skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I find it unlikely that anyone would choose the ad supported model when you can pay a little more to not have ads.

Consumers are very sensitive to pricing, especially for entertainment.

> Ads should only exist in free/no subscription fee content.

Why? It's a spectrum, not binary.
The network model you describe sounds just like Apple's HomeKit.
> I think you math is a bit off here:
> the Tesla Powerwall has 6.4kwh capacity, 5k cycles and
> costs $3k. That means you can charge and decharge a total
> of 32k kwh, for $3k, or in other words $9.35 cents per kwh
> just to store the energy.

> 6.4kwh * 5k cycles == 32000 kwh for a price of $0.09375/kwh of storage. That still isn't economic in most places, of course.

As far as I can see we posted the exact same thing.
also if I wanted to tell others to edit something, I‘d point them to nano.
I've heard rumors of low prices on high-capacity "bad RAM", but never been able to find anywhere to buy it. Have you investigated this possibility before?
While the net neutrality comment is valid, the FCC was a good agency well before his tenure. The amateur radio community can attest to this.
Ditto. I've been using Android since my iPhone 4s shattered, and was thinking about moving back to iOS - if they remove the headphone jack there's no way that's happening.
If these microbes eat hydrogen then would they not equally be present and more common upon say a rusty electrode as more hydrogen produced via chemical reactions with the water.

So I wonder if we have yet to find there niche environment
Aah, I was thinking you might be encoding stack traces or equivalents which you'd want to protect a lot more than the head of user submitted data which the user chooses to re-submit through a seperate channel that is about as secure (esp for the purposes (email)) as the original channel. A hard coded key would be fine for this imho as you don't have to protect the user from the user's own data.

Cool idea btw.
That's not being a naysayer. I think the same is true of the US space program.

If we really want to colonize space we need self sustaining habitats and highly compact and automated manufacturing from raw materials. Both can be done while staying on earth, and sending people up or yet another probe is mostly pointless.
Looks interesting, is my phone number going to be visible?
This is exactly the kind of irrational, sensationalist, FUD the parent was talking about. Do you honestly believe that the moment Assange steps foot outside the embassy, he's a dead man walking?
My intuition is that talking directly to the developers who are likely to use the API is a good place to start. If it's something that provides users significant value, then the users are likely to promote the API's merits.

Marketing something that is really good is likely to make marketing easier in general.

Good luck.
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Spacemacs didn't exist way back when I started Emacs Live :-)
It is in the 6th section of the Elixir Getting Started Guide:

http://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/binaries-strings-and-...
KatieConf
I mostly agree, but unlike other legal agreements, contributing to a project under a FOSS license is not usually coupled with an expiry date after which there's room for radical re-licensing.
Meaning you're claiming in a cities NYC & DC that the NSA doesn't to full spectrum dumps, right? Or that they would have not looked into statistically unusual high amounts of background noise?

If the NSA does this, they'd have the info. If they don't, I'd be curious why; meaning legal, physical limits, etc.
Belgium was recently fined for this by the EU. So I'm not sure Europe is the one that rolled over.
When archaeologists give a date in years Before Present (BP), they measure from 1st January 1950. I guess that makes today -66BP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_Present
The article says they tried the additive/synthesis approach first, which didn't work. And then they tried the subtractive approach, starting with M. Mycoides. And in that case they were left with a lot of "unexplained" genes.

But he reminds us that the subtractive process entirely depends on the starting cell.

I would like to hear more about the difference between additive and subtractive methods -- it wasn't entirely clear from the article.
This page seems to instantly crash the tab for me in Chrome
It's actually kind of a problem: Why would you hear about the government doing their job correctly? There's no news in that.

Only the horror stories make the news
Daring Fireball:

> Maybe now is the wrong time, and Apple is making a mistake. I don’t know.

You might be responding to the Gruber in your head rather than the one who wrote that post.

He's not extolling the virtues of Apple's decision, saying it was the right thing. He's responding to Patel's reaction to it.

It's okay for people to be ambivalent, or to have an opinion on only some aspects of an issue. Not everything you see is Red Team vs. Blue Team.

(He also kind of addressed some of your other points in the article as well, but perhaps not to your satisfaction or as directly as you'd like.)
Can user from another location see my post ? The idea is promising, how will others see my post?
They're working on getting this fixed as soon as they can, though ;-)
This sounds a bit like the process that is believed to lead to terrestrial gamma ray bursts in the upper atmosphere, I believe.
> had to use vi with JKL; instead of the arrow keys. It made me want to stab something.

I can see how this would be frustrating, given that the vi movement keys are in fact HJKL
If Apple announced that they are adding a new steel-spike-through-the-eye feature, John Gruber would be there to patiently explain how this could be really useful, and how it doesn't kill you unless you actually use it.

If Apple announced that they were using ground-up baby bones in their newest iPhone case, John Gruber would be there to patiently explain how there's a surplus of babies in the world, and besides dirty diapers don't really fit in with the whole Apple æsthetic.

If Apple announced that from this day forth the only way to get an Apple product would be in exchange for selling oneself into slavery under Apple, John Gruber would be there to patiently explain how this is a revolutionary new welfare programme which will ensure that no Apple customer ever goes to bed hungry.

I absolutely love Markdown: he genuinely made the world a better place by coming up with it. But he's about the furthest thing from objective when it comes to Apple.
I would posit that Snapchat and Facebook are working so hard on videos because video ads have a much higher payout in the current ecosystem. I don't know that it's necessarily because of efficacy.
Related recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11536074
I don't think you've communicated what you were trying to accomplish very well with your LLVM comparison. Many people will see it and think you're confused at what you're talking about.
> You can do that with USB2 as well, but hardly anyone does, because they aren't forced to do so.

You can plug a USB2 DAC into your phone?

A ton of people who own good headphones for their computer use a USB sound device instead of the motherboard's built-in audio. But today, similarly good headphones for mobile phones do not exist because phones can't drive them. This may not be a priority for a lot of people yet, but Apple is in a position to hugely increase the size of the market.

I'm not thrilled that it would create headphone lock-in on iOS vs Android, but you have to at least admit that it opens up opportunities for better headphones for phones than what's out there now.

If you'd tried to do this 10 years ago it would have been pointless because people's music libraries were all a bunch of MP3s ripped at 128 kbps. Now that Apple Music exists, Apple has direct control over the quality of the music they're streaming. If they want to make better headphones workable they can push out media in a format that makes them actually worth using.

Using an adapter to 3.5mm headphones doesn't feel like that big a deal to me. I would guess that Apple can output an analog signal over the lightning connector to allow a small passive cable (like DVI-I to VGA).

Going the other direction, someone (guessing Apple won't) could build a 3.5mm device that converts to a Lightning signal, but I'd expect it to also have to plug into a phone's accessory port to get enough power.
"that will run perfectly on Linux, Windows and Mac with little to no setup"? No.

I see no reason at all to use a Makefile in that project other than it being your personal preference. It's completely non-standard for web projects and it will only serve to confuse and annoy the next developer who wants to work on your code.

Node.js, NPM, Gulp and Grunt are all orders of magnitude easier to get running on a wide variety of operating systems than your typical C/C++ build tools. Furthermore, you don't have to learn some cryptic syntax to use them. It's all Javascript and JSON.
>New Zealand is just as much a lapdog of the USA as Sweden

This doesn't sound like something a lapdog would do (February 2016): http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/296076/us-requests-fa...

Lawyers for the US were at the High Court in Auckland today, where they asked Justice Asher to give the appeal priority and set an early date for the hearing.

Justice Asher declined that request but set a date for August.
"Ports we've abandoned"

Yeah like 1/4" and XLR, which are used on most studio and enthusiast equipment. Why don't manufacturers ditch that in favor of USB or full fiber, the poor fools?

Some people live in a fairy land with heads up their ass...
> you don't need to constrain your design to appease small minorities of users.

> I bet 99.9% of people only ever plug in the stock earbuds

99.9% is a small minority? We could use the same argument for removing display :-)
it seems the authors have retracted their concerns. The site is down now but I got this screenshot http://imgur.com/eL7GFOr
I think you just suggested running a power line around my head?
From what I remember Assanged attempted to get diplomatic license (become a diplomat for, don't know the technical term) from Ecuador but did not. There he can't get in a car and none of that stops the cops from setting up a large traffic jam till said car runs out of gas and assange has to walk. I'm not sure if there is diplomatic immunity for a tow truck.
Is that compatible with non-apple devices? I generally dislike apple philosophically, so I avoid their products.
Don't buy a Tesla Model 3
The problem is not capitalism, it's lack of ethics.

Since our educational process (which used to include religious teachings promoting ethics for most people) no longer instills an ethical framework, anything goes.

Transition from capitalism to some other economic system will do nothing to help, since unethical people will still maximize their experience at the expense of everything else.

Witness the communist USSR - it was the worst offender in history as far as the environment goes. China, while arguably more capitalistic in recent years, is also a huge environmental offender.

Until humanity in general, and the US in particular, returns to a concerted effort to improve ethically, we remain in deep trouble. That process of ethical improvement had gone on for hundreds of years, but seems to have regressed since around 1950.
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> No, the future of TV is like cable TV, but on the Internet (Subscription Fee + Ads)... like Hulu.

No, the future of TV is like cable TV, but on the internet -- a mix of subscription + ads services, subscription ad-free services, and ad-free pay-per-item services. The difference is that, in the internet form, these services are more likely to be separately purchased rather than bundled on top of each other.
Replying to every little rebuttal that I make only makes you look worst.

Shoo yourself.
Yes, for the design of the genome.

As far as I can tell, they synthesized the molecule.

A line from the paper...:

We used whole-genome design and complete chemical synthesis to minimize

I did fret for a second over what meaning of "remove"
daemonk was using (from the design? From the instantiation of the genome?) but decided I at least wasn't posting misinformation.
There is a significant branch of microbiology that studies the 3D structure of chromosomes. Epigenetics is the study of how gene expression (rather than composition) affects a phenotype. There is a strong influence of structure, telomeres, centromeres, and expression modifiers that work at a physical level. It will certainly be a major component of functional life. It took decades after genetics were established for the scientific community to accept epigenetics as a valid influence and avenue of study (due to both a lack of methods to accurately study these aspects of an organism and scientific inertia).

edit: pedantics.
> I'm willing to pay a lot of money for standalone quality devices, but nobody is supplying!

You could pay an amateur electronics hacker to make you such devices.
> You might be responding to the Gruber in your head rather than the one who wrote that post.

You're probably right – there's likely more mutually shared opinions between my thoughts and Gruber's article than I think, though I'm only partly responding to his post.

> (He also kind of addressed some of your other points in the article as well, but perhaps not to your satisfaction or as directly as you'd like.)

Yes, exactly. I think a big thing that got me was his response to the dongle question: "External floppy drives sucked too." That's it. Not quite the level of detail I was looking for.
Then maybe you're just worried about disappearing, or "killing yourself."
Is there any Microsoft equivalent. In before jokes about my privacy being long gone on win10.
I also mentioned this in a recent blog post: https://www.jsondata.io/blog/2016/iot-needs-a-cloud/

> Right now, the cloud - especially for IoT - isn't a healthy ecosystem. Your shiny new smart thermostat might as well be dialing into AOL on a dedicated landline. And unlike public services, these proprietary service providers lack long-term guarantees of service availability.

> What we need is a push for openness and interoperability in the cloud, and that will only happen if consumers demand it. The service providers are incentivized to do just the opposite.
Not all life has DNA.
No. The actual ext is something you have to provide yourself.
iOS 10 Beta Features Unencrypted Kernel
Martyrdom... the dumbest way to measure the correctness of one's argument.
Neither user nor any phone number will be visible on the platform...User can have conversation with other user only it he / she has some purpose defined in the mind... So creating a post specifying anyone's need is mandatory...Once posted, only user profile (without any contact details) will be visible so that other person must understand he's/she's not talking to a robot...

If user can reach out to fellow users who can help him/her and they can communicate over chat or comment, I think that will be the biggest benefit for the user...
I vaguely remember that Qt built their containers because at the time STL was young and not very well supported.
Why does everyone keep saying you need a DAC?

That's an option, the other option is simply using the physical connector for an old-school analog audio connection.

If the concern is device manufacturers won't support USB-C analog audio that's one thing, but pretending like it isn't the (current) intention to utilize is quite strange to me. This is quite literally changing a round plug to a oval one if implemented properly and to the spec.
> What do you do in this case? Go back and remove all their contributions such that you can then continue with the general agreement?

Yes, that's what you do, and it's the same in other industries.

For example, when Erlang/OTP contributors were asked to accept re-licensing under Apache2, a couple patches submitted by Netflix's Rick Reed were reverted prior to re-licensing because they didn't sign off.

The license is for all parties, not just to get contributions and then later do with it what you want. If that's how the project is governed, then the license has to reflect that (GPL3 or later) or a CLA must be in place. When that's clear, it's evident to contributors and many will refuse to contribute.
It solves it for the thinness problem. Which is stupid imo, cause why not just shove more battery in that millimeter (I thought the RAZR Maxx was gonna be revolutionary, no one cared apparently), but whatever. 2.5->3.5mm adapters are small and cheap...
Some more theorems that seem obvious but require non-trivial proofs:

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

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

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6der%E2%80%93Bernstei...
That's actually already an area of active study.

See http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1534580708...
>> Sweden isn't legally allowed to extradite him after he's been extradited from the UK.

> Can you support that claim?

Yes, and I've linked to a source in a different comment that's at the moment at -2 here. It's both due to the The Doctrine of Specialty and whether what he has done is a crime in Sweden or not [0, 1, 2].

When Sweden asked for Assange's extradition from the UK he was arrested after presenting himself to the London police and then let out on bail. London's Belmarsh Magistrate's Court then rules in favor of Assange's extradition. Then the High Court upholds this decision. Then he wins the right to appeal to the UK Supreme Court because his case is "a question of general public importance." He was certainly willing to face the UK legal system.

The UK's Supreme Court also ruled that he should be extradited to Sweden, at which point he jumped bail and fled to the embassy where he sought and received political asylum. He fled to the embassy only after all legal ways of getting out of the extradition from the UK to Sweden was exhausted. Nowhere in this has the US made any claims on him, all such talk comes from Assange himself that says it's all part of a smear campaign. If the Swedish charges are dropped he will still face the criminal charges in the UK from jumping bail.

[0] http://jtl.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/04/F...

[1] http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/12/07/wikileaks.assange/index...

[2] https://www.aklagare.se/nyheter-press/for-media/assangearend...
June 31, 2016 ?

> KatieConf is a parody
I have a very modest experience with it, but when a crash happened it was game-over for it. Maybe I was doing something wrong.
Also a surprising amount of welfare spending (via TANF) is spent on programs that aren't necessarily utilized by the poor.
Yup, and apple even put a bump in the back of their case to accommodate the camera.
> I might also add that the very concept of superintelligence is pure speculation - basic AGI at least can be grounded in replication of human brains

I'd tend to think the reverse: the idea that we can recreate general intelligence requires some degree of speculation, but once we have general intelligence running on a computer, it takes a fairly contrived set of conditions for it to not scale up exponentially.
This makes me wonder how imports are handled. If I can buy a third party power supply from a US based order system (amazon), and this ps is dangerous (eg. those knock off Apple power supplies). How is this legal, presumably the device hasn't passed safety regulations here. So, there must be some way to stop this product from entering the country. Why isn't that mechanism happening?

Same applies for this device. If a mfg is infringing on copyright then shouldn't we have a mechanism to stop it from being imported?

It strikes me that we have two laws in this country. The laws for those with money/power (e.g. MPAA to protect US corporate media interests), and then those same laws that are not applied to protect consumers. Is the only difference that MPAA has lawyers to ensure copyright infringement stops while consumers don't?
Yeah, pretty much never:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7013002
> KatieConf is a parody.
That's the line, not the goal. The goal is more centralized control of the entire stack. At this point, there's still no corporate control from the jack to the ear. To fix that, you need to make the thing in the ear negotiate with the jack.
Oh you. Our codebase uses scala xml and macros; migration will be a major PITA.
Well, look at the RAZR Maxx - people still went for the slightly thinner RAZR with half the battery capacity...
You mean Intranet of Things.
I have a strong distaste for what C.S. Lewis called "chronological snobbery;" the idea that something is worthless simply because it isn't new.

Age is meaningless when evaluating technology and its function. It could be 1000 years old or 10; what matters if fulfills the requirements of the relevant use-case in an acceptable manner.
> KatieConf is a parody. Have you checked a calendar lately? There is no June 31st. Sorry. The town of Katherine does exist, though.
Say you wanted to build a protocol for IoT stuff. What would be on your feature list?

Low power: it should not require much in the way of network traffic or heartbeats so that you could leave the radio mostly off.

Mesh networking: ideally the devices should be able to repeat commands so that they could be low-power and not have to broadcast across entire houses.

Secure: it should have specific ways to join a network that don't require a keyboard on the device.

IoT application focused: the protocol should make it easy to do things like turn a device on/off, set a value or read a value.

Z-Wave and Zigbee do these things (for the most part), while WiFi is sort of hacked to try to maybe accomplish it. For instance, my Z-wave thermostat has been running off the same lithium AA batteries for about a year now, and the battery level is at 77%. I can't imagine a WiFi device being able to achieve that.
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I investigated building a DAC a couple of weeks ago, the cost price of the ICs for building a good DAC is ~$25 from TI (admittedly that's the price for single components, but I don't think it would be hugely cheaper for bulk).

It's stupid to bundle headphones and DACs into one package. I like to follow the unix philosophy when doing A/V. Each component should do one thing, that way when you want to upgrade/replace broken components, it's easier and cheaper.
Have you tried any Gardein products? They're by far my favorite frozen mock meats.
> I could for example setup one to automatically
> power cycle my cable modem and router

It's turtles all the way down.
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So, would you still do a similar approach if you were starting out today?

Edit: fix grammar
But... why would they have a big payout? Is it because... they are effective?
vi was written on an ADM-3A which had its escape key where tab is now typically located.

I remap caps lock to escape.
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> C++ stdlib collections not thread safe by default and cannot be used as drop-in replacements for Qt's collections.

I agree with other parts of your post, but not this. How is Qt's collections thread safe in any way? And won't that be a huge performance cost, since most of the time, collections do not need to be thread safe?
> I don't think this brute force approach is going to work, we need a different way to figure this out, but I'm confident that once figured out, it will seem simple looking back on it.

Why not? Couldn't we use machines to automate this and analyze the results?
Wow, I actually thought about writing a process monitor in Go for my current Elixir project before deciding to just muddle through/learn how to use ports instead. The inability to send signals from Elixir was and continues to be a pain point. I'll be trying out porcelain/goon, thanks!