skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft was never in a prime position to succeed in Mobile. I'm not sure why you think this, but it's probably related to their European market share numbers that placed them close to iOS market share numbers in certain markets. What people, that use these insignificant metrics, fail to realize is that these market share numbers were composed of cheap devices that had very little, if any, margin. In fact, Microsoft was probably losing money by selling all of those cheap devices for less than what it cost to make them.

Microsoft lost Billions in mobile and never were able to gain any traction with their platform. There comes a time when you need to stop the bleeding and move on. Only a fool would continue pumping resources and money into a venture which has never returned a profit or market share.
Apparently you can get to 86% by just covering urban areas.

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS
Do you walk around with an effective pollution mask?

One that helps you avoid pollution but doesn't make you look like Bane from the Dark Knight Rises?

Please send me a link, thanks.
You told me to stop gaslighting you and denying reality. I'm stopping now. My only agenda is complying with your eminently reasonable request.
All the major browsers perform well enough for the great majority of users. For me the differentiator is privacy with regard to the browser vendor and websites I visit, and for that I trust only Mozilla because of their mission and track record (and I use some add-ons).

I've read that Chrome is more secure, in terms of integrity when attacked, which of course can help privacy (i.e., confidentiality). I've read that it's due to Chrome's security model, but I'd be interested if someone would be willing to describe it in more detail.
A lot of it is historical. What rkt added conceptually when it was introduced was 1) a spec and test suite, 2) signed/content-addressable images and first class third party repos, 3) not running everything under a single daemon.

Since then, Docker has improved quite a bit on these so the most in your face practical differences are smaller, but there are still philosophical differences that affects it.

E.g. rkt comes out of CoreOS. CoreOS does a lot around embracing systemd to its full extent. Systemd can provide a lot of the capabilities that Docker did itself, and parts of rkt's design flows from that. E.g. restarting, querying status, capturing the logs, so in a systemd based system, Docker integrated fairly poorly in that systemd would be starting and keeping track of a Docker client rather than the process actually controlling the container, while rkt fits right in.

Again, the difference is getting smaller, and various tools like runc etc. from Docker now allows you narrow the gap even more (if you put in extra effort).

Try both, basically - they're similar enough that it's worth figuring out which "flavor" you like best.
>Really great news! But something that shouldn't be overlooked is the discounts they gave in Q3 to push deliveries up.

Elon stressed in the call that they did not give significant discounts, and the few that did happen were not to be repeated.
New models of cars come out every year. It seems something easy to be unsympathetic about; Nostradamus could have predicted that new cars with new features are right around the corner. That's the perpetual status quo.
One important thing to note for people reading this is that hyperactivity doesn't always persist into adulthood with the other symptoms or is greatly reduced and is often turned inward (mental fidgeting).

As far as your firings go, if you haven't watched this video and/or read this doctor's books they really help with understanding exactly what you're dealing with: https://youtu.be/SCAGc-rkIfo

It's long but worth watching at faster playback speed and in manageable chunks. Key takeaways: "Attention deficit" is less of a symptom and more of a measurable consequence of other symptoms: Impaired inhibition/impulse control, excessive irrelevant activity and impaired persistence (think discipline). Once you understand why you fail you can start addressing or working around your gaps, particularly the ones that any medication you may be on fail to address.
These exist and they are called "bar type displays" and are usually used for gate information in train terminals.

NEC has a fairly inexpensive one that you can buy on amazon for $675[1]:

Nec Display Multisync X431bt Digital Signage Display

... however the resolution is relatively low - 1920x480

There are others that are in the 4k range but I can't find the link right now ...

[1] http://www.necdisplay.com/p/large-screen-displays/x431bt?typ...
Thanks, I didn't remember the amount of days right; I thought it was a ban on longer rentals also. I'm glad that sublets aren't affected; that significantly changes my perspective on the law. It basically invalidates Airbnb's business model but changes nothing for preexisting common arrangements, such as month-long sublets. I appreciate your response.

> The only thing that's happened here is that the other strategy, the Silicon Valley end-around of just breaking the law and seeing what happened, has proven to be an ineffective means of changing policy. Good.

I think the outcome is a bit more nuanced than that. The lesson to be learned in this situation is that Airbnb provided terrible curation of its service while being instrumental in renters breaking the law. I don't think it's universally a bad idea to break laws one doesn't agree with, especially if they carried no significant consequences for all stakeholders involved.

Because Airbnb failed at its curation, the state of New York added teeth to the existing law. I still maintain that the primary use case for Airbnb, the sporadic rental, is a useful one for both guests and owners. The Airbnb rentals I've used in the past were mutually beneficial. Maybe I'm an outlier because I used the rental for non-malicious purposes.
> That's part of a chapter of the book called Minimizing Control Structures.

Since the book is creative commons and freely available, I decided to download the book and have a look. Figure 8.1, the "automatic teller" example is just downright hilarious. The author presents the code and throws a challenge at the reader: "Easy to read? Tell me under what condition the user’s card gets eaten." Here's the code:

IF card is valid DO
IF card owner is valid DO
IF request withdrawal DO
IF authorization code is valid DO
query for amount
IF request <= current balance DO
IF withdrawal <= available cash DO
vend currency
debit account
ELSE
message
terminate session
ELSE
message
terminate session
ELSE
message
terminate session
ELSE
IF authorization code is valid DO
query for amount
accept envelope through hatch
credit account
ELSE
message
terminate session
ELSE
eat card
ELSE
message
END

(hopefully no transcription errors from copying out of the PDF…)

Yes, it's easy. It gets eaten if the owner is not valid. Took one glance.

The thing that makes me laugh is that the example is contrived. This is the sort of thing code editors solve. Even though I could quickly glance at it and decipher the conditionals by eye, if I were working with this I'd still throw it into an editor that shows me code scope. That makes it trivial and removes any chance of error. This is a problem that has been solved.

I'm sure I will get a lot of responses saying I've missed the point, and yes I'm aware that I've dodged it, but the author acts like the problem of navigating nested conditionals is somehow impossible, which I think is ridiculous. Not only do lots people do it every day, not only are there tools that help us do so, but there's pretty much no way to exist in this world without depending on software that is written this way (ever looked at the source for GCC, to pick one example?) Not saying it's right, but it's clearly not a deadly problem.
Even restricting to the definition of their market to smartphones, you can see the market is growing. To have _shrinking_ revenue in this growing market is a bad sign. https://www.statista.com/statistics/412145/global-smartphone...

I define Apple's market more broadly as internet connected devices, which is much larger and poised to grow much faster than smartphones alone. That Apple's revenue is declining given this broad definition of their market is an even worse sign.
step one: grope everyone you see
You didn't address the comment above this. What phone number did you use?
That's where the competition will come in handy. Docker Inc has its own corporate goals. Luckily, they are decoupling the underlying components more and more.
> Have you ever been to NYC?

I've lived in NYC for most of my adult life. Do you live in NYC?

The homicide rate has declined, but it is still 3 times that of London, per-capita. Moreover, there are other threats besides homicide.

People who want affordable hotels can go to Union City, NJ for $60 a night (Priceline) 15 minutes by transit from Times Square.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12800643 and marked it off-topic.
Why was this title changed? The fact that they shut down with 5 days notice is pretty significant in my opinion. ( @dang ?)
Main developer here, feel free to ask any questions ! We'd love your feedback :)
Wait, so every time someone makes a citation on wikipedia it causes Archive.org to archive that URL? This seems like it could be abused by a malicious agent, no?
Zen and the Art of Surviving India's Startup Crash
It's similar to iPhones, countless complaints yet those same people keep buying them.
I suspect it has something to do with
a) The programmer not actually using the software they create. They end up spending time trying to understand the domain.
b) The programmer uses the software they create and wants it to do everything (see also Second System Effect, Zawinski's Law/Law of Software Envelopment).
c) The programmer expects components to work as documented.
So here you say:

> Let me be clear- I have been to many, many world class art galleries.

Yet you claimed:

>No, never. I just asked about it because I heard the term once a long time ago, but to be honest I'm note even sure what an oil painting is.

and asked:

>Is it like the same thing they put in engines to make them run smoothly?

Src: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12800067

How does claim to one visit "many, many world class art galleries" yet not know what an oil painting is?

I think you're just trolling now.
What's a good resource on how to do this? How does the "income" part actually come back to you? Do you sell a little stock each month?
Creating to solutions to nonexistent problems is a cornerstone of the electronics industry. Nobody ever needed an iPod. Apple didn't become the most valuable brand in history by selling people things they needed.

“It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.”
— Steve Jobs
That's how it is pronounced also in Italian. Gn is a digraph, pronounced like ñ in Spanish. The g is not silent, as it is part of the digraph.
What makes you say these students are intelligent?
Why would they do that? Why post profits?
Separating yourself from people with differing views doesn't do either side good. It actively works to reinforce an "Us vs Them" mentality. Instead of speaking to each other, you speak past one another. Two groups unable to communicate with words tend to eventually resort to weapons to "get the other side to understand".

On some level - I think it is fine to choose your social contacts. Taken to extreme, as many people seem to do on social media, filters your social bubble to only "Other Yous". I feel doing that actively harmful to one's self. Stifling their own view of the world and limiting it only to the parts they agree with. Nobody is saying you should go grab a beer with Peter Thiel. It is better to try and understand each other's opinions, even if you disagree, than to demonize or dehumanize anyone for their beliefs.

The line between "Those people are violent and dangerous and I wouldn't save their lives if I could" to "Those people should be rounded up and killed for the benefit of everyone else" has been historically thin and often crossed. If they're such bad people, does the world really need them? It's an easy and rational conclusion to make if you truly believe it.

One person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter and all that. It's better to understand the other viewpoint than to assert that it is wrong, simply for "being wrong".
> Please value the safety of children, the elderly, and women.

Why only them?
> If you want to know the maximum load of a bridge, you don't drive progressively larger trucks over it until it collapses then rebuild the bridge

For most of human history, we basically did this. Bridges have only become very reliable in the past 100 years or so. Before that, bridges collapsed very regularly and people were very wary about going over a newly built bridge.
Would have been good to see Safari and Opera in the assessment too.
If you think nobody will have much motive to run a very sophisticated / expensive attack on you specifically (e.g. Spotify), then self-hosted is great. You won't be taken out as collateral damage when they're targeting someone else.
I like the way that this article itself is an example of its own main subject (using articles like this to drive SEO for instapainting).
I don't think anyone was arguing the data that the final evaluation is based on should not be open.

The point is that the intermediate drafts of the evaluation itself do not need to be public and it's fair to deliberately keep them in the circle of people who are working on it or reviewing it.
Most binaries run really well. A lot of the stuff that didn't work in the first preview has since been fixed (like tmux, 24bit colors in bash etc.).
Plus you can now call linux apps from windows with bash -c and call exes from bash which makes cross platform development amazing.
Authentication & anonymity are only not provided under your particular system. An in-person voting system, with unmarked ballots being delivered only after authentication by the election officials, do provide both features.

And what cryptographic system provides a proof that your vote is counted for the total?
You should watch his interview with Charlie Rose.

He's not your usual corporate leader, but there's an unmistakable intellect in the way he articulates himself which must work for both leading this particular workforce as well as selling to this particular customer base.
Everyone should listen to Dan Carlin's amazing Hardcore History series on Genghis Khan: http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-43-wrath-o...

He makes a case for not just Kahn and his descendants being a huge factor in history, but for every ruler who has gone in and shaken up the foundations of civilization through conquest. Khan, Alexander and Napoleon are prime examples given (and I'm avoiding another key example but you'll know who it is if you listen to the podcast). He speculates that at various times in history, civilization stalled out, but these rulers came in and got things moving again simply by clearing entire parts away and making room for new ideas and new forms of government. Its a fascinating theory and I think this data corroborates that.
I would second that question. I just tried and it takes exactly 4 taps to capture and send a photo or video to someone else on Snapchat for Android (I'm fairly certain the UI is the same on iOS).
Yeah, these all desperately need to start at 0. The magnitude of the differences in a lot of these really don't matter much.
Measures to increase transparency, accountability and integrity in the EU
WSL is still in very early beta. It works amazingly well when you consider how early this project is.

Windows NT has done a good job supporting multiple APIs/subsystems in the past. Windows NT for example does a perfectly good job with the Win32 subsystem - software targeting Win32 for '95, '98, etc. still works on Windows 10, perfectly, despite being a totally different kernel.
> I still maintain that the primary use case for Airbnb, the sporadic rental, is a useful one for both guests and owners

Indeed. But it's not nearly as good for Airbnb's business model.
Until Pete Townsend gets a medical degree I'm disinclined to just take his word for it.
> I work for a legal software company so I can tell you that there are still lawyers practicing now who cannot use computers almost at all despite being very smart people.

Don't they have to type reports or briefs while in law school using Word? Don't they have to use WestLaw and other search programs in law school? Don't they buy things on Amazon? Search for articles in Wikipedia?

> so it just seems to me that she didn't really understand the situation....

There were people telling her not to use the private server. Moreover, I think almost anyone working for government would understand that official Secretary of State business belongs on government emails and servers and not an email server in one's home with private email addresses.

She was doing what she was doing so she could delete the emails so that people could not do Freedom of Information Act requests.
I'm no sound engineer, but intuitively the design of the AirPods slightly exacerbates noise cancellation issues by:

a) Placing the microphone further from a person's mouth, or at least, removing the option for people to hold a wired microphone close to their mouth;

b) Significantly reducing the distance between microphone and speaker.
You missed another, big reason: "Fewer, simpler moving parts" is the main reason I would prefer if Kubernetes could run without Docker as a container runtime.

At the moment, Kubelet needs to control the Docker daemon (a somewhat brittle relationship), and a bunch of concepts — from networking to volume management — could be simplified by making the container runtime more K8s-specific and less general-purpose. A tighter coupling would also mean you'd always be running K8s against the exact container logic it was made for, as opposed to now, where the loose coupling means you'll be subject to bugs (and there are so many) in new Docker versions.

That and the fact that Docker is increasingly building in competing concepts (services, etc.) via swarm mode, which I don't care for.

Docker still has a place for things like image building, of course.
It's an analogy designed for an inappropriate level of emotional impact, rather than to clarify a relationship between two things. It's a valid analogy, but a misbalanced one.
In my case, "organic information about the company" is off-topic and of negative value to actual performance of my duties. In my experience, most companies are that way - all the gnosis is just just-so stories about how people think things work. It's exactly Moneyball.

I spend more time debunking that with them in real time than I really have to spare. In very nearly every case, what this is is a set of myths that people use to "move up the organization." The problem is - it only works very rarely.

I would be just fine with a dedicated 2-hour socializing interval per week. Don't get me wrong, I can stand and BS all day with the best of 'em. The problem is that it's fundamentally venal and I lose respect for my cow-orkers that way.

"But you sound like an a.....e." Perhaps, but I'm still doing this 32 years later and all the people who played politics who are my age are either burned out or sold out. Which, selling out is really the point of the corporate exercise, but I like the work.

It's just boring. It's boring watching people trying to outshine each other. The people who are REALLY GOOD don't really even have to try - they have to have discipline and make their version of the thing work, but competition really isn't about exciting horse races that are a hair apart - really good people are just really good. The smart money is about letting the really good rise. But absolutely nobody likes that.

And frankly, if you're out of work, I'm out of there.
Even if you use none of these things directly, other people's use of them affects you. Electrified transport benefits everyone, even people who never use it. Same for energy storage.
> Perhaps, long from now, they might quote internet comments from sites like HN like we quote the Greek philosophers. "cmdrfred the elder once said..."

Or Talmudic claims of authority in Judaism:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22taught+in+the+name+of+rabbi%22&...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22said+in+the+name+of+rabbi%22&ia...

Muslim ahadith also have the phenomenon of the chain of narration where people declare the provenance of the teaching:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadith_studies#Sanad_and_matn
Yeah. And why is there always a man asking for a ticket at movie theaters?
That's some pretty optimistic thinking. Unfortunately, you just don't come back into a market after getting beaten badly and exiting with your tail between your legs. They have no developer support and UWP has, for the most part, been a failure if you judge its lack of adoption as a metric - where exactly are all of the UWP apps?

As for Microsoft "striking" when they get the software right - I couldn't tell if you were joking or not. There's nothing that Microsoft could ever announce that would ever make them relevant in mobile.
Every since they made "do no evil" their position, it seems that evil has been redefined from "profoundly immoral and malevolent" to "anything I don't really like, even if it only slightly harms someone else's position".
This has bugged me for some time now, but how does an artist like Beyonce know about the "black struggle" in America? She's indeed black, she is an American and she lives there, but judging from half a world away it seems that she lives in a parallel universe compared to what black people who are poor experience day-to-day by living in the States.
That is one strategy, but i have chosen to undercut the competition instead since I don't think paying them more would increase quality.
Are there any perspectives you can share with respect to SEO and client-side React?
Microsoft goes all in on VR
You can already just tell archive.org to archive a URL. How would this be different?
Does anyone know what MIT wants out of the funds it invests? Also, what rights does its faculty have on their inventions? Same question for entrepreneurs who work with MIT?
That's exactly right - the decision is made on status lines instead on practical consideration. And it's not the sort of "status" HN'ers prefer :)
No, David Mamet meets SiVa :)
Famous last words. Reminds me of the old adage: "640k of memory is all that anybody with a computer would ever need."

I already know a lot of younger folks that are pumped about the Snapchat glasses...

(I'm not saying you're wrong... I just wouldn't make such steadfast predictions about the future either. But then again, I don't understand SnapChat and am not their target audience.)
Canadian police will text cellphones that pinged tower near homicide
To show that they can. Many are (were?) skeptical that Tesla could ever make money, even with healthy sales. The intent here is to increase investor confidence by proving that wrong.
1000x this. Pretty much sums up my experience with Docker so far.

Great concept, poor execution.
The original /bin/true and /bin/false, if the claim in http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2016-July/019657.... ("the original implementation of /bin/true was a zero-length file, while /bin/false worked by not existing at al") is true.

gnu hello, a hello world that, in over 7500 bytes of C, supports --help, --version, a --traditional flag that changes "Hello, world!" to "hello, world", --greeting to completely change the greeting, and localization, and correctly sets its exit code if writing of the message fails.
If I Could Do It Over Again: How I Would Become a Digital Nomad
Terry Davis SimStructure project
GraphQL First: an architecture for modern apps
The Twitter Paradox: How a Platform Designed for Free Speech Enables Trolls