that the user has no access to.The repulsive thing that happens is that the device is locking your information from you. This is spreading out in other industries like autombiles and medical devices. Now you will have to buy a whole new service contract everytime you drive a car or check your blood pressure. So convenient.
This is great news in terms of econometrics, but I think the major looming questions still exist.

1/ Can solar impact CO2 emissions beyond single digit percentages?

2/ On what order of magnitude would battery storage capabilities have to improve to match performance characteristics of natural gas peaker plants or dare we say Oil/Natural gas?

3/ Don't the fluctuations in peak demand make solar less attractive because they require rapid natural gas peaking plants when there's increases in usage? (Outside of summer is a great example)

4/ What would be the desired performance characteristics of batteries that would make Solar a no-brainer for the environmental impact and actual viability? Cost, capability, and reusability.
There's really only one type of Apple Watch with hundreds of different external configurations. The hardware is identical in all of them.
When motivating people who are not engineers appearances become increasingly important as having a strong story with impressive props will just make everything so much easier. Facts backed up with propaganda are a stronger influence than just mere facts.
Ask HN: Are there Python jobs that don't involve Django?
It seems like a lot of Python job listings I see revolve around Django-but is there value in looking for Python jobs and not knowing/having an interest in Django? Obviously there probably are Python jobs that aren't web dev using Django, but I'm wondering if I'm limiting myself by not wanting to dive into Django.

*Im a .Net dev wanting to diversify my skill set.
Excellent point, but good luck convincing all the Hillary-voting, suit-wearing Democrats in the northeast that they're not "liberal". Just look at the other responses to my post here even.

But agreed, there's absolutely a huge difference between west coast liberals and east coast "liberals".

The marijuana issue is an interesting thing to look at too, when you compare to red-vs-blue state maps. The "liberal" northeast still hasn't legalized weed (not even Vermont), whereas Colorado was one of the first two, and CO is a rather purple state (CO Springs is a ridiculously conservative place), and Alaska is very much a red state, being the place that elected Palin governor. It really seems to come down to social libertarianism versus authoritarianism. The "liberals" in the northeast want to ban sodas for your health, whereas the liberals in the west want to legalize drugs.
You can use it to search the web; you don't get the exact same experience as the old API.

https://support.google.com/customsearch/answer/2631040?hl=en
Wi-fi-based network bypasses Facebook location tracking
Apparently by processing efficiency standards we've already peaked:

28nm: The Last Node of Moore's Law
http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?doc_id=1321536
Why I Will Never Buy a Self Driving Car Out of Choice
It's absolutely unrelated matters. There always was a possibility for one pilot to barricade in the cabin. And in any case, he could just bash his co-pilot with something and do whatever he wants. If you got pilot who wants to crash the plane on board, you already screwed up, good thing it's very rare occasion.
Thank you! This is very helpful. If /jackcosgrove in this thread is right about "the signaling ability of college will be broken", or at least challenged, maybe we'll be able to continue this with a study at scale between college vs non-college.
Right, but the music within mp3 is free (or, at least, freely accessible).
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