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Ask HN: What has your experience been like with .NET Core RC2?
I'm currently working on an RC1 app and am trying to decide whether it's worth upgrading to RC2 or if it's another misstep like RC1. I'm sure there are others facing the same choice.

For those of you who have made the leap, what has your experience been like? Is RC2 easier to work with "legacy" full .NET class libraries? Is the new tooling more reliable? Is the Visual Studio integration more stable?
I've recently seen adverts for LED bulbs that (intentionally) lower the color temperature when they're dimmed.

Here is a 2013 article that goes into the technicalities a bit:

http://www.ledsmagazine.com/articles/print/volume-10/issue-1...
This article also doesn't mention the current U.S. law which says it is now illegal to sell incandescent bulbs across state lines. The law should have been written to mandate efficiency, not implementation. Now there must be a legal fight to allow incandescent bulbs again (for the U.S., at least).
This article takes a lot of liberty in promoting the idea that "secret updates" are actually a thing. Sterling Anderson simply says “We will often install an ‘inert’ feature on all our vehicles worldwide,” And from that, the author makes it out as some nefarious endeavor.
For those reacting to the headline and first few paragraphs:

>Tesla’s engineers initially test new self-driving software against those records. Any that perform well can also be tested by secretly installing them onto customer vehicles and watching how they respond to conditions on the road, although the software doesn't actually control the car.

>“We will often install an ‘inert’ feature on all our vehicles worldwide,” said Anderson. “That allows us to watch over tens of millions of miles how a feature performs.”

The article is sparse on details, but this little bit buried in the middle certainly seems to allay the fear I (and others here) immediately felt. It looks like Tesla tests software, then pushes it out without giving up any control of the car; the software simply logs what it would have done.

This is huge. No matter your in-house testing, there will always be bugs, but if Tesla can test software across 2 million miles a day, and in varied conditions, without any risks, I'd imagine a faster, less error-prone pipeline, leaps and bounds over the other teams.
Courageous post!
Personally I just integrate these checks into existing monitoring systems. For example, for sensu I use: https://github.com/sensu-plugins/sensu-plugins-ssl

Domain expiry is also another one people sometimes miss that should be integrated into existing monitoring.
> Exercise can't come close to making up for how calorie dense most of our 'convenient' packaged food is.

Clearly you don't lift :). Just a joke, and I agree that diet is very important for losing weight, but if you work out well you can live on 4000 calories a day without gaining fat.
Could Your Network Be Mining Bitcoin or Launching a DDoS Attack?
I believe owners sign a document at time of purchase permitting a wide variety of remote access and logging, but they can opt out if they wish.

Whether the owners are reading the privacy policy before agreeing to it is a different issue.

Source: https://www.teslamotors.com/about/legal
The flipside here is that Nokia was doomed anyway. Meego wasn't going to break the iOS/Android duopoly. Nokia was being destroyed by the success of the iPhone. It couldn't compete.

>Microsoft really loves to own and eventually destroy Nordic companies. (skype, minecraft, nokia)

Minecraft went from being neglected to even mismanaged to something that's alive again. Skype was originally Estonian, nor Nordic, and runs better than ever considering it doesn't rely on the charity of "supernodes" anymore. I can't remember the last time I had a dropped call or random quality drops.

I do agree MS shouldn't have picked up Nokia. It was a walking corpse and didn't help either entity in the end, but this is just business as usual. Playing up this "wild linux hackers vs The Man(TM)" is pretty out there. If you want a paycheck, the entity that pays you needs to make money. If MS didn't fire you, Nokia would have. MS is profitable. Nokia isn't.
Why does it matter if it's surprising? Science isn't meant to reveal surprising things. The purpose is substantiating or refuting hypotheses. The only relevance your expectation has to a scientific conclusion is in determining sources of bias.
LinkedIn called me a white supremacist because I happen to share a name with one
I think you're underestimating the value of the enormous Java/JVM ecosystem.

That said, I'm hoping to deploy my first Rust project to production soon. It's come a long way for being such a young language.
I guess I'm a DAO novice, but when I heard about an org with 150 million and it's NOT a deleware company, I wonder how the power dynamic changes when things go wrong. The company in that pdf had a huge disagreement over who was running that company. Board members were forced out. New CEO placed in. In DOA what takes the place of the deleware court when there is this type of fight?
That's what I was wondering. This article goes on and on about the data and technology, but doesn't address the blaring privacy issues.
Good points, I agree. It seems they're probably going for finance with that pricing model.
It's time to make America great again.
I think if it were actually a game things might be different. Miitomo is just a social toy with a strange mini game that can be played to win clothing.
> “Why do all the Black kids sit at the same table at school?” ... “Why is it no longer okay to say nr?"

WTF. Offensive or not these questions are plain dumb. He must have been trying to illicit a reaction from Makinde.

Reminds me of the SNL skit where Richard Pryor is being interviewed by Chevy Chase doing word associations.

https://vimeo.com/117983862
I believe that these 'inert' features are installed with regular software updates and simply not activated while they are tested.
I researched it some years ago and the precision was just too low. Furthermore I believe that it has to work REALLY well. In particular it is interesting to know if there would be some kind of health risk?

E.g. if the tracking is off (i.e. the predicted x,y coord differs from the target you had in mind with your gaze) I guess one would try to auto-correct the error by a slightly different gaze, i.e. looking slightly beneath the target. I am not sure if this is a problem or not?

We do not have this problem with the mouse, as we control it via relative speed and do not set specific x,c coords.

Maybe one could solve this by also tracking the head? E.g. make and educated guess via gaze tracking and let the user refine it with her ... nose. ;)
tl;dr

Can someone summarize? Is he just saying that free trade isn't the only way to maximize national wealth? That perhaps Beggar Thy Neighbor can help ones own country if others don't follow suit? It was too drawn out for me to read the whole thing and rebut.
America does have a "excessive portion size" problem per se, but "appropriate portion" should vary depending on what you are eating. In America, it often doesn't.

It's pretty easy to Google 2500+ calorie monstrosities that are served as a dinner in American restaurants. We have pastas with rich sauces (lots of butter, oils, or sugar), dishes with excessive cheese, and large amounts of deep fried ingredients... and many places serve a heck of a lot of this when you go out to eat.

Other countries have rich foods too, but my experience is that many cultures with very rich food often go light on the portion size (France comes to mind). Another set of countries have cuisine that normally is not very rich or excessively sweet (like you mention with Japan and the lack of sugary products). In many cases the food is flavored with spice instead of fats and sugars. For these type of foods, I bet you could easily match the portion size of one of those big American restaurant meals, and come nowhere near the calories.

Another factor that probably doesn't help here is that America seems more soda oriented than many cultures, and that excessive use of sugar even applies to other drinks all down the chain (my impression is that other cultures use way less sugar on coffee, tea, alcoholic cocktails...). It all adds up.
But when you're writing tests for an API that doesn't exist yet, isn't aiming for a good API almost inevitable? I mean, if you're inventing an API from scratch from the user perspective, you're almost bound to aim for something that makes sense, even if turns out to be hard to implement.

At least the way I write these tests, and I find it hard to think of another way, is to essentially write the usage examples of the documentation, except they're actually runnable.
The same company that manufacturers these for Walmart is called TCP and they sell the bulbs on Amazon as well. I've bought about 30 of them.

Pretty happy with them so far. The only problem I have had (as with all brands so far) is led bulbs seem to interfere with my garage door receiver signal (if placed right next to it).
Anyone could have sold 1 ETH for 8 USD, maybe, but that is very different from selling all ETH in a large account.
Update. Shapeshift refunded my overpayment. Apparently I read the instructions wrong. All good now.
Learn why we forked and merged pelican-octopress and pelipress
That behavior is the case with every social network. (which is what Miitomo is categorized; it is not in the Gaming category)
Famous Bugs:The bug that almost broke YouTube
>Few people remember the Nokia 770 was released almost 2 years ahead of the iPhone.

I owned one of these. It was an ugly, slow, expensive brick. I'd much rather use a Treo from that period. The iPhone was a wonderfully svelte device compared to either. I don't think you're appreciating how badly Apple beat up the Palm and Nokia competition back then. It was absolutely no contest and a disruption that was badly needed. Holding up the 770 as some under-appreciated jewel is fairly ridiculous. It was comically out of touch with consumers.
I assume the law is for products that can not be produced at all in India. There is nothing Apple does in China that it can't do in India. All the really high tech components come from Korea, Taiwan, etc.

Free trade aside this is a smart move for India: Apple has saturated the markets in the west and needs Asian consumers for future growth. It's been shut out of China despite being based there from a production standpoint. If India can force Apple to shift production to India in exchange for access to its consumers that would be a great coup.
I mean, sure, to some extent, that's true, but you can find exhortations to love your spouse and odes to marital love that are thousands of years old.
I fully agree that manufacturing is largely automated in Western nations, but I disagree with your assertion that hand crafted stuff will save us. $250 hand crafted goods are a tiny and shrinking part of our economy bought by wealthy individuals. This is not 5% of our labor force, nor is it 5% of our GDP.

Most the stuff we buy isn't stuff - it's services, lawyers, finance, insurance, health care. AI will dramatically reduce employment in every single one of those industries. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States#G...)
I suggest not buying a Tesla if you'd prefer not to agree to the software update ToS that permits this (its part of the purchase agreement, and opt out is available).

Tesla provides constant updates to the vehicle's functionality (which no other manufacturer offers). In return, they perform machine learning using acquired data (at no cost to you).

Fair trade. You are reading the ToS of everything you agree to, no?
The quest to be featured on the App Store
My argument is nothing of the sort. I am arguing that she was rich enough that money way not a compelling reason for her to choose the job if she didn't think she was likely to be successful.
> Most "basic" AI stuff like voice and image recognition was "a long way off" for like, forever. Every "advancement" in machine learning since the 50s ended up as a dud.

That was the general public's perception. Certain people in the field of ML knew such advances in application-specific domains such as voice and imagery would come at some point.

The difference between the application-specific solutions and general AI is top researchers don't have any real theories about general AI.

Even the OpenAI folks have toned down the rhetoric on their about page [1]. Their goal is no longer general AI, as Musk and Altman defined it at the outset. It's to contribute to existing developments. They write,

"In the short term, we're building on recent advances in AI research and working towards the next set of breakthroughs."

I can't explain my view any better in text. I've studied ML, ML researchers are nearest to AI, and they're all saying it isn't around the corner. They don't even have theories on how to make it truly general. Society will continue to see really great advances as a result of ML developments, but general AI isn't going to be one of them.

[1] https://openai.com/about/
As someone who used to hate tabs, a lot of older software, specifically Solaris, would fail in severe ways if spaces were used in Unix config files - indent vfstab with a space? Congrats, your box is unbootable.

I was NEVER TABS until someone else asked me to consider why, and now we use tabs for that reason: everyone can have their preferred width.
While not the main use of bank secrecy, I find it interesting that people rarely mention the benefit that bank secrecy provides those living in countries that are on the brink of civil war, that are not goverend by rule of law, or where fleeing is a real possibility in the near future...i.e. the assumption is usually that the governments seeking information on their citizens are the "good guys"
Or, more likely, didn't make the chunk of change they wanted ...
Our 1,000+ study groups are now 100% autonomous
> but mandating how code can be linked and excluding closed platforms (embedded, mobile) are horrible terms to have to adhere to.

Then you buy a commercial license. LGPL is serving it's purpose here just fine. Somebody has to pay for development. This is the incentive.
I thought the application for DAOs was far broader than setting up VC type corporations.

Another problem in general with blockchain technologies is that the power elite will eventually get around to trying to squash them. Anything that facilitates local businesses keeping value inside communities, businesses that don't give up value to the centralized monetary system, etc. will probably be targets.
> These configurations disable universal features, so the premise holds.

> These are browsers that choose parts of the standard hodge-podge and they suffer for it by not being able to display all pages.

So, the Web is not broken because all browsers which use a feature are able to display pages which use a feature — anyone who disables that feature is responsible for breakage due to pages using it, and anyone using a browser which doesn't support that feature is responsible for choosing such a browser.

Your logic would justify every vendor-lock-in attempt from Apple & Microsoft; it would support the idea that all the Internet's IE.

> But your expectations of how the Web should work are _broken_

No they most definitely are not. My expectations of how the Web should work are based on mathematical truth. REST is symbolic manipulation: it's correct in the way that only math can be.

> Whether it's 1996 or 2016, the only way your reality could come true is if there was an HTML-first programming style enforced universally.

Not HTML-first, resource-first. Figure out what your resources are, figure out how they are related, figure out what behaviour makes sense, then wire it all together. Once you have all your resources (images, HTML, whatever) working well, then feel free to wire it up with JavaScript.

HTML's power is that it is declarative, not imperative. It shares that character with plain text: when you read my words you do not give me root access to your brain. No-one should be forced to execute unknown, newly-served code in order to read a document.

When you require JavaScript, you break the Web. Please don't.
I wonder how much is also because they might be comparing apples to oranges: the guy with long-lived fluorescents sounds like he's using the traditional long tube kind, which are indeed known for very long lifespans, which is why they've been used in offices for many decades. The other guy complaining probably used CFLs, which are notorious for the cheap ones having very short lifespans, not because of the fluorescent bulb itself, but because of the cheap, crappy electronic ballast packaged inside. These bulbs almost always fail because of the electronics. On a traditional fluorescent system, the bulbs are just bulbs, with no electronics at all, and the ballast is a separate part that's built to last decades (the life of the fixture). Only the bulb is routinely replaced. When they went to CFLs, this changed, since they were trying to retrofit CFLs into sockets meant for incandescent bulbs, so they packaged a small electronic ballast into the base of the bulb assembly. And of course, to keep costs down, they massively cheaped out on the ballast electronics. With high voltages (needed to ionize the gas), it's easy for marginal components to fail early.
Yes, Stalin and Mao were at least enemies-of-our-enemies in WWII; and immediately after they became our direct enemies in the cold war (in which people died directly and in proxy wars, e.g., Korea, Vietnam).

My comment was not about one specific war, but about the general concept that some societies and ways of living are qualitatively and quantitatively better than others, and that people will willingly sign up to fight to preserve those societies, even knowing that being killed is a likely outcome.

As a simple quantitative measure, Google "Dictator Death Tolls", and you'll find Hitler in third place variously counted at 17-30 million, Stalin in 2nd at 23-40 million and Mao topping the charts at 60-78 Million -- people killed by their leadership.

As much as we complain about the inequities of our governments, every possible complaint utterly pales on contrast to those societies -- at least we can complain, or wear glasses, or be born into an unfavored family without being killed for it.

More to the point, when threatened with living under one of those regimes instead of ours, many sane people would eagerly sign up to fight, with full knowledge that they could die.

Signing up to fight for such a cause is considered noble far outside the bounds of Christianity cited by the GP, is the furthest thing possible from the "not knowing the consequences" and "following their naive emotions" cited by the GP, and the contempt with which the GP writes of those actions is simply wrong.
I just read this article & even skimmed the study, but I can't figure out what the relation of stress to code quality is. Poor quality is high stress? Or high stress means that you are meticulous and are likely to produce higher quality code?
As Sterling Anderson mentions at the beginning of his talk, all updates are opt-in. There isn't anything "Secret" about that part.
Video: http://events.technologyreview.com/emtech/digital/16/video/w...
Anyone who's used Nix for a while -- how does package availability compare to Homebrew or Macports? Other than the default.nix thing (which Homebrew also has a version of [1]) are there any other clear benefits to switching from Homebrew?

[1]: https://robots.thoughtbot.com/brewfile-a-gemfile-but-for-hom...
As long as there is nothing forcing people into it, I think it could be great.

We don't know what we don't know to paraphrase that famous romantic Donald Rumsfeld. Who knows if the person behind you on the rollercoaster or grabbing a taco might be the yin to your yang.

I just wish Waze could tell me who my ideal carpool partners might be.
That's a fair question, and again, I'd strongly suggest reading Smith. Chapters 8 and 10 of book one cover this in detail, and lay out numerous interesting arguments.

He's adamantly clear that the survival wage criterion is an absolute minimum. He also lays out what the story is, for the economy as a whole when this isn't met (his prolonged discussion of China).

He addresses (mostly in chapter 10) additional considerations which raise the value of some work. Something technical workers and contractors would do well to read.

Smith discusses the matter of elements which had been considered luxuries but which are, by the custom of a nation, essentials. That would include, in most developed countries, electricity, running water, sewage, residential gas (possibly), phone and Internet service, a fixed postal address, reliable transportation, and the like.

What Smith doesn't mention (excusably) nor Robert Gordon (in The Rise and Fall of American Growth) somewhat less so, is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. You'll frequently see (including sadly here on HN) arguments that the existence or ownership of a cellphone or smartphone somehow indicates someone isn't poor. While Gordon does* correctly point out that predictability and reliability of income is crucial to a middle-class existence, he fails to note that Maslow's pyramid cannot be built from the top down. Providing for safety and security, food, clothing, and shelter are the minimum.

I've explored Smith and Maslow more at my subreddit / Lair of the Id, you might enjoy reading articles there: https://dredmorbius.reddit.com
> 5% of people who know what they're doing (or have private information) and eat everyone else's lunch.

Ah, the myth of the expert investor. Time and again, it's been proven that the experts don't pick stocks better than an index fund. If they did, managed funds would do better than index funds.

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/06/26/index-funds-trounce-actively-...
Frankly "active" storage is all manner of scary when you get down to it, as you have not the first clue what the firmware etc sitting between the CPU and the actual bits can get up to.
Ask HN: How to learn C in 2016?
I would love to teach myself some C and wonder if there is something better/faster than good old Ritchie's C book.
"No way"? In a lot of place you can get a 1500 sq ft house for under $150k.

https://www.discover.com/home-loans/blog/how-expensive-is-yo...

At current interest rates you can make payments on a $150k home if you make $15/hr.

http://michaelbluejay.com/house/howmuchhome.html

Where in the country can you not make $15/hr by age 26?
Many modern cars have an "event data recorder" that holds information about pretty much everything when you're driving. Admittedly they only hold about 30 seconds worth of information (in case you crash) but the point here is that tracking what you do isn't a new thing and expanding the period the data is held for would be trivial.
This has been around for years
US military uses 8-inch floppy disks to coordinate nuclear force operations
While stress levels might be some degree of indicator, there are lot of other things that should make this kind of thing practically useless. Skill level/experience is going to make a really big difference.
> curl https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh

Stop doing this.

Look, even if you are rolling your eyes and thinking, "it's https and I'm not Ed Snowden, I think I can afford the risk for the benefit of an easy install process", what happens if curl is interrupted? Are you excited at the prospect of a half-ran install script that you didn't even look at?
Pollan's quote could even be a good bumper sticker.
It seems like a prenup preemptively protecting assets that do not exist would be rather difficult both to write and to enforce.
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2013/03/20/174...