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I can't see how you could say C is dead when there isn't really anything that can replace it.

I'll take it as dead when the Linux kernel, or it's futuristic replacement, is written in something other then C.

If you are talking about at the user-space level, then yes I can see that. But you shouldn't assume your single use case, higher level user space apps, is the only use case.
If you're really curious, Facebook released the internal trending curation guidelines for anyone to read.[0]

[0]https://fbnewsroomus.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/full-trendi...
My personally favorite one is Trump And The Empty Jewelry Box Scam
EgyptAir Flight 804 disappears – Paris to Cairo with 69 people on board
I think Municipalities should have the power of arbitrary veto. As a resident of Sunnyvale I do not want more housing projects to come in Sunnyvale, this helps me keep my property prices higher, have less traffic, less people and less crime. Also high income people tend to also improve the quality of public schools.

I do not want state government to arbitrary force their views on our cities. Let the cities decide for themselves.
This childish rant is embarrassing. With millions and millions of lines of C code basically running the internet and of vital importance to countless devices, calling it a s*y language is beyond ridiculous.
About $3 a day, with only 700 views a day. I'm happy with that ratio.
> I want a test. Step one: Name 3 people in your primary and name 3 in the opposing party's primary. Who is your party chair? Who's in the majority in the house? Who're the senate majority and minority leaders?

I don't know those last two for sure. I don't really care about the minutiae of what happens in the morally bankrupt and corrupt US government, but I am politically informed. If I vote it'll be for Jill Stein. Should my vote not count because I failed this test?
Nice job with Firebase! I've got a friend who is an entry-level front-end developer, and he was able to develop this grocery list app with Firebase on his own: https://collaboralist.github.io/ (source code: https://github.com/KidIcarus1337/collaboralist), attesting to Firebase's claim of providing a Backend-as-a-Service.
They're both still single malts, so a long way from tosh like Johnny Walker blends which are awful even with a stated age. :)

I've only tried the Ardbeg, and it's nice enough, but I'd call it a bit rough round the edges. Like tptacek, I'm wary of no-age, but if they get good enough to pass for long age complexity but bring them into my price range...
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11722185
From the sounds of it, the reason people are calling for a lawsuit is the typical War On Drugs approach: Without reasonable suspicion, they did a field test (known to be faulty). Without probable cause or any corroborating evidence, they falsely accused her of a crime. They then treated her as guilty until proven innocent (which violates our social standards of morality). And they topped it off by threatening violence in the form of kidnapping her newborn baby.

That's quite a bit more than merely unprofessional. Something like a stray sarcastic comment or slightly distasteful joke might be unprofessional. This sort of behavior, on the other hand, quite possibly should be illegal and should have consequences.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10883282
But that's sort of the point.

Which ever distillery decides to pay him off in any given year gets declared 'world's greatest whiskey' and suddenly sells out and then comes back on the market at triple the price...
A humble request to help a failed entrepreneur
Germany, France, and Britain use a form of so called "right to remain silent," but the prosecutor is allowed to submit silence as evidence of guilt in and of itself.

That is extremely different than a prohibition against self-incrimination.

In France, you actually have to take the stand at trial. However, if you do so under the coercion of the court, you cannot be prosecuted for perjury for anything you say during your testimony. So essentially you can lie, in matters both small and large.
I thought it was aged in bourbon and finished in sherry. Either way, the 16 sherry cask was noticeably better.
Here is a free tip to rapid agrers - add sunlight. Putting a bottle of good stuff in the sun for the summer destroys it. But it smooths out the rough stuff a lot. Source - forgot some bottles of cheap scotch on the balcony in my college days.
The article points to cases especially where mixed or degraded samples can be interpreted incorrectly as the technician is forced to make a judgement call. This actually seems amenable to statistical analysis to me however, so I'm wondering why that doesn't happen here. You should still be able to assign probabilities based on the evidence.

Perhaps they still present things like 60% or 40% chance of match to the jury and they just hear "DNA match" and tune out the rest. I've said this before but I'm beginning to suspect that along with a public defender there should be a public forensic scientist assigned to defendants.
"Crap in the air" tends to precipitate. In Alaska, over either an ocean or an area in which no one lives.
I don't see an issue at hand of not investing in big ideas. In fact it has become clear that what has been invested in was ideas alone with insufficient substance.

But for healthcare there is a simple golden rule: Primum non nocere - First do no harm.

Theranos has broken this rule in an absolutely egregious way. I would hold no issue if they failed and that was that. It would be upsetting if someone got hurt because of some failures which were not picked up by regulatory adherence, but sometimes things happen and I wouldn't hold it against them. But to willfully hide the inaccuracy and poor performance of your healthcare product? To allow it to be marketed to doctors and the public as just as effective and accurate as existing tests?

I'm not certain if it is criminal, but I believe it at the very least should be. The individuals who have caused this to happen should be held responsible.

As for the uBeam & Theranos comparison, I don't believe it to be completely fair to Theranos. Had they had more time and not horribly cut corners as they had, then perhaps Theranos would have become the billion dollar world changing company it was hyped to be. There is still plenty of research and science that needs to be conducted in microfluidics before we can conclusively declare weather or not it can work.

But uBeam was dead on arrival. The core assumptions could be challenged with a basic understanding of physics. There's a big difference between, we don't know how to do something because the science is still being collected vs we know this won't work. Investors fell in love with a cavalier founder that had rebuffed the experts.
Extinction is only a macro-phenomenon?
As a developer in the Ethereum space this idea has actually been something I've thought about a lot. It's on a list of things that I'm looking out for because they will inevitably happen.

1. Like you said, a bug will cause the "effective" theft of a huge amount of funds.

2. Someone will make a contract that unexpectedly makes a huge amount of money. That contract however will have absolutely no mechanism for extracting this money, forever locking the money it makes away beyond reach of anyone.

3. Someone will make a contract that the American government has deemed illegal. That contract will have been made such that there is no off switch. The only possible way for them to stop it would be to convince the majority of the network to remove it via a protocol update. I expect they will not be able to get this majority and thus we have an unstoppable force meets immovable object situation.

4. Ethereum will have it's `npm` left-pad moment when a contract that is used widely is suddenly suicided. The number of down stream effects will be enormous. Most of them will be unfixable.
ASIC stands for "application specific integrated circuit" and the name conveys a special purpose design of an integrated circuit, like for example bit coin mining.

But that's just terminology/convention. One could argue a GPU is an ASIC, and a CPU is an ASIC. The only thing to argue is how specific does an application have to be to call it an ASIC instead of some other made up name.

The prime differentiators are the process, which is the term used for the many steps of fabrication of an IC (processes are often referred to as nodes, distinguished by the smallest feature size of a transistor they create), and the ability of the design engineers to create an optimal design, in terms of boolean logic and semiconductor physics.

Given the right team of engineers, and a top notch foundry, and a great deal of experience in the problem domain (machine learning in this case), a custom IC could very likely trounce a GPU.

GPUs were designed for the domain of graphics processing, which happens to have some commonality with the processing in machine learning. But, at least until recently, GPUs weren't focused on machine learning. Just graphics.

Now the GPU vendors are trying to leverage their knowledge of graphics processing and building of graphics processors to create machine learning processors, but the thing they are leveraging could also be what handcuffs them. Which gives opportunity for a company like Google to do a fresh take on the problem domain without the baggage of the knowledge of graphics processing.
Oh, sorry, I misunderstood.
More realistically, I see AR increasingly taking the form of your "main screen" with notifications, browser windows, etc. all accessible from there and just taking up visual space in your FOV. If you decide you want to focus on work or engage in another more immersive experience (movie watching, gaming, etc.), you slip into VR mode and suddenly the distractions are gone.

Yes. The games and immersive videos are cool, but I'm even more looking forward to replacing almost all dedicated displays with a pair of normal-looking glasses.
I am not familiar with the actual laws involved in this kind of case. If it were proven that a Theranos tests harmed a patient and that Theranos willingly obscured the accuracy data to regulars could Holmes be held criminally liable?
At a simple level, they are researching the company and then publishing their findings to convince others to invest in the company. Generally, the more demand there is for the shares, the more money the investment bank makes for conducting the share offering. So, the research arm has something of a (perceived, at least) motivation to publish research which supports a high level of demand.
Date validation with the Reform gem
How to build a *secure* realtime app using appbase.io and ACLs
I also have stopped flying altogether due to invasion of privacy and feeling like cattle PLUS now that there are long lines, the chance of tempers flaring is real. Just witness the violence and hatred in the streets of America these days and watch how the police are unable to control riots...YES RIOTS...we no longer have protesters...protests are now riots. Airport crowding combined with invasion of privacy, impatience & anger = disaster waiting to happen. TSA is the terrorist here.
A change-positive Ruby web application architecture
Websockets cannot be as efficient as native network management code.
Uber Stumbling in Asia?
I just renamed my user, too, but I kept the same directory. No issues for the past month or so.
Kind of like "collateralized debt obligation", a.k.a. shit wrapped in shit.... circa 2008.
It seems running your original code through the closure compiler shaves it down to 488 max.

The closure compiler doesn't respect arrow functions, so I'm assuming that'd have to be changed manually.
It makes literally no sense for the Hey Siri functionality to do that. This is just a very slightly altered version of "it's an internet-enabled device with a microphone, it could be hacked and told to turn on its microphone remotely", which is a legitimate, if fairly paranoid, complaint that applies to all such devices, even fully open-source and open-hardware ones.
"In restricted grammar mode"

That's a key limitation, though.

But we're getting close to the point where you can do some of this. For example - http://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.03185.pdf - LSTM speech recognition running on a Nexus 5.

The more serious problem with this is that it's going to be expensive -- and somewhat wasteful. There's a lot of pressure to keep consumer devices as cheap as possible, and the cloud is an awesome way to do that. Having shared cloud-based infrastructure for the speech recognition as opposed to putting it into every device (even though it's only used for ~5 minutes every day) is probably a lot cheaper. Consider the hardware in an Amazon Echo:

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Amazon+Echo+Teardown/33953

256MB DRAM and a TI DSP: http://www.ti.com/product/dm3725 with a single Cortex-A8 core (about $23 + a smidgeon for the dram)

vs. a Nexus 5 (2GB DRAM, 4 core 2.2Ghz Krait 400) -- the N5 has roughly 8x the DRAM and compute of the CPU in the Echo.

Would you pay an extra $150 for a LocalEcho that still had to send most of your queries to a search engine for resolution, or to a cloud music service for music? (You & I might, but most consumers wouldn't.)
Seems to be. Funny though how I've never watched it and construction is my #1 mental escape for burn out. #2 is military.
Hey Chris, as you know, we have no problem with you distributing our GPL software through the app store.

Most of your communication has centered around asking us to change the license on our source base to something other than the GPL. We like the GPL for the quality control that it provides. If someone publicly says that they're using our software, we want to see if they've made any changes, and whether they're using it correctly.

You don't like the GPL because you feel that it is incompatible with the Apple App Store, despite our feelings to the contrary. If you'd like to do the work of developing a strong copyleft version of the GPL that you feel is appropriate for use in the app store, and get it OSI approved, we'd certainly look at using that.

As for documentation, there has never been a protocol called AxolotlV2. There was TextSecure, the crypto layer of which has evolved into Signal Protocol. We'd like to get this better documented so that people without crypto expertise can integrate it without having to talk to us, but that's a pretty heavy task that comes with a massive amount of responsibility, and some parts of this are still evolving. It's a priority, but we are taking the time to do it right, and hopefully we'll have more to publish this year.

We haven't patented any of the concepts here, and we've done a lot to explain and popularize them. We're happy for people to use these concepts to build their own implementations of similar protocols, but we don't want people slapping things together and calling that Signal Protocol.
In what way, specifically, is Rust unsuitable for building a kernel?

There's no argument that the Linux kernel is currently written in C. But that doesn't prove that nothing exists that can replace C.
Off-topic, but The Guardian's article landing page really needs to be cleaned up: http://i.imgur.com/3LGXU7g.png

I can't make heads or tails of what I'm supposed to pay attention to.
> I think Hacker News should be better than this.

I don't think it should. I think us pretending that we are some group of regal statesmen is a bunch of pretentious bullshit.

Being civil is preferable, but not if it means being fake.

People aren't any less "mean" on HN, they're just good at bullying in more subtle ways, and we are all worse off for it.
Do you also believe you should get food stamps?
So Google is trying to collect the data necessary to impersonate the text-conversational style of anybody who uses their new app. Interesting.
My original comment actually included a bit about how common knowledge is that Valve can and does lock you out of your Steam account if you issue a chargeback, but I decided not to include it because it's really just hearsay (I don't know anyone personally who has experienced this).
This is not what disruption looks like. This is what happens when you have someone with no domain expertise, but a great idea. We're seeing the same thing happening with Zenefits. Founders with no domain experience need to look at how they're going to enter a market full of incumbents. These incumbent businesses have survived for years because they know how to play the game. They have people in their employ that know how to lobby the right regulatory bodies. Theranos had none of this. So when all of this started coming down, they should have hired the most well-known and respected person in their field to bridge the gap between the past and future. Without that, they are outsiders playing in a game that has been around forever. They were set up for failure before they even began and no one was smart enough to ask "How will they disrupt an industry that has been around for decades?" Just saying, "We're going to make medical tests cheaper and more accessible" was clearly not the right answer.
Why do so many people hate US airports? (2015)
Asbestos was also used in millions of buildings and was vitally important as insulation. It was also something that was a bad idea and something that we needed to move away from.
FWIW it seems ipv6 is working (for some definition of working) at my house now :-)
No, not if they are just acting as a broker.
Burning wood is not carbon zero. It is the reverse of carbon sequestration in the sense that atmospheric CO2 was once converted to wood by the tree, and now the wood is being burned and the captured carbon release back into the atmosphere.

That could be nearly carbon zero (I don't know the contributions from soil and what mass remains as ashes, etc..), except when you consider the opportunity cost.

That burned tree, presumably healthy just prior, loses the ability to sequester any more carbon. A burned tree puts carbon in the atmosphere AND removes a carbon sequesterer simultaneously. That act is removing X amount of future sequestration until the tree would have naturally died and turned to soil. At that point most of that carbon would still be in solid form and not in the atmosphere.

I'm nitpicking at this point, but I lean toward burning wood as not carbon zero for the sake of opportunity cost.
I can't from this whether you are asking an honest question or if you can't google "define:serviceable", or can't google "corn whiskey" and see the first result in either case.
Unless specifically cleared by a deidentification expert as provided in 45 CFR 164.514(b)(1), this doesn't meet the requirements of HIPAA for deidentification of information derived from PHI, since it does not remove "All elements of dates (except year) for dates directly related to an individual, including birth date, admission date, discharge date, date of death" [0], in that it includes the specific month of the test.

[0] 45 CFR 164.514(b)(2)(i)(C)
I wrote seek algorithm firmware for Quantum's Atlas series of SCSI disk drives

Are you aware of anything at all like that which is opensource/published? This sounds like something that could be fascinating to read.
Android now runs on androids
Trees die. Decomposing, or burning, gives off all the carbon they soaked up.
EGYPTAIR A320 Disappears from Paris to Cairo
Pretty quick implementation.

On the energy savings and space savings front, this type of implementation coupled with the space-saving, energy-saving claims of going to unums vs. float should get it to the next order of magnitude. Come on, Google, make unums happen!
Kernel hackers will definitely keep it alive, even if you manage to avoid every other hugely prolific C codebase out there. Being an arcane skill makes it an appealing skill to learn. There's more kernel jobs then there are university graduates capable of properly writing C.
You know what? It's not part of my argument that I'm above all the vitriol and venom in amateur secure messaging. You're doing a fine job of positioning yourself right in the middle of it as well. As long as the typical HN reader leaves this thread understanding how much bullshit drama is attached to this field, I don't really care one way or the other what their opinion of me is.

The knives are out for Signal. It's not hard to see that. Of the "independent" messaging schemes, Signal is probably the only one that has a chance of relevance 5 years from now. Everyone else is working on something that will be a checkbox feature for Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook in less time than that.

I'm happy about that. Clearly, not everyone else is.
Maybe this made Zed feel better, but communicates almost nothing to any outside reader.

Yes. I can't figure out exactly what he's ranting about. He writes "I will make it clear that my version of C is limited and odd on purpose because it makes my code safe." Does this mean he defined a safer subset of C? (There are lots of those. I've taken a crack at that myself [1], but it's politically hopeless. Rust is the way forward.)

Why would anyone want to write K&R C today? It's awful. It didn't even check function parameter types. Struct fields were just offsets; you could use one on a pointer of the wrong type and the compiler wouldn't complain. (Considering that Pascal predated C by some years, and had a sane type system, this was kind of lame. But they were trying to compile in 64K of 16 bit words in one pass. That was an adequate excuse in the 1970s.) The first ANSI C at least had a sane type system.

[1] http://www.animats.com/papers/languages/safearraysforc43.pdf
No fears; I don't find it the least bit belittling when people assert factually incorrect things.

I don't know what you mean by "direct persons personal data". If it is supposed to mean that correlations don't reveal information that people would prefer to be kept private, either in general or specifically about my friend's results with Google ads, well, that's also wrong. I'm getting the feeling, though, that this is becoming unproductive.
Over a long enough time frame, all bureaucracies become institutions whose only goal is the continued growth and accumulation of resources ( to be used for the continued growth of the bureaucracy itself), not for the original purpose of the bureaucracy.
Makes sense. Could you instead apply a DC bias to the AC power jack?
Tomorrow’s Wings
Wouldn't there be 4 conductors, so resistance would be half when you pair them together?
This smells more like an aquihire. FitBit doesn't need any of Coin's IP to provide payment functionality in their wearables.
I overlooked that Army command part. Might be my memory loss from injury since every reference I'm digging up has Army on it. Tks for reminder. I know there's a joint NSA/CIA group similar to TAREX with human assets and CIA capabilities since I used to track them. It's possibly ever secretive Special Collection Service (SCS) mentioned here:

http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB506/

It's Sentry Osprey in ECI leaks that mentions TAREX and CIA assets. So, my memory was right. SCS is just a hunch, though, as it's a natural collaboration point that has massive SIGINT resources too.

https://theintercept.com/document/2014/10/10/national-initia...

Far as NSA vs CIA, I'm well aware of that. CIA's history back to Wild Bill is well-documented. Here's NSA's in case you missed the declassification:

http://usafssdad.com/files/The-Early-History-of-NSA.pdf

Note: This tangent gone on too long so I'm backing out. Hope the docs are enlightening. Thanks for your tips.