skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth pondering the real implications of real objects as real virtual machines intercommunicating by messages (they were inspired in part by the pervasive world-wide networking that was part of Licklider's vision).

One way to think about this is that "hardware objects" are merely caches for the software objects that will embody the processes and intents.

As a cache, each computer needs a small amount of code to deal with resources of time and space and i/o to and from the net. This could be called a "micro-kernel", but in an object world, it is also objects, not a "stack". For "doing things", we can imagine a system of "real objects" residing on one or more of the hardware caches. What mix depends on the individual resources of the caches.

The wonderful Gerry Popek did a first pass at this kind of caching architecture that worked over a mixture of machine types in the 1980s -- it was called LOCUS -- and there is an excellent book from MIT Press that explains the issues and how it works.

Its main limitations were that it was made as an extension of Unix processes, but it definitely proved the concept of how this part of really distributed "objects" with cached resources worked. (I tried to get Apple to buy this system when I first got there in 1984.)

Bottom line is that there is nothing that resembles any of the huge monolithic OSs of today that "try" to make software dependent on them rather than to allow software to run everywhere and move everywhere.

So "OSs are not necessary".

(Smalltalk at Parc did not run on top of an OSs ... etc.)
Stranger bequeaths fortune to prominent neuroscientist
That's not entirely correct. Webpass has been using glass provided by other companies for years, that's how they get the redundancy in the mesh.

In 10 months they've been laying down their own glass trunk lines along a VERY small corridor. Last year was ~15 blocks of Howard St. This year was supposed to be Bryant St. So if you were in SOMA you had a decent chance.

Google has already stated they were going to use some other providers glass along with deploying their own in the city. This seems like a really good way to jump start things for GF in SF.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11947422
The same penalty as with violation of any other type of contract. They would also lose any rights under that contract because they violated their side of the deal.
I've got a Honda cbr600, love it.

But a top Ducati sport bike costs 40k, not 400k.
Why was China not mentioned as a third, major participant in the next arms race?

Why were all the lesser proliferants not mentioned? Isn't it far more likely that somebody on a holy mission buys or steals something they shouldn't have in the near future than a full conflict among the big three later?
God, I hope the support doesn't end up like most other Google product's support. I have webpass and my heart dropped. My project fi experience has been bad enough already.
Very cool. Do you know if Lets Encrypt is monitoring on behalf of their users? It seems like that should be part of the job.

Why are all these tamper detection tools targeted to domain owners rather than end users?
I mean does an application being React Native change your opinion on using Redux or Relay?
Analog computing returns
Well, there's the old Component Object Model and cousins ... under this model an object a encountering a new object b will, essentially, ask 'I need this service performed, can you perform it for me?' If b can perform the service, a makes use of it; if not, not.

Another technique that occurs to me is from type theory ... here, instead of objects we'll talk in terms of values and functions, which have types. So e.g. a function a encountering a new function b will examine b's type and thereby figure out if it can/should call it or not. E.g., b might be called toJson and have type (in Haskell notation) ToJson a => a -> Text, so the function a knows that if it can give toJson any value which has a ToJson typeclass instance, it'll get back a Text value, or in other words toJson is a JSON encoder function, and thus it may want to call it.
> Meh since when is computational performance really a bottleneck?

Ever used a phone that wasn't < 6 months old to browse the modern web?

> at scale

React is a front-end framework. The only "scale" that exists in its world is the fat DOM you generate and how fast it can mutate it. From that perspective, it sucks at scale (take a look at Preact and Inferno). Your iteration speed depends on good app architecture, not a specific framework. React Native does sound like a good perk, but likely isnt useful enough to make anything you cannot do anyway in HTML5.
What would you recommend to do about the aspects React doesn't cover? (My sole use case is webapps and dynamic webpages)

I mean, React is only when you have an object and want to render an UI component, right? That's quite a small part of what even a simplest CRUD interface has to do (i.e. acquire the object from server and then try to keep it in sync with both server-maintained state and user feedback).
The problem is that in order to have the ability to register their copyright and do meaningful enforcement actions in the US, they need copyright assignment. Copyright cares about authorship, so if they don't have "authorship" (read: own the copyright) then they have very little power to enforce the GPL.

Some other people argue it's not necessary, and while that might be true, it's better to be safe than sorry. Not to mention that all GNU projects are GPLv3-or-later anyway (so any contribution would be able to be upgraded anyway since it's licensed in such a way that you can use it under GPLv4). If you refuse and license your change under GPLv3, it won't get merged.
Nuclear waste disposal is a serious issue. But compared to burning fossil fuels for energy, it's by far the lesser of two evils.

Most of the more dangerous fission products will have decayed sufficiently to be "safe" after hundreds, or thousands of years. Nowhere near a million!

Anything that lasts longer than that emits so little radioactivity that it's pretty much background noise.

There are plenty of naturally occurring sources of radiation that are strong enough to be dangerous - like Radon in Cornwall, UK. Even if a future civilisation accidentally digs up one of our waste sites in a few thousand years time, it wouldn't really be any worse for them than digging up some natural radioactive source.
I'm happy to pay $15 or even $60 for a game I really enjoy and play for more than a few hours.

I'm not willing to pay to win though, which is what most of the top grossing mobile games require.
i am, i get people to use it, and it works well. but superuser2 is right. to be honest, i think we're touching to fundamental limitations in the git model that gitlab cannot solve without becoming rational team concert, and catering to a fundamentally different public.
When I visited, I had a hard time refraining from taking the cover panels off the VAX, just like days of yore. (In the mid 1980s I essentially had personal use of an 11/780 for a few years. It was fun).

I highly recommend the LCM.
At least in the US, supercars are street legal (McLaren F1 being an exceptional exception) and the only way to do it is crash test. For every model you see on the street 3 had to be sacrificed.
... good?
Why is everyone so uptight about their emails being public? If you're planning on doing free software development in public, your email is going to have to be publicly available anyway (otherwise people can't contact your for legitimate reasons). Spend the 15 minutes it takes to set up SpamAssassin and then get on with your life.
In general I am all for Uber and think that they are providing an interesting and creative service.

That said, I don't really believe the argument that they are a marketplace.

First, they don't allow either participant (rider or driver) to set prices. eBay has a bidding system where sellers can set price floors and buyers bid with each other. Uber abstracts the price away and sets it based on...well we don't _really_ know what they set it based on since their Surge Pricing "Algorithm" is closed source. Which plays into my second problem...

Uber wants to classify drivers as contractors, which ties in nicely with their marketplace argument, but ultimately they set the price and standardize it across their service. I think Uber is the only company which can call their drivers "independent contractors" and then turn around and tell these contractors what they can "independently" charge. To forward the eBay parallel you drew, it would be like eBay telling a seller that, sure, you can sell your used Macbook Pro, but you have to set your price floor at $XXXX amount. This whole conundrum is magnified by the fact that neither driver or passenger even knows what the final price will be...so they can't accept or deny rides based on cost considerations...further taking away their purported "market" choice.

Ultimately, I still generally support Uber, but (IMO) they are a service, not a marketplace.
Years ago when one of my social circles decided to play WoW together, most of us found we had more money in the bank at the end of the month. It was far cheaper entertainment per day than most of the other options we would choose. One night out for drinks and you've paid more than a monthly subscription.
The story behind the making of 360 degree video documentary on Chernobyl
While the support will almost certainly get worse, the good news is that Google some of the most rigorous SRE practices in the world.
Also note that these additional ligatures are not always included in web fonts.
I'm pumped. I live in a Webpass market so hopefully Comcast starts doing their damn job now that it's a Google market.
Your argument is no different than people from the old times saying "the earth is flat". Of course that was the reality back then, but we've found out that's not the case.

When talking about these things you should keep in mind whatever you say is just an opinion and a theory. Just like Newton's law was the reality until Einstein came along, the "reality" is nothing more than our interpretation of the world.

That's why I think it's not a good idea to conclude someone is "wrong" for technical reasons. Our "technical" reality has been evolving and will keep evolving, so our reality today won't be the same as tomorrow's reality.
The article is useful. When you pitch you need also clearly understand your audience and tailor your speech for each type of investor. This approach will improve the communication between the parties and increase the chances of a second round of interview.
My most wanted feature is manually (from a gitlab ui, not api) triggered build for deployment. Is it just me, or am i missing some good practice that people can live without it?
Modern modern ones are a bit cramped but are as practical as any other sports car (that is, not particularly.)

There is a Lamborghini series (super trofeo) but not much beyond that. I rarely even see them at track days.

Quattro drive (or whatever it is called now) is not really awesome for road racing. It causes too much understeer.

That said, I heard the Huracan is much better than previous cars.

(I own and have tracked a McLaren but I am thinking of swapping it out for something more practical for track use. It is less fun than racing my 1992 Spec Miata, for example...)

They are terrible investments. I buy cars after they have fallen way down the depreciation curve.
When you are very rich, the difference between $400k and $40k isn't noticeable.
I think we can agree that self signed certs aren't useless in theory, they are close to impractical these days especially for folks who don't even know what one is, and are confronted by scary warning dialogs (if you are even lucky enough to see one!)

Amusingly mac addresses aren't as constant as you'd think. On my home lan I use a netgear wifi range extender. The way it works is to give fake (transformed) mac addresses for devices connected to it. For example if the real mac address is 11:22:33:44:55:66 when connected to the main access point, then when connected to the wifi range extender the rest of the network will see the mac address as aa:bb:cc:44:55:66. (The range extender also has ethernet ports - this affects wired and wireless connections to it.)
On mobile, it matters a lot, especially older/low-end Android phones.
I don't really see how Lets Encrypt could monitor on behalf of their users. If a CT log shows <randomCA> created a certificate for my domain, I know it's unauthorised for the reason that I did not choose to authorise it. Lets Encrypt cannot assume they are the only company that I deal with.
Obviously?

Physics went through this same argument with thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. Predictive, statistical models pretty much won. And then along came quantum mechanics---there's nothing descriptive there at all.
"Carbon fiber everything" is a really great marketing strategy for a veblen good, primarily because CF is light and looks sexy, but I'm not sure it's a huge technical achievement. If you look at full-CF road bike frames in 2002, 2003 or so they were a super premium priced hand crafted thing. Now they are a commodity item from China and Taiwan that you can buy for $600 if you're building your own road bike. Example: "Chinarello" (Pinarello):

https://www.google.com/search?q=chinarello&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8...
> I no longer want to see my code on the Internet.

Such a statement doesn't make sense. Not to mention that you can't retroactively un-license something (unless the license has a termination clause). Free software licenses do not have termination clauses (by definition, the FSF won't approve them if they do because it restricts practical freedom). Though I'm fairly sure it would count as an "open source" license under the OSI definition.

> In most cases developers sign no agreements when their patches are merged.

If you submitted code under the DCO, you've signed an affadavit saying that you have the right to license the code and that it is licensed under the license of the project. For copyleft projects, you don't even need that (if you've distributed it then you've implicitly licensed it under the original license). But in either case, once you've licensed you code under some license then you can't terminate that license if it's a free software license.
Indeed, there will never be another Jerry.

RIP

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

http://www.law.nyu.edu/news/in-memoriam-jerome-bruner
One of those iOS games was in fact a new take on Llamatron:

http://minotaurproject.co.uk/Minotaur/minotron.php

It's very good :). If it's not on the store anymore I hope you find some way to get hold of it.
Great write up. I was really surprised about a few things;

- They're aiming for concrete to last 100 years on the new lock. Doesn't this seem short sighted? The canal is already 100+ years old and its hardly like we'll be air freight and 3D printers in just another 100 years.

- The lock size for these panamax ships being so tight. Current management issues aside, wouldn't it be prudent to plan for ship sizes to grow to new 'panamax' levels? Its reasonable to assume shipping companies will want larger ships 50 years from now, if not sooner.

- $800,000 for a ship to cross. Wow
yeah but, would you not?
Reminds me of spermuhl in Germany in the late 80's/early 90's.
I taught myself electronics by fishing out treasures from the bounty of German neighborhoods' "bulk garbage" days and tearing them down. I got a good dose of design along with it because a lot of it was Braun from the 60's & 70's.

Memories.
I believe they are also 1099 contract workers as opposed to having W2 employee classification. 1099 means you owe self employment taxes, which can take a significant cut out of your gross earnings (ball park 10-15%). You also may have to make quarterly estimated tax payments or you can get a penalty fee when you file in April.

Looks like https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/2561815-uber-driver-questi... shows some of the tax issues related to being an Uber driver.
Apple has fantastically bungled the management of their app store. It could have been a lively and creative ecosystem of indie developers but instead it's just a trash pile of exploitative junk. They will pay the price for their negligence as apps become less and less of a differentiator between their extremely expensive phones and much cheaper but equally capable Android devices. I believe we're seeing this already.

And their iPad "pro" initiative is DOA because everybody knows you can't make money selling productivity apps on the iPad.

Getting into the app business in 2016 is a mistake.
The city hasn't been doing a great job of dropping in fiber either. Maybe in SoMA, but up here in the hills I had my street repaved and there was no plans to put in fiber or upgrade sewer while it was being dug up (I checked with DPW). Fixed wireless is the future in SF, even with SF's dig once policy (http://sfgov.org/dt/dig-once).
Link is broken. Here's a good one: https://blog.jonskeet.uk/2016/06/22/thoughts-on-privilege/
Torch7 being rewritten in Python?
I'd argue that the technology for digging up city streets hasn't needed to improve (though the politics around zoning/regulation/rights probably could); whereas, the technology for fixed wireless has--by leaps and bounds. But I argue this lightly because it detracts from my original question: Is fixed wireless the future of Google Fiber in SF? I'm not presupposing an answer, nor am I equipped to make a value judgement on said answer. Just curious & felt my parents' question deserved discussion, not downvotes.
A nuclear torpedo to take out a destroyer? Seems like the proverbial swatting a fly with a sledgehammer? And what of the submarine? Torpedos are fairly close-range weapons, at least in those days. Would it have survived the blast?
Linus explicitly opted out of the "or any later version" clause because he doesn't agree with the ideals of free software (seeing it as more of a practical convenience). All versions of the GPL have had an upgrade clause, mainly so that GNU projects can upgrade the license.

Not to mention that much of the code inside Linux is under GPLv2-or-later, but because some of it is GPLv2-only the whole work is GPLv2-only.
Scale in terms of number of engineers and app size, not users
When you need script language to embed it inside NetBSD kernel

http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?lua+4+NetBSD-current
> Computer Modern, is [...] unreadable at low resolution

I agree it's much worse at low resolution, but it is readable. How low do you have in mind?
Apple confirms iOS kernel code left unencrypted intentionally
I may be wrong here, but a surface detonation is unlikely to damage a submarine that is deep underwater. That is the reason why a fleet of nuclear submarines are the best nuclear deterrent: hard to take out since they can be anywhere undersea, mobile and ready to counterattack at a moments notice.
I had Webpass fiber in Chicago for over a year. It was nice 1Gbps symmetric too. Back on Comcast now though :(
Yes. I read The Vital Question after hearing about it on HN a few weeks ago and found it very interesting (although less so nearer the end, as it seemed to get more speculative). To oversimplify, mitochondria are the key to understanding life and eukaryotes. (I should study electron transport more closely.)
800k = $61/container for a neo panamax. Which is not bad at all when considering how much stuff can fit in a single container
Mozilla, please help fund Privacy Badger for Firefox on Android. Thanks!
I thought the point of the parent comment was that the quality of his games has gone down.
That's why I mentioned local network. Once we extend that with bridges, of course the verification fails. You can also assume any mac you want, so that's not a good security at all.

But that's all we've got. Unless we start integrating some kind of factory-sealed guaranteed-unique identity chips in all devices, there's simply no work around. Once something is on your network, you manage the identities. Either you have to manage some kind of CA, or trust whatever the factory provided you.
I was a happy Webpass customer for about 3 years before moving to an area not served by them. I would be curious to see if they are folded into Fiber or if they are kept as a separate brand. As it currently stands Webpass has much stricter limits on who they are willing to serve. Last time I checked they required that all customers lived in multi unit buildings that were built within the last 20 years. I imagine this was meant to keep their installation costs low while hopefully benefiting from economies of scale. That makes sense for a new niche ISP, but Google has the resources and motivation to abandon those restrictions.
What's funny about supercars is you rarely see them on the track. It's the folks out there with their spec Miatas having all the fun. I've passed more 100k+ Vipers, M5s and Ferraris on track day in a first-gen 130bhp Miata than I can remember.

Working on a Chump car (http://www.chumpcar.com/) build with my brothers now. I've met people racing in that series who've owned every supercar imaginable. But when it's a beater with some safety equipment, what do you have to lose :)
While not the person to whom the question was directed, I'd offer that the move from QuickTime to AVFoundation (taken directly from iOS) & friends (CoreMedia, CMIO) was one such example. Core Media I/O was released a few years ago to replace vdig and/or sequence grabber IIRC. Despite being released a few years back, the only documentation available for CMIO is a sample project. AVFoundation was limited in terms of codec support relative to QuickTime offering only support for built-in codes. Just as an example. Of course QuickTime had no 64-bit future so Apple had to do something but it was and still is a bit of a mess years down the road.
Yes except in the lowest locks
Which bike are you looking at? The 1299 Panigale S is $25,500. The Superleggerra 1199 (only 500 made) was 70k+.
> number of engineers

can't this be said about any popular framework? "it scales because everyone knows it"

> app size

what specifically makes React scale better with app size than any other properly componentized architecture?
Google Maps API; Standard Plan Updates (2016-06-22)
I didn't understand the last paragraph. What you said makes sense, and the fact that countries like IN, PK, NK don't have access to tactical/precision nuclear armaments makes it less likely that they will use them, doesn't it? Because setting off a megaton device is clearly a sign for the commencement of nuclear war and certain MAD.
I use Webpass. Get 600mbps on my wifi AC router. It's amazing and I'm super happy with it. Hoping with google fiber speed gets even faster.
Usually the reviews on the app store itself are enough to tell if the IAP is particularly intrusive. I've skipped plenty of games after finding the reviews full of people complaining about it. Similarly, I've played some IAP games after app store reviews praised the game for making the IAP not intrusive (and the reviews were right).
It's a monad tutorial that's too embarrassed to admit it.
There already exist ships way larger than new panamax. So I don't think there was ever a question about planning for larger ships... Look at the specs of some of the suezmax ships or the vlcc/ulcc ships out there.
The Prioritization of Machine Learning Will Change the Tech Industry
>Has Lamborghini ever made a car that had actual technical merit as a racecar?

There's a GT3 version of the Huracan, that's all I've seen.

http://squadracorse.lamborghini.com/en/cars/huracan-gt3/over...
Learn to multiply matrices (you can probably Google this). Note that AB != BA in matrix math. Learn derivatives and how to do them with a lookup table. Learn what log() means (the inverse of some number to a power).

That's enough to implement and understand neural networks. You'll fumble around a lot more than you have to, but you can figure it out.

Honestly, you could probably fight your way through Ng's class with just matrix multiplication, which you can learn in less than an hour fairly easily.