skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the confusion in this discussion lies in different interpretations of the word "Ponzi". You're using an interpretation that defines as Ponzi any investment where the value is solely anchored on the collective confidence of the holders. In the interpretation I have (and which I think is the standard one), a Ponzi scheme is something else entirely: a scheme where old investors are paid from the arrival of new ones in such a way that is mathematically unsustainable.

Note that by this standard definition, Bitcoin is not a Ponzi scheme. You may doubt whether Bitcoin is a wise investment, but calling it a Ponzi is bound to cause confusion.
For your phone? Nice to be you. Most of us use the $2 ones we buy at the checkout counter for our phones.
> If you think so, you can stop reading.

I didn't and really there are no arguments there why would it be better for anybody but Apple. The premise of the article is "once it's accepted that the analog jack must go, let's just write whatever."

It doesn't even discuss what the advantage for Apple should be. Which would make clearer why it's not for anybody else.
I don't think there's enough profit margin in most IoT devices to allocate to something like this.

F.ex. when's the last time you saw a commercial for a door knob?
My Elite experience was on the Commodore 64, but aside from that it sounds like we had a trajectory through subsequent titles that was similar. Your screenshots look great and I really enjoyed reading the entire blog.
I don't think GPL2 -> GPL3 is a valid example of that. Usually it is to dual-license with a non-open-source license or some other incompatible open-source licenses.

The GPL "upgrade" clause,

> Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and "any later version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions either of that version or of any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
I remember hearing talk of a "charge-through" Lightning cable. Presumably that would be the cheapest option.
Doesn't the actual text of the license list the owner?
What kind of latency is really an issue here? The payload isn't going to be large for lots of these IoT devices. If it takes a couple of hundred milliseconds longer to carry out the transaction is that really a big deal?
This is an underrated observation.

Converting to metered grids (on which consumers can sell) costs a small fortune, often for very little benefit. Even environmentalists have been weighing in against it as wasteful.

Tesla's home battery solution offers an obvious response to this situation - you can minimize or avoid grid sell-off by doing in-home storage to smooth demand. That has the potential to make SolarCity an incomparable player in non-metered markets, keeping with Musk's general "no viable competitors" ethos.
What matters is the way the law sees it.
If we do that we might as well use a lightning to 3.5 jack-adapter since audio equipment and headphones with 2.5 jack are very rare.

I'm all for keeping the jack output, but using a 2.5 one doesn't solve the problem.
> the asteroid technically moves relative to the sun, but it seems to be playing around the earth’s orbit, too

So does the Moon: http://www.wired.com/2012/12/does-the-moon-orbit-the-sun-or-...
I've written and talked about this over the last decade or so. I think a huge problem in even thinking about this is that the people who should be thinking about it have gotten very fluent in many ways of "programming" that are almost certainly not just obsolete but make it very difficult to think about what are likely to be the most important issues of today.

If we look at CAD->SIM->FAB in various engineering fields -- mechanical, electrical, biological, etc. -- we see something more like what is needed. From another view, if we look at the great need for designing and assessing, etc. we can see that the representations we need for "requirements", "specs", "legalities", etc have to be debuggable, have to run, and might as well just flow into a new kind of "CAD->SIM->FAB" process for programming. A lot of what has to happen is to replace main-stream "hows" with "whats" (and have many of the hows be automatic, and all of them "from the side).
> (western europe, plenty of cabs)

There are not plenty of cabs in Austin. Part of what has made Uber so popular is the proliferation and therefore availability of a ride home from a night out. The convenience factor of being able to open your phone and have a ride come for you within minutes beats having to plan your night around leaving at a certain time or committing to a long wait (could easily be an hour or more) for a cab.
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At least you get latest updates, unlike phones from literally any other manufacturer. If it's not the top-range model then you can consider yourself lucky to get even one update before the phone is completely forgotten.
I use it on some dev servers I can't install software on as an alternative to vi. Otherwise I use emacs+tramp to edit files remotely. It's not a huge use case or most of my editing. Anything to avoid vi though.
> none of the suits was filed by individual developer who was contributing to the code base

(You're not implying otherwise, but this seems like a good place to put this comment.)

An individual developer can bring a case against a distributor violating the GPL if they can prove that their code was involved in the violation.

A good example are the contributors who brought a Linux (kernel) case against VMWare:

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/feb/29/vmware-hearing/
Sometimes i wish for compiler tutorials that progress feature by feature, starting with simple features, rather than starting with complicated things like parsing expressions with multiple op codes (op codes being implemented as function calls, so it gets even more complicated)...

For example, a sequence like this:

1. variable assignment

2. commands of one parameter

3. if / branch statements

4. much later: nested expressions, function calls, multiple stacks, environments

basically, starting with an abstraction of 3 parameter opcodes, and then slowly building features up the abstraction layers, as well as slowly building down the optimization layers, step by step.
But I still have to implement a ton of stuff in the backend?
US financial regulators say Bitcoin poses ‘financial stability risks’
How are they dealing in non-GAAP accounting? I thought GAAP had been essentially mandated in financials after the dot com crash.
Craig Wright is Filing Patents Related to the Bitcoin Blockchain
Sounds like VT emulation settings in PuTTY might be wrong. There's nothing in vim that PuTTY doesn't support - in fact I've used vim over PuTTY many times.
Absolutely. I'm saying I fear reality and theory might diverge and we find ourselves with a split language / community. I highly doubt anybody set out to write Python 3 thinking "it'll mess with the community for years to come, muhahaha".
Why is Z* preferable to Wifi-based?
Sometimes it's OK to say, "I don't know."

The term conspiracy theorist is used to denote some idea that is irrational. Yet we're regularly challenged to redefine what is rational. It's not hard to come up with examples of things which were commonly accepted as conspiracy theories, which are now accepted as fact by most people.

Thus it's probably more prudent to accept one's own ignorance of the situation, and await more information before calling anything a conspiracy theory.
Sounds like there is a strong need for a standard OS build for IoT devices.

I'm not expert in the area, but I would imagine a standard API could be implemented to handle the vast majority of use cases. Connecting to an app securely, turning things on and off, basic scheduling.
Of course you won't buy new headphones. You'll buy adaptors - buying an Apple-specific headphone would be insane in my opinion.
Fair enough. I wasn't aware that GCC actually supports this in C.
If that's the case, then you should be even more worried because I can guarantee no one will make lightning-compatible headphones that cost $2.
Elixir maintainers very often do not reinvent the wheel. When there is a good library in Erlang they do not re-write it in Elixir. Therefore, an Elixir developer should be able to read Erlang documentation and code.

You won't miss anything in Elixir that you can do in Erlang, simply because you can call Erlang code from Elixir, including all the libraries.
Any hole in the phone case compromises reliability. Water, dirt, static electricity. Holes are hated by hardware designers. In Apple's case with their stress on look and feel I'm surprised the designers haven't been able to ditch the headphone jack years ago, simply based on "it looks better without the hole".
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Many many people who need to occasionally edit text in a terminal don't know how to use Vim OR Emacs.
I'd be completely comfortable for replacing it with USB-C. You already have the port, it's an industry standard, it's de facto open to use for anyone. It's smaller, both in terms of thickness (which I don't care much about by now, but I'll grant it's a thing), as well as volume.

What concerns me is that the most popular phone and probably listening device in the world, will move towards a proprietary sound system, fragmenting the headphone and speaker market into two worlds. That just sucks, and it feels like a major nuisance for an entire industry. It's like some worldwide government just created a law half the world or industry must use one standard and the other half the other, it's just shit.

Further, tinfoil-hat time, but I think some sense to this fear. A lot of people have voiced concerns that one can employ all kinds of DRM/licensing tricks, now that there's full control on the i/o. You can for example only allow a certain level of bass on headphones that have a license with Apple. I think these effects will be very limited, but I also think they'll all be tiny steps in the wrong direction we really don't need.

In short, I'd be fine with a new standard, but not the lightning port, and have a substantial concern about a minor (imo) probability that a digital io leads to walled audio gardens.
Yes, that would be a kind and fine thing to do, or at least change the cost of a specially designated bool argument to something cheap. You get one per contract, kind of thing. Or you pay on deployment.
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Maven is an archaic, verbose nightmare compared to SBT. SBT can be annoyingly esoteric at times, but even for the simplest thing like "add these JARs and compile," SBT wins over Maven, no question.
Mitigating Stagefright Attacks with the ARM Performance Monitoring Unit
I witnessed what I think was ball lightning in my front yard as a kid, here in South Florida where lightning storms are a +thrice weekly event.

What happened was that lightning struck the ground at the edge of our yard while we were waiting at the front door for the rain to slow (so we could get to the car). I jerked my head to the right because of course the sound and flash scared the heck out of me, and right as I looked there was what looked like a glowing ball of electricity, the size of a beach ball, just above the ground, for what seemed like a few seconds.
I lose my earphone regularly and replace them with 15$ headphones I can get at the drugstore. I guess that means I'm getting off the iPhone .
Yeah, this is amazing apologism, even for Gruber. "And in five years we’ll look at analog headphone jacks the way we look at all the other legacy ports we’ve abandoned." In five years, there are going to a lot of crappy Lightning earbuds in drawers and landfills.
Aside from what detaro said, also this:

https://medium.com/@jitbit/target-blank-the-most-underestima...
Do the math 15$ head phone plus 15$ adapter roughly doubled the cost of my habits.
Improv was too good for people to take. Quantrix reproduces most of that functionality today.
Eventually that's true. However, we have yet to hit that point as solar is still a small fraction of electricity production in the US and the daytime peak is huge.
TV propaganda in contemporary Russia works pretty well, so TV is still seen as an authority.

It does not help that there are no large TV stations anymore in Russia that are not state-owned (openly or covertly).
It's not any different than any other copyright license in that respect.
If he sincerely believed his life was on the line from people that were willing to creatively reinterpret the law to get him to the US, he probably wouldn't have twice waited until the day there were no further legal impediments to him being prosecuted in Sweden before changing jurisdiction.

On the other hand, insisting that superfluous assurances are made by bodies that don't have any legal authority to make them is a very good excuse for not going anywhere.
>but it needs more people,

Or less.
I've seen detractors lambaste Seafile as an untrustworthy Chinese company/app originally. Anyone know if there's any truth to this?
Raymond Chen in his excellent The Old New Thing blog frequently asks - "What if two programs did this". What if every large C++ library came with their own custom preprocessor?

The major issue with moc is that it is evidence that Qt does not think of itself as just another C++ library that you can plug in to your code, but that it tries to be the programming environment and the fact that it uses C++ is just an implementation detail. Moc is only the most visible of the symptom of the underlying philosophy. It is also evidenced in the QCollections and by such things as QThread which duplicate much of the C++11 functionality.

When I evaluate a library for my project, I want it to think of itself as "just another C++ library", not "The Framework that you base everything in your application around".

Qt is a great illustration of Joe Armstrong's quote
"You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle."
You missed the whole point...

Which is that a price hike can potentially drop demand more than the supply-equilibrium level -- and can even get it to the point you're losing money compared to before despite the higher asking price.

Imagine e.g. the slashback if Arizona (tea) raises their traditional $1 asking price.
An MVP does not qualify you for VC funding
Google I/O brought us a preview of the next major release Android Studio 2.2
Actions speak louder than words. People continue to say they want more durable phones and longer battery life, but continue to buy thinner and shinier phones.
Why is that chain of axiomatic proofs obvious? How is it obvious that one step follows the previous?
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> The 3.5 mm jack still delivers the absolute best sound quality compared to the other options available on a smart phone.

That's only true because the only headphones that exist for smartphones are headphone jack or Bluetooth.

You can build a USB-C or Lightning headset with much higher impedance and use a digital signal to a higher quality DAC than the one built into the phone.
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Does anyone here has experience with EU grants like Horizon 2020 ?

I am trying to find some information on startups funded with those funds but couldn't find much in Google.

From what I read\heard, it looks like the "game" is rigged and you're forced to hire some consultants in order to get a chance of actually getting anything.
Apple Won't Be Serving Its Dogfood to Kids Attending Apple Coding Camp
Isn't the point of being a vegetarian to avoid eating meat? Then why would you want to eat vegetables that look and act like meat?

If you really prefer your food to look like meat, maybe you're not actually a vegetarian and your body is telling you to get some meat.
Bad advice. Cliches and not actionable items.
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Which problems do you want to solve with these IoT devices? What should they do? In my opinion existing IoT devices generally replace simple, proven systems with complex and abstruse ones.
Reading his post I believe he meant the above mentioned things were within reach of him as a child (I don't believe he meant now as an adult).

" I can't do much than hoping you either don't have children or no child's responsibility is on you otherwise."

That's a strong statement to make. Implying he's unable to raise children because he'd like to see evidence that the internet actually has a negative influence on children.
I used "complete lack of love" as a short version of what another commenter wrote: "horrific orphanage experiences, growing up abused, and a complete lack of love".

I can agree that "complete lack of love" is rather hard to define, but are you sure that it's just a coincidence, when an abused, humiliated, tortured person commits suicide?
The OTP team and the community have made a concerted effort to work more together that has been in the process for years now. Even the community based build tool rebar3 is being adopted into the official Erlang/OTP ecosystem.
Really think phasing this in might have been the better play (ship lightning headphones, keep the port for backwards compatibility) but that's not how apple rolls. They make user-hostile decisions all the time but the track record of not getting burned too deeply probably makes this an easier decision from their eyes. The aux port is super ubiquitous though and a lot of buy-in is already there, so if ever they're going to burned by one of these decisions now would be the time.
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"Raise your hand if the thing you wanted most from your next phone was either fewer ports or more dongles.

I didn’t think so. You wanted better battery life, didn’t you? Everyone just wants better battery life."

raises hand to second point

Show me a phone battery that lasts a week between charges, and I shall show you my wallet
I would have a friend buy a good 4G data plan for 20GB monthly or even more. That would get him more reliable and faster internet. He could have several. How much does that cost?
When I write code it is usually either "kiddicode" for future "kiddilanguages" or "metacode" (for future languages ".")

I did have a lot of fun last year writing code in a resurrected version of the Notetaker Smalltalk-78 (done mostly by Dan Ingalls and Bert Freudenberg from a rescued disk pack that Xerox had thrown away) to create a visual presentation for a tribute to Ted Nelson on his 70th birthday:
https://youtu.be/AnrlSqtpOkw?t=135

This particular system was a wonderful sweet spot for those days -- it was hugely expressive and quite small and understandable (my size). (This was the Smalltalk system that Steve Jobs saw the next year in 1979 -- though with fewer pictures because of memory limitations back then).
Again, you could make the same argument for all consumer finance services. Car leasing (as you mentioned), mortgage, student debt...
That's not what he's saying. The original quote was that people replace head phones all the time, he doesn't. Higher end headphones allow you to not replace headphones all the time when a small piece wears out or breaks. So that quote is false for him.
I seem to remember Belgium extraditing someone for plotting to attack US soldiers on Belgian base.

When the US barks, Europe rolls over.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizar_Trabelsi
What's your point? Of course most people will use bundled headphones. However a significant share of customers will use premium ones and expect to run them for years and with multiple devices.
Thank you for the substantive reply. Cheers!
That's a great summary and an eye-opener on the whole situation. Everything aside, but isn't this FSF enforcement a little too much burden for some? Does it actually change anything? (apart from giving a bad sensation when you hear "now we own the copyright of your work")
I needed a light-weight project management tool, too, so I set up a private Trac instance with the MasterTicketsPlugin (among others).
Those are economics for robots -- the naive, perfect, psychology-free version that applies to game-theory state-machines but rarely to actual humans.

A lot of those notions have been debunked for half a century or so in economics papers, but the crude theory is still taught to kids and economics 101 programs for fresh students.
You'd need the electronics somewhere in the headphone to convert the digital signal to an analog one. The pair of headphones I use the most (B&W p5) is actually exceedingly easy to replace the wire on. B&W also happens to have a very close relationship with Apple... I wouldn't be surprised to see them make wore with the integrated conversion from digital to analog.

That said, the other two pair in the house are studio monitor headphones and replacing the wire is non-trivial but supported.
Oh I absolutely agree. That was a lively and excellent discussion, and my comment had more to do with increased openness and engagement on the part of Ericsson proper to being more involving and ambitious with respect to outside influences than it had to do with contrasting the Erlang community with the Elixir community.

Also... I have a "6x Programmer" hat for you the next time I see you. When you mentioned it after seeing my "#7 Dad" hat at EF SF, I couldn't help but have a couple made.
Military Expert: Virtual Reality a Health Hazard and Should Be Banned
I guess the Soviet government was known for such "logic". A dissident once gave a speech at my university and told us this joke:

After the Americans landed on the Moon, the Soviet Politburo went to the cosmonauts saying, "Russia can do better than the Americans, so we are going to send you to the Sun."

"Don't send us to the Sun," they said, "We'll burn up and die!"

The politicians replied, "You think we are stupid in the Politburo? We will send you at night."
I think openwrt on the main unit (a good router) + nodemcu based sensor units would work well.

Openwrt is powerful enough to take care of logging, connecting to the internet etc, and the sensor units can form a pseudo mesh using their wifi capabilities.
That's a legal tax loop hole though, they are allowed to file based on retail prices they sell their panels for even though they buy them at wholesale bulk prices
Breaking Down Problems with A.I. Safety
"Application" in mathematics usually means that something is used as a necessary component of a solution in another area. If Gödel numbering is an "application" of the FTA, that strongly suggests that you're saying that FTA somehow enables the possibility of Gödel numbering, or else that it is exploited somehow to endow that numbering with convenient properties (without loss of generality). Is that true?
"Max. 12 sessions
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Max. 4 macros
Max. 360 seconds for Tftp, Nfs and Cron"

Not open source and heavily limited. Unless you pay for Pro, it's pretty useless...
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