skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't tell if you being sarcastic. If not:

A) Charging an extra $100 for a little extra local storage is the biggest scam in technology right now, some are worse than others, but anything less than a TB for $100 is infuriating.

B) 64-128GB is not nearly enough for the ridiculous resolution the cameras work at, especially video.

C) Not everyone wants their stuff in the cloud.
That's a very fair point. This is probably a lifestyle for someone who'd otherwise be living on middle class tech worker wages. It's for people who have the luxury to choose their lifestyle. In no way do I view his backpack and duffel as as a solution to poverty.

Then again, I see your comment pretty frequently in response to minimalism. Maybe because it can look like a vow of poverty, but really is not even close.
Then --- respectfully --- you have never heard him speak in favor of Donald Trump, and you should go watch his speech before arguing about it. It's pretty scary. Maybe after seeing it, you'll understand the vehemence of the anti-Thiel sentiment.
> the JS Foundation aims to drive broad adoption and ongoing development of key JavaScript solutions and related technologies

One interpretation:

"key JavaScript solutions and related technologies" = brands

"drive broad adoption" = pushing on developers
I have a lot of relatives in Alberta. And it seems like the oil industry there is providing a lot of opportunity for people without college degrees to make a good living. But of course, that's just Alberta. I can't comment on the rest of the country.
I'm not so sure what you're defining is completely different. Doing things the "right way" in Japan and other east asian cultures has more or less the same effect as trying to be "perfect" in American culture. The effect is both cultures encourage the individual to act in a manner they may not accept themselves. The difference being that in a conformist culture the avenues for self expression are limited by culture and society. In an ambition oriented culture the concept of "failure" has the same damaging effects.

This isn't to say that both traits, conformity and perfection are inherently bad, instead we should be teaching the purpose or reason to do so rather than blindly require the behavior without justification.
+1 for the book - really good!
This is a great list for project discovery, but obviously there is a lot of choice here. My ASP.NET Core Library and Framework Support list is also on this list - how meta. :)

https://github.com/quozd/awesome-dotnet#other-lists
The V20 looks like LG finally getting their stuff together, too bad they want an arm and a leg for it.
Best looking website 2016
For anybody interested, there's a whole series of 'awesome' repos for different technologies and frameworks - https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
There is also remote debugging. Via network or JTAG.
My problem with most awesome lists that aren't by Sindre is that they become a laundry list of random libraries. They're not curated.

Is everything there actually awesome and high quality?
I used their 2-layer service a while back it wasn't impressed, primary issues were solder mask wasn't up to spec, silkscreen was rough, and some copper was removed from areas that should have met their spec.

I wound up going with pcbway.com on the same gerbers and have used them many times since.
Before taking your million dollar choice I'd suggest a trial period of a month or so in jail. Maybe you'll see things in a different light after that.
My God I love that phone. It's my favorite phone I've ever owned (and I've had several iPhones and several Androids).

I broke mine. Sad, sad day.
True. FWIW I think Thiel's goal is to take the opportunity to be on the national stage a bit, expecting to have a bit more involvement in future elections.

Also, FWIW, I think people who live in CA should seriously consider voting for a third party candidate, since HRC is certain to win the state.
your statement is non-sensical. what, did you add together 43 + 33 = 76 therefore the majority are satisfied?

that's crazy talk. the best case scenario is that 43% of the electorate is satisfied. both candidates are very very far away from being acceptable to a majority of the entire electorate.
Expanding the jQuery foundation in this way is an exciting change, and one I'm interested to follow and learn from. Ember.js for example has taken some tips from how jQuery grew and managed itself, however we've also avoided what we think were some missteps.

I hope the organizers of JSF can share what works and doesn't with the wider community. If they want to solve fragmentation in JavaScript projects, no one organization will do that. The need to share their ideas where they work well.

I asked a few questions on Twitter yesterday to this end, and if there is a JSF member around I would really appreciate some thoughts:

* What does the "mentorship program" look like? It is mentioned several times but not with much detail. (https://twitter.com/mixonic/status/788046983437037568)

* Can provide context re: "Today the JS Foundation touts a new open, technical governance structure"? What are the changes, and what led to them? https://twitter.com/mixonic/status/788038708364587008

* What are the motivations for moving to Apache 2.0 as a default license? I expect something about IBM and the patent clause. Does adopting this license attract more corporate participation?

Thank you!
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/03/the-mobility-my...

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07/america-...

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21595437-america...

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2015/05...

http://www.epi.org/publication/usa-lags-peer-countries-mobil...

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21640316-children-ric...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/03/there...
I'd love to have my 60-70 gigs of music on board my phone and available at all times, not just when I have good cell coverage or wifi.

Also, when I visit Canada, data is suddenly super expensive.

What's more, I'd like to have all my GPS maps available offline. It's very difficult situation when I've traveled to some out of the way place where I have no reception, and can't load any maps to navigate me home.
Uh. That's a documentation site - basically a wiki. It didn't exactly catch fire, but it wasn't trying to standardize anything and it didn't fail to do so.
Summary:

> per recommendations by NIST, issuance of SHA-1 certificates halted for the web last January.

> In early 2017, Firefox will show an overridable “Untrusted Connection” error whenever a SHA-1 certificate is encountered.
you people are fascists. to sever ties over political contribution? really??? your insane!!

This type of thought is a result of marxist university programming the youth.
Absolutely, we had a CSLA project in one of my previous places of work and it became that project no-one dared touch because it just about worked in it's current state but no one could actually understand.

So we'd just write "around" the abstractions to avoid having to interact with the CSLA "magic".

Eventually I think it was written out of the solution.
MomCorp?
I don't understand how Americans don't care about Hillary's lies. (actually, I do, it's called mass media manipulation, but you guys, of all modern societies in the world, should be one of few capable of fighting it).

Hillary Clinton simple says that she made a mistake and nobody asks why did she used a private email server?
I think this is a huge trap, but would things go a little better for Trump if he admits that it was all a misunderstanding and he is a reformed man now?
European unemployment rates are higher than the US unemployment rate. Is there really a line of people waiting to take your job? If you are in software the employment market in the US is pretty tight right now.
Qualcomm builds superfast modems to bring better Mobile VR experiences
Are you planning to auto-interview you? :p

Love ur website btw. Thanks a lot!
I have. And one of my first steps after starting to clean things up is to switch to composer and autoload; because then I can start ripping things out much more easily, and still make improvements to both code quality and performance.
well, at the end it's just sunlight, carbon, nitrogen, water, a few minerals and a bunch of chemical reactions. I'm pretty sure you could find a biological process to put anywhere that's also viable for solar farms, including open water. In fact, haven't there been a bunch of papers using algae?
He can stop endorsing an active, diligent member of Trump's campaign.
How to Open Source (at Zalando, Europe's largest online fashion platform)
Perm or contractor?
I consider Obama one of the best most rational presidents the US have ever had.

But that rationality also gave us execution by drone without trial.

Don't take a beautiful and cool facade for anything than that. Behind the scenes its raw power and they are all, everyone of them, in the game for the power.
Seems like that's what WiFi is for?
Until I get unlimited LTE traffic for free/very cheap, available all over the world, having my data cloud hosted is a lot more expensive and annoying than having it locally. Even if I shell out for a plan with a lot of included data, I still can't rely on actually having useable reception.
Google and Apple both charge $100 for an upgrade from 32 to 128 GB of storage, but a 128 GB microSD card is only $40, and prices will only go down on that with time. Five years from now, a $20 microSD card is likely to far exceed 256 GB, but smartphones with no microSD card slot are doomed to be stuck at their original size. If you've fully bought into the consumer mindset and always have to have the latest and greatest, great, but some people are still on iPhone 4s'.

The cloud (around harddrive island) is great and all, but for those times when you're out of internet range, the local mp3 collection you can actually listen to is far superior, and some people have amassed sizable collections over the years.
Would you feel the same if the hosts in Westworld looked like a T-800 endoskeleton instead of Evan Rachel Wood?
That might be true in the aggregate, but I imagine it's not for specific groups. Why else would so many people move to the US for job opportunities?
The value was not created. The value was extracted from supplies, skill and time required to paint it.
How would that make you feel if you were a YC-funded founder who happened to support Trump? The semantics of Thiel's relationship with YC doesn't change anything.
Introducing Nomulus: an open source top-level domain name registry
"In most situations, I’d rather have the Pixel camera... One reason is the phone’s superior screen. The AMOLED display makes photos look better; even ones taken on an iPhone."

What? How does a better screen make the camera better?

Also, in the comparison photos, they have shown different images for the Pixel and iPhone. How can we be expected to judge for ourselves based on that?

Come on, WSJ. This is just amateurish.
Could a global digital subscription model keep the Newspaper Industry relevant?
While you're being downvoted, as someone in the US, I have to let everyone know: He is right. If you buy your own insurance, and pay low premiums ($3600/yr in his case), you can expect to get deductibles of $10K.

And this is where it is unfair: If I am fairly wealthy (e.g. earning $150K/year in a not expensive city), then this is very affordable. However, someone earning $100K in the same city will pay the same premium - it'll hurt their wallet a lot more than mine. $100K will not get anyone government subsidies.

With tax-funded health care (as in Europe), the burden isn't on the poorer person, but on the richer one.
I'd love to hear more about why or whether it's really opposite. I certainly have a bunch of apps I don't care about that still run, like solitaire. But of the apps you've been running since 1998, which ones do you have a lot of data and time wrapped up in, which ones would you have a hard time living without, and which cloud services did you have the same kind of investment in that are no longer available?
CoreRT: Microsoft Open Source .NET to C++ Transpile
No idea about research, but my youngest first started playing with a smart phone at about 9 months. Yes, really.

After about a month he could unlock it and launch games. Soon progressed to finding YouTube videos of preschool songs for the alphabet, colours, shapes, etc. He is now 5, and can happily search google for things like mine craft hacks, which he can easily apply, and his current hobby is installing old skool operating systems on Oracle VM. His current favorite sound is the Win 95 start up sound....

He has now got a reading age of about 13, so for example he can read a broadsheet newspaper with out help, he can type anything, but is only just learning to write with a pen. But even that is now happening super quick. He started learning to write 9 months ago and had caught up with his class.

Just by my experience, I'd give them devices as soon as possible, but perhaps remember to get them writing as well.

Why didnt we take care of making sure he could also write? Frankly piss poor parenting on our part.
It's fresh news, but it is shallow. Quality reporting requires dedication and resources, something some news organizations had under one roof. It's hard to see how that very necessary element in our society will be kept around in the longer term. The 5th estate has a very important function and without it our societies will no doubt be poorer.
I'm not entirely certain that a nation as a whole being a superpower is good for the people if the people living in it are miserable. "The economy" is not, in fact, a direct measure of how happy people are - it's an indicator which may have something to do with it in a broad sense, but can be gamed, especially once you get down to attempting to maximise arbitrary single numbers (GDP, stock market indicators, etc).
Stephen Wolfram: A Short Talk on AI Ethics
I think the problem is keeping up. It's simple if you can pay attention, but if you're still on angular 1.x because you have other things to worry about, the fragmentation and pace means you can get years behind if you're not careful.

It's not like ruby has another package manager every 6 months.

I agree the many implementations probably are a feature, not a bug, but still induce fatigue. It's too easy to get behind.
> It is "silencing opposing views"

Well, I'm not 100% sure that telling your billionaire buddy that since he's become a politician in a movement that you view as dangerous to your country and its people perhaps you shouldn't do business together for a while, qualifies as silencing his views. Still, I don't think it was right to demand this of YC.

> Are you pondering why any non-liberal ideas sometimes take hold there?

I'm not wondering why supremacist views sometimes takes hold anywhere, I'm just saying that perhaps people of influence who oppose those views may want to speak up a bit more vocally. Maybe it's even their duty.

> Possibly for good reason. There is a lot of animosity towards the tech crowd there

So Marie Antoinette's mistake wasn't not working in the interest of her people but in reminding them that they're hungry?
conservapedia.com seems mildly biased on this subject, in the sense that it's entirely biased from a creationist perspective.

For instance: http://www.conservapedia.com/God

> "Other than creation itself, God is revealed in several ways, including conscience and special revelation (the Bible, and prophets). Most importantly though, God is revealed in Jesus Christ, who is the Son of God."

I don't expect them to paint a friendly portrait of Richard Dawkins.
And / Or consider booking a guided behind-the-scnes tour. http://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/visit/guidance/60-min/

Try to get in early or / late on a week day - especially if you like to let your eyes / imaganitaion wander around uninterupted. Otherwise it gets somewhat crowded despite the fact that their limiting / scheduling aproach.
Wechat and QQ have very little reach outside of mainland Chinese communities, and even in Singapore, Facebook and Twitter, Whatsapp are much more popular than their Chinese competition. Wechat's inability to compete at all in China's backyard (surrounding countries, newly on the internet, like Myanmar and cambodia) is especially surprising, since it isn't that bad of a product.
"I’ve tried to invest the reward money wisely. I collect Formula One memorabilia and antique hockey gear and sweaters from the NHL’s Original Six teams."

I'm not sure if I understand the term "wisely" correctly.
Would a self-aware AI still be "unreal"?

Can a human be re-programmed? Not easily (at this time), but certainly we can lobotomize, drug, and maim to the point that memories are lost.

Would a sentient AI feel pain, or other emotions? Is that part and parcel of sentience? Possibly?
I struggle to digest this article. Considering I'm an Italian who has ever worked 40+ hours a week (non tech jobs got me to 60+ hours/wk...). And then, when I lived in England, everyone seemed to be doing at most 35 hrs/wk.
I understand that these are statistics, but I can't really match it to my experience (but, hey, maybe this tells me to complain less and enjoy spare time more!)
Harry Shearer Files $125M 'Spinal Tap' Fraud Suit, Copyright Termination
Yeah but you still some amount of Samsung crapware
Absolutely. I try and address this in the post when discussing the Pomodoro Technique, which is probably the most frequently cited "band-aid fix". But – these band aid fixes are a decent way of starting to train yourself to resist distraction, so aren't to be immediately dismissed.
The same thing can be said about the normalization of globalization and technological progress which allowed the politicians and the companies who pay for their campaigns to trade jobs for cheap flat screens.

Ignoring one just because the other is more obvious isn't any better in my book.
> thin merino can wear holes pretty quickly

True story. I'm wearing my Icebreaker merino hoodie right now, and have a cat who likes to drape herself across my shoulders. Holes ensue.
There are economies of scale, though, in those industrial kitchens, just as the utilization of the auto mechanic's tools are higher than those in the two-car garage.

I agree it is largely aesthetics, but there are economic arguments (on both sides, obviously).

I also agree that a lot of minimalism is disguised class signalling. (You don't need to travel with even a suitcase if you bring your credit card.)
I re-read his transcript before I published my comment. He says he's from Silicon Valley (which is true) but not that he speaks for Silicon Valley.
Just as a point of reference (not that you'd necessarily agree) but I still get regular security patches for my Nexus 5 which is 3 years old. It's not the same as entire-OS updates but in my time with iOS, I found that trying to run newer OS versions meant to leverage newer hardware on older devices was a generally negative experience.

I have an older iPad that ran smoothly and wonderfully when I got it but after taking enough system updates, it now run so slowly that I only use it as an ebook reader. Opening more than one or two browser tabs slows it to a crawl and I've found no real way to just flash an older system image to get it back to a more usable state.

At the same time, security updates are crucial so I do want to have those. The setup where I can get security patches every month or so but keep running a base OS version that the hardware can handle is ideal. Again, this isn't quite the same as the Nexus 5 is only 3 years old but it still runs surprisingly well with only major slowdown if I'm switching between lots of running apps due to memory limitations.

I guess my point is that in some cases, it's more important to get the core security updates (which Nexus has a fairly good track record of) than the latest bleeding edge OS features. May not be as good as a device that seamlessly runs the latest and greatest for 3-4 years but I find that after a point, you can't really use those newer features if your hardware is outdated so it's been less of an issue in practice for me.
Lot of people talking about the phone being too large and I'm sitting here wishing it was bigger.
Seeed also does a fair bit of open source work - I've used their CAN library and the associated Arduino shield fairly extensively, and it's worked out quite well. Would recommend.

https://github.com/Seeed-Studio/CAN_BUS_Shield
I'm glad to see discussions like this that are looking beyond the election about how we can move forward to increase transparency, working to hopefully regain some of the public's trust. An open question is whether we as a nation can keep pressure on the officials to get changes made. Difficult to do in the best of circumstances and even more so in the current state of polarization and divisiveness.
Really cool! I'll have to test this with Cardboard.

The VR view seems to crash Firefox on Android 5 / 6 on two devices I tested though.
> I think it's a very slippery slope to base endorsement on a person's political actions.

What exactly else do you propose? Endorsing people based on their actions (all actions are political; no actions are apolitical; that's just how it works, you can't quit the game) is the only ethical position which makes any sense at all.

This has gone far enough. The only effective response is to judge by actions and refuse to work with any Y Combinator company until Thiel is fired (and Altman resigns).
Brief marketing intro: https://taplink.co/technology/

Technical Whitepaper: https://taplink.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/TapLink_Blind_...

My talk at Passwords^15: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuX_RFV1zr8
Hell no. I just start typing. It turns out I usually have no idea what I'm going to wind up writing until I write it. I subscribe to the 'writing is thinking' theory and this comment reflects that after the first short sentence.

That said, it doesn't mean that I don't edit my comments. Often I edit them out of existence (aka 'delete') and sometimes that's after reading other comments. Most of the time it is after reading my own comments (and often while they are in progress).

I guess I also subscribe to the theory that what hasn't been written cannot be edited...and the theory that 'writing in in my head' isn't writing. I guess I have a lot of theories.

Anyway, the muse comes and goes and when the muse is present, is when to write. That's another theory but only if theories can depend on the existences of muses.

Good luck.
Most tech jobs in the US come with very generous health insurance with pretty small out of pockets. And it's mostly paid by the company.
Thanks for the info, did some searching based on your comment and I managed to find a report made by Altran/Praxis detailing the development process and technologies for a tokeneer ID station implementation they did for the NSA. Very interesting stuff.
http://www.adacore.com/uploads/downloads/Tokeneer_Report.pdf

It really shows the amount of resources and knowledge required for actually having safe or secure systems.
>How do I convey my real, justified anger to The Company instead of a person?

By evaluating whether the way you're conveying it would be appropriate in a public place with a third party observing you. People understand and expect a certain level of anger when things aren't right, but if your demeanor on the phone would offend a neutral party observing your call - you have gone too far. A good way to do this is to imagine how you'd talk to a cashier with other people in line. If it's drawing too much attention and make the person next in line uncomfortable - you have gone too far.
This is exactly why the anti-Trump hyperbole is dangerous.
The left vs. a carbon tax
That is funny actually because people made a big deal about it, so when you are the president and have people paying attention to what you wear that gives you another reason to just stick to one good choice.
My source was this article, maybe Obama doesn't always follow his own advice:
https://www.fastcompany.com/3026265/work-smart/always-wear-t...