skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how they think Nokia would've fared any better than HTC (or Sony, or Motorola)

Back in the day Nokia had good hardware, a 40% marketshare, brand recognition, a loyal customer base and a wide distribution network. Certainly noone knows what Android could have done for them, but theoretically they were at a better position to take advantage of it than HTC/Sony/Motorola.
That was done all and more in the Interlisp-D system.
I'm impressed they got grub onto a hard disk image without needing root; I didn't think you could do that. I struggled with that for a while, before I found grub2-mkrescue, which I think is much easier if you're just starting out. The entire sequence to create a CD ISO is,

# Stage the data we want in our image:
mkdir -p isofiles/boot/grub
cp grub.cfg isofiles/boot/grub/.
cp kernel.bin isofiles/boot/.

# Make the image:
grub2-mkrescue -o os.iso isofiles

# Clean up:
rm -rf isofiles

Which I got from the tutorial here[1], which is also excellent.

[1]: http://os.phil-opp.com/multiboot-kernel.html
"Aside from that Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?"
Are you saying a partner should be reimbursed after the fact for doing that job versus something in the workplace? Also I think the argument for diminished wages is overblown. If one partner chooses to stay at home, if that was their choice, then I don't get it. We all make choices which impact our future job prospects. Unless it's something that one spouse did to the other, why should one spouse pay reparations to the other?

Calling it something like unemployment benefits is a cute line, but a busted analogy. The child rearing did not produce income, but it does cost money. It's an expense which should be shared equally until the children are over 18 absolutely, and the number of hours spent caring for the children should be equally and highly valued. Child support is a different matter entirely. I think alimony by definition is not child support?

Now once the kids are grown a bit, perhaps your skills are now somewhat obsolete. Once the kids are in school full time, 5-6 years old, how many at that point are actually staying at home?

Even if a person is just starting a career, how many years into it does it take to get established? 2-3 years you can get started in almost any industry. Don't tell me the stay-at-home partner just really wanted to be a Doctor and they should be funded to go to that now. So I can absolutely see paying for 2-3 years if the income is there, and it's needed for the ex to get started in their new life.

The best thing for these laws will be gay marriage. When it's two same-sex partners being judged, how the decision making might be surprisingly rational!
What does it matter how fair it is? It's neither fair to compare a monkey to a fish in terms of being able to climb trees, but that doesn't change that one of the two is most likely already sitting on a branch. And ultimately, if you need something that can climb trees, a fish simply won't do, no matter how fair you try to treat it.
Promise anti patterns
Here is how it used to be back in the day on the Mac.

http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_V...

Allegro Common Lisp now has an express edition:

http://franz.com/products/allegrocl/acl_ide.lhtml

http://franz.com/downloads.lhtml

Also for a bit of time travel, there are quite a few documents from Interlisp-D at Xerox PARC available:

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_xerox?and[]=subject%3A...

On Xerox, images are called symbolic files.
What does this indicates? The intelligence of the so called AI or the stupidity of the Literary prize screening :)
1B iPhones: If stacked flat they would go from Earth to ISS and back 9 times
The question is can these moonshots pay off their expenses in the long run.

Given how little Google is known to actually ship I question if they can.
> Locking and unlocking a door two or three times a day adds up to a considerable amount of wasted time over the course of years

Micro-optimizations are rarely useful in terms of software development or in real life (unless you're at considerable scale which is statistically unlikely in both cases). Granted I can't know for sure how long it takes you to lock or unlock a door.

Going from my own experience locking and unlocking a door, combined, takes about 1-4 seconds depending on if I'm entering or leaving. So let's take the most (4 seconds). Let's say I unlock and lock 3 times a day (a busy day but again taking the highest numbers here). So that's 4,380 seconds (73 minutes) used per year at the maximum time. So yes it adds up but saving the 12 seconds per day wouldn't make me more productive that day (it's not like you gain that 73 minutes in a useful chunk of time) and statistically keeps myself, my family and our stuff safer.

So yeah I get the convenience factor but I don't get the whole "wasted time" piece. Certainly depending on where you live it may be unnecessary but another thing to keep in mind is there are always times for firsts (so just because your area may be historically crime free doesn't mean it'll stay that way).

Perhaps I'm just too paranoid but something so small seems fine to me :)
Interesting to see that Alamy are involved with this. I have firsthand experience dealing with them first as a photo contributor and later as a copyright holder finding Alamy to be in breach of both UK copyright law and also their own contributor agreement.

Alamy claim they delete all copies of contributor photos from their servers 45 days after you terminate your contract but failed to do this, and continued serving my images for many months after our agreement ended. When I contacted them they first claimed it was Google's fault (cached images) and them later admitted they had done it but were still defiant and claimed they could do it because finding my images was 'difficult'.

They are a large photo agency and their infrastructure is first-class, so I had some interesting email and telephone exchanges with Level 3 and AWS when I sent them DMCA takedown notices and explained that there was no 'safe harbor' for them and I had absolute proof (the Exif metadata with my name and copyright notice was still preserved in the images and I provided direct alamy.com/... links to them hosted by Alamy).

Blog post here, if you want the whole story including replies from Alamy. They seem like one of the better photo agencies but damn, they really don't like being held to the same standards they hold the public to. https://www.tombrossman.com/blog/2014/alamy-copyright-and-ex...
Not from beginning, as the beginnings of Symbian was EPOC which was great.
>No one in their right mind is deploying actual production software on Docker, on OS X/Windows.

Since the whole point of Docker would be to deploy these in production and not just for development, I don't see how the term 'ready for production' can be used. Isn't this just a beta?
The chief feature I miss on Android is the ability to user rsync to syncrhonise its content with my PC in a reasonable way. I can rsync to the phone -- but none of the apps are allowed to read the directory thus synced.

Maybe IOs is more forgiving. But how would a terminal emulator help?
'the lisp machine' did not do that. There were different attempts. The MIT Lisp Machine used Lisp code in files, with some tool support.

The Xerox Lisp Machine (different hardware, different Lisp, different OS) used a different approach will full managed source code in the image, with managed files as kind of a way to persist sources.
With people writing NIFs in Rust, how long until someone writes a new BEAM-compatible VM in Rust? The existing C implementation of the BEAM VM could be incrementally rewritten in Rust. I was browsing the BEAM source code recently and the C coding style is rather dated, e.g. lots of #ifdefs and even function declarations without prototypes.
If the article was titled, 'Will Google's moonshots pay off'? With a list of the top projects and cumulative spending on each one. Some analysis on each of the markets and what their potential size could be in 2020. Who are the biggest competitors in the space? Now that would have been interesting to read!
Last time I checked it didn't support 32 bits but could be tested on Windows 7. Now I see it requires `Microsoft Windows 10 Professional or Enterprise 64-bit
For previous versions get Docker Toolbox`.
> Specifically, don't introduce new syntax

Hearing this in the context of Scala is hilarious[0].

> force your users to deal with the fact that your bytecode is now incompatible with previous versions and now requires a new minimum version for the VM. They can recompile...it's not really that big of a deal.

Only in the ideal world of greenfield development. You have to ensure that the build system, bytecode enhancer, AOP injectors all are able to cope with the new bytecode format.

[0] http://www.flotsam.nl/dispatch-periodic-table.html
Thanks for explaining! So I conclude for the data sizes you mention yinyang on a GPU is possibly the best approach, after which Pelleg-Moore on CPUs is (still) the goto solution. Or can you see a way for distributing this among graphics cards?
If I still remember correctly it was the first Symbian to have hardware support for OpenGL ES, until then it was only done in software.

I think Asphalt was the game chosen to demo it.

Had chosen something else most likely OpenGL ES would never had taken off, given how lousy it was supported across mobiles back then.
Interesting that you omitted Apple. You could view the stalling iPhone sales as analogous to Windows reaching market penetration...maybe Apple will come up with a revolutionary new blockbuster (maybe the car), but post-Steve Jobs that won't be easy.
Spacemacs[0] with its F# layer enabled is also painless to set up, if that's more your cup of tea:

http://blog.nikosbaxevanis.com/2015/04/25/fsharp-on-emacs-wi...

[0] http://spacemacs.org/
Science videos – How the human brain works
Big water waves are gravity waves, but ripples are capillary waves, I think.
General Knowledge Videos: Why are fruits sweet?
In this situation the whole point of OSS is that it doesn't matter if the service "goes away" because you can self host the same software
It does now, but we were comparing to platforms that existed when the iPhone came out. Even J2ME was designed to handle variable layouts. AutoLayout wasn't usable until iOS 6
apparently there's a doc coming about this called "Billion Dollar Bully" from some small independent filmmakers which yelp is already trying to pre-emptively discredit: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/yelp-accused-mob-like-...
> If this project is successfully funded, I'll check with the Slack company that there are no issues with this going forwards.

Why not ask them right now, or even earlier than that?

> The Slack macOS app is slow and ugly.

Personally I don't see what's so ugly about this app. And in fact, it is one of the only "html" apps I've not minded using, normally I despise them.
I know plenty of people at Yahoo hoping to get let go.

She successfully added a very aggressive change in control clause with a double trigger, so anyone let go will have accelerated vesting of all their stock.

For many of my friends there, they would be let go with essentially a 6 figure layoff package (in addition to 2 months of severence).
Moonshots are called that way because they bear both immense risk of failure as well as a potential to bring in billions. So individual moonshots are almost always failures; the ones that are successful pay the other ones. Google is doing the right thing to remain alive in the future without enforcing lock down on their users (like other companies not producing moonshots do).
Yeah these days it's all fine after they got AutoLayout working, but developers got lulled into "there's just one device size" that threes was a minor panic when they expanded the line (and now with iPad multitasking you need to handle basically any size)
Perhaps it would be more accurate to say they are now longer relevant in the sense they are not at the cutting edge. IBM like you mentioned is a good example. They earn billions still, and will for the foreseeable future, but they're hardly technological pioneers.
Security: better to be proactive or reactive?
Ac Milan vs. Bayern Munchen 3-3 (5-3) P.K
The bigger Lisp IDEs have a different idea. They use the running image as an information system about all the sources it has seen, which means, which it has loaded and/or compiled. Location of source, arguments, who calls who and from where, documentation snippets, ... When you load and compile, this data is continously updated.

See: http://lispm.de/genera-concepts

LispWorks or Allegro CL are in that direction.

It's not as radical as the InterLisp-D system, which is in many ways similar to Smalltalk - when in fact many ideas in Smalltalk are coming from Interlisp and its earlier BBN Lisp, including part of the runtime technology, which enables dumping/restarting images.
Yes, but with the convergence of laptops/tablets with Surface like devices, but actually have a win there.

Using iOS or Android on a tablet + keyboard isn't really the same experience as being able to use all the usual Windows applications if I want to, specially Visual Studio on the go.

However they are just pivoting like IBM did when they lost the PC market.
Based on numerous conversations I've had with self-identifying feminists, I would say the primary message seems to be that a person's gender (regardless of what it is) shouldn't decide their opportunities in life. Opinions on the extent or existence of systemic societal discrimination against women tend to depend largely on individual experience
(and admittedly, on occasion, misinterpreted and badly gathered statistics) I think. And of course, there are as many versions of feminism as there are feminists because no two people are exactly alike.
How is booting from a CD not being "root"?
I'd take you up on that offer. I'd love to have a third crack at it.

I've had two coding challenges within that last year. One for an internship and one for a full time position (earlier today no reply yet don't expect one). The problem for me is I freeze. As soon as the "testing" type pressure gets put on I go cold and freeze. Then as soon as the test is over I can pull alllllll the information forward. It sucks because I struggle with CS exams too. Every time I have a test I freeze until I'm out of time and as soon as I leave a room it all comes back.
I am encouraged by this advertising companies attempts at designing cars.

The moonshot program seems to me to be either Google cementing it's position forever in the knowledge economy or a desperate scrabble for another hit.

If the latter is true, then I have hope for the future. It means that the giants - Google (+ Youtube), Amazon, Facebook - can fall. They are not on as strong a footing as it seems.

All it takes is...

- One generation of kids to decide to eschew Facebook (or any product it buys)

- Ad revenue declining or another viable internet business model to rise up and replace it

- More efficient / free marketplaces
Can you recommend how to get started on this? Like beginner links or something? I'm currently just a physics noob, but have some of the basic concepts of quantum theory down. I would love to just have a basic grasp of that monstrous equation.
I don't know why you're downvoted. I totally agree.

At some point it became "cool" to throw up a "smoke test" page and deceive people into clicking purchase button on a product that does not exist. All the "influencers" started encouraging people to do that. Till this point it was annoying but it wasn't like they actually charged for it, so it was still legal.

Then came Kickstarter and it became OK to ask for actual money for something they don't even know if they can build. Like the guy below said I don't think the world has significantly changed or anything, and creative people still do creative things.

The thing I'm most annoyed about is in the past I didn't need to see these fake products and their endorsements by people in my network. Now I'm forced to see these. In the past smart people could just avoid pyramid schemes because most people they hang out with are smart enough not to fall into that trap. Nowadays with social media, these scams get spread around way more effectively than the past and I am forced to see them. Not to mention finding out how gullible some of my friends are. I don't hate them for being naive and gullible, but I would rather not know about it if I could. That's what annoys me the most.
Hey I'll have to check out OrderUp haven't heard of that, grubhub has been good so far - I haven't had to contact their support for anything yet so can't speak to that but in general I've found many places have lower delivery fees. They also have their own drivers which is nice.

Ubereats actually comes in cheapest if you're ordering for just yourself, no need order extra food to hit a delivery minimum.
I doubt the problems mentioned happen on Linux or CoreOS, which is likely what a production environment will run on.
The moonshots are in alphabet, but pretty far from Googles core with Search, ads and Android. For example robotics, health care and self driving cars.

(I work for Google and have worked in another alphabet company)
Yes, great work! I think of PCB design like golf -- low scores are better, but nobody hits a hole-in-one every time they tee up. 3 revs is shooting par for even simple designs, much less a complex RF design like this.

Having someone else look over the design is always useful. A healthy distrust of datasheets is always useful. But at some point, you have to ask yourself you have reduced the risk of errors enough that a couple of rework wires with get you through debug, at which point just go fab it. Blue wires tack-soldered on are a fact of life in prototyping. It is easy to obsess over PCB designs, but "fail fast" applies here, too.
> but there will always be a small handful of businesses who mistakenly think it’s a good idea to threaten consumers who exercise their free speech right

Wh... what? the free speech right only covers repercussions initiated by the government. Businesses are not the government so consumers have no free speech right or expectation here.
And closed most of their European units moving them to cheaper countries....

That is what makes me angry at them, not whatever they did later with Microsoft.
ImageMagick is not so cool without a bit of JS.
>but would Amazon have anything to lose

Potentially sales. Unfortunately they are in a spot right now where lots of normal people not aware of the fraud see a product with 2000 reviews and 4.5 stars and take that as a strong signal that it's a good buy. They are conditioned to think that 'lots of reviews == well vetted'. If suddenly the review counts plunge by 90% people might be more wary of making a purchase.

They almost need to figure out a way to keep both. Maybe keep the review count for everyone but make the star rating just based on verified purchases...
>municipal 5G wifi or a public blockchain to help vehicles communicate with one another

What the hell am I reading?
Given the world we live in, right now, why does mathematics continue to insist on minified expressions?

Given the option, most development teams would choose to read and write against verbose source code, rather than scrape obfuscated variables and method signatures out of a minified, transpiled, compressed package.

So why do we continue this archaic practice of obscure, inscrutable symbols in mathematics? Cultural inertia?

The cycle of madness must end!
In the bad old days, when, from memory and comparison with vast improvements in the later editions of K&R's chapter on pointers etc., the Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, with Source Code (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions%27_Commentary_on_UNIX_6t...) was held by many in equal or greater esteem than K&R. The code has bee implemented as xc6 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xv6), but I haven't looked at it.
Close, but not quite. Blackmail would be if they held the negative reviews and then released them if they refused to pay.

This is more like a sleezy PR person that offers to help bury a story that they themselves are promoting.
If I was a physics phd working on QFT, I would tattoo this equation as a sleeve. Unfortunately, as a mere programmer, I could never pick a sufficiently perfect code snippet to use. I would constantly look at it and try to refactor it.
That is almost 20% investment on R&D - twice as good as other good companies. That is why I would love to work for Google!
It has a pretty good logging, have you taken a look if it crashes or something?
Why fMRI inferences for spatial extent have inflated false-positive rates
Your reply makes sense. Also gives a way to keep a track of the people who did this. If something breaks later on, you have someone to point this to.
> It's essentially unemployment benefits owed by the marriage as an association.

1) You don't get unemployment benefits for life. There is usually a limit. It is a free ride.

2) Women today expect men to share work at home equally. Not every couple does that but many do and most women do return to their jobs a few years after child birth. So what exactly should the women be reimbursed for?
It'll be hard to block video ads that are stitched into your stream.
> However this way you will focus on fixing only real world attacks. Still, it's somewhat a shameful thing to put vulnerable applications on production and rely solely on bug hunters to find bugs before attackers. Shameful because of the disrespect with customer data and your own data / reputation. In the end it's still insecure. Bug hunters should only be considered "an extra help" and nothing else.

Shameful? Sure, if you know about the vulnerabilities. But in most case they're honest human mistakes that make it out to production or because we've failed to educate people on properly securing their web apps and properties in general. And that sucks. And sometimes these bugs live on for years. But calling it shameful is rather harsh and it doesn't improve any of it either. If anything it makes people feel crappy over it.
How adorable. Yelp taking the moral high ground. Once I wrote a negative review for a business describing my personal experience with them. The company first wrote me an email and asked me to remove it, I obviously didn't because everything I wrote was true. Then Yelp removed my review, because it was "irrelevant"! :-) Strangely enough, that business had all positive reviews on Yelp with near 5/5 score, while on Google it had a score of around 2.5/5. Does anyone even care about Yelp scores at this point?
As far as I know, The seL4 microkernel team generates C code by hand from a formally-verified "executable specification" written in Haskell.

Which is then verified by analyzing the binary code and linking it back to the spec.
>(In SF or NYC, you probably can't obtain a comparable living situation, but a 2500 sq ft apartment apparently runs around $15k/mo, meaning you'd have to make almost $1M/yr to barely afford one)

I'm not sure where you are getting this from. The mcmansion trend hit the bay area just as much as it hit anywhere else. The burbs are 20-30 minutes away with tech worker job hours. The 2500 sqft homes here cost a million dollars, so your mortgage cancels out the additional bay area income. But that mortgage money doesn't go into a black hole, it's equity. So at the end of the day you can sell your bay area house, go back to oklahoma, and buy ten houses. This is probably the best opportunity going in the world right now to build dynastic wealth.
Well before they didn't report aws seperately so just how profitable it is was somewhat hidden.
Please save GMane
Google as far as I can tell understands itself not as an ad broker, but as an AI company. Robotics, health care, self driving cars and stuff like that are pretty much the future applications for AI.
How is Amazon being mentioned in the same line as Google and Facebook? They don't rely as much on the ad revenue as the other two.
I think that it would be reasonable to assume that many of these moonshots are generating patents that could have significant long term value.