skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The shift to Intel was a move of necessity, a huge risk, and ultimately a major pain for Apple's customers not talk about third party developers. Apple took a huge hit to their goodwill. That was predictable, but they went ahead and did it anyway. Why? Because they had to. PowerPC was falling further and further behind. It was alright for Macs to be more expensive than PCs, but more expensive and slower? Furthermore, PowerPC was holding Apple back from taking the Mac where they wanted it to go (ultralight laptops).

None of the issues that caused the Intel transition apply to Apple now. Intel is not holding Apple back, because Apple already uses its own chips in what it considers the future of computing: iOS devices. At the same time Macs use exactly the same chips as PCs, which means there is no risk that PCs will suddenly leapfrog the Macs. There is in other word no major need to make a shift. But the risks in doing so would be the same. Apple would once again be pissing of its customers and 3rd party developers. And for what? A marginal improvement in battery life? To save a fragment on bill of materials on a product line which already enjoys healthy margins, but which also is a tiny fragment of their overall business?
Ha ha this makes more sense. In fact, I didn't even read the article nor watched the video, but immediately upon the load of the page I noticed the name of the robot: "Promobot" and I immediately jumped to the conclusion that either the article or the incident was some sort of PR. It reminded me of the film "I, Robot" [1] where a AI-powered machine supposedly breaks the three laws of robotics [2]. I wonder if this will happen in the not-so-far future.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robot_%28film%29

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics
Bankruptcy protects the filer from being sued by it's creditors or generally. Even if there are no assets to be distributed you might do it for that reason. It also may help to keep the officers and directors from being sued personally since walking away from a company and not settling it's affairs in an orderly fashion could be grounds to pierce the corporate veil in some cases.
Man spent 18 days in Changi airport transit
About five years ago I was on crutches for several months and I can highly recommend the experience to anybody who is against the ADA as an eye-opener.
The hard part for Microsoft is not the porting of Windows to ARM. The hard part has been and continues to be convincing existing Windows developers to port their apps to UWP.

The reason Windows on Mac is useful to people is because people have may programs that do not have acceptable equivalents on Mac OS. These apps are usually legacy programs that probably fill special niches, and the cost of "modernizing" is usually not justified. This effort would be required to port these apps to Windows ARM, which last time around also required porting to UWP which Microsoft is still pushing, but not easy to actually do for a lot of code bases.

A new Microsoft irony kicks in here is that if they are successful in convincing the huge Windows ecosystem to migrate to UWP away from Win32, et. al, they may actually kill their lock-in advantage. A serious rewrite at this stage may also invite Mac, Linux, iOS, Android ports. In this case, Apple no longer needs to care about Intel Windows and this bullet point becomes less compelling and maybe they could reconsider.
Haha. We wished we got patches. This was back in the day when the prevailing mantra was, "Patches? We don't need no stinking patches!"
(Though we did convince the DBAs to apply a necessary AQ related patch. Rare.)
Having said that, Oracle were pretty good with backwards compatibility regarding their DBs. There was talk of this thing called RAC in the next version. What a dream! That's what I would have gone with to achieve "zero" downtime upgrades. Never got the chance. We used very small patch windows where all boundary processes would stop.
Yeah, I should have explained a bit better but that's exactly what I was getting at with those two links.
http://www.nccoast.org/uploads/documents/CRO/2012-5/SLR-bill...
"Wow that is world-class naiveté. Female politicians of every stripe are bullied daily."

Total B.S.

Politicians, and businesspeople are rarely 'bullied'.

'Bullied every day'?

Enough this this rubbish.
Off topic but I'm starting to think people find any excuse to use the word "portmanteau". Maybe that should be a new law like betteridges law. (Wikipedia is littered with it)
For those interested in online/soft synths, sequencers and samplers (pretty deep rabbit hole)look up past discussions of Max for Live, ChucK, SuperCollider, Impromptu, CSound. Max Live is part of Ableton Suite license for around $700, I think others are open source/license. Also the clojure overtone and haskell tidal live coding libs. I think there were also threads about writing your own VST/AU plugins.

Snoman's "Dance Music Manual" and Shepard "Refining Sound" are good books to start with

(I'm old school about synths and sequencer, i think it's best to start with a knobby hardware synth, microbrute, ms2000, Minilogue, bass station II, sh201, mopho and understand how it's designed to work and how it glitches/fails gracefully)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9178933

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9518601

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9573471

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9640218

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9635037 (that particular K-S synth isn't online anymore but somebody else put up a demo)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10177716 (supercollier, alda et al)

Big fan of Terry Riley, Lamont Young, Philip Glass, Arvo Pärt also.
That book is unrelated to the environment. It's about developing the skill of changing mental models in general through an exercise of writing them out and seeing how they work.

I have deep passions for teaching leadership and for reducing pollution. Professionally, I have decided to focus on teaching leadership for now so I write a lot less on pollution, though I continue to refine my personal behavior, for example http://joshuaspodek.com/wasting-waste and http://joshuaspodek.com/living-with-integrity-means-consider... and links within.
But this is just initial step and doesn't add any new language features.

From the link:

The Mono runtime we use in our Editor and Players has not been upgraded.
The compiler still targets the C# 4 language. This is approximately what our old compiler supported.
The compiler still target the .Net 3.5 framework profile we previously supported.
Libraries are not required to make every book available in Braille or in a digital format compatible with text to speech software. That's considered an unreasonable burden on the library.

It's highly unlikely that the complainants went directly to the Civil Rights Division without talking to Berkeley first, that's not how these things go. Frankly, it's preferable for the DoJ to be involved because a problem in this area is a lack of specific regulation and guidance to schools on how exactly to interpret the strong but vague language of the law. If the University just quietly works it out with individuals or a group, that's going to be a lot less helpful to making all educational institutions more accessible.
In the UAE you're free to own and exploit slaves, a right which hasn't been present in these United States since the Tyrant L.nc.ln. spits on five fiat dollar federal reserve note
Yep... I was the first agent@cc.gatech.edu circa 99-04 (I wonder who owns it now). Advance apologies if you knew me then... I was an inconsiderate a$$hole at the time. I'm still an a$$hole but less inconsiderate.
Aren't Intel selling way more to people that aren't Apple? That's even ignoring AWS and friends who I assume all run on Intel processors too.
In my opinion if you can prepare for the interview, then you can probably pick up anything else you might need to know for the job, too. A lot of algorithms and data structures you'd have to memorize for these interviews are also very easy to Google when you don't know them, and having to do that isn't likely to make you much less effective.
Hypothetically, how do you think the market would respond if Apple said that apps could only be sold through the store?
return of the ibook perhaps?
Florida is already seeing lots of sinkholes because of the geography - it's build on porous limestone which erodes easily.

There's probably not much chance of saving florida.
Who paid the bill for that talk?

I bet it wasn't Goldman & Sachs.
Jeez, what a creep.
The universally hated JEE can do distributed transactions by default. Yes, with pitfalls, but it can. (It is usually hated by devs who have never used it properly.)
This sounds more like standard bureaucratic graft to me, where some private-sector middleman is going to get paid a bunch to "evaluate art quality" according to some proprietary set of "art quality metrics". The article says that the metrics platform will be owned by Counting What Counts Ltd, and organizations receiving grants will have to license it from them for £2,000/yr. Basically the business model of "shitty overpriced software you're required to have" that Blackboard Inc. pioneered in higher education.

Also generally part of a current trend (also seen in the sciences) where more and more grant money gets plowed back into managing the grant process itself rather than going to the things the grants are nominally supposed to fund.
These are really great points. The thought process is that it will be used for authentication and recovery. I would say Virtual Numbers are a concern but most cost money and an email is free to create. Which was why I said better control spam. If they want to pay money to be a clown and troll I've already won anyway.

I think you are right about the concern of privacy. The scary part is most don't even read the Terms and Policy Agreement.
Ask HN: What does Facebook actually do these days?
Serious question. We constantly see innovative new services and generally "new" things coming out from companies like Amazon, Apple & Google.

But Facebook? I struggle to point out a genuinely interesting or innovative thing their platform has done in over two years. Yes, there have been small tweaks, but nothing at all that is interesting.

And no, I do not consider just buying other companies (Oculus, Instagram) proof of "innovation."
You can use event logs and eventual consistency to solve this problem.

Basically you make the transfer of money an event that is then atomically committed to an event log.
The two bank accounts then eventually incorporate that state.

See http://www.grahamlea.com/2016/08/distributed-transactions-mi...

But I agree that often life is easier if you just keep things simpler. If you require strong consistency like with the user/profile don't make that state distributed. If you do make it distributed you need to live with less consistency.
GitHub's UI makes unintentional forking quite easy. When it shows a button like "Fork: 25", clicking the "25" will show the forks (which I often want), clicking "Fork" will perform a fork (which I usually don't want).
Both the iPhone 7 and the next next iPad Pro will be significantly faster than the current Macbook (and Macbook Air) and that's probably also the case for the next iteration, if it sticks with Intel. That alone is reason to switch to ARM. Compiling to ARM will be relatively easy, but still emulation will be needed for many applications, and that might be harder than emulating PowerPC.

I wonder where the performance ceiling is going to be for the Apple processor line. Looking at Intel, I'd have expected them to have hit it already, but given the huge increases in single threaded performance so far year on year, it's hard to believe that it'll peter down to <15% per year from now on.

If performance is going to keep improving at the current rate, then the A11X will be significantly faster than Intel's 2017 Cannonlake mobile lineup. Switching away from Intel would give Macs another big leg-up relative to Windows laptops.

Macs will never switch to iOS though. Processes on macOS have a freedom that's incomparable to that on iOS, and once the genie is out of the bottle, you can't put it back in again. But Apple will keep working to make iOS sufficient for increasingly more people, and Macs will keep getting more niche. Apple could even introduce a laptop-like form factor like the Surface Book with iOS on it (the iBook Pro?).

Interesting times...
I know they are doing cool developer-based projects like React, but that's not innovation that matters in a traditional business sense.

Like Twitter, I can't but help think that both platforms have become paralyzed by a crippling fear of not knowing what to do next with what they have. To me that means a recipe of slow but gradual decline.
The Difference Between Rationality and Intelligence
>Elon Musk never says rubbish like this which feels totally markety. When Elon Musk rants about something it feels more like a geek who is really excited about something..

Maybe, that is how you market to geeks..Know your target audience and all that...Looks like it is working!
Minor point, but MongoDB added document validation in 3.2 so you can add guarantees about what documents are being stored.

https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/core/document-validation/
Yeah, it was probably Virtual PC.

Remember they were called Powerbooks back then? I miss that name.
This is basically serverless programming as per Parse, Amazon Lambda, Google Cloud Code, and etc.
Show HN: peek – A new social platform that allows you to create and share events
What language would it be in 2016 ? Go ? Rust ?
Japanese tax investigation ends with Apple paying $118M
Can't you just bias for people with personal projects in any language?
"Convenient to ignore the abuse heaped on female politicians (hell any professional) daily. "

Get of of HN and back to Jezebel.

The position that females face 'bullying' every day in business and politics is beyond false. It's that kind of rubbish narrative that drives otherwise normal people to vote for a crazy person like Trump.
Satellite for the Internet.org project https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10102407675865061

Drone www.theverge.com/a/mark-zuckerberg-future-of-facebook/aquila-drone-internet

GraphQL http://graphql.org/learn/

Long term storage https://code.facebook.com/posts/1433093613662262/-under-the-...
Thanks, I'll take a look.

I live in a region of the Middle East that is more part of the problem than the solution I recycle, because we are in a city upon a hill type project, but others laugh at me and see it as pointless. I drive, sadly, but try to minimize it and do multiple errands in one circuit of a trip. Public transportation here is almost non-existent, and the average temp in the summer is over 40 degrees Celsius (no, not a typo). Local political activism is virtually non-existent, and dissenting opinion is punished. There is no local awareness, especially outside our project campus, or support for environmentally friendly policy. The government says otherwise, but minimal top-down politics changes nothing for anyone beyond the narrative.

What is the plan for people like me in regions like this? I see I live in the world majority of developing local economy, global indifference. "You Westerners had your Industrial Revolution, now it's our turn" is hard to counter as the world regime in talks and accords seems to passively prove this true.
This is a very poorly written article that provides very little information about the method or its motivation. And the consultants they're quoting sound like idiots.

The reality, I believe, is this: Arts Council funding is limited and decisions need to be made about which projects will be funded over others.

So they need some transparent system based on info from: the artists, their peers and the public.

Without any information whatsoever its not clear on what basis they could be making any decisions. The whims of some Art Director who happens to prefer one thing over another?
>The Americans with Disabilities Act [...] explicitly bind society to inefficient resource allocation.

Sure, that seems justifiable for commercial businesses but many find the ADA to be an ugly legal weapon for attacking free donations. The spiritual intentions of "free" should be exempted.

If UC Berkeley used the viewing of those videos as a mandatory requirement to qualify for admissions into the school or required viewing for the students to pass a class, then I think most of us could see the fairness of forcing them to caption it -- regardless of costs.

However, the goodwill act of making them free for humanity's knowledge-seeking causes the DOJ to threaten lawsuit? That does not seem right.

>Importantly, this is NOT a lawsuit. It's a DoJ investigation under the ADA focused on enforcing existing laws and regulations. It's not about "formalizing it into the nastiness of a lawsuit"

In the last page of the cited PDF, the DOJ explicitly writes "lawsuit":

>"In the event that we are unable to reach such a resolution, the Attorney General may initiate a lawsuit pursuant to the ADA"

That this particular DOJ letter is one or a few steps removed from a "formal lawsuit" doesn't detract from my overall point. The DOJ threatening a lawsuit is the tool of choice we're using instead of other options ... such as raising a crowdsourced fund to pay for captioning or recruiting volunteers to transcribe them into braille.

If there is an effort of goodwill to make something available, I think society should pay that back with reciprocal goodwill in finding a way to make the material accessible to the disabled.

The donation and the litigation response to that donation is asymmetrical. It gives the ADA bad press.
Plenty of content blockers support blocking domains based on SNI. Here's just a couple of examples from a quick google search.

https://wiki.untangle.com/index.php/Web_Filter#HTTPS_Options

http://www.watchguard.com/help/docs/wsm/xtm_11/en-us/content...
I'm not sure I do; I read it as smart-alecky because that's what it would have been had I written it, but on reflection I don't suppose you meant it that way, and I didn't intend to suggest in my response that I thought yours insulting.

I suppose I did come off a bit unduly bitchy, though, and I'm sorry for that. Some weeks go by in a moment; others feel like they drag on for months. This last was one of the latter sort, but there was no call for me to go and take that out on you.
ZeroMQ has native stacks in Java, C#, Erlang, C. Also C++.
oops. seriously? Was trying to do something original but guess it is definitely not.
The problem is that with climate change we need to be on an accelerated timeframe. We can't just wait for social change to happen naturally over the course of another generation or two.
Animations in Angular 2 – Foundation Concepts
I sort of agree. The examples in the article are ways in which people play fast and loose with consistency, often using a NoSQL store that has poor support for atomicity and isolation. This is a helpful message, because I've definitely seen naively designed systems start to develop all sorts of corruption when used at scale. The answer for many low-throughput applications is to just use Postgres. Both Django and Rails, by default, work with relational databases and leverage transactions for consistency.

Then, there is the rise of microservices to consider. In this case, I also agree with the author that it becomes crucial to understand that the number of states your data model can be in can potentially multiply, since transactional updates are very difficult to do.

But I feel like on the opposite side of the spectrum of sophistication are people working on well-engineered eventually consistent data systems, with techniques like event sourcing, and a strong understanding of the hazards. There's a compelling argument that this more closely models the real world and unlocks scalability potential that is difficult or impossible to match with a fully consistent, ACID-compliant database.

Interestingly, in a recent project, I decided to layer in strict consistency on top of event sourcing underpinnings (Akka Persistence). My project has low write volume, but also no tolerance for the latency of a write conflict resolution strategy. That resulted in a library called Atomic Store [1].

[1] https://github.com/artsy/atomic-store
Linked in gets your email from your friends. So, they are the the source of these leaks.
Passphrases on SSH keys used to be really easy to brute-force by default and I think they still are. Until two or three years ago the only way to slow down brute-forcing attacks was to use a complicated incantation with openssl to convert the keys to use a slower key derivation. Few people did.
Each customer doesn't get the full 1Gbs - you'd oversubscribe them at a 10:1 to 200:1 ratio, and you might only offer say 40mbs.
may be, you are right, users are as good as their reinvestment, with regards to open source. However, reinvestment doesn't necessarily have to mean code, money, bug reports or something similar. It could be as simple as, spreading the word. I really appreciate those who share their experiences with a project. It helps make long term decisions easier.
“Copyright is not a divine right”:Indian court in favour of copying textbooks
I still feel that you're not giving reasons of why it's a risky dependency or fully baked. And probably we/you should rename the title if it doesn't convey the article body...

Not that I am defending or even using React Router myself, I'm just saying that it's usually better for everyone if the feedback is better explained than just "It's bad" or "It's risky to use".
It's not a matter of technology, it's a matter of complexity. By definition a computer capable of simulating every elementary particle in the universe would have to be many orders of magnitude more complex (in crude terms 'bigger') than the universe itself, even assuming ideal technology with mathematically perfect efficiency.
This is a beautiful body of work along with the other articles by the author, and form a kind of "Rosetta Stone" for a new generation of musicians, developers and artists to use as a launchpad into the fascinating hockey stick of modern generative music.

I am convinced that with modern Machine Learning algorithms thrown into the pipeline it will only be a few short years before we are able to conjure up whatever type of music our context dictates. It's already happening.

It will be interesting to see how the RIAA respond to a new world where we can say

"Alexa, please play me some Led Zeppelin remixed with Rihanna in the style of Skrillex" (and you fill in the blanks)

Or even better after a one time analysis of you and your partners entire Spotify collections, just start making up new works perfectly in tune with the moment.

Really exciting times, and a stunning article.
it's not about selling information at least for 1millioncoins.com. As for lead gen like at bid2mow.com for instance is beneficial to both parties. you wouldn't fill out a form unless you were looking for some kind of landscaping service. Yes your right on the terms of service and privacy policy and SSL. I need to work on those.
The iPhone 7/7 Plus single-core score is 3,450 and the multi-core score is 5,630.

The current top intel chip (i7-6700K) single-core score is 5326 and that same chip multi-core score is 17003 and the i7-6950X multi-core score is 29877. http://browser.primatelabs.com/processor-benchmarks

That's still a pretty good lead. Now perhaps with the added room of a laptop they could make an arm chip that was closer in performance but would it be worth it?
Shouldn't the iPad simply become the MacBook Air? There will be a convergence with the low-end laptop. It's simply a matter of getting desktop software running on iOS. As with the new Airpods, you instantly pair your keyboard, if it's not attached, and mouse. Apple's strength is iOS so they should grow it into the laptop.