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Come on over in August when my garden tomatoes are ripe.

Not even in the same league.
High production values, they even shot on location.
When it started applying to Chinese companies
Ask HN: Why do sites give login page (instead of marketing) when I return?
I wanted to show someone an app I use but had to open the page in incognito just to get the marking page to show up.

I can find the login button just fine! I don't understand why they feel the need to save me the click.

Is there some sort of important metric I'm missing that makes this an amazing pattern for UX?
I don't read Chinese and the patent isn't translated. Anyone have any idea what Apple violated? It's interesting, in a country where you HAVE to give up IP to competing companies to enter the market, that there can be any IP disputes - considering much of what Apple has done is directly copied into Chinese goods.

If that rule didn't exist, China would be a 3rd world economy still stuck making shitty goods.
"People are in a shared TV-viewing area. There is something being shown on TV. New person enters and decides to change the channel without asking.
This is the action of a total dickhead."

If it were a random situation, perhaps. If it is the established norm that a specific program is watched at a specific time, not so much.
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Show HN: Slight change to HN bookmarklet that might help with headlines
After reading a few comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11921976

I thought I would try to improve the HN bookmarklet code. I think only time will tell if this is an improvement or not. Thoughts? What to try it yourself?

It's not fool proof and I'll have to see if it actually results in me editing submitted story headlines less often or not. It basically takes the substring of the document title from the start until it finds the first hypen (-) or pipe (|) which are what seems like most sites use when appending the site name.

New bookmarklet code:

javascript:window.location="http://news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u="+encodeURIComponent(document.location)+"&t="+encodeURIComponent(document.title.substring(0,document.title.search(/[-|]/)).trim())
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Disagree. Over time, there will be less and less human intervention and people will be able to rely on a system of contracts assembled from tested and trusted components. And avoid expensive litigation fees.

Look, self-driving cars required humans to take over and require updates to deal with new challenges -- until they don't, or very rarely do.
But wouldn't the decision between life and death take some of the responsibility of that person. For example basing on a fact that I have been forced or I would have been killed. I am just curious!

Also, it is amazing how words in Deutsch become so long. It is hard for my eyes to detect the parts.
What happens if you built a Qt app and used Qt Web Engine for the entire app, would you complain?

Do you complain about Steam, GOG, or one of the other 1000 apps that use Qt or what ever GUI kit and then just use an embedded browser for 90% of the app?
Learn BASIC, or AutoIt. Both simple languages that you can do simple and complex things with as you gain in experience.
Why wasn't it an unsigned int?
Why Google picked its Zurich lab to expand AI and machine learning research
Every reasonable chat platform had bots since as long as i can think back. It was just natural that now with better AI there would be more interest in those again. Surely mostly because the mainstream clients finally created APIs.
When not caring affects them negatively.

China is not that different from the west in that respect in many cases. They are making massive strides in certain areas of renewable energy and other environmental issues because it started affecting the bottom line by a mix of costs to the economy (through public health issues and related) & international reputation (as far as that affects investment from outside) and uncertainty in the economy (due to predicted problems otherwise sourcing enough fossil fuels at reasonable cost in the not too distant future if things keep growing at the intended rate).

Companies and governments care when it costs them not to.
Play the patent game and you are bound to lose in the end, with no high tower to go preaching from about how their patents are trivial.

That said, I'm sure apple can afford to pay or lawyer their way out of this.
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"the author is encouraging the conversion of traditional web pages to single-page web applications, which means that users would now have to download actual software to use the website rather than using the software that they already have and trust: their web browser."

You mean sort of like every web page that uses javascript?

I agree, that is alarming. Unfortunately, the horse on that has long ago run out of that stable, and most people don't seeem to care.
Growing up in Northern Europe I spent the first ~19-20 years of life believing I didn't like tomatoes. Then one day when I was in Italy I had a tomato bought from a local farmers stall in some small village and realized that I tomatoes can be awesome.

Still don't like most tomatoes available at supermarkets though.
(a) just because a language has more advanced things doesn't mean they have to get used (b) the history of this industry is full of 'simple' languages that produced all sorts of terrible results, practices, and habits.
Even if we agree that Ethereum is still in its early stages we have to ask whether this response is setting a good or bad precedent going forward.

Will the project leadership offer a soft- and/or hard-fork every time a poorly-implemented smart contract is exploited in a manner that is not intended by the contract creators?

If every smart contract is going to be "guaranteed" in this way, then this introduces significant overheads for the project and can also create moral hazard.

Alternatively, if only some contracts are "guaranteed" but not others, this can introduce opportunities for favouritism or discrimination...

Are cases only considered when they affect the ether price or where there is personal involvement with the contract? Is that fair?

Interventions and their resolution can also quickly get politicized just like the bank bailouts from the financial crisis.

It is not clear this is setting a good precedent.

Edit: reworded for clarity
Chinese brands get constantly harassed by Apple lawyers in the US about patents. Now that China is an important market for Apple, I find it hard to feel sorry for Apple getting a taste of their own medicine.
One thing I'll say for Ethereal - the problems they have read like the flavor text from a Vernor Vinge novel.
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Ask HN: Good books for learning software design patterns?
Hi HN! I'm looking for book recommendations for design patterns like microservices, factories, repositories, etc. What books to you recommend on the subject?
And it is still not available outside US in the app store.
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Rather than ``sortRectsByArea`` I'd rather have a generic ``sort`` that supports a Schwartzian transform, like Python's ``sorted(stuff, key=transform)``.

Function or method names that postfix the mode onto the verb, like "parse_from_file", are usually an indication that the design could be improved by creating a consistent interface for the various modes. Sometimes it's better to provide a handful of modes, but I always double-check when I see myself writing names like that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwartzian_transform
[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#sorted
the opposite:

HOWTO: write bad documentation that looks good

http://thelaird.us/k5/section-slurp/k5-tech/2003-9-29-104212...

(archived from kuro5hin)
> You do realize the patent isn't just the title right? Did you really think that they didn't mention anything in a 73 claim patent that rules out satellites or GPS? Or did you not bother to even look at the thing before you decided, conclusively, it wasn't worth a damn?

I'll admit I didn't read the entire patent claim, although I did spend a couple minutes with it.

> And how is developing a business to sell these to the military submarining it?

I didn't say they submarined anything. That was a genera comment about how patents hold even when the "inventor" (and not many patents these days are actual inventions) decides to not develop their invention. It's a license to lock an idea away.

> If your standard of "mild improvement" includes replacing satellites with astronomical costs to launch and operate with weather balloons that are sometimes within the monetary reach of high school physics programs, then yes, I think that's a sufficient improvement to be worthy of some protection.

They used weather balloons (already invented) and put a mesh network on them (already invented). To your own comment, it's not like anyone could come in and develop it from under them - it is costly, and that keeps competition at bay. But I still do not see where you think this deserves some exclusivity.

> Like I said, I'd be more sympathetic to your viewpoint if you bothered to even skim it.

Feeling any sympathy yet? :)

> I think the more interesting factor here is the claims surrounding a meeting with an NDA

NDA's almost always say things like this (from an NDA we've signed):

"Limitation on Obligations. The obligations of the Recipient specified in Section 4 shall not apply, and the Recipient shall have no further obligations, with respect to any Proprietary Information to the extent that such Proprietary Information:
(a) is generally known to the public at the time of disclosure or becomes generally known without the Recipient or its Representatives violating this Agreement;
(b) is in the Recipient’s possession at the time of disclosure;
(c) becomes known to the Recipient through disclosure by sources other than the Disclosing Party without such sources violating any confidentiality obligations to the Disclosing Party; or
(d) is independently developed by the Recipient without reference to or reliance upon the Disclosing Party's Proprietary Information."

So basically, if Google was already thinking about balloon grid networks, and wanted to see if they could collaborate with this company, then ballon grid networks are not covered under the NDA. Nor is anything else Google was considering prior to this meeting, that happened to be analogous. Likely if there is discovery, it will focus on this.
> administratively adjusted

That sounds like a terrible amount of power to give someone without a vote.
I've visited Züch many times. Enough to know that if I was a newly minted PhD in AI and machine learning, I'd easily been convinced to move to the university-inspired, cultural and cosmopolitan city of Zurich.
The serverless architecture appears to have many servers provided by different people instead of having no servers, as "serverless" leads me to think. Is this just trading wrangling a server farm for wrangling contracts with 3rd party service providers?

Am I missing something?
These are the little planes which fly tourists between Kathmandu and Lukla airport (with its notoriously short runway) when you go trekking in the Himalayas.

http://www.markhorrell.com/blog/2011/the-lukla-flight-is-it-...
Wow this is actually pretty interesting...
IMO it's more like strawberries or something similarly delicious than it is like oatmeal.

Strawberries are a commodity. They're also great, and liked by nearly everyone. We are all better off for being able to go down to the grocery store and pick up a box of strawberries for a few bucks. That's worth a huge amount, even if it may not express itself within our lives in direct monetary terms.

If Montreal-like neighborhoods were ubiquitous then we might not find it special, but we'd still enjoy it and benefit from it enormously.

To recast it in tech terms, ubiquitous internet connectivity is surely worth trillions, even though it's a total commodity that people basically don't care about unless it breaks. It was a lot more special back when it was rare (I still remember my first taste in a university computer lab) but it's a lot more valuable now.
Do you think you can open source the broker integration code? Currently there's a dearth of such libraries
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Please use JPGs that are not bigger than 50kB. More than 20 3MB images was about to eat my daily 3G data cap
It sounds like you're looking for Scheme (well, except for the "less powerful" stuff).
Canada experiments with digital dollar on blockchain
> so he offers to double the landowner's investment, giving them an $8 million dollar profit...and they don't accept.

Being able to tell Larry Ellison to &#%@ off? Some things are priceless.
What concerns me is that they want to do a soft-fork to handle just this case. One shouldn't fiddle with the protocol every time something like this happens.
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Also, wider streets tempt drivers to pass unsafely, while narrow streets make it clear that you simply can't pass and are stuck behind the cyclist.
Infer and track types. Just as was described in the parent post.
The 'death' of antibiotics? Soil depletion? Hopefully mankind can scrape together the energy & resources to tackle a few existential risks concurrently
Yeah, I know what a proxy measure is.

That's not what the OP said, though.
> The suggestions you mentioned all have substantial negative impacts

Not eating meat, invest Hyper Loop high speed ground travel, home solar, electric cars, dramatically raise air travel cost, stop cutting down tropical forests, and stop burning coal. These are all doable, and with minimal quality of life impact. If a life is ruined because they can't have a McQuarterPounder, a Chevy big block, and flying to Texas every week, maybe they deserve a scorched planet where the trees are paper products, the water is plastic and fracking residue, and all the large animals are dead.

I realize I'm over simplifying but doing NOTHING is a lot different than doing trying something anything with minimal return. We are doing nothing. That's sad.
My knee-jerk reaction is to say the libertarians rarely have power during crises anyway, and democracy insures that those who "do nothing" lose their power in the face of interventionist opponents come election time.

Not that they were libertarians, but the presidents during the 1920-21 Depression[1] acted slowly, and the economy bounced back incredibly quickly. From the article: However, by the time Harding had called his conference, the country's economy had already shown signs of rebound, and by 1922 was starting the economic boom of the 1920s[13] and merely allowed for President Harding to claim success.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depression_of_1920%E2%80%9321
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11921900.
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Very similar to how I design a game for Ludum Dare. Of course, I do this in the first hour after they announce the theme.
> > do you deny that the brain has to set in motion the muscular activities in advance?

> What do you mean by "in advance"? What does that mean? That's an empty phrase. In advance to what? When it moves the arm to catch the ball it moves to what is there right now.

It mean it according to the standard meaning of that phrase. It's not empty.

Here's an example to illustrate my point. It's simplified to make the point easier to understand.

The ball is moving.

At time T, the ball is at position X.

At time T the brain has received the visual information about the ball at X. It then processes this information. The amount of time this processing takes is A1.

It is now time T+A1. The ball is has moved on to position X2.

At time T+A1 the brain sends signals S to the muscles. This takes A2 amount of time to reach the muscles.

It is now time T+A1+A2. The ball is now in position X3.

The muscles do their contractions for reaching out and grabbing. This takes A3 amount of time to happen.

It is now time T+A1+A2+A3. The ball is now in position X4.

The brain started this process when the ball was at position X, and had to determine the signals S to send to the muscles based on details of the ball being at position X. But when those signals actually play out the ball is at position X4.

.

What I'm talking about is extremely elementary - it is simply the fact that perceptual+cognitive processing, plus nerve signals, plus the actions of muscles all take time! What you and the others are arguing would essentially require the absurd notion that it all happens instantaneously.

[EDIT: fixed some wording]
And still there are likely numerous stories that are not on Wikipedia, because of their rule against "original research".

Makes one wonder if there should be an attempt at setting up a wiki for personal stories and such, as i doubt blog services have any dedication to preservation.
This is OT now, but in addition to the corruptive effects of traders influencing results they are betting on mentioned by mootothemax, another possible negative externality is the conservative effect the prediction market would have on the traders. Eg. if you got a whole population to bet on the market, suddenly it is in the interest of the majority to uphold past predictions, thus making society resistant to change.
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All of my friends, family and co-workers use Hangouts. It's the only messenger I'm using.
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DarkForest: Deep learning engine for playing Go from Facebook research
Why aren't PGP and SSH keys popular as a second factor for authentication?
I wonder if the same people would say that Atom or Visual Studio Code is a "web app."
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I think the patent is too broad it could potentially prevent any company from putting any communication technology on balloons.

Plus how long should an NDA be preventing you from doing something you've been considering partnership with another company to do.

Any serious technology company would have iterated on their technology so much in 8 years that most of the information disclosed may not even be true any more.

It's also unclear weather any information gained by signing the NDA was actually used in the implementation of Project Loon.
"And now the gods of destiny smiled on Henry Ford. With the three-judge federal appeals court, he finally won vindication. The case opened on November 22, 1910, and the judges handed down their decision on January 9, 1911. They ruled that the Selden patent was valid, but only for cars made to its specifications. This was a total victory for Ford, because no working automobile had ever been built to Selden’s design. Thus the appeals court actually ruled that no royalties were required of anybody."

https://fee.org/articles/how-henry-ford-zapped-a-licensing-m...

To wit: the patent on the gas engine was held to be enforceable only to that exact specification, and it changed the world more than floating balloons. Case law here is pretty clear, and broad patents like this would not hold up in the time of the rise of the car.
It allows a person to enter a contract without requiring her to trust the other party.
Ah, vigilantism. How incredibly fitting into the whole cryptocurrency ghetto. So very unprofessional.
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I live in Waltham... I can tell you Waltham is not far off from Somerville. With Waltham we have the added complexity of having lots of mixed commercial and residential zones (Somerville on the other hand is mainly residential). Waltham is also more diverse than Somerville economically (Somerville has a large amount of college kids that skew the demographics). Waltham has a lot of first generation Americans that are afraid to report violations or just don't know that they can. I have seen single bed apartments with serious safety issues housing families of eight people and more.

Almost every house in my neighborhood is in some sort of serious violation. In my small neighborhood (called the Island neighborhood) we have had 3 fires. That is three houses that have had fires substantial enough where they pretty much need to be demoed (luckily not the large family mentioned previously).

Nobody has wired smoke alarms but every three family or above requires it. You are not supposed to have grills on any balcony or porch... everyone does... Somerville is massively guilty of this as well. Proper egresses... haha use a window.

Such is the style of living in ancient New England houses in high density areas.

There is very little incentive to update or even try to correct behavior legally. I'm not sure how towns like Somerville can get their landlords (I am landlord so I am guilty as well) to update their properties. I do know lots of people updated with the federal energy subsidizations.

It would be nice if their was some safety subsidizations to maybe start turning this around (along with the rest of our crumbling infrastructure).
The infrastructure to make iphones at the scale they do doesn't really exist anywhere else.
article NOT behind a paywall: http://boston.cbslocal.com/2016/06/15/home-depot-visa-master...

TL;DR: chipped cards are not as secure as swiped cards. Also, CC processing is expensive.
Perhaps the singularity has already happened and the robots have already become self aware. They're just waiting for battery technology to improve before the uprising. ;)
10 LET L = "BASIC"

20 LET H = "HELLO WORLD"

30 IF L = "BASIC" GOTO 40

40 PRINT H

50 END
So is Spain, almost every green/red/yellow/orange pepper sold in Canada is from greenhouses there. http://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/08/the-greenhouses-of-alme... (article chosen for pictures, not content which is suspiciously political/biased).
Probably. Or it could simply have had malfunctioned (bugs in robots are worse) and strayed off. You can see in the video that the sidewalks are very low and there was a ramp near where the robot was. Its not hard to imagine that people stopped paying attention to it and it slipped out by mistake. Of course, saying that it "escaped" makes it seem more interesting. Imagine if a story was ran every time a machine malfunctioned. People are still very wary of robots in general. The media has done an excellent job making them seem dangerous.
Congrats on your release! Downloading now. Looks really slick.

P.S. Not sure if it's the same for everyone but when I tried to search for "Gone" on the AppStore, I get terrible results that are unrelated. Might think about branding abit.
Is that title a Diamond Age reference?
Discussion of the previous article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11700725

My feeling about regex's is that the difficulties lie mostly in building a mental model of automata and not in syntax. The syntax beyond the ordering of arguments between the /'s doesn't matter much. People find regular expressions difficult because they are sophisticated mathematics.
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Also, there are a bunch of editors for writing Markdown for most platforms and few (any?) for ReStructuredText.
But if they are self aware why can't they just design it themselves? :)