skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MacD is a manufacturer, they're not obliged, actually cannot manufacture anyone else's products. A closer analogy would be if I opened a mall in your city, got the local council to agree that my mall was the only one allowed for the next 50 years and then allowed only MacD to open up shop, denying space to other burger joints even if they offered the same rent.
binutils/GCC, have Julian to thank for his wonderful toolchain: https://github.com/puppeh/vc4-toolchain
Rails was only one of many Patterns of Enterprise Architecture projects. Martin Fowler made a book, then RoR came along, and the environment at the time was "hating" on PHP and ignoring it's PoEA frameworks (Cake) in search of a new shiny. Then it had an uptrend (common s-curve) and some sticking. Now JS is (re) having a similar trend.

Plus ça change I guess.

Also, the students I'm hiring (right out of USA community college) are taught Python and don't know any web-stuff yet.

So, I have to teach server-side PHP (dozens of legacy projects (still using PoEA)) and some HTML and JS.

As long as the know the code basics language syntax is a small hurdle.

Oh, and please SHIP something, anything to demonstrate at interviews.
In a strictly rational world, yes. But many people vote without thinking about what improves things for the future, but what makes things better for them now. Or they vote on emotional or moral grounds without considering the actual economic and societal costs.
There are a couple of pieces of technology that can do it - though the general end-result is we're extinct as well.
Semen from a guy who loves spicy food usually has hot. It feels like Vicks in the fanny
I confess. I'm completely ignorant about the Raspberry Pi even though I have a 3rd generation I bought recently. So I don't really understand what the significance of "Blobless Linux" is.

Is the Raspberry Pi an open-source software and hardware platform? If not, what is? What should I have bought if not the Pi3?
Because it was clear from the article who the source was and that this was hearsay. Also the article updated itself with a rebuttal from Lattner.

Fake news would not talk about who their source is. Fake news would not publish Lattner's denial.

There is a difference between fake news and second-rate journalism. If someone doesn't think there is a difference, I'm guessing they also see the world in black and white.
you can always offer a well refined android compatibility layer :p
You might be happy to hear that the $1500 machine recommendation is outdated.

You can view the current recommendation here [1] and it basically boil down to: RX480/GTX1060 plus i5 -- very much below $1000 at this point.

[1] https://www3.oculus.com/en-us/oculus-ready-pcs/ Click "View Recommended Specification"
The separate stores should compete, as they are doing now. If one becomes more appealing, users and developers can switch. I think of the logic behind your argument as saying that Walgreens should be forced to let CVS use a portion of its stores to sell in (for free), even though there's a CVS across the street....there's nothing stopping anyone from going to shop across the street as it currently stands, just as there is no outside force stopping anyone from switching to an android to be able to download play store apps. These 2 year contracts are an impediment, but these are signed at the consumer's discretion.
Late stage capitalism is a bitch, isn't it?
There must be some incentive for providers not to offer high deductible plans or actual risk-based plans.

ACA caps the maximum out of pocket for "essential health benefits". For 2017, that means a max deductible of 7150 for an individual, 14300 for a family. It's adjusted for inflation each year.

It's to prevent people who can't pay the high deductible from signing up for these plans to avoid the penalty for not having coverage.
Very true. And all that extra money is helping to fund companies like Mylan when they overprice the epi pen for several years.

Why wouldn't they, customers are insulated from the sticker price but can't really complain because high priced health "insurance" is required.

It's just a coincidence that Mylan took any flak for its abuse of the system. Many other pharmaceuticals are increasing in price way out of proportion to inflation, and way out of step with reality since the R&D costs are all borne before product launch.
AI vs. poker pros
After 1 minute on my modem (2016)
Thanks, was trying to parse the actual document and not getting very far. Interesting to try and read that stuff, but it's pretty dense with acronyms, and I wasn't getting too far trying to google them.
Ahh, I see. I suppose there would be a lot of people choosing the cheaper, high deductible plan and then not paying their bills, which would have made it harder to sell the plan to healthcare firms.

If it were fair it would be based on a percent of income like other tax-related laws.
It's fine. It's a rule of thumb -- the very phrase you used -- not an absolute.
We have considered it, however, because there's still a need for a firmware, the first stage bootloader and the firmware itself are using a common driver framework, it just makes things easier. Besides, the firmware will later run an RTOS (for example LittleKernel) and Uboot doesn't provide RTOS-like services.
Imagine CIA and FBI each becoming slightly more powerful than they are now and then joining forces. Now imagine there is a strong, relatively unified organised crime world that the new organisation routinely works with. And now imagine that organisation has managed to push it's head to the highest position of political power in the country. That's a bit more than digging up dirt, I'd say.
U-boot already does support it:
http://elinux.org/RPi_U-Boot

I think what is wanted is chainloading u-boot from the blobless firmware.
Wouldn't the developer still price to market in this case? It would be ideal that the decrease in commissions would be proportionate in developers' price points, but more than likely you're still paying .99-1.99 on average for the app. The developer is just making more in this case, not necessarily benefiting the consumer any more.
Making it easy to see permissions for the current site is great, but why is there no way to see all the sites that have special permissions? Firefox used to have about:permissions but that was removed last year.
Ooo please upload to Archive.org's Apple II!

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_apple
This story makes me wish I had studied law.
>No, Broadcom is quite unique in requiring blobs to boot.

Yes precisely, so we offer an alternative to those blobs that allows you to boot ARM without needing a closed-source firmware.
> open is the only option that makes any security analysis possible.

Generations of crackers and security researchers have proven that incorrect. There are plenty of tools for dealing with compiled programs.
Oh goody!

I __really__ like horror sci-fi.

Watching something like Alien(s/3) or Even Horizon in VR is going to be my personal "killer app".

Imagine falling asleep and wakinh up with the headset on to some bizarro warped imagery. Or your own living space subtley wronged.

Sign me up!
Actually the very low end is all 32gb emmc now, I assume those are super cheap and Windows 10 is okayish with that space so the manufacturers went for it.

But then you jump to mechanical disks to get above 32 until like you said mid-range where it's all proper SSDs.
>And the objective truth that having more ideas and more viewpoints makes for much more effective teams.

This seems to be an article of faith among the diversophiles, and it seems to me to require a lot more supporting evidence than is typically proffered.

First, the notion that a diversity of anatomical characteristics leads to a diversity of thought seems specious. College campuses are wonderfully diverse in ethnicity and gender and sexuality, but strikingly uniform in belief systems. Whereas the American Founding Fathers were all straight white male aristocrats, and yet had vast and meaningful ideological differences. If diversity of thought is what you seek, why optimize for the dubious proxy of race and sex? Why not just seek out candidates with vastly different belief systems to your own? Hire conservatives and progressives and liberals and socialists and libertarians.

Second, the notion that diversity of belief systems leads to success in engineering endeavours also strikes me as needing far more support than its proponents provide. Nazi Germany had a brutally enforced ideological homogeneity, and yet produced a rocketry program that was decades ahead of anyone else. Japan has a very rigid corporate culture, and yet has a well-earned reputation for engineering excellence. And the most successful companies in Silicon Valley have a very clear and well defined corporate identity, vision, and mission to the point where jokes are made about the odd ways their employees all think alike. It would seem that ideological unity and cohesion is actually more correlated with engineering success than diversity of thought.

Again, this is all from the perspective of an outsider. I don't live in Silicon Valley (or even the United States) and I don't identify with the vast majority of its residents or companies. My critiques are made from the perspective of a disinterested observer at 10,000 ft.
Ask HN: Interested in selling a side project?
I am looking to buy a side project focused on developers/designers. Am wondering if anyone is interested in selling? Am looking at something around $5-10k.
> But that plan was only available to healthy people without any pre-existing conditions.

> Now, the $780 version of that plan is available to everyone

But you're making a political statement that the government should ensure sick people should have access to health care (which is fine, e.g., I support welfare). It's just odd that you think this program should be paid for primarily by middle class Americans, unlike most other government safety nets which come from taxes which mostly target higher income individuals.
I think you are wrong. When only a small portion of the population can use end-to-end encryption in their day-to-day communications, a state can declare it (e2e enc.) "suspicious" and achieve both goals far more easier.
There's actually little incentive to do this because increasing the cost basis usually costs more investor dollars.
I remember betting pools for the original AlphaGo.

It... did not go in the direction most of the betting market thought it would.
Fascinating! I had no idea this was supported by so many Republicans. Thanks for sharing. If we repealed ACA and replaced it with single payer I'd be so happy...
Interesting... Frankly, I love the tmux default, to sharing the window, while also supporting the concept of "sessions". The shared view makes paired programming with a colleague across the world, while on the phone or a video conference super easy. Different users start in the same "session", and share the view of "windows" and "panes (aka splits)". If they want separate views/control, then they start separate sessions.
Priyanka+Hospitalised+After+Accident+On+'Quantico'+Set+Breaking+Hot+News
Since the Palm had a very screwy approach to memory in general, your team did a fine job.
This seems like a really awesome idea. I'm curious to hear how it works out in practice.

There are various (obvious) issues with it being remote and working with strangers. But sounds like a great way to meet and work with new people.
With this bootcode.bin running on the VPU, after the ARM starts up and Linux is loaded, does the VPU halt and remain unreachable, or does the "normal" VC4 RTOS execute such that stuff from the ARM can be mailboxed to it?
Interesting, I haven't heard of someone getting denied coverage for applying to an ACA plan before. What was the reason for the denial?
Dedicated hardware would be much, much faster than an app, and would give much more guarantees about real time performance. There are a growing number of FPGAs and ASICs being used in AI research because they can be intimately tuned for the task at hand.
Hey there, I work at AltspaceVR. I was sad to see you think things seem like they are empty, but I guess I thought I'd mention a few things that might be useful. First, a large percentage of people using AltspaceVR these days meet in private activities with their friends (something we didn't offer in the beginning) so it can be a bit misleading to know how many people are actually hanging out just based on who is in a public space. Spending time in VR with people you actually know and care about is a transformative experience, so we've tried to find the right way to introduce these types of features while still acknowledging that the connected graph of VR owners is still quite sparse.

That said there are still many people who prefer to meet new people in public spaces and activities (for example about 30-40 people are hanging out right now in there) so there's always some people around to meet up with. We're past the point where things are ever completely empty, there is always someone in there to hang out with (and worst case, you can hang out with our 24/7 concierge service staff who we have in there making sure new users have a good experience :))

Also, because as you mention that it is, generally, hard to get a whole ton of people together in VR at the same time because it is so new, we try to throw lots of VR events that give people an excuse to come together. Its during these types of events that we've set record highs for the number of concurrent people in VR. This weekend, for example, we have a SpaceX launch event and an encore (recorded) performance of Reggie Watts and Justin Roiland. (Our events schedule is here: https://account.altvr.com/events/featured) We also have a weekly VR dance party called Echo Space that gets more wild each time we do it. (It's a great excuse for us to try new tech :))

I'd def encourage you to swing by and check us out during one of our events, things do definitely get bumping :)
I wear glasses and seem to still be capable of moving my eyes.
Human Alert Google’s Manual Action Penalty Is in Play
Frantz Fanon is so underrated and intentionally obscured.
SwaySway: drop-in replacement for the i3, Wayland window manager
JavaScript is everywhere and they need it for the browser. Ruby is the most consistent and concise mainstream OO language IMHO. Ruby on Rails is still the easiest web framework to program with.
I was talking about hostility, not civility. Not that it matters, my original comment was neither hostile nor uncivil. Harsh I'll give you, though if you're going to go around a systemd thread spreading thinly-veiled attacks I expect you to have a thick enough skin to be called out on it.
Thanks this is useful info. I'm currently selected in that program and was wondering how's this different from that. I'm probably going to do the self-driving program this year.
Fair enough. But if the premium difference were lower, you could hit $15k retail very quickly indeed.
Only 6.5 years :)
A Guide to the Neelum Valley
Agreed.

I think the second big problem after feeling safe is identity. A lot of people see their work as there identity.

This is not going to play out well with automation and the removal of jobs.

As for why opiates? They produce a much cleaner high probably.
If you're that bored why not start a revolution along with your friends who are in the same boat? Why wait for someone else (politicians) to start a global war, send you and your friends to death and also get rich in the process?
How I built a conversation game on Slack in a week with no money
This is awesome, and actually a pretty neat way of evaluating websites.

A surprising number of people are still on low bandwidth connections, while it's probably not reasonable to optimize for them, it's at least worth considering that market occasionally.
Is there anywhere one can demo/rent a VR setup? I'd like to experience it before I take the plunge.
Gates Foundation research can’t be published in top journals
I bought one of those for Christmas that only had 16gb. 14 of those were taken up by win10! Win10 ran reasonably well actually, but I switched to lubuntu for the storage.
Grokking Python 3’s str
Actually really interesting. It speaks of how people interpret the law to make it do what they want, and eventually precedent gets set and that made-up law becomes true.
I just uploaded a whole bunch of new Apple IIe images to Wikimedia Commons a couple of weeks ago, see for example: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iie-with-manuals.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iie-software.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iie-system.jpg
DONKEY.APP for iPhone and Apple Watch Recreates Bill Gates’s DOS Classic
In most cases, I'd much rather disallow Facebook from MITMing my messages than try to "ruin their reputation" (hint: I won't, because Facebook already does far worse things on a regular basis without so much as an eye-bat from the world).

In other words: I care about the confidentiality of my messages far more than the promise of some sort of dubious ability to shame Facebook for simply fulfilling its business model. Sure, there are some cases where allowing security to be exploited in one area protects the security of another, but those are called "honeypots", and I sure as hell hope my private communications are not a part of that.

Transparency is a dependency of trust. WhatsApp is not transparent; therefore, it is not trustworthy. Simple as that.
I'm still reading, what state is this? Montgomery City is ambiguous and it doesn't give context near the beginning. I'm not sure if this is supposed to be clever long-form of story telling where details are sprinkled letting you infer as some form of entertainment, or if this is just missing pertinent details.
What browser is this?
> “So, you signed an affidavit under the pains and penalties of perjury alleging probable cause to believe that Adam MacLeod committed a violation of traffic laws without any evidence that was so?”

> Without hesitating he answered, “Yes.”

Damn! That is something I'd expect a certain amount of squirming before answering. It is not something that you want to do. Even if you know you have to.
Perhaps its just pessimism but there likely never be a pardon for Snowden. Once and if Snowden is pardoned, the military has now made it "acceptable" to comprimise secrets. Though Snowden is arguably in the moral right, if someone does this sort of thing for poor/naive reasons and if the knowledge is more sensitive (such as Hiraldo Rivera explaining exact locations and plans on a broadcast) there may be a much bigger problem.

I think the closest Snowden will likely get is an honorable burial in US or have a bill named after him. But I highly doubt either party will pardon him.
Why do you believe such an approach would work? Is there any evidence behind this position?
The founder and CEO of RPi was a technical director and ASIC architect at Broadcom.

Looking at it like that, its dead obvious why they went with broadcom.
MONTGOMERY, AL, following some of the links.
Insurance companies don't pay the deductible. Patients pay the deductible directly to the doctors. Deductible as it's defined is the money the insurance company won't cover. Insurance companies won't front the money for the patient.
AFAICT that's (at best) research level stuff. I'd love to be proven (heh) wrong, though. I think what lisper was after was actual practical applications, e.g. something along the lines of the CompCert C compiler[1].

[1] Which I'll note was written and verified in Coq a high-level proof-oriented language.
> If you want everyone to pay something, we (as you pointed out) have something for that, it's called taxes.

Yep, and that's the catch about politics.

The ACA could've been challenged earlier by the Republicans if it introduced a new tax to pay for itself. That would've been the natural thing to do, and the Democrats were well aware of it. Because of that Republican blockage, they had to hide that fee in the "mandate" instead. Of course the Republicans weren't dupes and sued against it, but the courts sided with the Democrats accepting that the mandate wasn't a "tax". I wish I could come up with a source (it was big news back then), but right now my google search is overloaded with another recent ACA-related budget fight :\

There were many better alternatives to the current ACA as it is, including a single-payer option. But we got the ACA (which started as a Heritage Foundation idea[1], they're a nicely conservative think tank) because that's the best the Democrats could get past the Republicans.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2011/10/20/how-a-c...
LegalRaasta – Register Company – LLP Registration – FSSAI |from LegalRaasta
The first few screenshots appear to be Firefox; further down the page is Chrome.
Just a heads up to anybody who tries to get this running, you may have to request permission from Amazon to get the required instance going (g2.2xlarge). Apparently they are making sure people aren't trying to set up botnets and bitcoin mining. Just sent in my request, we'll see what happens.
Could probably automate this on a Linux VM using netem[0]

[0] https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/networking/netem
Thanks! This really should've been kept first class part of LLVM. It'd be a handy way to compile rust to various MCU architecture that llvm doesn't directly support.
You're assuming the relevant market is smartphones but we're talking about app stores.

Suppose Walmart is the only retailer on the East Coast and Target is the only retailer on the West Coast. You're saying, isn't it great for Target that they only have 43% total market share so they can't be a monopoly. But they're clearly a monopoly on the West Coast, and it isn't practical for people on the West Coast to buy their merchandise from a Walmart in Boston or Atlanta, which implies they're different markets.

You can't buy an iOS app from Amazon or Google Play.
Currently it sleeps and waits for a mailbox interrupt after which it acks it and goes back to sleep. We're planning on using the interface to load a second stage firmware that would emulate the closed source firmware's power/clock management interfaces (but not framebuffer/PV/HVS/HDMI related stuff since there are Linux drivers for that now).
>Because VR games are so physical, gaming will no longer be perceived as an unhealthy activity.

It's a whole lot of research yet to be done in this area, VR & health (I don't mean muscles, I mean eyes, brain etc.). And VR market expansion will make this research possible.
Alabama. It says so near the very end.
It's not an assumption I'm making at all. It's an independent variable. I'm assuming that talent is more or less uniformly distributed among applicants. If that assumption is true, then an optimal hiring process will, with sufficient hires, produce a workforce that broadly resembles the pool of applicants.

More formally, under an optimal recruitment system, as the number of hires approaches infinity, the Levenshtein distance between the anatomical characteristics of the workforce and applicant pool approaches zero.
I cannot recommend mindfulness meditation (or yoga, or deep breathing,...) enough for this - it brings a feeling of safety automatically (seems to have to do with meditation reducing amygdala responses; I read something about taking 8 weeks to produce a lasting effect).
If you optimize for people on low bandwidth connections, you automatically also optimize for those with limited mobile data. And as a bonus, your website becomes faster for everybody with a fat pipe too.
When I tried to recover my doubled appeal bond, I was told that the clerk was not authorized to give me my money. ..... Still nothing has happened now several months later.

This is the problem with challenging really anything not of much financial consequence in court. Lots of red tape and expenses, even if you are in the right.
Eurogamer / Digital Foundry: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-ninten...