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I'm not against text underneath, just the sense logic needs to get much better with dev tools. it's like we're ignoring our own needs :] intellij + eclipse (worse), and that old model of an IDE requires too much elbow wringing and imo never sense's the right stuff to really groove with my work. there's more that could come with ai/ml for tooling, and hopefully soon.
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Looks like they learned from the US.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/26/ukraine.usa

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/12/head-stratfor-private...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Syria#War.2C...
A lot of these problems can be solved with a combination of telemetry, limited scope rollout, and an emergency abort procedure.
The problem we have is that we're trying to store JSON provided by the user. Meaning that we need to persist empty strings provided by them. The only way I can see around this issue is to replace all empty strings with a special string token on the way in, and replace all those special string tokens on the way out.
The iPod took a few generations to become that instant success we remember it as being.
Oracle cannot store empty strings (they are treated as NULL).
This is (was) very common in database systems. Many don't distinguish empty string from NULL. Example: http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSZJPZ_11.5.0/com...

As a workaround, if the database supports unicode, then store a "zero width space" for a blank string.
I can't add anything profound, but I will say that 40+ years ago I camped at Disney's Ft. Wilderness campground, with all my many brothers and sisters. The electric trams had a routine schedule that came around and stopped almost in front of your campsite, all of kids would simply jump on, go to anywhere in the park like the stores, the showers, the outdoor theater, and hop off again. It was incredibly liberating and fun, our parents didn't have to be involved, we could go where and when we wanted. It was fun. I know, childishly silly, right? Just a way of getting people around a big place? Also called a Bus? No, not really as buses don't go where all the people live. Transportation was a critical part of Disney's attempt at showing how his futuristic communities would work. Now whether those specific trams were directly part of that, I dunno. But it did make your community activities, events, places, much larger and much more accessible, efficiently, and no worries on parking, maintenance. I have never forgotten that feeling of ease and efficiency of movement and freedom, and I saw that promise echoed in the Waymo video.
He discovered that a lot of the time, the people whose calm rational-seeming posts he was occasionally sticking up for were really just taking pleasure in needling HN with edgy race and gender baiting. It was a disappointment.

The 620 default rate is on the very next page after the one you cited.
I started playing with kubernetes today and used minikube! Thanks for building it!
Some other organic acids are already made by bacterial fermentation. It's standard practice for lactic acid, and an uncommon method for succinic acid.

More information: http://www.nnfcc.co.uk/publications/nnfcc-renewable-chemical...
http://www.nnfcc.co.uk/publications/nnfcc-renewable-chemical...
Maybe you missed something but I guess this is why you guys are so angry about this.

Because it IS an entry into a nascent market. Apple sees this as a new IO device, not a "pair of fucking headphones".

Take a look at the specs
No to mention the pristine UX of the "call failed" screens. Ugh. I love Slack, don't get me wrong, but the calls fail to connect about 50% of the time for me when I'm connected to my work VPN. Work VPN seems fast for everything else, just Slack calls crap out while using it... I don't have the same problems with Skype or Google Hangouts -- opened tickets with Slack and was told, "Don't use a VPN with our service..." Uh... cool, right, will get on changing my work policy around this. =P
When I lived in downtown San Diego, I felt sorry for the car people. Some streets are one way only and some parking is two hours only, etc. If you aren't extremely familiar, it can be a nightmare to try to figure out where to park and then find your way back to the building you are going to.

And then one day I realized some of the buildings were multi story parking structures and it kind of made me mad. So much of the city infrastructure is whored out to the needs of arrogant, obtuse car people, very much at the expense of everyone. It brings quality of life down and cost of living up for absolutely everyone because of people wanting the right to drive their own damn car everywhere, no exceptions.

And I stopped looking on them with pity or sympathy and started looking on them as parasites who totally deserved whatever small misery they were inflicting on themselves with driving around, looking for parking. But I did not deserve the misery they were inflicting on me with things like worse air pollution.
In terms of communication, I think the end game is a Las Vegas/Audi style centralized system of traffic negotiation and communication.

But that's an obvious chicken or egg problem that has unrealistic solutions like making sure everyone starts driving a networked car at all once.
Why did they not make the charging port USB C?

I feel like a lot of this mess with needing a different dongle and special wire for each product would have been less of a big deal if everything they did just moved to USB C all at the same time. Now if you want to charge your air pods with a macbook pro you need a cable to go from usb C to thunderbolt (not included) or an adapter to use the previous-gen-usb to lightening cable it does come with.

It feels to me like the different product development teams at Apple didn't communicate with each other at all w.r.t. what ports to use.
The one and only goal of any and all pre-university education in China is NCEE[1].

NCEE is an exam, which means you get one shot, offline, off books.

Now imagine you need to write a website, with pen and paper, without internet or reference books.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Higher_Education_Entr...
Good news/bad news for 5. Try backing up and restoring. It's a huge pain and shouldn't be required, but it does tend to fix outlier issues.

A friend has a 16gb iPhone and has managed to deal with that little space until just recently. She'd run out of space completely, I'd hand-update apps one-at-a-time trying to free up temp download space. Deleted her local music. A few weeks later deleted her local photos. iMessage claimed 1gb of space, it's a little opaque and manual to clean delete things. I finally convinced her to delete all messages older than 1 year. She got 500mb back. The next day her phone was full again without an obvious reason. Backed up her phone and restored. Everything seems to be there and now she has 5+gb free.

I was having the battery issue they're fixing the 6s for. Because I knew they'd ask I restored my phone (and grabbed yesterdays update because that had a fix related to this, too). It seems to be fixed as well by restoring.

...but all of this is souring me on Apple. I wish I was more confident about other options.
Yes, the new Messages app annoys me.
If only they came with some sort of lanyard...
Regarding emergency vehicles, found this, but haven't seen videos of it actually in action http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20160252905.pdf
If this comment made sense to someone else who could rephrase it for me, I'd be grateful.
I own one now because there is no decent public transport in Dallas. I would sell it in a heartbeat if we have better public transport or if Ride Sharing services (with human drivers or autonomous) get cheaper.
Do you really think the companies building autonomous cars haven't thought about all these things? They may not have solved them yet (If they had, we've probably see their products on the road) but I'm sure it's in progress.
Not necessarily - they don't specify arcane magic. They could be using divine casters like priests or druids.
Are they looking to just push units? If so that strategy might work for a while. But many of us are under the impression they are looking to build an ecosystem, and the hardware is just a replaceable component to that (with plenty of competition).

I feel like the concerns were more around what that ecosystem was going to be like, than the viability and or cool factor of the hardware itself. (i.e. just because I was an early adopter of a dk2 does not mean I am on board with Oculus for the long run).
I worked on a team that built a SAAS/Intranet product in Domino in 1998[1]. We built called "involv" which was basically like Basecamp. All of it was done in Notes using the webviews, etc. Back then, we had to deal with a total lack of web standards, etc. We hosted the SAAS version of the product at a telco in the US.

It's crazy for me to think back to those times. I remember when someone came around the office saying "Hey check out this new cool thing called Futuresplash" and that product would end up becoming known as Macromedia Flash.

[1] https://books.google.ca/books?id=jlIEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA52&lpg=PA...
The .zip spec is flawed, but…
I've never had an issue with extracting or using a .zip file

I'd suggest this is thanks to most software following (to some extent) the robustness principal: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept.

Most of us will typically encounter fairly well packaged, conforming zip files. Occasionally we may come across something unanticipated - like this example, where HTML content is accidentally appended to the end of a zip file - and I suspect this is where we will find ambiguous behaviour: some package tools may crash, others might "extract" it as though it were content, others might ignore it.

It's this area of ambiguity that lends itself to vulnerabilities and attacks.

Re: physical engineering, I'd recommend a great book: "To Engineer Is Human". It talks about the evolution of engineering, which is a surprising amount of trial and error, with emphasis on the error.
> One thing I have learned in my cross-cultural experience is that Americans, British, and to some extent Australians heavily abuse sarcasm and cultural references.[1]

> [1] I suspect Germany and maybe even France might be similar in that regard. I doubt the phenomenon is unique to Anglophone countries; it's probably partly a function of modern Western culture. But the nature of English probably plays a part, too. Anyone care to confirm or contest?

The British make more use of sarcasm or irony than the Germans on average, I think this is were the stereotype that Germans have no humour originates. Still sarcasm is used here quite a lot, too, the Germans just have a harder time witching contexts. I have read an interview with a British guy living in Germany once (unfortunately forgot who it was) and he noticed in Germany, humour almost always is presented by some sort of a clown, so the audience can switch easier.
Yup, Chrome does that for me, too. But I find firefox's UI just...so fucking awful. And the dev tools are simply inferior. Need chrome, if only Apple would pay attention to user needs.
If you are not creating your own info product, what is the viability of a decent monthly income stream from selling an info product that someone else created?
> I think you overestimate how willing someone is to sit in a small car with 3 other strangers

Why not just keep your partition up between you and the other passengers? Because no human driver needs visibility out all of the windows, you can split the car into private spaces. When no driver is needed, it opens up a lot of different configurations.
This limitation should be in a giant alert at the top of all DynamoDB documentation. They are being misleading in their documentation:

> A map is similar to a JSON object. There are no restrictions on the data types that can be stored in a map element, and the elements in a map do not have to be of the same type.

> Maps are ideal for storing JSON documents in DynamoDB. The following example shows a map that contains a string, a number, and a nested list that contains another map.
This is wonderful! Thanks Austen. A very scientific step-by-step approach to getting PR. I will use this for getting press for my soon to launch 'side project'. I would also encourage all other HN readers who consider themselves to be 'I'm just the coder' to read this when launching your apps, side-projects.

Thanks again!
~Sean
VR/AR headset with positional tracking for iPhones
Beats X which are wireless too seem to have a cool solution for keeping them close to the user - there is a cable which stays behind the neck. As well, you can magnetically clip them together. And... get them in red - much easier to find!

I like the idea of AirPods. Unfortunately, my main concern though is that I will use them two or three times during rush hours in London, bump into a couple people on the tube and they'll be gone.
Only screen sharing and a dark theme are missing. Then it has everything I want as a developer.
Hm, you may want to revisit how you preview the results. The 'cards layout' isn't well suited for scanning/comparing multiple options from an ordered list[1]. It removes a clear hierarchy which is the primary directive that a search engine provides (ranking queried content in a list).

I get that it's trying to be different, but it's going against what the users are trying to accomplish. Would be interesting running tests on this for certain query types getting certain layouts, etc. Anyway, good luck!

[1] https://www.nngroup.com/articles/cards-component/
With a huge fleet of self-driving cars, there would be enough capacity to have permanently configured cars for child seats, bike racks, dog areas, etc.

eg. "I need a 4wd vehicle for 2 adults and 2 bikes to take me to X park at 10am tomorrow."
"...develop and synchronize government initiatives to expose and counter foreign information operations directed against U.S. national security interests and advance fact-based narratives that support U.S. allies and interests"

This sounds suspiciously close to an official propaganda department. Anything that does not conform to the government narrative will be deemed a foreign information operation.
A lot of config files are already trivial for the computer to parse (by design). Most config files even follow a loose standard of some sort (e.g. INI, which is a sort of key-value system).

Would it not be easier to keep this format, and then add some integration into your favorite text editor that prevents you from accidentally editing the INI keys, or warns if you create a syntax error, etc? You could even make a generic INI gui editor that replaces appropriate values with checkboxes, sliders, etc.

I guess I don't see much wrong with the formats for most config files, but if you insist that there is a problem, and the problems you've outlined are caused only when editing them, then why not change the editor and preserve the format?

(That cron problem does sound bad though)
Well, the US lost the top guy in machine learning, Andrew Ng. In the US, he was a professor at Stanford, not even the head of the department, with a few grad students. Now he's Chief Scientist and VP at Baidu.
CSV is a great example of this phenomenon. There is a "spec" RFC4180 and there are tools that generate CSV files that do not technically conform to the spec. One such tool is Excel. For most users, Excel is doing the right thing. Blaming Excel for not handling CSV files according to the spec is passing the buck. The CSV tools that are worth using generally take great pains to work with Excel files at the cost of some ideological purity.

IMHO it's a reflection of the software developers involved. The best tools, the ones we turn to time and time again, generally just work.
This is exactly what I meant by apple pushing their own agenda instead of making user experience the priority.

They are pushing this new notification thing which is pretty out of touch with how people actually use the phone--they think interacting directly from the notification is how people want to use it, when most people feel claustrophobic and would rather see the whole thing before making any action--and because of this, it introduces another step for people who just want to open the app and do the damn work
Your original post that I wanted to reply to walk flagged so ill do so here.

You might like this lecture by Alan Watts:

>While there are indeed individuals who are certainly able to perform psychotherapy, it is the sheerest arrogance for anybody to say that he is officially qualified to do so. We do not know how it is done, just as we do no know how musical, literary, and artistic genius is done.

Alan Watts - Western Psychology vs World Religions

https://youtu.be/-LzJlTCaV9U
The point is that we are far far further away than commonly accepted. The day a computer can distinguish between a plastic bag in the road and a child is the day I'd support them on the road.
First, rule of silence has nothing to do with plain text. It applies to any human-machine interface including GUI and physical knobs.

Second, you are right about structured data and all. The only thing is that it's either impossible or extremely hard to achieve. Many have tried, all of them failed. Windows now has a mix of registry, file and database configs which is a nightmare and is much worse than any unix. AIX has smitty and other config management solutions which are a bitch to work with if you want something non-trivial. Solaris is heading this direction (actually it's heading to the grave but it's another story) and it's also not nice. There are a lot of other OSes and programs which tried to do it but failed.

This is much like with democracy: it's a terrible form of ruling, too bad we have nothing better. This is exactly what's up with unix configs and data formats. It is possible to make some fancy format and tools which will achieve it's goal for like 80% of the time. But it will cause huge amount of pain in the ass in the rest 20% and this is where it will be ignored and you'll end up with a mix of two words which is worse than one.
Why not vultr. Between these vultr is the only host that actually let's you install from your own media.
Stickers are more than something to sell to consumers - They can be advertisements used to target a gaming audience. Skype and Facebook have done this, offering free sticker packs for upcoming movies (e.g. Inside Out). A pack of stickers or a theme featuring characters from a game like Overwatch could potentially bring in revenue from both Blizzard and players.
Not really. That section is about "simplicity". Microservices can be more complicated, but they shorten the feedback loop and reduce hand-offs.
Spoofed brilliantly in this skit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYu_bGbZiiQ
This would not fix the problem. The issue is that there is extra content after the comment (for what we know there could be no comment at all, actually). The library expected the comment to end right at the end of the file.
They released a video a month later (3 weeks ago) with a much more challenging route:

https://www.tesla.com/videos/autopilot-self-driving-hardware...
Indeed. I'm the seemingly rare creature who was able and willing to jump through all the IRC hoops but can still understand the people who maybe can't but certainly won't.
These issues could mostly be solved by the car having a "remote control" where an expert in a remote immersive environment could take manual control of the car for a few seconds to resolve whatever the problem is.

Now you've reduced all your problems down to simply "identify problem and alert a remote human".

If each of those problems only happen once per day, and they are resolved in 30 seconds, it's going to cost only about $30 per car per year to have that remote expert on hand.
That seems like a convenient way to get away with libel. My real name is so common that every state likely has a person with the same name and surname with a criminal record. There was another person with my name at my high school. There is another person with my name at my current employer. In the past, there were three people with my name in the corporate email directory.

With credit reporting, if a company gives you less than their best offer as a result of derogatory information on your credit report, they are obligated to furnish you with a copy of it at their expense.

So you might understand why I might like to know if a company is passing me over for consideration because of information given them by a third party that I cannot see, verify, or rebut. I have zero faith that companies that perform background checks never make mistakes.

That confidentiality clause for background check reports is ethically similar (but less vile) to a clause in a murder contract that requires the payer and the murderer to keep the existence of the contract secret from everyone, particularly the intended victim. You can't contract your way out of culpability for libel.

Besides that, they were the ones that told me to go pound sand just because I wouldn't give them carte blanche permission to investigate me.
Huh, I expected some useful information about making pull requests ...
A self driving truck doesn't have to go 60mph to be as cost efficient as a human driven truck. They could be governed at 45 mph and still come out way ahead and cause far less damage if something does go wrong.
I don't use either editor, but just out of curiosity, what functionality is in Sublime that Vim is missing? Multiple cursors? Certain plugins?
One thing that I've always wondered about tonal languages is whether they would be easier for musicians to learn (especially if they have perfect pitch) than for non-musicians.
Append all strings with a zero width space, and remove it on the way out.
I saw an uber car covered in a crazy amount of sensors a couple of days ago on Van Ness avenue... There was a human driver, so I assumed it was mapping the environment, but it might have been a test vehicle; it looked similar to the pictures of the autonomous cars in Pittsburg.
There is an issue of POC|GTFO that discusses zip frankenfiles.
If you've only got one AP, or a small number of them, you don't even need the Java-based management controller.

Ubiquiti now has an iOS/Android app that can be used to do basic setup of the APs, and once they're configured, they "just work".
If you look at it from a business perspective, it's much more efficient to smuggle stronger drugs. The problem is that Illegal drugs do not have the same quality control as regulated medicine, when one is 50 times stronger small mistakes are deadly.

There's no easy solution for opiate addicts if they want to get high. I do think law and society need to view/ treat addiction has a health issue rather than criminal.

The biggest problem I've had with my medicine is from Naproxen (a NSAID), for around a year I suffered from Iron deficiency anaemia (I was prescribed Iron supplements to try and mask the issue), I still lost a lot of weight and more severe bleeding. To the extent that a different doctor was so concerned she wanted to rush me to hospital. I'm now diagnosed as a coeliac which I believe is caused by the long term Naproxen use (the jury is still out on the relation, one doctor swore blindly that there is no correlation between NSAIDs and coeliac disease), I'm the first in my family and it's meant to be hereditary..

Now I only use a topical NSAID gel, which is another reason for needing stronger medication. One good thing about switching to patches is they have less impact on your gastrointestinal tract. Strangely, I seem to have no issue with constipation (a common opiate side-effect).
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impressively done. in the comment thread discussing an article titled "What's Wrong with Literary Studies" you have managed to summarize the topic succinctly, and by accident too!
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It's too bad DynamoDB can't just do this conversion for me.