skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I see as being the "Apple way" is that they want to have control over what users can put on their devices, basically a form of DRM. Media players based on filesystems are immensely flexible and can be used for far more than just playing media --- a lot of them were basically a USB drive with a battery and an extra controller to read files off it and decode them into audio. Given that many people were already used to using USB drives, I doubt iTunes would've really been perceived as "easier"; instead of having to install and familiarise themselves with a new manner of software with its own interface, all they'd have to do is plug it in and copy the files to it utilising the same skills they already had.

On the other hand, Apple doesn't want you to be able to easily share your media with others, nor copy it off the player; no doubt under the influence of the RIAA and other pro-copyright, pro-DRM groups.

While I think concepts like Plan 9 may be going a bit too far, I strongly believe that the filesystem as a place to organise all your persistent data is ideal because of its power and freedom; IMHO the trend away from the filesystem is nothing but a way to force users into proprietary systems and control their actions. The companies and media groups don't want things like P2P filesharing, whether over the network or even casually between friends using physical media (look up the term "copyparty".) They don't want users to have that freedom. Hence they are driving them away from the concept of "files" in general, essentially attempting to deprecate and push that out of the mind of users so that as an end-goal, they ultimately will not ever realise that sharing with or giving something to others could be, and was, at one time as easy as copy-paste.

I think I'm not the only one who saw the USB-sticks-turned-media-players and thought "that's just right", and abhorred Apple's proprietary overengineered solution; but in the end, it seems Apple's marketing won...
> It doesn't entitle you to ask for a handout.

Good thing they're selling a product then, not asking for a handout. And hey, as a bonus, they're releasing a fully refreshed set of icons for free!

Your perspective on what open-source can/should be is utterly unrecognizable to me. I'm glad it seems like the majority of people are finally getting comfortable with the idea that you shouldn't have to choose between making a living and contributing to the open source ecosystem.
Search for companies whose products you respect, and have quality design, and apply to them. Also, look for areas that require good quality - safety critical, high reliability systems for example.

It's not guaranteed, nothing is, but there are good working environments out there.
Pretty much impossible to buy a high-quality dumb tv these days. Better to just ignore the "SmartTV" features when shopping around, and then use your own solution.
Well that's kind of a chicken and egg thing though. If they don't have the features that make for effective ad targeting, then small advertisers don't see ROI.
Here's something fun and counter-intuitive:

From default settings, set speed variance to 50%, launch frequency to 120 cars/minute, and reaction time to 500ms. Unsurprisingly, this is chaos.

Then, keeping those settings, clear the cars and set the target speed to 150km/h. The traffic mostly clears up! Since the cars are going faster, they leave the road sooner, meaning fewer are on the road at a time, fixing most problems.

(Of course, in real life, this also makes the accidents that do occur worse.)
Ahhhhhh man, I apologize bc we definitely got our wires crossed.

I believe that we both wanted the same thing (accurate information) and I was willing to be simplistic in how the central dogma was presented bc it's straightforward to grasp without talking about mRNA/tRNA/nucleic acids/helicase/etc

I felt like you were initially distracting from the simplistic view that everyone who hasn't studied genetics could understand.

Solid sidebar and I apologize for my tone and thank you for talking about your side with me!!

Have a great day internet friend that loves genetics as well!!
https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiLeaks/

There's a lot of stuff going around and some of it seems like wild conspiracy nonsense, but the more you dig into it, the more entertaining it gets.
They need to follow the google and Facebook advertising models. When they were starting as platforms, I was able to advertise with success, competing with a small budget for niche markets. If they do not have the advertising niche, reach out to entrepreneurs.
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth? A written system of laws and punishments, duties and privileges, is not based on principles of inalienable rights of men, equality before the law, etc.

"Research by Victorian historians showed that the original 1215 charter had concerned the medieval relationship between the monarch and the barons, rather than the rights of ordinary people" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta
It's not webcams technically, they're the ip surveillance cameras which run a customized linux with some scripts and a RTSP server, and definitely not designed for public IPs.
In comparison to FB ads (and my experience), Twitter ads are absolutely useless.
This is why I don't use Fabric. It's really unfortunate.

This great piece of technology doesn't belong to them. I would use it if it was owned by some other company that's more fit for the ownership, such as Google, because I know they have a clear business model and know exactly what they will do with the data they gather. But at this point Twitter has 0 trust among developers.

Why would I depend on a piece of technology developed by a company that's struggling to find a way to make money and will probably do whatever is possible to extract value out of its assets? (Which includes spinning it off to oblivion)
By allowing your phone to be used as a server, other people will let you use their phones as a server, so you can download faster. If this sharing doesn't emerge naturally, then it can be directly incentivized with ratio tracking (like private torrent trackers), or even with money like the Karma WiFi service.

Also, I have WiFi on always and my battery lasts all day, so I doubt this will be a problem.
Instagrams TOS actively prohibits usage of "gram" in product names using their API. To the point of revoking API credentials
Sad. I have fond memories of the place through grad school, Viaweb, and the beginnings of Y Combinator.

It was notable for unreliable service. About 70% of the things you ordered would actually arrive at your table. But the atmos was great, and the ibrik coffee was strong.
Not to mention journalism. Practically every journalist that I read is addicted to Twitter.
If you love Haskell I guarantee you will not love Kotlin in the same way. Your best overall bet for Haskell-like FP on the JVM is Scala+cats/scalaz and other Typelevel-endorsed libraries. Unlike Kotlin, it gets pretty close.
Wow, this is really excellent. Definitely will give this a shot!
Acidic vs. Alkaline Urine: What promotes kidney stone formation?
This isn't an Ask HN. To submit a link, use the URL field.
It's nice to have a standard.
It is because he is a ISIS terrorist. He had his reasons.
Just have to say, that Kickstarter video is hands-down one of the funniest I've seen. Wonder how much they spent on that.
This is where postmodernism claims corporate policy transitions to religion. There's no way to prove that trademarking that creates any kind of competitive advantage yet the reality distortion field of the corporate ethos insists this sort of shibboleth must stand as law.
Even back in the late 90s / early 2000s, my friends and I felt like Harvard Square was becoming progressively less interesting -- favorite bars and cafes making way for cell phone stores and banks. Seems like a trend -- extrapolating backwards, Harvard Square must've been a nonstop party back in the mid 1600s....
> I submitted an update which was rejected by Apple because I used Google Sign-In

Friendly reminder you are at the whim of Apple Store admins who like to play the role of gatekeeper. I got tired of developing apps for them only to have them rejected for pithy reasons. I stress the word 'for', because it really felt like I was trying to please the Apple Store, and not my users.
I use Astral to filter/search through my starred repos

http://astralapp.com/
Please not another DSL. We already have a way to express logic; it's called code.

If you want to make a different programming language that's fine. Data is code.

Maybe what you really want is a finite state machine? http://machina-js.org/
Me too! Thank you!
Could you elaborate on your living conditions a little more? What is stopping you from gaining a place of residence?

I am quoting you this time so that if you change your comment completely for a fourth time, people will at least know what I am replying to.

I have a deadly genetic disorder. I need a high degree of control over my living space. Renting is a no go. I need to go from homeless to homeowner. I think I could arrange that for around $10k, but, alas, I don't happen to have that kind of money just laying around somewhere.
I often hear of US propaganda going through newspapers and Hollywood movies. From the outside, the effect is obvious. But internally, does anyone knows how it works?

Does the CIA sponsor moviemakers if they show things this way or that way? Does someone blackmail journalists into following a line? Who decides what is the story to develop? What's in it for a journalist or a scenarist when they have to sway from depicting the situation neutrally and when they have to add a twist that may discredit them if discovered? Is it marketing which demonstrates that some topics are currently popular, therefore they all align on the same topic? Do they receive money from private interests who need to push war, do they receive blackmail, career advancement or are the journalists and scenarists simply endoctrined into those topics?
something like that, yeah.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer

though, in your example, i'd have to wager the Windows trademark extends way further than just "operating systems". "computing" at large seems more likely.
Walt Mossberg's review a couple days later:

http://allthingsd.com/20011101/ipod-review/
Awesome! I had seen AllTheTropes before but never understood what it was. I'm always a fan of noncommercial ad-free forks.
Wonder if this will replace DOSBox which is derelict.
Right? I really don't get it. There are entire industries built around producing content that goes viral. Charge Coca Cola $eleventy million for "super tweets" that look like normal tweets. Maybe this is already happening?
Pretty cool. Coincidentally I just spent the last couple days implementing configurable JSON-serialized rules in our app. The bigger part of the challenge for us was coming up with a human-friendly UI for defining the rules.
>They perceive (correctly, BTW, from a statistical perspective) that if you're born poor, there isn't much you can do.

How can you blithely state this "fact" given that the article itself shows that a poor person who graduates college has a better-than-average income distribution (every percentile is better off than the population as a whole).

It's really frustrating to me that people like you don't make any honest effort to distinguish between objective "lack of hope" where poor people actually cannot improve their situation, with subjective "lack of hope" where people for whatever reason are unable to be motivated to take actual opportunities that could help them. Clearly these are different phenomena and conflating them is irresponsible and dangerous.
You can look for some side work.
Where are you finding BBQ which registers as "the hottest food"? I can't think of a single regional BBQ style which would qualify as needle moving at all for me.
if the left used your argument they would convince so many people on the right.
in order to extract value, isnt it first necessary to define that value (of broadcasting info and enabling real time conversations)? that would seem to be a big mystery.
I first bought the 2nd gen iPod, and I didn't have a Mac, but I had a PC laptop with a program called Musicmatch Jukebox (IIRC) for syncing.
I don't think DOSBox is "derelict".

http://source.dosbox.com/dosboxsvn.txt
"There are millions of people in the world who believe that Goebbels dictated the tuning to make people feel more anxious and warlike."

Well, tens. Possibly ones.
Honorable mention:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-anonymization
And it requires treatment to prevent any potential incidence of canker just to be sure.
There is a simple counter-example that proves that this is the wrong question to ask.

You cannot simply make a zygote with just the DNA from a sperm and an egg together alone. Both parents pronuclei are required for epigenetic reasons. If you try to do this, and the pronuclei are not present, then you will not make any viable offspring.

This is just one example of how oversimplified the model taught by the book is, though it is a useful one. The only thing that is certain is that we are not anywhere near being able to claim to know how many genes it takes to make a person.
I hate to tell you this, dude, but "Akira" might not be a palatable future.
My condolences for your illness. Best of luck in your endeavours.
I agree it's not a complete security solution, but it's certainly a good baseline if nothing else.

>The main thing is slapping a little homekit badge on the packaging and slightly tigher integration with siri.

It's integration into the entire HomeKit platform including the new Home app across multiple devices.

Thanks for the in depth numbers. Personally I'd pay an extra $20 for something HomeKit compatible, especially if I'm paying $150+ anyway. I've been looking at some devices lately and haven't even considered anything which doesn't integrate with HomeKit.
OCR Bot for Facebook Messenger
You'll be glad to know its (well earned) reputation for unreliable service survived to the end. Algiers was an institution and will be sorely missed.
Jelly, anyone? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Jelly
It has been great to work with Initialized so far. When we had bad times, other investors acted poorly, they supported us. When we were going through a pivot, Garry gave us weekly office hours during a very busy time in his life. This allowed us to keep pace like we were still in YC even though it was 3 years after still under the same company and it set us up properly for the crazy growth we had for the next year. I would highly recommend them to anyone who has a chance to work with them.
Cheap Driverless Taxis May Kick Mass Transit to the Curb
For the big businesses they are running things like enterprise editions of ORACLE or MSSQL server along with all the middleware and application servers on top, which makes the barrier to entry for the small guy pretty high, since these take some serious time to master which is why you normally only ever see the top highly paid and experienced system engineers handling tasks like this in the big corporations.

Some may bring in a small business to try and accomplish this tasks but if it is a large business it only takes a small team to really accomplish this and fully automate it (two to four top system engineers, a software engineer to create interface for management and the system engineers, along with insuring the API and other security checks for compliance and SLAs are in place.

If you want to get in on something like this insure you have the proper credentials for what the company uses in their infrastructure (SAS, SAP, ORACLE, Microsoft SQL Server, Hadoop, Spark, .NET, Java, C/C++, along with vMWare products, Excel Macros, Office plugins, etc.) and have experience doing data migration, optimized SQL queries and ETL operations. As some of these companies have petabytes of data to deal with, so your small time 200GB database would not give you the experience necessary to work with these massive systems or the insight into how to write proper queries to work with these systems unless you have being doing it for a few years.

If you have experience in many of these you might be able to do it. To keep things small I would recommend building out some prototypes that end up as high quality services or products and go in as your own business. This way you get to keep the work you create, make more off your work and get to benefit off of word of mouth and can get even more customers if they really like your work.

It is hard work to get things like this automated in the various environments but it can be done. Those that come in and do it right benefit heavily as they can focus on more important things like research and development.
Not to mention there are quite flavorful styles which are often down around 2% ABV which is closer to NA beer than they are to macrolagers. I'm thinking of things like berlinerweisse
The author of the github repo doesn't seem to be an author on the ArXiv pre-print. Anyone knows why?
I have seen this before. Some people will only take a job if they KNOW how to do the job. Others will take a job, and are confident they can learn it along the way.

It might have more to do with that confidence than being poor.
If Go2 wants to happen it needs to happen right now while the language adoption is still low. I personally think there won't be any Go2 or it will be admission of design failure from their maintainers who kept swearing to developpers "You don't need that with Go".

The Go mailing list is full of improvments requested by developers that the Go team refuses to hear, and most of them would still allow legacy code to run. So it doesn't make sense to suggest there will be a Go2 to begin with. the Go team is absolutely resistant to changes.

I suggested for instance to new container types like sets, and a way to write type safe parametric functions without adding generics AKA allowing developers to write their own container types. So you could have generic functions at the package level like :

func Foo<T>(bar :[]T)T
func Bar<T,V>(baz func(T)V)

used that way :

var x int = Foo<int>([]int{0,2})

No user defined generic container type has been introduced (ie no Struct<T>{} ) , and the code is type safe at compile time. It would be a nice trade off. It would take care of 80% of generic use cases (like writing array,slice,sets,queue generic methods only once instead of copying and pasting for each type) and would eliminate the majority of methods using unsafe catch-all interface{} .

I always found it strange that Go designers don't understand the fact that developers want to write compile time type safe code, while the formers are adding reflection features to the language (1.7 allows adhoc struct type creation), that are not compile time safe. Nobody wants generics for the sake of it. While compilation speed is one of the goals of Go, runtime performance should also be one, and reflection disallow any compile time optimization thus introduces a performace hit.

People suggesting the use of Go generate to transform Go code into a different Go code are just writing their own compiler extension without knowing it which leads to language fragmentation as they introduce 3rd party dependencies in the compilation step.

I think at that point anybody who is dissatisfied with Go type system should stop using it, as it completely unlikely to change dramatically in the future. There won't be any "Go2". It's too bad, because Go has a few nice ideas, like implicit interfaces and struct/interface embedding that are a nice way to do object composition.
"var" declares function scope, not global scope. If you really want global scope, declare the variable with no keyword preceding it (e.g. "foo = 3").
If they are staying stable, do they really need those top engineers? The probably need a different set of engineers who can find a cheaper way of doing what they are already doing.
I remember hearing that Phil Schiller came up with that idea.

Apple really wouldn't be Apple without him. He's the guy who had the goal of making a laptop with one port. He's the guy who's on board with removing the headphone jack. He's the guy making decisions that piss a lot of people off but understands what makes their products uniquely Apple.
What kind of genomic data out of curiosity?
And yet I rarely ever see anything on my timeline from the 'Once' account, but plenty from the regular account, and not too many repeats. It seems the new curated timeline really hurts the post-once approach.
Proved in what sense? Are you saying that because the internet and digital data hasn't been around for multiple generations, we don't know that it is up to the task of storing data for the long term?

It's certainly proven that digital data can survive moving from one storage media to another (such as when the first becomes obsolete), and can be protected by redundancy, and so on.
Are you talking about Mexican restaurants in the US or in Mexico?
I love Lexus. My dad had one a few years back; a 2005 ES330. SUPER reliable luxury car. Very smooth. (That being said, it pretty much was a fully loaded Camry lol)
Literally every way. The only downside was having to use rhapsody to load music - but I can just barely call that a downside since there was no supported method to load music onto an iPod on Windows at that point. So you either bought a mac, or used third party software and hoped they stayed in front of the Apple DRM police.
This article is terrible. It makes a shitty and misleading graph, and generates a variety of nonsensical judgements from it.

The graph used makes it really hard to see what the actual distributions of overall income are. If you make, say, a bar graph of the income distributions, you'll see that poor college grads do much better than rich high school dropouts. I made such a graph here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/112K9ejdFQMPcnvEqERT2...

I also estimated the average incomes of both groups based on the given statistics, and found an average income of $78k for the poor college grads and $60k for the rich high school dropouts.

The main piece of evidence that this blog post uses to support its thesis is: "Specifically, rich high school dropouts remain in the top about as much as poor college grads stay stuck in the bottom — 14 versus 16 percent, respectively. Not only that, but these low-income strivers are just as likely to end up in the bottom as these wealthy ne'er-do-wells. Some meritocracy."

The first of these statistics is not clearly related to meritocracy. If you want high income mobility, you want both these numbers to be low. The sentence is phrased as if it's bad that the numbers are similar; that doesn't make sense.

The second of these statistics is correctly interpreted, but seems cherry-picked: I could just as easily point out that 41% of poor college grads end up in the top 40% of income, while only 19% of rich high school dropouts do. To prevent such cherry-picking, we should probably use the Schelling point summary statistics like mean income or median income, both of which indicate that the poor college grads are doing significantly better.

As far as I can tell, the original paper didn't do anything wrong, this "reporter" just decided to make up some bullshit conclusions from the statistics. This is even worse than most reporting--the mistake isn't something you have to read the original source to find, the mistake is right there in the graph that Facebook is suggesting as the image preview. Alas!