skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course it works well for many buyers. In my mind, it was still £300 more than I paid for my 5s and I had no further demands of the iPhone 5 besides a longer passcode.
I have. The Mac Pro is garbage. GPU issues like I've never witnessed before. Sample size of ~30 Mac Pros, 25% of them exhibit gpu issues.
Call me when you can get 1 million concurrent connections using 1.3 GB of user space memory with ws.

Hint: at 500k ws consumes all memory in my computer and the GC stalls are constant. My system start to freeze and my mouse cursor is no longer responding.

I can have 1 million connections with uws at the same time I'm watching cat clips on youtube, listening to spotify and having my complete IDE up and running.
hey try this app.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wood-joints/id837964581?mt=8
This "Google" phone is actually manufactured by HTC who has been making (Android) camera phones for years.
if you could teach a toddler to put one those together imagine how smart it could be in later life (if that's even how smarts work)
This is solved by bollards.
`ws` is another popular WebSocket implementation for Node.js
perfectly readable :)

(but usually generates compiler warning without an additional set of parentheses)
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In some cases you may wish to, yes. Particularly where it comes to things like explicitly zeroing memory before freeing it, something that has recently been addrezsed with memset_s
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Petzold's book "Code" explains how to build a simple CPU using macroscopic parts.

You could build a CPU with a copy of the book and a big box of transistors, wires, breadboards etc.
I'm still running a 2008 Macbook Pro with no issues other than a battery replacement. I did upgrade the RAM and replaced the SuperDrive with a disk drive and the disk drive with an SSD.
There are very few programming languages where the total lines of code written is larger than the amount of bad C code written.
Pascal. Dialects. That was the problem.

Pascal was designed as a teaching language, then people realized it sucked as a language in the real world, so they extended it. There were quite a few Pascal variants in the late 70s / early 80s, and none of the useful code you could write in them was portable.

C had all the features you needed in an OS-level language, without resorting to variants (the X86 near/far bullshit notwithstanding, you used macros and typedefs to shift that stuff around). So Pascal more or less died in the industry.

I was at Apple when they converted from a Pascal shop to a C shop. There wasn't any big managerial push, just individual engineers or small teams realizing that the nightmare was over and they could use a language that sucked a lot less.
I appreciate the suggestion, and will get a screenshot page added to the site. In the meantime, here are a few blog posts with more shots:

https://unencumberedbyfacts.com/2016/09/08/cypht-webmail-scr...
https://unencumberedbyfacts.com/2016/10/04/cypht-webmail-scr...
PrimeNG 1.0-beta17 released with new components for Angular2
WebSockets is the protocol, ws is a lib implementing it.
Yeah for sure. Angular2 is like RAD development in Delphi all over again. Controls connected to DataSources connected to ClientDataSets ...
https://simplanalytics.com
uws is a reimplementation of the ws interface, using fewer resources and providing better throughput.
Can we stop bad-mouthing CSS in developer talks, please?
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I take issue with "It was the very reliability of it — in user-friendly design, as well as stability of functionality — that was the basis of my choice in the first place..." With some Apple products this was true, with others, not so much. iTunes is one example. To me, iTunes has always been a mess. In the old days it would reliably update my iPod with new songs purchased from iTunes, but that was about it and the usability was always terrible.
Google's Immaterial Design
I hear this, but I've rarely experienced it. Maybe I unconsciously avoid such cases with long use. I started with assembler, and debug C/C++ with disassembly turned on, so maybe that's why.
Ha, I didn't even scroll down :facepalm:
You may add feet for altitude (you fly in levels that are in hundreds of feet, like FL300 is 30000'. In meters you get to fly separations of 300m which can be much more error prone).

I've flown to Moscow dozens of times and the altitude in meters is much more confusing(even if you only use it now below the transition level, from 0 to 3000'), the wind speed in m/s you may get used to, but Knots is much better for all speed units (also the mach num aproximately corresponds with NM/min, example 0.80 Mach is 8 NM/min.)

Another pilot and weekend sailor.
Is C really this disparaged in Silly Valley?
Yes, 2 years of upgrades and another for security updates.
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It's not an advantage of being in the private sector at all. If the TOCs weren't being regulated they'd cut as much if not more than the public sector while jacking up prices at the same time. This is pretty much what happened during the Californian electricity crisis (brownouts!).

It's not hard to argue for more spending to the public. The public want that. It's hard because the political system is rigged against politicians who do so (for an example see all of the dirty tricks campaigns levied against Corbyn).
I did not, thanks for the info. Looks interesting.
I have never signed up for a mailing list[1], e.g. gone to a "sign up for my newsletter" page and clicked "I would like to subscribe to your newsletter".

I've been signed up for them implicitly after making a purchase, etc., but I consider this spam and flag it as such.

[1] OSS mailing lists don't count.
"In other languages you won't have arbitrary code execution or privilege escalation just because the programmer is not careful"

No, it's possible to make system insecure with pretty much any language if programmer is not careful. SQL injection, cross-site scripting, cross-site request forgery and the list goes on..
artsy?
Unfortunately there are some models of the S4 which cannot run a custom rom (AT&T model, for example).
Interesting to package this as a firefox plugin. But the filters are pretty basic. Most can be implemented using an open library:

http://evanw.github.io/webgl-filter/

https://inspirit.github.io/jsfeat/

Next step is definitely trying face detection in the pipeline. So you can do Snapchat style filter art ;)

But its super hard getting it to run in web media stream capture at even 30 fps!

WebCV: https://github.com/jamt9000/webcv
I agree I use iPhone 5S which is just fine and very likely to last 1 more year from now.
TalkTalk gets record £400k fine from ICO
Facebook Messenger now lets everyone encrypt their conversations
Critical Bug in Linux 4.8 Kernel
i have no idea what i've just read. is this a book review, a scholarly article review, what?

about the only thing i have gathered from it is the author doesn't like wolfe's ideas very much.
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That's not on contract with a carrier. That's direct through Google.

"From $649 or $27.04/month for 24 months with Google Store Financing*"

https://store.google.com/config/pixel_phone
And then somehow they managed to totally disregard their customers' needs and screw everyone with the Mandrill changeover. Seriously, has everyone forgotten that fiasco?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11170713

I'll never trust them or use them again, after that. No way no how.
The click target for the arrows to go forward/back is much too small. Need to add some padding so they're a good size. They could probably be positioned better too, maybe centered vertically with the top frame with the written content.
another way you could look at it is "here's what's good about doing it this way" w/out necessarily dismissing VC's as "bad".

as a founder you do have a choice of the kind of business you start. I think he just points out that debt-driven is not the only way to grow a successful company.
https://github.com/TIBCOSoftware/flogo-cli/blob/master/TIBCO...

And on each of the other projects linked from the TIBCOSoftware/flogo README
There are very programming languages where the total lines of code written is even comparable to C, so of course there is more of bad code too.
> "Until very recently, and thanks to the likes of The Guardian’s The Counted, Fatal Encounters and Campaign Zero’s Mapping Police Violence, the data to prove the systemic racism that results in the police killings of unarmed black people has not been widely available to the public."

Actually there is already data, and actually that data states that in fact, black people suffer more violence from part of the police, but LESS killings, is just there is a total bias by the media outlets that basically only show cases of police killings involving black victims and don't report the ones with white people.

Source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/upshot/surprising-new-evid...
You can fuck up good sensor data in post-processing. I find the iPhone 6 and iPhone SE cameras to have too much noise reduction (or maybe JPEG compression) applied. Even in daylight, the images are very soft.

I'm not expecting D810 quality, but I do find it suspect when artifacts appear in blue skies. There is plenty of light, there shouldn't be any noise. Then again, there are a lot of pixels packed into a very small space.
Anectdotal, but a non-profit volunteer org that I work with (http://cramba.org) had someone scrape all the contact emails from the site and sign them up for some mailings from a cycling tour company (http://kickassroadtrips.com/), sent via Mailchimp.

I directly reported this to Mailchimp itself, and based on both the response I got from Mailchimp and the angry response from the company owner I got a great feeling that Mailchimp took the abuse report quite seriously.
I didn't mean that they could do it literally today. Offline capability is already present in some browsers though and producing a polished web app allows universal deployment. It wouldn't have the same look and feel as native apps though and performance is an issue for some things, but not most things.
GCC didn't get sort-of-complete C11 features until 4.9 (2014) and still omits (largely useless) optional features.
Last time I looked, RSS and Atom didn’t have pagination support and many RSS feeds only show the most recent N items. I'd say solving that issue to make feeds more browseable would be a significant improvement for the way that I want to use them.
Works better in a market that is not "winner take all".
> It should be obvious that a bootstrapped business can also be dysfunctional

But it cannot continue to be so for half a decade.
> I would rather worry about the non-replaceable battery and the missing microSD card slot.

You're one of the last few remaining ;)
> I thought the common practice was using part of the historical data for creating the model, and another sizable, non overlapping chunk to validate it.

One problem is that too often, people break the data into a training set and a testing set. Then they train N algos on the training data, test them on the testing data, and then trade on the algo that tested best.

Once you use the testing set for more than one algo, it's really a meta-training set.

Really, you need a training set, a testing set, and a validation set. If you use the validation data set with more than one algo, it's no longer a validation set.

So, you train N algos, test N algos. Pick the best, and validate it. If validation fails, do you have enough discipline to wait for more data to come in and try again? Most people do not and will make hand-wavy arguments about why it's okay to re-shuffle the same data into 3 data sets and try again.
Isn't this basically the same story we've seen with Google and social ten times now? They really want to be a part of this space.
Speaking of type safety, has modern C++ solved the object slicing problem yet?
Is it just me or has Google done basically no advertising for Allo?
I agree that MailChimp offers a legitimate service (sending subscriber newsletters and such) but also agree with GP that 90% of the email that I get via MailChimp I would call spam.
So it's the Google+ of chat. It has one or two neat things, but there's no killer feature that will drive adoption. In the end, the things it does right are far outweighed by the features it's missing that people expect (multiple devices, a desktop app, etc).
People seem to like the aliasing, paying more to have the lowpass filter removed from their DSLR's sensors, despite the fact that there is no way to fix the aliasing in post-processing. "It won't happen to me," I guess is the attitude.

Reviewers that check for MTF and end it there are also problematic. There is more to photography than line pairs per millimeter.
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What does their inability to fund continued development have to do with their security competence?
It's actually pretty mediocre. I was surprised when I read that it was only f/2.

With a modern low-noise DSLR sensor you might just be able to use that aperture indoors at ISO3200+ On a tiny phone sensor you'll need flash.
I'm still puzzled and annoyed by Google's random abandonment of so many of their projects, even ones that are heavily used (Reader), often without warning or stated rationale. Honestly I just avoid new Google products because I never know when they'll get randomly abandoned or axed.

The scatterbrain landscape of Google's messaging offerings is just one example of this. GChat, Talk, Hangouts, Messenger, Allo, Duo, Google+ Chat, etc. Can someone explain to me why TF they have so many messaging apps? It's confusing, annoying, and requires too much onramp effort to install yet another messaging app just to talk to friends.

At this point people always retort "Well, Google is a fast-moving development environment! Throw stuff against the wall and see what sticks! Fail fast!" Yeah, sure, that's great and everything, but if they never actually commit to maintaining the things they build, it doesn't matter how cool or innovative $LatestProduct is, because it won't be around long enough for anybody to find out.

Google engineer Barry Schwartz once said:

"In prospect, capability seems way more important than useability. In PRACTICE, the reverse is true."

In Google's case I would extend that to say "reliability and consistency is more important than capability." I don't care what Allo does if I can't trust Google to maintain it for more than few months before unceremoniously dumping it to the side of the road like so many of their other offerings.

At this point everyone I know just uses WhatsApp and is done with it.

edit: Geostyx made a great comment: "Whenever I hear 'Google' my mind goes straight to "thing that will be gone in 18 months""
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This technique you just used. It's called a 'straw man'.
>I'll never understand the fascination that governments and companies have with top-down modeling of demand.

Because that's the only way to manage an organization that consists of more than a dozen hackers.

>You get gluts or shortages when chasing demand which leads to waste like what we have in clothing

Yeah, you should tell that to Zara because they did not receive the memo.
Watching those GIFs actually has something soothing/relaxing about it. It is actually quite a beautiful technique.

For those who've missed it, his twitter account (which has more gifs): https://twitter.com/thejoinery_jp
That might not necessarily work. If you have something like:

>> uint8_t x[100];

>> uint32_t *y = &x[1];

And then dereference y, most RISC architectures will trap on the unaligned access. It doesn't matter if there is an intermediate void pointer or not.
Odd that the article suggests Allo is a competitor to Facebook. Messenger perhaps, but Facebook overall?

Either way, I use Google accounts for almost everything but I still haven't downloaded Allo, because I still don't see any reason why I should.
I think it's a little early to tell whether or not it's a complete failure, it's only been out a couple of weeks.

It certainly hasn't gained traction. In terms of anecdata, I haven't downloaded it for the same reason I don't use G+: no one I know is on it, so why bother? Everyone I know already uses Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp or sometimes Hangouts for IM.

It's also unclear what Allo does that the three mentioned apps above don't do.
You are right but I wonder if it is any improvement at this point. Writing this on a iPhone 6s Plus and I can't possibly see individual pixels. What is the benefit of going higher?
Looks like yet another product that Google will abandon quickly due to lackluster interest.

There is absolutely no indication that the people behind Allo will make any effort to mitigate the clear and present problems.

Sure, it has a couple features that stand out, but the shortcomings stick out sharply, notably the pathetic SMS "integration."
Would you invest in a country that could overrule your decisions based on its political priorities? I wouldn't.
Definitely an awesome link (thanks), but last I checked, Maersk was around 15% of global shipping. I would not conflate a company's logistics software (with a narrow focus on shipping) with pulling the strings on the broad-based economy.
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I've been hanging onto a samsung s4 loaner waiting for the pixel reveal. at CDN$1200 for the flagship, I have to balk.

The oneplus 3 is less than half the price. I can have a very good phone for $520 and save the "leftover" money to purchase the OP5 in 2018 which will probably trump the XL.

I think Google's following this strategy to show they're just as valuable as apple from a mobile device perspective, but they lost me. With the mid-range high-quality chinese phones available i can't justify flagship prices anymore
The book Red Plenty [1] is about why centralized planning didn't work in the USSR. It is not a very technical book. But it shows quite well the reasons why central planning of an economy does not work.

Cybersyn is basically the same thing. Only that it got wrapped in control theory and less in operations research (optimization theory).

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/aug/08/red-plenty-fra...
I appreciate Google not forced all Google customers to install Allo ala Facebook but it's hard not to acknowledge Facebook forcing Messenger on Facebook users didn't achieve their goal of widespread adoption of Messenger.
On dropping the language part of the URL
I felt that it most accurately represented my intentions for the software.
Another day another "Apple isn't what it used to be and I hate their products now" diatribe.

If you don't like their products buy someone else's. If you don't like your Apple Watch stop using it.

I use an iMac and a MacBook Pro for work and they serve me fantastically. Sierra has a couple weird things (like it doesn't automatically load your SSH identities after reboot) but it seems fine. iOS 10 has been fine as well and my new iPhone 7 Plus is great.

If there's something actually wrong with your hardware, take it in for repairs instead of writing a blog post that will accomplish nothing.
Fujifilm and Canon still make their own sensors. Fuji's seem pretty good. Canon can't compete, opting to sell DSLRs to people already locked into their system.
yeah, and basically the reason why they want to buy twitter. and if they do, probably another bust, especially at this price.
Its an infinite regression. You keep needing more data to be completely 'fair'. If the data set is finite, eventually you use all of it. Then where do you go?

Another route is to model the data source, and train on the model (which you can run forever to get endless data). Then test on the real-world data. But that's only as good as the model.
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they've done so much pr for this tho
Maybe if they worked to improve what they have instead of constantly scrapping everything and restarting, it would help.

Just add Google Assistant and easier searching/inserting to Hangouts. Add phone number sign-up too. Or, hell, just make Allo Hangout-compatible so people can switch to the "new" app still talk to their friends that are on the other network.
Isn't this the standard with large companies, you just can't innovate. Too many MBAs want to tell you how it should be done.

I also like how AI is now used to describe algorithms, thanks ad wizards.
>But if it means there is a central intelligence (democraticly controlled, like by a parliament and not a dictatorship!) that can override individual business decisions in important corporations, then sure

We have that. It's just corrupt. Like everything humans do is doomed to be. So please, enough centralization already.
I won't even bother trying it until it has desktop/browser support. Until then, Telegram works amazing and everyone I talk to uses it.
Depends on what you mean by 'making it' as a startup - is it the revenue growth? burn rate? profit growth? Number of users? Number of employees? A SF office? How well funded you are?

It's hard to grow a business without going the conventional SV route and getting VC funding. Unless you have a revolutionary product, the bigger competition will likely stomp over you unless you have resources to grow your team and product and marketing. Or if you are comfortable with a small market share but a profitable one.

Not saying it is impossible, but just hard. I know a few SaaS out there like Roninapp and Reamaze that like Mailchimp are not VC funded and are growing well and are run by a small but effective team, but the question is would startups like these benefit from funding and be in a better position with regards to growth and user base than without vc funding?

More often than not when startups receive funding they move away from satisfying the customers to making investors happy. As the company starts to hire, get a nice office, increase spend on things like office perks, ads, marketing etc while it might contribute to growth it doesnt necessarily work well for the end user. You go from lean to bloat more often than not. I guess that depends on how you manage resources but it isnt exactly easy with investors breathing down your neck

I have a company that is bootstrapped and while there are well funded competitors out there, i'm perfectly fine with my startup running lean and being profitable, albeit slowly. At least I am my own boss and I answer to myself, and that in my world is 'making it'.
As part of a computer engineering degree, I made a fairly complex CPU (and also a GPU) on an FPGA. Also made a CPU out of NAND gates.