skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to burst your bubble but I'm convinced we're moving into an era where your domain name and TLD are becoming less and less relevant. Google and Social are all that matter. Had you asked me 4 years ago if I'd ever consider building a business on .io or .co I would have laughed in your face. Now I'm building products on both of them.

FWIW, I used to buy/sell domains and I think it's a terrible investment strategy now. I can't tell you how many thousands of dollars I've wasted.

Unless you're able to pick up one-word / 3L .com's for very cheap and know you can easily flip them, it's just not worth it.
I have about 100 things that are 5% finished. I would start a neat project and have no willpower to take it anywhere. It was a depression feedback loop.

I discovered I was depressed because I felt like any time I wasn't actively being "productive", I was wasting my life. I would come home from a long day of engineering to jump into more engineering.

Over the holidays I vowed, as an experiment, to just do nothing "productive". Maybe if I play video games and watch Netflix and be with my wife more, I'd end up being more productive in the long run.

These past 3 weeks have been my happiest in years.

The part I'm still trying to figure out is how to convince myself of this truth the next time I feel like leveling my Night Elf while watching Suits with my wife is a waste of time that I could be using to make something really cool.
Whether this was a reflection of overall PC slowdown, I don't know but Apple execs need to make some course corrections sooner rather than later.

The apparent neglect of developers with respect to some of the changes (and non-changes) in the laptop and desktop lines seems to be giving many developers pause and concern.
When did you take your machine in? The recall expired in October 2016? (sadly I just learned of it, even though my late 2013 model had those issues)
>though remember there's a long and ugly history of the police victimizing sex workers as well

Mainly in areas where prostitution is illegal, thus the police use their power over the "criminal" to abuse them.

Sex workers have no legal method to report this abuse with out also admitting to a crime themselves.

Thus if it were legal, Abuse by police would only be as frequent for sex workers as is for other legal occupations, which much hire than it should be but....
I don't think there's a way to vouch a submission. At least, I don't see such a link.
Biological populations certainly do exist, it's just that they don't correlate well with prevailing concepts of "race". The average western African is more similar to the average European than to the average southern African.

Absolute, utter hogwash.
Moving BACK to Linux, I think you meant to say.

And as for "not a priority demographic anymore"... Were they ever? I think it was more an accident of being a better Unix. And it still is, so I'm sticking with it.

Can't wait to swap out my 2012 15" MBPr 256GB SSD / 8GB ram brick for a nice 13" with more storage and RAM, dongles be damned. They're a minor inconvenience for being able to use a good OS.
I wonder who will take over managing Xcode and the other tools now, which was his other role.
I love it! Dave Thomas' Programming Elixir 1.3 is the book to get if you're just starting out.
>nobody wanted to ditch Flash either in 2010

I always hated Flash. Does that mean Apple shouldn't have ditched it because that's what some users were asking for?

I think you can overstate the "faster horses" principle. Apple doesn't have to give users what they specifically ask for, but they do have to solve users' problems. That's what Ford did.
Yeah, I think I need to get away from the term 'access system' everyone I've asked didn't get it and I think that was the main part of the confusion.

I'm thinking something more along the lines of

"Can your front door call you? Let the ninja get it instead.

Knock.Ninja can open the door for guests and deliveries automatically in any building that uses phone-based entry request systems."

That still gets too technical at the end, but I think more people would understand.

Edit: It also now occurs to me that that's actually more word, ah well.
I believe part of the concern is that this ice shelf is holding back land ice that would cause sea level rise. Quoting Wikipedia on the Larsen C shelf:

"After breaking away from Antarctica, it will leave the remainder of the shelf vulnerable to future collapse. If all the ice that the Larsen C shelf currently holds back were to enter the sea, it is estimated that global waters would rise by 10 cm (3.9 in)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larsen_Ice_Shelf#Larsen_C
This exactly.

My biggest dilemma is not whether or not to upgrade my aging 2012 MacBook Pro Retina with a 2016 model. It's whether or not I should buy the 2015 version while it's still available in some stores.
You're confused. Yes, the model depends on the secret key remaining secret. No, this isn't a vulnerability.

(If you figure out how to leak keys from kernel space, you've uncovered a grave vulnerability, way worse than anything discussed here.)
I'm thinking it is time to have phones "deny by default" and flip the sharing model around. Same with addresses of any kind.

If a business wants my phone number, the transaction should be: hey $COMPANY, YOU tell ME the number you will call from so I can whitelist that number (and remove it later once our business is concluded).

Why should it be so easy to sell and share and link up personal information? At every step, individuals should have the equivalent of a revoked key at their disposal to prevent sharing.
The construction of whiteness as an ideology of European imperial powers is well documented and well studied. I doubt you've ever read any scholarship on the matter.
Just wild speculation backed by absolutely nothing, but it would be pretty interesting if he joined Andy Rubin's startup. It's attracting some really excellent talent.
It's maybe too much to read into it, but I hope this isn't reflecting on anything internally on Apple, even though the kremlinology of it can get overly dramatic. 5 years at any one tech company is a long time, though...
Stanford's Sapolsky on Depression (2015)
Once FP becomes mainstream, and all best parts of the approach are incorporated in the next great approach, then...
Ted Kremenek doesn't seem to be a very active contributor of Swift.

https://github.com/tkremenek

https://github.com/apple/swift/graphs/contributors
I disagree. Depression is like being caught in a loop. You need to find a way to break out of that by introducing something new. Creating something can give you at least a small sense of purpose and at least from my own experience I depression has emerged when I start to lose that sense of purpose.
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> At least I thought there was more to libertarianism than boiling everything down to commercial transactions.

One person's "commercial transaction" is another person's "personal choice"

So a libertarian who supports "personal choice" is being logically consistent by bristling against any limitations put on a "commercial transaction", because that's one stroke of the pen away from a ban on personal choices.
Source? By southern African do you mean
Khoisan?
They are expensive and underpowered. I used to get the top of the line macbook but it's not worth it anymore. It's starts to look like the John Sculley era.
If it wasn't for the pro audio support I would jump on the linux boat.
I agree and, yet, you need something at least very close to that before you can have cars without anybody in them shuttling around to pick up people or deliver a pizza. (Which is why anyone who thinks they're going to be able to hail a roboUber in Manhattan within a decade is... optimistic.)

I suppose you can construct really elaborate corner cases that you might give a car a pass on. And maybe there are ways to make things like construction zones easier for cars to navigate. But, yeah, for the most part, the computer is going to have to handle any driving situation a typical human would be able to.
"Poking into kernel memory" is not possible without a serious security vulnerability. That's not within this threat model.

"Order-exposure and timing attacks" -- which types of attacks against SipHash do you have in mind? Could you elaborate, instead of your misinformed hand-waving?
I would if the drive were limited to city streets, since a crash there has a much lower probability of injury and death compared to a highway.
I worked briefly at a call center for a company I won't mention. We had that system in place so people could punch in account numbers and we were supposed to get a popup on our screen with all of their info on it. It literally never worked. They'd punch in their numbers, but the popup never appeared once. When my trainer was explaining it to us, all he had to say was "yeah sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't" and there didn't seem to be any concern about getting it fixed. And callers complained, too, so it wasn't like nobody noticed!
I'm curious too, I'd like to know what prerequisites are needed for these lectures to make some sense and be beneficial.
No, if you read the senate complaint, backpage employees actually EDITED posts to make them less obvious advertisements for illegal activity. And that clearly breaks safe harbour.
Consumer Reports is pretty good for household products that they have expertise in. For example, I'd trust their dishwasher or toaster recommendation. However, when they test something that's outside of their sphere of expertise, they can miss the mark by failing to focus on criteria that are known to be important by real experts. For example, from time to time they'll review bicycles. Anyone who really knows about bikes will be amused/exasperated by the aspects of the bikes being tested that they make their judgement on. They've been testing computers for long enough that I'm sure they're not completely clueless, but I think their judgement criteria are based more on a casual computer-as-appliance home user, and a power user might feel that they focus on superficial things.
The Mac Pro is in such bad state that it appears it's worth just building a Hackintosh desktop to avoid buying such old hardware. I'm still running a Mid 2010 Mac Pro because the new trash can model wasn't compelling and it's since sat without upgrades since introduction.
Nothing mentioned in his Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Lattner
> convince themselves that this is what they actually wanted.

Well, they don't have a choice of hardware suppliers, unless they are willing to take the Hackintosh route...
You're right it'd be sad. But if you climb a tree, you're not gonna reach out to the moon; you're going to be a little out of breath from climbing, and notice your lungs. You'll have put your arms and legs to use. You'll notice something around the tree you didn't. And maybe then you'll do something else.

It's not actually about reaching the moon, but (I think) just doing something. Because purpose and meaning can also come after doing something which previously had no apparent meaning.
If you owned your home prior to them building the plant, I'd imagine you probably can. (Again, not a lawyer.) However, I was thinking more along the lines of your neighbor installing a coal furnace next door and turning your house black.
That may be true for the masses, but look at the information resources that are out there for the technically inclined.
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wow, that was amazing. Really nice to hear interesting stories like this.

Your take on incrementalism is interesting. I remember Joel Spolsky used to say never rewrite software from scratch as you will introduce new bugs. But I guess a well-balanced approach is always beneficial.

And yea, modularising Firefox and slowly replacing part by part with Servo is indeed a great idea.
A propos, http://coconut-lang.org/ shows a different approach, easier to integrate with existing Python codebases.
I would support a licensing system that would screen for people that need help and providing alternatives to those people that would rather not be doing that work.

Or, alternately, splitting the duties currently handled by law enforcement into law enforcement and societal support. Law enforcement would do what they do for crimes like murder or other crimes with victims other than the perpetrator but Support might detain someone in a questionable situation for a short time but would have a primary mission of identifying those that cannot help themselves for whatever reason, be it the addicted, the mentally ill, the people who risk starvation and getting them the help they need. Of course, that would be predicated on help actually being available.
A cultural environment could induce a nearly instantaneous change in the genetics of a population though.

Say some percentage of a population has tails. Then they start getting killed because they have a tail. A generation or two later, a much smaller percentage of the population will have tails. The likelihood of tails appearing in the population has decreased dramatically, due to culture.
This is true, except the battle hasn't heated up enough yet to see whether this is actually true, with respect to Marijuana specifically, and then perhaps states' rights generally.

The state of California might just, by itself, choose to challenge the feds on this for example, and that would be quite interesting.
Then there's the fake columns made out of, strangely, foam(!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAT2-H8NESQ

Since they are fake and have no purpose other than being ornamental they are prone to being the wrong size and just look really, really off. If you're going to make them ornamental they should look like they could be functional.

Fake shutters that are the wrong size/location really grind my gears as well.
Of course it was - the barrel distortion system was originally developed in the 1990s for and by (?) LEEP:

http://www.leepvr.com/

Back then, the optics were key - and very expensive - but while the optics were originally used to warp then unwarp the image (ie - analog warping), it was thought that the warp portion could be done in software (but computers at the time weren't powerful enough to do it real-time).

I believe that Palmer was fully aware of this, and when the LEEP optics patent expired, realized that a cheaper version could be made, and combined with other parts coming on the market (particularly lightweight, large, high-res phone displays) to build a "dream" HMD.
There was a bug and that seemed to cause variation. But then turning on the cache would invalidate the results making it impossible to compare it with other laptops. So I guess they have to get the new version of Safari before doing a re-run.
You fly, don't you?
So the test if flawed. You can't simply disable cache and call it a good test.

Do they do this on other browsers? Browse the same site over and over while disabling cache?

Why did this not cause a problem when they ran Chrome (did they also disable cache there)?

The CR tests raise more concerns about how CR runs their tests (and specifically how they run this test) as opposed to the MacbookPro.
The problem is, everyone who devoted their entire life at something, worked with insane intensity, and devoted themselves wholly to it, is not the best in the world either, except one.
Before investing in eth, do your own research. Every coin has a share of problems. List of coins can be found at coinmarketcap.
This sounds almost exactly like gimmebar.com
Would it be fair for the candidate to not get the highest wage possible? I don't see how this problem is any different than trying to get non-immigrant labor. Company A is offering a significantly higher salary to a citizen than Company B, they'll probably get the candidate.
Hi;

This is a site I've been working on over the past 2 weeks or so. I have a lot of work to do on it still, but wanted to get some feedback on what I have so far. I plan to add about every scale I can find, along with chords, progressions, etc.

Information about the stack, further plans, and how this is done is found on the about page.

This isn't tested on all browsers. I'm definitely interested in learning how that is working out.
When touring a house once I asked the seller's agent if the fireplace was functional and operational. She said "I don't live here, so I don't know." I mean, a fireplace is a main feature and some are just ornamental so you'd think she'd think to ask the sellers about it. And if she really didn't know why not answer "I'll ask the sellers and get back to you on that one." Nope, just left it at shrug. Half the times when I've toured properties I got the impression it was the first time the seller's agent had even been in the house.

Many only know how to parrot "factoids" they've heard somewhere. "Don't buy and living in 100 year old houses" is one such example. Maybe they just don't like that older homes are cheaper and they are trying to maximize their commission.
This is the kind of thinking that has, in the past, led me to being depressed. It promotes an unhealthy fixation with the future that sends me into a nihilistic, self-perpetuating spiral of inaction.

My answer has been something closer to Buddhist thinking than western religions. It's an intense effort to focus on the current moment. The past is done and cannot be changed. The future will happen, but it's largely beyond our control. It's much more productive and fulfilling to devote all of one's energy and attention to the present. Out of the past, present and future, only the present is real and open to unbiased observation. And practicing removing one's own bias when observing the present moment feels, to me, like the point of life.
Substitute math by programming, and it becomes easy to see the pitfalls of CS's current "portfolio" paradigm.
Does Ctrl-] work as an ESC replacement for everything, or only for vim?
No mention of pedestrians, cyclists, or how cars (self driving or otherwise) affect the urban realm. So much of the self driving discussion seems to be wholly about the automobile technology in a bubble, with near zero thought put into the impacts on people, cities and society.

The fact that the idea of signal less intersections, a concept that ignores the existence of pedestrians and cyclists entirely, is even a point of discussion is indicative that the discussion is focused on the wrong points.
what about mailing lists? swift-evolution?
Emotional benefits don't really help me understand the difference between film and digital. It seems too anecdotal of an experience for me to take it seriously. Might be me though...
I actually have that one and Programming Phoenix, I'm bouncing back and forth between them right now
"Diversity society will fail" --Putnam;

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/05/t...
> As in, deuteronomy-level lessons - things that will be (figuratively) carved into stone.

Bad example--the majority of the lessons in Deuteronomy are shit, especially in a modern society, and were almost never taken literally through most of their history.
Does this really matter?

I've also felt that recent mac desktop/laptop releases have been poor. But is it really important to satisfy the masses in this market? It seems like we're in a world where most people could be quite happy with doing most things on a phone or tablet.

That's not to say it isn't likely an important strategic market (after all it's the only platform you can develop iOS apps on). But having a large share of this market might not be important.
I've done this kind of thing in Lua before, but what troubles me about it is the fact that a lot of the state of your game ends up encoded in the Lua stack.

What happens when the user wants to save? There's Pluto [1], which is somewhat slow for complex state. And it doesn't work on LuaJIT code -- and I tend to like to run games on LuaJIT.

And it's opaque: If you're debugging some kind of interaction in the game, you can't just look at the save state to see what's where.

I used to be a big fan of Lua, and this kind of AI and behavior coding was a component of that. But ... I think that, on balance, actually creating a data format that represents the state and "coding" using that plus state machines is actually a more robust and useful way to accomplish the same thing.

[1] http://lua-users.org/wiki/PlutoLibrary
I was still in high school when I read that post. Thanks for writing it. Buffer pooling is still incredibly relevant in .Net (as it is in many languages).
this is from the acknowledgments section of your [1] citation

> We thank Tim McQueeny for assistance with the behavioral data. This work was supported by National Institute on Drug Abuse Grant K01 DA021632.

in other words, the study was funded by an institution with a legal mandate to promote cannabis prohibition. the conflicts of interest makes this dubious science.
if you go on Twitter & look at people who at least claim to be either advocates of sex workers or sex workers themselves, they say mostly the same things. This isn't to say all programmer opinions are good -- see the depression thread that's on the FP now.
I am reading this as preferring that if you are in an accident it is at least your fault rather than the fault of a self driving system. However, there are far more drivers on the road than you. Turn this around to be other other party.

So now you are in an accident caused by someone else. If that accident would have been prevented had they turned on the automated driving system that is in their vehicle, then do you still prefer this? Is having someone to blame really worth being in an accident that would not have happened if the computer was in control?

So, is it truly reasonable for you to refuse to engage the self-driving system in your car, putting other people on the road at greater risk?

I wonder if there will be increased liability, both financial (insurance) and legal, when someone willingly chooses to take control in a situation that would be well-handled by their self driving vehicle.
Drone Collided with a Boeing 737 Approaching Mozambique's Chingozi Airport
A linear algebra course is the bare minimum (and frequently it can be enough). You can pick up any textbook and that would give you good enough preparation.

After that you probably will have enough domain knowledge to choose what course to take next yourself.
OK but what if reputation is unreliable, untrustworthy? Reputation exists on a continuum. A destructive agent could damage the reputation assessment by being completely cooperative with some people and capricious with others. The resulting mixed reputation doesn't make you convincingly a destructive agent.
I think Amsterdam is safe, in the sense that I don't feel there's much reason to fear for your physical well-being. However, when I visited (mid 2000's), the main train station's PA message loop included warnings about pickpockets.