skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool hack! And the comparison of the watch specs with a pc of that time shows, how far computer hardware has developed in those years. Without the emulation overhead, it would be completely feasible to run Windows 95 on a todays watch. This of course raises the questions, could you install a linux natively compiled for the watch on it an run it at a reasonable speed? Might be actually usable.
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Found this article interesting. Though I don't necessarily agree with Rasmus, he makes some good points.

Monoculture definition: "a culture dominated by a single element"
Which is why we he uses free software for email.
They may be, but I think Aarons case is a particularly bad example of such as I don't think there was ever any question of his guilt.

The law may not be just, but there's little doubt that he violated it.

Considering his charges, Swartz received exceptionally good plea deal offers.
Unlike the old railroad companies that needed huge capital investments to set up national railroad networks, anyone with a couple million could cobble together a PoC of some phones. So being the biggest phone seller doesn't turn them into some untouchably large company. There's a ton of companies trying to release their own phones; even Ubuntu has their own line[1].

The only industry in all of computing where antitrust seems to me to be directly applicable to a business - only considering itself - is owning and running fabrication plants. I think they cost something like $1 billion to set up. Maybe Comcast or AT&T or similar could also count with their expensive communications infrastructure, and if we didn't otherwise have regulation for those industries.

Of course, Apple colluding with Google to fix the store cut would also count, as would many other similar examples. But those involve multiple companies conspiring together, not a single one like you've mentioned.

[1] http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/devices
>But this is not the case with google maps. You can zoom in, out, and anywhere in between.

The problem I have Google maps lately, is that i have to zoom so far in to see the names of some roads. To the point where nothing but the road is on screen before the name appears. It's a major UX issue.
> Considering his charges, Swartz received exceptionally good plea deal offers.

A non-violent crime shouldn't result in any prison time.
No, I insist, based on 20th Century history, that pretty much all confiscations in developed, and in most undeveloped countries, have been preceded by registries, and this includes multiple states in the US (where, I grant, you can move the weapon out of state).

And since they serve no good purpose, and are promoted by people who are not shy about signaling their ill will towards us, we're allowed to take the imposition of one as a solid signal what what's to come.

You say "And we're talking about a registry, not a conspiracy to secretly make all gun-owners criminals."? Prove it.

And let's be clear, in this putative Civil War 2.0, we're threatening to kill gun-grabbers wholesale and retail, with guns being one of the least effective means when compared to tactics like killing Blue cities. People kill other people, guns are inanimate objects.
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The F1 was never designed to race. It was built as a road car from the outset.

The GTR (racing) programme was spurred on by a customer, subsequent to the release of the road-going F1.
Glimpse? It's already here: see what happened to Nest. The last episode of the Bad Voltage podcast basically features a long discussion on what IoT devices should be able to do when they lose the "I" for one reason or another.

Tbh, I think we'll eventually need laws: something saying "companies should guarantee serviceability and functioning of advanced devices for 10 years, rain or shine (bar nuclear holocaust)". For all the loathing this idea gets, it's the only way to tell the market to "not be stupid". Once businesses start planning for extended serviceability, they'll work on things like durable interfaces that can be easily implemented on newer patforms, offline modes etc etc, which will be innovative and will greatly benefit consumers. As these sort of systems become routine, the 10-year window will naturally extend itself.
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Actually Snowden reveals they can perform such a search[1].

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-...

PRISM can notify when new emails appear and can provide a live view of the targets online activity. [2]

[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-...
Fully agree. That's why I generally browse internet on mobile in Opera which supports text reflow and force-zoom, contrary to Chrome which only supports the latter.
I was struck by the category theory section, which starts with two fairly easy books (Cheng and Awodey), a book I've never heard of, and then Mac Lane. Mac Lane is a fearsome book, which takes a lot of concerted effort and study for me to read. I have had four years of the Cambridge Maths Tripos, so I am (ahem) probably quite a bit more highly trained in mathematics than most readers of this list, and Mac Lane is just barely on the edge of things I can read. It should come with a health warning for its extreme difficulty and abstraction; there's a reason it's in the "Graduate Texts" series.
It should now show the post even without JS, thanks!
But Haskell is simpler than Go (in a similar way that Lisp is), so that's a poor example of "twisted reality".
I can only shake my head at your cardboard cutout of "China" and your take on GNU.

I'm working on GNU because I share its vision of providing more computing freedom to people, blurring the lines between admins and users as is the case with Emacs (self-documenting, trivially extensible and modifiable), Guix (trivial inspection and modification of all packages on a system, a large step towards freedom from system administrators, independent software profiles giving each user what they want), and the Hurd (even more freedom from sys admins).

I'm not even talking about the many compilers in GCC, which make it feasible to build a completely free system (such as GuixSD).

You seem to misunderstand the GNU project, and I find it unpalatable to reduce what you call "China" to a cardboard cutout for the sake of a flawed analogy.
My main problem with Apple Maps has always been that it just shows too little information on the screen, exactly what the author now criticizes about Google Maps. That doesn't seem to have changes with the current Apple Maps.
Just curious, what happens if a rocket fails and the client's payload is destroyed?
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Not in "some cases" but in "all cases". Python did not introduce anything new in this list.
I studied physics. I wanted to pursue research. The only tenable (I needed income - not everyone has parents who will pay their way through school, buy them a house, buy them a car - mine left me high and dry and paying both my and my brother's living and school costs) job options that involved research involved making weapons. Actual research jobs pay so little you need to have parents or a spouse subsidising you.

So I went and worked in finance instead.
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Finally I have an explanation to why GMaps have been annoying me so much.

Especially driving country roads and having to zoom in to kite level in order to see the medium sized villages is ridiculous.

Anyone know if Bing Maps is better?
Yep, I find this extra annoying when I'm on the roads and have a bad internet connection, or no connection at all (common when I'm traveling in the less-populated regions of the US). I have to zoom in several levels to see the road, but often I can't due to the connection. This is really frustrating.
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"And succeed" is the problem there. Research by its very nature is speculative. So it becomes a game of probabilities, you want to find the sweet spot balancing funding with progress. Paying for everyone who wants one to have a lab and a supercomputer, would not be a good use of society's resources.
It was certainly money that kept me out.

Does he have rich, supportive parents, by any chance?
"Less is just less. And that's certainly the case here."

Not sure I agree, in my opinion most of us use search & destinations nowadays, even in offline mode. The only reason I look at a map is to gauge distance between me and my destination.
I've been trying to form a habit of using OpenStreetMap recently (though not because of the article's subject), you could give it a try.
There are many people for whom I'd give my life, without the slightest hesitation, to ensure their safety and survival.

There is no way I would take a life for anyone.

These simultaneous positions are rational???

In what situations would you be able to a) give your life for another in which that selfless act would both "ensure their safety and survival" but could not entail the taking of a life?

Do you really consider the human life of someone trying to kill your loved ones as equal to those loved ones?

No, I believe in the concept of the outlaw, the person who's put himself "outside the law" in a sense, at least for the duration of his lethal threat, and who can be legally opposed with lethal force (which actually means the whole situation is within the law, hence my weasel words). I do not view such human lives as equal to those of the innocents they predate on, for the duration of their lethal threats.

(Although, to make crystal clear, my legal and moral response is to use lethal force on them if necessary, killing per se is no legal, but the job of the judiciary after due process. Of course killing is a likely outcome when using lethal force, but stopping the lethal threat is the legitimate outcome, killing an unfortunate common result.)
Curiosity?! Pah. Outmoded victorian values. Curiosity killed the cat.

Now keep your head down and publish the good facts we give you.
Meanwhile, millions of people receive their paycheque compiled on a 70s Tandem.
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Go doesn't have tuples.

Go doesn't have local type inference

For loops on ranges are limited to Go built-in types, you can't create your own iterators.

So yes, almost none of these features are available in Go.
>So again what do you think about cosmetics?

There would certainly be no less reproduction, if cosmetics are given up.
Also no general health loss, probably even improvements, with no more side effects. (and no more apes tortured to death by trying to remove the side effects)

From my point of view, cosmetics is about lying to each other, how we really look ... so you could argue, that it would be even better for the best genes to be choosen, if the real informations are not hidden and falsified with makeup etc
In case of a C++ auto, type is specified explicitly - it is an RHS type of an assignment. Type is not deduced here, it is symply propagated.

Auto does not add anything new at all on top of the existing type checking: if for a specific LHS type a checker would normalise both left and right hand types and check for assignability, in case of auto it will assume LHS=RHS without checking anything.

Therefore auto is a subset of type propagation, not type inference.
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No. I'm not sure what your point is but if you're talking about macbook components, they can still be changed out.

Regardless, the macbook itself should/would be the replaceable module since it comes with standard interfaces and is just a computing unit.
Uses JSDoc, and the code is well structured.

But it has lots of statefulness, some of the state is structured as a finite state machines in ways that are easy to break (similar to the "request" module, also a FSM that is incredible easy to break).

Function parameters are not validated.
Yes, Jelly is Biz Stone's company, and this App is a "Re-pivot" back to the earlier release.
I really like Biz Stone's thinking around altruism (apparently we get the same good feeling from helping people as we do from winning money).
Using technology to promote altruism is potentially revolutionary, so I follow Biz and Jelly closely.
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The problem is that in the C culture practically ignored everything that was done in computing up to the late 70's.

Bjarne was of course aware of modules, being brought on Simula and other programmer friendly languages, but then he had to make C++ code fit into UNIX linkers that only knew about AT&T Assembly and C binary formats.

So no modules there, and along the years you got a culture of developers, specially those that only learn on the job, that never learned about modules and its history.

You see it happen also when cache friendly code and RAII get discussed.

Those things were also possible outside the C family of languages, before they won the market. So most millennials think that they are some special language capabilities only possible in C and C++.
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Sure, but that's more industry wide.

Why don't manufacturers just do this themselves so that they can easily replace their own components in the future?
The European Union already has these laws, the goods must be fit for purpose for a "reasonable" duration. In the UK the maximum is 6 years, but it depends on the item and how much it is used.

However, up to now most things break because they wear out, or from a manufacturing fault. That's quite different from the manufacturer switching off some supporting servers, since most people would expect most old devices to work for longer than the minimum.
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Yes. I see people getting hung up on irrelevant issues. It happens to me on occasions, but some people seems to get stuck on side effects and irrelevant errors and messages.

I find it to be very irritating if it happens for people that should know better...
I wouldn't mind too much if the website styling didn't break zooming in the browser. The paragraph width is fixed as a percentage of the viewport, which means zooming in only makes the font bigger, keeping the same narrow column for its contents.

On the whole the HTML and CSS on that blog are a mess though.

Firefox's Reader View helps here by bypassing the author's styling completely.
Can't imagine how I forgot them, especially with neighboring Iowa just last month legalizing suppressors, and my own hearing losses over the years, which I'd like to limit going forward.

In part, it's because handguns in concealed carry are now by daily bread and butter use of guns, and they're impractical in that use case, and would hinder retention in a home defense case.

But, hey, a compromise where I could own a full auto suppressed P90 (a post '86 design) for home defense and the like, yeah, I could get behind that, and Henrietta would no doubt approve.
> been too forceful on this subject

I also read your replies in the post about devuan. Had the feeling half the posts where yours :) so you are a tad bit evangelic on the subject.

The thing is that devuan is about a debian without systemd and there you came out defending systemd. Not exactly the best spot to do so, I'd say.
If anything, then devuan points out how difficult it was to get a current version of debian "systemd free" in this day and age.

Systemd made me look at BSD again, so quite happy with systemd, but for other reasons as you.
> Something that has become interesting to me recently is the amount of knowledge about maratime weather and sailing that isn't readily accessible in a some kind of neat database, app or website. You actually have to talk to people and wander through museums to find out some of it.

I've been online and windsurfing for decades and I've watched online info about weather/wave conditions at various locations grow then peak, and now it's been declining and drying up in recent years.

It used to be curated and published on websites and talked about in public discussion forums. Even usenet and mailing list archives dating back to the early 90s would appear in searches. In the last 5 yrs or so it's all been slowly evaporating into ephemeral Facebook group posts hidden behind a login form.

I suspect this is happening to all sorts of other communities too as they drop below critical mass. I'm not thrilled about it.
In Google Maps, tapping on the compass icon in the upper right will toggle between north-is-up and forward-is-up views.
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Seems ages ago, but I wrote a post about its extensibility here: http://www.mostlymaths.net/2013/03/extensibility-programming...

I explained more or less how to use the plumber and endpoints, and gave a sample shell script and a reddit browser written in python you could plug into acme
It drives me crazy that I can't find half of the labels I'm looking for, and when I do, I can't increase the size of the labels enough to make them readable. Frequently I'll have to fight with the map, zoom in and out and scroll around to get it to show me the name of a street at all, but when I finally do coax it into revealing a tiny name far downroad, the font is often too small to read. If I reflexively expand the map to get a closer look, everything expands except the label I'm trying to read.

And there's no way to expand it. I do understand that they don't want it to keep expanding beyond a certain point, especially as they add more details as they zoom. But they could let it expand within some constraints, such as the name of a street within the stripe of the street, and cap the size at 3x the normal size or some such thing.

If the algorithm for letting the labels grow a bit is just too hard for them, then just give me a little slider on the side to add a fixed, default label magnification factor. I could expand it a bit to make the labels easier to read in general, expand it more (but just temporarily) to get a better look at something, or shrink it a bit in cases where the labels were harder to read due to overcrowding.

As it is, they've removed too many useful labels without expanding the ones remaining to make them easier to read and prevented me from expanding them manually. Bother.
Sure, but hga's response to that is to threaten to mass murder people. He's done that in this thread, and several times elsewhere on HN.
This brings to mind the story of John Coster-Mullen - the first person to build an accurate historical replica of Little Boy. I'd recommend reading the New Yorker article on it. It's a pretty fascinating read.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/12/15/atomic-john
Nice little script you got there!

But I don't think you should call it an "Animation Library". An animation library is much more to me.

For comparison, TweenJS is a animation library.
Was 98 the first one with gradients in the window bar?

I remember being quite disappointed when the toolbar buttons went all flat, as I felt that was offering a consistent UI (button -> 3D look) on the altar of design. But I think that came with one of the Office versions first. (QA was horrible back then, if you had a Windows applications, you had to cross-check it with every ofice/OS permutation, as both wreaked havoc on your UI dlls).
ML-style type inference is hardly “advanced”. And I'm even willing to count more limited forms of inference as seen in Scala, Rust or Swift - what they have is only local, but it's actual inference.

But what you're claiming is the equivalent of having a “number inference” engine that can conclude that “x = 8” from “x = 4 * 2” - that's not “inference”, it's just evaluating a single expression. Actually, what Go has is even less than that, because Go's type checker doesn't need to reduce anything.
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> For all the loathing this idea gets, it's the only way to tell the market to "not be stupid".

No, the market will be just fine.

IoT is a fad. Much of it is just taking things that were simple and reliable and making them complex and flaky, in order to market as "smart" or "advanced" or "high tech".

Fire alarms that inexplicably run Linux. Thermostats that brick themselves one morning after an auto update. "Smart fridges" with a big touch screen that nobody will actually use. [1]

Buyers will get burned. IoT will lose its "wow" factor and all this will be seen, in hindsight, as comically unnecessary and embarassingly tacky. Consumer Reports will give out a bunch of black circles. The market will correct.

[1]: https://twitter.com/internetofshit
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Hey, you need to download 20MB (much of that executable code) in order to read 10,349 characters! It only makes sense that it would take 2,026 bytes to deliver each character you read.

Quit hating on JavaScript. It's the future of the web. The Future of the Web.
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Wouldn't taking Apple to small claims court be a very fast way to get you booted out the App Store entirely? I don't think those 500 copies would ever be worth that.
Given that it runs in an emulator, it could be that Win95 sees a higher resolution and the emulator scales it to fit it's screen size.
Yes, holding those seemingly at-odds positions is, in my opinion, both rational and morally/ethically defensible. I define the limits of my actions by what I believe to be morally and ethically defensible, not by what I think will be legally defensible. The law is no arbiter of what is right or good.

Yes, I consider all human life to be equal, whether it is the life of a loved one, a stranger, an asshole, or what-have-you.[1]

[1]: I'll admit that I have a difficult time coming up with a realistically successful non-lethal solution to the problem of individuals like Hitler, Stalin, et al. I admit the need for certain nuances, and find there to be a strong moral and ethical case to be made for removing a singular threat posed to millions of human lives. However, I still remain firm on the principle that taking a life, even of one such as Hitler, should be a last resort after all other options have been exhausted. And even then, I would hope the decision to be one that those who made it agonized over, and accepted with heavy hearts that they'd decided to kill.
Cosmetics is a cause that justifies itself, an escalation of "arms" that encourages others to race to the bottom in cosmetics spending, a race in which the richest are the fittest. There's no intuition for us to entertain the idea that a world without cosmetics is a world with less happiness or biological fitness, but this world would probably never happen.

Space travel, and with it, scientific understanding, space mining, and perhaps colonization, is an abstract thought that goes beyond thinking of local maxima, and that's what makes it deep, as opposed to the cosmetics arms race that is myopic in what it maximizes. That's what makes it shallow.

People naturally have many values, and these values often come in conflict. How we resolve these conflicts can demonstrate a direction toward broad vision and aforethought -- or shallow local maxima.

Anyways, I don't believe that the underlying point of cosmetics argument is about cosmetics. I think it's about the activity of moral posturing, as opposed to a sincere moral commitment toward moral results.
Yes. I actually came to think about that just recently. The whole scene popped into my mind when making coffee in the morning. It made me feel a bit dizzy actually, and it made me think of what other things that are looking more and more probable.

Anonymous-type groups posing in 3d avatars comes to mind.

I remembered that at the time,I found it implausible that it was possible to go online in Neuromancer without connecting to a fiber or something and that it was just handwaved away. He was right and I was wrong, it was not important.