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Writing speeches is fantastic practice.

More than anything, it teaches you to write the way you talk. That's generally a good thing. Most forms of writing education tell you to communicate clearly, as though you're speaking your words -- but they don't show you how. Writing a speech forces you to confront the way you sound. When great writers talk about writing "by ear," this is what they mean.
Internet users will have more control, thanks to new FCC rules
There are plenty of ODB2 bluetooth dongles out there... I've never seen one hooked up to a nav system, though.
I might be missing what you are trying to do but can't you get that optimization today with using FFI to use native modules in your server side code?
I think you're right.

Selling user data itself is not nearly as valuable for Giphy as for other sites. No one stays on Giphy for long, or shares anything interesting about themselves apart from what Giphy can get from cookies. They say 100 million people see Giphy gifs a day, so probably about 10 million actually "use" Giphy. Even with FB's $13.74 valuation per user with better analytics and a validated business model, that only comes to $137M.

On a completely unrelated note:
"Giphy, which is pronounced with a hard 'g'..."
Thank god they know how to pronounce it unlike these (what I suppose could be called) "people" who pronounce it with a soft g. ;)
You are not allowed to fix your Tesla at home. Tesla refuses to release repair information. If they do that, I can't imagine they'll sell you parts or allow others to make them either. Perhaps the new DMCA exception for car repair will change that, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
Except when it comes to writing CSS, it doesn't matter how skilled you are at CSS, one simply can not be as equally productive without using a preprocessor.
I don't think that will be feasible in the near future, because in order to run another language in the browser (say, Python) through wasm, you will need to bundle the entire runtime with your app, which is an unacceptable amount of overhead for most apps.
Basically some submarine marketing to get there indiegogo campaign kicked off, but it was interesting to me that they "crowd sourced" the design and ended up with what is essentially a Surface Pro type unit.

But for me the interesting bit is following the whole evolution of the laptop thing.

A long time ago (March 2009) I bought something called a "Touchbook" from a company called Always Innovating. Its features were, detachable keyboard (additional battery in keyboard), ARM processor, touch screen, Ubuntu OS (later Android). Desktop "flipped" with the screen orientation. It had a lot to like about it and showed the potential, but it was clunky, had horrible battery life, and the resistive touchscreen was not reliable (think a Chumby with a 10" screen rather than something more futuristic)

Then the iPad came out and everyone assumed "tablets were the next big thing". But people still wanted to type and not give up half the screen to an on screen keyboard. I've got a couple of blue tooth keyboards (one Apple, one Logitech) that I used with the iPad (one even has an ESC key :-)) but the carry the keyboard + tablet, oh the keyboard isn't charged thing was a pain.

Microsoft did the Surface, which was soundly derided by Apple's Phil Schiller (I know it was his job to deride all iPad competitors) And then Apple when ahead and kind of bought into the theme with the iPad pro.

So what are the variables?

Keyboard detachable/fixed
* Detachable seems to be the current answer
Keyboard more than keys (battery)?
* Still mixed, Surface Book yes, iPad Pro/SP4 no.
Screen Size ?
* 13" SBook
* 12" SP4/iPad Pro
* 10" iPad Pro
Full OS / Mobile OS
* iPad iOS
* SPro Windows 10
Stylus?
* Mostly yes (iPad Pro, Surface)
* Mostly no (third party "2:1" computers)
Screen?
* HiDPI screen (pretty much all of them)
Cellular?
* Surface no
* iPad yes.

While it is expensive for me while Microsoft and Apple explore the design space :-) I am enjoying the innovation. At some point I wonder if Google will want to play in this space, or if they will try to partner with Microsoft and be the "mobile OS" answer for Surface.
What frustrates me the most is that Apple no longer is making a product that I like but no one else is. Every single laptop model in the market lacks at least one feature that's essential to me.
We discussed this in https://github.com/portier/portier-broker/issues/44, and unfortunately don't think there's a good way to blanket-enable support for G Suite domains. :(

I'd really love to make this possible in the near future. Maybe an opt-in flag? Or finishing up our federated protocol and building a tiny service that bridges between that and G-Suite? Suggestions / feedback into that bug would be really helpful.
Portability for the AOT compiled modules?
I thought there was something wrong with my projects, with the code or with myself when people did that.
And probably, there is :).

But as I get older I try to give less of a shit about what others say.

I've also noticed that people troll more when they are unhappy about something in their life - I know it because I do it too - I'm more negative or dismissive when things aren't going quite as I'd like them or when I have an argument with my wife or something...
If enough people move to where it's cheaper, it causes a housing shortage, and then the price of housing rises, following increased demand. There are finite number of places where housing is cheaper. At the same time, we multiply and multiply.
..Which also works crappily. I am exposed to giphy through the slackbot interface and it never finds anything relevant.
It is coming though. Just running a bit behind I guess:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159775
Forgive my ignorance - is a GIF search engine any different from a text search engine? They assign text tags to GIFs (maybe in a clever, machine learning type way?) and then search those, right?
It's a New Yorker-ism, much like "coördinate".
It's weird how it's never Chinese or Russian data that gets dumped all over the Internet by these self-proclaimed hacker vigilantes, just American data. Yeah, that's what it is. Weird.
>Small, local competition for ISPs do not make sense over the long term.

I would love a Glass-Steagall for the telecom industry – long haul and last mile not allowed by the same company. ISPs must peer at local exchanges. Add municipal ownership of the last mile fiber with ISPs leasing capacity to individual residences (allowing you to choose one of many) and the world seems ideal.

I'm lucky enough / chose my home such that I am served by a local ISP which is hooked up to a local exchange. It's great. The biggest bottleneck is usually WiFi, and after that peering. Having the last mile not be the weakest link is great.
Without looking up the stats, my guess is that this number includes leases. Which artificially inflates the number for "new car sales". Not only that but manufactures have been offering insane financing 72 months .9% apr. Which brings down the cost to own for people who probably shouldn't be buying a new car. Car manufactures remind me more of financial companies then car companies.
Does anyone know what approach they have taken to access the GPU? I saw some discussion last year, but nothing clear.
Meanwhile, I'm continually amazed that s390x [1] remains supported. I've never seen such a system in the wild.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_on_z_Systems
The huge advantage with using multiple projects at the same time is you can trivially factor out mutual pieces of code and include them as libraries. It's a really important thing for extremely integrated large projects that have big overarching goals.

For instance the game I'm writing as a server and a client. The idea of the networking components are abstracted away from the server and client. They include a library all together that handles everything. They don't need their own implementations and I don't need to switch back and forth in the IDEs to get to the right projects, start them, compile the library project, and go back to each sub-project and include it.

It's so much nicer when working on client-server architectures. That's why I love eclipse
$600M isn't a crazy price tag for a media property that wanted all the content and the brand. Plus, giphy has built some pretty deep integrations, I don't expect apple or slack etc will all of a sudden start a giphy competitor. If companies like Snapchat who already use sponsored content from brands are told by those brands to pull that content from the giphy api because they are using the base content on other platforms for the same campaign, seems like it could become a viable business (I retract "become a viable business" and replace it with "have an outcome")
General consensus from the last round holds that it's intentional.

They may not actually be native English speakers, but it would be hard to tell because the affected, consciously bad English overrides unconsciously bad English. I suppose maybe a linguist could comb through it all for subtler stuff like sentence structure.

"Amerikanskis" alone is a pretty serious tip-off. "amerìkānskī" comes up as a Cyrillic adjective for American-style, but I can't find any non-parody instances of people converting it into a pseudo-English noun.
"no job" is unlikely, salaries would go low though. And with modern automation the low salaries would allow living at a similar quality of life.
Read the article, advertising:

> Search engines like Alphabet’s Google generate the vast majority of their revenue from advertising. “Almost all the content flowing through Giphy, there’s some branded element to it already,” Mr. Leibsohn said.
Everybody hated Java applets. Terrible for security! Worst thing ever! Glad they're gone!

Hmmmmmm...
True, but more likely I suspect is that in 2018 and beyond they'll offer a navigation option. Then again, they still don't offer blind spot indicators on the corvette so who knows?

As for me, I just bought a car this year, and while the next one will be electric, I'm pretty happy with the current set of wheels.
Migrating a large MySQL dataset from InnoDB to RocksDB to reduce footprint
Why exactly should the hardware vendors be terrified? It might be that if the stuff gets cheaper, more can afford to buy their own racks. And it's not as if the cloud business is about to fail either.

Sure, some vendors might sell less, but it's not as if the entire industry is in danger, as the headline seems to imply.
so-called "people" like the creator of the format? ;)

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-22620473
I wonder when stuff like this will eventually make it way to the high end consumer market (home labbers)
Project for porting C to Rust gains Mozilla's backing
Cloudflare will not be happy if use them for image hosting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12825719
So, in Northern California where I live, gasoline is $2.50/gallon, so to fill the Camry's 17 gallon tank it's $42.50, and for 680 miles that's $0.0625/mile. If I can get the baseline rate in my area, I pay $0.12025/kwh. Assuming there's a 10% loss on charging (no idea what the actual loss is, so just choosing 10%) the 60kw battery, that's $7.9365, and for 238 miles that's $0.0333/mile. That's a savings of $0.0292/mile.

If you drive 1000 miles a month (average), that's $29.20 in savings a month, or $350.40 a year in fuel costs (assuming base gas/electricity prices inline with what I have here). If you think gas prices will average $3.00/gallon for the lifetime of the car, the fuel savings are $41.80/mo per 1000 miles, $500.40 a year in fuel costs for 12,000 miles, and evens out at just under 125k miles. For $2.00/gallon the 1000 mile savings are $16.70, $200 for a 12,000 mile year. That said, I think I average about 20,000 miles a year on the family car that we use to ferry kids to/from school and most daily errands.

The very important thing to consider though is whether or not you have access to free public charging. If you can find a free public charger and work it into your schedule in some way (maybe run some errands by foot in the area), you might be able to eliminate almost all of your home charging. If I was able to do really good at this, and only home charge for 10% of my usage on average (probably a tall order), and assuming that availability of free chargers doesn't change drastically for the worse, at current gas prices that would put my average (12,000 miles) yearly savings at $710.04. I consider $3.00/gallon a more likely average over that time, and that puts the yearly savings at $860.04, and it evens out at just under 73k miles. .

That's not super compelling when compared to a Camry Hybrid, but it may be cheaper overall, depending on how the future unfolds. That said, if what others are saying and Hybrids have increased maintenance costs, it may be enough to make electric the clear winner in this comparison, but I don't know.
Science job market is already well saturated. I think software engineering as a profession will be the last to go, but it doesn't mean its final days will be all glory and prosperity.
AFAIK they host the GIFs themselves, meaning that they are more of a GIF hosting site than a search engine.

This creates two problems: 1. Copyright infringements 2. Hosting costs.

EDIT: I opened their main page and scrolled down a little bit. It downloaded 70MB.
I LOVE Giphy! It's the only reaction/gif site that made me think, "They should really have their own chat app". I would download that app in an instant.
It's more of an engine-brake feel as you experience in a vehicle with a manual transmission.

I doubt it's that alarming. When you let off the accelerator in a manual transmission vehicle, it's more of a "test the water" type of thing, and then you can change gear from there.

It's not like people are going to rely on engine braking to come to an immediate stop.
The budget misunderstood in simple English
I disagree on those as identifiers - they're pretty clearly conscious affectations.

'amerìkānskī' is an existing word, but it's an adjective describing American-style things. Converting it (via English rules) into a mocking noun for Americans appears novel, and I can only find a few instances of people using it as a joke on forum threads.

Plenty unique, then, but not something the writer would likely stumble into using ever again.
I bet their next thing is a chat app. It has to be.
Possibly NSFW Flag? When I brought up the second page, a user with a NSFW image popped up...
> I think if people are ignoring you, it's a signal that you're not making something people care about.

Not necessarily. This is the third time I posted this story on HN (HN allows a small number of reposts), and who knows why it got ignored the first two times. It could have been timing. It might have been the title and organization of my content, which I tweaked on subsequent submissions.

I've never submitted anything that had universally positive feedback, so I wouldn't know what to make of that, but negative criticism isn't necessarily worth much if it isn't constructive.

And, even constructive criticism needs to be taken with a grain of salt. It's likely to have a lot more weight if it's coming from someone who has been where you want to go; otherwise, it needs to be scrutinized for motive and value. (i.e. sometimes people are looking for validation themselves, and criticism is a cheap way of throwing things out there and getting feedback).
Side note: I wonder if they fixed the terribly noticeable transition between regen braking and mechanical braking that I experienced in a few rental Volts.
Right click on the "suggestion" and select "turn off all suggestions" from the menu provided
This is correct.

I was at a particularly dumb company in the early 2000s, when outsourcing was all the rage. It was completely wrong for us, as we were still doing R&D. Yet the folks inhabiting Mahogany Row read Fortune and Forbes and listened to consultants who all said that outsourcing was the new hot thing to do.

And when I kept asking why, the reason kept changing. First it was cost. Then, when it was clear that it would not be cheaper, it was some bullshit about freeing us up to work on tougher problems. And then it changed again.

So of course they did it. And of course it was a disaster.
It depends on what you are using it for. IntellJ's maven integration is to die for. Eclipse has a better auto-completion engine.

IntellJ is far less resource intensive but eclipse has some features (mutli-projects in one 'solution') that IntellJ won't add.
That is one of the major design goals of every data center, electricity on that scale is very expensive.
I really hate it when there's that one coworker that insists on /giphy-ing everything in slack. Usually its a clueless manager who thinks cute little pictures will inspire team morale, but all the results are always random and oftentimes tone-deaf or, in some cases, straight up NSFW. It's very annoying, thank god I can turn off gif display automatically.
Where the sandbox now has a much larger attack surface as it has to implement a whole new virtual machine to run the webasm.
The title “Release Architectures for Debian 9 'Stretch'” is precisely accurate; it's what the linked article is and was titled that way by the author for a reason. On the other hand, because the article states that the removal of PowerPC is the only change from Jessie we've reverted the title to something that expresses this.
That paper's abstract seems to be "We're not systemically wrong so we're not systemically wrong, ergo, the result shouldn't be interpreted as us being systemically wrong", without ever actually addressing the possibility that they're systemically wrong (eg that an unfounded assumption is in all of the models with the "correct" value), but I feel that the actual thrust is meant to be something about independent lines of investigation.

Could you elaborate a little more on what they're actually saying, since I don't seem to understand it?

In particular, where they show that their lines of investigation are actually decorrelated in terms of assumptions (ie, there can't be a common, systemic conceptual flaw in all of them), or that those assumptions are all included by the disagreeing model? Because otherwise, it seems a bald assertion that their assumptions are correct.
People also weren't buying new cars in 2008-2011, so there are fewer used cars resulting from that on the market. Plus, interest rates are really low. So a new car bought in 2007 + 5-7 years would be getting replaced.
@johnwheeler, good to see you again. How is it coming along?
Interested in an EV but think $30k is a bit pricey? A 2013, 2014 and even 2015 Nissan LEAFs can be had for $9-11K. I just bought a 2015 Nissan LEAF (S trim) which adds many of the features of the higher SV trim from 2013/2014. Total price at 26k miles? $11,200 (with tax and fees in CA).

Not a solution for the long distance folks, but for my 46 mile round-trip commute, I can charge each evening on 110 and don't worry about going out to dinner or other side trips I want to add to my day.
Giphy sucks as a business. How anyone could invest in it beyond a seed valuation is absolutely beyond me.
I dream of the day all logins are just simple tokens. Either sent through email, or SMS. So sick of passwords. I've used other Passwordless libraries on a few projects, and it's almost cathartic.
It seems that you misunderstood me, probably my fault. It's not a question of humanity. Treating labor just like any other good is terribly naive. How economy works is much more complex since good salaries feed the demand while a huge mass of poor people near the level of societal exclusion will cause unrest and problems for everybody. See Venezuela, not so long ago one of the richest countries of the subcontinent. It's in the best interest of middle classes to have a decent social net, specially considering you never know what the future holds for yourself.
Are you that easily impressed by old wine (pun intended) in new bottles?

What happens when you have that fancy desktop tabletoid thing configured as an easel and you use some non-touch, legacy application? On real touch devices, you never have to change out of touch mode.
The really big ones (Google, FB, MSFT) are building their own hardware. The typical enterprise data centers are buying of the shelf components. Whether there is space in the middle to establish another hardware vendor remains to be seen. Low price means low margin. And a big part of money is captured by Intel. And the market is not growing so much. But then I'm not a business insider.
> especially since California is so worker-friendly on everything else

Are there no tech jobs outside California?
What does that have to do with a non-browser interpreter? I think you might've responded to the wrong post.
A deep-learning system to alert companies before litigation
This entire things reads like Teddy KGB (John Malkovich's character in Rounders) wrote it.
They have a keyboard app which is probably the better call.
giphy.com/partners
The computer already has a fantastic dynamic display built in—the display. Your eyes even naturally fall there. Why do we need a second display at all, much less on the keyboard where people do not look?
25,000 miles is about 300 full cycle recharges for a Leaf.

That is definitely the cycle number where you'll start to see a capacity drop, but 25% still seems very high for that range.

First and 2nd gen batteries will generally have to be replaced around 600 +-10% cycles. It's 'normal' for all pure EV vehicles - so the durability of the battery pack is directly proportional to its capacity.
Belgium's reactor is old (1974) and was planned to be shutdown. To my understanding, nothing serious has happened there, the plant is just following normal precautions because of a motor failure. Isn't it rather encouraging sign that safety protocols are followed?

Furthermore, if people didn't oppose new reactors as vehemently as they do, there would be less pressure to continue lifetime of the old ones
I'm working with four of them as build minions for a project. We support both Power and Z as platforms (as well as x86_64)

I suspect the reason we're building software for them is someone is using it. I know Hyperledger is supported on Bluemix to some degree.
Show HN: Need for Type a terminal typeracer
"Behind" feels like the wrong term, but you're definitely holding yourself back.

The good thing about SASS (or, well, SCSS, which is what you would want to use) is that it integrates directly with CSS, so you can start utilizing it in your existing CSS files without having to convert the stylesheets to SCSS. You would just need to run those files through the preprocessor.

There's a lot to learn and a lot you can do, but you can always start with the simple stuff (such as using variables to collect all color codes in one place, etc), and gradually introduce more SASS code as you learn about it and have the time to implement it.
Cloudflare doesn't cache all that much.

If your goal is to minimize bandwidth costs, you can throw together your own agressively caching CDNs on bargain basement hosts, though, and use a more expensive CDN or something like S3 as fallback (DNS with short TTL; it has all kinds of problems, but it's better than bankrupting yourself on high bandwidth until you have sufficient traffic to justify more elaborate cost reduction schemes).

Once you reach sufficient scale: multihomed dedicated servers + peering wherever you have enough traffic. Or negotiated with various CDN providers while letting them know you've done the maths on your own dedicated setup.