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>Standing up for your right to lock-in your data with a single vendor?

Apple didn't lock me in, I gladly locked myself in, because Apple's ecosystem is cohesive in a way that nobody else even comes close to.

I love being able to make and receive calls and texts from my MacBook, I love having my documents in the cloud waiting for me wherever I am, I love being able to start browsing a site on my laptop and transfer it seamlessly to my phone on my way out the door, I love being able to take photos while I'm out and have them sitting on my PC before I even get home, and most of all I love that all of these things just happen without me even having to think about it.

There are a million different options for me, I could very easily switch to Android and use a dozen different services like Dropbox and Flickr and whatever the messaging app du jour is on Android these days to achieve the same results, but why on earth would I want to?
> a bridge connecting

You mean a road from one pond to the other one?

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+100.. if I could. I find myself in the same boat. I've refused to move to management, and along with that my ability to earn has taken a hit(for someone in mid-thirties). Now realizing, I don't want to take the risk of building a business, and wondering if I should just focus on expertise in one specialization.
I'm currently going through this which is to the point and easily understandable:
http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/

My next step is https://www.tensorflow.org/tutorials/ as I want to move to TF with basics already in grasp.
It is very rewarding in and of itself and doesn't take lots time to make far too much :)

And don't forget pickling in vinegar - cabbage, chillies, garlic, carrots, beans the list is almost endless.

Like so many things, what used to be a peasant essential has become an artisan treat.
Depends where you live. In Storrington the internet is rubbish and no phone signal. This is 2017 UK. Driving to London from that region you lose mobile signal at least 5 times completely.

People act so entitled when they live in cities; I happen not to like cities which makes me a minority, but there are plenty of wealthy business people crying every day about their connection south of London (and probably in more places; most places around Exeter aren't great either).
This is my impression as well. I'd happily replace Python with it for everything if not for the library issue.

It's hard to really trust it, though, when you've got a few semi maintained and used libraries for any given domain. It's not just the lack of libraries that's frustrating (wrapping C isn't hard), but like you said, there's a point where there's too few uers to find obscure things on Google.
Out of curiosity, if you find C and C++ to be scary and unapproachable, how on earth can you feel confident in your assessment that Rust is a good replacement for it?
I really liked those ones:
- CS321 from Standford (outstanding material by Andrej Karpathy): http://cs231n.github.io/

- Hugo Larochelle videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiDouKcxRmAdc5OeZdiRwAg

- Michael Nielsen tutorial: http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/

- Chris Olah blog: http://colah.github.io/

- Keras blog: https://blog.keras.io/

There is also this one (not really a tutorial though):
- Goodfellow, Bengio, Courville: http://www.deeplearningbook.org/

Also, there were a lot of 'Ask HN' topics - take a look.
So you're saying it's only self defence? In that case what's the fuss?
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That image makes me want an iphone with the original form factor. They could use the entire face for screen and put the button on the side.
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I've been put off it for similar reasons - there doesn't seem to be much community or momentum. This means on the one hand that there's not as many resources as you might need and on the other hand that I'm concerned the project might falter and become abandoned. By contrast I'm really interested in Rust because as well as having interesting features I feel pretty confident that it's going to keep growing thanks to it's enthusiastic community.
I use macOS every day, and I love it. And it is me who owns the hardware, and who is root on the device (I can't say I own the software). If I want to kill a process on macOS, I am free to do this. I don't have this freedom on iOS. On my Android phone I have the freedom to root the device (which is sort of supported by Fairphone), and if ever the OS isn't supported anymore I can just run CM or LineageOS or stock Android on it myself. You don't have that liberty on iOS devices. Jailbreaking on iOS isn't very feasible because you end up having to run code to exploit iOS. Which means your phone has a known vulnerability which you want to get fixed. But you can't without the source.
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I'm not a mathematician of physicist, but I suspect that these disciplines are ahistorical largely out of necessity. They now require the grasp of so much technical material that there simply isn't time to teach the history of the discipline. I see no reason to think that this is a particularly good thing.
Divide & Conquer is an old trick, no ingenuity there.
Iron dome is ridiculously ineffective even against home made rockets, with a success rate of about 5%:

http://thebulletin.org/evidence-shows-iron-dome-not-working7...
You can start to see that Apple is positioning themselves for a more innovative redesign.

If you look at their recent iteration (removing the headphone-jack) and rumors from internal development (fast wireless charging, edge-to-edge display tech).. it's moving towards a phone that's more like a thin slate of glass where everything is wireless. Think the tablets from Westworld.

Either Apple will bundle a case with extra battery and USB-C (bridged to wireless charging+bluetooth 5), or third parties will do so. Given that this approach will allow Apple to push the thinness even further, using a case when you're out and about will probably be more or less essential.. but it won't be so bad since the combined thickness will be on-par with iPhone 3-4.. and you get the flexibility to choose between different designs, battery sizes, ports, etc.

It's not super groundbreaking ala iPhone 1, and it's where everyone will end up eventually anyway, but Apple is positioning themselves to go there before anyone else. Hence the awkward timing surrounding 3.5mm jacks, lightning and USB-C.
The obvious performance advantages of zero-cost exceptions combined with the equally obvious benefits of "the vast majority of code, hopefully even almost all code, doesn't need to have error checks all over the place" is why I am really annoyed at the Rust crowd for forsaking them, which to me sounds mostly like "I am scared of language features in a similar manner to the stereotype of a Java developer" (which is almost ironic given that when you write Rust you are supposed to make your code exception safe anyway, which kind of defeats the only benefit to having avoided them).
7% of humans ever born are not dead. Pedantry is alive and well here.
Thanks, I will check it out!
> be warned that I'm a bit picky about typography & design: Edward Tufte is my hero

And it shows, the theme is beautiful. Also some of the best ASCII diagrams I've seen. Worth a look at the source, even if you don't care about Python.
"The revolution continues" (or "Uber movement", the other frontpage entry on HN) - why does this all sound like communist propaganda?!
It's incredible how apparently 99% of HN are web developers who don't even bother considering that other things exist. It's not at all representative of the larger industry.
That certainly may play a part in the reasoning but I doubt it's a more pressing concern than the death toll and economic destruction that South Korea would face if full on war broke out.

Not to mention that even if N. Korea were to be "liberated", I'm not entirely sure the South would want to bear the cost of reunification. Korean reunification would make German reunification look cheap in comparison.
The sad thing about it is for many situations, Nim would be a better fit than Rust just due to GC (this makes Nim conceptually simpler and higher-level in a lot of contexts). Yet they can't raise more than $3k in support (see the top of this link).

Not sure what has to happen for adoption but it's a real gem of a language that just needs users.
Their iphone is certainly the "least bullshit" smartphone , with few gimmicks, reliability and more productive choices (lately they 're trying hard to ruin that however). I dislike their desktop and laptop OSs stronlgy, but i think they achieve the best balance with the iPhone.

But i could never believe the "user rights" thing. They may stand up in a few cases, but ultimately this kind of thing lies beyond their reach. I don't trust any phone maker with data.
I think this somewhat misses the forest for the trees - the case against VW and the punishment isn't over hypothetical deaths, it's about cheating the emissions tests and not complying with regulatory standards. In a tangential way yes, the goal is to increase quality of life, but that's not really the point of the case/arrests, nor is it realyl the focal point of the research done, which was more a study on just how much excess pollution was produced as a result of the scandal.

The FBI's actions have nothing to do with the MIT link.
That result object is implemented in the same manner to an error code: you are burning cycles and registers on something that usually doesn't come up... all so you can clutter your code with what effectively amounts to a manual implementation of exception handling :/.
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Adding AMP will actually make the pages heavier in many of these cases.

It seems counter-intuitive to slow a page to get a lightning bolt.
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Elsewhere in these comments you blindly accused me of being in favor of prohibition. You can't set the rules and then flaunt them. Which is why I rolled my eyes at your talk of "discourse" and "assertions." Give me a break. That you couldn't even connect those dots speaks for itself.
After a few iPhones my iPhone 7 is actually the first one i got a case for - I found it more difficult to hold and it always felt like I was at more risk of dropping it.
This. The X version of the iPhone SE. Pun intended.
The sites are implementing AMP. Google gets the HTML and assets for its CDN cache by crawling the sites. Publishers are aware of this.
There are a lot of parts of ops that handle things that aren't easily scriptable. What do usage patterns look like so you can better manage when to bring servers up/down to handle normal usage flow and have servers warmed up when they're needed? Are you using the best build options for your VMs? Are you using the best VMs for your application? Are you at the best datacenter for your application? Even with certain build options having better automation tools than before, there are still a lot of places where it the world is far from a few scripts.
> Yet they can't raise more than $3k in support (see the top of this link).

Unfortunately the image on that page is misleading. We have been getting ~$1300 every month for the duration of our BountySource campaign, which isn't bad. I think that the ~$3k value only includes direct non-recurring payments via BountySource.

Sadly, it isn't enough for either of us to work full-time on Nim.
diesels are popular in europe for one reason that probably somebody from us will not understand. the price of fuel.
because the price of fuel is so much bigger fuel efficiency is the biggest concern
FWIW, C++ has this really cool feature they call "exceptions", which is a language-level implementation of Result, try!, and ? that is automatically included as part of any function that would otherwise have to manually unwrap and pass along an error in languages like Rust; a really great bonus is that because the compiler has implemented this feature and abstracted it from the developer, in addition to it removing a lot of boilerplate from your code, it allows for an extremely fast table-based implementation they call "zero-cost exceptions" that can almost always completely eliminate the CPU cost of having to constantly check and forward error information.
There's a large gap between basic understanding of CSS and actually creating good CSS. Personally I avoid touching CSS as much as possible.
I believe in small cross functional teams but that you need to be a sysadmin to develop I don't agree with. Perhaps it's more your opinion of what a good developer means, most teams benefit from variety in my experience. It sounds like your biased to certain types of organisations where there's a big gap between departments.
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> In addition, who can be sure there are no DBA leaving with data on USB keys?

Any large org has measures the prevent that sort of thing, including Google.
Did you read the article? The arrest is for lying to the feds, not the emissions issue.
Curious to know as to how Portainer will work in non-swarm environments, those who are using a different orchestrator.
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And it happens to be from a country with a strong economy.
The travel distance of the key strokes is becoming gradually smaller and smaller. What is Apple's endgame, you might ask? Get consumers used to a completely glass-touch based keyboard.
Same thing with the bible...
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As a colleague of mine once said "you'll have regrets either way" (probably paraphrasing Kierkegaard)
I used to have this opinion but I find the iphone increasingly frustrating.

First the constant nagging for apple services (iCloud, Apple Pay, Apple Music, etc). I have to opt out to each of them every time they push any minor (but mandatory) update to iOS.

Then the removal of the audio jack. I just have no appetite for dongles or additional batteries to manage and I need to be able to charge my iphone when I listen to my music.

Then the UI that used to be quite natural now has hundred of hidden gestures, that either make the UI non intuitive, or trigger when trying to do something else.

I'd like them to improve it. I have very appetite to switch to android, which I find a lot more problematic from a privacy point of view. But that doesn't look like the direction of the world.
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My company actually adds a surcharge to the family plan if your spouse works and is offered health insurance through their employer.
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Glad to hear it. Thanks for your work on the language and the book. For those interested in the language, it's worth your money:

https://www.manning.com/books/nim-in-action
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Apple has never been the kind of company to celebrate anniversaries in that way. I would be mildly disappointed if they started now.
I don't think that North Korea was a sovereign state at the moment, more like a puppet to other countries. NK was 2 years old and it was conceived by URSS.
Net neutrality seems almost universally praised. The FDA is quite popular too.
I think yes.

I see no harm in one having basic experience in multiple fields. Especially when those fields are related. Actually, this concept I kind of "market" it among my circles. A mobile developer should know the basics of web development and vice versa. That way they communicate better.

I claim that already happens naturally. It's our drive to quickly build a niche (e.g. "I'm a professional X developer"), in addition to insecurities that lead to saying "X is not my responsibility", is what gets in the way of expanding our fields of expertise.
My specific thing was somebody asked for a demo of a heatmap, I knocked up a page that heat mapped the pointer and wanted every user to aggregate to the map.

So no for such a demo I probably wouldn't be coughing up.
This seems obvious to me. You'll never see your code again with the same attitude after being on call.
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Why not replace it with Julia, which should be a bit further when it comes to libraries, and can run Python? I admit, Julia is also still unstable, but it makes fast progress and should reach a stable state in 2017.
That's fair, though in my opinion it's more important to be clear and explicit in what's happening both for your own sake and for your future co-workers so they can understand what's happening and why than worrying about some minor (per the article) performance issues.
Univision bought Gawker during the bankruptcy and still owns them.
If anything it's capitalist propaganda but this site is small enough and full of enough educated people that we can read things like this subjectively and then bitch about it in the comments.
> A Rust implementation of PostgreSQL, with its runtime checks, would almost certainly be slower than the existing implementation. So a Rust port is a non-starter.

Wait, which runtime checks are you talking about ? This is a recurring FUD we often see on HN about Rust and I'd like to clarify this point.

IIRC, there is no mandatory runtime check in idiomatic Rust except UTF8 validation for strings[0]. There is no overflow checks on numbers, and no bounds checking when using iterators[1]. Another known overhead is the default use of siphash in hashmaps for DoS prevention[2], but this is not really a «runtime check».

Do you have anything else in mind ?

> Speaking of which, the PostgreSQL project is healthy and has many, many contributors.

Indeed, and as I said, I'm not advocating for a port of PostgreSQL in Rust. But for other projects that suffer from a lack of attention[3], it could be a good move.

> And while we're discussing developer productivity, I can't even imagine the build time of a Rust port.

touché, but compile time is one of the biggest focus of the Rust core team atm, so I'm confident things will improve in 2017 :)

[0]: which can be worked around if need be by using &[u8] instead of &str (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13268051 from /u/burntsushi)

[1]: there are bounds checking when you access array elements through indexes, but most of the time you don't do that since iterators are great. If you really need to, and this have a performance impact, you can opt-out the bound checking in unsafe block.

[2]: But this is opt-out by using a different hash function, if you use your hashmap in a non adversarial environment.

[3]: like librsvg which was chronically under-maintained.
Unsafe Rust is a _superset_ of safe Rust: it's the exact same thing, with some extra abilities. For that reason, "roughly similar to C" is also not exactly true; unsafe Rust, for example, does not remove any safety checks, it gives you access to extra unchecked things. A reference inside of an unsafe block is still borrow checked. But you can also use a raw pointer, that isn't.
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I wasn't aware of the RFC7168 and the other extensions, to allow for brewing scenarios... And I'm quite tempted to use the protocol as proposed, with a networked Arduino, to automate my own coffee machine.

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I've owned almost every model of the iPhone, and they stopped innovating a long time ago.

Until they catch up with things like wireless charging - or introduce something 'revolutionary' like a shatter-proof screen or a graphene rapid charge battery - I won't be buying another iPhone. They've stagnated over the past few years while Android overtakes them.
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I hope you are making at least a little bit of money for yourself with the book. ;)

Must have been a lot of work.
In LA, middle class and up mostly have their own car, which leaves the bus for people who can't afford cars. It's been like that for decades. There are some exceptions in pockets.
i'd say because they can be pretty unpredictable at times
> There is no privacy if you can't inspect it and verify that it's upholding its promises.

But unless you're a top-end OS developer AND a top-end embedded systems designer at the same time, how are you going to analyse something as complex as the iPhone and verify that?
> should the state intervene in sexual reproduction?

To advance the argument that it should, as you seem here to want to do, you need first to show that the state might plausibly do a better job than individual parents.

I eagerly await your attempt to overcome effectively all the recent historical evidence on the subject, from the Chinese one-child policy to the American eugenics movement. Good luck!
Dude, calm down, if you don't live in the Netherlands, coffee shop refers to a place like Starbucks that usually has free wifi, which makes sense in the context he's describing. That's what he meant. I moved here 3 months ago and I still accidentally ask people if they want to stop by a coffee shop when I meant I wanted to stop and get coffee.
"scary" and "unapproachable" does not mean "I do not understand."
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