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You did know, but didn't want, actually. Now we have this thread appeared from nowhere. But main point, besides what catched your eye, is that an article is written with pretty lame stylistic and is hard to read and get seriously.
> Wouldn't it be more appropriate to have written rust in a GPU language like OpenGL or OpenCL, since the aim here was to replace the display engine?

That's not the aim of Rust. Rust, according to its own website is:

> Rust is a systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety.
IBM's Response to White House RFI – Preparing for the Future of AI
Learning to code at 56
I agree. Love the layout and the fact I can get more of an idea what the thread is about, but the constant auto refreshing, as well as the refreshing while scrolling threw me a little bit.

I tend to skim a bunch of articles, and make a mental note of the position of interesting ones to go back to later, but when I scroll up, everything is in a different location, breaking the mental map that I had built.

Other than that, I think it is a great alternative. Good work.
> However, an automated solution could potentially have other benefits, e.g. opportunity for a "pick on demand fresh for me at the time I schedule" option, e.g. via an app (assuming automated inventory etc.).

If the pick-up times are at reasonable times (not 3 a.m.), they would already have people on site. The system could tell them to pick X amount of plant Y. So "on demand" doesn't necessarily mean "no humans involved".

> Going one step further, if you had automated planting, pruning etc. you might even be able to create "black boxes" which would in effect be fresh produce vending machines.

From the article and the company's website it seems that the growing cloths must be washed from time to time, possibly after each harvest. I guess you wouldn't want to build a washing machine into the system, but it might be done...

> Does this scale to larger perennial plants, e.g. fruit trees?

Even if this system doesn't do that, growing trees indoors might be interesting from the perspectives of controlling temperature, wind, and especially water runoff/evaporation.

> salad [...] isn't going to make the world a better place

You might say the same thing about fruit trees. The key crops would probably be legumes and rice.
How much stronger is a team of top players than its strongest member?

I wonder what the best way of coordination would be. Perhaps they can identify several promising lines and each player chooses one variation to calculate more deeply.

From my own experience playing (as a weak amateur), I feel I'm rarely able to think so systematically -- often ideas I discover while contemplating one line are tried in entirely different variations, so it would perhaps take some getting used to before a team can function optimally.
Ask yourself this. Would Elon Musk be here if there was no...business opportunity?

Now you know your true lord to bow down...
It's PBKDF2 with SHA1, 4096 iterations and 32 bytes of output. That's relatively weak, and thanks to the defective structure of PBKDF2, an attacker will parallelise each output block.
Doubt they'll merge the two, but they will have a cross platform OS with Fuchsia, which may very well supplant both.
I think I usually get full articles, but also _all_ comment replies by that author. That gets old quickly as well.
Not the version that I own, but then there is Visio or the other vector formats that can be converted to SVG.

I seldom use SVG, because it is failed vector format. You still cannot guarantee an image will work properly across all browsers (desktop, mobile devices) or vector design tools.

PS or PDF have more chance of working across tools.
Submarine detection methods have been steadily improving for a long time now, their usefulness is declining but they will still be viable for quite some time.

A good discussion from 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9073740
Amazon to Launch Massive Home Invasion with Alexa as Ultimate Weapon
"blog.medium.com" - Why does Medium have a blog?
Well, the sub part is pretty expensive, since you have to accomodate 100+ people, with a nuclear reactor/diesel engine + batteries and all the supplies for a long trip. And they need to be able to move undetected, that's the point of the nuclear missile sub as a strategic deterrent.
Will these be rewritten in go then?
Probably because it is done in Japan, which uses a modified version of traditional Chinese characters for writing?
The article discussed finding targets expressed by different cancers.

The main problem is that a cancer can be quite heterogeneous. You really need multiple ways of killing a given cancer to be certain all is gone.
I'll give this a shot, but I'm unclear how the hooks affect vim or other processes-does this address all of my vim+conemu problems? Thank you, in any event.
Startups: Lemmings Launches Seed Fund
I think you are assuming that all of those 150 people are engineers. I guess most of them are not. You can build this blog platform with 10-15 engineers, but you also need people who will manage and sell.
Gdb online debugger
When I applied one year ago, my recruiter reviewed feedback of on-site interviews before passing it to the committee (which she decided not to do in my case).

From what I understand, reruiters are rated based on the quality of candidates they pass to the hiring committee, so they have an incentive to only let the best pass.
Be careful with the direction of causality here. It may be that giving up his hobbies hastened his dementia, OTOH it could easily be that the onset of his dementia led to him giving up his hobbies.
نتيجة الثانوية العامة
Ken Perlin talks about the future of design in VR
It doesn't have to use the version, it could hash the source, like ccache.
Moore's law is not dead, says Intel boss
Working remotely with 150+ people
Love original version! Only thing stopping me from making it my regular client is the lack of "best" menu item. I love checking out day's best or week's best if I've been to busy to keep up. Great work though.
Firefox was never a dominant majority. It peaked at ~25-30% pre-Chrome (when it was the only major competitor to IE).
Does it automatically create an rss feed link also?
Astronomers Have Found the Source of a Deep Space Radio Wave Burst
Yes, Rails isn't innocent in this (most web things aren't). Just wanted to give an example.
bump on the github recommendation - Wordpress etc likely too much work for what you need. Also Medium's announcement on staffing doesn't inspire confidence in the mid-term and difficult to export posts from there.
As a dad who lost a son at 12 (2013) to bone cancer and as a brother who lost a sister at 15 (1996) to brain cancer I pray we will finally start funding pediatric cancer above the 4% rate of Federal Cancer Research and the 1% that American Cancer Society give to pediatric cancer research.

There has been 4 whole new chemo treatments in the past 25 years for pediatric cancer patients compared to the frequency adult community. The issue is that every cell in children is growing. So in an older adult you can more easily focus growing cells. What works for children will work better for adults with the probability of less side effects.

Those interested int he history of childhood cancer here is a good short history and why we are so helpful for immutheraphy. https://www.stbaldricks.org/blog/post/the-history-of-childho...
Then again, Gecko itself started under Netscape, they just released it under an open license after the Mozilla thing was started. So in a sense it's still an incremental improvement over Netscape 4.7, at least when it comes to the rendering engine.
It's mostly 1 in your examples. Morgan Stanley and Google do lots of different things, which requires lots of different people. Ford does lots of labour intensive stuff with a heavily unionised workforce. Facebook and Twitter do more than you'd think, but more importantly do it at massive scale.
Medium, however, has one relatively simple website, at a scale nothing like Facebook/Twitter/Google. I struggle to imagine what they all did.
How do you quantify "success"?
How Big Data Can Be Used Responsibly in Higher Education
Well, with FOSS projects, you can at least have a look at the source. Won't replace proper documentation, but that's still better than "reverse engineering" binary tools.
Ford has about 65 factories. Assembly plant in Chicago employs about 4500 people. If factory has to work 24h/day you have to have 3 shifts and probably something extra for the weekend and holidays.

For me 200k employed at Ford seem reasonable.
Location: Grenoble, France

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Not much. Open to part-time onsite (2/3 days/week, 1week/month, ..), depending on the location.

Technologies: ops (nginx/node/lamp/haproxy/clustering/ansible/docker), dev (php/angular/coffeescript/ruby/some python-django), random (mjml, letsencrypt).

Tools deployed/used: git/gitlab/jenkins/sonarqube/influxdb/joomla/postfix-dovecot-and-the-rest-of-the-open-mail-stack. If you really want, I can play with svn. Please don't want.

Don't want: .Net. I mean, I can probably figure things out, but you'll probably wish you had taken somebody else.

Like: APIs, automation (not enough experience yet, but the little I use is already lightening the day).

Résumé/CV: https://www.gareste.fr/storage/cvSimonGareste.pdf

email: simon@gareste dot fr

I play with (small) clusters, manually first then with ansible, setting them up from scratch, improving them little by little (galera/haproxy). I currently work on REST ruby API (Grape/Representer), on an Node frontend, on a php monolith and on various (mostly ruby, but I'm open to others) automation scripts.

No speciality, but a can-figure-it-out attitude.
Make Your Functions Functional in C++
To slice stories, first make sure they are TOO BIG
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>My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required.

And it isn't too hard to imagine, in this age of perpetual connectivity and distractions and mandatory use of a mobile phone (by social pressure), creativity has dwindled to almost nothing...
> even if its mostly tame updates over what 2.7 offers

> The situation is not unlike the perennial "next year is when Linux dominates the desktop", which has been every year since 1999.

Your bias is showing, as it does in every comment section on this site regarding Python 3, as you make comment after comment about how inferior Python 3 is and how nobody is using it at all because your sample of 2 companies shows this and how it personally hurt your family or whatever. You don't stop. Either you hate it or you hate something else and use Python 3 as a vent.
They have a broadly similar syntax for directed graphs, but Mermaid also provides a simple syntax for drawing UML sequence or class diagrams. You can draw class diagrams with GraphViz, but it's comparatively kludgy [1].

[1]: http://www.ffnn.nl/pages/articles/media/uml-diagrams-using-g...
Companies that raised $123 million don't get acquihired.
Cool idea!

At the moment I can't see how old are the items – I really miss dates.

Also, pagination with Next/Prev buttons is ambiguous. Replacing the labels with Older/Newer would make it clear, in which direction in the timeline I'm moving.

I very much like the summaries. It would be great if they had unique URLs. This way I could share the URL of the story summary.
That is correct. However it's trivial for a MiTM attacker to perform an SSL stripping attacks when the victim is communicating with sites that support plain HTTP.
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Looks cool and works way better than Pinterest
https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/04/medium-lays-off-50-employe...

Maybe this article of today, will help you decide
Regardless of whether it's justified or not, can someone explain how age discrimination could be proofed in such a case? Especially in this quickly evolving industry, Google may always find arguments like "candidate A had never worked with XY, but candidate B had, so we took B" to explain decisions.
I've been closely following (and full disclaimer: have invested in) this company: http://www.snopes.com/scientists-find-australian-berry-can-c...

Their results for tumours are startling: once applied, the tumours fall off within days with no scarring, or damage to original hair follicles, etc.

If I hadn't seen it for myself, I wouldn't believe it. They're up to human trials - it will be fascinating to see if it can come to fruition.
Yeah, this was just discussed yesterday and that thread is still open...
A Year Without a Byte
Klipfolio raises $12M Series B
Don't fear the robots; they won't kill jobs
I have tried similar devices but they are not very accurate, and this is worrying me. I haven't seen the device yet that's reliable enough to detect every home appliance.
Does it has an integration with smart homes?
I mean, whether I can remotely switch off an iron, if I forgot.
You (probably) don't need Machine Learning
Successful people manage many other people, and successful CEOs have many successful people under them. Successful companies also spend large amounts of money on lavish office space, employee morale boosting functions, and other perks.

So the more money you can spend, the more successful your company must be.

Cargo cult?
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) in 2017
German scientists turn memory chips into processors
Fully 3D Printed Brushless Motor
You are literally responding to a comment explaining what he has to do with it saying "I don't see what he has to do with it". Do please reread. Truth is it's within his ability to wreck the whole scene dow, and it's an open question wether he wants or doesn't.
So, big picture, it's something to take into account, just in case.
Not an answer, but suggestion based on your question:

Don't sell yourself as "web developer", sell yourself as "someone who can get you more customers/signups on your website."
Will Twitter Wither?
It's just the Swift language itself that is open source and a few libraries. Most of the OS X layers above BSD are still closed source.

It's not "more open" than C# and .NET in that regard.
Black moves first, on a 3x3 and 5x5 both end up 100% black with any white piece being captured. Many other board shapes don't but Go is played on a 19 x 19 board. We don't know about 9x9 or even 7x7 so the pattern is hardly set in stone. Still it seems likely.

Now, with a perfect white play there may be moves an imperfect black player makes which causes white to attack. But, perfect play on both sides probably means any white stone gets captured so white plays zero stones.
Am not a lawyer.

My closest guess is that this lawfirm is going to provide an X amount of cases that passed screening etc and have relevant experience to the job as described in its advertisement.

Then its really up to the Judge and the jury if such a case has a jury to decide.
The examples showing TikZ used to draw a sequence diagram [1, 2] or class diagram [3] are far more verbose than the examples in the mermaid readme [4], so mermaid looks easier to write.

[1]: http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/pgf-umlsd/

[2]: http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/sequence-diagram/

[3]: http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/class-diagram/

[4]: https://github.com/knsv/mermaid
How Julian Assange evolved from pariah to paragon
Ah, great. Must have missed that announcement. Thanks! I noticed the blog post using that term but didn't realize it was from an old announcement.
Ask HN: What would you like to hear from failed startup founders?
I'm thinking of starting a podcast/site which will interview failed startup founders. What would you like to hear from them that isn't covered in the usual postmortem/5 things I learned failing medium posts?
I think it's getting harder, now the world is getting more developers and more fully funded startups.
Yeah, I'm just speculating on the reason it was removed from the store - But that's the more interesting question. Why was this particular extension removed?

There are loads of other Ad Blockers that do what this extension claims to do and they are all still available in the store - so all the conspiracy theories in this thread about google blocking it because it hurts their ad revenue seem bogus.

As I said, I've only seen extensions removed from the store that were doing something malicious - Something the person who installed the extension wouldn't reasonably expect it to be doing.
Will do, thanks for the link! Didn't realize the Pine64 folks had a forum setup.

Fair warning, my hardware skills are shoddy at best, but I may be able to help with the Rust side :)
I have a lot of trouble envisioning that. I definitely would not want a car that I can't take off road as needed. At least half the people on the street where I live have one truck among other cars and many cars are parked in lawns. How quickly do you think perceptions about this could change?

The only thing I can think that would sell me on the idea is a really low price point, e.g. sub-$10k to get a new, driverless, road-only vehicle. But I would only want that in addition to a "real" car.
This is a much better question then it seems on the surface :D

Success is defined uniquely for every individual. For some success is finding a way to "earn enough", others success is defined by "having some noticeable change in the world", and then some it is "making a million dollars".

Success is accomplishing a long term goal you've defined for yourself.
> (I use this as pre-doorbell warning sometimes, waiting for my parents or girlfriend to connect when nearby)

That's such a great idea! Could you give more details of how are you doing that? Which tools did you use?
Not quite the same as the earlier conversation on exponents, but since you mentioned constants, matrix multiplication is a prime example -- apparently Coppersmith-Winograd has enormous constants ("only provides an advantage for matrices so large that they cannot be processed by modern hardware") that I can't find them (the wiki article doesn't really have a proper source, and preliminary searching also yielded no concrete results -- possibly because the proof of existence was non-constructive?).
Why do you think it's getting harder? I think it's always been hard and will continue to be hard. There are a few opportunities and it takes lots of time to exploit them if you get to them at the right time.
I don't think short articles or even just headlines is bad. The only issue is that they are horribly misleading and/or biased. I sometimes like to read Wikipedia's Current Events page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events) which is also just short summaries of news. But in Wikipedia's famous neutral style.

Reddit in particular likes to upvote things I wouldn't consider news. At one point, 50% of the articles were of the format "mildly important person says something reddit agrees with."
I'm probably not more knowledgeable, but from my understanding, most (all?) cancers are related in that they start as a single mutated cell which replicates in an aggressive way which leads to problems / death.

Since it's a mutated cell, I can imagine extracting DNA from the cancerous area, and doing a diff against your "normal" DNA from elsewhere in your body. This would enable you to identify the difference / unique signature of the cancerous cells, kind of how a software antivirus looks for binary patterns in things that it scans. A mechanism like CRISPR could then be used to effectively target all instances of the mutated DNA / cells in your body, effectively wiping it out.

I suspect this is ridiculously hand-wavy and oversimplified, but something like this might just be viable in our lifetimes.
Shakespeare and His Co-Authors, as Told by Penn Engineers
The important thing is on the ,,vocal'' part. For a lot of us Bitcoin is working wonderfully, and we trust and respect the current leadership of Bitcoin Core a lot. Still, we have other things to do in our lives, so don't have time to argue with the vocal people who have one resource that we don't: time.
Ask HN: C++ 14 open source projects for more advanced learning
I'm a .NET/C# developer for some years but out of curiosity I want to see other areas.

C++ is one of language I would like to learn more thoroughly than only bug fixing support across poor designed applications which I've encountered so far.

Can you give me examples of nice and good C++ open source projects where I can see this language and its characteristics used in a more advanced and elegant way? Preferably C++ 14.

I found Apple Swift so far, don't know yet if it's worth. https://github.com/apple/swift
Interesting. So for you the change was on desktop, not laptops.
What changed you mind wrt price? I wasn't under the impression that apple computers have gotten more expensive than they were before?
Yes. However, a crappy, leaky, JS engine running crappy JS code will steal all resources even quicker. I hope a JS engine built with Rust smart ptrs will be less leaky than one built in C/C++. In my experience, hand rolled memory pooling systems can be very leaky.
I don't see how this is true. With a machine system you would at least have the ability to log the mathematical operations and results, which would be complex, sure.

But more complex than figuring out if another person is lying about a very nuanced and opaque decision they made?