skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't read the email itself, but these excerpts almost seem to imply that they'd be using Google's data in order to construct this? Is this an incorrect read? Or is he just outlining how to build such a system in the abstract?
Your description sounds so ... peaceful. Machines quietly processing transactions, on a secure network. Serenity.
While I always like to see the best specs on everything, there's nothing you could stream that even approaches 100mbit never mind gigabit. For something no one has anyone use for outside of a check mark on a specs sheet, saving $1 per unit is a huge profit increase when you sell 10 million of something. Crazy shit has been done by manufacturers to save pennies, never mind dollars. Not surprising.
Except WebKit and Safari are the first browser (engines) to be 100% ES6 compatible:

http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/
I think it's interesting looking at it from the other end - as a homeowner, I can tell you that roofing is an expensive proposition.

If this can be competitive with traditional roofing and have a longer life expectancy, I'd buy in a heartbeat.

It has the potential to displace thousands of tons of asphalt shingles per year with the equivalent of recyclable glass, which is pretty fantastic. The embodied energy of production for the tar hydrocarbons in current roofing materials are pretty nasty, and they don't just disappear when they wear out.
> Nuance's new voice recognition technology - the entire thing except for the voice libraries are in Node

That basically means it's not even built with it. The only thing it provides are JS bindings. Nothing more. Something like JNI. And I basically can confirm that their voice recognition (Dragon) was NEVER written in node and NEVER will.
It's written in C. And they provide bindings for C# and Visual Basic and C++, however they have ActiveX in place which means that there are way more languages that can use it. I guess at some point they even added Node bindings.

http://www.nuance.com/ucmprod/groups/dragon/@web-enus/docume...
http://www.nuance.com/ucmprod/groups/dragon/@web-enus/docume...
Flagging affects ranking before it is visible (it's actually a fairly new feature that flagging is shown at all before the story is killed and closed for new comments)
Planned obsolescence...
That's brilliant. It fixes that huge objection we all have to solar on our houses - and it is not the product itself but that it is a innovative solution to a problem "everyone" has looked at and said "nah I don't want that rubbish on my roof" and nearly turned it on its head

It's just one more example of why discounting Elon might be a bad idea.

If only I had bought tesla a few years ago ...
Home PV and EV doesn't go hand in hand for everyone that uses their EV to commute to work, though. I guess that represents a significant fraction of the vehicle park.
Given how often this happens, maybe existing links should at least trigger a warning to the submitter?
You can imagine my face when I googled that and found it to be true...
> I can't use any of the TV station apps like NBC, etc, without already having a cable subscription, which basically misses the point

True, but you can blame the existing contractual relationships among the cable providers, networks, content owners, and content distributors, and the business model inertia holding it all in place. Apple's interests are probably aligned with yours on this.
Could be submarine marketing, but I'd never heard of System76 until here on HN right after the Apple event... says on their twitter they're seeing > 4x their usual traffic. (https://twitter.com/system76/status/793133162327003136).

Between this and Michael Tsai's absolutely scathing collection of negative responses from all kind of big influencers (http://mjtsai.com/blog/2016/10/27/new-macbook-pros-and-the-s...), it seems like Apple really did it this time...
Does that depreciation estimate include the up-front payment of 5-7k?
Creating an REPL is easy in Python
Probably nothing. Groups like the Pirate Party work themselves into a fit over meaningless affronts to privacy because of some combination of a) a lack of real politics, and b) actually having something serious to hide.
LarKC: The Large Knowledge Collider
I need to replace my roof and I've been quoted almost $20k. If these are within $5k of that price, then I will jump on it.
Every time some physical job was eliminated, workers have gone into doing work with their minds instead.

When some desk jobs have been eliminated, workers have found other desk jobs.

The problem this time around is that there seems to be no limit to what AI could do. This is the crux of the matter. How far can AI go? Can it do any desk job whatsoever? If the answer is yes, then tremendous changes lie ahead.
That's why I go with Das Ultimate keyboard which does not even have any labels over any keys. This is a best way to keep noobs away from my workplace.
What do you care if they get paid more than you? Do you care that they can out bowl you? Do they care that you can out chess them? Life is a marathon, you don't win a marathon by coming first in the race. You win a marathon by beating your last time.

Don't misunderstand, I'm always competing with my last paycheck. I always want to be getting paid more. I just don't care about other people's salary and if our responsibilities are lesser/equal/greater.

For me its all about optimizing the things I can control. I can control my future paycheck, and I can control how much effort I need to be putting in from week to week. I can't control someone else's salary, and it can't negatively effect me, so why expend the energy thinking about it?

Meanwhile: Responsibility != Effort.

For me its all about correcting mistakes with the least effort possible (I'm lazy you see). Also, if I'm paid the same, and I input less effort, then I'm technically being paid more :)

I would way rather put in the minimal effort required to question and correct (i.e. "manage" as you put it) an error upfront while its an idea, whoever's idea that might have been, rather than to put in the effort to correct the error while shit is hitting the fan.

This is just my personal preference. Your milage may vary.
> He stresses that you should focus on building a community, with the code and platform as happy side-effects of that community.

Exactly, so license shouldn't matter that much. I'd probably be a lot more interested in it were it BSD licensed, as it is now I have no real desire to play with this new OS.
Much criticism is also explained by "they feel threatened by this".
That's what I remembered and I answered based on that before the edit.

Once you can reach the DOM API directly from WA code, JS is redundant for you can use for example C# to build apps.

I hate to sound alarmist, but we might look back at 2012-16 as the years when frontend tooling was easy :)
"I have a list of tracks that I know will start a dance floor, every DJ worth anything does. They aren't effective because they're new or innovative, but because they connect with a large percentage of people."

The thing is, after a while, you can get a sense of what kinds of music is danceable and catchy, and know that there's a high chance you'll fill the dance floor with it, even (or especially) if it's new.

About popular oldies: each of these was new once, and some DJ had to take a risk to play it for the first time somewhere before it was popular. I'll be showing my age here, but I've seen on multiple occasions cases where a new danceable, catchy song will come out, and would have been perfect for a club, but it doesn't actually get played in clubs for a decade or two. Then I'll finally hear it played in a club, and by then it's already stale, and has lost a lot of the energy and excitement it would have had were it played when it was fresh.

Also, even if a DJ lacked confidence in their own ability to pick danceable new music, and felt that they had to stick to the tried and true oldies: there are so many great oldies out there! Why should they stick to the same exact 10 oldies every night when there are hundreds if not thousands of them to pick from?

Then, in my experience, most DJs don't stick to just the popular club hits. They play obscure music all the time. Even music that is virtualy undanceable, and clears the dance floor as soon as they play it. So they're taking risks, and sometimes even paying for it by the audience clearly not liking what they played. But they play those very same obscure songs night after night. It's obvious that no one's requesting these songs, and the DJs don't give a shit that people don't like them, but they play them anyway. So catering to what the audience likes is not an excuse in that case.. and that happens all the time. All the time.

So my questions are:

1 - If DJs are brave enough to play obscure songs, why do they have to be the same obscure songs all the time?

2 - If they feel the need to play old hits a lot, why play the same old hits over and over again?
Being good at management, is knowing when you don't need to manage at all.
Auth is built into the browser[1], it's just ugly (popups) and nobody uses it.

[1] HTTP Basic Auth
> startup time is actually worse due to browsers compiling everything ahead of time.

On an upside, with WASM browsers can potentially save a snapshot of the compiled code to speed up re-runs. I recall the idea was promoted back when Dart was expecting to get its own VM, and one of the things that it would be capable of was this snapshot using.
It was a brief mention, possibly tongue in cheek, during his speech at the Intertwingled conference, video here: https://www.chapman.edu/events/intertwingled/index.aspx?open...
Yes, and it obviously has to do with tech. I thought hackers news was a little more open minded and generally a more intelligent community. Guess some users and mods/admins aren't...
> -The only campaign inciting hate and violence is the Clinton campaign

Not really.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/donald-trump-punch-pro...

Not to mention the attacks on Muslims, Mexicans and a generally terrible attitude towards women.
nah I don't want that rubbish on my roof

I literally haven't seen my panels since the last time I went up on the roof. Granted, this depends a lot on how steep your roof is, but the appearance of the panels did really not go into our decision to install them.
No - in the e-mail itself, he mentions that there's a mobile app field volunteers could use to update information on the voter in real-time, as they go door-to-door and canvas. Presumably it also hooks into poll databases, telephone surveys, previous voter rolls, and other data sources.
what? you mean like Reddit? ;)
The cognitive struggle I have is how not only 90% on reads I need the last version, but also on write.

The classical example is how avoid duplicated data or do validation across tables. One of the requirements of my app is deny a sale if the customer have pending invoices. The tricky part with invoice is that entry must be fast (I'm competing against DOS apps that fly at data-entry).

So when ES say "Record the event, then build the read side at later time", instead me (and I think, many of us) wanna the opposite "Put into the event log after we have do validations".

Of course, some actions can be delayed, but some need be as-now. How do this elegantly?

My initial attempt is code against the tables and use triggers for recording the story, but that is not as nice...
I am not debating this, but this feels eerily like some feature PC/Windows has but when it is introduced by Apple say, tablets becomes the rage. No it does not have to be original, originality is over-rated. Tesla has packaged it well, and to say the least in a non-intrusive and colorful way, just like what Apple (used to do?) does with its products. I looked at DOW solar shingles, there were talk about how unmitigated disaster they were on forums, may be it is just hear-say. Tesla has the power to persuade than DOW, at least for now. Without taking Credit from DOW and others, may be this is the time of Solar Shingles.
It's not WebKit that matters; it's Apple. Apple was also conspicuously absent from the original wasm announcement. Brendan Eich announced (paraphrased), "This wouldn't work without all browser makers buying in, and all of them are today announcing their intention to support wasm, including..." [insert a list of all the companies EXCEPT Apple].

Asked about the missing Apple, he responded that he was sure they were on board but hadn't submitted their written statement by his deadline. I asked why he would assume they were going to publicly commit to it if they hadn't. It would have taken a one-line statement.

He got very snippy and said that they were obviously just a bit busy getting ready for one of their regular public performances (maybe WWDC, I don't remember.) Yeah, sure, that must be it.

Their show came and went, and I must have missed the announcement. More shows came and went. If Apple ever publicly committed to supporting wasm, as all the other companies did on day one, I haven't seen it, but maybe they eventually did. (It would be easy for me to miss, so I'm seriously asking here.) Is anyone aware of any link to that public announcement of support, the one that we would have seen on day one if Apple hadn't been so busy?

If not, then there is another possibility. There are Apple people contributing to the wasm technology, both the development of the spec and the implementation in WebKit (I believe, but correct me if I'm wrong.) That would give Apple the option of supporting wasm if they ever chose to do so. I'm sure they want that option. And no public announcement of support means they are hanging on to their option to exercise their iOS/Safari veto power over this significant advance for open web apps (vs. vendor-controlled native apps).
What if you have a battery in the house?
FYI, this isn't specifically election news. This is news about a tech giant suggesting a database be created based on voting habits that includes additional metadata about individuals.
Flagged. This post is clearly on-topic, so to me this looks like a classic example of HN suppressing discussion of racism and sexism in the Silicon Valley startup community. I'm curious how it looks to the moderators.
Actually I did look at the Schmidt email, and I didn't see what the fuss is about. The same advice could have been given by any other number of people.

That's why I wish the poster would have given some context: why is this worthy of being on HN? Just because it's a private email from Eric Schmidt?
Case in point, they have seven in the role "Director of Engineering"
Steve Jobs increased the value of AAPL by close to 200x during the period 1997-2011.
I should have phrased this differently - it is the fundamental flaw of all email based authentication systems. Your approach is currently a bit more prone to problems since you are one nasty script away from being bounced out of existence.

Yes you need to protect the log in page by rate limiting, Captcha, looking up mx records, etc.

One approach I have thought would be good to use is a rainbow table like approach. Most people are not very imaginative about the fake email accounts they use.
Google discloses Windows vulnerability just 10 days after reporting it to MSFT
I live in a valley so I can't get any signals from the OTA stations.. it sucks.
Touch Bar Everywhere
It pauses execution of a stack when it is blocked allowing other stacks to execute.
Amazon Echo, is it the new Nabaztag?
this should be interesting. POSIX support? I'm game.

I hope they don't try to compete with Linux. just do their own thing and see where it goes. usually the competitive edge kills projects like these.

happy to see new kernels popping up!
Lenovo already released a Halo keyboard in Yoga book.

http://www.windowscentral.com/lenovo-yoga-book

I don't kow if it is any different from e-ink keyboard.
The analysis here pretty much echoes my own thoughts.

Computers are becoming closer to appliances as time moves forward and "we" are not the target market. A lot of the chatter here has been about how Apple has "forgotten about us", developers/power users. The same outcry happened when Apple moved away from catering to video professionals. It doesn't seem like that really hurt their sales.

I know more people who own Apple products that are not power users. They buy their Apple products to read email, take care of their photo, music, and movie needs, and maybe do some homework. Being light, sleek, and fast enough is more important than having every port under the sun with the absolute newest CPU with the absolute maximum memory. I feel pretty confident that Apple is chasing their main user base.
How would you draw the line on which languages/runtimes deserve to get bundled/cached? You could make the same argument for JavaScript libraries—shouldn't web browsers just bundle jQuery?—but there's ultimately no good way to do that.
But are the police or the FBI going to investigate your ransomware-locked computer when there are thousands of cases of this happening a year? The ransomware is usually running from a script. There is no guy wearing a ski mask on the other end watching the wallet. These groups aren't the same as a sketchy guy on the other side of town with your stolen laptop or phone, ready for the police to find him and recover your goods.

So what option does your average user have when confronted with a situation like this? They could call up the police and report it for statistics sake but the police aren't going to be able to fix the problem nor would they really care (unless you're the mayor or some prominent politician). The bad guy is probably not in the same country and there's no way to identify them anyway. Maybe you could figure out the hacking group but if you knew the actual identities then why aren't you working for Interpol already? Also maybe try using a site like in the link to check if the ransomware is compromised. But most likely, you just have to pay the ransom, get back your stuff, and learn an expensive lesson in how important regular backups, online and offline, can be.

You could just not pay it. The hacking group doesn't get their money but it's not like it cost much to run the attack in the first place. They will have someone's data out there that is much more valuable to the victim that will pay.

I compare this to leaving your bike unattended in a public place. Maybe you did a good job trying to lock it up but the thief hacksawed through your cheap lock. Or maybe you just left it unlocked. Either way, your bike is gone. Maybe buy a much stronger lock or two in the future. In this analogy, you aren't getting your bike back. You just have to spend the cash on a new one, expensive but hey, you need a bike to get to/do your job. You can report it stolen but unless there is some big bust and they find the guy, the thief is going to get away with it. Complaining that someone stole your bike isn't going to solve the issue. It sucks that the thief will profit off your loss but the data/bike is already gone. You aren't getting it back unless you drop the cash on a new bike/decryption key. The lesson is that you are going to either have to never ride a bike again (or use a computer, both unlikely) or you will have to use better security to prevent theft of your valuables.

Crime does pay, a lot. People get away with theft like this all the time and there's not much an individual can do except try harder in the future to defend themselves against theft in the future. Secure your computer better, run backups, don't do dumb stuff (like run unknown software or leave a bike unlocked).
Like 5 years old machine. So why upgrade?

We don't buy for years-ago needs, but for now-and-future.

And even ignoring this: Is also signaling. We expect top-of-the-line machine for work.

IF we use at FULL capacity OR NOT, is not the business of Apple.
US Elections makes me realize that Brazil is not even close to americans in regard of corruption. You guys are pro!
can it run on raspberry pi?
Reading the rules and noticing that some reposts are allowed isn't either.

(But yes, in general people should check for other submissions before submitting something, it would reduce the noise in /new a lot and help giving content that is less mass-appealing a better chance to be noticed. Also, if you feel to much "crap" ends up on the front page, go check /new and help upvote better submissions)
> Yes, this is where the hairs rise on our arms: if you have a recorded file with radio noise from the local telescope that you use for generation of random numbers, and the police ask you to produce the decryption key to show them the three documents inside the encrypted container that your radio noise looks like, you will be sent to jail for up to five years for your inability to produce the imagined documents.

Alarmist and inaccurate. If you read the statute that Mr. Falkvinge links[0], it turns out that if there's a serious question about whether you have the key to some piece of supposedly encrypted data, the burden of proof is on the prosecution to prove you do have the key to it (and therefore that it is encrypted data) beyond reasonable doubt, just as you'd expect. s.53(3).

[0] http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/23/section/53
Had a door to door solar salesman not notice my panels, that is how little people actually look at your roof.
That's the "port driver"+"mini port driver" model of Windows.
"obsessive with thinness"?
new MacBookPro - 14.9 mm
MacBook - 13.0 mm
Asus UX305 - 12.3 mm
Samsung Series 9 900X3 - 13.0 mm

I don't think we can call that obsession. And please note that both Asus and Samsung have keyboards with around 2mm travel - laptop standard.
Rental cars get sold on at fairly low mileage. My point was that "people" don't have to buy new every car that other people buy used. I have bought an ex-rental car in the past that was 1 year old with 10000 miles on the clock.
Sorry- my reply was a bit insensitive, probably just jealous of your situation :)
I think that's just what they tell system admins when it's time to put a machine down. "Oh yes, it's in a very quiet, peaceful place where it can process things all day long securely."
That's what happens almost everywhere, but the bitter truth is they usually don't last long.
anyone can press ctrl+cmd+space to insert emoji in mac anywhere.
In reference to "HN users who are flagging political/US election-related topics in general"? By topics I mean submissions, not comments. I'm assuming the jokes you're referring to are in comments.

Comment flagging/up voting/down voting behavior is interesting as well, especially as I've seen discussion that voting behavior can indicate agreement (do I agree with the comment?) or substance (do I think the comment adds to the discussion?).

As for bias, I'm not ready to wade into that without more analysis of what's actually going on. It's too politically charged. I'm speculating about what I think is happening. Please don't read this as taking a position on the behavior itself.
I see a move to (browser?) specific based installer packages and a re-thought static 'cache' mechanism/area to do the preload.

Of course, we move from the beauty of no-install software on the web back to runtime installing but...maybe it would be better?
OT. But I find it amusing that a "tiny home" in Texas is the same size as a normal home in most other places.
Makes me feel so much better about my design skills.
Alton Brown's internet cooking show will be a 'Good Eats' sequel
This page causes a "Network Disconnected" error on Safari for iPad. There is no loss of connection whatsoever, and every other site/service works for me. What on earth is going on?

Edit: replicable across multiple networks, too.

Edit 2: fixed itself somehow. Weird.
A few years after a new cable format although, you can get fairly affordable 3rd party cables although. And now they are moving to USB-C, which doesn't have any thing apple specific other than the lightning connector.
This is ridiculously cool.
My God, it's full of nameservers and mail exchangers! Many at our nominal allies.