skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same thing has happened before, both at Apple, and at NeXT, which was the company Jobs started that resulted in the NeXT OS becoming OSX.

Apple: pre-Macintosh days: has the Apple IIe (IIc also, all with 8 bit 1Mhz CPUs) etc. minting money, but Apple has no clear upgrade path to more powerful computers. Note that the basic design of the Apple II dates to 1977...

They try the Apple III (with a 2Mhz CPU!) as a method of market segmentation but it doesn't take off as well as they hoped. They continue milking the 8-bit, 1Mhz Apple IIe market until 1993 when it is finally discontinued. (They sold a plug in card for certain Macs that allowed Apple II era software to run under a combined software and hardware emulation layer).

So after letting the IIe linger (1977-1984, 6 or 7 years of the same basic design) they come out with the Macintosh - completely incompatible but really a new class of machine.

The 68K-based Macs go through a similar period of sliding into a moribund, twilight existence - being overpriced in comparison to "Wintel", and not fixing dumb bugs like having the mouse button interrupt and stop all activity on the system, for instance. An attempt at a new OS (Copland or whatever they called it) fails miserably.

The NeXT systems that Jobs designed, were often BETTER than the equivalent SPARC systems, and were proce-competitive. Why didn't NeXT sell tons of desktop workstations in competition with Sun?

Well, the US Federal Government requires all systems (or at least UNIX based systems) they buy to be able to provide POSIX as a layer, to ensure interoperability. This is why Windows NT had a (probably rarely used) POSIX subsystem, to make sure they could check that checkbox on GSA procurement forms.

Despite it being easily able to be added to NeXT's OS, for some reason, Jobs never made sure it got added. So no GSA contracts for NeXT... and at that time, the US Federal Govt was one of the largest buyers of Unix-based systems in the world. The only exception is the NSA and maybe CIA, who don't have to answer to GSA procurement, and love using Interface Builder and other tools to rapidly create their custom apps.

See any patterns here? Apple is wholly unable as part of its DNA, to consistently create stable growth. They blaze a trail, leave others in the dust, then get lazy or lack inspiration, and others catch up to them.

Their model is the "blockbuster" model and when something isn't a blockbuster (Newton PDAs, rackmounted XServes) they drop it and forget about it. iPhone and iPad are basically the Star Wars franchise in terms of longevity and profitability...
Also, please add the Wiktionary entry https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zuck
Explanation of One-Shot Learning with Memory-Augmented Neural Networks
Just watched the first video, it's a very nice intro to the mathematics behind neural networks, personally I like Jeremy & Rachel Howards video course [1] a lot better because it is much more geared towards practical applications but if you're into the theory end of things or if you simply want to understand better what is going on behind the scenes this video is really quite good and well worth your time.

[1] http://course.fast.ai/
So you wouldn't classify Napoleons invasion and the creation of Westphalia as a war of aggression?

How about Ceasars invasion of Gaul? He had a casus belli.
I don't think so. In my recent memory, people boycott StarBucks because of its CEO's words on hiring refugees. They also went on to boycott Ivanka Trump's product, because a Trump is a Trump.

Outrage culture is the norm in social media era. U.S is a big market, I think very few companies is dare to insult it on a national scale. And US is rich, such idiotic remark is just going to be ignored for it is simply not true. But it doesn't mean if something sensitive is touched, there wouldn't be a backlash, such as race.

I think poverty is still a big issue in India, and people are sensitive to be looked down because of that. So it comes the outrage.
> he author does not provide a "one-idea panacea"

> He uses a single over-arching idea (rent)

literal eyeroll Yay for semantic arguments.
Thanks in large part to our of love of duopolies here.
Your 2017 Guide to Cop Car Headlights So You Know When to Slow Down
Getting Rid of Flexbox on React Native
I'd be very interested if something like this could work well to complement the existing "civic tech" field. It has some pretty substantial problems in its current form and a movement towards co-ops looks pretty damn appealing.

Anyone know if any civic tech co-ops exist? Or would folks be willing to start some up? ;)
Why I’m marching for Science and you should too
Kubernetes 1.6 available on Container Engine
There have been four such revolutions so far and I strongly feel this will be the fifth.

- transistors
- (micro)computers
- (smart)mobile phones
- the web

And now:

- practical pattern recognition using neural nets
aka deep learning
TiTAN – Overdrive 2 (Sega Mega Drive Demo) [video]
Whichever copy editor originally invented the "Here's Why" clickbait needs a stern talking to.

... And this article doesn't even go into why.
(I know it's flagged, but .02 cents). Sorta, not really.

The traditional alignment had been D: cities-tolerance-open society, R: country-religion-traditional society but so many people live in cities now that it doesn't make sense to have everyone in one, giant party. Either another bikeshedding wedge issue or major issue will end up splitting the majority along (new/different) lines.

With two interchangeable, heavily corrupted parties, Bernie and progressive need to split and make their own, viable party. Also, sensible R's like Lawrence Wilkerson gotta retake/remake/splinter off a party that puts common sense ahead of Freedom Caucus & fringe.

Right now, the 800 lbs gorilla socioeconomic tension is (re)distribution of wealth (inequality). Whichever group tackles that realistically will capture the majority of independents... I don't think lies on this issue will endure, people will eventually wise-up.

Bottom line: 2-3 viable parties are necessary for balanced, countervailing powers to operate correctly (balance of power) and prevent collapse into Rome-style end-game. If the elite continue to exclude the grassroots and corruption reaches titanic levels, they (or someone) will eventually be replaced a-la Korea.
I like these! Work related to number 9 came up just three days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14114876
Facebook says it needs to move faster to remove violent content
Will Mark Zuckerberg run for president?
Five Things I've Learned as a New Manager at Google
Mega.co Link of Human Civil Rights Complaint in Blockchain
Assuming vice is right and this is the end of it and people use it, how do you expect youtube to stay online once google lose its advertising revenue ?
This product placement problem just solved itself.

Streaming video on the scale of youtube or facebook is not sustainable due to bandwidth cost.
This is the click-baitiest fluff piece I think I've ever seen without a 'This Post Sponsored By' line.

The section that is presumably 'why' is this:

AT&T has been positioning itself as the leading wireless
carrier for mobile video, aggressively promoting its
streaming TV service, DirecTV Now. To entice its subscribers
to add TV service, for example, AT&T offers its Unlimited
Plus customers a $25 discount on DirecTV.

With rivals such as Verizon rumored to be planning streaming
TV services, it's no surprise to see AT&T trying to make the
most of its early-mover advantage.
For reference the actual mega.co link is https://mega.nz/#F!QnZRXKyS!oluyILlMPpyJjPS57w7axQ
This is an excellent thing to think about when designing dungeons or encounters in any game really. I feel the need to call out Mark Brown, who's doing an excellent analysis series on the Legend of Zelda series, breaking down the dependencies in the dungeons throughout that game and walking through some of the issues present within.

One of the more notorious dungeons in the series is the Water Temple in Ocarina of Time, which contained a sequence that would allow the player to use a small key for an optional area that, critically, did not refund the small key. This allowed the player to become permanently stuck, unable to advance through the dungeon and complete the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LO8Z1DkDqc&index=3&list=PLc...
Founder isn't a job title, it's simply a fact. CEO, CTO, etc.--those are job titles. Empirically, it seems like people who over-emphasize their role as "founder" don't make good founders.
It's funnier because of hypocrisy, partly a result of cultural norms. For example, a strange accent (to an American or many other English speakers) could be perceived as "funny" unless conditioned otherwise, even if this has nothing to do with a person's status or a country's level of development.
The fact that there are some workloads that amd is good for and others where it falls short only reinforces my point.. which is that the selling proposition for amd hasn't changed.

They haven't unseated intel with that strategy in 40 years... and they aren't going to do it today either.

Ryzen is a good start. But to unseat intel they needed a clear performance advantage and/or additional products that match intels other major product lines with similar or better performance.. and demonstrate they can do that over the long term.

In other words, it's going to take them years
As an American, living in late capitalism, I do not see this as anything but extremely wishful thinking for 99% of the working population here.

But if this sort of thing ever does happen, then I absolutely hope that it goes down as you've described.
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I assume you mean stacking transistors?
This has been tried, and there are serious thermal issues. Where does the heat go in the intermediate layers?
Several of the early (classic) Infocom games were meant for younger players - Seastalker, Wishbringer, and Moonmist if I recall correctly.

I played these, and also Zork, Enchanter, and so forth, around that age, with my father doing most of the typing, and loved them. As I got older we moved into more (read: extremely) challenging titles like Witness and Deadline.

Of possible interest:

https://geekdad.com/2013/05/rediscovering-infocom-games-with...
I can't wait to use this to create phylogenetic trees when I need some. Thanks for posting!
Perhaps its not exactly the best example of capitalism given that it was centrally planned.

Glad you found it interesting. In the text accompanying the video they link to more videos in the series from Ethiopia and Rwanda, with similar projects to rehabilitate the land.
Or shadowbanned.
I think you are joking, but he meant PC as in Politically Correct
Open Source Search Engines, Retrieval Tools and Libraries
Tl;dr:

To attract paying customers.

#stopclickbait.
Preparing Our Children to Succeed in This New Digital World
The exit strategy might be a coastal thing. At wharton, they usually want a rough idea of the exit type as part of the market strategy.
As someone who doesn't use snapchat nor instagram, the stories feature on Facebook mobile and Messenger is really confusing. It seems to have come from nowhere and is just in my way. I'm afraid to click on it.
This is the same kind of confusing stuff as in the article. Give it to me straight: when I upgrade stable Firefox to version N, how many more weeks will I wait for a stable update to version N+1?
Racking systems
O'Reilly's "Modern PHP" (270 pages) is a fantastic introduction to the new way of doing PHP.
I was checking the code and....

getStoryMorningGlory = function(what) { //my wife told me to stop singing Wonderwall. I SAID MAYBE.

https://github.com/ramon82/zuck.js/blob/master/zuck.js#L807
If offering potentially unlimited compensation would increase profits for airlines, then they would do it regardless of regulation of minimums wouldn't they? I make that assumption because Delta seems to be testing that theory right now. So I still don't see how regulations are impeding anything; doesn't seem to be stopping Delta whatsoever.
> Does the brain even have instruction decoders?

I can't even begin to understand this question. It makes no sense at all.
Neuromarketing proved that they do not become white noise, you just stop consciously noticing them and how they affect you[1]. But even if you somehow developed some kind of immunity, you'd still be affected by ads because advertising costs are factored in product prices, when you buy something even if you never seen any of the ads for this product, you're still paying for them.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromarketing#Study_examples
The Day of the Tentacle: Puzzle Dependency Graph Analysis
Show HN: Audioshop – Audio image editing
and spending what?
Akka was basically the Scala implementation of Erlang's actor model.

The key differences are, for me, Erlang is easier to reason about (this is mostly how my mind works; Akka it felt like everything was reactive, that nothing is doing any work until it gets a message; Erlang it felt like the opposite, that every process is doing work until it decides it needs a message, and then it can check its mailbox, and optionally block until something ends up in it), and because of its functional nature, things that require special keywords in Akka, just fall out 'for free' in Erlang. For instance, 'become'. 'Become' is just calling another function in Erlang, that has different behavior. Erlang also has more reliability characteritics (not as efficient, but, no stop the world garbage collection, shared nothing, so the only way an exception in one actor can affect another is via an OOM, or specifically hooking up links/monitors such that it causes it to affect the other actor). Akka, however, gives you the speed of the JVM (which -is- better, in pure number cruncing, than Erlang), more libraries (though Erlang is no slouch there, and they all kind of fit the Erlang model), and OOness, if that's your thing.
It is a real issue. Even though "software is eating the world" technical folks often face a "glass ceiling" and have to take orders from people who just don't understand. In my extended family too I have some relatives who think I should be doing something better.
Yes, your anti-capitalist intentions were pretty clear from your earlier post. Put simply, I do not share your views on the subject.
I think there's also some selective bias. The people ranting and raving on twitter, i'd imagine they're the vocal minority(of an even more minority of people on social media). I also think a lot of people are just trolling, or just joining in the fun without actually believing in the cause.

So i don't think there's anything to be bothered about. I think billions of Indians are just going about there business and not shouting out on twitter. Of-course there are other serious social problems/believes that bother me more. But only a few of them are ever discussed on social media.
I like the idea that we can really mess things up and then use technology to "undo" the damage. Pay it forward if you will. Maybe it could increase the technological velocity of the human race just enough to get us out of this mess.
This article is so boring I considered killing myself
yeah, that was for 2016... but I did hear that they still do it, it's just not formal and you have to follow their Twitter account to find out, not sure if that's true...
I must recommend two books, both of them are awesome. One is Algorithm by Sedgewick and the other is The Algorithm Design Manual by Steven S. Skiena. You can read the first book and then the other. If you want some challenges and practice, try LeetCode and HackerRank. By the way, it'd be better to keep a discrete math book at hand, it would help you if you encounter some mathematical proof problems. I would recommend Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications by Kenneth H. Rosen for reference.
Apart from duckduckgo, can you share some examples of such websites ?
Yea, I think it would be cool to use. The only thing I'm missing on my iPad Pro is a good way to work on programming.
Electric cars are particularly strong in acceleration off the line, less so at high speeds.
A lot of the proposed solutions forget that this is a UX issue that can be addressed with the addition of more contextual information.

I'm going to start with an assumption that for the most part Google knows where you are and where you'll be. (Assume it has access to your email / flights / other appointments etc.) An appointment also has access to who is important to the entry.

I'm currently on PDT, will be traveling to CDT and have a phone appointment with someone in MDT later this week. A good user interface for this would show all three times so that I can intelligently talk about the appointment either in an email or on the phone. This is what I mean by 'added context'. UTC is fine for storage, but the who and where is generally interesting (even if you're looking back on things later).

This problem seems like it has a simplification to a common fallacy that a single representation of any fact is the only way to display information. I'm not sure it would be significantly too much effort to make a 'super intelligence' understand that.
If you know a MetaARPA user, they can validate you for free.
Let's not forget the very real possibility of death when cycling on a US road. You are completely at the mercy of the auto. In most cities dedicated bike lanes with any barriers or protection are very rare.
Our ears are more sensitive to amplitude errors than phase errors (as a function of frequency, in frequency space). Our eyes are the opposite.
Can someone explain more of the backstory behind Youexec? I can't tell if their sparse, name-dropping landing page is brilliant or a marketing hack. And I've got a marketing background so that's saying a lot!
What do you want to know about, specifically?
If you could solve both the heat dissipation and yield problems that 3D chips have you would be a very, very rich man.
Is it really 'superintelligence' if unable to deal with a simple concept such as time zones?
This is nothing particular to India. On the day Snapchat went public, investors in the US bought the wrong company - Snap Interactive. These were investors, who were putting their money at risk!

Point is, this happens everywhere and people are irrational.

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/02/snap-interactive-shares-brief...
When I first heard about this story, I thought that "poor countries like Spain" was the funniest thing I'd heard all week. (If you think Spain's poor, I hope you never witness the heartbreaking poverty of Taiwan and South Korea, its rough peers by GDP-per-capita.) But I can certainly see how it was a lot less funny in Spain itself...
Why do you think google has put so much time and effort into controlling the user agent?
Gitlab is massive though. I think it's a great solution for teams on dedicated hardware, but if you need something quick, low-maintenance and lightweight Gitlab might be a bit overkill.
Creativity Will Be the Source of Our Next Industrial Revolution, Not Machines
If anything, I wish I had refinanced my student loans. I remember paying 6% or 7% for them in interest every month. It took me 2 years and I was sending both of my paychecks towards them every month, living on very little money. Plenty of companies will happily buy your debt and give you below 5% rate if you have decent credit.

I certainly did take advantage of an Apple discount though, at the time, it was way better than it is today. It was 2009 when I bought a Macbook. They gave me a printer, an iPod Touch, and $100 in Apple credit which I applied towards the computer. I think I also opened a credit account with them which took off 10% more from the total price.

Sold the printer for $100, sold the iPod for $250.

So a $1500 laptop ended up costing me $1200ish with tax.

I think they have since changed all that and give you a $100 discount.
I've heard there's also a penny stock with the symbol NEST, which shoots up every time Nest (which is privately held) is in the news...
I'm not convinced having fewer children will help anything and I wish people would stop repeating this. People emit very few greenhouse gasses as a virtue of their existence, the extreme majority of them are emitted by lifestyle choices.

Even in developed countries the differences are stark. Qatar emits 54.7 tons of CO2 equivalent per capita, the United States 24.3 tons, Germany 12.3 tons, Switzerland 7.2 tons. A difference of almost 10x, with countries that all have similar standards of living! In a relatively undeveloped country like Burundi, the emissions are a mere 0.4 tons per capita[0]. A difference of literally 100x!

The best fix is a revenue-neutral carbon tax, with import tariffs on goods from countries that do not have such taxes (i.e. China). This internalizes the externalized costs of CO2 emissions, automatically encouraging development of more energy-efficient everything.

[0] Data from 2000, unfortunately, but the numbers have not changed in magnitude since then. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_greenhous...
gruber's rebuttal of the cybart article doesn't make sense. an achilles' heel is a small, obscure weakness that can bring down an otherwise invincible competitor.

cybart seems to be correctly using this analogy (whether you agree with the argument or not). gruber however calls the iphone apple's achilles' heel, but the iphone is a highly visible, dominant aspect of apple's business. it's obvious that if you can successfully attack the iphone, apple would be in serious danger.

in any case, cybart's analysis makes some sense. the macbook pro, mac pro and macOS products buttress the iphone and app store businesses, so they're strategically important and deserve more attention and investment than they might otherwise seem to warrant.

underinvestment in the ($23 billion) mac businesses allows companies like microsoft and google to undermine the brand and goodwill that apple has developed over the past many years, so it does seem to be a potential achilles' heel.
Yes, and they can kick me (or any of my code) off of their property, just as I can kick them and theirs off of mine. They can refuse to accept any part of any message I send them at their wish, just as I will refuse to accept any part of any message they send me at mine.
Pretty high attenuation but it does go through walls.
> Intel bought an ARM chip maker before, too, and because of internal conflict of interest with the x86 group, it ended-up killing the ARM division.

Intel acquired Digital's StrongARM unit as part of a settlement for a patent infringement suit.

https://www.cnet.com/news/intel-digital-settle-suit/
I don't think any particular product is Apple's "Achilles Heel". Rather, it is that Apple seems unable to focus on multiple products at once, despite their billions of dollars in the bank. Is this a result of their particular internal structure?
Kitchener-Waterloo Hackers – GNU Social/Mastodon
grandpa spotted
Ghostery is tracking and profiling people who block ads for the ad industry. Don't use it.
Use ublock origin or umatrix or request policy[1]

you could also use random agent spoofer and better privacy or privacy settings.

[1]: https://requestpolicycontinued.github.io/
I'm in highly politically active company (college) in a highly politically active area (Cambridge), and I've also only heard of the Chick-fil-A boycott. I don't use Facebook, though, so if people have only been spreading it over traditional social media and not word-of-mouth, I may not have heard of them.
Canonical also have a strongly growing OpenStack business with no signs of pulling out from it.
Theranos settles with federal regulators
Is there a way to use image compression for MP3s?

I'd like to store music files in my phone's camera roll, and easily upload them to a website where some Javascript could decode and play them.
Shaving My Head Made Me a Better Programmer [video]
Optimal positioning of website backgrounds
MY DAD DOES MY MAKEUP FAIL?
It's a nice utility. But I stopped using it because it keeps messing up my bash history.
Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14118071