skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't say this is surprising, I was talking about the potential of Signal to be blocked by regimes with my friends a few weeks back (both the initial verification text, and client to server communication), and here we are with Egypt being the first to block it.
Atom and Markdown. You can even see real time previews with "Markdown preview plus" plugin, upload it to git if need be.
Facebook and Whats fall into EU network
As a Mac User, I use nvALT for my notes and monosnap for screenshots and image uploads plus sharing. ToDo List I use Any.Do for a while.
> in a reply to a request of information, Facebook indicated to the Commission that it would be unable to establish reliable automated matching between the two companies' user accounts.

>Subsequently, in August 2016, WhatsApp announced, among other updates to its terms of service and privacy policy, the possibility of linking WhatsApp user phone numbers with Facebook user identities.

> If the Commission's preliminary concerns in this case were confirmed, the Commission could, impose a fine of up to 1% of Facebook's turnover
And what an enlightening comparison it is.

Whilst one has had significantly more resources spent on it than the other, you do have to wonder - would spending the same on ladders make much difference? Is the ladder safety market saturated and the invading foreign nations not?
Ditto. Last year, I made the mistake of buying a non-touch laptop thinking I didn't care that much. Had to take it back to the shop and swap it for a touch-screen machine....
Agree. Too many people are concerned with not missing their turn, and they will take extraordinary measures not to do so. If one misses a turn, too bad. Re-route. The number one concern of a driver on the road should not be getting to their destination - it should be operating the vehicle in a safe manner.
Eh, you'd have to operate a server in the country, and TLS in and out of Egypt is MITMed and outright blocked in many areas from what I've seen when playing with VOIP over there.
I tend to switch between Field Notes and Moleskine books, I use a Japenese Kuru Toga pencil (mechanical pencil that sharpens itself while you write) and a Uni JetStream Prime 0.7mm.

On the digital side I use OneNote.

If anyone is interested, this guys instagram says it all: https://www.instagram.com/desk_of_jules/
Divio Cloud offers very easy to use dev and deployment tools: www.divio.com
GPS was (is) a lot military. Militaries , first responders and aviation still depend on VHF and in cases HF radio.

Motorola was (is?) a serious player in VHF and HF, so the first cell phone probably wasn't directly DARPA but the overall company had a lot of background with that sort of thing.
>The sale of ads is Google primary source of income

No, the sale of AD SPACE is Google's primary source of income. And that AD SPACE is primarily in Google's own software products (Search, Mail, Maps etc) although of course they've built a platform for others to sell related ad space...

>the developers are still a cost, that does not directly contribute to revenue, only the sales department does. Logically it's a bit silly, because you need to build stuff to sell it, but that's not how account and management view the world.

The recent season of Silicon Valley had a hilarious arc depicting this thinking. But it's important to note that not all business organizations maintain that philosophy
Why isn't this the next Jenkins rather than a fork?
I'm talking about multiple values in a single CELL, not a single table. He wanted to use binary bits to encode multiple things into a single cell.
Because by the time "law" enters into the picture, the driver will have been booted by Uber, the thief will have been released from jail and already started on his next stack of credit cards and being driven by another Uber driver.
You may want to read this https://www.engadget.com/2016/12/14/evernotes-new-privacy-ru...
Photographer Uses Facial Recognition to Find People He Snaps on Subway
In Boston it's practically the opposite experience. Cabbies almost always know exactly where I'm going and the fastest way to get there, because they've logged the hours necessary to learn Boston's confusing street system. Uber drivers are usually flipping between at least 2 GPS systems, and frequently get lost, confused, and turned around. The rider experience has really dropped off now that any Joe can make a few bucks as a part-time Uber driver.
No record of pressed charges as of this morning. Seems more likely to be a media redirection of his meltdown with Tucker Carlson.
The good old physical post it notes work best for me if I need to note something quickly.

If there's something that I need to copy/paste later then I just have "Clipboard.txt" on my desktop. Not prettiest but it's fastest and easiest.

If I need to plan something bigger then I use Trello.
Deploy your React Native app automatically with Fastlane (and XCode 8)
Wrong, and a news story this week proves it. I can't find the link but there was a known sex offender who had served his sentence. A woman was walking home alone late at night so someone monitoring public CCTV decided to follow her via the cameras. They then saw the sex offender approach and begin verbally harassing her. Police were called and got there before things got more serious.
I think once India and China start selling cheap electric cars and electric trucks deliver an economic advantage to oil, we can safely say oil is on its way out.

But not before that.
Brain differences between the sexes are real, but we should interpret them with caution.
True cost of recruiting a developer [infographic]
The use of the term in corporate spheres is also diluted.

According to the "best and brightest", R&D is now nothing more than patent pursuit. If the systems used for production are old and buggy, fixing that ( including significant new development ) is not considered "R&D", no matter how proprietary said systems may be.
Core.async for Asynchronous Programming
Amidst setbacks and controversy, Scanadu raises another $6.5M
Agreed. I took a local company cab recently and was really impressed and I was wondering if that would have been the story had the market not changed.

Have still never taken an Uber and don't feel the need to.
Google Keep user here as well. It has few things that makes it perfectly fit into what I need:

- simple to do lists

- create notes with the phone's camera (I usually do this when taking a photo of a whiteboard)

- audio recording and transcribing: I can just say my note and Google Keep will make a text out of it with an attached audio recording

- sharing: this makes my life sooo much easier. I have one note taking app I can use for business, for sharing shopping lists with my wife, house chores with my kids, etc.
When Google Keep came out first it was way too simple, but I can hardly imagine my life these days without it.
> It might be that these young objects never reach the GC, because they are now allocated elsewhere, which means we have mostly long living objects under GC management.

Where elsewhere? The stack? One of the things people always get wrong about GC challenges is "what about stack allocation?". Modern servers come with up to 6TB of RAM. Applications that are interesting from a GC perspective (i.e., lots of concurrency, data structures etc.) commonly employ heaps that are between 10s and 100s of GBs today. The amount of memory available on stacks is 0.5-10% (thousands of threads are required for the high amount) at most. In other words, stack allocation does not remove the needle by much (although it may affect the frequency of young-gen collections). The Java team discovered that when they added escape analysis and stack allocation, and the effect was not dramatic. The stack simply does not matter that much in the grand scheme of things (arrays-of-structs, OTOH, matter a great deal).
This looks lovely. I'm new to P2P applications beyond file sharing and would like to raise awareness about the new resilient web being built. Not just in terms of protocols and applications, but also energy resilience and air-gapped encrypted inputs. Would love to have a chat about Beaker and its place in a wider movement.

I guess this is science communication stuff, rather than talking through the technicals, my background is design.

pfraze, is there a recommended resource for communicating the players and ideas on the resilient web, placing Beaker in its respective place and laying out the benefits in a friendly way for laypeople?
KDE Plasma 5 is gorgeous. I couldn't stand KDE4's "windows XP" look but now KDE is one of my favorite DEs.
I (31) often identify with the stuff media tells about "Millenials"

But I know a bunch of people my age and younger, who aren't like that.

Some of my old school mates already had 2 marriages and 2-3 kids.

I have people at work who are 5-8 years younger than me and already have "planned" kids. They got houses, cars, holidays abroad.
Ditto. I bought a 34" 3440x1440 a few years ago - the Dell U3415W. Not long after I made the switch to Visual Studio and C# about a year ago, I bought another - the Acer Predator X34, and took the Dell to work. They're just awesome for programming, as well as other purposes if or when time avails.
I see, thanks for the info. I will keep that in mind.
Visual Studio Code and type out notes as Markdown.

This gives me some formatting as I go without being distracting.

Usually though I find a pen and paper works best.
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> Apple's mission has always been to make computing accessible to the masses (remember the slogan: "The computer for the rest of us"?), not to make it better for the elite few who already know how to use one.

Except the masses buy Windows 10 laptops that cost $199 or whatever. The Mac has never been "accessible to the masses" because they won't pay Apple's prosumer prices...
It's similar to writing

build(): string { ...

but they generate different JavaScript. The way it's written will give each instance its own reference to the function. The "build(): string" above will add the function to the prototype, which is shared by all instances.

I'm not sure whether the code takes advantage of this difference in some way or not. If not, it's just a slightly more awkward and less efficient way of defining a method.
Weeks of programming can save you hours of planning.
For most of the time in the summer, that light is coming in at an angle over the horizon that greatly attenuates the energy per square meter. There are maps of yearly solar irradiance that very clearly show this http://sustainabletechnologyforum.com/wp-content/uploads/201...

And then in the winter, it's very cold, so the energy cost of heating is very high.
You are absolutely correct.

The direct economic incentives favor short-sighted purchases. I am not intending to blame you for the statement, but just agreeing that it's true if only for now. The problem is obvious to anyone living in Paris just two weeks ago. They had an emergency shutdown of traffic in the city due to pollution from cars.

There needs to be a balanced economic system that reflects the harm that oil causes to our environment and countrymen. Same thing goes with plastic waste, where some countries have added an environmental tax for plastic packaging.

It can be a tax on CO2, on oil, a deductible on electric cars, solar, etc. But it needs to be large enough to reflect the harm. Some taxes exist, but they are not obviously not enough to balance the harm to the environment.
This guy Ilya, seems to want to throw everything away and start again. Is that really what D needs?
This will not end well, will it?

There's the danger to nearby people on foot or bicycle, and the prospect that they or their relatives will sue for lots of money. I very much misunderstand the differences between here and California, Open defiance of basic traffic safety tends to get shut down and taken off the road.

If a fleet of vehicles are deemed not safe to drive on the public roads, then telling the traffic authorities "as an important issue of principle, we reject your authority" it won't end with you driving them around freely, will it? And I would be surprised if you're allowed to drive them around freely while a court case is pending. Cars do get pulled off the road, impounded and towed.

It's hard to see how Uber thinks that this will go well. Am I missing something?
In the beginning, the main commercial interest in RISC-V, is as an internal MCU core which is not customer-programmable. In my previous job, we used an OpenRISC core, and it was awful. If I didn't quit I would have made a very strange push for developing a simple RISC-V core, at least once the compressed ISA was finalized.

It's very simple to make a small and efficient RISC-V core in-house, and if that means we can avoid paying a huge amount of money to ARM, that's fantastic. For some products (radio microcontrollers), it's possible that RISC-V will live alongside ARM for a while. Maybe if RISC-V is lucky, semiconductor companies will start to allow customers to program the RISC-V core, and that creates an opening to take on ARM. All it takes is one big customer that says "we are willing to take the hit in debugging and development tooling, in order to save a few cents in ARM licenses on this chip"

You can kind of see ARM positioning themselves for this reality as well. They are branching out into a lot of different areas in order to stay relevant. They've invested massively in debugging IPs and are now investing in architectures for more secure CPUs/MCUs (TrustZone). They have GPU cores, DSP extensions, etc.

Over time, the market for "plain, dumb 32-bit MCU cores" will definitely be taken over by some open source, royalty free solution.
There's plenty of spontaneity, randomness and street-level interaction occurring in the cities of the UK. I see this every day. I don't think CCTV is stopping this.
> Its nice that if Uber does implode (not that they will) that only VC's will lose their money...

Although don't forget the VC funds' lending partners are often pension funds and other traditional investment vehicles that you or I might use.
Workflowy has organized my life and brought some order to my brain in a way that is invaluable to me. If only the put a bit more effort into the product... literally nothing has changed in the past 3 years. not a single feature! I could excuse them if the mobile apps were good enough, but that is not the case at all.
The stack has very little to do with it; see my other comment. The reason Go's GC needs to work less is because Go has arrays-of-structs, while Java doesn't (yet; should be coming in Java 10).
This is a typical Thomas Fuchs trolling. It shouldn't be taken serious. You won't get any constructive arguments from him anyway.
I see an interest in the deeply embedded space. ARM has a reputation of being cheap, and it certainly is compared to Intel. But when you go to the low end (mass volume basic IoT), it's not cheap anymore. And their portfolio may not have all the options one need, and the core won't be customizable (architectural licenses are out of reach for small/medium shops).

The possibility of having customizable royalty free cores with good compiler support, good traction (strong ecosystem), and support available if needed is interesting in this space, and would be new. There are commercial offering with lower royalties than ARM and a flexible offering, but AFAIK not customizable. There are free options with full RTL access like the Latice Mico32 (lm32 in GCC), and although it's supported by GCC it's a small ecosystem and the available options quite basic. In this space RISC-V could be a way to gather a bigger community than what already exists and put resources in common to quickly provide more options to designers.

One nice thing RISC-V could bring is that most such "exotic" deeply embedded options are only supported by GCC (or proprietary compilers, ouch). RISC-V has LLVM support, so could support Rust too before other embedded options. For security sensitive applications that could be a plus.
Hassle wall.
32GB ram laptops don't utilize LPDDR3, as in Low Power DDR3, which is used to reduce power consumption.
If you're happy carrying a "portable" jet turbine, be my guest.
Does any one use this in production?
Making your users happy seems like a reasonable goal. Neither the article nor the Go announcement suggest this is the "future of GC".
The cost per transistor is going down every generation, but the NRE cost of developing a SoC is going up and up. Pretty much doubling every manufacturing generation (e.g. 40nm -> 28nm -> 16nm).

The cpu is actually a relatively small chunk of that cost these days, but once in volume production even this is dwarfed by software development costs...
And this is why in western countries the politics of encryption should be regarded as a stopgap only. It's better than allowing the police to opportunistically go fishing in your data, but it's no substitute for sound democratic rule-of-law culture.

If politics gets to the point of having to rely on encryption as your only protection then it's simply going to get banned and/or blocked.
>, why would you give VCs a free ride with a steaming train instead of just going all in yourself and personally taking on a bank loan?

You mean "personally" as in the young company has no material revenue -- and therefore for any "business loan" the founder applies for, the conservative banks will always demand collateral of personal assets including house, car, retirement savings, etc? (The young startup has no business assets such as airplanes, factories, datacenters, etc for the bank to seize in case of non-payment.)

Well then, the "why" should be obvious: VCs can give orders-of-magnitude more money than personally-collateral-backed bank loans can provide. Also, the VCs (the good ones) can dive into their rolodex to help you hire hard-to-find executives. A bank loan officer doesn't have the same motivations.

E.g. In 2005, Mark Zuckerberg got $12.5 million from VC Accel Partners. There is no bank that will give a 20-year-old college dropout with no revenue a $12.5 million loan. Yes, his parents were upper-middle class but I doubt Mark had $12 million in personal assets to secure as collateral for a bank loan.

>, but with the right KPIs it's really not much harder than raising a round.

I think it's very hard to concoct a scenario where a startup founder has virtually equal opportunity to secure $1 million bank loan or $1 million in VC investment -- and the only reason he chose the VC was that the founder didn't have the financial wisdom to choose the debt. I can't think of a case study where that suboptimal decision actually happened.

In other words, the type of business (lifestyle/bootstrap/niche vs mainstream grow exponentially fast) or lifecycle stage (early no revenue vs mature with revenue) already predetermines a path of debt vs VC investment.
Looking at it from the other side of the mirror, there's probably some other suite of factors that causes both things. Taken as a prisoner's dilemma, defecting from R&D may be perceived to have a payoff ( those engineers talk funny and cost a lot ) which saps R&D and also slows growth.

I think that in an increasingly specialized workforce, the management team has less bandwidth to apply to R&D. One stump hit and it's done for. Successfully leading R&D has little payback in the larger economy; leading M&A is better understood. This is a corollary of the general "tower of Babel" problem.

Remember that Amazon is slightly a tribe of madmen to most business types in large companies.
You are right about the mobile apps... I am hoping that competition from dynalist will force them to up their game.
Glad you think so! Not sure about the name change though - we're pretty attached to it!
Apple actually recognized that price is the issue.

By lowering the price of all the dongles shortly after launch, they confirmed that they may have underestimated how price sensitive their "Pro" market has become.

Mostly because the Pro market now encompasses everyone wanting to upgrade their lower-end MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs. Because there's no upgrade path for these users at the moment (other than the iPad Pro which is a non starter for so many reasons).

A new, 13" MacBook would be a good step towards bridging the gap, and providing an upgrade path for everyone else.
It's one thing to be committed to the Mac. But do they see the Mac as a Mac, or do they see it as an iPad Super?

If they're going to commit to the iPad Super at the expense of the Mac that professionals have come to rely on, they are going to have a seriously disgruntled user base.
I'm curious as to how they intend to circumvent the censorship from their end.
One could argue that if these details are necessary for correct/performant operation, then it is a leaky abstraction.
I wouldn't call it just a trend, it's part and parcel with the DevOps philosophy. Infrastructure as code, in source control. It's more of a conclusion, the trend is adoption.
My understanding is that if your computer tries and fails to upgrade, it will only retry a certain number of times before giving up. Your best bet is probably to do an upgrade install with an Anniversary Edition ISO, which I believe you can download from Microsoft directly. Upgrading with install media is a totally different mechanism, more akin to a clean install + data and app migration, than Windows Update and should get you back on the update train again as well.
I've been in that lobby, it's funny but nothing special; I'm sure it costed a lot of money but it's not like they reproduced trump's bathrooms in the original materials...
> until then I'll keep enjoying lower crime rates

Unless you live in the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Japan, or Singapore, it's unlikely you'll have lower crime rates than Germany.

Yet, Germany has close to no surveillance of public spaces, at all, as private surveillance of public space is banned, and public surveillance of public space is very strictly regulated.
I think that the more "pro" market might overestimate its own representativeness. Sure you can go to a tech meetup and see a sea of glowing Apple logos, but dominance in a relatively small portion of the market is still a small chunk of market share.