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On redefining what we see as a Silicon Valley CEO
I seriously wonder if this article would have a different tone if all the same products and vision were presented at an Apple Keynote with Apple branded devices.

Would it be different? My gut says this article would have had a different title.
The oldest person, and the person whose DNA maximizes lifespan are very likely to be different.

Further, DNA sequencing is only part of the issue. The state her cells where in over time is also critical information.

PS: Basically, an identical clone of her would have very low odds of living to 122. Though likely better odds of hitting 100 than the average person.
There are - after a bunch of really bad aircraft fires in the 90s caused by hazardous materials in the cargo holds, the FAA has mandated fire suppression systems in all commercial air cargo holds.

Still, though, airlines would rather avoid the problem entirely. Airline safety usually relies on defense-in-depth - you fix the root cause, and then you fix anything else that would've stopped the problem, because things go wrong in a cramped cylinder at 30,000 feet. For example, a fast-moving fire could easily burn through the hydraulics or electronics that would trigger the fire suppression system before it has a chance to go off.
Govt Contractor Charged with Removal of Classified Materials
Certainly not bullying. It's actually shocking to me that these studies could have been published without running a similar check on all of the arithmetic. The technology to automate this has been possible for decades.
Replaced Galaxy Note 7 explodes on a Southwest flight
There was this Snowden guy who leaked some documents about that...
What do you do with it? Like what is a typical use case / interaction ? Do you ask it to put on a movie or tell you the time ?

I totally disagree people wanted all their personal information fed to private corporations in the "cloud" BTW. Completely disagree. It's Orwellian.
I was thinking other way around - my Dad could rely on voice to make calls from skype /google hangout. Sometime he gets confused if interface gets changed and he rarely uses it.
“A Nice Morning Drive” (1973 Short Story That Inspired Rush's “Red Barchetta”)
Chip card lawsuit to move forward against Visa, Mastercard, others
I would strongly dispute that. Twitter has that much public value. Relativley few people use for critical information. It's a default option for broad communication, but it's hardly the only one.
Will they be called Martians or Elonians?
While it's great to harp on the inconsistency of the body of law, the importance of rule of law is how powerful people equally get prosecuted and sentenced and cases are not determined by who can pay a bigger bribe to the judge. Both happen in the negative in, say, Hungary.
There's a lot to explore! Elixir is my favorite "new" language, and its style of functional programming is accessible and practical yet still very didactic. That said, there's always more mind bending things out there once you've digester Elixir. I'm experiencing a similar thing with Haskell at the moment.
I love this paper. The idea of non-Turing-complete languages that are quite useful for real work (whatever that means) is such a fascinating concept. Knowing at compile time that my program won't run off in unending or unproductive code seems like such a useful bit of static checking.

There are also essentially no total languages today. Idris, Coq, etc. have support for totality, but there's nothing widespread or simple that does. I expect a total language would be quite useful in certain contexts (real-time, scripting, running user code, compilers), but the drive for - I can do whatever I want in this language - is so strong that a total language would need to provide significant, useful advantages to see adoption.
RSS is an XML file that is accessed by HTTP clients that are not browsers and do not render Javascript.

http://cyber.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html
GitLab 8.12.4 released
I've always liked Control just fine where it is. Maybe my hands are weird, but I find it easier to reach than Caps Lock. I just curl my little finger a bit, and push the key with my knuckle.

The layout is also symmetrical.
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That's such BS. I've lived here most of my life and never had some random person use N* in a conversation. Innuendoes maybe, even then it's usually some grumpy old person and they are flat out ignored.

Look at St. Louis and Baltimore. Much more brutality on both sides and riots. Atlanta isn't the old Atlanta and we don't tolerate that crap.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12645826
Ha, it seems I mistakenly assumed there was a free version (other platform often offer free without signed certificates so you can follow along).

Maybe nano degrees are all paying ? If so then my bad, I hope some will get my seat (seems so).

Wish all the fun to students.
Yep, that's what they told me at the store, so I ordered a Verizon phone. To the parent's point, I had no problem doing this, I am not currently a Verizon customer and they sold me a bare phone without a contract.
good pithy way to put it, "ignorant but considerate". I think our society entering into the whole data space will unveil more and more ACTUAL disparities and inequalities with such accuracy that economists may very well introduce concepts and notions such as the hidden costs to willful ignorance. Perhaps call it data omission costs, blacklist data costs, model error from black list data omission. Stuff like that. You hit the nail on the head, neither choice is without consequences.
I would love to get feedback from the community here.
A scan of the original R&T printing here:

https://www.scribd.com/doc/33762958/A-Nice-Morning-Drive
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It does say something about medical breakthroughs -- since they're happening all the time and not shifting this upper bound very much.

This is not to say that a medical breakthrough which changes the limit is impossible, but it has to compete against an exponential mortality curve.

See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gompertz%E2%80%93Makeham_law_o...
Is content marketing dead?
Hi Dhruv,
I got an email said the course start at the end of Nov, but when register I remember the post said it start around Oct, can you please clarify that? Thanks
Concatenate two strings with resource management in C then C++ and see which is easier.
And it's become a remarkably good way for those people you want to know to reach out to individuals. I know a couple up-and-coming rappers who got some buzz and found their idols casually reaching out to chat on twitter.
It's not that easy to buy Samsung stock outside of South Korea.
Yikes, I hope there's more to the story here, but it doesn't sound like there is.

I use dash if I had done the wipe & reinstall I was planning to this coming weekend I would have to repurchase it.
I view this as the banks want to get the experts who are working on the standard to sign-off on their requirements, so they can continue to say they are secure purely because they do what the standards say, and ignoring if the standard is actually increasing security or not.

There are very good reasons why you want to latch your regulations to a common, Internet standards body, especially when it comes to security (open, visible, accessible discussion is the primary reason, for me). But in that case, you don't also get to dictate that the goals of the wider Internet need to align with your industry's (short-term) business objectives, especially if they run counter to the goals of the Internet standards bodies. The Internet will continue on and make standards that are appropriate for itself, no matter what the banks do in this regard. Internet standards bodies are not in the business of securing internal bank networks, but if securing internal bank networks is important to banks, they are welcome to use Internet standards in order to do so.

The banks can just as well go back to having regulations on internal communications like they had before SSL and TLS existed if keeping up with Internet standards is too expensive financially or operationally. Or their regulations can say that TLS1.2 is an acceptable deployment for their internal networks. This, too, has costs, as the rest of the Internet deprecates old, insecure stuff. And one of those costs is that you cease being able to piggybank on the efforts of the wider Internet. That cost, over the long term, needs to be assessed by the banking industry too.
Not familiar with that. Probably not. Its a few MBs of diskspace & works out of the box. Prob be quicker to dl & dump it if you dont like it.

All editors/notes/workflow are highly subjective, i tried macdown, mou, a bunch of similar os x notes clones, notes, evernote, ect.

I like this for notes & simple docs. I would really like it if it had a sidebar with directories but the reason so many of these things exist is that everyone angry enough just builds their own.
> It's the only major city I've been to where a white person dropping the word "nigger" (and used in a clearly negative way) in conversation doesn't elicit gasps.

Maybe you should find new friends.

I was born in ATL and lived there the first 20 years of my life and then for 18 months after college. I can say unequivocally that I've never been in a situation where it would have been acceptable or "just felt normal" to encounter that.
I think it's more likely just horribly uncritical fluff "journalism", which is supported by the rest of their site.
It sounds like just simple human error on Apples part.
> nothing ... is illegal

A federal court disagreed to that in 2015 [PDF]:

http://pdfserver.amlaw.com/nlj/NSA_ca2_20150507.pdf
Is Shippo comparable to easypost? What are the differences/benefits? Seems like Shippo is more for small businesses and offers a richer interface for managing things without having to first integrate the API? Easypost seems more directed at developers, but they also seems like they are hiring a lot of ux people so I would assume they are building their own management interfaces aswell. Just wondering if both serve the same use cases. I will be looking at integrating something like this into a product primarily for shipping label creation and I am curious how the two services differ.
Full res is exclusive to Pixel.
There are two things here. One is Google secretively going against their Privacy Policy and selling my data/sharing it with other previously undisclosed parties. The other is a data breach in which Google is attacked by some very skilled hackers. If the former ever happens, I'll delete all my data (whatever they allow) from their servers, and leave them forever. For the latter though, I trust them even more than most other companies to protect my data because of their technical know-how and experience. But a data breach is always a possibility with any online company, and that will be my bad luck - so I'm taking a calculated risk here.
Interesting discussion from the marketers. It seems the consensus is mostly "focus on quality over quantity" and get more open. A few years ago startups were pumping out content on daily bases in hopes of getting eyeballs, but it seems that's no longer the winning strategy.
In response to the other replies: I'm not sure about luajit, but the other two examples involved a programmer hand crafting algorithms around specific special purpose CPU instructions -- vector processing and video compression hardware, if I remember the details of x264 correctly. This is so specialized and architecture specific that it probably doesn't make sense to push it into the compiler.

Speaking from experience, even getting purpose-built compilers like ICC to apply "simple" optimizations like fused-multiply-add to matrix multiply is non-trivial.

Taking jpeg decoding as a concrete example of why modern compilers fall over, you have two high-level choices: (1) the compiler automatically translates a generic program into one that can be vectorized using the instructions on the target platforms. This will probably involve reworking control flow, loops, heap memory layout, malloc calls, etc, and will require changing the compressed / decompressed images in imperceptible to humans ways (the vector instructions often have different precision/rounding properties than non-vector instructions). This is well beyond the state of the art.

(2) Find a programmer that deeply understands the capabilities of all the target architectures and compilers, who will then write in the subset of C/Java/etc that can be vectorized on each architecture.

I think you'll find there are many more assembler programmers than there are people with the expertise to pull off (2), and that using compiler intrinsics is actually more productive anyway.
FYI - I went through the process described to migrate my license and it worked fine.
I'm guessing it just means the indictment is sealed, and maybe (but probably not) that the accused and their counsel are under some kind of gag order.

There's no statute or authority or even articles at ACLU or in law journals I can find that suggest that federal law enforcement can detain US citizens without counsel in "secret arrests", or, for that matter, suspend habeas.

Obviously: they can do that. But it's a very big deal when they do. They had to back off charges from Jose Padilla because of how they mishandled that case.
Call him "Zuck" as many times as you like, show him in hoodies, or in Africa... that's one man who's far too much of a known quantity for anyone with half a brain to buy the spin.
Having seen the internals of many an application that deals with both "human" and "group" accounts, I'm not surprised that something like this would cause an issue. Unless things are designed from the ground up to support it (which they never are), those types of migrations always have a bunch of edge cases that aren't properly handled.

Sure it sucks but the real test of whether Apple gives a rats behind is if they fix it a reasonable amount of time. If this drags on for more than a day without a human response from their support line I'd say, no they don't care. I bet that happens.
Consider she saw two world wars in an ever changing century, I'd be surprised if her age record was contextual. Asian elders I can understand (climate; food; social structures; philosophy) .. but here.
Unfortunately not, at least not for the real work type of scenes that you see in movies / cartoons. Textures and high-polygon models take a ton of space.
What would that look like? Just nano, but removing the few shortcuts except key entry & save.
With everybody scrambling to support markdown, I'm surprised there isn't more support for org mode. Once switching to it I can't go back.
What about Salesforce, I don't get that one.
Kinda puts it in perspective how weird it is that companies have so much control over how software is distributed and sold these days. This would never have happened a decade ago.
Content marketing has changed, and it is all about the story. You must rethink the way you craft your content. Establish and illustrate your company’s values and worldview while delivering value to your readers.
I thought 20mph was maximum survivable rate of decent?
I think a different handle color is a good idea. For new accounts, it already shows green. Perhaps use Red for indicating OP ?
Gravity and Levity presented in 2009 a much better intuitive model and mathematical principle that explains this bold pronouncement:

https://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/your-body-...
You still need to recompile code for the new architecture, and taking full advantage of it wisely is not easy... but may be worth it in many use cases. Part of the problem is that it's not 100% clear which use cases these are and how to market it. Probably unit calculation per watt is the most likely performance advantage, but it's still amazingly hard to sell people on that sometimes
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We also weren't using as many walled-garden devices and ecosystems a decade ago.

There are certainly a lot of issues with the app store model. But using a service like download.com was also rife with issues.
will these do?

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20150708/radical-anti-gun-gr...

http://www.naturalnews.com/047378_murder_sprees_armed_citize...

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/gwinnett-county/video-shows-...

"Best" might be hard to argue but it can be easily shown that you are better off having one when you need to defend yourself.
Good luck with your future projects!

Please put RethinkDB under the GPL or an even more liberal license?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12636520
Ok, I just skimmed the article, and saw the part about how Walmart's personal shoppers will check your produce and only pick good stuff to give to you, because they don't want a "trust fail" (people aren't going to use this for buying produce if they get rotten, overripe, etc. produce delivered to them or broken eggs). My question here is: why do in-store shoppers not get the same treatment? Why are they even offering crappy produce that their personal shoppers now have to pick through for non-bruised apples? Wouldn't it make more sense to have produce workers check out all the produce before putting it out and tossing the bad stuff, and then checking over it periodically and tossing out anything that's gone bad? Or would that cut into profits too much to not take advantage of shoppers who aren't as savvy about not buying bad produce?

Finally, maybe I'm just weird, but I actually like going grocery shopping to an extent. Since I buy so much stuff online now (due to both cost and convenience for many things: it's usually much cheaper, and also frequently much easier to find exactly what I want instead of having to call around and see who has something in stock), going shopping for groceries gives me a chance to get out of my bubble and be around other people besides my coworkers and see people in a public setting, and also get a little exercise and also get to browse things. You're not going to save any money buying groceries online (it doesn't save money the way it does for some other goods with a higher "value density"), and there's a huge variety of different foods out there, with new stuff coming out all the time. I guess someone with small kids probably sees things differently.
I find it ironic that the EU goes after Google for allowing third party stores (Samsung, Amazon, Nvidia, etc) and sideloaded APKs and allows you to build your own APKs for free...

... but Apple just randomly removes apps that people have purchased from the Apple Store (thus stealing their money and their product, doing everything short of uninstalling it, but preventing reinstallation), and the EU stays silent?

This is some bullshit.
I'm kind of looking forward to and also kind of dreading doing the same thing (flashing Copperhead) on my 6P. I have traditionally just disabled all the Google apps from the stock ROM while retaining Google Play Services for the Play Store and push notifications. Not sure how easily I will adapt to not having either of those things on a truly Google-free phone.

I'll also be abandoning several paid apps that I've bought over the years that are only available on the Play Store. It's going to be hard extricating myself from that ecosystem.
This is like super-uninteresting to be honest.
All Backchannel posts are like this.
Location: Bay Area, San Francisco

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Java, C

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw0UOKRU1OlOZFBkd0VQV2JlRjA...

Email: johnnydu@berkeley.edu

I am a recent grad looking for an entry-level position. Highly motivated and willing to learn new technologies.
As a clinician, I'd love a way to see all the past health records of any patient that walked in the door. They usually would love for me to as well.

I'm not sure how blockchain as a technology necessarily moves us forward to get there. The vendors have a stranglehold on medical record software and have no incentive to work together, share data, or agree to any standards -- I mean, it wasn't until last year that the two hospitals I work at (owned by the same umbrella hospital, using software from the same vendor, and 3 miles apart from each other) could electronically access records from each other. We had to fill out paper forms, make phone calls, and send faxes to get access.

It's not for want of a technological breakthrough that we've been struggling so much...
Quite interesting to see this being done with bees, but the statement "The study [...] shows how animals may be able to able to pass on skills in a way we previously thought was largely exclusive to humans" is very misleading. Observational learning has been observed in many other animals before, humans aren't particularly special at all in that respect.
Probably clipping out gaps and 'um' type filler words. It really is jarring in this case.
> "I can’t update Dash for iOS anymore and I can’t distribute it outside of the App Store."

Well, that's the problem with a walled garden in a nutshell, isn't it?
@saiko-chriskun Please provide some details of your experience with Copperhead. We are curious to know...
'Debate' in less than 140 characters, half of those being # and @ tags, is indeed a vibrant proof of a healthy democracy.

What's next? A well designed debate platform that allows only emojis? A well designed debate platform that allows only meme pictures?
For mine, it says December 12.. I guess they have different terms? Dhruv, could you confirm?
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And having lived through that, and now lived through the walled garden/App Store experience, I'll say with confidence the old way was better.
Slides with the talk, not my favorite, have a link to the talk?

The second paper is so biased it hurts. It hardly attempts to hide this bias, on the second page it start referring to one group of people as "clueless" and never justifies it describing what what clued in would be.

The second paper also has a strong assumption that compilers should somehow maintain their current undefined behavior going forward. It is almost as though the paper author thinks a compiler can somehow divine what the programmer wants without referring to some pre-agreed upon document, such as the standard for the language.

The second paper also talks only about performance and not about any other real world concern, like maintainability, reliability or portability.

This paper is setting up straw men when it trots out code with bugs (that loop on page 4) and then a pre-release version of the compiler does something unexpected. Of course non-conforming code breaks when compiled. Of course pre-release compilers are buggy.

The paper's author wants code to work the same on all systems even when the code conveys unclear semantics. That is unreasonable.
Helium is still dirt cheap despite its relative rarity on Earth. In the universe at large it's ridiculously abundant.
I've encountered a lot of C programmers who feel that C++ is silly nonsense.

C++11 really does put that to rest. Move semantics basically enable complete avoidance of manual memory management. There are many other powerful and convenient aspects, but in C++11 and on managing memory essentially goes away. I essentially never allocate memory explicitly.
Seems pretty likely to me that if we stick around long enough we will definitely sequence everyone's DNA as a matter of course. What we'll want is to have a decent ethical and legal framework around that by the time it happens.
Ok. So this is semantics and in this science there is a different meaning for the word "fact."

What is the utility of redefining a fact as a human construct of accepted information, rather than as data points corresponding to components of objective reality?